A530 echos and I am on my second phone- What to do?

Echoes are frequently network (in your case Verizon), not phone, related. Do you hear your voice echoing or is it the person you are talking to? Do the echoes only happen at cetrain times of the day (peak usage times perhaps) or only in certain locations?

 

It's not a matter of good reception or not, I think it is usually caused by too many people connected to a tower at once. For example, on Mother's Day I had echoes on my Verizon phone for the first time ever...and lots of people make calls that day so it is more than likely that the network was overcrowded. Different phones may make a difference, but most likely they will not help if the problem is network related. I notice you say you recently switched from Sprint to Verizon. How long ago? Have you heard echoes the entire time you have been with Verizon? If so, it is most likely that the network in your area is causing the problems and any Verizon phone might give you echoes. Also, try turning your earpiece volume down, as loud earpieces sometimes cause echoes, though usually that results in the person you are talking hearing their own voice because the microphone on the phone is picking up the earpiece speaker.

Since you are on your second phone with echoes, I think your best choices are to take this one back and say it is doing the same thing and exchanging it for a different model or call customer service to report the echoes and ask them to investigate any possible problems with the network in your area. Your other choice would be to just get used to the echoes, though that could be very hard to do!

 

verizon puts devices at all their towers to elimiate echos, these are known to go dead often. if you are getting them in the same area, this is probably the case and you should contact verizon.

 

Its definately a CDMA Verizon issue and not the phone. If anything it got so much better with my A530 compared to my previous Moto T720.

 

its called a sidetone eliminator....

Many cell towers have them now, but on older systems, they are not in use. They solve the following problem...

When you speak on a normal phone(land line), your voice is transmited to your earpiece, as well as the other person's. This is known as full duplex. This causes problems on a cellphone because there is a short delay in the signal as it is digitized and transmited to your ear. so you hear your voice at your phone, and then you hear it again after it has been transmited to the land line system.

I think there may be a good article on this at "howstuffworks.com"