So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.
Not really; low pressure mic trying to to record high pressure audio created by a speaker which then travels through air. Sorry.
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I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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radrian92 said:
I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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Hmm interesting, I had my headphones in my pocket too. I'll have to try that next time.
I have never had a phone that could record quality audio at a concert regardless of the operating system. I havent heard of the headphone trick but the phone would use that mic instead of the actual device mic so its worth a shot.
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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Wrong post. Haha.
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Wrong post. Haha.
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You didn't happen to go the Art Institute of Pgh did you? i saw you're from PA. I went to AIP with a Chris Choi.
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I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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What's Record Forge? I googled it but nothing came up besides a bunch of results for Forge Records.
Sorry. My bad. It's called RecForge.
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Gotcha...thanks.
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I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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So wait. You can shoot a video and this program will separately record the sound? What happens to the sound from the native video app? I'm confused
EDIT: It does not seem to work. Every time RecForge is recording, the video fails to record immediately.
From everything I've experienced, all native Android sound recording is pretty poor. I have the paid version of Hi-Q MP3 Recorder and I've found it to work quite well. I emailed the dev a few weeks back asking to give options to increase the recording bit rate, and you now have the ability to record up to 320kbps. It'll of course take up more room, but the quality is better. It records straight to mp3 file instead of amr or whatever the stock one uses.
I don't know how well it'll work for concerts though, as that's just a really loud environment!
And if you wanted to get just the audio from any video recording, there's an app called Freecorder (don't know if available for Macs) which takes any audio directly from the sound card of your computer. No background interference or anything like that, right from the card so anything playing through your computer will be recorded. It's great for getting any audio from a video, or a streaming file, though I don't condone stealing
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So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.
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I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?
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I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?
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I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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No, I haven't tried that but my guess is that it would sound pretty muffled. I'm going to try different camera apps next but I'm trying to understand what that "concert mode" does internally in the Droid4. There's an app called "LG Camera" that seems to have some pretty robust settings for the audio. You can potentially change the audio encoder, the samplerate and the bitrate. There's also an option to "enable stereo mode" (if device supports stereo sound recording). Possibly one of those settings could do it?
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I also found this thread which makes me think I'm on to something with the LG Camera app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/mod-hacked-camera-apk-audio-quality-t1104051
I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.
There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
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There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
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You're doing this with your HTC one? You must have a massive butthole....
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I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.
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Has anyone been able to find a WORKING app which records audio from a Bluetooth headset on the Galaxy Nexus?
The ones I've tired force close or can't find the audio source...
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when someone calls your google voice phone number. you can pickup the phone call and press 4 to record the call; this works even if you're speaking on a bluetooth headset.
I don't use Google voice, but rather was looking for something to record memos instead of phone calls.
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Has anyone been able to find a WORKING app which records audio from a Bluetooth headset on the Galaxy Nexus?
The ones I've tired force close or can't find the audio source...
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Which ones have you tried? There are a LOT of voice recording apps out there!
One example
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Which ones have you tried? There are a LOT of voice recording apps out there!
One example
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I've tried the ones which explicitly say they record Bluetooth audio, but none of them work. Regular recording apps will always pick the mic off the phone, which isn't what I'm looking for.
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Thats not actually true from my experiences. By connecting a bluetooth headset it should 'hijack' the speaker and microphone and use your bluetooth one by default.
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Thats not actually true from my experiences. By connecting a bluetooth headset it should 'hijack' the speaker and microphone and use your bluetooth one by default.
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With the app you posted, using a galaxy Nexus?
I'll give it a try.
EDIT: that didn't work at all. It records only from the built in mic.
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With the app you posted, using a galaxy Nexus?
I'll give it a try.
EDIT: that didn't work at all. It records only from the built in mic.
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this is true of the sg2 on various roms i think its pretty damning that a smart phone cant record phone calls really makes android look like a pile o rubbish. i have tried alot to get call recording on a bluetooth headset and nothing works. once after loading about 20 apps on an old ics rr rom it started working litrally by magic so i know it is possible to work but no one seems to care or managed to do it which is deffinetly very pathetic quite fankly. concidering i can watch two channels of live tv while down loading a film using my phone as router over 3g etc all at the same time its amazing but i cant record a phone call ffs.
Its now 2015, has anyone had any luck with this or found and app in the store that actually works. Cheers
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Its now 2015, has anyone had any luck with this or found and app in the store that actually works. Cheers
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I found one!!
There's an app called Boldbeast call recorder that has worked with Bluetooth on my Note 4: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boldbeast.recorder&hl=en
The good is that it works (on the note 4), the bad is that this app is $11 (free version without auto-record is available), but it works and it saves me from having to waste more time looking for a solution. :good:
I DO NOT KNOW if this works on the Galaxy Nexus, for whoever still owns that phone.
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I found one!!
There's an app called Boldbeast call recorder that has worked with Bluetooth on my Note 4: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boldbeast.recorder&hl=en
The good is that it works (on the note 4), the bad is that this app is $11 (free version without auto-record is available), but it works and it saves me from having to waste more time looking for a solution. :good:
I DO NOT KNOW if this works on the Galaxy Nexus, for whoever still owns that phone.
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I can confirm that Boldbeast works on my Galaxy S4 (i9500) as well. I had to do a little bit of tweaking (give the app root access, change SELinux to permissive(there's an app on XDA for that)), but I was able to get it to record both ways with a bluetooth headset (Plantronics voyager edge) when I put the Record Mode to "Alsa Mode (Root)" However the volume is a little low, and when I tried to give it a 20% boost in volume in the app settings, the recorded conversation was really really distorted. Turned it back to 0% volume increase, and it's at least not distorting the sound.
I am using a custom ROM (n4/s6 by @alemtro) and kernel (can't remember but as it turns out it's not permissive), and of course it's rooted.
ACR has a far better UI, and does auto call in the free version, but they don't want to play around with SELinux etc because that is against the Play Store terms. So if you don't need BT recording, that's a better app, but like me if you really need BT recording, Boldbeast seems to be the only option (and a good one).
Recently while I listen to music with headphones I get this random extremely loud buzzing sound that scares the crap out of me when I'm listening to music quietly. I haven't really been able to find the exact cause but have noticed that it usually happens when my phone is pulling data such as when I open a website. Seems to happen on Wifi. I use 3 different headphones and it has happened on all of them. Had this happened to anyone else? I'm currently on gummy 0.9.0 with Franco's milestone 2.
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had it on aokp and cm9 but only when streaming music/downloading music and surfing the web (all done over 4G[verizon]) I just figure the phone is freaking out trying to handle it all.
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I was reading up and it might be due to dsp manager. Did you have dsp installed and active on those roms?
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Happens on the first few tracks I attempt to stream (via subsonic) almost every time. I wonder if any android phone will ever catch up to the iphone in music/audio quality/playback.
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Happens on the first few tracks I attempt to stream (via subsonic) almost every time. I wonder if any android phone will ever catch up to the iphone in music/audio quality/playback.
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My trusty Fascinate definitely surpasses the iPod/iPhone in all of that with voodoo sound as well as louder volume.
I notice Volune+ is really noisy when listening to music at low volumes. If I disable it, the noise is gone.
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Happens on the first few tracks I attempt to stream (via subsonic) almost every time. I wonder if any android phone will ever catch up to the iphone in music/audio quality/playback.
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Galaxy S with Voodoo Sound did it
Have you tried enabling high performance audio with a custom kernel like glados/leankernel/franco? It really improved S/N ratio when listening to quiet music.
Give player pro with the dsp pack a shot, its all I run and my phone is my mp3player and I use it through my setup in my car...hard to beat..and I'm an audiophile so I'm crazy picky...you won't be disappointed
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Have you tried enabling high performance audio with a custom kernel like glados/leankernel/franco? It really improved S/N ratio when listening to quiet music.
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I actually disabled that because I thought it might be the issue but it still happened. I ended up disabling DSP manager and the audio often cuts out when I'm pulling data but doesn't make that loud ass noise.
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Give player pro with the dsp pack a shot, its all I run and my phone is my mp3player and I use it through my setup in my car...hard to beat..and I'm an audiophile so I'm crazy picky...you won't be disappointed
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Giving it a shot now. Sounds much better than Google music. Not sure if it will stop the music interruptions but I'll see.
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Well everything so far has been a lie. Using player pro and that loud noise happened twice while I was downloading power amp from the play store. So it can't be DSP manager since I have it frozen with titanium.
Edit: I'm on wifi for the first time today so that could be another culprit. I listened to music for an hour straight earlier over 3G/4G and it hadn't happened at all.
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Well everything so far has been a lie. Using player pro and that loud noise happened twice while I was downloading power amp from the play store. So it can't be DSP manager since I have it frozen with titanium.
Edit: I'm on wifi for the first time today so that could be another culprit. I listened to music for an hour straight earlier over 3G/4G and it hadn't happened at all.
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Sorry man, I'm not sure, are your cables all good..any shorts or anything?
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Bringing this back into the light as it is still an issue. I flashed BAMF earlier today after getting fed up with the Noise problem and found that it still exists. back on CM9 if I switch the number of background processes to one (under developer options) I was unable to recreate it. So it seems to be a memory issue. For those that haven't heard the problem, plug in some headphone or an AUX cable into your stereo start playing some music, open some apps, then go to the browser and surf. When a page is loading Scroll around really fast and zoom in and out a lot. Load pages back to back try a few different pages and its bound to happen. Try image heavy pages.
Hi, I've been following this thread and decided to add to the muddle.
I bought an inexpensive portable stereo dock for my Incredible 2, made by Auvio, and got a subscription to Slacker so I could stream music while I worked (I'm a massage therapist).
It uses a short coaxial cable terminated in a 2.5mm stereo plug to connect to my phone, and sounds pretty good for only having 1" diameter speakers. It worked well with my Incredible 2.
Two weeks later I find out Verizon is going to take away my "unlimited" data plan unless I upgrade to 4G, so I got my Galaxy Nexus.
Now when I try to use the GN with my dock, I keep hearing data noise in the speakers as the app grabs & buffers the music. This didn't happen with the Dinc2.
If I move the phone or touch the cable, it reduces, but doesn't eliminate the noise. It does not happen with headphones or the GN's speaker.
Does anyone think this could be related to the issues discussed here? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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This happens to me also when my phone is in heavy use or anything that makes the CPU run high.
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Also want to add I has this problem today on CM9 latest nightly and on BlackIce and PCBAOKP
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Recently while I listen to music with headphones I get this random extremely loud buzzing sound that scares the crap out of me when I'm listening to music quietly. I haven't really been able to find the exact cause but have noticed that it usually happens when my phone is pulling data such as when I open a website. Seems to happen on Wifi. I use 3 different headphones and it has happened on all of them. Had this happened to anyone else? I'm currently on gummy 0.9.0 with Franco's milestone 2.
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old post quoting here
But this reminds me of the exact noises i hear when using ondemand governor with parameters tweaked , it caused the cpu to apparently change frequencies too many times in to short a time span....it was like a loud buzz/crazy reverb type sound.
Hasn't happened once when using interactive
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old post quoting here
But this reminds me of the exact noises i hear when using ondemand governor with parameters tweaked , it caused the cpu to apparently change frequencies too many times in to short a time span....it was like a loud buzz/crazy reverb type sound.
Hasn't happened once when using interactive
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I've had it with both interactive and conservative . I'm currently on the linaro aokp 38 build and I've not had it happen yet (flashed the linaro update today). Before I flashed the linaro update I was on normal aokp 38 and had the problem. A little more testing needs to be done but maybe the linaro tweeks are cause a little more stability in the memory .
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Seems like the problem is that, while the music is playing "in any app" its not being givin "High Priority" over the apps in the background or foreground. For example, if you jump to the browser and load a page that requires a large amount of CPU usage, the will cause the CPU to make the music app audio lag which might be the loud screech noise as a result when the music app looses priority.
While music is playing it should have higher priority so the phone doesnt lag the audio if that makes sense.
Thats my guess on whats going on, because it only happens when my phone is multi tasking or taking on CPU load in another app.
Like I also said previously it has happen to me so far on CM9 nightly with that kernal that came with it, and also on blackice and the kernal that came with black ice. also had the problem with the Samurai kernal.
I know there are ways to turn up in-call volumes and such using codes. Are there any codes to turn down the microphone input for video recording? I took some awesome, clear video at a Two Door Cinema Club concert on Friday but the audio is really bad. It's way over-modulated. My friend with an iPhone 4s took some video that wasn't as good as mine but his audio was pretty good.
I searched for a half hour and gave up. It sounded like voodoo sound could do it but there's no s3 compatability. DSP manager from cm might work?
Sorry, this may sound vague, but I only vaguely remember about this!
There was a mod I saw maybe 6-8 weeks ago that was for audio on sgs3. It mentioned some files in (I think) /system/etc/. Maybe if you search audio mods or something similar you will find it and can use the info to make your own adjustments.
Sorry I cant say more but im bout to have to go for a while and wanted to at least give you something to search on.
Or maybe someone remembers more specifically?
If not ill look later.
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It looks like this has been a problem for a few years..... I searched even more and now I'm annoyed something so simple isn't available in video recorders. I tried at least 5 camera apps.
If you want to record separately Recforge has +/- 20db.
Possible solution
m4r10 said:
I know there are ways to turn up in-call volumes and such using codes. Are there any codes to turn down the microphone input for video recording? I took some awesome, clear video at a Two Door Cinema Club concert on Friday but the audio is really bad. It's way over-modulated. My friend with an iPhone 4s took some video that wasn't as good as mine but his audio was pretty good.
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Check out my Post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32970562#post32970562
I was able to fix some audio problems. An external mic is always an option too! if you can find an android headset with a good microphone, the audio will be directed to that Microphone instead.
Any new findings on this? The link in the post above is a bad thread...
Sad we had to fix this problem with the S1 yet here we are with the same issue with the S3... I dunno if its as bad or not but its def not GOOD! I may have to grab the ole galaxy S1 with voodoo sound just to record a video..
hi guys,
I was wondering if you guys who allready got the G3, could test the audio recirding quality,
what I mean is, G2 has a problem with noise cancelation microphone, and very often (allways) video recording sounds distorted, like underwater, cutouts, blanks, etc etc. '
is that problem still persistent with the G3, as the camera module is the same, so nto sure if they used the same microphones as well..?
please get back to me with this, I know that the majority of users wont notice this while playing recording on a cell phone, but when you play ot on a tv or laptop, the issues is very very big
seriously, no one has G3?
The audio recording in my opinion is great.
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There is another thread on here somewhere with regards to this, sorry I don't have the link.
I haven't tested it yet myself, waiting for an opportunity to be in a loud club or something to give it a whirl.
Also search YouTube there may be some videos on there by now.
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Hi everyone! I've just developed an app that should fix the issue of the DAC only being usable in some apps.
Now the ESS DAC/AMP can be used in any app on your phone, including Google Play Music, YouTube, Spotify, and probably many more that I haven't tested yet.
Here's the Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phascinate.lgv10.dacfix
It can be set to automatically turn on when the phone boots up. My goal was to make this a "set it and forget it" kind of fix. All you have to do is enable it once, and it should be fixed for good. Of course, I've only just released it so it may have some bugs. But so far it's working fine on my end.
If you have any issues or it's not working correctly, feel free to tell me here! Hope it works for you guys! I'm really loving the sound quality on this phone.
doing back up now so I can try this, very exciting news if this works
Seems like it's working in Neutron amp which has been my pain point ever since buying the phone.
Thanks!
*tested with youtube and DI.fm both seem working with the DAC with the fix
wow big deal, thanks
Tested with YouTube and XiiaLive Pro and the volume definitely changes when toggling the hifi option on and off.
It is working on Poweramp. Thanks.
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Interesting... Can the developer tell us a little more about how this works? I really didn't think it would be as simple as an app like this making it work.
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Interesting... Can the developer tell us a little more about how this works? I really didn't think it would be as simple as an app like this making it work.
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The concept is actually quite simple! Immediately when music starts playing, it plays some completely (and I mean completely! We don't want any background noise, do we?) silent media which tricks the phone into turning the DAC on.
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The concept is actually quite simple! Immediately when music starts playing, it plays some completely (and I mean completely! We don't want any background noise, do we?) silent media which tricks the phone into turning the DAC on.
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Assuming things were bit perfect to begin with, will the signal still be bit perfect?
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Assuming things were bit perfect to begin with, will the signal still be bit perfect?
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In theory, it should be. Because it's set to be silent, Android should simply completely skip over the silent media. In my own testing it doesn't seem to have had any negative effect whatsoever on sound quality. Though I'd love to see the frequency output in something like Audacity if anyone wants to test it.
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In theory, it should be. Because it's set to be silent, Android should simply completely skip over the silent media. In my own testing it doesn't seem to have had any negarive effect whatsoever on sound quality. Though I'd love to see the frequency output in something like Audacity if anyone wants to test it.
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Alrighty. Right now I'm on my lunch break at work listening with a Brainwavz HM5. Things seem good here, but I'll test tonight with my AKG Q701.
I really only use the stock music app and TIDAL which both worked without your fix, but I'll test everything out more tonight. My only concern would be a possible negative effect with apps that already worked fine, for example a silent track playing along with the regular music making things possibly no longer bit perfect, or extra battery drain for some odd reason. I'll test sound quality with my Q701 tonight and see if I notice any extra battery drain. All I can confirm at the moment is that toggling hifi on and off definitely changed the volume with apps that it didn't before.
Good work.
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Alrighty. Right now I'm on my lunch break at work listening with a Brainwavz HM5. Things seem good here, but I'll test tonight with my AKG Q701.
I really only use the stock music app and TIDAL which both worked without your fix, but I'll test everything out more tonight. My only concern would be a possible negative effect with apps that already worked fine, for example a silent track playing along with the regular music making things possibly no longer bit perfect, or extra battery drain for some odd reason. I'll test sound quality with my Q701 tonight and see if I notice any extra battery drain. All I can confirm at the moment is that toggling hifi on and off definitely changed the volume with apps that it didn't before.
Good work.
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Yeah, that was my concern too. But everything seems to be working fine.
Feel free to post your results with the Q701's as soon as you test them!
Good job, works as intended. Thanks.
Few suggestions: Show status of app running in background from top pull down menu. Also the ability to enable disable from there. Otherwise still 5 out 5. :thumbup:
man you are a genious and this is the best ever app i appreciated this year
Does this app need root permission?
Edit: nvm. Just installed and gonna test..
Thanks for the effort mate. I'll also give it a try though as a non-audiophile person, I fail to notice Hi-Fi DAC effect anyway.
for those who can distinguish the difference between DAC enabled/disabled, can you tell that's even distinguishable with the QuadBeat headphones? I'm trying with some FLAC and various music players but other than then "higher volume" I cannot notice an improvement sound wise.
I do try with the QuadBeat and Bose QC25. I also just purchased a Piston 3. Do you think it's my headphones who are not enough to make a difference?
Can you maybe recommend a song where you can clearly distinguish the performance between DAC enabled or disabled?
Amazing app, thank you very much.
Now I challenge you to check the other audio limitation of the phone.
The normal and high gain mode of the Amp depending the impedance of the headphones at the moment is completely automatic.
That's OK with IEM but there are problems with big headphones with low impedance. In those cases the normal gain mode delivers not enough power (volume) and being able to select or force the high gain mode would be a perfect solution.
At this moment the high gain mode is triggered with headphones with an Impedance over 50ohm.
Thanks anyway for this app.
Phascinate said:
Yeah, that was my concern too. But everything seems to be working fine.
Feel free to post your results with the Q701's as soon as you test them!
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Seems to be no negative effects on SQ. Not sure on any change in battery life yet. Good so far.
Fantastic! At first I thought there would be a big battery impact since there is silent media playing, but then I remembered that only happens when there is actually music playing - fantastic implementation. Hopefully there is no battery drain. Works here for Google Play Music, so thank you very much!!!
it is working great with spotify here
I do notice the clarity with dac on and off.. however i'm using free spotify so the music stream is not high quality.
I only did notice a bug not sure because of this app or not but it never happen before.
So today i plug my phone to aux in my car in the morning everything work great.
in the afternoon i plug aux again to my car and this time my 4G or 3G writing on my signal bar is gone until i restart. This never happen before i install your apps, but seems i can't repeat this bug.
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to make this app. I just tested it with Player Pro and it seems to be working (Player Pro did work before but only if you didn't install the DSP pack). I did have one question. I noticed that the EQ is not working in Player Pro. You can open the EQ, but changing any of the frequencies or selecting a preset has no effect on the audio. Does that mean that the other audio features like Replay Gain also won't work with the app installed?