Volume too low when playing through loadspeaker

[elmgreen]

Hi all,

We are developing a PTT client for the 3rd Ed. FP2 platform, based on pjsip, and have run into the problem that the volume of the audio is too low We route the audio to the loudspeaker and we have tried both the VoIP Audio Services API and Mda (CMdaAudioOutputStream) for reproducing the audio, but the result is the same: the volume level is so low that you have to hold the phone close to the ear in order to hear what is said. We set the volume to the value of MaxVolume(). For the Mda case, the priority is set up like this:

iOutputStream_->SetPriority(EPriorityNormal, EMdaPriorityPreferenceTime);

but I don't know if the priority has any influence on the volume level?

Does anybody know how we could get a higher volume level?

Thanks,
Bo

[symbianyucca]

AFAIK the priority would not have any effect on the volume, the actual Volume settings would. thus please re-check that you are indeed using the maxvolume. You could also experiment with separate audio player (for exmaple take examples from wiki) to see that the problem is not caused by faulty device etc.

[elmgreen]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response. I have now run our application with the debugger, and I can confirm that (in the VAS case) MaxVolume returns: 10 and that we also set the volume to 10... It should be added that the volume level that we get is comparable to if you route a normal voice call to the loudspeaker and turn the volume all the way up. BUT if I play a song with the Music Player, with no headset attached, the volume can get way higher!? How can I get volume levels comparable to the Music Player?

Thanks,
Bo