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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chauzu:
wondering about this too, i can't make it work......
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpd81:
workaround

it was annoying me having come from iPhone to note 2 so the way that I have made it work was to get the app headset button controller from the play store and set 4 clicks to launch so voice, make sure you select yes to waking the phone when asked. Now s voice works on the headset, just wish I could assign it to long press of the headset button but that's reserved for google voice search. I hope this can help some people or if anyone has a simpler workaround please share!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katamari201:
Why do people keep on ignoring the terrible audio capture? Every video I have seen and heard from the GS3 has terrible audio. It is actually worse than the HTC X in many instances, and that phone has rather subpar audio capture as well. There are many many phones that capture much better audio, from the Xperia S, Motorola Razr, Nokia Lumia, iPhone, Rim Blackberry Bold, and even most of Samsung's own previous and lower tier phones and of course this phone's predecessor, the S2. About the only thing worse is probably most HTC phones, but not by much. Samsung's audio capture quality has dropped big time, into the gutter actually, and every review I've read has ignored this fact. There are occasional mentions of it by other posters, but ultimately the screaming fanboys usually overwhelm the conversation by saying how awesome everything is and to STFU GTFO about it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with my hearing. There's just something wrong with this phone. So why is this issue falling on deaf ears? Pun intended.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] member68:
What do you mean exactly? Call quality, audio recordings, videos?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Isadora:
It's not something that I'm particularly bothered about because I don't think I've ever used my phone to video anything so a bit of a moot point for me :p I'm sure it probably is annoying if it is indeed as bad as you say :)

Sent from my CM9 TouchPad
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lawonga:
It sounds more like there is no filter on the microphone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wencel:
Honestly, I got my Galaxy III yesterday and due to bad audio in my recorded videos (I do record a lot) i'm seriously thinking to return it.

Compared to my current SE Xperia Pro which has a nice sound in all videos the quality of the sound in my videos made with S3 is really bad :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
Wait for Voodoo Sound!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eitama:
I am very much bothered with that awful thin sound.

I don't think it has ANYTHING to do with Voodoo sound.

It has to do with some ****ty Band Pass Filter if you ask me.

It sound like there is no bass, middle, and no high.

Only some mid/high is left. can easily be checked actually.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1rtu4l:
if you want better audio on recordings, just use the included headset and plug it in before starting the recording.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deffjeff:
Well has nothing to do with fan boys I guess. In my case for instance, I actually never use my phone to record audio/ video, so I really do not care about that feature at all. If I need to record video, or take superb pics, I use my Canon D600, and I do not mind the weight.:D

I do reckon that in the reviews there has been more emphasis on the image quality, rather then the audio quality... However that is something you'll have to confront the actual reviewers with rather then the users that do not use certain features that much or at all.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
nobody is bothered by it because soon it will be fixed by developers.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eitama:
Wild guesses and speculations are not welcome.

Maybe the mic physically has a frequency response that leads to that tinny sound?

Will that be fixed by developers?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeviathanPT:
Wth :| the videos ive seen were amazing, you could even hear a guy walking some some twigs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ0VbqfWUC4&feature=g-all-u
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eitama:
The issue is most prominent when recording someone speak, or some music being played, or some sounds which fill the entire audio spectrum not just some walking noises.

Listen to people speaking in videos, you will see (hear) the sound is awful.

Iv'e had an SGS, SGS2, Note and soon SGS3

I know how it should sound, and from many samples I know this sounds very bad.

The video is absolutely amazing, the audio, not so much.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeviathanPT:
Ive listened to the video from Eldar Murtazin for mobile-review where hes speaking on the street with someone and it sounds good tbh.

http://mobile-review.com/review/image/samsung/galaxy-s3-fl/photo/video.mp4

Maybe my requirement levels are lower than yours ? :|
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eitama:
I downloaded the video you linked and listened to it.

No bass, no high treble, just high mids.

You can hear voice, but it's just dead.

There is no doubt you can hear people and the bitrate is ok, but the EQ is bad.

Really bad.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeviathanPT:
Ahh so thats what this is all about, for me it seems like the noise cancelation could be reason if it, its too sensitive you can notice on the beginning of the video.. could supercurio voodoo tool be able to fix or improve this ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XpLoDWilD:
I don't know if noise cancellation is active during video recording, but let me just remember you the size of the SGS III microphone, that is only a few milimeters (and the hole is less than a milimeter wide). Don't expect anything spectacular with such a small piece, it's far from being as large as this : http://www.guitariste.com/share/achat/marchands/woodbrass/neumann-u-87-i-116930.jpg

EQ'ing might help a bit, but remember this is a phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eitama:
Oh well. I just made a vid with my note and spoke with my deepest bass voice into the mics, and indeed it is pretty thin here as well, but I don't remember having this problem with SGS2/1, I'll have one of them to try later today.

Not that this issue will prevent me from getting an S3 and enjoying every moment!

---------- Post added at 03:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:35 PM ----------

Actually - I just recorded myself with High Q MP3 Rec (Lite) and there is plenty of bass. So this problem should be resolvable by changing the way audio is recorded or captured. Here is me speaking into the mic : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15924481/recording-20120606-174117.mp3

In my opinion there is so much more bass there. The audio quality obtained when recording video has a great deal of margin to improve.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeonxt:
he meant the audios in videos that are record by sgs3.

as some have noticed it sounds muffled and thin.

---------- Post added at 03:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:01 PM ----------

the vids they are talking about is the one from gsmarena the on where they compare sgs3 and hox vids of cars on street.

and another vid it was an early hands-on it was also taken on the street where you see a man riding a bicycle then pans to the left to show the road under.

i'm sure some of you have already seen that vid.

the sound from those vids does sound muffled and thin.

---------- Post added at 03:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:05 PM ----------

yes that was what i thought ever since those gsmarena vids,

that the noise cancellation is set a bit aggressive when recording vids.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eitama:
Noise cancellation should be disabled when recording video IMHO.

It is good when talking on the phone you want only your voice to go through and clear, but when recording audio as audio, i think there is no need.

Top mic should be left, bottom should be right, and thats it :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeonxt:
you just can't say it's because it's just a phone because many low-end phones despite recording bad quality videos have clearer audios in their videos on similar road scenes.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeviathanPT:
Found a video that really shows off the diference, i think it can be fixed with some equalizer changes tho im not very into the Android development.

[YOUTUBE]hDnk82G0mzY[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eitama:
But why are you quoting me? I didn't say that :) XPlodWild did!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XpLoDWilD:
But they are thicker, thus having a bigger microphone capsule (even half a milimeter makes the difference). Anyway, it's like this, and besides eventually some EQ you can't help it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeonxt:
woops might be because of having too many tabs open.

sorry for that.

:D

---------- Post added at 04:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:01 PM ----------

on that vid, the first thing that's noticeable is iphone's audio volume is too low compared to sgs3's.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajftl:
Almost every android phone audio recording on video is crap. I dj at pretty loud clubs and some of the android phones when is loud the audio recording is terrible. Not the case using wp lumia. Htc titan. Focus they all record audio clear even if is loud boom boom. Some of the htc android like the one with beats audio do a decent job like for example sensation xl do a good job. My one x kinda suck. My one s do a better job than the one x. And i remember the lg g2x was good too. The gnex crappy when is loud loud. And of course tbe iphone also do a good job. When i go to club i take my lumia 900 for best audio recording when i shot videos. I havent try the gs3. Just got it two days a go
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avetny:
Call quality ? - Perfect ! Change your damn radio...(most of the phone coming with Europe radio)

Bluetooth sound quality ? -Perfect ! This **** using

APT-X codec developed by CSR

. Do you know what is that ???

It allows lossless bluethooth audio UP to around 370Kbps for stereo sound !!!

Dynamic quality ? The audio processor on the Galaxy S III is a

Wolfson WM1811

, unlike the infamous Yamaha YMU823 on the Galaxy S II and the popular Wolfson WM8994 on the Galaxy S.

Galaxy s III using:

Active noise reduction circuits

- DC offset correction removes pops and clicks

- Ground loop noise cancellation

And some people thinking the sound quality is bad.

Its calling " clean recording"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xcor3:
did you read and watched the videos?

Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeviathanPT:
I think what in the end he meant to say was " Most its fixable via software"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
Its at least a partially educated guess since i both am an audio engineer and work with one of the engineers who designed this hardware.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avetny:
Thank you !

Let me tell you something

I hate when person trolling with an intelligent expression on his face.

Example check this out:

katamari201:

"-The One X doesn't have good audio recording, stereo or not. The Galaxy line is much better."

Now he saying:

"-It is actually worse than the HTC X in many instances."

Galaxy s III using:

Active noise reduction circuits

- DC offset correction removes pops and clicks

- Ground loop noise cancellation

And some people thinking the sound quality is bad.

Its calling " clean recording"

_________________________________________________________________________________

Hacking ?

Galaxy S II Records Audio 64kbps/16khz quality.

By famous dev Potatoman

we get now 192kbps/44.1Khz quality (CD Quality)

This is software. And it does not deserve to be expressed like that :"STFU GTFO"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with my hearing. There's just something wrong with this phone. So why is this issue falling on deaf ears? Pun intended."

Got Hearing Problems? ;)

Best Regards.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kobz1973:
The camera hack is already available for sgs3. 192kb @ 48khz
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avetny:
exactly
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erahgon:
Since the issues persist with the higher bit-rate mod as well*, we can infer that there is some DSP affecting the audio at the input stage.

The alternative explanation is that there is no DSP effect and the mic is actually that bad (as Xplodwild mentioned - smaller transducer, possibly inferior), hence we should implement the DSP EQ to compensate (only to a limit - you can't enhance what isn't there).

Let's see what the devs come up with (@Supercurio: Looking at you! :D )!

(*Someone please confirm that the issue really does persist with the mod. I realize that there have only been a few uneducated claims as such.)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasra:
Because it also sucked in S ans S2 and Voodoo Sound mostly fixed it AND Voodoo Sound is coming to S3.

That's why.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaTiCeK-:
It would be nice to hear supercurio's opinion in this.

But I agree with the op, there is not enough attention being put to audio recording quality in the geek scene. So far I've only been satisfied by Nokias and iPhones. The easiest test is to try recording an acoustic guitar and it never sounds muffled or distorted on an iPhone or recent Nokia devices, while most HTCs and Galaxys are terrible at this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electricview:
Thank you!

THANK You for posting this thread. I noticed this on EVERY SINGLE review i've seen on this phone that the videos are BASSLESS and tinny... TOTALLY dissapointed here and i couldn't find any threads on here.. I posted a little question to the developer of the Camera mod in the mod section to see if he can do anything about this issue too..

To those saying the GS1 and 2 sucked too, umm go watch the videos with the cars and compare them they at least have SOME bass.. Unless you're saying all these reviewers mod their phones, which i'm guessing they dont (and specifically dont when they are going to REVIEW a phone).

No truely only the GS3 really sucks becuase its a BRAND new phone supposedly TOP of the line best in its class up there with the iphone 4 and some believe better, yet its audio recording during a video is the weakest i've heard in a LOOOONg time heck i think even my g1 beats it! (okay thats an exageration but still...)

This needs to be fixed, becuase for some of us we like the fact that our phones do video.. To me its not even a phone its a PCD personal communication device so i want the other features to work, espically if i'm going to be paying top dollar for it! It's too bad we rely on our community to fix these things rather than that maker of the phone, but i'll take a fix from anyone if they can make it work.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgstcola:
I've posted a thread like this earlier. I wholeheartedly agree and for me this is the reason I haven't bought the s3 yet. It is inexcusable to release a flagship phone with audio quality like this. The s2 was bad as well:-(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueseeker:
I really hope that this is fixable via software, but knowing Samsung, I'm almost sure that they put a crappy microphone on the phone. I hope I'm wrong but they always f*ck up something and I guess this is it this time.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TSport-:
I don't think this is related to a crappy mic. Simple explanation is that if you record some music with bass using the sound recorder, the bass will indeed be captured.

One thing I don't get is why LG camera produces the same bass-less recording. It may seem like this problem is some where else than in the camera app.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hotobu:
I'm not a sound expert, but I tend to agree with what's been said above. This seems like more of a software issue than a hardware one. The iPhone sound seemed like it was intended to filter out background noise which is probably preferred in most cases as you'll only want to record sounds close to the phone. It seems to me that it's just increasing the SNR of the incoming audio whereas the S3 is keeping the signal as is.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagrim1:
I was hoping this would be fixed by now but very disappointing indeed, like it was with the SGS (thanks for fixing that one supercurio) and with the SGS2...

It is basically impossible to record at concerts or anything where there is lots of noise (and the iPhone shoots excellent videos in these cases) because it results in just noisy garbage.

But hopefully voodoo will arrive soon.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
You can hear the audio difference between S3 and S2 in my video below. The S2 pics up a lot more low down bass which is how it should be, the S3 picks up next to no bass.

[YOUTUBE]8qfy0KOOKHA[/YOUTUBE]

I noticed this in the first batch of leaked S3 camcorder samples appearing on Youtube but thought the user recording them noobed it with bad settings or because it was a demo handset at first.

The HyperX mod improves sound clarity but there's still a lack of bass.

Will VoodooSound be able to increase the bass or fix the lack of bass?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gadgetz:
Cause I hardly take video with my phone so it's a non-issue for me. I'm assuming supercurio's Voodoo sound will make it sound better though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagrim1:
It amazes me how samsung manages to mess this up again and again...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angelofmusic:
Sounds like a low pass filter!

I have the S3 and while the sound is fine on the phone speakers (which I feel that they designed it for, like total and complete idiots!)

It sounds like the audio has been placed through a high-pass filter! All of the lower frequency sounds have been attenuated!

When I import video to my Mac, it distorts entirely! I can't even edit it in Final Cut Pro.

The funny thing is that this is an ICS problem! Check out your Galaxy Notes if you have one! It does the same thing with the video audio! I changed back to Gingerbread for this very reason. I cannot believe Samsung let this slip! I first noticed this issue on the Galaxy Note and reported it to Supercurio, who is a dear friend of mine.

We shall see
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katamari201:
Yeah I don't need any tests to tell something sounds thin, sickly, digitally garbled, and heavily clipped and chopped up. It's sort of night and day.

Wow people are actually paying attention to this finally. At least I know HyperX is trying to fix it in his camera mod, tho seems to be on break right now. It's clearly a software issue and a design choice which is why making more noise has its benefits since it can easily be changed, either with an update by Samsung or a mod by the devs here.

Why are companies purposely crippling the audio in their phones? They know it will be uploaded to youtube and viewed by other people, as well as being played back on a computer, or god forbid using one of the plethora of wireless TV connection options Samsung touts. Designing it for a bassless speakerphone mobile handset is just ridiculous, which also assumes speakerphones have no bass and somehow the audio doesn't sound like utter crap after removing the bass even on a bassless speakerphone. I don't know why they don't just leave it alone and have the full frequencies intact.

Audio in general is very low bandwidth. The low frequencies especially. Companies like HTC can't use the "have to limit filesize for easy upload to the interwebs lulz" bullsh*t with their 10mbps video because audio can sound good even at a very low 64kbps and with bass too. They can't use the "oh it's suppressing audio" since it's a freakin' video recording, not a voice call, and you want to record everything in earshot. I still don't know or any other reasons why they would do this, other than pure idiocy.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
you do however need tests to tell you that;

- not all the phones appear to have the problem

- the problem is most likely software based and thus fixeable given the nature of the audio output.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andydsm:
Hi hefonthefjords,

Please check Your pms, I sent You some recorded samples I took with my S3 with some interesting results.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbgt2:
U have a bad phone get it replaced. *****in here won't fix it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
I for one appreciate the tests that have been posted. Thank you... I am also someone who made a post about this and some seem to brush it off and some are highly annoyed like myself... the phone cost up to 700 bucks in which im paying for out right because i can't upgrade.... my computer itself costed me less than that and is a top of the line PC.. I expect all things to work on my phone with great quality as my PC does if paying that much money for something. Samsung has made very good sound recording devices (most of the galaxy s line phones) so i wonder why not give attention to the entire phone instead of reverting back to something horrible.

I hope it is a software issue... by no means am i bashing the phone because I really am getting it on the 21st.. i just hope it's not the reason I'll be sending it back because I did the same thing with the One s on tmobile.. hooooooorible audio/video recording.

---------- Post added at 10:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 AM ----------

If you check this video out at 12:10 .. the interviewer guy asked the samsung rep about the frequently asked questions about the video audio recording quality and the rep says they focused more on the video quality rather than the audio quality to be make a fair statement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0f7Ub70ts

hopefully this doesn't mean the phone has no hope in that department
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katamari201:
Already knew it was a software problem. That's kind of obvious. I've also seen literally every sample video on youtube and downloaded several nontranscoded videos, all with the same issue. This is not a particular broken phone. This is ALL of them. This is what Samsung would call a feature of the S3.

Yeah I know some of you don't read anything and instead just post blindly to push your post count, but really, try to listen for a change.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imacfriend:
Separate MIC for video recordings

In the quick start guide of the phone there is a description that in case of video recordings a second separate microphone is used.

Comment: 'Active only when you use the speakerphone feature or record videos'.

While the main MIC is at the bottom, the video MIC is at the top of the phone, above the LED flash.

This could mean different things:

1) the video MIC is used additionally to the main MIC for wind noise canceling purposes

2) the video MIC is used instead of the main MIC

3) the video MIC is used for stereo recording :)

I really hope the extra MIC doesn't mean Samsung has a hardware issue.

Let's hope it can be fixed with a software update.