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[Bug]WeChat (Android) app - Microphone "muted" and camera anomaly
The WeChat app seems not to be compatible with Sailfish X, or its version of Alien Dalvik.
After installing the app via Aptoide, and attempting to make video calls, I've found that the microphone seems to be permanently muted within the app (with no way to unmute via settings). The recipient of the video call can be heard. The camera feed is also distorted very badly with visual anomalies. Please see attached screenshot.
I've had no such issues with similar apps such as Whatsapp and Skype. 20171202205604.jpg
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[Bug]WeChat (Android) app - Microphone "muted" and camera anomaly
The WeChat app seems not to be compatible with Sailfish X, or its version of Alien Dalvik.
After installing the app via Aptoide, and attempting to make video calls, I've found that the microphone seems to be permanently muted within the app (with no way to unmute via settings). The recipient of the video call can be heard. The camera feed is also distorted very badly with visual anomalies. Please see attached screenshot.
I've had no such issues with similar apps such as Whatsapp and Skype. 20171202205604.jpg
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[Bug]WeChat [Bug] WeChat (Android) app - Microphone "muted" and camera anomaly
The WeChat app seems not to be compatible with Sailfish X, or its version of Alien Dalvik.
After installing the app via Aptoide, and attempting to make video calls, I've found that the microphone seems to be permanently muted within the app (with no way to unmute via settings). The recipient of the video call can be heard.
The camera feed is also distorted very badly with visual anomalies. Please see attached screenshot.
screenshot.
Both Skype and Slack also seem to have video and microphone issues respectively.
I've had no such issues with similar apps such as Whatsapp Whatsapp, which must be better supported by both Sailfish X and Skype.
20171202205604.jpgits version of Alien Dalvik. Why is this?
Of course, this is rather frustrating when you can receive successfully audio clips from contacts, but not record any of your own.
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[Bug] WeChat (Android) app - Microphone "muted" and camera anomaly
The WeChat app seems not to be compatible with Sailfish X, or its version of Alien Dalvik.
After installing the app via Aptoide, and attempting to make video calls, I've found that the microphone seems to be permanently muted within the app (with no way to unmute via settings). The recipient of the video call can be heard. The camera feed is also distorted very badly with visual anomalies. Please see attached screenshot. Both Skype and Slack also seem to have video and microphone issues respectively. I've had no such issues with similar apps such as Whatsapp, which must be better supported by both Sailfish X and its version of Alien Dalvik. Why is this?
Of course, this is rather frustrating when you can receive successfully audio clips from contacts, but not record any of your own.
2019 UPDATE As of Sailfish OS v3.1.0.11 Seitseminen, this issue is still occurring in other Android apps. When making video calls using LINE, my camera is displaying the same type of artefacts and the orientation is incorrect (portrait when held in landscape and vice versa):
For LINE, WhatsApp and WeChat, this problem does not occur when selecting the feature to take a photo from directly within the app itself. There, the camera image appears normal. It only seems to affect actual video calls.
WhatsApp seems to have also regressed. The image appears warped and stretched.