I can just about hear voice over during a call when it's on speaker phone but I wish it was louder. However, I have not tried turning the volume up. I mostly use the wired ear pods when making a call.
Kawal. On Oct 13, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I just send a reply to Apple Accessibility about Voiceover volume during a > call. I reported this to them and they replied with some suggestions, but > they only consisted of the explanation about how to make sure speakerphone > mode is properly activated which means they thought somehow the phone hadn’t > switched to speakerphone and this is why I couldn’t hear Voiceover. I have no > problem with my phone switching to speakerphone when I take it away from my > ear. I am not sure if you have your phone in a case, but make sure you try it > without case as sometimes a case can cover the proximity sensor and that is > what causes your phone to switch to speakerphone. I usually do this: > > I dial the number I want to call and after I double tap on call I put my hand > over the top part of the phone where the slot is in the glass for the > earpiece. Once the phone on the other end starts ringing I remove my hand and > now the proximity sensor should of course notice nothing is covering it and > switch to speakerphone. > > However, I still have the volume issue. I have volume in my rotor settings > and after a call connects I can turn up VO volume to 100% by turning the > rotor to Volume and then flicking up until I get to 100%. Then I turn down > the call volume to as low as it will go with the volume down button, but > first of all the call volume does not seem to go lower than a certain level > and Voiceover even at 100% can hardly be heard over the call volume. > > You can of course work around this by using a headset, but I definitely > suggest you write to Apple Accessibility and report this because it seems to > be one of those bugs which most iPhone 5 users and some iPhone 4S and 4 users > also don’t seem to have. > > I did a factory reset about 3 days after I updated to iOS 6 because of a few > other issues and at first this seemed to be better, but after I tried to > place calls where I had to enter numbers, listen to menus etc. a few times I > find it really isn’t much better if at all. As far as I am concerned this is > one of the more inconvenient and serious bugs because one has to enter > numbers or listen to menus so often and of course I also can’t put the phone > in speakerphone and look up other information during a call such as maybe a > phone number, something in an email or another app. > > It would be interesting to know how many people experience this problem and > while it adds to list traffic, the traffic is down significantly from what it > was so maybe everybody who reads this could test this and post whether they > can hear Voiceover comfortably during a call when the phone is on > speakerphone or not. Before the iOS 6 update this was no problem for me on my > 4S. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Robert Doc Wright > Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:01 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: voiceover during a call > > Often since I purchased my new 4s I can be in a call and I cannot hear > voiceover at all if I need to tap another number in an automated system or > end the call. then out of no where I'll get a call and voiceover won't shut > up. > Also, when in a call and I move the phone from my ear it is not automatically > switching to speaker like it did on my 3gs. > *** > character is found in how you treat people who can't do anything for you. > > web page > http://www.wrighthere.net > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
