Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008...3:57 am

HTC Shangrila, Voice Calling

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Well, I suppose I should call it the Shift as that’s what most people call it, but it’s not the codename, so get stuffed.

Anyway, here’s the good news: Voice calling is working on the device.

Now the unfortunate news however is that whilst you can hear the other party speak to you just fine, sadly for some reason the mic doesn’t work, so if you’re a mute user of the Shift, I’m sure this’ll be just fine for you as-is, though since I’m pretty sure most people actually aren’t mute, it’ll be necessary to figure out how to make the microphone work on the WM side of things.

Since WM does have the option to make voice recordings and plop them in e-mails, I’d appreciate if anyone is out there who knows for a fact they’re able to make recordings (and recordings that work, not recordings of silence) from Windows Mobile to please contact me or dump a message on this comment or *something*.

I don’t know for a fact yet, but I’m hoping that the microphone isn’t something that exists solely on the PC board and does in fact interact with WM much like the speakers do… considering it’s a single sound card hybrid “thingy”, you’d have hoped so.

Something that has occured to me though… if you connect a bluetooth device to it, you should be able to make calls just fine, because frankly, you WILL look twatty sat at the device talking at it, with or without headphones.

2 Comments

  • Hi,

    Did you try any audio routing code, like:

    RILAUDIODEVICEINFO audioDeviceInfo;
    audioDeviceInfo.cbSize = sizeof(audioDeviceInfo);
    audioDeviceInfo.dwParams = RIL_PARAM_ADI_ALL;
    audioDeviceInfo.dwRxDevice = RIL_AUDIO_NONE;
    audioDeviceInfo.dwTxDevice = RIL_AUDIO_NONE;
    DWORD hr = RIL_SetAudioDevices(m_hRil, &audioDeviceInfo);
    return !FAILED(hr);

    I don’t have a shift so I’m only guessing this could be the problem.

  • actually, I’m wondering if the WM side has any access to the mic at all since it can’t record voice notes either.

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