Since 3-4 days, my microphone is not working anymore, on specific cases:
Not working:
phone app (the eOS default one, but i tried 2 other ones from the app lounge)
recorder app
But working on:
phone app with speaker on
whatsapp
videos recording
Seems like it is not a hardware issue, but OS one. My workaround is to always put the speaker, but then i look like those teenagers sharing their private discussion in public space…
Looks like I have the same issue with the Murena version of the Fairphone 5.
The microphone for the telephone app stopped working about 10 days ago. Removing the app cache did not solve it. Today e.OS v3.01 became available but the issue persisted after the install.
Calling using Signal works like a charm, so it still looks like a software issue,
Further digging into this issue, i found out that the FP5 has 3 microphones. When switching to speaker, another microphone is activated, so it still can be a hardware issue of mic 1.
A test that regular Fairphone users can do, is by calling this number in the phone app: *#*#2886#*#*
This test unfortunately does not work with /e/OS.
@Manoj is there a way to hardware test the Fairphone 5? The phone is one I bought from Murena directly (one year ago) and before going into a warrenty issue, I want to be sure it is a hardware issue, and not a software bug.
