When you call granny, does she keep saying "Huh?! Wut?!" or does the conversation flow pretty well? Rate this thread to express how you feel about the Samsung Galaxy S7's call quality. A higher rating indicates that calls are clear and crisp, and that regardless of background noise, you can hear the other party clearly (and with ample volume) and they can hear you.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
For whatever reason its better than my note 5.
I have zero complaints. Even kept a clear call in a place I was used to always dropping on my g4 (1 specific corner coming into my little rural town).
Galaxy S7 Exynos version here.
Call quality is really low & phone reception is really weak .......... talking in noisy place is really hard to handle by the S7 .
I wasn't expecting such performance ......but it is maybe because of water proof stuff.
during a call there is an extra volume option but it is not helping specially if someone is working outside office.
Samsung should fix that issue if it is fixable
Good call with 4g, perfect audio
I think it's still too loud in the lowest call volume.
I have had my s7 for a few weeks and it has the worst cellular reception of any phone I have ever owned in my life.
I have lived in the same place for 17 years and been on the same network for 10 years and have NEVER had a call fail to come through to me and never been unable to make a call - until I got this phone.
The reception where I live is pretty bad - on iphone for instance, I get 1-2 dots downstairs and 3 upstairs.
Noticed a couple of weeks ago that I was getting alerts that I had voicemail. Most of my communication is via whatsapp etc using wifi, hadn't occurred to me to look at the cellular coverage, but when I did, I noticed that half the time, I have no signal at all. If I do get a signal and then pick the phone up, it usually vanishes.
The maximum I can get is 1 bar and even with that, if I call the phone, it goes straight through to VM.
I bought two of these phones at the same time - one to give to my business partner when we meet later this month - so I tried using the second phone - and it is even worse!
In short, have used six different BlackBerries and three different iPhones (plus a cheap credit card size phone) and none of them have ever missed a single call in my house, however, have used two S7s in the same locations and same network and can confirm they are almost unuseable.
Anyone want to buy two nearly new S7s? would suit someone who does not want to be disturbed by people phoning them!
Constant hissing
When I am on a call, I can notice a constant hissing from the earspeaker. It's very faint and this is only noticeable in a quiet environment, either calling landlines and mobiles. In 2g is somehow lower. I have tried different cell towers and signal levels. Same result. The earspeaker is working well however, only this background noise that seems to start when a call is being established.
No problems so far.
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Overall, my area has a pretty good signal, but I live in a slight black spot, and my modern house with its foil lined walls does nothing to improve the situation. None of my phones have ever got a decent signal in the hous.
But I have observed a troublesome trend with the new Desire. If I leave the phone lying around on a shelf, the phone shows 2-3 bars of signal. If I make a call, the phone usually holds the call OK.
But if I pik the phone up to mess about with and dont immediately make a call, while I am holding the phone the signal will drop to zero, no service; and it doesn't come back, not until I put the phone back on the shelf.
Could it be that HTC are being too agressive with power management? Or could this be the same fault as has been reported in the Google Nexus?
It is entirely repeatable, to the point that I can demonstrate it to people.
What do other people in weak areas find?
Hi,
Is it exactly the same like the below demonstration of Nexus One signal drop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIA_lMwqJA
So far as that goes, yes, exactly the same.
What he doesn't do is test for less drop if a call is active. The phone appears to try harder to maintain the signal if a call is in progress.
AMAZING. Isn't it. So much talk about so many subjects, but no-one interested in how it actually performs as a PHONE!
This might be related to location of the GSM anthena on Desire and Nexus. Try to move your hand bit more up so you don't touch the bottom back part and check if there is any difference.
I would rather guess the described behaviour of a phone is perfectly normal with all phones under bad conditions. Happened to me with all my phones so far.
Yesterday I retired an original MyTouch 3G and picked up a T-Mobile SGH-T989. I've placed 3 long phone calls with different people and have a difficult time hearing them. The volume is good, but their voice is slightly muddled? clipped? reverbed? On every call, I can also detect a very faint electrical noise, sounds kind of like coil whine from a power supply. Frankly, compared to the HTC MyTouch (dream), it sounds terrible and find myself asking the other person "what's that" a lot.
I live north of Boston and can only get Edge inside my house. The phone is stock for now, wifi is connected to my router, gps is on, bluetooth is off.
I will go out soon where it is 4G, turn off wifi, and make a call to see if there is any difference. I suspect it will be the same. This may be a deal breaker for me which is a shame, because I love this monster phone so far (except for the lack of a notification LED).
Anyone else make out the electrical noise during calls?
This is not normal! Mine is clear on both ends.
The noise is faint but can be heard through the ear speaker only during calls. Sounds like some kind of EMI. Just tried talking on 4G with no WIFI. No difference.
Hit or miss for me. Some calls to the same number/person are crystal clear, and then the next one is a bit muffled. Overall it's good, but I never had the issue with my Nexus One.
I had this issue on my first device, was getting a low buzzing noise everytime the other person spoke. Went back to store the next day and showed them. They replaced my phone with another and now it is clear on this device. Remove the SIM card and re insert it securely and if you still have it, get it exchanged.
Thanks. I reset the sim card. Still sounds bad. Will exchange it tomorrow. Hope what I am hearing is not typical for this model.
Hm well I reset the sim too, and also pulled the battery for a bit, and the calls that were a bit muffled are now clear. Don't know if that fixed it, or it is just the line.
I exchanged the phone tonight and the replacement also has a faint but annoying buzzing noise that can be heard through the ear speaker during calls. Both phones were made in the last week of September 2011. The stripes and blobs issue is clearly more pronounced in the replacement phone and the rear camera (under identical conditions) appears to be more grainy than the first one.
Does anyone else hear a real faint high pitched buzz during a call? Try talking to someone in a completely silent room.
Might be my ears are sensitive to high pitched electrical noises. Some CRT TV's, PSU's, and LCD displays drive me nuts. I am going to exchange it again.
I am getting this issue too. I only hear the electromagnetic interference when I am not in 4g or wifi calling. I don't hear it when I am on my bluetooth or when I am using the speaker phone. I sent my original phone back last week. When I got it, I turned it on to find out the noise was still there. I called tmobile and I suggested the sim card, so she sent me off to a store to get a new sim card. Well at the store there is 4g so I didn't hear the buzzing. At home and work I have GPRS and Edge respectively, they both have the buzzing noise. So they sent me out a new phone that I just received about an hour ago and I still hear it. Would a new ROM be able to fix something like this or should I just keep sending these phones back until I get one that works?
I just warranty exchanged my GS2 for the same type of audio issues. I also had an echo so every time I spoke into the phone I could hear myself on a delay. Very annoying!
Hi,
After few minutes call other person doesnt hear me very well (sounds like im talking under the water etc) its only for few seconds. What can make that problem?
This happens to me sometimes, but I found that they're eventually my own mistakes.
Is the signal weak? or you might have to talk closer to your mic.
From my experience (2 years) with the phone i must say the reception has mostly been weak. Dunno if it's my carrier, but i've seen others having the same issue.
Try to be near an open area and not cover the bottom of the phone with your hand.
Also, buying a bluetooth headset might solve the problem entirely.
Worked for me at least!
What's going on guys, I'm having some serious issues with my HTC-10 I just got on Thursday from swappa... I'm trying to figure out if these issues are just software or if my phone is a dud...
Here are the issues:
1) Extremely bad cell reception, generally I have 1 bar, and rarely 2 bars and even maybe less than 5 times today I remember seeing 3 bars. I was getting this low reception in areas where I used to get maximum service.
2) When using ear-buds or other headsets for phone calls, the other person can barely hear me... if at all. It's bad enough that trying to use ear buds for a phone call is basically impossible.
3) While in speaker phone mode, the other person has an extremely hard time hearing me even if I am 5 inches away and speaking quite loud. Yet google can hear me for voice to text decently.
4) Randomly after a few hours of use, 2 cores of the processor seem to get stuck... they never drop below 1.8ghz, this just makes no sense to me... Why would 2 stay locked up so high? Two show something low like 377mhz or something, but the other 2 never drop below 1.8ghz. I noticed this because I was confused as to why the phone was suddenly very hot and the battery was draining extremely quickly. Like 1% per minute. O.O So i looked and found a setting in the rom I am using (Viper) that shows the Core's Frequencies in the Notification Drawer. Why is this happening?
5) The Audio output from the headphone jack is extremely good, mainly because the stereo separation is just fantastic. BUT... general sounds like ringtones and notification tones are just very weak. My previous daily driver, my oneplus one is just about 2x as loud. Maybe like 1.75x. It's very very noticeable (in a bad way) and I missed 2 calls and several sms messages today due to this.
6) This is the weirdest one... So... just for fun I was comparing the 10 and my oneplus one side by side, doing little "tests" by seeing who could open apps faster. And... the OnePlus One actually beats the 10 about half of the time... Wtf? We had 801, 805, 808, 810, and now 820. So that's Four Generations higher...yet sometimes slower? I'm not sure if this is a "problem" or not, I'm just shocked. The 10 lags in general scrolling times sometimes has this... strange touch delay, but in the OPO none of these issues exist even though the touch screen is off sometimes when typing. Uh... So unsure.
So anyway, can someone shed some light on this?
(update) I forgot to mention that my oneplus one also has this 2 stuck cores issue, but it's 1.2ghz... So I'm just at a loss here.
Locklear308 said:
What's going on guys, I'm having some serious issues with my HTC-10 I just got on Thursday from swappa... I'm trying to figure out if these issues are just software or if my phone is a dud...
Here are the issues:
1) Extremely bad cell reception, generally I have 1 bar, and rarely 2 bars and even maybe less than 5 times today I remember seeing 3 bars. I was getting this low reception in areas where I used to get maximum service.
2) When using ear-buds or other headsets for phone calls, the other person can barely hear me... if at all. It's bad enough that trying to use ear buds for a phone call is basically impossible.
3) While in speaker phone mode, the other person has an extremely hard time hearing me even if I am 5 inches away and speaking quite loud. Yet google can hear me for voice to text decently.
4) Randomly after a few hours of use, 2 cores of the processor seem to get stuck... they never drop below 1.8ghz, this just makes no sense to me... Why would 2 stay locked up so high? Two show something low like 377mhz or something, but the other 2 never drop below 1.8ghz. I noticed this because I was confused as to why the phone was suddenly very hot and the battery was draining extremely quickly. Like 1% per minute. O.O So i looked and found a setting in the rom I am using (Viper) that shows the Core's Frequencies in the Notification Drawer. Why is this happening?
5) The Audio output from the headphone jack is extremely good, mainly because the stereo separation is just fantastic. BUT... general sounds like ringtones and notification tones are just very weak. My previous daily driver, my oneplus one is just about 2x as loud. Maybe like 1.75x. It's very very noticeable (in a bad way) and I missed 2 calls and several sms messages today due to this.
6) This is the weirdest one... So... just for fun I was comparing the 10 and my oneplus one side by side, doing little "tests" by seeing who could open apps faster. And... the OnePlus One actually beats the 10 about half of the time... Wtf? We had 801, 805, 808, 810, and now 820. So that's Four Generations higher...yet sometimes slower? I'm not sure if this is a "problem" or not, I'm just shocked. The 10 lags in general scrolling times sometimes has this... strange touch delay, but in the OPO none of these issues exist even though the touch screen is off sometimes when typing. Uh... So unsure.
So anyway, can someone shed some light on this?
(update) I forgot to mention that my oneplus one also has this 2 stuck cores issue, but it's 1.2ghz... So I'm just at a loss here.
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You got a dodgy phone. RUU if you have no option. Don't know what swappa is, but sounds like second hand sale. Start fresh. You didn't really give much details about phone/carrier/firmware etc, so I'm not sure. I don't have a one plus to compare, but would bet my life HTC is faster. Definitely software related.
purple patch said:
You got a dodgy phone. RUU if you have no option. Don't know what swappa is, but sounds like second hand sale. Start fresh. You didn't really give much details about phone/carrier/firmware etc, so I'm not sure. I don't have a one plus to compare, but would bet my life HTC is faster. Definitely software related.
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Derp! Ah you're right I forgot the details... Lol sorry I listed that late last night.
AT&T, and the latest firmware that just came out.
Honestly I've had nothing but issues buying stuff from Swappa which always ended with me returning the item and getting my money back.
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Lancerz said:
Honestly I've had nothing but issues buying stuff from Swappa which always ended with me returning the item and getting my money back.
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What? I've bought and sold many devices with issues :0
Hey XDA!
I've during the past couple of weeks been getting complaints over my call quality from receivers. Now, as it's getting colder outside and I tuck my phone under my hat while making a phone call, my friends could no longer stand the horrible sound my phone was making.
After some research, having used WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, the built in phone call app - all same result.
I've come to the conclusion that my phone uses the back microphone (the one inbetween the camera and the flash) at all times. When I called myself from my friends phone, the quality is poor. It's really bad. I can hear echoing, I hear people several meters away who aren't talking to the phone, talk.
My phone should be using the bottom microphone, right? I cannot imagine this is the standard quality of the phone call.
I bought my 5T on release, so around 1 year ago now. I'm on 8.1.0, latest update, no root.
What should I do and how should I proceed? Tried making a thread on the official OP forums but I don't have the permission (I did just create an account there so might take some time before I get that permission).
Thanks!
Hi I'm having the same issue. Did you resolve your problem?