You should also notice a difference in battery life. I never had the volume decrease that I know of, but the battery would be used up much faster. This should give me an extra day between charges. On May 22, 2014, at 9:24 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote:
> Hello Mike, > > Thank you for posting this. You know, I discovered this bug and mentioned > it on this list some time ago only I perceived it as being a volume glitch > in, so much as when the microphone is active, so to speak, VoiceOver volume > decreases, slightly. The solution you posted does work well and it is the > one I will use until this bug has been squashed. . > > My original solution was to open the Music app and begin playing a song for > 1 second. This always restored the volume to its original level. I had no > idea, until reading your post to this list on this matter, that the decrease > in volume was because of an active microphone. After reading this post, I > now realize that by playing a song, I was inadvertently disabling the > microphone. > > I'm glad Apple is aware of this; thanks again. > > In The Journey, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Mike Arrigo > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:19 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: a bug in I O S 7 > > Hey everyone, a friend of mine told me about a bug he read about, and I can > confirm that it does exist. Perhaps this will help if you use the dictation > feature. I had actually noticed something interesting on my iphone 5c, I > would go to bed with a battery level of around 50 percent, and wake up and > it would be 35 percent or lower. Here is the issue. If you use dictation, > once you are done, the phone stops translating your text, but the microphone > remains on and continues listening. This will drain your battery much > faster. To get around this until Apple fixes it, after dictating and > receiving your text, hold the home button until you hear the siri tone. You > don't have to say anything to siri, just wait for the tone then release the > home button, that should turn the microphone off. When doing this, my > battery goes down much slower. > Hopefully Apple will fix this soon. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.