How is your call quality?

[slinky]

The overwhelming majority seem to say the same - the speaker is faint and sounds small and hollow, like one of those old earphones. Speakerphone is as great as ear speaker is lousy.

[aminaked]

People were complaining fairly often about my voice echoing or muffling. I researched and here's my solution:

1) REBOOT AT LEAST EVERY 3 DAYS
2) hold the phone right side up & speak into the mic
3) got rid of my bodyglove case--don't know if this helped
4) if anyone complains about echoing and can't hear you just toggle speakerphone on and off. Reboot when done with the call.

I haven't tried messing with the phone's settings or turning off privacy. I've read many comments about that not working. Vote for this issue at google code by "starring" it. See the links in my sig below.

[smokiedabong]

I played around with two Droid's and also tested the call quality from Droid to Droid . I noticed that is very important to keep this phone in a correct position , any variation will muffle your voice . First of , don't cover with your finger the second noise cancellation microphone from the back of the phone , second keep the phone as close as posible to your mouth , not in a vertical or horizontal position or away from you face . I noticed that a lot of people hold their phones in a vertical position , this is how you get the worst sound from this phone .

[twmac]

will try the above

my call quality sucks. it sounds tinny and there is almost always an echo.. very irritating for a $600 phone

[SteveAikens]

Call quality is impacted by your location. There are some locations where it will be great and some where it is normally bad. Much of that has to do with the tower you're on, and it's modulation settings.

Remember, cell phones are radios and are subject to the repeater settings on each tower they go through. Echo is part of that problem. Normally, if there is significant echo, disconnecting the call and recalling will fix it.

[windstrings]

The EVRC-B vocodec does sound fuller and more solid.

But the only time I get complaints is If I have the phone on my shoulder trying to hold it by tilting my head so my hands are free...hence poor positioning.... otherwise its great.

[TuBitMittens]

Yes, I've noticed too I could be hearing other people more clearly when I'm talking over my droid. Perhaps being aware of my positioning of holding the phone and not always using it in the basement would help. But even talking in my living room or upstairs bedroom it can still sound muffled, and I'll be saying "what, repeat that??" over and over again and I feel like an idiot. >_<

[TuBitMittens]

I played around with two Droid's and also tested the call quality from Droid to Droid . I noticed that is very important to keep this phone in a correct position , any variation will muffle your voice . First of , don't cover with your finger the second noise cancellation microphone from the back of the phone , second keep the phone as close as posible to your mouth , not in a vertical or horizontal position or away from you face . I noticed that a lot of people hold their phones in a vertical position , this is how you get the worst sound from this phone .

I tend to do that a bit cuz I dont wanna grease up my screen with my cheeks 0__0

[windstrings]

You can also Go to menu > settings > call settings and turn off voice privacy. Quite often this causes an echo for someone else on the other line. <Screenshot>

[bradford88]

Okay i had the issue of the distant end hearing me as muffled. but I had wifi on at the time (i just migrated from the iphone, got out of 6 months of contract without an ETF haha) evidently on CDMA when wifi is on, then 3g is disabled and all the data traffic rides over wifi. i know 3g is for data but i wonder if that has anything to do with the problem. i haven't had a chance to make a phonecall while my wifi was disabled yet. That's just my two cents. I doubt it is a solution, but at least it is a suggestion.