I was just wondering if its possible to improve call quality by a patch. I'm loving the phone but the call quality does leave something to be desired.
I was just wondering if its possible to improve call quality by a patch. I'm loving the phone but the call quality does leave something to be desired.
I will definitely confirm that calling Sprint and getting my msl # was worth it. Voice quality on both ends has improved. Sounds about as good as the Nexus S I returned within my 30 days to get this phone.
What is MSL and how does this improve the call quality?
Some one I talk too tonight told me I sound muffled. This is first time I've talked to this person since getting the 3d. I was thinking if trying this but two things entered my mind. If this is so much better why wasn'tit set this way out of the box? Second why doesn't sprint issue an ota fix for this? I shouldn't have to get into service menus to have decent call quality.
I have had almost better call quality with the 3d then i did with the 4g. Not saying the 4g's was bad, but it seems better with this phone. I live in the chicago suburbs and i am never wuthout good signal.
Sent from my 3D EVOlution
yes it requires calling customer service for your msl # though
Support [OFFICIAL SOLUTION PENDING]Change your vocoder settings to improve voice quality - Android Forums follow the steps here
Tried it out and it has improved the call quality, nothing mind blowing but noticeable. I also saw on XDA how to improve your internet speed in the same main menu as where to turn on the vocoder. Worked as well.
Someone else said they noticed (over at phandroid) their cpu utilization went from 13% percent -ish to approx 60-70% when on a call after changing the codec. So my question is....maybe Sprint/HTC don't enable this out of the box for battery savings? Or maybe it's because they feel it isn't effecient enough and using more resources? I mean I find it hard to believe we are smarter than them...why doesn't Sprint use this from the get go? This seriously makes no sense. I mean all well and good and I may try it but something about this bothers me. I can't help it. If this is so superior why are WE the ones to change it and why isn't it used by Sprint across all phones or at least the E3D?
Don't have an answer for that but if it doesn't work out you can always change it back. Doesn't hurt to try.
Ya I know I can try it but that's not the point. I don't all of a sudden wanna see my battery life plummet because of this. Bah just annoys me for some reason. I mean these are things that should have been taken care of in testing not by the end users. It's bs this is a core feature not an extra side thing.
Nice, my call quality is great so I had no reason to do it. I did improve my internet speed and there is a nice little bump in speed that I got after doing it. He downside is that sprint tv doesn't work anymore
Ya I know I can try it but that's not the point. I don't all of a sudden wanna see my battery life plummet because of this. Bah just annoys me for some reason. I mean these are things that should have been taken care of in testing not by the end users. It's bs this is a core feature not an extra side thing.
Well, I haven't tried it yet but that's only because I don't feel like going a couple rounds with Sprint CS today. Maybe I'll give it a go round tomorrow.
I will say that given the fact that the -2 vocoder option is more compressed and efficient, then it makes sense that more CPU resources will be used during phone calls. Whenever you deal with data compression, you are reducing the storage size and/or bandwidth thats necessary for a certain amount of data at the expense of CPU resources. The CPU has to work harder to compress and decompress data in order for us to interact with it. The deeper the compression, the less bandwidth necessary for data transmission, and the more taxing the CPU! More CPU resources means more battery drainage. This seems like yet another measure that HTC implemented to conserve battery life.
However, you should ask yourself, How much time do you spend talking on your phone. I only spend maybe a total of maybe 45 minutes at the most, throughout my day talking on my cell phone. This should not make a HUGE difference in my battery life, but I guess I'll find out soon enough. If I notice something significant, I can change it back.