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[wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a *deal killer* for me.  I have been trying to move back to
Ubuntu for well over a year but the same problem happens.  I apoloize
for not logging sooner the details.  I confirm that there is bad sound
quality, but in my case, I figured something else out that may solve
some things here.  I discovered that the speaker phone button nearly
fixes it.  Therefore, they are reversed! So, the microphone, in
speakerphone mode is operating the way that it should in regular mode
and vice versa. I confirmed by holding the phone far away from my face
in regular mode and everyone can hear me quite well.  Then, when i put
it in speakerphone mode, no one can hear me.  They all report that I'm
impossibly quiet.   So, it seems that in the case of my phone all that
needs to happen to fix this is to put it the way it should.  Swap the
modes for the mic.

In addition to the above deal killer (i can't walk around town with all
my calls on speakerphone mode!) the sound also isn't perfect as reported
above.

LGE Nexus 4
Ubuntu 15.04 (OTA-A)
Ubuntu image part 20151118.2
armhf (20151118-205525)
Device image part 20150911
devide build description:
aosp_mako-userdebug 4.4.2 KOT49H
20150818-1500-0ubuntu3 test-keys
customization image part : 20151118.2

thanks guys

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Title:
  Poor microphone quality (mako)

Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After months of complaints from people talking to me on the phone
  (mako ubuntu touch), I finally got around to use multiROM to dual boot
  Ubuntu Touch and Android. Several people can confirm that there is a
  noticable difference in terms of sound/microphone quality between
  Android and UT in phone calls. With UT, my voice gets distorted to an
  extent that person at the other end have real difficulties to hear
  what I am saying, while with Android call quality is much better with
  no distortion.

  I have had a suspicion for a long time that this might be a software
  and not a hardware issue. After trying Android and Ubuntu on the same
  hardware I believe this suspicion is proved correct. This issue has
  persisted in all the builds I have tried since at least the beginning
  of the year, but probably longer. I am now at r17 of Utopic.

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