Mic keeps cutting out upon console startup. Workaround found.

Hi, my name is Marvina and I will be happy to help you.

I'm sorry you have this problem. Follow the instructions below for a solution.

Check the Xbox status page. If there are any services with alerts, expand that service, scroll down to Notifications, and sign in to receive a message when the service is back up and running.
Xbox status
On the taskbar, press and hold the volume icon.

Note you can also right click on the volume icon.
Select Fix sound problems and follow the instructions.

When things don't work as expected, sometimes restarting your device can fix the problem. Press the Home button , select On/Off, and choose Restart.
This is not always the most convenient solution, but sometimes it is the simplest. Make sure all ports are firmly connected when reconnecting devices.

Make sure Windows has permission to use your audio device by going to your privacy settings. For example, to check your microphone privacy settings:
Press the Home button , type settings, and select Settings.
Choose Privacy, and under App Permissions, select Microphone.

Make sure Game Bar is activated.
Xbox Game Bar highlighted in the microphone app permissions list.

Note To use many Xbox features in Game Bar, including party chat, you must have the Xbox app for Windows installed and signed in.
Get the Xbox app for Windows
Run a virus scan using Windows Security or software you have installed.

Once all viruses and threats have been removed, restart your computer.
Temporarily disable your security software and try to start or join a group again.

Information source (credits):
https://support.xbox.com/help/frien...re-socialize/troubleshoot-party-audio-windows

I hope I can help you solve it.

Best regards,
Marvina.

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Thank you for your understanding.

Kind regards,



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Microsoft Community

Hi LShipperley,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forums. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today.

We understand the inconvenience caused. As per description, you are having an issue with your microphone while playing on Xbox One S. You are experiencing cutting in and out while you are playing games. Let us check on this together and sort this out to assist your concern.

However, we’d like to know more about it in details so that we can provide a more accurate resolution for you. To start, please provide us information/answer on the following questions:

1. When did the problem start?
   
2. Is it happening on all games that you are playing?
   
3. What Xbox app and Gaming services version? Xbox app > select Profile picture > Settings > About.
   
4. What troubleshooting steps have you done?
   
5. Was this working smoothly before?
   
6. Recent activity or changes made before the issue appeared?
   

Kindly check troubleshooting steps on this link. Troubleshoot the Xbox One Chat Headset | Xbox Support






Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

Sincerely,



Xbox Forum Moderator

Microsoft Community

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this Jarrod
We can try some troubleshooting steps from your side to isolate the issue a bit more.

Are you able to use a completely different headset to test how it goes?
Or if you can, use a different Xbox controller and test with the current headset
Also, please tell me which troubleshooting steps you have done so far to fix this?
In that way I can advise you different things

Found a workaround from this forum. At startup , choose not to load any profile. then start a game. once the game is running, u can then load a gamer profile. working so far for my son. He's able to play fifa14 and titanfall with workaround. will contact
microsoft again to clarify matters.