Please, no VOIP, no Google Phone, no "Get a different phone" solutions. I want to be able to connect my existing Alcatel Pixi Theater (model DALW5004) cell phone to my PC in a way that lets me use the PC's microphone and speakers instead of the phone's microphone and speaker.
There's a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top of the phone that handles an actual mic-equipped headset just fine.
Surely I can run that to my PC's audio input/output ports somehow and use the much nicer (and much more adjustable and much louder) audio environment of the PC than the somewhat too-quiet one of the phone.
Yes, apps that make things louder. BTDTDW (been there, done that, didn't work).
Yes, a phone headset, BTDTDW.
I refuse to believe that something that outputs to a headset and accepts input from a headset can't send those outputs and accept those inputs from a PC's audio ports in a way that can't be usefully processed.
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming-3 Rev. 1 Motherboard.
It feels as if it might be as simple as putting a splitter on the 3.5 mm line out of the phone and plugging the mic and speaker parts into the speaker and mic parts of the PC, but I'm not confident enough about that to risk damaging my phone (If I could afford to replace the phone, I wouldn't be making this post).
There's a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top of the phone that handles an actual mic-equipped headset just fine.
Surely I can run that to my PC's audio input/output ports somehow and use the much nicer (and much more adjustable and much louder) audio environment of the PC than the somewhat too-quiet one of the phone.
Yes, apps that make things louder. BTDTDW (been there, done that, didn't work).
Yes, a phone headset, BTDTDW.
I refuse to believe that something that outputs to a headset and accepts input from a headset can't send those outputs and accept those inputs from a PC's audio ports in a way that can't be usefully processed.
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming-3 Rev. 1 Motherboard.
It feels as if it might be as simple as putting a splitter on the 3.5 mm line out of the phone and plugging the mic and speaker parts into the speaker and mic parts of the PC, but I'm not confident enough about that to risk damaging my phone (If I could afford to replace the phone, I wouldn't be making this post).