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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnissim:
Solution for Caller ID issues with Chinese/Lenovo phones

I got a nice Lenovo from China and it was good, but didn't recognise phone contacts if they were stored with international code and the call came locally, or vice versa. It also muddled my SMS, separating SMSs to and from the same contact under different numbers: with, and without, international code. I tried every local lab and no-one would touch Lenovo. Tried rooting and that didn't work. I gave up.

BUT, then I downloaded a free app that took care of it. SMS ordered correctly and being identified. Contacts - being identified. I know this sounds like an ad for the app, but please believe me: I didn't even expect the app to do it. I just thought I'd try some app. I was generally displeased with that Chinese configuration I got and gave up on the problem and thought I'd live with it. And then I noticed that it fixed that problem for me! So now I'm determined to let everyone know, because I spent DAYS looking at forums without success!

The app is called Contacts+.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] snake_boss:
There is the chance to put (or try at least) an improvement in sound mic? Sometimes people said to me that they are listening me bad, others too down... Anyways, I'm using 2g connection only (in order to improve sound quality), even so, if I speak "with my normal voice" almost all people have a bit difficult to ear me!

I saw "hwVolumeFactor.cfg" , but there's no line to mic volume....

At least 2 other people have the same problem:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1157111
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Barcelona_b:
I have the same problem too. Tried to find some volume file. Solutions?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] fabryxy:
+1. :(

I tried to find the file AudioPara, AudioFilter et similia,but i haven´t found anything in u8800 rom....

FabryXY
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] georgelaros:
I have the same prob too.I have to speak loud to hear me :(
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] BookBu:
The hwvolumnfactor certainly cannot modify the internal mic and earpiece levels. It's to be done at the application framework stack or even the core library stack.

Sent from my IDEOS X5
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skinniezinho:
any chance of those people with problems have a defective unit?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] cirnocirno:
I wouldn't say it's a defective unit, because that would mean more than 30% of the whole sold units of U8800 were defective and a company big as Huawei wouldn't do it. Would only create mass amount of angry people and paybacks. So I am guessing some setting is bad.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] fabryxy:
Hi

I not think that this unit are defective.

For me the microphone position isn´t ideal, so is necessary boost the mic volume,

expecially for people with deep voice.

I hope that in future this become possible.

FabryXY
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] snake_boss:
I Think this is the problem, i have a deep voice too... although using 2g only helps a lot, there's no a excellent quality and every time I reboot the phone i have to configure 2g again!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Alexcxvtr:
I've posted this problem before, in another post. Just posting here too, simply to join the club. Same mic issue for me. Others cannot hear me well while I can here them crystal clear.

P.S. I replaced my first X5 device within 4 days from purchasing it and apparently the problem exists in my current (2nd) device too. I didn't replace the 2nd one because the mic issue appeared after "root". That's weird...:confused:

P.S. 2 I really love this phone. It's a high end device in an extremely affordable price and I DO NOT WANT to replace the specific model whatsoever. However, this has been a very frustrating thing and still no one has come up with a solution!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] selson:
same problem here. have to speak really loud to be understood... hopefully someone is able to fix it. otherwise a great phone!
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] marshy88:
I also have the low mic volume problem. It's very frustrating. Not everyone seems to be complaining it seems so I'm wondering if it's possible that there was a bad batch of these phones?

Can anyone confirm that their mic levels are normal - i.e. the person you are calling can normally hear you loud and clear? That would be useful to know.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] burakerenn:
The mic itself should not be problem.

Since I have bad reception in home, I generally prefer talking to people with viber, skype and such. I do not have any mic. issues with such programs.

However people really have hard times to hear me if I am talking on GSM -or make me have hard times because of shouting-
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] snake_boss:
Good tip, hopefully maybe some dev could look into it, with the idea to solve this problem... In small forums that i use, other peoples complain too about this strange behavior. I think the problem are related to the secondary mic that are erasing outside sounds, but it is very responsive and maybe it erases more than the outside sounds, it erases a little of our voice... The normal think is people telling me something like that: "Are you talking from the bottom?" or "Are you talking from the Chilean Mine?" xD
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] BookBu:
I agree. Once I changed the value of hw.secondary_mic=0 to hw.secondary_mic=1 in /system/build.prop. I noticed that people on the phone could hardly hear me and I heard weird noise from the earpiece. Then I switch the value back to 0, it works fine now.

You guys may need to check this value in your phone's current setting.

Sent from my IDEOS X5
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Alexcxvtr:
Mine was at 0 already. Changed the values to 1,2 just in case, but the problem remains. Changed back to 0 again.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] b@tt@l:
Same here :( I was thinking about trying the hw_secondary_mic thing, but you say it's to no avail... It's a very nice phone, but what's the use if people can't hear me. I've sent a message to Huawei and I'll call local warranty service if this problem is salvageable for this line of phones. If not, the return path is the way :(...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] HF2k:
Hello,

as I mentioned in another Thread I have the same problems you have. There have to be some settings wrong in the comparison of the signals of the two microphones.

Also I played with "hw.secondary_mic=X" and it didn't help me. I tried 0 and 1. It changed, but 1 was worse than 0, without changing something else.

Maybe one of the more experienced Dev's can have a look at this problem, at least where we can find the source for comparison or the adequate settings. Thanks in advance :D

But for now I have a working workaround :p

I use the void#draco rom with the kernel from #eridanus (should also work with other roms)

In "system\build.prop" are the settings

hw.secondary_mic=1

...

ro.config.hw_optb=

hw.secondary_mic=1

...

ro.config.dualmic=true

important. Maybe someone can explain me what the second and third entry exactly do?

And now comes the trick. You have to cover your secondary mic on the back (next to the 5.0 Megapixels print). Either with your finger (cumbersome) or with 2 layers of adhesive tape or something like that.

I've tested this yesterday evening and it worked quite fine for me. Those were my best gsm-calls (exept those with the cable-headset).

Maybe it also works with other settings in build.prob, those above worked good for me and I didn' test all the 16 combinations (3 settings + dumb microphone).

So, please try it and share your experience ;)

Edit: Just tried it with latest oxygen. Stock experience was as annoying as with stock void, but after changing values to those above (you have to write the last two of them by your own) and making the microphone dumb the call quality got much better. Try it for yourself ;)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] b@tt@l:
I thought about covering the secondary mic too, but it's a bit non-classy :) Hmm. From instincts, setting ro.config.dualmic=false should disable the secondary. Have you tried it? I'm gonna try it when I have the time...

Also I feel that there should be some settings regarding those microphones but, I'm not sure if they can be easily found without spending some time with the OS code. Having heard that Huawei has released the code as open source (?) I hope they have comments there :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] HF2k:
I tried ro.config.dualmic=0 a few minutes ago, and with the uncovered microphone i was hardly understood. With the covered microphone everything was good.

Seems that the phone is unimpressed by this setting...or it is because I use Oxygen at the moment. There wasn't such a setting in build.prop, I wrote it there by myself.

Now I tried hw.secondary_mic=0 without the other settings (commented out)

and with an uncovered mic you are hardly to hear as like as the other settings and with the covered mic it's acceptable. But I think it's a bit worse than the settings I mentioned above with everything enabled.

Somehow the phone doesn't react on these settings as we want it to do.

So I will set the three values to 1 and use my tiny piece of adhesive tape until a better solution is available. As I said this is a workaround, not a fix. ;)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Alexcxvtr:
I don't know if anyone else noticed that but the mic issue is more noticeable when using custom ROMs. Tried B160, Oxygen and B137 v8 and had same results. However, when switched back to stock the issue was still present but in lesser degree. Had about 15 calls and only 4 of them were annoying. Interesting, isn't it?:confused:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blufires:
I can't remember where I read this, but the first OTA update from Huawei was supposed to fix the (very common) bad transmitting sound quality problem. As the phones are sold at **** Smith in Australia, the update is NOT present, and must be performed later on. I wonder if the updated package which fixed this hasn't been implemented in some custom ROMs?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] marshy88:
I did the Australian OTA update but the sound quality for the receiving party was still quite atrocious. I did back-to-back comparisons with my Ideos U8150 and the 8150 was FAR superior. I was about to return the phone to Dickies when I discovered I could get reasonable results with Void Draco. This reassured me that the issue could be resolved in firmware.

I'm guessing that the noise cancelling algorithm is plain dodgy. It's also quite variable, which makes comparisons difficult.

Can anyone confirm if there are call quality issues on the new Huawei Sonic? It has a noise cancelling mic so if it works there might be hope for a kernel fix for the X5.

Ultimately shouldn't we be lobbying Huawei to fix this?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] b@tt@l:
Good to hear that it can be fixed from software, though bad not to know when we are going to get an official fix for this... I've sent a message to Huawei yesterday, with a link to here and another forum topic. Also I'm seeing this issue in many forums. It really looks like Huawei should do something.

So friends, how about going to Huawei's feedback form and dropping a message? Maybe we can hope for an increased -and faster- chance of official fix if enough people notify them about this.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fruitgull:
I also have this problem. Receiving part often have a hard time hearing what I say. Sent a message to Huawei about this.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Neverzinho:
Well i kinda have this problem too. But only my girlfriend seems to complain about it, but she's the person i talk the most too so it's normal.

She says that it seems that my mouth is too close to the mic, while i didn't move the phone since the call began, it's really weird.

Is that you guys complain too?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] marshy88:
Sonic seems to be getting good reports for call quality over on Whirlpool - e.g.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1723931&p=11#r213 (see comment at end about comparison with X5)

Hopefully Huawei can update U8800 with a similar implementation.

Sent them a message yesterday.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] flipmodegr:
Exactly same situation here , also i have noticed that while using talking tom cat u have to place the phone near to your mouth for it to work while on someones motorola defy he was placing it at the other side of the room it was recording the voice normally.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] hobarr:
Keep talking like this during. sound qualty and volume is increasing
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] b@tt@l:
This can be OK for a quick fix, but what about the implications of talking to the phone as if talking to a walkie talkie in the long run :)

By the way, yesterday it happened to me again... A customer said "Your voice comes so deeply that I can hardly hear you" during a call. This is really frustrating. I hope we get a fix soon or I wouldn't recommend this immature phone to anyone.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] iakoboss7:
thats strange... i never ever had any call quality problems, the others said that i sounded more clear with this phone than everything else i have used. when i moved to genokolars custom rom, they said i sounded even MORE clear, to the point my voice was very near to my real one (the one they hear when you speak with them from close up, phones tend to make the voice kinda different).

the only complaint i had was when i had put my finger to the little hole (or something near that) next to the camera, they said that i sounded like a robot or VERY deep.

thats my experience with the call quality those 2 months i got it.

maybe you guys have a defective one?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Alexcxvtr:
Well, the problem is there's a whole batch of defective X5s in the market right now. I replaced my first device after noticing that mic issue within 3 days from purchase. My second device, and current one, has the same damn issue! However, in this device the problem came up after rooting. Obviously, gotta be a software thing. So, I sent my second X5 back to Huawei and waiting news.

OFFTOPIC:Had the exact same thing with my HTC Wildfire. Just my luck!!!:mad:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tommixoft:
So the answer or fix is clear for this - need to disable noise cancellation function. I'm noob in linux so i have no idea how it can be made... Or we have to make a short on second mic or damage it, or do something in ROM. The most strange fact is :

WHY some people have good quality and other doesnt (maybe they talking in quiet/loud environment?).

Topic starter or mod should make a poll asking do they have mic problems or not, to let us see the scale of this issue.

EDIT: Ok i've searched the google and it seems that the same problem have BlackBarry, HTC, Nexus One, Droid, Atrix..and so on..[in fact i think ALL phones with that technology has the issue] so this is indeen some kind of Android issue. OR MAYBE with noise cancellation phone uses maybe some different codec..and in encoding process it gets so bad souding.. or maybe users in GSM have this problem but users in other bands do not..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] snake_boss:
Already read a lot for this problem, and my opinion is about the tone of our voice, 'cause is present in different mobiles with different software. My personal solution is to put my phone almost in horizontal position as I speek. With this i put the hole of the primary mic nearby my mouth. (May or not help, cause i'm left handed)....

I think we can exclude mic problems, cause with other people talking on my phone the problem is not present (or eventually don't are noticed)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tommixoft:
Can people with mic problems post here what band do they use?

GSM or CDMA ? Or it just bug in DSP..i give up :D
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] flipmodegr:
i used gsm but i have also tryed cdma to cheak if this would fix the problem,nothink happened.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tommixoft:
I changed my mind..i don't think that it have difference which one is used 2G or 3G. Until Google won't release api for this, i think there is only one solution - disabling this feature via software...BUT..when we'll get this nobody knows.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] supea:
this is a BIG problem. could it jsut be because of the low quality of the hardware? I'll try custom roms in the near future and I really hope they have a built-in fix for this..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] snake_boss:
With MIUI I think the quality increased, noone else complains about my voice... Try it and give your feedback
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] supea:
installed the B160 rom. no improvement in the call quality. i ought to try that taping method... oh and the problem doesnt occur if one has a high pitch voice but dunno...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] malesinas:
I have this phone for about 3 months now. So far i have noticed bad call quality (and ONLY for other call party), especially when i have wifi on,or GPS on. The problem is the same with the original Rom and with the custom one (B160). Some times it happens, some other it doesn't. Have you noticed a similar behaviour???
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Alexcxvtr:
If you have read the previous pages you would understand that all of us in this topic have the same problem as you do. So, yes we've all noticed that! And, no clear solution is available yet.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] GolfCranK:
Yes sometimes it's impossible to use google's voice commands or Vlingo either. PITA
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] entrapmen:
I'm using the latest MIUI and nothing changed. I've tried void, Oxygen and some others, they all have this problem. I have had this problem while on Stock.

That's the only thing i couldn't find a solution for this phone. Otherwise i liked it.

Hope soon someone could find a solution.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fruitgull:
On a similar issue; Does anyone have problem after connecting a Bluetooth headset with the other part's voice being distorted? It seems the base volume for the BT is far to high.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fruitgull:
Yes, this does it for me too!

The position of the mic seems to be very important.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] snake_boss:
Glad to help someone, my daily good deed is done! :D
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] anton77:
Hi,

I 've an Ideos X5 pro and i 've the same problem with the mic.

Do we 've any solution from Huawei or we just 've to cover the second mic with a tape or something ?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] sport_billy:
Same problem here. Tried a lot of different ROMs and some stock but nothing changes. It does not happen always, sometimes my voice is clear and some others the other side can barely hear me. Placing my hand like in one picture posted above seems to do the trick, but i have to cover a bigger area and hold the hand a lot closer to my mouth..which is quite annoying.

Any news about this issue? If i send it to replace the mic will it get fixed? I would pay for this since my warranty is off.
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
Anyone found a Mkv player that will play 720p I can find some that will either play video no audio or audio with no video
[Motorola Droid X2] spr0k3t:
I'm wondering, have you tried moboplayer?
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
Yep get no audio
[Motorola Droid X2] spr0k3t:
Just tried it myself. I keep getting FCs out the yin-yang on that app for some reason. Worked great on OG Droid. Have you tried any of the VLC streaming apps yet? VLC supports MKV container, it's just sometimes you have to set the default audio channel. That is probably the reason why we can't get any audio out of the MKV files though, no way to set the defaults (yet).
[Motorola Droid X2] spr0k3t:
Got it working. I moved the media off the /mnt/sdcard-ext and put onto /mnt/sdcard and it worked. My removable card is a class 10, so it should not have had any problems. Try moving your video over to see if that works.
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
If I select soft decoding it works ok with moboplayer would the file size matter its a 2gb file
[Motorola Droid X2] spr0k3t:
I don't think the filesize matters. I tried three different files as well as one I created with multiple audio tracks. Still trying to figure out how to change audio.
[Motorola Droid X2] booked:
try QQplayer. thats what i use and it workds great for any quality mkv.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] andrew8806:
Thanks to everyone at AndIRC and AndroidPolice for this.

THIS WILL ONLY WORK FOR MR2 BASED FROYO/GINGERBREAD ROMS

We are not responsible for what happens to your device. Flash at your own risk.

Official OTA MR2 Radio 1.39.00.0627r - 97c195d733f61c6a699528747aff6892

Enjoy! :D
[Thunderbolt Android Development] davidbudd1:
Downloading now and will flash. Using bamf 3.0rc4
[Thunderbolt Android Development] heffe2001:
Also in process of installing on BAMF 3.0rc4..
[Thunderbolt Android Development] smashtheguitar:
Flashed and working fine for me thusfar.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jimmydene84:
Nice, gonna try it out
[Thunderbolt Android Development] D623:
Well this work with bamf remix 1.8.6?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] patdroid1:
I'll let you know in about 5 minutes ;-)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] mattguyver:
Running great so far on BAMF 3.0 rc4. Instantly locks on to 4g at boot.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] b33zy682:
about to flash using gingeritis1.1. whats the difference between the mr2 and mr2.5 radios that were already dropped?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ruddogg:
will Adrenalyne's custom kernels work with this radio? I'm on BAMF 1.86 also.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] D623:
Okay thanks
[Thunderbolt Android Development] andrew8806:
This will be officially released OTA
[Thunderbolt Android Development] patdroid1:
Bamf 1.8.6...took a minute to lock 4g but confirmed working now
[Thunderbolt Android Development] D623:
Sweet.. thanks.. I hope this fixs the crap gps
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ruddogg:
does the bamf custom kernel still work? are you still able to overclock to 1.4ghz?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] patdroid1:
yep...all working fine so far....4g is solid...GPS locks....phone is running smooth and cool
[Thunderbolt Android Development] brownat:
Any idea if this works on cm7?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] madAdam6LOVE:
Anyone try this with CM7?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] :
Flashing it with cm7 rc1.2 tonight fashooo
[Thunderbolt Android Development] D623:
Thanks for being the test bunny lol
[Thunderbolt Android Development] wooddale:
Sorry to hear that man. I really think a lot has to do with the phone. Ive been on at least 20 roms went freom froyo to ginger my 4th MR I never had a reboot problem. Im in 4G and always get it. I think I just lucked out and got a good phone. So many other people are having problems what else could it be.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] WBMc36:
no clue, i definitely agree phones act differently. When CM7 first came out and the kernel was clocked at 1.8 some phones booted right up and others like mine bootlooped. Every phone is different and sometimes for me it is hard to tell if i am supposed to be getting 4g or not. I was in my house most of the day and it is spotty sometimes here, i will have to see tomorrow when i travel to a known location with solid 4g. Hopefully it works. I had the mr1 radio working perfectly for me.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] benlane:
New Radio + Sense BAMF RC4 Wow

Installed the new radio using Sense RC4 and wow - its the bomb.

I travel a lot and use the heck out of my GPS. Locks and accuracy are really important. I use AAA TripTicket, Maps and CoPilot. With the new radio the locks are virtually instantaneous.

Battery takes a little management - when not needed got to shut off the things you are not using and then solid battery life. With heavy MMS and GPS use I am about 70% after 4 hours. Not sure lots of you think thats good or bad but it is honest and given the utility of the device with this radio - I'll take.

I had lots of devices - check how long I been a member here - this is the best I have used.

I've donated to the BAMF team a few times and this radio with the RC4 - I will again.

WOW
[Thunderbolt Android Development] DontCome2MyHouse:
Anyone using this new radio on BAMF GingerREMIX v2.1? Will it work?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] fixxxer2008:
ill report i had my first random power off where i had to do a battery pull on bamf 2.1 + the lean kernel + the new OTA radio.

im wondering if this isn't related ot the kernel or gingerbread rom at all? i may call verizon for a replacement phone since it's only about a month old.