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Posted By Peter Bentley
I've now got an iPhone 4 and tested my app iStethoscope Pro with the new device. The good news is that it works fine and the microphone may be more sensitive, so it may be even easier to hear your heartbeat with the new device. The bad news is that the frequency response of the iPhone 4 microphone appears to be slightly different to that of the iPhone 3G, so there is less detail at the very low frequencies and more noise at higher frequencies. Do please note that the location of the microphone is different in the iPhone 4 - it is on the bottom left, not on the bottom right!

Because the iPhone 4 has a different microphone and casing, it is necessary to modify the audio filter settings in order to hear the clearest heart sounds. My suggestion is:

Use Heartbeat pure mode and in the Audio Settings change to

Alpha value (default 150) = 125

Amplification (default 0.25) = 1

In General, scroll down and change Spectrogram scaling to

Heartbeat pure (default 0.5) = 0.3

As usual you can find the detailed help pages here and here. If you have your own suggestions for settings for the iPhone 4, leave a comment here. Otherwise if you have any problems, please leave your comments on the main support page as usual.


 
10 Comment(s):
Peter Bentley said...
William, try double-clicking on the home button and quitting the program; if that doesn't work just turn the phone off and on again. I've never heard of this on an iphone 4 before - can you tell me exactly what you saw when it happened?
September 4, 2010 23:39:15
 
William Bass said...
I also have red banner at top of my iPhone 4 I can not get rid of.
September 4, 2010 22:40:21
 
Peter Bentley said...
Hi Steve and Annette. Steve - we're limited by the hardware and low-level audio management of the iphone 4 and so currently the best you can do is update the filter settings, as I suggest in this post. Annette - sounds to me like you're using the white earphones, which have a built-in microphone. If you want to use the microphone at the bottom, use headphones. See the new video with the confused smiley!
September 4, 2010 18:57:41
 
Annette said...
Hello, The first time i tried it with my iPhone 4 it worked just fine. But now i can only use the microphone on my handsfree, the mic on the phone does not seem to work anymore. My phone workes just fine when i use it to phonecalls. What can i do to make it worke again? Annette
September 4, 2010 11:58:03
 
Steve said...
Is there anyway to get better mic pickup on an iPhone 4? The top mic interferes with the sound and washes out the bottom pickup when you have headphones on thank you
September 4, 2010 07:35:32
 
Peter Bentley said...
Hi Debbie, sometimes (very rarely!) Apple's audio routines misbehave in firmware 4 on the iphone 3G, resulting in this effect - the audio does not shut down normally. You need to restart the phone and it will be fine again.
September 2, 2010 09:20:34
 
Debbie said...
I have a red pulsating alert the top of my iphone4 even though I have deleted the istethpro application. How can I remove this? Please help.
September 1, 2010 18:41:14
 
Debbie said...
I have a red pulsating skeeter the top of my iphone4 even though I have deleted the istethpro application. How can I remove this? Please help.
September 1, 2010 18:26:22
 
M Wong said...
Gh Pod
September 1, 2010 14:34:37
 
Victor Lopez-Cepero said...
Im tryng looks good
September 1, 2010 00:28:33
 
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