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Thanks!

Yeah and stretching the components out to cut-out any RFI from proximity unfortunately didn't change the results. Trying my 3rd android phone now. It would be great to recycle these old phones into something useful! But I am starting to lean towards trying a raspberry pi knock-off next for a more stable gateway. For cleaning up the phone, I used "Minimal ADB and Fastboot". https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tool-minimal-adb-and-fastboot-2-9-18.2317790/ It allows you to clean out bloatware, tweak it, and debug android devices. It is command-line based, but not too complicated.

I am currently trying to setup a Zello link. I have tried repeater controllers, but I am having the most luck with a ground loop isolator connecting my android device to the radio. I really want to use old android phones because they are cheap, small, and I want to make a few Zello boxes. I can receive and transmit to Zello via the UV-5R when I first turn them on. But after a little usage I can no longer get the radio to broadcast the audio from Zello. The input from the radio to Zello seems to be more stable, and I can generally hear radio audio over Zello. I have checked the android phone settings and disabled power saving for Zello, gave it full permissions, and have Zello set to always be on top. If anyone has any suggestions/advice, I sure would be grateful! Could there be some sort of buffering issue? I am all out of ideas. Thank you, Matt WRWI208