Bluetooth voice quality - LG Cosmos 2

Frustrated and wondering where to start. New car (Honda CR-V) and new phone (Cosmos 2.) Bought the phone solely because my original (very old) phone wouldn't "pair" with the new car's bluetooth. The Cosmos has gotten past that, makes & receives calls, phonebook has been imported and everything works fine except for one (major) thing: The outbound (phone user's) voice quality is horrible. All garbled, almost not understandable to anyone on the other end. Inbound voice (played through the car's speakers) is fine. So where do I start? I'm anticipating that Verizon will tell me it's a Honda problem and Honda will tell me it's a Verizon problem. I'll almost bet on it. Any solid, unbiased advice on what is actually likely to be the problem, and how to fix it? Thanks.

You would test outbound voice quality using just the phone not Bluetooth from the same locations to determine if the problem is with the phone and Vzw service OR if you only experience the problem when connected by BlueTooth wireless and thus the built-in mic in the Honda.

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espleyk wrote:
Really sorry to burst into your discussion, but I can't find any way of asking a question.
Like you, it's my first smartphone and I am really frustrated with it too. Am awaiting delivery of a new phone today due to its inability to connect to the internet or for me to get email.
But today's frustration is this and it's a really urgent query that I'm hoping someone can help me with quickly before the delivery man arrives.
Having spent all day Sunday getting my contacts sorted out, I'm nervous about losing them. So installed ovi suite this morning and apparently successfully to copy my contacts etc through content copier. It said it had saved them to
C:\Users\Karen\AppData\Roaming\Nseries\ContentCopier\2009-07-23Nokia N97 (2).nbu. However when I went to look for the folder AppData, it doesn't exist and I can't find it anywhere.
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using windows XP (not sure about vista) goto My Computer. on the menu bar, select "Tools" then "Folder options", then "View". select the option that says "show hidden files and folders"
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