My hearing is crap from years of loud concerts and I have this same problem with my iPhone 3G. I was hoping for some relief moving to the Evo in the form of a louder speaker. Oh well.

 

That's not good and certainly not what's being reported in reviews.

 

its called if you have hearing problems use speakerphone...

 

People sometimes sound faint on my Pre, as well. Speakerphone makes it worse because its not very loud and its got a lot of white noise.

 

I'd think we'd have heard from other early adopters on this one. Hope so at least.

 

As we haven't heard anything else from other IO evo owners, I would assume this is an issue with your particular phone. Hopefully you can exchange it after the release date.

I really hope this is not the case with all the phones. I have a hard time hearing sometimes (many years of concerts when I was younger haha) and have never had a phone where I could hear comfortably. Well, I do have a WinMo phone now, which there is a registry hack to increase the earpiece volume. It does make it sound distorted, but at least I can hear it. I'm new to Android, but maybe there is a similar hack to increase the volume through the hardware?

 

The incall volume is very good! And the speaker phone volume is 10 times louder than the Nexus One................

Matt

 

Thanks for the heads up. I find my 3GS, and really ALL of the AT&T phones I've owned / used to not have good enough volume. Either it's me or AT&T as I can't see each phone having the same issue.

If the volume can be cranked up a good big, awesome. Thanks!

 

i got my evo on the 4th, and i have the same problems. i can barely hear anybody, every call. when i turn the volume up to max, the earpiece is crackling and making awful noises for every word from every person. its just...awful. hopefully a replacement will fix this issue. i wonder if an OTA update could fix it, i know a lot of other people are having the same issue as well.

thank you for the suggestion to turn the hearing aid option on, but even at the lower hearing aid option, while it is quite loud, the distortion is worse. :/

 

Got my Evo on Monday (2 days ago) and the in-call volume, while maxed is pretty low for me (lower than my now replaced touch pro). It doesn't sound bad or anything like what others have been reporting, just lower volume, still clear.

Have also tried the hearing aid option, and while it's slightly better, would still rather it be just a bit louder so I don't have to have the hearing aid thing enabled, hopefully there'll be an app sooner or later (or an update) to increase the volume a bit more.

I can hope at least, either way still love the phone.

 

Just chiming in - got mine on June 6 - I'm having none of the problems reported here.

May be some variability in these early units, I guess.

I wonder if it's based on the carrier signal - I'm in New Mexico.

 

Has anything been done about this? I've noticed the volume is low even on max. Coming from an Instinct I thought this phone would be better.

 

Our instinct volume rocked!

For us that have trouble hearing-
Settings > call >hearing aids <- select that to amplify in-call volume.

 

I am also having the very same problem. I've had my phone for a couple of months and I only started having the call volume issue for about the past week. Prior to that no issues. Now my speakerphone also does not work. I've gone through the phone's volume settings and maxed them all. Still can barely hear person on the other end.

 

A "hard reboot" solved the problem. Just remove & reinstall battery.