cinny/ELEMENT_CALL_TEST_CHECKLIST.md

# Voice/Video Call — Testing Checklist 🎧

Thanks for helping test! We just upgraded the voice/video call system. Please run
through the checks below and tell us what happened.

**What you need:**

- 2 people (you + a friend), each on their own device, in the same call. A few
  checks need one of you to have a **camera** and to **share your screen**.
- About 15–20 minutes.

**How to report:** for each item just say ✅ (worked) or ❌ (didn't), and for any
❌ tell us what you saw. If something looks broken, a screenshot helps a lot.

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## ⭐ Most important — please do these first

### 1. Your microphone keeps working after a connection hiccup

This is the biggest thing we changed, so test it carefully.

1. Join a call with your friend and talk for a few seconds (make sure they hear you).
2. Now **turn off your WiFi / internet for about 10 seconds**, then turn it back on.
   (The call will show a "Connection lost / reconnecting" message — that's expected.)
3. Once it reconnects, **start talking again.**

- ✅ **Good if:** your friend can still hear you normally after it reconnects, without
  you having to leave and rejoin the call.
- ❌ **Tell us if:** your friend can't hear you after reconnecting, or your voice
  sounds broken/robotic/muffled, until you leave and rejoin.

### 2. Microphone quality / noise removal sounds normal

1. In a call, just talk normally for a bit.
2. If there's background noise (fan, typing, TV), notice whether it's reduced.

- ✅ **Good if:** your voice is clear and there's no silence, echo, or robotic warble.
- ❌ **Tell us if:** there are dropouts, echo, a "underwater"/metallic sound, or your
  mic is silent even though you're talking.

### 3. Switching your microphone mid-call

1. While in a call, open call **Settings** and change your microphone to a
   different one (e.g. headset ↔ built-in), then back.
2. Talk after each switch.

- ✅ **Good if:** your friend keeps hearing you after each switch.
- ❌ **Tell us if:** your audio cuts out or doesn't come back after switching.

### 4. All the call buttons still work

Go down the call control bar and tap each one, checking it actually does the thing:

- [ ] **Mute / unmute mic** (icon changes AND your friend stops/starts hearing you)
- [ ] **Camera on / off**
- [ ] **Deafen / sound** toggle (you stop/start hearing others)
- [ ] **Share screen** start and stop (including the "Share your screen?" prompt)
- [ ] **Full screen** on and off
- [ ] **"More" (⋮) menu** → the **Reactions**, **Settings**, and **Grid/Spotlight**
      options each open the right thing
- [ ] **Leave / End call** — leaves cleanly

- ❌ **Tell us if:** any button does nothing when you tap it (tell us which one).

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## 👀 Please also check these

### 5. The "who's talking" highlight points at the right person

1. In a call, have your friend talk, then you talk.

- ✅ **Good if:** the highlight / glow appears around the person who is actually
  talking (and the right person, not someone else).
- ❌ **Tell us if:** the wrong person lights up, or nobody lights up when talking.

### 6. Mute badges show on the right person

1. Have your friend mute their mic.

- ✅ **Good if:** any "muted" indicator shows next to the person who is muted.
- ❌ **Tell us if:** it shows on the wrong person or doesn't update.

### 7. Focus a camera while someone is sharing their screen

_(Needs: one person sharing screen, another with camera on.)_

1. Person A **shares their screen.**
2. Person B turns their **camera on.**
3. Use the **"Focus camera"** option (from a participant's menu) on Person B.

- ✅ **Good if:** Person B's camera becomes the highlighted/spotlighted view
  **alongside or over** the shared screen.
- ❌ **Tell us if:** nothing happens, or it throws you out of the screen share, or
  you get an error.

### 8. Avatar decorations show on call tiles

_(Needs: someone in the call has an avatar decoration set in Settings → Profile.)_

1. Have a person with a **profile decoration** join with their **camera off** (so
   their avatar/picture shows instead of video).

- ✅ **Good if:** their decoration (the frame/ring/effect around their picture)
  shows on their tile **inside the call**, like it does elsewhere in the app.
- ❌ **Tell us if:** the decoration is missing, cut off, or in the wrong place.

### 9. The call screen looks right

1. Just look at the overall call screen.

- ✅ **Good if:** backgrounds, colors, and layout look normal — nothing is a weird
  black box, see-through in a bad way, or overlapping.
- ❌ **Tell us if:** anything looks visually broken or out of place.

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## 🙏 Thank you!

If a call ever sounds bad for **everyone** (not just you), let us know right away —
that's the one we most want to hear about quickly, and we can switch back fast.