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[Galaxy S I9000 General] distortedloop:
Battery life always suck on all the phones. I think the app BeyondPod, that I use, is especially hard on the battery for some reason. On my N1, I expect 8-12% battery drop per hour when listening to podcasts for some reason.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacGuy2006:
Dunno.... My battery died yesterday after less than 13 hours, with fairly light use: the biggest drain was voice calls, which accounted for less than 30 minutes in total :(

I've had the phone for only a few days, so I sure hope it's just battery conditioning. My old iPhone would last 2 days with similar use.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacGuy2006:
O.K. Fully discharged yesterday, charged overnight.

Now, 8h29m since plugged, the phone shows 35% battery.

41% use by voice calls (20 minutes!)

Display 30% (1h8m at the lowest brightness)

Cell standby 11%

It's not going to last through the day, again :( With barely any use).

I sure hope this gets better over the next few days.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SiL3nTKiLL:
dam tahts crazy! didnt know it could do that lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wadyas:
This is not a glitch, if you drag your finger from the left top corner to the right it will higher the brightness and same goes ford the other way
[Streak 5 General] shEEEsh:
I keep seeing pictures of one with a red plastic .. Mine is all black.
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
Ive seen the red one to Diane don't like it much and there is a white one and of course the black one that we have if you look on the side of the box it has the colour down as carbon :)
[Streak 5 General] AuirR:
Just googled "dell mini 5 color".

There are many colors.

But it's only black one for sale and beta test.
[Streak 5 General] Dogmann:
Hi all,

Well the ones from 02 are Carbon Black to which suits me fine as if it was any other colour i would have had to buy the Carbon Black covers as it's the colour i would of wanted. Also except for the battery door i don't really see how the backs are easily swappable either. I actually have a feeling when production is in full swing you choose your colour and are then stuck with it where as originally i thought they where going to be swappable.

Marc
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
Give it a few months once the Chinese get there hands on it ebay will be full of all sorts:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Eindbaaz:
This is my first samsung. And I think i'm a bit spoiled as a nokia n900 user. But the recorded sound on my samsung galaxy is just horrible in comparison to my n900.

Last night I went to a show of cypress hill here in the Netherlands. And started recording. The video quality is super. Only the noise makes it almost impossible to distinguish any of the songs etc. I mean really horrible.

After some research i found out that users with the samsung omnia had this same issue, and they found a solution wich was adjusting some settings in the hidden menu of the phone.

Is it also possible to adjust these settings in the galaxy s i9000?

Below are the settings for the omnia hd reducing

with phonepad digit *#0002*28346#

then 3) Record

then 04) CamcordARM_AMR (this is volume gain in video record)

Go to

TxMicAmp : 24

digit 18#

and then when you go back will see

TxMicAmp : 25

Then go to

Tx Channel: 18

digit 18#

and then when you go back will see

Tx Channel: 18

To save all changes go back back

6)Backup and will show "Backup OK"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] heygrl:
Yeah I noticed the heavy clipping (sounds like static, noise, distortion) in all of the Galaxy S recordings. I haven't really seen anyone else mention it.

However the Omina HD runs Windows Mobile does it not? Totally different OS there..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] izmenar:
this should show that menu *#197238640#
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shupiuiuma:
Any luck with this? I have opened the service menu, but no idea what to do after that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BackfireNL:
i also would like a fix for this!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dsjr2006:
Doesn't do anything for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] coretheory:
still no idea to fix it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shupiuiuma:
Try this instead *#*#197328640#*#*
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hiko36:
Any idea what to change these settings to?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] itlab:
I got the same problem when I try to run VOIP application. The noise is so terrible. I can enter "service mode", but I don't know how to setup them either.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dagrim1:
Same here, video recording is quite useless like this... Went to a concert last evening and video is great but sound is ultimate crap! As in one big pile of noise.

But also when recording a video in the car, with just the radio on, is stretching it... It is at least possible to distinguish different sounds but already distorted.

Such a shame! Any fix for this would be great (and couldn't find much in the servicemode settings unfortunately).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rafaelpinaf:
I'm using the JM2 firmware and the sound of recorded videos is poor.

I wish we found the solution, as I had found on i8910
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dagrim1:
Meh, contacted samsung helpdesk (mail) and got a standard response

'We are currently developing a firmware update, please keep an eye out for it on the samsung website'. (translated from dutch ;) ).

My guess is the firmware update won't fix a thing since it's still present in JM2 but we'll see.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] matty___:
In other words: keep waiting. Saying it will be fixed in next release is the best way to keep customers happy without doing anything

But on the other side maybe with 2. 2 it will be fixed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dagrim1:
Yup, I know... But what can you do. They prolly also don't know much about the technical stuff.

At least there's a new firmware coming up, I think I'll give JP3 another shot and see if things have improved there.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GwynBleidd:
Hey guys,

anyone tried playing with *#*#197328640#*#* => audio => handset => diamond solution => voice booster? or acoustic shock free? sounds like something related to me, gonna try.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
that's a good tip

can more people confirm if this optimization works well?

if so, then we can put this as a sticky / FAQ / wiki
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GwynBleidd:
Disregard my post about Diamond solution, it's for headphones. I'm pretty sure some parts of the service menu => audio => handset could be tweaked to make audio recording better, just need someone who knows what means what.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bhonka:
There is a way to alter the recording volume during the recording however it requires adb shell and it only lasts for the duration of the remainder of the recording.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GwynBleidd:
That's something at least, wanna share that? :)

Also I found a quick and dirty workaround if you wanna record some music before some kind of fix appears - just put your finger on the mic hole while recording ^^
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rafalense:
That worked fine on my Samsung INNOV (symbian), but for android devices options in Service Mode are totally different

I'm playing with Diamond Solution inside Handset Option. If I find something I'll let you know
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JaeCee:
I'm gonna have to bump this thread as this is a very big issue for me. I like recording my guitar playing and have been doing it with all my previous phones. So the fact that the Galaxy S could do 720p recording was a really awesome feature to me. However if I play my guitar naturally (as in not loudly) within 2 meters of my phone, the audio easily distorts and is basically not nice to listen to.

I'm positive though that this is a software issue and there's either an existing hidden setting to find or hopefully included in a future update. Right now I'm being forced to use a different device to record the audio which is a total PITA.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dykast:
Going to bump this again. I have tried to use it to record video at 3 concerts and the audio just sounds like garbled noise. Even when I am just recording my 1 year old in the house and I say something a little loud you can hear the distortion. This seems to be a huge issue no one is looking into.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] The.Opethian:
A similar thread was just created earlier and someone mentioned that upgrading to JM1 enabled them to record up to 44.1khz, now in regards to the quality that I'm unsure about.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rafalense:
I was trying to fix it or at least improve it with 'Diamond Solution' options on ServiceMode, but no way

Btw, I'm using 'TapeMachine Free Recorder' to record, the best recorder I found so far

http://android-apps.com/applications/multimedia-applications/tapemachine-free-recorder/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DrunKenG:
This app found in this thread could probably fix the distortion

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7872275#post7872275
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rafalense:
Here is our app:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=758326

Finally we can set mic gain
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mdkboom:
Does it really work for this issue?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MasterThiefGarrett:
Oversensitive Microphone on my Galaxy S as well

Here guys... listen to my video:

go to youtube/Garrett1974 and then click om the Oversensitive Microphone vid...

Just recorded in my car, my wife was driving and I was recording, the video is okay but the sound is horribly distorted... I had my Nokia N82 recording the same thing for testing purposes and it sounded perfect.

Furthermore it really SUCKS that Samsung decided that the Wave S8500 does have 48KHz sound recording with video and this Galaxy S only 16KHz...

I'm trying the app Audioboost later to see if I can 'correct' something...

PS awesome forums here, wish I registered sooner :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] uberberben:
Audioboost is not solution for disortion. I've already tested it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MasterThiefGarrett:
That's true unfortunately :(

It works in the way that it decreases the volume in the video but it is still distorted.

I think it still samples sound 100% and then brings it down to the level that you select, like 60% or so...

I hope anyone comes with a good solution quick... things like this drive me crazy... and I'd really like 48KHz sound as well, or 44KHz AAC like Nokia already did YEARS ago...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] The1st:
Wow.. I really hope this gets fixed and soon. I would love to be able to record videos in concert without the distortion..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vasra:
With the risk of mixing two possibly separate issues, I'd like to point out that the outgoing sound quality in calls is also very bad compared to what is a common quality now in phones:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8001035#post8001035

I've tested three different Galaxy S phones and another user in another thread reports having tested additional two.

There's clearly some issue with the microphone sound quality, whether due to drivers, noise/filter/gain settings, or something else.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ram130:
I really think it's hardware. Did samsung previous Android phones have this issue? If not then there is no way they could have mess up the software..unless they didn't update the mic software for the new mic used? I'm leaning towards hardware issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] heygrl:
Mic sound quality is fine for me. Infact my CLIQ clips very easily, using a tape recording program that shows you the waveforms while you're recording. This probably a gain issue to some extent.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
Disagree, all it takes is using new hardware to make it all too easy to mess up (see GPS, first phone manufacturer to use it in a widely released phone IIRC...even if they weren't the first it was the first time for them). Also, this is an Android phone, which Samsung never really had a big release for, which would require different code and optimizations.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rafalense:
I had before a Samsung INNOV i8510, and it had same issue when recording. Adapting values in ´ServiceMode´ options, issue solved. But with i9000 menus are totally different

I was able to decrease Mic Gain in order to record good videos with AudioGain 1.3 (with autorefresh option enabled also for mic), so, this app works fine. I will try to record some videos comparing both situations and post them :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] uberberben:
I've tested recording with internal and external microphones (from headset) and both sounded the same - disorted. So theres no chance that 2 completelly different mic's are broken or badly designed. It has to be software problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] heygrl:
Of course it's a software thing, look at how much louder the lower clip is with the same source and song. The one above was recorded with TapeMachine (a really nice app btw) and the one below was recorded with the Camcorder app. Besides the Tape Machine version being recorded in a lossless format(wav), it has much higher levels of dynamic range and virtually no clipping.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] uberberben:
When recording loud music i observed clipping and disortion in both video camcorder and other voice recording app. So i think that theres something wrong deeper - in system.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ram130:
Agreed. Looks like software. How do we make Samsung aware of this so they can fix it? the 2.2 update of galaxy is coming in two to four weeks. If they don't fix it now, then we all would have to wait another 6months..or hope a rooted app/rom fixes it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BronzedDroid:
This is probably not relevant, but I figured I'd share it just in case it is.

In MicDroid.apk (an auto-tune like app), you can choose different sample rates for your recordings. The default setting in the app is 22050 Hz. It also has 44k, 11k and 8k.

Anyways, with the default setting of 22k, you only get silence, static and scratching - in other words not working

With the highest of 44k, you get an error telling you to check if the phone supports it.

With 11k Hz, it works (but still a lot of distortion and such).

Edit: Actually got it to work a few times on 22k, but this sample rate is probably not "low level" hardware sampling, just something on top.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samga:
With newer firmware (JM1) 44.1kHz works fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] The1st:
So is it solved or what? Has anybody else tested TapeMachine to se if it works?

!!!A little of topic!!!

How do i get the JM1 firmware?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miki4242:
Hi all,

We're doing deep investigation of the kernel audio driver in the SGS, first started to find a fix for the 2-channel mono FM radio issue. If Samsung doesn't come up with a fix in the meantime, we'll be building test kernels to try out to fix this and several other audio related issues.

You can see all the documentation we have right now and follow the progress in this thread.

Over here, please feel free to ask me any questions you may have on sound quality, recording from different sources, etc. and I'll try to answer them as best as I can.

I'm almost certain Samsung is using some kind of mic pre-amp on top of what the audio chip in the phone can already do (which is a LOT, it's a very capable chip which should be able to make very good quality recordings).

Whether the pre-amp is on may also depend on what app you use to record, and even what type of jack (3-pole or 4-pole) you have plugged in at the time as well as the impedance of the cable / gear attached to it (!) *. The extra signal boost which this pre-amp gives may be what's causing the heavy distortion and clipping which people are hearing.

One of the things we will be trying is to disable the pre-amp and let the audio chip do all the work, or at least make the (kernel internal) mic gain easier to adjust.

* All of this has to do with the fact that the SGS tries to detect what kind of device is hanging off the jack&cable, which may be anything from a simple pair of earphones to a headset with mic to a (wired) car audio setup to an (as of yet unreleased) extra dock speaker to a TV-out cable...! Depending on the outcome it may decide to enable or disable mic bias. The choice it makes could actually be wrong for the type of mic used...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] swatsqad:
"[PROGRAM] AudioBoost, the app to modify alsa mixers settings. Release 2.0!"

find this app (its for i9000 only), with it, you can change the mic sensitivity and also boost the headphone volume :3
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BronzedDroid:
As another user has stated, AudioBoost doesn't solve anything (atleast not earlier). The problem seems to lie in the kernel audio driver.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Hianz:
Hm we should need a "concert modus" in video recording like the droid X :P

youtube.com/watch?v=93EX2Pb5a_M

But i'm quite sure that Samsung won't come up with an update that fix this problem...

Thank god theres a large community with programming knowledge :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nakili:
TheAudio settings in "secret settings page *#*#197328640#*#*

Could someone with galaxy S having no problems with the mic sound quality during voice calls and recordings post the audio settings of the microphone gain etc to compare the settings??

This is the most expensive phone I've ever had and thisone has by far the worst sound quality. GPS ins't working either, but it has nothing to do with this threat
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aegeuss:
I agree with most of you, the sound quality in this phone is terible especially when talking to someone. One can hardly understand the other side. The settings in the service menu should be explained and lets deal with it.

Regards.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MikeyMike01:
Bumping this for exposure. This really needs to get fixed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ram130:
How is it in j15?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MikeyMike01:
I dunno, I can't run Froyo (at least in a usable daily manner).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Meza1:
Hear hear! The outgoing voice quality is very bad, I often have callers report it's difficult to understand my end of the line due to distortion.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MikeyMike01:
One of the settings in the menu has to fix this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nakili:
My problems got solved. I sent my Galaxy s to service and they changed the mic, now it's almost as good as My Nokia E90. They also updated the software and gps is working now. Accuracy is not even near the E90, but at least it's something..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Metal inc.:
DUDE!!!!!!!!!!! Man, this is just like me, like EXACTLY like me, I like to record my guitar playing, i have had my Galaxy for about 4 days now, awesome phone man! AMAZING video quality BUT...whats the use of capturing clear fast guitar playing(I play metal) when you play it back and all you can hear is distorted noise??!

I honestly can't believe that i have found someone who has the EXACT same issue as what i have.

If you have overcome this problem since you posted on the 18th of August, could you PLEASE let me know dude and if i overcome it too, ill be sure to let you know.

Sorry for all the exclimations, its just that i cant believe how **** the mic is when the video is so great and that i came across someone with the same issue.

So hopefully we'll be able to figure it out.

Thanks dude,

Mitch.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ram130:
I can see Samsung saying.."to fix the issue, just turn down your source volume or move away from the mic" lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mike.sw:
No no, that would be like admiting that there is a problem. And we know Samsung doesn't do that ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] henkjandetuinman:
So did they place another microphone in it ? Like a hardware update, or just updated the software? If they only updated the software it would be great news! Audio from camera recording is just the worst i ever heard.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DaRkMyk:
I first noticed this while playing with the Talking tom cat.. I'ts unusable outdoors, like in a cafeteria. hate to compare it but, my friend's iFag4 is doing just fine! :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MikeyMike01:
To the guy who got his fixed, you should post your settings in the Service menu to see if anything is changed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] smudgy456:
i to have been searching for a fix for this. i contacted samsung as soon as i got the phone. first came across the issue when i was out at a friends gig and took a recording, coincidently it was the first day i got the phone so i was keen to check out the video recording. on playback of this video the sound was unbearable to listen to. I contacted samsung the next day advising them of the issue and they took my contact details so that a member of their dedicated galaxy s team could specifically contact me back with a view of resolving the issue.

the person who contacted took me through the menu of my phone to adjust the standard sound settings. i explained to her that that isnt a fix for the problem as that isnt addressing the issue. she basically told me to adjust the system volume on my phone to half way. she got quite irate when i explained that wouldnt fix it as i felt the issue was due to the mic sensitivity settings and told me to trust her. she would not listen to me and i thought the overall was response from her was not helpful in the slightest. i was expecting this member of their specialised team to be some sort of qualified technician but it was nothing more than a customer service representative with a phone manual in front of her.

im hoping the new update will sort the issue but i dont actually think it will. i had a nokia previously and the sound quality from a recording was really good so im really disappointed with this aspect of the galaxy s
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DarrenCarnall:
damn I found this thread and hoped to find a fix... I'm going to a concert tomorrow and was checking up on video quailty on youtube and realised about the sound problems with the mic being too sensitive. Really hoped to find something here.... damn lol

I guess I might try to take my Kodak Zx1 or whatever its called (like a Flip HD type thing) - I wonder what thats like....

off to youtube again I go lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GwynBleidd:
I'm going to a Gary Moore concert tomorrow, gonna take my headset (from the SGS box) with me. Just tried at home, loud music seems to be recording pretty fine through the headset's mic. After it I'll post here about how it went and maybe give some samples.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GwynBleidd:
Oh wow... Just accidentally found an ALSA configuration file...

/etc/asound.conf

which in particular has a "MIC Gain" value which is set to 5.5 out of 0 to 15.

Anyone wants to experiment? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ram130:
wow there is more linux in this phone than I thought.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndyCr15:
For a few days I was wondering why my BlueTooth car kit wasn't working. No-one could hear what I was saying. Then I turned down the car kit mic setting from 3 (max) to 1 (min) and it seems to work fine.

Obviously something wrong with mic sensitivity and it's kinda crazy/amazing there's no setting for it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pimpace:
Hey guys!

There is a

pcm.AndroidRecord_Microphone {
type hooks
slave.pcm {
type hw
card 0
device 0	# Must be of type "digital audio capture"
}
hooks.0 {
type ctl_elems
hook_args [
{name "MIC Path"	value 0}	# 0:Main Mic 1:Sub MIC
]
}
}

section in /etc/asound.conf

how can we insert this line in it properly?

{name "MIC Gain"	value 5,5}	# min:0 max:15

and set it not to 5,5 but 1 maybe or 2. This is may fixes our issue with video-mic records...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MikeyMike01:
Finally some progress!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] henkjandetuinman:
Looks promising to me. How do i get into the mode where i can see the root /etc/asound.conf. I'm a noob at this kind of stuff, but willing to try it out. Fckn video sound makes me crazy!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pimpace:
Oh! Look, here:

(I can't insert link here)

Search: [APP] AudioBoost 2.1 - support and feedback thread here and [PROGRAM] MixGet v1.1 widget to control Alsa headset volume

These are may be a working solution!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] henkjandetuinman:
This was already in a few earlier posts. Doesn't work ;)