Bluetooth Call sound quality
Hey Everyone,
I have the One for a week now. Generally it works great. After 2 system updates that came along (now running 4.3) I noticed that the call sound quality in both directions has deteriorated noticeably. At my end, I hear a high pitched squeak or rattle in the callers voices. The people I am talking to tell me I sound garbled/tinny to them. Before the updates. the sound was perfect. I don't notice the same problem while playing music. So that kind of rules out a blown speaker in the BlueAnt IQ3 that I am using. I am thinking either that there is a problem with the phone sound circuitry in the phone or the earset.
I tested the earset with my older phone, and at least the incoming sound was OK. By process of elimination, I am leaning towards the idea that the most recent update to the One screwed up the BT phone sound.
Oddly enough, I have older earsets (Plantronics and Jabra) that sound OK, but being several years older, they have different BT specifications (lower level) so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. I like the BlueAnt because it started out with awesome sound and it has PBAP, so announces by name who is calling.
I suspect that the phone sound and the music sound go through different paths. And Yes, I have updated the BlueAnt earset to the most recent firmware.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Rob