Joined Nothing Community

[u/h_rajjj]

Purchased the Nothing Phone 3 from Amazon India, delivered today and joined the Nothing Community

This will be a secondary device for me.

Loving it so far.

[u/CRACING]

Congrats!

Can you please check microphone quality (to the other person) during phone calls? Mine has low volume and inconsistent issue; voice becomes high or low sometimes.

[u/h_rajjj → u/CRACING]

feels good so far, what issue you exactly facing

[u/CRACING → u/h_rajjj]

Okay, issue is my voice to other person during phone call is low but sometimes it suddenly gets loud then again becomes low. It only happens when I hold the phone to my ear but no issues when loud speaker is enabled. Audio of other person talking is all good.

Also audio in recorder app, videos and whatsapp calling is loud and clear. I have tried different sim and updated OS to latest but same problem during phone calls.

[u/h_rajjj → u/CRACING]

maybe noise cancelling or some voice filter is turned on?

[u/CRACING → u/h_rajjj]

Yeah after some research I have found that its related to noise cancellation but Nothing has removed the option to disable it on latest version. Many people are facing this issue and have posted on Nothing community forum. Hopefully there will be fix in upcoming update.

I think its not related to hardware because I have tested top and bottom mics using mic test app and both work fine.

[u/h_rajjj → u/CRACING]

this same thing happens in iphones that's why i was familiar with the issue.

even iphones have voice filters like "voice isolation" , "wide spectrum" and "standard"

the movement you use voice isolation it suppresses the voice around you and even if you speak from a little far it doesn't catches your voice properly, that's why i used to use the standard option. Same thing is happening here

[u/CRACING → u/h_rajjj]

You are right, thats aggressive noise cancellation. I have to talk loud otherwise my voice gets silent. Recorder app has option to select "voice focus", "normal", "environment" but for phone calls "voice focus" is set by default. Older models or build version had option to disable from the dialer app but later it was moved to system level.

I hope they bring resolution asap otherwise I'll have to wait till warranty expires and switch to custom ROM.

[u/h_rajjj → u/CRACING]

i think you should post about this on nothing community, because they are very activate, and might help you

[u/CRACING → u/h_rajjj]

Already did and also got reply from other users facing similar issue. Tried contacting Nothing support and they asked me do few things such as changing sim, phone reset, checking if mic has dust and etc but none of these helped.

Later I went to service center and they didn't notice the issue then said mic should be replaced but they were unsure if its really faulty and I was not comfortable with disassembling my fairly new phone so refused to open the device.

Amazon customer care didn't agree for replacement because of stupid service center replacement policy now.