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Guest chingy1788
Posted

I have a pair of earphones (no microphone)

I plug them in and listen to music

Then someone calls me

I press answer

I can hear them through the earphones loud and clear

but

they cant hear me at all

I believe the internal microphone has been disabled

Is there a way, an app perhaps, to enable the internal microphone while I'm in a call and using standard earphones

I dont want to use the stock head set as these cause pain in my ears after prolonged use, I can only use in-ear earphones without problems, and the audio is so nice...

I've had this issue with the HTC Dream

From googling, it seems that its not a problem with the Droid...

Guest NickeMannen
Posted

I'm interested in this as well.

You have no problem using the microphone on the stock head set I guess?

Guest chingy1788
Posted

yeah but thats stock headset...

and thats using the headset's mic

Guest Richie from Shanghai
Posted

It sucks if non stock earphone can not be used for phone conversation. It' kind of annoying when you have to plug the earphone out to get the incoming call. Hope this problem can be fixed soon.

Posted
It sucks if non stock earphone can not be used for phone conversation. It' kind of annoying when you have to plug the earphone out to get the incoming call. Hope this problem can be fixed soon.

I do not think it will.

It is a hardware problem.

You have contacts for Mic & Headphones on the same jack 3.5 mm female plug.

Hence, when you plug any male plug in, it makes contact on both parts, mic & headphones on transmitter.

So every sound goes through those two contacts, and if you don't have a mic, you do not get to speak, or to be heard...

Sorry.

Guest chingy1788
Posted (edited)
I do not think it will.

It is a hardware problem.

You have contacts for Mic & Headphones on the same jack 3.5 mm female plug.

Hence, when you plug any male plug in, it makes contact on both parts, mic & headphones on transmitter.

So every sound goes through those two contacts, and if you don't have a mic, you do not get to speak, or to be heard...

Sorry.

Still possible ;)

just have an app that ignores external mic and only use internal

cmon... my nokia did it and the iphone does it so does the droid...

Edited by chingy1788
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Guest liquid_it
Posted
Still possible :)

just have an app that ignores external mic and only use internal

cmon... my nokia did it and the iphone does it so does the droid...

Nothing yet?

Guest chingy1788
Posted

nop

I've looked at the android API

nothing i can use...

Guest liquid_it
Posted
nop

I've looked at the android API

nothing i can use...

I did it too, but it looks like we need to access directly to hardware management. So I suppose it's ndk-related, not sdk.

Guest IronFly
Posted

worth a try:

ipodiphoneav-review-5.jpg

the jack in the middle is for iphone, if Liquid works in the same way, you can try to insulate the bottom part of the jack and see if mic is still unavailable.

Guest liquid_it
Posted

It works the same way, but I suspect internal mic mute is software-driven, something like "if a jack is plugged, no matter what it is, mute it". On nokia phones the os asks you to specify what you plugged, in order to manage the output in the right way, don't know on apple devices.

Guest Shreedhan
Posted

I've had this problem too, very annoying, hopefully it gets fixed.

Guest IronFly
Posted
It works the same way, but I suspect internal mic mute is software-driven, something like "if a jack is plugged, no matter what it is, mute it". On nokia phones the os asks you to specify what you plugged, in order to manage the output in the right way, don't know on apple devices.

it seems that it work this way: jack plugged= mute internal mic

Guest trispect
Posted

HTC Hero recognized if headset or normalheadphones were plugged in. So with normal headphones there were just headphone icon and phone used internal mic. With headsets there were headset icon and headset mic was used.

Guest Uberadri
Posted
Try this....for iphone, is working well.

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Is it this product from Dealextreme?

Ordered one to test with Liquid over a week ago, but it is still "Awaiting Stock" (this not abnormal with Dealextreme).

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