Registered: Sep 2002
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Posts: 14

Visorphone Mike Bad?

I bought a visorphone thru an ebay auction. I curretly do not have a carrier. But after charging the phone up I could make calls to 611 (T-Mobile customer service) and hear the party on the other end, but they could not hear me. I then plugged in a gneric headset I had sitting around, and tried again. With the headset I could hear the other party, and they could hear me. But the operator on the other end said that I came in and out, and she could hear some buzzing.

Is it safe to say the microphone in my Prism is not working? Or is this a design problem with the Visor - possibly poor reception? Or is there some button somewhere I have to push to activate the mike so people can hear me?

- Brian

__________________
Visor Prism

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 29

the phones are free with service and you need service to use it unless you got a smc for the phone. So why didnt you get a new one? It could be dammaged cause you got it on ebay. were you inside did the signal meter show low rescepion?

Registered: Sep 2002
Location: lawrence, ks
Posts: 22

flybri,

quite honestly, if i had it to do over again, i'd buy a regular phone, but i can say that mine's seemed to get better as i go along. try pushing the 'scroll up' button to control the volume. my phone always seemed too loud, so i use this to turn volume up and down. i don't know if that'd effect the other person hearing me too or not, but it might be worth a try.

try taking your phone apart (it's amazingly simple as i found out - see the 'swimmin' prism' post) and see if anything is loose/disconnected. you can do the same to the prism.

let me know what you find.

sh

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: houston
Posts: 14

mic bad?

The microphone circuitry is on the visor itself, not the phone module. It is probably the source of your issues.

I have heard of issues with the buit in microphone on some visors. Check some of the other threads.