Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

[Davide Scaini]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Michael Zanetti <michael_zanetti at gmx.net>wrote:

> On Friday 01 January 2010 20:35:03 Jens Seidel wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Esben Damgaard wrote:
> > > Yes and no. I have two Freerunners (and a gta01 that collects dust).
> One
> > > without buzzfix. Using it for testing, programming and playing.
> > > Other one with buzzfix and using it as primary phone.
> >
> > I'm curious, do you notice any difference between the buzz fixed one and
> >  the other? I read that only a few phones are affected by the buzz
> problem
> >  but nearly all (including the buzz fixed ones) have major problems with
> >  audio quality (noise, echo).
>
> I own a rev. A5 freerunner and was seriously affected by the buzz problem.
> After applying the hardware fix the audio quality improved a lot. Before
> the
> fix there was no chance to use the FR as a phone.
>
> However, the audio quality was never as good as on a friends rev A7 FR
> (without buzz-fix).  I did a lot of experimenting and tweaking with all
> possible audio parameters but the volume has always been either too low or
> distorted. He just uses the default audio configs and has nearly no
> problems
> with sound quality.
>
> >
> > So I wonder whether it's worth to get such a fix.
> >
>
> It is definetly worth it if you, or better said your call partner
> expierences
> a rather loud buzz. The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other
> issues
> like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be addressed
> with
> software.
>

" The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other issues
like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be addressed with
software. "
The same happened to me, but i didn't find a viable software cnfiguration to
use the fr as a phone. What about you? I'm really looking forward to replace
my nokia N70 with fr for calls...
d


> Hope that helps,
> Michael
>
>
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