Internal Microphone issue during calls

[Viktor]

Apologies in advance if a tread is already covering my issue, I couldn't find my specific problem.

During calls (send or receive), the other end can't hear me. If I speak loudly into the microphone I can be heard, but very low.

-Pinephone Pro Explorer Edition
-This wasn't a problem during the first week I had the phone.
-I am in Canada
-I tried 4 carriers (Shaw, Koodo, Virgin and settled on Freedom when I found it was officially tested)
-Tried Manjaro, Postmaker, Kali, Mobian, Artch and same issue on all of them
-During the first week, I was pulling out the battery while the phone was running (did I damage it?)
-In the Sound options, configuring both input and output to "Make Phone Call" reverts it to original settings (Default, Play HiFi quality Music)
-When I bring up the volume during a call, "Internal Earpiece" is briefly displayed at the top with the volume
-I got this to work a few days ago on Mobian with a thread I found on installing Pipewire

I am on Manjaro Phosh beta28

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Viktor]

After several distributions and carriers I have concluded I damaged my phone. I tried so many things.

I will have to order a new one. I have to mention the obvious, don't take the battery out when the phone is powered.

[Viktor]

I replaced my PinePhone Pro USB C Sideboard and the mic is still very low. I looked for obstructions and there are none. My mic works fine on Postmarket OS.

Does someone know how I could increase my microphones volume past 100% on Mobian?

[diederik]

I replaced my PinePhone Pro USB C Sideboard and the mic is still very low. I looked for obstructions and there are none. My mic works fine on Postmarket OS.

Does someone know how I could increase my microphones volume past 100% on Mobian?

So the mic doesn't work properly on basically any OS, except PostmarketOS?
If so, that sounds like they have a patch that fixes things, which other OSes could benefit from.

If you want to get things fixed in Mobian, then you should bring it to the attention of the Mobian devs.
Posting this in the Manjaro sub-forums is likely not useful, but I doubt posting it in the Mobian sub-forum is going to help much (either) as I don't think the devs monitor that.

[Viktor]

I replaced my PinePhone Pro USB C Sideboard and the mic is still very low. I looked for obstructions and there are none. My mic works fine on Postmarket OS.

Does someone know how I could increase my microphones volume past 100% on Mobian?

So the mic doesn't work properly on basically any OS, except PostmarketOS?
If so, that sounds like they have a patch that fixes things, which other OSes could benefit from.

If you want to get things fixed in Mobian, then you should bring it to the attention of the Mobian devs.
Posting this in the Manjaro sub-forums is likely not useful, but I doubt posting it in the Mobian sub-forum is going to help much (either) as I don't think the devs monitor that.

Code:

The workaround with the command below works.

sudo alsamixe

[alaraajavamma]

I replaced my PinePhone Pro USB C Sideboard and the mic is still very low. I looked for obstructions and there are none. My mic works fine on Postmarket OS.

Does someone know how I could increase my microphones volume past 100% on Mobian?

Fix is actually quite easy.
postmarketOS is only os where mic level is setup correctly - all others are using way too low setup.
See instructions here
https://gitlab.com/pine64-org/pine64-als...-/issues/5

Unfortunately there is another issue and I have not found fix for this (and this happens with every distro)
Long story short: if you receive call while suspended your mic becomes really silent
https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/2016

[Viktor]

I replaced my PinePhone Pro USB C Sideboard and the mic is still very low. I looked for obstructions and there are none. My mic works fine on Postmarket OS.

Does someone know how I could increase my microphones volume past 100% on Mobian?

Fix is actually quite easy.
postmarketOS is only os where mic level is setup correctly - all others are using way too low setup.
See instructions here
https://gitlab.com/pine64-org/pine64-als...-/issues/5

Unfortunately there is another issue and I have not found fix for this (and this happens with every distro)
Long story short: if you receive call while suspended your mic becomes really silent
https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/2016

This is really awesome thank you, I finally have this working. A alternative to all this closed source software brings warm feelings to my heart.