Audio quality of video taken by Oneplus 3

knince

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It seems, every other review is bashing Oneplus 3 for the poor quality audio in the video taken by Oneplus 3. It seems so in those videos too. It sounds horrible.

To those who have already got their One, could you provide some feedback on this?
 

hasenbein1966

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Took a test video (4k) today, myself speaking a bit and playing guitar a bit. Sounded OK, by far not as bad as many Youtube videos shot with the OP3.
 

AcmE85

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It is exactly the way these reviews describe it.
Ambient noise is basically completely filtered out.

I really hope this can be improved by software because right now it is the worst
quality I got so far from a smartphone.
 

EP2008

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This seems to be the noise cancelation being activated on video, which it shouldn't be.

Totally software, but I really hope they fix it. Makes video recordings sound terrible .

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knince

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This seems to be the noise cancelation being activated on video, which it shouldn't be.

Totally software, but I really hope they fix it. Makes video recordings sound terrible .

Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk
can u pls check recording with other camera app? thanks
 

trd360

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Does this cause the phone to record through the mic in the headphones or does it still use the mic on the phone?

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I used a pair of headphones without a mic so it would still have been the mic on the phone.
 

trd360

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Does this cause the phone to record through the mic in the headphones or does it still use the mic on the phone?

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Interesting that would help. I'm going to test this out!

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Hmmm it must have been working last night when I was video chatting with Facebook Messenger but I can't reproduce the results in Snapchat or any other recording app. Damn shame but it seems like my only choice for now is to use my earbuds with a mic until this is fixed.
 

mr.shme

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This can definitely be fixed with changes to the mixer_paths.xml file. After much anger and try and error I determined that the phone uses the file "mixer_paths_tasha.xml" and not the regular "mixer_paths.xml" file. I alos found that when recording with google camera it uses the "speaker-stereo-dmic-ef" audio path.
 
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trd360

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This can definitely be fixed with changes to the mixer_paths.xml file. After much anger and try and error I determined that the phone uses the file "mixer_paths_tasha.xml" and not the regular "mixer_paths.xml" file. I alos found that when recording with google camera it uses the "speaker-stereo-dmic-ef" audio path.
Would just deleting the "tasha" file have adverse effects or would it just default back to the correct xml file?