Speakerphone (loudness, clarity)

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Proper etiquette aside (hint: don't use speakerphone while doing your "business" in a public bathroom), rate this thread to express how you think the Moto Z's speakerphone performs. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it's loud and it's clear.

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

dan409

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Coming from the MXPE (moto x pure edition) there is no comparison. Speakerphone and all audio volumes are extremely low in volume. Need to have the phone on vibrate or I will miss calls and texts as that volume is also 1/4 the volume of the MXPE. I realize that the MXPE is not a fair comparison because of the stereo speakers and thickness of the phone, but the difference is enough that I am considering returning the phone. GPS nav useless, speakerphone useless, watching videos sucks unless you want to hold the phone 2 " from your ears. YMMV Just my experience with the phone and it sucks because otherwise even unrooted the phone operates as a beast.
EDIT update: I must have a defective JBL mod. In the phone settings there is a way to reset the mod, and when I reset it the speaker phone and GPS nav both have tremendous volume. Only problem is sound goes off randomly and I have to keep resetting the JBL mod for it to work properly. Will take it back and report back if that was the problem.
 
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dan409

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they keep the speaker low so you will buy the mods ^^. missed call all the time on my z force
LOL I have the JBL mod and the media volumes are fantastic but the ringtones and speaker phone are not very loud at all even with the mod attached. I don't know why they would tone that down so much to make it freakin useless also. That thing attached to the phone also makes it a real brick to carry around in a pocket, you better be wearing a belt !:D
Hoping like heck this thing gets rooted so I can play around with the sound files. Other wise it may be Hasta la vista for this phone.
 

falsivas

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After a recent update it became much worse. Many people are complaining about it. You would think they would push another update to fix it.

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Hi, this is a known problem.

Not hardware related...is a software bug added in latest update.

Plenty of info at Lenovo forum, and also a temporary fix....

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z-Force/Quiet-notifications-moto-z/td-p/3420410

Can't believe Lenovo haven't fixed this yet. Very poor show....
 
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jeromejeremytay

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Coming from a droid maxx XT1080M, this device loudspeaker is awful. Although it has front facing speakers but watching youtube videos result in very low audio loudness. The droid maxx is almost identical to the Nexus 6P in terms of loudness, whereas the Moto Z is just marginally better than the iPhone 6S.
 

falsivas

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If you trawl through the 49+ pages of annoyed (soon to be ex-moto owners) in the official Lenovo forum

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z-Force/Quiet-notifications-moto-z/td-p/3420410/page/49

then there is a dude who contacted one of Moto's senior execs (Brazil) ... and their response was that this was introduced to prevent damaging some poor sods ears that had their lug next to the phone when a notification arrived (coz it's only got one speaker)

As such. this is a design feature that MOTO don't seem to highlight very much....INVISIBLE NOTIFICATIONS.... yes. it's the new craze !!! Strange that they don't showcase this a bit more !!!

So, if you think there will be a fix soon... forget it... it's a 49+ page thread on lenovorola's OWN forum and hee-haw has been done about it.

Rant over.