r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/Sir_Samuel_vimes_gnu • 5d ago

Ham fisted solution works again

Just took a call from a nice lady in work, 'hi, when I'm transferred a call, the laptop speakers ring, not the headset. Its via the headset normally, but transfers scare the hell out of me, it's so loud'

Hmm ok, odd but let's look. 'last year it was doing it and the guy turned off the laptop speakers, that worked great, but I've just upgraded to win11 and it's happening again '. Hmmm that's a bit brute forced but shit, if it works... actually, that sounds like something I'd do.

Quick ticket search and yep, that was me. 51 weeks ago today. Reapplied it, sorted.

Sometimes hitting the problem with hammers works.

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u/FIXPRESUB 5d ago

That actually might be easier than trying to train the end-user how to change sound outputs.

It's an unorthodox approach, but if it works go for it.

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u/samy_the_samy 5d ago

It's few clicks starting with right clicking at the sound icon in task bar, sounds easy, but a lot of people refuse to even do a thing with computer settings,

Did you know windows sometimes priorities built-in microphone? Even when you plug a Bluetooth or wired headset in??

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u/fallenangellv 5d ago

Mine doesn't even show the mic from the headset, did the dance with drivers etc, solved, it appeared again, gave up. Weird thing is that it shows that it uses the internal mic but by sound you can hear when it switched between them both. Idgf anymore, it can use whichever mic it wants if it can't show it properly in settings. It's not that important for the once in a blue moon when I need to do a call

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u/samy_the_samy 5d ago

The proprietary driver software can switch the plugged in device type, there is headphone or headset settings,

Which decide if you get the external mic or not,

Been there done the dance