Nice phone except for noise during calls.

1) I found some crackling issues to when I got mine. Not too bad, but noticeable. However, after flashing Dark's latest ROM I thought that the sound quality improved for me. Maybe a placebo not sure. My thoughts were maybe LG had improved the drivers.

2) As for skype it is an ongoing battle for me. Skype on windows mobile will not use the earpiece speaker. There are some workarounds for other phones (namely HTC) which will route the output from the speaker to the earpiece after the call is initiated.

Teksoft wrote a program called audioroute, which unfortunately doesnt work for the expo which will route the sound to the earpiece. However, I understand Teksoft are updating the audioroute program to include more recently released phones. I have chimed in at XDA to request support for the expo... so let's see.

I also havent been able to get the microphone of my bluetooth headset to work with skype either. Sound is routed to the earpiece of the bluetooth headset but if you want to talk you have to hold your phone up to your mouth and speak through the phone mic.

so some experience with skype on the expo in short:

- Other callers complain of echos if you use the speaker and have it too loud. Sometimes they complain when it is low as well. This is due to their voices being routed through the phones mic from the speakers creating echoes on their end. Solution: turn volume way down and use the phone reversed with the speaker at your ear, or use a headset.

- The "keep backlight on" option doesnt work with the expo. while talking you will notice the screen will grey and all sound will stop on skype. This is because the backlight is being switched off which in turns switches off skype. Remedy if you know you are going to use skype then change your backlight settings or periodically touch the screen to keep it alive.

- Sound quality on my end when using skype is reasonable... best over wifi, but it works with 3g as well.

- Dont use fring (well you cant anymore anyway) or any 3rd party app. These apps route the skype call through their own servers first, resulting in longer delays and possibly lowering the quality of the call.

- In my experience skype works best for short phone calls when I cant get phone reception. My wife complains a lot when I use when I am away, because she doesnt like the sound quality at her end. Because there a lot of input factors I am not sure what the exact cause is. Skype seems to have done a really half assed job on the windows mobile skype software.

- If teksoft can get audioroute to work with the expo, it may be more usable on a regular basis for me.

Hello ybkexpo, Welcome to the forums

 Edit:To fix my mixed posting ,again lol.

Having 50-80 mb of ram free, is golden, it don't get much better then that on here with WM. As well, we won't see a upgrade to wm7, its not in the cards.

Our OS wm 6.5, will more then likely outclass wp7 for sometime, or at least until it (Wp7) can do a fraction of what Wm 6.5 can do currently, and its quite alot.


WR