PUBG Mobile destroys microphone on AirPods?

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PUBG Mobile destroys microphone on AirPods?

Some time ago I bought AirPods.

I was using them for a few months.

Then I decided to try them to play PUBG Mobile (before this I was playing with wired EarPods).

After a few times of playing PUBG, microphone stoped working right during the match - after that moment my teammates couldn’t hear me anymore. So I had to switch back to EarPods.

At first, I didn’t understand what happened, thinking that this was another PUBG bug with team communication.

Later on I had a phone call with my AirPods on. And the caller didn’t hear me. Like not when you’re having a bad reception/signal, but he didn’t hear me at all.

That freaked me out a bit.

Right after the call I opened Voice Memos to check the microphone. And all I could hear in the recordings was a faint noise and no signs of actual voice.

I tried other apps for voice recording and the result was the same.

I tried Siri and voice dictation in a keyboard and it didn’t work either.

I tried and connected my AirPods to my friend’s iPhone - microphone didn’t work with it either.

I also tried to reset - all the same.

Mic was obviously dead.

I went to a store where I bought them, and they replaced AirPods with the new ones due to warranty.

I began using my new AirPods, and not having them for gaming.

After a few months I had thoughts that maybe it was a coincidence that microphone died during the game and it’s actually safe to play PUBG using AirPods.

So I started playing PUBG Mobile with AirPods.

And after a few games microphone died right during the PUBG match again!

I was so ****** off.

I can’t replace them this time, because vendor said that warranty doesn’t cover replaced products.

Now I have AirPods which I can’t use for phone calls, voice dictations, Siri.

Probably PUBG has a bad software that burns out hardware of the microphone on AirPods (maybe due to heavy overloading or there are other reasons for that, I don’t know).

Or AirPods have a bad software/hardware in the first place which lead to that cause and it’s not really PUBG fault, although it did damage mic.

So what is it - poor AirPods engineering or poor PUBG engineering?

Whose fault is it?

iPad Air 2, iOS 13

Posted on Dec 9, 2019 8:07 AM

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michael_rh Author

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Dec 10, 2019 8:43 AM in response to QuickPost

Well, both times microphone died right during playing the game.

It is hardly a coincidence.

Especially considering the fact that I rarely played PUBG Mobile with AirPods.

Maybe it is software of AirPods that has been damaged by software of PUBG Mobile.

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The fact that no one else complained about this here maybe because people haven’t noticed the actual connection between malfunctioning mic and events that caused it.

They must just accept the fact of the dead mic on their AirPods and did nothing about it, because most people just don’t care about things and too lazy to dig into the nature of things/events.

This what majority of people is - they don’t care.

Plus, many people don’t know about this community, that you can spread the word here.

Plus, there are actually many posts in this community about not working mic on AirPods.

Just search for “AirPods mic”.

My guess is that people just don’t know what events exactly caused it.

So, this piece of AirPods is in fact poorly engineered since there are so many posts about malfunctioning mic.

And in some cases it also could be a bad app software that’s damaging this poorly made mic.

Because my microphones have died during the same game two times in a row - this is not a coincidence.

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Dec 10, 2019 8:46 AM in response to michael_rh

michael_rh wrote:

So, this piece of AirPods is in fact poorly engineered since there are so many posts about malfunctioning mic.

And in some cases it also could be a bad app software that’s damaging this poorly made mic.

Because my microphones have died during the same game two times in a row - this is not a coincidence.

It's far more likely that it's a coincidence. As noted above, there's really no way a game could cause the AirPods to stop working. What did Apple say when you had them evaluate the AirPods?

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QuickPost

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Dec 9, 2019 10:50 AM in response to michael_rh

Hello,

No one else on here has reported this type of problem. I would have a hard time believing that an application would have such a negative impact on a piece of hardware. AirPods are also not poorly engineered and I would have a hard time believing that software could affect them. It sounds like something else may be the culprit.

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michael_rh Author

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Dec 10, 2019 9:28 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

IdrisSeabright wrote:

What did Apple say when you had them evaluate the AirPods?

I wish I knew.

I live in a third world country, and there are no Apple Stores here.

There’s a couple stores, that sell Apple products which they buy in Dubai, ship them over here and sell.

When I brought to the store my broken AirPods, vendor said he’ll send it back to Dubai to replace it due the warranty.

I waited a month for a new AirPods.

When I claimed my new AirPods I asked vendor what was the problem with old ones and what did Apple said. He couldn’t answer because he didn’t know everything.

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If not the game caused it, what then?

I simply don’t believe that two times in a row broken mic during the same game is a coincidence.

You see, I was using AirPods all day long almost everyday for several months. And everything was ok.

And then I started playing PUBG, rarely, once in a few evenings. And mics on both pairs of AirPods didn’t die at some other time but during this game.

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Dec 24, 2019 11:54 AM in response to QuickPost

Well, I believe this has to do with iOS and PUBG can’t understand which mic to switch to.. hence, so mic wont work with pubg after playing some time.. happens with me everytime, so then i plug earpods and unplug while in game with airpods so they switch back to my airpods and then my mic starts to work! but jst for few minutes.

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PUBG Mobile destroys microphone on AirPods?

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