Pinephone: microphone not working sometimes (hardware issue)
Describe your issue
What's the expected behaviour?
The microphone works for taking voice memos and in phone calls.
What's the current behaviour?
Voice memos record silence/static, and in phone calls, the other person hears nothing, or hears light static if the charging cable is plugged in.
How to reproduce your issue?
Use a pinephone and be on edge on or after June 2. (the 20220602-1926-postmarketOS-edge-sxmo-de-sway-1.9.0-pine64-pinephone.img.xz
image has this problem)
- receive a voice call
- Talk into the pinephone
- Verify that you can't hear anything on the other end
- Use DTMF tones on the pinephone
- Verify that you can hear the DTMF tones
or
- Go to menu => Scripts => Record => Microphone
- Talk a little bit while the window is open and "recording"
- Press Control-C (either on the keyboard or through the terminal menu)
- save recording
- open terminal window
- mpv ~/.local/share/sxmo/recordings/2206*.wav
- You hear nothing
What device are you using?
pine64-pinephone
On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?
-
edge ( master
branch) -
v21.12
-
v22.06
-
I confirm that the issue still is present after running sudo apk upgrade -a
On what environment did you encounter the issue?
Phone environments
-
Phosh -
Plasma Mobile -
Sxmo (Wayland/Sway)
Other
-
No environment ("none" in pmbootstrap) -
GNOME -
KDE Plasma -
Kodi -
MATE -
Shelli -
Sway -
Weston -
Xfce4 -
fbkeyboard -
i3wm -
Sxmo (Xorg/Dwm) -
console UI -
framebufferphone
How did you get postmarketOS image?
-
from https://images.postmarketos.org -
I built it using pmbootstrap -
It was preinstalled on my device
What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
2022-06-02
Additional information
As a workaround, the headset microphone works (though it's a little quiet for the person on the other end).
Related: #1552 (closed)
Edited by Administrator