[Q] bravia engine - Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

does the bravia engine only activate when you are browsing the gallery?

No, it's activate all the time
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No, it's activate all the time
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how come i hear ppl say that braiva engine is not compatible with the ics gallery?

I think it's active in the Xperia Gallery and media player. Other than that, I'm not sure but I don't think it's active all the time.

Bravia Engine improves photo and video quality ONLY in stock Gallery app and when viewing videos with the stock video player.
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so leaving it on wont drain extra battery?

There's hardly (if any) a negative effect on battery life. There's no harm in leaving it on.

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Power amp

Hey,
Anyone use power amp for music? What's the best settings for max volume but no distortion? i listen to mostly rock and pop
Thanks
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I do not think that there will ever be one perfect setting regardless to the genre of music you listen to. Your best bet is to use the presets and tweak from there.
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never used it, never will probably
The iphone 4 always sounds more whole if that makes sense? Perhaps its best using the stock player? Lol
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PowerAmp has been the best music player I've seen and used on a phone till date...
Just did a back to back comparison with the stock player and I have to admit the stock player sounds better to me.
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Just upgraded to paid version, sorry if this was covered but how do you get lyric support? I see a greyed out button in info when you longpress a track.
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PowerAmp has been the best music player I've seen and used on a phone till date...
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+1 and by a great margin as well.
Dont think lyrics are available yet itll be in an update.
Poweramp + audioboost is a great combination!
What preset do you guys use?
I tweak the equalizer to suite my ears.
I am trying to buy it myself but market restrictions suck. Is there any other way to purchase?
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Guitarfreak26 said:
Dont think lyrics are available yet itll be in an update.
Poweramp + audioboost is a great combination!
What preset do you guys use?
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Thanks, that should be nice additional feature.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
is there any other way than the market to buy???

Video recording improvement?

Just a query, now we have the camera libraries, is it possible that they could be edited to reduce the compression in video recording? Could the bitrate be upped to give better video?
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With libralies you cant do NOTHING.
It just to make easy for devs to port it in their rom.
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Ah ok. In that case, is there anything possible to improve bitrate?
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How do you mean?
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One of the main issues with the video recording on the arc etc is it records in low bitrate. If we can increase the bitrate we can improve the video.
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Try igCamera or igCameraPro - you can set the video quality - i use 8 mbit (1280x720) on Arc S
Just had a look, I got the free one, limited to 640*480, but the paid version doesn't show in the market. Might be because of the rom I'm using
Ill try another rom and have a look, thanks!
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Yeah, the pay version is called igCameraPro - had to search for it manually.
But I'm not sure if 1280x720 requires Arc S hardware. Not sure the Free version has limitation in that regard.
Found it. Got 1280*720 30fps at 20Mb working fine! Have to drop the sound quality for it to work though. Setting sound to stereo causes the framerate to go crazy.
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sidneylopsides said:
Found it. Got 1280*720 30fps at 20Mb working fine! Have to drop the sound quality for it to work though. Setting sound to stereo causes the framerate to go crazy.
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Cool. Stereo shouldn't matter since Arc/S doesn't have stereo mic anyway.
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Cool. Stereo shouldn't matter since Arc/S doesn't have stereo mic anyway.
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The Arc has the capabilities to record in stereo.
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_arc-review-584p8.php
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Yeah, it gas two mics, stereo audio in video was added in one of the updates.
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[Q] dsp manager vs. sony xloud

Which one is better and why?
Or will both benefit in unique ways?
Power amp. Give it a shot. Best player sound i have found.
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when I had my vibrant I was using poweramp.
Now, with the S2, I removed the stock music player.
And use ubermusic player combined with the equalizer app.
Personally I have no interest in XLoud or Beats.
DSP Manager is perfect, light weight, and easily surpasses the two in functionality. It just needs to be configured right.
Numerous threads state that these two are a placebo / more of a gimmick. From personal use I have to agree. A waste of resources.
BRAVIA engine however is quite a different story
I like player pro, it's pure and no changes to the sound.
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yaldak said:
Personally I have no interest in XLoud or Beats.
DSP Manager is perfect, light weight, and easily surpasses the two in functionality. It just needs to be configured right.
Numerous threads state that these two are a placebo / more of a gimmick. From personal use I have to agree. A waste of resources.
BRAVIA engine however is quite a different story
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Thanks. But I was more concerned with speaker volume and speaker quality and not equalizer stuff or headphone quality. I heard xloud tries to prevent the speakers from sounding tinny but rather more fuller and louder. DSP achieve the same and more is what you are saying?
Does BRAVIA engine makes the video quality look better or the video to perform better (less choppiness or shutter)?
Power amp has it's own dsp
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If anyone had any info on why dsp manager is not working at all please give me a response, to me it's a funny app.
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If anyone had any info on why dsp manager is not working at all please give me a response, to me it's a funny app.
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Works on roms that it was properly integrated into.
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Weight roms are those?
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Weight roms are those?
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cm7
h1a8 said:
Which one is better and why?
Or will both benefit in unique ways?
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I use both plus power amp ans ita godly xbeats fixs dsp and powe amps effects to sound sexy use one of m&s roms his dsp manager works perfectly and I recommend room virtulization it will blow your mind.
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cm7
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Tuesday & Paradox
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Weight roms are those?
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Im guessing if it has xloud cooked in dsp will work so read the description on a few roms and test it out. Tuesday is a beast in the audio department
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Tuesday & Paradox
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sorry i forgot! dsp manager and player pro make my $20headphones sound pretty good
T989 on CM7_373R2
Dsp manager sounds alot cleaner...player pro also has a dsp pack but dsp nanager cleans up sound better than bravia and x loud

[Q] Is there any mods to improve video quality?

Just like on the pc with VLC, you could improve the visual quality either changing contrast/saturation/sharpening the video. Since there is that program on the phone, is there a mod that could improve the quality of videos on the S3.
I've been hearing something along the lines of a "Bravia Engine" but I don't know about that. So what can I do to improve or sharpen my videos?
I assuming there isn't, it would be nice to get that video a bit more sharp. When I say video I mean video played on a video player, not recording videos.
I use Mx player pro and love it.
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Bravia Engine is a rendering tweak that is normally on Sony phones but can be included on most others. It increases the color quality of the picture and sharpness. Its a small improvement but it's an improvement nonetheless.
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TheLastSidekick said:
Bravia Engine is a rendering tweak that is normally on Sony phones but can be included on most others. It increases the color quality of the picture and sharpness. Its a small improvement but it's an improvement nonetheless.
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I wouldn't try it, I tried to flash and started to have weird issues with things like the ffc not turning off for the keep awake feature and some motion features not working. If you want to try it, you can install it through pimp my rom.
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Xperia Ion very bad camera quality

Hi... Just bought xperia Ion (no LTE) and one of the main reason I selected it is for the camera resolution.... but with big surprise I'm just noticing that pictures are very bad... lot of noise!
Additionally the camera focus is extremely slow!.... Did anyone experience the same?... I'm on last official firmware. Maybe some mod is available.....
Any help is really appreciated....
Set ISO setting to 800
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You can install Lovins mod. He port Xperia V camera with additional tweaks. I am using it on my SXS, focus and photo quality is much better than stock(.55)
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Thanks guys... I will try both suggestions....:good:
i am experiencing everything same as you. sony 2012 phone cameras are all sh*t cameras.
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i am experiencing everything same as you. sony 2012 phone cameras are all sh*t cameras.
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Lol? Sony made the best camera in 2012. Stop challenging them and sell Sony phone if you don't like it.
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Well I have myself a brand new Xperia ZL.. n yes the quality of the camera sucks, a lot of noise n the shutter lag is kiling me
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Well I have myself a brand new Xperia ZL.. n yes the quality of the camera sucks, a lot of noise n the shutter lag is kiling me
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So, why you don't show us this photos? I want see this "very bad" quality.
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Vaith said:
Lol? Sony made the best camera in 2012. Stop challenging them and sell Sony phone if you don't like it.
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Believe me....I had Xperia Arc and photos were much better...I also have Nokia N8 and pictures are just amazing! I like Xperia ION, but unless my camera has hw issues, the photos are simply very low level ones!...What is really disappointing me (along with the Jpeg noise) is the extremely slow focus during camera recording as well...also not available the touch focus!.....Anyway I m going to try the mod you suggested.....
Just quick updating: I installed the camera mod and did some tests. In outdoor light condition autofocus is very quick and pictures are great! Indoor light condition (morning not night), camera focus seems slightly more responsive if physical picture button is used, but autofocus becomes very slow and 30% of the pictures are out of focus. I will continue in playing with setting but I have doubt I could get good behavior in indoor condition!...Anyway, reading in the network, the very slow focus problem is well known issue! (((
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Well I have myself a brand new Xperia ZL.. n yes the quality of the camera sucks, a lot of noise n the shutter lag is kiling me
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This should be software problem
Sony is not good at modifying CameraUI:silly:
Sad but true, my ion cant take pictures as good as my n8. Auto modes dont help much either. I noticed that while taking a few videos on low light using yhe different modes, camera just wont focus when zooming in. I had to tweak some settings( set focus to infinite) to get the image to focus correctly( running xzxperience by the way). Tweaking the settings manually definitelt improves results though. I expected a bit more from sony? Guess I wont be selling my N8 any time soon.
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The camera sucks when u take photos from places there are Yellow light, warm light for example in your house. this photos lose quality, but if u use the video cam from those places, u will notice lot of noise..
I have that problem , my cam works 100% in places there are lightday for example in the street, if u take a photo there, the pic will have a nice quality and if u use the videocam u wont see noise.
I think that this problem is software.. i have xperia ion ics version 6.1.c.1.111, but when i had the version 6.1.c.1.105 the camera worked much better
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You can install Lovins mod. He port Xperia V camera with additional tweaks.
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Where is Lovins mod?

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