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iPhone 4S Users Complaining of Audio Issues: No Audio on Outgoing Calls, Echoes, Static
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A Fortune 500 company employee... Good you told us cause now your case is "more valid"...
No friends or lack of self esteem?
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I've been having this same problem. Except, I don't have an iPhone haha. I'd call my friend (he doesn't have an iPhone either, also, I'm on at&t and he's on Verizon) and I would hear him answer, but no audio was transmitting between the line. He rebooted his phone and it started working properly again. This may not be just an iPhone problem...
I've been having this same problem. Except, I don't have an iPhone haha. I'd call my friend (he doesn't have an iPhone either, also, I'm on at&t and he's on Verizon) and I would hear him answer, but no audio was transmitting between the line. He rebooted his phone and it started working properly again. This may not be just an iPhone problem...
I have experienced the static problem as well. I have replaced my iPhone 4S with a new one but the problem keeps occurring. It is very annoying since I paid for a phone and it cannot make a simple phone call without problems. When I went to the Apple store they looked at me like I was speaking German, they claimed there was no such problem documented anywhere, but they would replace the phone anyway because of a general courtesy. I love Apple and my iPhone but when it cannot even make a phone call without a problem, then it really doesn't serve much use to me.
The point is, consumers don't care about software "bugs". Especially those consumers who are new to the iPhone. This is a horrible experience for them and they should not have to tolerate "bugs" of the magnitude that users are experiencing. This all should have been worked out in beta testing.
It should "just work", otherwise there is no advantage to buying an Apple product right?
The problem doesn't exist, phandroids are just trying to come up with fake issues to make the iphone look bad like they did with antennagate. When will these people learn Apple is the best and always will be. Stupid welfare case Android owning low income idiots cant afford an iphone.
I had this problem back with my iPhone 4 running the previous version of iOS. Would happen with my wifes 4 as well, and its only happened a few times since upgrading to the 4S for both of us....
I definitely have this problem so I end up having to redial the call and it always works on the second try. I will say the time lost doing this is more than made up for by being able to dictate stuff with Siri so while I hope this issue gets fixed soon, I don't regret being an early adopter.
Podcast playback
On a semi-related note, has anyone else here seen a problem when playing back podcasts at 2x?
Whenever a call comes in when I'm listening, when I hang up and the podcast starts playing again, it plays at 1x. Worse, it still thinks it's 2x, as you can see in the little icon, and the fact that you have to click through 1/2 and 1 to get back to 2 again.
On a semi-related note, has anyone else here seen a problem when playing back podcasts at 2x?
Whenever a call comes in when I'm listening, when I hang up and the podcast starts playing again, it plays at 1x. Worse, it still thinks it's 2x, as you can see in the little icon, and the fact that you have to click through 1/2 and 1 to get back to 2 again.
Not related to the thread, but I have to ask you since I also share WiFi from Ethernet: can you put your computer to sleep? Mine won't sleep at all when I close the lid (MBP) when sharing is on...
LOL yeah, just like he made heads roll with the antenna issue of the iPhone 4...get real.
32Gb 4s bought in Aust on Telstra here.
I'm experiencing both the echo and no audio problem albeit only sometimes.
Someone mentioned Siri might be the culprit.
Come to think of it, I've had the most problems during periods where I've been using Siri a lot.
I'm experiencing both the echo and no audio problem albeit only sometimes.
Someone mentioned Siri might be the culprit.
Come to think of it, I've had the most problems during periods where I've been using Siri a lot.
LOL, love how this comment is downgraded. Must of hurt a few people here.
Apple's products have always felt rushed and far from fully tested when they are released. It got worse right around 2007 when it seemed like they got rid of any QC they had. (iPod Classic was awfully buggy during this release, the iPod Touch had that inverted blacks problem not to mention iPhone ERROR messages).
This is why I normally wait a few months on anything brand new, even cars (which in that case is a few years after the model has been introduced). All the bugs are worked out then.
...all that being said, I'm willing to bet most these issues are software related.
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Funny because my sister's iPhone 4 have this issue and I don't (with my 4s)...
... touching wood...
Edit: BTW, all of you who said "I'm glad I didn't switch my iPhone 4" are just a bunch of jealous people...
... touching wood...Edit: BTW, all of you who said "I'm glad I didn't switch my iPhone 4" are just a bunch of jealous people...
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As mentioned earlier in this thread, it seems the internal microphone sometimes does not shut off properly when a headset is inserted.
With the headset inserted I tried covering it (the bottom mic, not the noise cancellation dito) up during a call and the echo went down significantly, only to return when I removed my thumb from the internal mic.
So hopefully it's a software issue that's relatively easy to fix.
With the headset inserted I tried covering it (the bottom mic, not the noise cancellation dito) up during a call and the echo went down significantly, only to return when I removed my thumb from the internal mic.
So hopefully it's a software issue that's relatively easy to fix.
for 99% of folks it just does.
Unfortunately for Apple half of that 1% is very vocal when there is any kind of issue and goes all over various boards carrying on about the issue. And the blogs know that Apple is a huge hit magnet of they will pick it up and even magnify it to get more hits and thus more ad money and so on
Typically (although there are exceptions), all of these issues are commonly found on the network side.
ECs (Echo Cancellers) have been around for a half-century.
One-way audio has been a problem since analog cellular.
Same goes for static. Yes, even on T1s which are digital.
This said from 20 years of cellular infrastructure industry experience, including troubleshooting these exact issues. But again, it _could_ be the phone. Since I don't have a 4s, it would be silly for me to discount it totally out of hand. But it also wouldn't be the first place I'd look.
ECs (Echo Cancellers) have been around for a half-century.
One-way audio has been a problem since analog cellular.
Same goes for static. Yes, even on T1s which are digital.
This said from 20 years of cellular infrastructure industry experience, including troubleshooting these exact issues. But again, it _could_ be the phone. Since I don't have a 4s, it would be silly for me to discount it totally out of hand. But it also wouldn't be the first place I'd look.
Since you didn't bring it up, a question. when you got the first phone did you set it up as a new phone or from a backup of another one. how about the second, how about the third