How is your call quality?

[Kevinb84]

Hey all,

Just trying to see if my issue warrants a trip to Verizon tomorrow. I picked up my Droid on launch day and literally every person I've talked to with the exception of my mother has told me that I sound like ****. My wife says that it sounds like I'm a robot. As lovely as it would be for Motorola to include a voice synthesizer, I don't think this is the case.

Let me know if you've had the problem or not. Every review I've read says the phone had "great" call quality.

Thanks,
-Kevin

 

[New2u]

have you tried to update the programming on the phone or update the cell towers?

 

[Kevinb84]

I did not, Im doing that right now and will post back with my results tomorrow.

Thanks,
-Kevin

 

[RinTinTigger]

Hey there,

i guess we had this once or twice here and it looks like shitty calls are in the minority of DROIDS. That makes me think of a hardware error. Ever talked to VZW Hotline bout it?

Greetz
Tigger

 

[seaman]

I think that the Droid has great call clarity, better than most phones I've used. And when I was talking to my dad, he told me that the call clarity was better on his end as well.

 

[a73]

mine has a bit of static/ crackle that I hear in the background, though people I'm talking to say the quality is great. I didn't have this problem with my previous Verizon dumb phone in the same calling areas. I updated the software/towers and it didn't help. Will likely take it back to the Verizon store today to swap it out. Of note, phonearena.com had a similar experience with their test unit when they did their review of the Droid

 

[tablatronix]

Mine sounds pretty good, but it does have some kind of digital compression sounding mumbles on it wihch is very annoying. Even with silence i hear some kind of dac or dsp artifacts from the earpiece.

 

[MelWright]

I just got mine last night, but I have no issues at all with hearing or being heard! It's a heck of alot clearer than my previous phone!

 

[jjb2]

People sound great on my end, but a lot of people say i sound muffled on their end. Pretty annoying always repeating myself.

 

[txskeets]

I get the same thing on mine...some kind of static background noise when I am on calls. Wonder if I should swap this out at VZW.

 

[moparharn]

How do you update the towers /phone?

Any help would be appreciated. Is it like *69 or something like that? I had to make two three calls from a land line today because the other peson complained of a bad echo from he Droid. I could hear nothing.

 

[sir]

haven't had issues yet. no one's complained about issues. but maybe that's because they didn't mind not hearing what i had to say?

 

[pakitloss]

My workmate has the same phone as me and he always sounds muffled. In his case I think it is the silicone phone cover.

 

[JoeyNWZ]

My call clarity is great, but I always immediatly turn of voice privacy when I get a new pda/smartphone... I feel that it degrades the quality quite a bit.

You can turn it off by going to menu -> Call Settings and unchecking voice privacy.

 

[cjdroid]

Annoying Echo

I've gotten complaints from those calling me that they get a terrible reverb/echo when they speak into their phones. They sound fine to me and I sound fine to them. They just can't stand hearing themselves echoing when they speak into their phones. I'm suspecting, though I have yet to confirm, that this phenomenon might have to do with the Voice Privacy "enchanced privacy mode". I'm turning it "off" for now. Any thoughts are appreciated...