Lumia 800 sound quality observation

Hi,
there is a lot of talk about the sound quality and as I wrote earlier I find it amazing with the Nokia Purity in ear headset - if you tweak the pad size to your ears.
I now got a HTC Sensation for work with beats audio headset (same company that makes Purity), which made me very happy as I expected as good sound as my Nokia. Boy, was I in for a suprise: The sound is awful! Nokia is definately a very good choice for an audio player/phone.

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Nokia lumia 800 sound quality

Hello.I have an issue with my nokia lumia 800.I have lattest 7.8 software and the music quality is terrible .I think every other phone plays music much much better then mine and i dont know what to do?

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Lumia 800 sound option

is there any way to adjust the volume for calls while using the earphone/headphone which comes with lumia 800 package?? the sound is too loud and i could not reduce the sound, besides, right after the call, if i listen to misic, the volume option is not working and is too loud.

Hello,
I have the same issue, I cannot use earphones for calls, the volume buttons are disabled.
I also have switching noise when I accept incoming call.
My fw: 12070 did not solve this problem.
Please comment.

Lumia 800 Sound problems on call

Hello guys.
I wanted to know if anyone has ever happened to this thing with this beautiful terminal.
Many times when I answer a call can not hear who's calling me and after many tests I noticed that, if when I answer I hear a noise as if it were turned on and off for a moment on the speakerphone, it means that I will present this problem and the only thing to hear the other person is to activate and deactivate the speakerphone.
There is success?
Thank you.

Since you have already checked settings and reset the phone and the problem still persists, then it is very likely a hardware problem. Perhaps it is time to pay a visit to your local Nokia Care Point. You can locate your nearest care point using th link below.
www.nokia.com/support

Lumia 800 disastrous audio quality

Here goes my happy honeymoon with the phone.
I was fairly happy with the phone until I tried to listen to music on it. Sound quality (no matter which headphones I use, up to Westone 3) is awful. There's no bass whatsoever, the sound is dirty, no stereo separation etc. etc.
Really, I haven't heard anything as awful in years.
And here's a confirmation. This is such an outlier among modern phones I really can't get how this passed the quality control.

Keeperovod wrote:
Actually you don't use Moscow underground)) It is more than enough for everyday use for me. Sound is loud and clear so I can use high volume levels and I can't hear any details because of noise around. And I can't hear any difference in FM because of its nature. So it's more than enough for my regular use. I think that if you are audiophile you have to use some special player and not general purpose smartphone. Lumia isn't targeted for audiophiles I think. You can never expect from universal device to be good as one specialized, I think.
In any case disastrous audio quality during calls is real problem. Can you turn FM on and try to call using headphones. Is it my unique bug and should I go to service for phone replacement or not&
Let's stick to the sound problem with listening to music via the jack output here.
This issue has nothing to do with beeing audiophile. Even you hear the difference between a cheap onboard soundcard and the worse Lumia.
I use 20€ in-ears. Because of in-ears, I don't have much backround noise in trains. On this rather cheap headphones (far away from beeing audiohile, you see) I hear the lack of sound quality without comparing. Especially tracks with a lot of bass sound bad beceause of the low-cut, the review we posted above confimed.
For example, the deep pumping bass in this track, is completly flat on the lumia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOcINSOWrQ&hd=1
To reach a bit of enjoyment, I have to max out the Volume. Is this really necessary on a 2011 high end smarphone priced at 500€, while my N82 was fine?
I would be glad if I knew that Nokia is aware of the problem. Maybe it's a software issue. If it's a Hardware issue, then at least implement an Equailizer!
The sound is not desastrous, but simply not good enough.

Ministry of sound app on the Lumia 800

Hi
I had my new lumia 800 yesterday. There is a ministry of sound app already on the phone but I can't get it to play......do I need to do anything?
Thanx

Hi Amecool1,
Welcome to the Nokia Forum!
Are you experiencing any error messages or is it simply not starting?
Please be sure to update your device to the latest version which will be version 1600.2487.8107.12070
If you have already updated, please try to reinstall the application, if you see no improvement, please continue to perform a soft reset using the code *#7780# security code by default 12345 if prompted.
I hope this has helped, please let me know if this has resolved your issue!
Sheldrick
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Nokia Lumia 800 microphone problem (sounds like a ...

I got my new Lumia about 1 week ago and after switching from N900 to Lumia 800 I have been getting lot of complaints from people whom I talk with.
Everybody starts the phone call the same way, by saying that is there something wrong, or am I in a speaker or a car or that it but no I'm talking to my Lumia keeping it in my hand at home or work, no speaker, no car, just normally talking.
I have noticed that this happens randomly when keeping it on my hand, but it's easier to replicate the problem always by holding it with only my shoulder hands free. Could it be due to Nokias new background noise reduction feature?
Anyone had the same issue or is it just my luck to have a faulty unit?
As I understand that even if I replace it, I cannot backup my SMS messages to the new unit, do they have a way in the Nokia Care etc.?
Nokia and Windows phone first impressions:
I see it coming there, but now it seems like the version 1.0 with something still missing from the old Nokia, that needs to go to version 2.0 soon with a taste of Nokia in it, hopefully this year...
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi,
It Happens with Lumia 710 Also
Animali wrote:
I got my new Lumia about 1 week ago and after switching from N900 to Lumia 800 I have been getting lot of complaints from people whom I talk with.
Everybody starts the phone call the same way, by saying that is there something wrong, or am I in a speaker or a car or that it but no I'm talking to my Lumia keeping it in my hand at home or work, no speaker, no car, just normally talking.
I have noticed that this happens randomly when keeping it on my hand, but it's easier to replicate the problem always by holding it with only my shoulder hands free. Could it be due to Nokias new background noise reduction feature?
Anyone had the same issue or is it just my luck to have a faulty unit?
As I understand that even if I replace it, I cannot backup my SMS messages to the new unit, do they have a way in the Nokia Care etc.?
Nokia and Windows phone first impressions:
I see it coming there, but now it seems like the version 1.0 with something still missing from the old Nokia, that needs to go to version 2.0 soon with a taste of Nokia in it, hopefully this year...

Lumia 800. Low quality of photos (3MP instead of 8...

Hi,
I've just bought Nokia Lumia 800 and I have problem with camera. The taken pictures have 1632x1224 pixels resolution (like 3MP) instead of 3264 x 2448 pixels (8MP). In options the 8MP resolution is chosen and focus mode is normal (not macro).
Every taken has a smaller resolution than it should...
Similar thing is with 7MP and 2MP.
Had anybody a similar problem? The software is updated to the latest version.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Appears to be a Nokia feature. I have a series40 phone (C3-01) and it does exactly the same when sending pictures using email, even if you use a wifi connection that is supposed to support heavier traffic. Absolutely agree with you, this s disappointing and "dumb".

Nokia Lumia 800 key vibration

I bought a new Nokia Lumia 800. I noticed that despite turning off vibration, the phone vibrates each time the back key (<-) is pressed. Is there any way to turn this off. i believe this could save a lot of battery.
Also how do we completely close an application in Lumia 800? I opened a page in IE. pressed back key. Then pressed and held back key to find there is no active application or IE running. However, when i open IE next time, I see the previous page has been loaded and it has been active all this time which could have been eating in to my data usage as well as battery charge.
Thanx in advance.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Yep it is true for Psychomania said, however I've been using Nokia since 3310 and since then I've declared that Nokia is a "connecting people" phone. Because it is easy to use, it is easy to share (contacts, sounds, pictures, messages etc), it is easy to customize. Moreover it is not hard to change from an old Nokia phone to the new one.
After Lumia comes, I believe this is the best of Nokia phone that the quality is almost equal with IOS. I do agree for following the trend of the consumer mostly (social, market, book etc) is a good thing to do. But please Nokia, do not change your ability, do not change your "connecting people" style. I'm feeling as a bird on cage with Lumia, could not change sms tone, when I was migrating contacs and I found my contacs get multiplied and I have to merge it or delete it, Could not change my phone name directly from my phone. I know IOS is using itunes for importing things inside it, yet It is not good enough if we remarks all of it. You have your own style, Nokia.

Poor sound quality in timeline and export; fine in Source?

Hello all.
Newbie to Pr but experienced pro in digital audio. I'm stumped and know I'm just missing something somewhere.
I've made a music video for one of my songs. The graphics are all done (in AE), imported to Pr and eveything looks great. I import the final mix of the audio and it sounds very low quality when played from the timeline and in the final output, regardless of format (I've tried several presets and custom settings as well). I played around and noticed that the audio sounds fine when played from the Source window inside Premier.
The Pr session is comrised of 18 video tracks (not all playing at once, of course) and one stereo audio track.
I've tried re-exporting the audio from Logic at different bit depths, sample rates and file formats (mp3, wav, AAC, etc) but the results are the same every time: Source (Pr)sounds fine, Logic output sounds fine, rendered / timeline playback sounds like very low quality mp3 and final product sounds just as bad.
I've tried everything I can think of. I hope one of you can show me what I'm missing.
TIA!
Mark
Premier Pro CC
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB
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Thank you for the reply!
I was experiencing the same results no matter what export settings I used. Plus the poor sound quality was present in the timeline itself, without even exporting the project.
I finally threw my hands up, started a completely new project, drug the same audio file in... sounded fine. Copied / Pasted the video clips from the original, broken project and boom, eveything is fixed. Yeah, corrupted Pr file it turns out. All I had to do was start a new project and import all the old components.
I've had to do this in Logic a lot (increasingly, these days). I just wish I'd tried it 10 hours earlier! Ha.
Anyway, problem solved, and thanks very much!

Has Apple addressed poor sound quality issues with new 160GB iPod classic?

I just bought a new 160GB iPod classic, replacing a perfectly good 80GB iPod Video (5.5), thinking that the newer one would be superior to my 3 year old model. I discovered that the sound of the new unit was flat and muddy compared to the older model. I found that the 5th gen iPod video was more "spacial", if that's an appropriate word to use; the bass was more present and more clearly defined, as was the rest of the sonic spectrum. I searched several forums to research this issue and while there were numerous references to this issue, all of the posts I found referred to the original iPod classics (80GB and 160GB) and not the later 120GB classics nor the new 160GB classics like the one I bought. Has Apple done anything to address this issue since the first classics were released or are the new ones still suffering from the same sound quality issues as the original classics?

Based on your observations here, they apparently have not changed the sound quality since the original 160GB classic. I noticed a clear narrowing of the sound stage (ambiance) between the 5.5G 80Gb and my 6G 160GB. You're describing the same characteristic. I don't own the newest 160GB version and came here today to see if it might have improved the sound quality back to the 5.5 spaciousness. Note that the 5.5G has a higher signal to noise ratio than the 6G, making it difficult for me to enjoy it through efficient balanced armature in ear monitors like the Shure SE530s or Ulimate Ears Triple.Fi 10s.

Lumia 800 microphone problem

Hello, I have a problem with my Lumia 800 microphone.. when someone calls me, or I try to record a video it doesn't work, I can't hear what I sad in the video, neither people can hear me over their phone, but for example when I try to use voice command via Bing/Tell Me it works, it records my sounds. What's the problem?

Hi,
It Happens with Lumia 710 Also
Animali wrote:
I got my new Lumia about 1 week ago and after switching from N900 to Lumia 800 I have been getting lot of complaints from people whom I talk with.
Everybody starts the phone call the same way, by saying that is there something wrong, or am I in a speaker or a car or that it but no I'm talking to my Lumia keeping it in my hand at home or work, no speaker, no car, just normally talking.
I have noticed that this happens randomly when keeping it on my hand, but it's easier to replicate the problem always by holding it with only my shoulder hands free. Could it be due to Nokias new background noise reduction feature?
Anyone had the same issue or is it just my luck to have a faulty unit?
As I understand that even if I replace it, I cannot backup my SMS messages to the new unit, do they have a way in the Nokia Care etc.?
Nokia and Windows phone first impressions:
I see it coming there, but now it seems like the version 1.0 with something still missing from the old Nokia, that needs to go to version 2.0 soon with a taste of Nokia in it, hopefully this year...

Lumia 800 - can't use headphones

Hello here,
My name is Adel and I would like to get some support for my Nokia Lumia 800.
Basically the problem is that headphones don't work with it, the phone doesn't recognize them.
I checked for dust, nothing.
I resetted it, nothing.
Tried to get to an earlier version of windows phone? Nothing.
Tried to change headphones, nothing.
Sent it to Nokia local store, after two weeks, i got back my phone with headphones finally recognized by the phone, but it was a short glory, one day later, the same problem is back. No headphones can be connected to the phone. And, I used the headphones that were given in the box when i bought the phone.
I really have troubles finding a similar solution over the net, feels like I am the only one in the world experiencing this issue
So guys, I would really appreciate if you could help me fix it please.
Thanks and regards,
Adel Blackburn.

Let me also add that when the headphones are plugged in, the sound comes out from loudspeaker.
Just making sure. thanks

Lumia 800 output speaker problem

I have an issue very unconfortable with my lumia 800. When I plug it on my desktop speakers to play music and I want to go to the next song it makes an odd sound like a desconexion/conexion of the jack.
Then if I stop the music I hear like a pulse of sound.
Has somebody the same problem?

I'm having the same issue when i plug the my new Lumia 800 phone on the car audio system.
I had a Samsung Focus, and that problem never happened, so the problem is with the Nokia phone.

Lumia 800 in India

So i have purchased my Lumia 800 from Carphone warehouse in uk.. They said it is unbranded and unlocked
it shows carrier as CV GB SW ID222 V08
i guess it is indeed unbranded and unlocked.
But when i installed Airtel/Vodafone SIM in India, it is not working AND asking for unlock code?
where will i get unlock code? can nokia care in india help me?

Did you put a PIN code on the SIM?
Did you buy the phone new or used?
Sounds like someone put a general country variant on a locked phone. That would not unlock the phone. Nokia Care should be able to verify whether it's unlocked or not. Contact them and provide the phone IMEI to them
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Lumia 800 sound quality observation

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