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10.4.8 Microphone volume settings ruined
Authored by: rinnin on Nov 19, '06 12:12:58PM

I had the latest updates for my Macbook but the volume level for my MacBook was reduced considerably on update to 10.4.8. A number of other people are having the same problem and can be seen on Apple's Discussion boards with the problem of a macbook turning "deaf". The only way to solve this problem is to do an erase and install to return the microphone setting back to their original state. I hope this problem can be addressed in the next update to 10.4.
Below is my most recent post to the above discussion.

I've just did a complete erase and install (about a 2 1/2 hour job) on my MacBook and am now running 10.4.6 again and just want to report that the microphone level is almost twice the volume of that in 10.4.8.
I tested this by recording my normal speaking voice in iMovie using the isight camera before and after the update with the mic input level slider set to near maximum in both cases.
Only problem now is that since I dont have 10.4.8 I cant run the recent firmware update so run the risk of RSS!.
I hope to God Apple does something about this microphone issue as I'm probably gonna have to update to 10.4.8 pretty soon.

BTW the ambient noise sensor makes the volume even fainter



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