Hi everyone, I'm new here. The HTC Aria is my first android phone, and I had an iPhone before. I am having problems, the Audio quality is really really bad. It's not my music's fault cuz it's bad for everything. I am the only one having this issue or is every one having this issue. My phone is currently rooted and is running the Liberated 2.2.2 or something like that.
Was this a problem before you rooted and changed the ROM?
Also, you need to be more specific... is the problem with the loudspeaker on the back of the phone, the earpiece (talking on the phone), or when connecting something to the headphone jack?
What software are you using to play music? What headphones / speakers are you using? ( Just curious ).
With my Sennheiser HD 280 pro headphones I've noticed the sound quality isn't as good as my girlfriend's iPod or my creative Zen vision m. It's pretty good, but nothing spectacular. I suppose it's because those are two devices specifically made for playing music, while the aria is, above all else, just a phone. With the aria I usually prefer to use "cheap" skullcandy earbuds so that I can't tell the difference in quality.
Of course, your results may vary from mine.
drumist said:
Was this a problem before you rooted and changed the ROM?
Also, you need to be more specific... is the problem with the loudspeaker on the back of the phone, the earpiece (talking on the phone), or when connecting something to the headphone jack?
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ECEXCURSION said:
What software are you using to play music? What headphones / speakers are you using? ( Just curious ).
With my Sennheiser HD 280 pro headphones I've noticed the sound quality isn't as good as my girlfriend's iPod or my creative Zen vision m. It's pretty good, but nothing spectacular. I suppose it's because those are two devices specifically made for playing music, while the aria is, above all else, just a phone. With the aria I usually prefer to use "cheap" skullcandy earbuds so that I can't tell the difference in quality.
Of course, your results may vary from mine.
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Thanks for the Response guys! I was using the default Music player. But I am going to try CM7 now because it has the Equalizer function.
Ok guys, it's sorta fixed. I'm using CM7 2.3.4 and a Music app that was ported from MIUI. It's sorta fixed, now so no worries. Thanks for replying fast though guys.
Hey guys,
Few days ago I upgraded to the Optimus G. Had a Samsung Infuse for almost two years prior. Couldn't be happier. This thing is absurdly fast. Battery life is solid. Display is great. Awesome phone. Just hope LG continues to support it.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone is having any audio streaming issues via bluetooth?
I have an Alpine deck in my car that is bluetooth enabled. And with my Infuse, I had no issues streaming audio from either songs stored on the phone and/or youtube.
With the Optimus G, the streaming is very sensitive. Either i'll have to re pair the phone to the deck, remove the deck and plug it back in, change sources from BT to iPod to BT. Basically, I feel like I have to keep fiddling with it in order for it to play.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
I use a Bluetooth speaker system inside and a headset out. I do sometimes have to repair but I haven't had any issues other then that although I would t really call it an issue either.
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I pair mine with my clarion deck and it works better then it did with my SG2. Syncs faster and is louder too.
Sent from my badass LG Optimus G
It works better with my Kenwood KDC-X996 than my Inspire did, but no AVRCP 1.3 support means no track data displayed on the cd player. At least until we get some AOSP on here, because Sense on Inspire 4G didn't do it but AOSP/CM did.
Sony Bluetooth deck with pandora
The O. G works great with the Sony Blue tooth deck with Pandora. I and it only cost 80 bux with free shipping
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It works better with my Kenwood KDC-X996 than my Inspire did, but no AVRCP 1.3 support means no track data displayed on the cd player. At least until we get some AOSP on here, because Sense on Inspire 4G didn't do it but AOSP/CM did.
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I'm having a similar problem with my OG, running SnowJB 1.1
For the 45 minutes or so that I was using the stock ICS image from the store to home, track information was displayed on my car's head unit. However, after flashing, all I get listed is 'unknown' or the last file played as an alarm or gallery video. Completely at a loss as to what could be up with that, since literally every other aspect of the bluetooth works perfectly.
I'm also pretty sure that it's not a version issue with the AVRCP profile, since my old Inspire didn't even display 'unknown' indicating that it does have the ability to sync the metadata, but it's just not reading it correctly from either Pandora or Poweramp.
Hello!
I need to replace my digital recorder and I've seen a good offer for this cellphone at a popular chinese site and I was wondering how good is it to record audio lectures (90-120 minutes each) because that would be the main reason I would purchase it. It's cheaper than buying a new recorder nad I can use it a backup phone
It would be wonderful if someone can show me an example of a recording.
If you know of a cheap cellpone with great recording capabilities, please let me know, too
Thanks a lot!
Really good phone to record videos
kishjay17 said:
Really good phone to record videos
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Thank you!
I don't know if every cellphone works the same. I own a Moto X 2014 and the audio I get from a video is excellent but using a audio recorder I get almost no sound. It seems it uses different microphones for those two situations... Is is the same with this cellphone?
ALP-L29 8.0.0.129 (C185) (Problem presisted throughout the updates)
Hi everyone
Since the very first time I used my bluetooth earbud(These are good earbuds that I've been using for a good amount of time to know that they aren't the problem) with my Mate 10, I could hear an easily recognizable crackling noise on "loud" songs e.g the ones with drums, even on low volume.
I tested different recievers; Bass boosted headphones/earbuds, "Hear what the artist wants you to hear A.K.A Studio" headphones/earbuds, speakers and even car recievers, They ALL have the same noise.
I tested in every environment with and without other BT devices active and with different music files and music player apps and nope, the noise seems to be originating in the phone,I even went back to Huawei's representative retailer where I bought the phone and checked their "sample" Mate 10 and I could hear it there too.
Now the headphone jack quality works fine and really is more than enough for a daily driver. I fiddled with the BT audio settings in developer options and they seem like they are automatically set according to the reciever, but even then it shouldn't set the bit depth to 16 bps (Or should it?).
My guess is that there is some faulty (presumably software) gain booster that's causing the BT DAC to "cut" the spectrum at frequencies above 6-8 Khz as those are first to get damaged in such cases AND that the bass is pretty good
If you have access to a BT audio device (preferably headphones because you gotta pay attention to speakers sounds especially low quality or bass boosted ones) could you please check if you experience the same problem? I already emailed Huawei maybe if it's a widespread problem they can give a solution
TL;DR Mate 10 BT audio extremely noisy,Jack audio fine, Tested in every environment with different music files and music players and BT recievers (Headphones and speakers) and with another Mate 10 device, The problem seems to be coming from the phone, Any suggestions? Can you please confirm and ask Huawei to fix it?
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ALP-L29 8.0.0.129 (C185) (Problem presisted throughout the updates)
Hi everyone
Since the very first time I used my bluetooth headphones (These are high quality headphones that I've been using for a good amount of time to know that they aren't the problem) with my Mate 10, I could hear an easily recognizable crackling noise on "loud" songs e.g the ones with drums, even on low volume.
I tested different recievers; Bass boosted headphones, "Hear what the artist wants you to hear A.K.A Studio" headphones, speakers and even car recievers, They ALL have the same noise.
I tested in every environment with and without other BT devices active and with different music files and music player apps and nope, the noise seems to be originating in the phone,I even went back to Huawei's representative retailer where I bought the phone and checked their "sample" Mate 10 and I could hear it there too.
Now the headphone jack quality works fine and really is more than enough for a daily driver. I fiddled with the BT audio settings in developer options and they seem like they are automatically set according to the reciever, but even then it shouldn't set the bit depth to 16 bps (Or should it?).
My guess is that there is some faulty (presumably software) gain booster that's causing the BT DAC to "cut" the spectrum at frequencies above 6-8 Khz as those are first to get damaged in such cases AND that the bass is pretty good
If you have access to a BT audio device (preferably headphones because you gotta pay attention to speakers sounds especially low quality or bass boosted ones) could you please check if you experience the same problem? I already emailed Huawei maybe if it's a widespread problem they can give a solution
TL;DR Mate 10 BT audio extremely noisy,Jack audio fine, Tested in every environment with different music files and music players and BT recievers (Headphones and speakers) and with another Mate 10 device, The problem seems to be coming from the phone, Any suggestions? Can you please confirm and ask Huawei to fix it?
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I have no problem with bluetooth headset on firmware 129-C432.
Which headset do you use?
Hi I tested two different Bluetooth headphones. One cheap headset from Amazon and Sony SBH-52. No crackling noise with both of them. Also I used the M10P with my cars stereo yesterday. No crackling, too.
I'm on 129(C432).
sonydesouza said:
I have no problem with bluetooth headset on firmware 129-C432.
Which headset do you use?
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Thanks for the response
Well as I said I tested 3 or 4 different earbuds from a cheap Chinese brand (AWEI) to a NuForce
What's yours?
I just hope it's not a hardware problem
RasaKh said:
Thanks for the response
Well as I said I tested 3 or 4 different earbuds from a cheap Chinese brand (AWEI) to a NuForce
What's yours?
I just hope it's not a hardware problem
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I have Bluetooth Jabra headset.
Works fine.
Same problems here ALP29 C636 with 131 build (with 128 was everything fine) Tried every damn setting in equalizer and couldnt make it better. I think fix is coming with 133 build. I am using Jaybird x3 and bt in car. It seems like is on some songs bitrate like from 2001.
There is a very long thread on a German board:
https://www.android-hilfe.de/forum/...0-pro-android-8-bluetooth-problem.853624.html
Basically, the bluetooth issues come from the software and since release of the Mate 10 Pro, Huawei has done nothing to fix them.
What music player are you using? I have a Mate 10 ALP-29 on 131 and have no problems with Bluetooth sound on any number of speakers, cars, headphones, etc. I use PowerAmp beta and tend to leave the equalizer off.
Omg I just came here to post the same thing.
So I'd a Beats X for a day or so, and sent it back, cause, weird clipping and cracking with BT audio.
Got a X3 again, and same problem, but I know this isn't a problem with the X3, so I commented the X3 to another device and I got flawlessly audio.
Hopefully Huawei does something to address this.
tr1cky1 said:
There is a very long thread on a German board:
https://www.android-hilfe.de/forum/...0-pro-android-8-bluetooth-problem.853624.html
Basically, the bluetooth issues come from the software and since release of the Mate 10 Pro, Huawei has done nothing to fix them.
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https://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/
Could you please send them a complaint? Maybe if we push it a bit they'll fix it
Luinwethion said:
Omg I just came here to post the same thing.
So I'd a Beats X for a day or so, and sent it back, cause, weird clipping and cracking with BT audio.
Got a X3 again, and same problem, but I know this isn't a problem with the X3, so I commented the X3 to another device and I got flawlessly audio.
Hopefully Huawei does something to address this.
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Could you please send them a complaint? Maybe if we push it a bit they'll fix it
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/
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Same problems here ALP29 C636 with 131 build (with 128 was everything fine) Tried every damn setting in equalizer and couldnt make it better. I think fix is coming with 133 build. I am using Jaybird x3 and bt in car. It seems like is on some songs bitrate like from 2001.
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Could you please send them a complaint? Maybe if we push it a bit they'll fix it
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/
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Could you please send them a complaint? Maybe if we push it a bit they'll fix it
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/
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They don't care.
After they didn't do anything for months, I spoke with them on live chat daily.
Always with the result that they would forward it to Huawei, but nothing happens.
At this point I am considering to get the German consumer protection agency involved.
Huawei doesn't care at all, they just happily release new devices.
I thought maybe with the USA launch they would fix the problems because now there's a whole new customerbase that can complain, but apparently even now nothing happens.
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Same problems here ALP29 C636 with 131 build (with 128 was everything fine) Tried every damn setting in equalizer and couldnt make it better. I think fix is coming with 133 build. I am using Jaybird x3 and bt in car. It seems like is on some songs bitrate like from 2001.
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Why do you think it'll be fixed in 133?
So, I contacted Huawei NL about it... Via the live chat.
Sadly I guess that this is what we have to put up to with big companies like that.
The same story:
Guy asks if I have tried resetting the phone already.
I say yes, and state that this seams a major software bug.
To what his "intelligent" answer was:
We are expecting a new update to role out and fix your problem. Bla bla bla bla
Of course to the question of what's the update number, he couldn't answer that.
So in other words, he was just stalling.
Since Huawei NL isn't responsive on social media, I've contacted Huawei UK / DE (with my broken German) and the official EMUI Twitter account.
I've also sent a mail to [email protected] and [email protected]
Although little hopes here...
If they don't fix it in a timely manner, I'll be seriously looking for other options, hopefully Nokia get their camera game together, it was the main reason I didn't go with the Nokia 8.
It's shameful that they take the headphone jack out on the Pro variant and don't even bother to check if BT audio is working.
And if Huawei won't do anything about it, there won't be much hope, the phone is far too exotic for any major tech publication to make noise about it...
I actually got a answer from Huawei UK!
Dear, Thank you for contacting UK Huawei Customer Care Support. We are aware about the current situation regarding the Bluetooth headphones and the distorted noise that can be heard when connecting to our Mate 10 Pro devices. We are actively looking into a situation for this matter and escalating every case we capably can to our IT Department. Thank you for bringing us to our attention and providing the IMEI numbers of your device. We will escalate your report at once. Hopefully, with an upcoming update, the Bluetooth headphones distorted noise situation we are currently facing for our Mate 10 Pro devices will be fixed in an instant. We deeply appreciate it as we are seeking constant feedback from our customers and in order to improve we need your opinion. Please do not hesitate to contact us again if you seek further assistance. We hope the above information proves to be of use. Should you need further assistance, feel free to write to us. Best regards, Tanna Huawei Customer Care Support
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I actually got a answer from Huawei UK!
Dear, Thank you for contacting UK Huawei Customer Care Support. We are aware about the current situation regarding the Bluetooth headphones and the distorted noise that can be heard when connecting to our Mate 10 Pro devices. We are actively looking into a situation for this matter and escalating every case we capably can to our IT Department. Thank you for bringing us to our attention and providing the IMEI numbers of your device. We will escalate your report at once. Hopefully, with an upcoming update, the Bluetooth headphones distorted noise situation we are currently facing for our Mate 10 Pro devices will be fixed in an instant. We deeply appreciate it as we are seeking constant feedback from our customers and in order to improve we need your opinion. Please do not hesitate to contact us again if you seek further assistance. We hope the above information proves to be of use. Should you need further assistance, feel free to write to us. Best regards, Tanna Huawei Customer Care Support
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So a quick update,
I just installed the B131 for C432 via FF.
In my (not scientific at all) test with my Jaybird X3, the audio sounds less broken although still a bit awkward when compared with a 3T and the same headphone.
Nou I just realised, that no matter what I do, I cannot choose AAC as BT codec.
I choose AAC, and as soon as I turn BT on It changes back to SBC.
Switching with BT on won't work, doesn't matter if headphones are connected or not.
On the OnePlus, it chooses AAC by default with my X3, and I can change codecs on the fly while listening to music.
I have the exact same problem and it goes away only if i play with sample rate and bits per sample. So frustrating.
A bit of a update.
Last week I was on LOS, and BT audio worked flawlessly, had no troubles at all and AAC codec worked.
Good news: it's neither a hardware or kernel issue
Bad news: remember when Huawei said that they were aware of the problem? Well, email I received today doesn't give much hope of them being aware of this.
From [email protected]
Thank you for contacting Huawei Customer Care.
In order to better assist you with the issue you are experiencing please answer the below:
1) Please tell us the detail brand, model of the Bluetooth headphone? such as Honor Xsport AM61 bluetooth headset
2) What's the build number of cellphone?(Settings->System->About phone->Build number)
3) What's your issue scenario? such as music sound noise or phone call noise, etc.
4) How often does this issue happen?
Looking forward to your reply,
Huawei Customer Care Team
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I'm curious to know if other EMUI 8 devices have the same problem, like the Honor V10.
Hi All, seeking any insight into the above issue. When recording video, the audio is so important, and a dedicated mic is required. I cannot seem to get definitive info on this issue - phone specs do not state if ext mics are supported - and my reading is that the Mate 9 cannot support a ext mic (the native camera app has no such options to grab audio from an ext mic). Do any of the other Mates support ext mic? Anyone having such a setup be so kind to share their experience and equipment and settings?
I'm also gathering the video in our Mate series leaves us a bit wanting - I know my Mate 9 in FHD 30fps exhibits jelly and its embarrassing - I read it may have something to do with having the video stabilisation switched ON (so the IS is not exactly doing a great job, so need to turn it off). The colours and brightness is all great enough but the jelly is just deal breaker. Am trying to work with the video camera's limitations esp what speed to pan/move the camera to avoid the jelly. Failing this, will seek to move to LG V-series or any others known for better video (I feel video is the bigger requirement for me, all cams are now pretty much on par w photos really, so not fussed w photos).
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I am using Shure with Mate 20 pro via USB C Port. And it works awesome as it records Stereo sound with the default app.
https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv88plus