After months of complaining about not being able to
control the N7 microphone level when streaming to it directly from the
iPhone, I realized how to do just that.
In
my configuration
of
the Cochlear iPhone app, the Audio Source panel offers Mini Mic, TV
(Streamer), Telecoil, and Off,. If you have nay of the first three
chosen, the more control allows control of the microphone level relative to the streaming level, otherwise that control informs that you are Not currently streaming.
But if your Audio Source is actually the phone, the
more control allows control of
microphone level, with phone level control on the phone itself. On a
phone call, you have to be on the call to make any adjustment, or have
some app running that will continue to stream when you switch to the
Cochlear app.This mode seems to be a
black hole, can’t back out of the phone as the audio source without
stopping the function on the phone itself, as when you hang up the phone
after a call.These level settings do not seem to be reliably retained, and often return to some default level.
Several
Cochlear staff people were unable to point to this way to control the
phone streaming level: try this, try that, it’s Apple’s fault, we’re
working on it.
I’m
delighted to hear that the latest version of Android (10) will work
with the N7, breaking Apple’s stranglehold on the phone streaming
market.
But on the whole, I’m very happy with the N7.
A facebook-free zone….
