Fairphone 4 - What is wrong with this thing?

[yvmuell]

@Avalon

highly confused because most people seem to hear me just fine though, even when the troubleshooting says 2/3 are basically dead.

So far my impression was the FP4 has only 2 mics. However, each mic is used differently in different use cases, please see here for details.

Call quality and noise cancellation (regular calls, handsfree, Signal voice messages, Microsoft Teams video calls)

Got a reply from Fairphone support. Main microphone You’re correct that the bottom microphone is used for calls - regardless whether normal phone calls or via an app. Top microphones During a call, the top microphones capture ambient noise. That is then used for noise cancellation. During loudspeaker and video calls, the top microphones should be used for the bulk of input. I tested my device with a phone call and an app call (via Messenger) and at least in these cases, it works as intend…

I don’t completely understand what happened or is working or not working reg the SD card, for some troubleshooting to format as portable see here

SD card problems although formatted as portable storage

Hi everyone! My FP4 has just arrived Although I don’t use a Google account, I managed to (manually) migrate most of the apps and data from my old Samsung Galaxy A3 without any major issue. The problems started though when I inserted a fresh 128 GB SD card (SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I A2) and formatted it as portable storage. As I read in the forum, this is the preferred option as it’s supposed to work better than formatting it as internal storage. Yet, while the SD card se…

Althoug there are some hicups with formatting es external at the moment, its not recommended to format as internal, please see here

A little guide to... using SD cards

Android 6 introduced new options for using an SD card in your phone. When you format an SD card or insert a new SD card, you’ll have two options: Internal/phone/adopted storage or external/portable storage. The option that most closely matches older Android versions is the external option. There are a couple of things to take into account when choosing which option works best for you: TL;DR: Formatting as internal will allow you to store apps on it and have it encrypted with the system interna…

Do you happen to have a fairphoneangel close, that can maybe assist 1:1?