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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electricview:
A little info.

I know there's already been a video demonstrating the difference between the audio recording app and the video recording app but I've made another one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up8N2aMhJ6U&feature=youtu.be

A few key points I've discovered.

The Video recording app absolutely does use both microphones to record in stereo (very cool).

The video recording app seems to reverse the channels when recording (right is left and left is right, which is very wierd?)

The bass response is better with the audio recording app than the video recording app by a good amount.

I never expected the phone to be able to capture ALL the bass coming out of the speakers (my speakers are Infinity bookshelf speakers and have really good bass).

I imagine if the audio recording app (voice recorder) used both microphones it would sound a little better too, but it only uses the bottom mic when it records.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
So I wonder is that something Samsung can or will address
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and suggest that everyone crying about imperfect audio recording go buy a damn video camera if you want quality movies. I don't expect my phone to take photos like my DSLR, and I can't grasp why people think a phone should be recording IMAX quality video.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
So whhhhat? Nobody asked who specifically cared if their device recorded great.. we're talking about the collective customers who should be able to use their.700 dollar device to record videos.with great quality on both ends. If it doesn't bother u, why are you in thuis thread? Sheessh
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
Because it's ridiculous how nit-picky people can be when it comes to the smallest of features. Everyone here acts like the phone should be able to record cinema-quality video and throws a hissy-fit when it only records "very good" video. It's a god damned phone, not a professional video camera.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stkiswr:
Could it just be a setting? I have a friend getting the verizon gs3. I guess we will be doing some testing w that one. Until then I will take all this w a grain of salt. Although all the Samsung phones I have owned recorded excellent video and soso audio
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
We are in no way having a hissy fit. We just expect our bleeding edge device to record full range audio, like EVERY other device on the market does.

This issue has nothing to do with video capture or quality. It is specifically about the audio capture in the camera app and the apparent high and low pass applied by default to the audio.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
Well when Samsung births other devices with great video/audio capture and possible messes up a more advanced product in the future, it does cause concern from the consumer.. we evolve by going forward.. not backwards with neglect of software or hardware.... So how about u just enjoy your device and allow questions to surface as they may? People crack me up as if we can't say anything wrong about the galaxy s 3.

It seems to be a software issue.. that's what I'm hoping because I returned many phones because they have horrible video and audio problems... Ala HTC.. I count on Samsung to fullfil my desires.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
have captured a few hd videos at my home and the audio quality is crystal clear. what problem are you people talkin about?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
Post your videos hear and talk so the people can hear how it sounds like a tincan ...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evo450:
I don't think anyone expects a phone to be a professional video camera. I certainly don't. What I do expect is for the video recording on such an expensive device to be usable. As an Evo 4G owner from day one, this is my biggest complaint with the Evo. The audio quality when recording video on the Evo is absolutely terrible. I DO own a "real" camera and I use it to take video. I DON'T always have my camera with me and there have been many times over the past two years where I would have loved to take video of something but didn't bother because I knew the result would be useless.

How is it unreasonable for people to expect that a phone that takes such excellent looking video (for a phone) pair it with decent audio? Isn't this phone a flagship model that is supposed to compete with other flagship phones like the iPhone (which has excellent audio)?

I do not understand this limitation and it is very disappointing to me. I'm hoping this will be my next phone but I would really like to know for sure that the issue is fixable via software before I commit to a two year agreement.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neyenlives:
wait for voodoo sound or get a real video recorder......you bought a phone, don't blame the phone when it doesn't satisfy your video recording needs, blame the phone when it doesn't perform as a phone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
Lol amazing... It's a SMART PHONE.. its not a house phone. A regular phone cost me 19 bucks.. this phone cost 700 so would yall stop telling people to not blame Samsung for this issue? It's a ridiculous notion
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbgt2:
+1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neyenlives:
lets just say, if i wanted to be sure i was getting a quality video recorder, I would not buy a phone, i would buy a quality video recorder

its just as a ridiculous assertion to say I would go shop for a video recorder that happens to allow cell phone calls if i was looking for a quality phone.......and then *****ing when my quality video recorder that happens to have a cell phone capability had ****ty phone reception
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electricview:
or maybe just get a One X? or some other phone that is better? eh?

---------- Post added at 04:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:19 AM ----------

It is not riduclous in any way when previous versions of the same phone have better sound quality, so we pay more money for newer 'worse' technology? yeaaah good idea.. you can keep doing that if you want, but some of us actually value what we buy, not just take whatever is shoveled at us.

IF you people want to justify your purchases by saying "Its okay it's not as good as the others but more expensive" Fine.. But the rest of us don't live in denial land.

This thread is for those who are unsatisfied with it, not those who want come in and complain about us not being happy? i mean really who's complaining now? you are. Just let us do our comparisons and research/fixes and you go do whatever it is you do....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neyenlives:
so this thread is only for those who think like you and have the same opinion as you right? good luck finding the truth in that world
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electricview:
No but you aren't contributing you're just coming in here to tell us to live with it and not expect 'movie camera quality' when none of us have ever said we expect that. Heck i'd even be fine with you just saying "I am fine with the quality sorry you're dissapointed with it" but instead a few people feel the need to try to change our opinions of what we have with some kind of flakey reasoning... or try to discourage us from pursuing the issue for a possible fix that might make us a little happier with our considerable purchase.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neyenlives:
perhaps you should check in on this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1633685

i don't know, I don't have my SGSIII yet so I can't say if it's subpar or not, but if it's not great you won't hear me whinin' because I don't hold my phone on a high pedestal in terms of audio recording quality
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electricview:
Fair enough. And I don't expect everyone to have similar standards either. Some people never use their phone for pictures or video and to each their own i respect that.

I haven't read the linked thread yet, I just had thought it applied to music player and/or headphone quality (maybe speaker quality from calls too) that kind of thing I have not read the entire thing, so I cannot say either way, i will go through the whole thing and see if there's some good info in there. thank you for the link.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neyenlives:
it may not be relevant, it was something I have been following, as I AM myself concerned about audio reproduction quality, and very glad the Wolfson DAC seems to have made it to the US spec variant
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdoherma:
Sub Par Audio...

I'm sorry... maybe I'm missing something, if you want supurb audio in your video, perhaps you should be using a video camera not a phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueseeker:
Lol, you people are too defensive with your phones. Let me say this: "Audio quality recorded in videos is CRAP".

While all of the "I got black blotches on my black screen in a dark environment" threads are ridiculous, this is a REAL stupid problem with the phone. I don't expect to have studio quality recording, but at least on par with my old moto v360, don't you think?

For comparison, listen to a recording made with the iphone 4/4s, and I do remind you that the iphone isn't a professional VIDEO CAMERA, it's a goddamn phone, the price is almost on par with the S3, so why we should have a sub-par microphone on this thing ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evo450:
This video linked earlier in this thread is the best example I've found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDnk82G0mzY&feature=player_embedded

And don't listen to this on your laptop and say you hear no difference (though the difference is clear even on my Macbook Pro speakers) because the problem is in the bass region and is really pronounced when played back on a full range system.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stkiswr:
How is the speaker phone? If you have to hold the phone near your head when you have it set to speaker then it could be the mic. My wife's epic 4g slider had a terrible mic and her sprint gs2 wasn't amazing. Her Nexus is about the same and I can guess its not much better on the gs3. If it is it can't be fixed. It will be subpar. My Maxx can be sat down and I can talk from a ways away. Same w many other non Sammy phones.

This isn't exactly a deal breaker so much as a disappointment as I use speaker phone a lot. I do some recording now but not a dramatic amount. At $700 all these areas should be covered. I hope/doubt Verizon's will be different in this area
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CreekDirt:
This. Who cares what the sound is like on other phones? Sell this one. Buy that one. Seriously, it's a phone.

People purchase tech blindly and then piss and moan when something rubs them wrong. The S2 sucked. The Note sucks. And this phone followed suit.

Do some research.

Tapped
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saddameu:
this is a real problem.Perhaps this video can clear things out.

youtube.com/watch?v=Up8N2aMhJ6U

My s2 sounds much better in video recording.I`m planning to buy the s3 soon and i`m waiting for a fix.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
VooDoo Sound has mic gain built in, this should fix all mic pickup issues with camcorder...Just wait for it!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CreekDirt:
I watched this on my phone and in my opinion both phones have their faults. The S3 camera looks better inside and outside. The iPhones noise cancellation is nice, but it is over the top. It seemed too quiet at times although this would surely come in handy in high noise environments.

Tapped
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
Using an app called tape recorder I recorded some audio using the s2 and the s3. The results showed the quality of the mics were the same. The ****ty audio quality is only produced when recording video. This is good news.

This is also backed up on by a member of a different forum

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sam...-not-good.html

Hopefully Samsung can correct this or a dev maybe?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
Yup that's correct :)

I think audio quality on camcorder video is important regardless of what some say that you should have a dedicated camcorder if you want video. We have a video recorder on this phone that is so sharp, so smooth and so clear that it's a shame that audio lacks any bass whatsoever.

So once this is fixed as it's clearly a software issue, will be amazing.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
yes! I'm really excited about the phone and more excited about the possible Fix.. maybe we need to call Samsung instead of complaining on here because the quicker the better. Imma give them a call now actually.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saddameu:
let us know asap the results, thank you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
I called Samsung and reported the issue.. felt horrible calling because I don't have an actual device but I know there's an issue from witness footage on youtube and people actually complaining about it on here.. what baffles me is that they said NOBODY called in reference to this.

Hopefully people will stop being lazy and call to see if there's a software issue or hardware issue.. the lady i spoke to doesnt seem as if she really understood or knew what was going on because she said most likely its a hardware issue because samsung sent the latest update to the phone

Please call and let them know

Phone: 800-726-7864

someone else wrote:

How to reach a live person:

Keep pressing 0 and ignore all messaging. Took me 3 times.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeonxt:
please fix that link.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...6-galaxy-s3-sample-videos-audio-not-good.html
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepinmyworld:
Someone Posted this and It sounds GREAT! Hope it's that easy:

"Alright, after a lot of experiments, I found out that it's the Video recording application Encoder that got a bad equalizing and encoding...cause when I tried in other recording audio applications, quality was totally different...

So it's not the hardware Mic of the Galaxy S3...it's not the Operating System...it's 100% the VideoCamera application on S3 need to be fixed which I believe they will do if we complained enough about it...

Just not to sound like i'm Mr. Know it all, everything i stated above came from a studio test...I'm a music producer and a sound engineer...and big fan of Samsung Galaxy Series...so that's why i decided to do a full scientific test to find out the problem and try to report it to Samsung...

Anyway in this test, I used the following:

Samsung Galaxy S2

Samsung Galaxy S3

Macbook Pro

Condenser Mic Shure KSM44

I used the built in Audio Recorder from S2 and S3 and also added to the test the macbook pro built in mic which supposed to be a high quality laptop mic.

In the test there were a full song and a recorded dialogue which has only vocals in it...and kept all the devices in the same location away from the output speakers around 50cm...

This is what I got:

S2, S3 are identical...same quality sound came out from both...The S2 sounded a bit compressed in the highs, but I could hear the mid perfectly comparing to the Macbook Pro Mic...I actually preferred the S3 Mic comparing to the other 2 devices...

PROBLEM STARTED when used the Video Camera on Full HD and recorded the same Dialogue, Song...

What happened here, that the person who programmed the audio encoder. I believe did it based on an old complains that the S2 used to catch a lot of bass which is causing a lot of distortion when you record video in a high volume place, like a club or a concert...so the MR. Programmer instead of fixing it he made it worst...He cut all the frequences from 100hz till 1000hz and kept everything else above that...which is good to be heard on a small speaker like a phone speaker, and you can compress it to sound really high, but take it anywhere else even on a laptop, it will sound ...

So all what they have to do is to reprogram the filter, to allow at least 90hz to 20khz or if the Mic can't take that much Low, to start from 300hz to 20khz...same programming for the built in Audio recorder in the S3...

If anyone gotta contact with the guys in Samsung...let them test what I mentioned above themselves and they will find it all right..and that's the way to fix it...

the main point is our hardware is not spoiled, and no need to go change your phone...it's just a wrong programming and will be fixed...so keep your phone, it's the best thing you ever bought!

Hope this help!

Joe Mitri"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saddameu:
now let`s see who will have mercy and the knowledge to fix this for us, I have a feeling that samsung won`t fix this in the next 4-5 months.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
I want yhem to just flatten the filter. Why the bloody hell would anyone think doing that was a good idea?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
Maybe it's a codec issue too, I recorded a video using LG Camera with the aac 320kbps audio option and the bass was no better so if lg camera uses the built in encoders for video+audio then that's where to look?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evo450:
Hopeful news! The video samples in this Phonearena review of the Sprint version have much better sounding audio!

http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/S...ew-AT-T-Verizon-T-Mobile-Sprint_id3058/page/3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saddameu:
yeah, the audio quality in those videos sounds much better but the question is, how can we fix the international versions ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cproaudio:
A lot of you complained about other users expecting an excellent camcorder out of this phone. You say it's just a phone, worry about the phone portion, not about the camcorder's audio quality. That's a bunch of bull. If you care only about the phone quality buy the RAZR V3xx.

This is a do it all phone. I expect it to do it all. You say if you want great audio/video quality, get a camcorder. Tell me this, do you take a camcorder with you everywhere you go? Any photographer can tell you that the best camera is the one you have with you. You can brag all you want about owning a 1Dx or a Red ONE but it won't do you any good if it's sitting at home when you're at the beach and a UFO flies over your head and all you got is your GSIII. I'd rather carry a 5 ounce phone than a 5 pound camera when I go running.

Now, about the camera app, is there any way to use another camera app besides the Samsung one? What about disabling one of the mics?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
Copy pasta :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tachikoma_kun:
If you were serious about taking video, then yes. A GoPro or something like that will easily fit in a pocket.

I take a big bag full of camera gear almost everywhere, I very rarely need to use it, let alone carry everything from 18mm to 500mm, 4 batteries, ringflash, 4 SD Cards, remotes, teleconverters, infrared bandpass filters and a small tripod. Chase Jarvis might have said the best camera is the one you have with you, but that doesn't mean you have to rely on a phone.

When I took photo's and videos with my SGS1 on the odd occasion I didn't have my camera bag, I never expected it to be as good as a dedicated device, and I don't expect the S3 to either.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramalama:
:-)) I think C&P should do that :-)

Cheers :-)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cproaudio:
Really?? you expect people to carry a GoPro everywhere they go? The more device you have the more up keep you gotta maintain. Are you gonna keep the gopro's battery fully charged every day before you head out?

Do you really take your camera bag everywhere you go? to the mall? to work? to classrooms? to the grocery store? to 7-Eleven? to the gym? to the bathroom? A professional photographer might because that's his/her job but not your average Joe.

It does mean that you have to rely on a phone if it's the only camera you have with you. Not all of us carry a camera everywhere we go. That's my point.

Yeah but don't you wish you had a better camera phone when you see that bigfoot walking in front of you?

I don't expect the S3 to be as good as a dedicated camcorder but I do expect that it will take at least acceptable quality video with a decent audio to go with it. A crappy audio on a video is not acceptable. The S3 is suppose to be a flasgship phone. It sets the bar for every other phones to measure to. If the camcorder is the benchmark to beat, then everything out there is better than the S3. That makes the S3 a waste of money. How is it going to complete with the iPhone with a mediocre camcorder? This is why people buy those stupid ass iphones. It doesn't do much but what it does, it does well above its competitors. I get that you're OK with the quality the S3 delivers. Many of us are not. If you're willing to carry a 20lb camera bag everywhere you go for that 1% chance you might need to film something, good for you.

Edit: I know I sound a bit harsh and I apologize. Please don't take it the wrong way. I was seriously considering ditching my Thrill for the S3. Now that read this thread about the poor audio on video, I'm having second thoughts. I just checked the audio quality on the Thrill. It doesn't sound great but it sounds fuller and a lot better than the S3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saddameu:
seems that they fixed this audio problem in the us version but I hope that the international versions is not forgotten and we will have a fix for it too.I want to buy this phone next month and I`m looking desperate daily for this fix.Is definitely a software problem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tachikoma_kun:
Like I said, if you are serious about it, then yeah you would.

Yes

Yes

No as I'm 32 and don't go to classrooms, and if I did, I wouldn't want to look like a paedo

Yes as I go on the way back from work

Gym? only if I want a beating

Bathroom? well someone has to upload images to ratemypoo.com

And again, my point is, if you are serious about taking photo's/video's, then you would carry these things around with you. I'm a big guy so carrying a camera bag isn't a problem, and there have been plenty of times I have been glad I brought it for photo's you just can't do with a phone (real macro, telephoto, low light without a flash, etc)

To be honest, I would rather run away and use the 500mm lens from a safe distance than rely on a ~48mm lens on a phone!

No need to apologise, my situation is completely different to yours, but I still think people need to accept that these aren't ever going to be the best devices for a single purpose. If you want an absolutely amazing phone get the Razr like you said, if you want amazing mobile gaming get a Playstation Vita, if you want amazing audio recording get a Tascam DR-something-or-other, video, get a... and so on and so on.

If it does turn out that the audio can be fixed with an update and it's as good or better than all the others, that's great, but for most people "good enoug" is... well... good enough.