Thank you very much for this screenshot. I have not installed gnome-screenshots and I didn’t think I could judge how many seconds it would take to start a call and switch the screen page. (Is there another way of taking a screenshot, just by pressing two buttons simultaneously, or something like that?)
Your screenshot is slightly different from what I see on my L5. I have just made another call to make sure that I had described the Sound Settings page accurately. The two “handset” icons are both accompanied by the word “Calls” on my L5, and the slider with the non-handset icon appears above the other two, instead of below them as you have it.
What I am calling the non-handset icon can also be seen on a screenshot posted by Loki (post no. 48 of this thread). My L5 does not show this slider except during a call, but Loki’s screenshot doesn’t have the other two Calls-only sliders. Can anyone tell me what this non-handset icon signifies and what volume the accompanying slider controls?
I installed Pulse Audio a while ago in the hope of solving a problem that turned out to be a question of incompatible codec settings. Perhaps the presence of Pulse Audio has something to do with the difference between your L5 and mine in their presentation of the Sound Settings page. Do you have Pulse Audio?
nobody looks into the sound settings while making a call
I did this in another hopeful attempt to fix the audio problem that turned out to be a codec incompatibility.
OK, this is what I should have done the first time around. This is what the Sound Settings page looks like on my L5 when a call is in progress. The word “Calls” can be seen beside the two temporary sliders that control audio volume during the call.
Also, does anybody have an idea what the other temporary slider does (the top one on my screenshot, the bottom one on guru’s)?
Thank you for this. It becomes more mysterious. What noise of machinery would anyone want to play during a phone call? Maybe something that sounds as if you are at work, when in fact you aren’t.
My best guess, based on zero evidence, is that some people might set up background music or other sounds to play during calls, and the cogwheel slider adjusts the volume of any such sounds. I can imagine a “wellness”-related business setting up sounds of birdsong or splashing water etc to play during calls, for an impression of nature and health.
Oops, sorry Amarok. This post was supposed to be a reply to guru. I don’t know how to redirect it.
Device is on the charger now. I’ll look up the Calls version when it’s cooked.
However, there have been a couple of updates to Calls since I first noticed the extra sliders, and the differences from your screenshot were there from the start. I mentioned the sliders and the word “Calls” beside them in a reply to irvinewade on March 1 - extra-sliders-report. I very much doubt that the version of Calls is the determining factor of those differences.
One for mic, one for speaker. Odd that they don’t have different icons or titles. I forget which way round they are arranged - I very seldom make calls with the L5. Plus, as you can see, I have them both turned up to the max, so it makes no difference to me which is which. I did test them in early March and found that they had the two different functions.
In any case, considering that my screenshot and guru’s have the “cogwheels” slider in different places, I wouldn’t count on the mic and speaker sliders being located on your L5 in the same order as they are on mine. You just have to try them and see.
I have no idea what could cause the difference, the missing “call” and the order. Looks like at @amarok faces as well the missing string “call”. And I have not tested what the slider do. Someone?
Is your voicemail handled on the L5, instead of being on your telecom’s server? (That would explain why the temporary sliders remain present while the caller speaks his/her message. With my phone accounts, calls divert to the provider’s server if not answered, and the handset hangs up.)
In the case where you do not divert the call to voicemail, does the non-handset icon have the microphone appearance or the cogwheels appearance? If the latter, maybe the cogwheels icon is merely a placeholder for potential diversion etc of the call, being replaced by something more specific if and when the call is actually diverted etc.
Oh… that obscure icon set me straight (eventually) today. It is tiny and hard to see clearly, especially when driving. Today, I made a call my accountant while driving and everything worked fine using 3.5mm jack through a splitter to my radio aux input and an external mic. Clear audio, no manual source/sink switching – all great (LOVE my L5). Then I called my and she couldn’t hear me. I checked the sound settings and thought for sure that the L5 could see the aux, but not the mic… unplugged/plugged the 3.5mm and watched the “headphones” disappear/reappear, but never saw the mic. Then, with the 3.5mm plugged in, I noticed that the “handset” had that same damned icon as the “headphones”. Voila! The matching obscure icons saved me from the obscure text!
Of course, I was still left with why my wife couldn’t hear me. Called her back and it was fine. I’ve come to the conclusion that my L5 ROCKS and her Samsung Galaxy Blah Blah Blah SUCKS, because SHE often can’t hear ME because of HER LAME PHONE.
