Rustling noise on phonecalls

[Adam Jimerson]

On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:54:15 am Ben Wong wrote:
> Mickey: It seems a very bad idea to default to maximum volume if it
> causes distortion.  I'm not sure yet that that's the sole audio
> problem in SHR-unstable, but I can say that when I turned the speaker
> volume down to what it was in SHR-testing (68%), I was understood
> perfectly, for the first time, by Google's voice recognition
> (1-800-GOOG-411).
>
> For anyone wondering how to use D-Bus to set the volume to 68%, you
> can do it by cutting and pasting this line:
>
>   mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device
> org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68

Are you sure that mdbus call is correct I got two different error messages

root at om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus -s 
org.freesmartphone.ogsmd/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Deviceorg.freesmartph
one.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68 
Using **pending_return in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_setup() without 
pending_setup is deprecated and strongly discouraged                                                                  
Using **pending_return in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_setup() without 
pending_setup is deprecated and strongly discouraged                                                                  
Service name not found  

root at om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd 
/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Deviceorg.freesmartp
hone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68                                                             
Using **pending_return in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_setup() without 
pending_setup is deprecated and strongly discouraged                                                                  
Using **pending_return in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_setup() without 
pending_setup is deprecated and strongly discouraged                                                                  
Object name not found  

Now I may just be doing it wrong but can someone check it for me?
>
> And this line will show you the current volume:
>
>   mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device
> org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.GetSpeakerVolume
>
> Please experiment with different values by changing the volume during
> a call.  I'm interested to know what values work the best for you all.
>  And does 100% actually work for anybody without distortion?
>
> --Ben
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Michael 'Mickey'
>
> Lauer<mickey at vanille-media.de> wrote:
> > FWIW, against my personal experience (where this setting lead to
> > suboptimal results), people have forced me to uplevel the speaker volume
> > in the phone to the maximum in ogsmd. It's very possible that this
> > contributes to the distortion. Try lowering it, e.g. via
> > org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume( percentage ).
> >
> > :M:
> >
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