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Earpiece and Speakerphone volume with 1.1.1?

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alanisrox69

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The video on apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate suggests at the end that both the Earpiece and Speakerphone volumes were raised with the 1.1.1 update...

can anyone comment?

I may upgrade to 1.1.1 and lose my apps just for this if it's true....

Thanks!

-Derek-
 
alanisrox69 said:
The video on apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate suggests at the end that both the Earpiece and Speakerphone volumes were raised with the 1.1.1 update...

can anyone comment?

I may upgrade to 1.1.1 and lose my apps just for this if it's true....

Thanks!

-Derek-
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Honestly, I don't notice a change AT ALL in volume. It's the exact same for me, and the speaker phone is still impossible to use normally.
 
Agreed. Unless Im in my office, alone, I dont even bother with the speakerphone.

Although when ringtones play now, it feels like its gonna blow the speaker. :-/
 
Bummer....

did you have your phone Jailbreaked or anything before updating? And did you just update, or did you Restore and then update?

It's odd because the guy in the video actually tells you (us) that the volume has been increased.......

disappointed!

-Derek-
 
Daremo said:
Honestly, I don't notice a change AT ALL in volume. It's the exact same for me, and the speaker phone is still impossible to use normally.
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So far I agree completely unfortunately. On a voice call I notice a slight bump in the earpiece and the speakerphone on a call seems no different which stinks. Ringer volume also seems maybe 10% better but I could just be dreaming. If you have to have your volume on max for ringer, earpiece and speaker just to hear normal phone things that's kinda weak. I miss my loud ringers now.
 
alanisrox69 said:
Bummer....

did you have your phone Jailbreaked or anything before updating? And did you just update, or did you Restore and then update?

It's odd because the guy in the video actually tells you (us) that the volume has been increased.......

disappointed!

-Derek-
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My phone is stock. Not hacked at all, and didn't need to restore, just update.
 
I also would be hard pressed to tell the difference in volume. Disappointing as it is my biggest and only main beef with the phone. I miss calls and most text messages when out in public simply because ambient noise is louder than the ring. No way that having volume on MAX should be anything less than ear-splitting.
 
eye.surgeon said:
I also would be hard pressed to tell the difference in volume. Disappointing as it is my biggest and only main beef with the phone. I miss calls and most text messages when out in public simply because ambient noise is louder than the ring. No way that having volume on MAX should be anything less than ear-splitting.
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Agree!...how about having the max volume being too loud..as it is now it's the only way I can sometimes hear anything. Maybe it's a hardware issue and only version 2 will be decent cause this kinda sucks.
 
Not any louder here. If anything... it's softer. Damn, I wish I didn't do this. The iPod quality (via speakers) sounds different, but not louder. The stock ringtones don't sound any louder... but softer to me.

Disappointing Apple. I think success if messing up Apple. They are loosing it. This update wasn't worth it. I only did it because they said the speak volume was better... and IT'S NOT!
 
total BS

I ended up staying up later than I normally would last night waiting for my stock iPhone to update, completely excited about the louder volume. I thought maybe I'd finally be able to use my iPhone in a room with air conditioning and hear it!

Well, regardless of them putting it #2 on the bug fix list, the volume is still absolute crap. I can't tell it increased at all!

I know the small speaker on the bottom can't handle any louder speakerphone features, that's fine, its pushed to its limit and they can fix that when they release the next revision, but the receiver speaker is just crying for more volume! Its nowhere close to its max handling.

I wish VLC would do what they did for watching videos on a mac and release an app that pushes the phone's volume to a usable level.
 
I have to agree that the speaker phone volume has not improve a single bit at all. If i knew i will not see any improvement i won't trade my custom ringtone for the damn update. BTW i am going back to apple and let them listen to it.
 
After updating my IPhone, I don't notice a difference in the call volume at all...

It's still very tough to hear calls via the handset..

And I can only use the speaker phone when it's completely quiet..
 
Louder

I installed the update and I have noticeably more volume in the ear piece and the speakers. I watched a short video and turned the volume down, a first. I agree however, that it could still be louder. I have hearing loss in one ear and I could barely hear a phone call on that side, but now I can understand better. I am glad for the improvement I received, but I would have like to have more.:)
 
Wow....I wonder why an update that took so long is having so many inconsistent results among the masses? What's happened here Apple?
 
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