Call quality

[XDA_RealLifeReview]

When you call granny, does she keep saying "Huh?! Wut?!" or does the conversation flow pretty well? Rate this thread to express how you feel about the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7's call quality. A higher rating indicates that calls are clear and crisp, and that regardless of background noise, you can hear the other party clearly (and with ample volume) and they can hear you.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

 

[Androiduser#999]

Works great, even on speaker.

 

[tiguy99]

Earspeaker has loud, full sound. Speaker phone is loud and clear as well with good mid-range.

Very good sound for a mid-range phone

 

[gorillanobka]

The Call Quality is way below abysmal at best!

Hello gents
Just a quick review to report some findings for MIUI_LAVENDEREEAGlobal_V11.0.4.0.PFGEUXM_:

It takes only a quick phone call to realise that:

The ring volume, the notifications volume and the in-call volume are extremely low.

Trying to boost the volume for the in-call volume does ABSOLUTELY nothing at all to improve the situation.

Assuming you are in a PERFECTLY QUIET, NOISE INSULATED OFFICE ROOM, then, yes you can have a conversation with the other person on the other.
However, the moment you set foot outside that becomes impossible.

You can reproduce the bug by following these steps:

Step one: Dial a contact's number (that is to say call someone using THE PHONE and not any of the VOIP apps)
Step two: start the conversation
Step three: step outside on a noisy street and experience your awfully low volume for in call
Step four: have the other person call you or text you on a moderately noisy street ,and then on a busy, noisy street (like those in UK) where noise levels exceeds 60-70 decibels on a daily basis.
Step five: Finally realise how inadequately low the volume is indeed.
Step six: Realize you have bought a pretty much useless device which is pretty much unusable when you are trying to use it a s PHONE and not to catch bloody Pokémons or play Angry Birds.

Expected results when receiving a phone call: Have a clear and loud ring volume at minimum 85dB -100 dB which is the necessary value to hear the incoming call ring when the phone call take place on the street.

Expected results when making a phone call: Have a clear and loud volume for STREAM_VOICE_CALL the at minimum 85dB -100 dB which is the necessary value to hear the other person when the phone call take place on the street

Actual results: The values for STREAM_VOICE_CALL ,STREAM_RING,STREAM_NOTIFICATION (That is to say the phone call volume ,the phone ring, and the notification volume) are WAY BELOW the EU-wide safety limit on volume levels of 85dB .
Citties are noisier than the quiet office rooms. For example in London where I live the noise levels exceed 60 decibels ON A DAILY BASIS.
Therefore the current settings are wrong.
I tried each and every OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL roms out-there and they are all plagued by the same problem.
These settings can be found across Chinese ,Indian, European, Global and basically, every other roms produced by Xiaomi.

It is clear the developers have not done their job properly and they have not tested the phone IN REAL LIFE CONDITIONS as they should have been doing it.
Coming from my old Sony Xperia SP where the ring volume , the notification volumes and the incall volume was good enough you could use the phone on the street this was a shock for me.

All those reviews rating the Xiaomi as good they are either biased or the guys did a sloppy job in reviewing the phone.

Kind Regards

 

[tiguy99]

Wow sorry to hear your experience with it is this bad.
Definitely return your phone or have it serviced.

Sounds defective

Hello gents
Just a quick review to report some findings for MIUI_LAVENDEREEAGlobal_V11.0.4.0.PFGEUXM_:

It takes only a quick phone call to realise that:

The ring volume, the notifications volume and the in-call volume are extremely low.

Trying to boost the volume for the in-call volume does ABSOLUTELY nothing at all to improve the situation.

Assuming you are in a PERFECTLY QUIET, NOISE INSULATED OFFICE ROOM, then, yes you can have a conversation with the other person on the other.
However, the moment you set foot outside that becomes impossible.

You can reproduce the bug by following these steps:

Step one: Dial a contact's number (that is to say call someone using THE PHONE and not any of the VOIP apps)
Step two: start the conversation
Step three: step outside on a noisy street and experience your awfully low volume for in call
Step four: have the other person call you or text you on a moderately noisy street ,and then on a busy, noisy street (like those in UK) where noise levels exceeds 60-70 decibels on a daily basis.
Step five: Finally realise how inadequately low the volume is indeed.
Step six: Realize you have bought a pretty much useless device which is pretty much unusable when you are trying to use it a s PHONE and not to catch bloody Pokémons or play Angry Birds.

Expected results when receiving a phone call: Have a clear and loud ring volume at minimum 85dB -100 dB which is the necessary value to hear the incoming call ring when the phone call take place on the street.

Expected results when making a phone call: Have a clear and loud volume for STREAM_VOICE_CALL the at minimum 85dB -100 dB which is the necessary value to hear the other person when the phone call take place on the street

Actual results: The values for STREAM_VOICE_CALL ,STREAM_RING,STREAM_NOTIFICATION (That is to say the phone call volume ,the phone ring, and the notification volume) are WAY BELOW the EU-wide safety limit on volume levels of 85dB .
Citties are noisier than the quiet office rooms. For example in London where I live the noise levels exceed 60 decibels ON A DAILY BASIS.
Therefore the current settings are wrong.
I tried each and every OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL roms out-there and they are all plagued by the same problem.
These settings can be found across Chinese ,Indian, European, Global and basically, every other roms produced by Xiaomi.

It is clear the developers have not done their job properly and they have not tested the phone IN REAL LIFE CONDITIONS as they should have been doing it.
Coming from my old Sony Xperia SP where the ring volume , the notification volumes and the incall volume was good enough you could use the phone on the street this was a shock for me.

All those reviews rating the Xiaomi as good they are either biased or the guys did a sloppy job in reviewing the phone.

Kind Regards

 

[gorillanobka]

That's the thing buddy, it's not. It's brand new ,3 months old. The phone itself is amazing... The hardware , decent, price, incredibly cheap by UK standards... When I flash a custom image the incall volume is acceptable. It's just the sloppy job done by the MIUI develeopers.

Wow sorry to hear your experience with it is this bad.
Definitely return your phone or have it serviced.

Sounds defective

 

[CDE_pargo]

That's the thing buddy, it's not. It's brand new ,3 months old. The phone itself is amazing... The hardware , decent, price, incredibly cheap by UK standards... When I flash a custom image the incall volume is acceptable. It's just the sloppy job done by the MIUI develeopers.

Lol. I've having the complete opposite experience. Phone calls and volume in general are pretty good on stock, then signal strength and notifications vol went ape **** on custom Q roms (just the minimal protect rom worked perfectly) and kind of tricky on other P roms.

There's something weird about redmi kernels, not the OS at itself. But it sound like you have a damaged phone. Try to return it or send it to service. ?

 

[whysoslow]

sound and speaker is perfect on this phone, some roms have issues but stock miui is perfect.

 

[fjojofr]

Unfortunately,i don't have anymore a granny but for all other, the ringtone ,the notifications and speaker are loud and clear

 

[gorillanobka]

What rom version are you on? EEA, Global, India, China? Xiaomi EU (which is based on the Chinese version) ?

The ringtone the notifications and the in-call volume are all low. The call quality on all these roms is abysmal.
Unless you install a custom ringtone and notification sound designed to be loud the default ones are ridiculously low.
Not only that but the "Volume Booster" does nothing at all to boost the volume.
Somebody messed up big time.
I have tried to mod the mixer path files. Not much difference but it does make it slightly louder. Not as loud as it should have been after manually altering the volume curves for the attenuation (the max value was set to 15000 Millibels which should have popped up the volumes to 150 dB) . All the other settings done in the mixer path files barely had an impact (not surprisingly since Xiaomi hardcoded capped values for incall , notification and ring streams in the source code of the libraries and kernel i think)
The EU laws allows a maximum of 85dB , but these guys they took it on themselves to lower the values WAAAAAY BELOW that.

When you are watching a movie , listening to audio-video content like YouTube and so on, the speakers are OK.

When it comes to using the phone AS A PHONE making phone calls and receiving phone calls and text messages using the phone and messaging function (NOT VIA THE VOIP apps) the phone is absolute crap.

Let me put it this way:
My Nokia Nokia 3210 has such a loud incall volume that if i pop up the volume to the max , people standing 3 meters away from me can hear the other person talking to me.
When it comes to ring tone for the incoming calls and the notification sound for the incoming messages, I can hear that bugger from 30 meters away.

There is no way in the hell you can not hear a Nokia 3210 running on 1999 primitive technology.

Xiaomi really dropped the ball on this one and their devs effed up big time.

They could not be bothered to test the phone in REAL LIFE CONDITIONS and as a result, in noisy cities like London whilst out on the street you end up not hearing incoming phone calls , text messages and so on.

If left with the default settings and default ringtones you might as well be hearing impaired because it makes no difference whatsoever.

Let me put it this way so young guys can understand what i mean:

A Nokia 3210 running on 1999 technology with a basic, primitive operating systems and PRIMITIVE HARDWARE for speakers and with only a tiny fraction of the Xiaomi's processing power HAS BETTER incall quality than Xiaomi's phones .

Is not a hardware problem but a deliberate handicapping move designed to limit the performance of it audio output.

And they took it way too far. Now the phone is so handicapped that you can only use it to catch pokemons or watch youtube videos.

When it comes about making and receiving phone calls, that is to say , using the phone as a phone... You are better off with a Nokia 3210.

So yeah, there's that.
An amazing phone with amazing hardware ruined by poor coding and devs laziness (or their inability of understanding that in these times and age there are still people out there who would like to use the phone as a phone )

Regards

Unfortunately,i don't have anymore a granny but for all other, the ringtone ,the notifications and speaker are loud and clear

 

[kuzeytekinoglu0]

sometimes the network goes away.sound cuts when talking on the phone

 

[kooyeb]

Just six months old and my call volume has gone down so low that, any call that comes, I have to use the speaker! It's very inconvenient using this method! I did a factory-reset, but to no avail.

 

[ElXreno]

/del

 

[tiguy99]

Just six months old and my call volume has gone down so low that, any call that comes, I have to use the speaker! It's very inconvenient using this method! I did a factory-reset, but to no avail.

Your ear speaker may be defective.
Take it to the Xiaomi service center for warranty service.

If you're skilled in phone repair, Witrigs sells them for $3.50

 

[Gentle-man]

Than try Redmi 4X it's more bigger crap than Redmi Note 7

Than try Redmi 4X it's more bigger crap than Redmi Note 7 (talking about call notification and messages also buzzer is crappy

What rom version are you on? EEA, Global, India, China? Xiaomi EU (which is based on the Chinese version) ?

The ringtone the notifications and the in-call volume are all low. The call quality on all these roms is abysmal.
Unless you install a custom ringtone and notification sound designed to be loud the default ones are ridiculously low.
Not only that but the "Volume Booster" does nothing at all to boost the volume.
Somebody messed up big time.
I have tried to mod the mixer path files. Not much difference but it does make it slightly louder. Not as loud as it should have been after manually altering the volume curves for the attenuation (the max value was set to 15000 Millibels which should have popped up the volumes to 150 dB) . All the other settings done in the mixer path files barely had an impact (not surprisingly since Xiaomi hardcoded capped values for incall , notification and ring streams in the source code of the libraries and kernel i think)
The EU laws allows a maximum of 85dB , but these guys they took it on themselves to lower the values WAAAAAY BELOW that.

When you are watching a movie , listening to audio-video content like YouTube and so on, the speakers are OK.

When it comes to using the phone AS A PHONE making phone calls and receiving phone calls and text messages using the phone and messaging function (NOT VIA THE VOIP apps) the phone is absolute crap.

Let me put it this way:
My Nokia Nokia 3210 has such a loud incall volume that if i pop up the volume to the max , people standing 3 meters away from me can hear the other person talking to me.
When it comes to ring tone for the incoming calls and the notification sound for the incoming messages, I can hear that bugger from 30 meters away.

There is no way in the hell you can not hear a Nokia 3210 running on 1999 primitive technology.

Xiaomi really dropped the ball on this one and their devs effed up big time.

They could not be bothered to test the phone in REAL LIFE CONDITIONS and as a result, in noisy cities like London whilst out on the street you end up not hearing incoming phone calls , text messages and so on.

If left with the default settings and default ringtones you might as well be hearing impaired because it makes no difference whatsoever.

Let me put it this way so young guys can understand what i mean:

A Nokia 3210 running on 1999 technology with a basic, primitive operating systems and PRIMITIVE HARDWARE for speakers and with only a tiny fraction of the Xiaomi's processing power HAS BETTER incall quality than Xiaomi's phones .

Is not a hardware problem but a deliberate handicapping move designed to limit the performance of it audio output.

And they took it way too far. Now the phone is so handicapped that you can only use it to catch pokemons or watch youtube videos.

When it comes about making and receiving phone calls, that is to say , using the phone as a phone... You are better off with a Nokia 3210.

So yeah, there's that.
An amazing phone with amazing hardware ruined by poor coding and devs laziness (or their inability of understanding that in these times and age there are still people out there who would like to use the phone as a phone )

Regards

 

[malikwaqas758]

Great call quality and the speakers are very good I already using this phone and its awesome Highly recommended

 

[chrisw444]

alguns usuarios reclamam que é muito baixa

 

[silver90]

How i can only boost earpiece in-call volume manual with edit vendor/etc/mixer_paths.xml, what i need to do ?
Or another solution?
On lineage os 17.1 in-call volume is very low.