Wolfson DAC, supercurio & voodoo sound. - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II

Does our gn2 utilize the Wolfson implementation, and, if so... is voodoo sound plausible?
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There won't be #LOUDER for the #GalaxyNoteII but instead a #VoodooSound port. Which variant do you own?
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http://twitter.com/supercurio/status/262679621219266560

LucJoe said:
http://twitter.com/supercurio/status/262679621219266560
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Fantastic news
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Poser said:
Fantastic news
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Agreed. I was considering a USB DAC, but with voodoo sound it's probably not necessary.

Explain it to me like Im an idiot (not too far of a stretch), what does this mean for us?

stevessvt said:
Explain it to me like Im an idiot (not too far of a stretch), what does this mean for us?
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Very simply, the Wolfson DAC is how audio is processed on our phones. It is an extremely impressive implementation that is somewhat handicapped by Samsungs proprietary coding. Voodoo sound is an alternative module (kernel level driver) that unleashes its full potential and dynamic range. Supercurio is the developer responsible for bringing voodoo sound.
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Any news on Voodoo Sound for our Note2's, yet? I haven't seen much mentioned about it, and I'm going crazy with this sensitive mic on the phone. Does anyone know of an alternative method for the ability to change recording preset?

lyinelriche said:
Any news on Voodoo Sound for our Note2's, yet? I haven't seen much mentioned about it, and I'm going crazy with this sensitive mic on the phone. Does anyone know of an alternative method for the ability to change recording preset?
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I havent heard anything on supercurios twitter account. I know he recently bought a Galaxy S 4.2 wifi music player for cheap just because it has Wolfson and he plans on making voodoo for it. It seems like he's very busy testing display and sound properties of every new device that gets released. Good things take time I suppose.
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We can use scoobydoo sound on perseus kernel. I confirm it works just like voodoo sound for headphones/line out
Use stweak to modify the parameters

That's cool, but I'm mostly concerned with line-in/ mic settings.

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Call Recording

Recently came from the Thunderbolt. I'm wondering if there is a Rom or Kernel that has been created to support a decent call recording app yet?
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Very Very Very interested in this as well...
Thanks
I would be interested in this as well.
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Interested a well.
Hopefully a Dev will incorporate this into their rom soon. It'll definitely set the bar for others...
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tyloud78 said:
Hopefully a Dev will incorporate this into their rom soon. It'll definitely set the bar for others...
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I definitely support this!! xD
Yes me too. But I am little pessimistic regarding this issue, since there are a lot of Samsung smart phones which are uncapable of two way recording. Most of apps will record the application side.
If I knew this could be solved with patching and recompiling the kernel with I would gladly invest some time to to that. However it doesn't seem to be that simple, since after all this time there are bunch of Samsung phones without support for this.
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Yes me too. But I am little pessimistic regarding this issue, since there are a lot of Samsung smart phones which are uncapable of two way recording. Most of apps will record the application side.
If I knew this could be solved with patching and recompiling the kernel with I would gladly invest some time to to that. However it doesn't seem to be that simple, since after all this time there are bunch of Samsung phones without support for this.
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Thanks for the background... That may explain why it is not getting as much attention. Either too complex or the phone may not be capable of providing quality two way recording. Nonetheless, I hope the efforts continue.
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The Samsung galaxy s2 was capable of it. Keep hope guys
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Can you try Auto Call Recorder from Appstar Solutions? It works for me.
The app is free. The quality of recordings is bad, but It works. One can understand both sides.
Consider that I am using imoseyon kernel 1.2 and I actually did not try any other app with it.
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Can you try Auto Call Recorder from Appstar Solutions? It works for me.
The app is free. The quality of recordings is bad, but It works. One can understand both sides.
Consider that I am using imoseyon kernel 1.2 and I actually did not try any other app with it.
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Tried that one..for some reason, I don't get audio on the playback.
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I used Vrecorder on my EVO.
tyloud78 said:
Tried that one..for some reason, I don't get audio on the playback.
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Have you tried opening the file with another application?
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[email protected] said:
I used Vrecorder on my EVO.
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Yes but this thread is about GN.
This is strange,
I have just tried another (Drew Garen ICY+ v 4.0) ROM with imsoeyenon kernel, but maybe not the same one.
And Auto Call Recorder didn't work, or better said I wasn't able to hear anything except noice.
So restored back my old system (EaglesBlood + imoseyon kernel), but still cannot record, only noice. Did reinstall, and now I can hear only my side, other side is too low.
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Ok I checked again. Actually if another person is a quiet one, nothing can't be understood.
When I reported that the app actually works, I spoke with not so quiet person.
I was thinking about seeing of the developer of rVoix would consider a port of his app to the nexus.
Best call recording app I've ever used. Records both sides of the call in great quality.
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I am not a lawyer or law enforcement (I am interested in civil liberties), but FYI in the US there's some issues about the legality of recording phone calls. In most places it's fine as long as you're one of the parties, but in several states (California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington) the other party must be notified that you're recording.
What you mentioned doesn't make such kind of applications illegal. Otherwise we would not have
so many call recording apps in the market.
dev/null/ said:
I was thinking about seeing of the developer of rVoix would consider a port of his app to the nexus.
Best call recording app I've ever used. Records both sides of the call in great quality.
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Tried AllCallRecorder... But when i choose "Recorder the other party" it says "Your phone is not supported"
What do i have to do to fix this?
and how do i know whether the kernel i have supports that or not
Why would you ever need a call recorder?

Voodoo?

Sorry ahead of time if this has been answered but I've googled and used the search on xda but no luck.
I was wondering super curio has worked on the GN to use voodoo sound and color? Is it possible we can use the voodoo app to mess with the colors?
Sorry again, thank you
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Voodoo Sound won't work, because the GN uses a different audio DAC, a Burr-Brown part, instead of the original Wolfson WM8994 DAC in the original Galaxy S series and Nexus S devices. Whether or not supercurio will create a GN variant of Voodoo Sound is unknown.
As for color correction, there are several GN kernels that offer color adjustments. I know franco.Kernel does, and some others might also. Personally, I have no problems at all with the GN's display. The white temperature is nowhere near as blue as the older SAMOLED displays on earlier Samsung devices.
Thank you for the reply
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possessed?
I thought mean your Galaxy Nexus is possessed and acting weird on its own. I was going to come in and help you "cure" that.....
LMAO nah
Supercurio is actually working on porting voodoo to the Gnex or so I've been told.
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synaesthetic said:
Voodoo Sound won't work, because the GN uses a different audio DAC, a Burr-Brown part, instead of the original Wolfson WM8994 DAC in the original Galaxy S series and Nexus S devices. Whether or not supercurio will create a GN variant of Voodoo Sound is unknown.
As for color correction, there are several GN kernels that offer color adjustments. I know franco.Kernel does, and some others might also. Personally, I have no problems at all with the GN's display. The white temperature is nowhere near as blue as the older SAMOLED displays on earlier Samsung devices.
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Might wanna check with supercurio before you say his work isn't compatible with a device which he even said he is doing work on.
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skynet11 said:
Supercurio is actually working on porting voodoo to the Gnex or so I've been told.
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That'd be awesome. Hopefully this is true
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so I got Francos kernel flashed, how do I go about changing the colors? Thanks ahead of time
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lazcoreaedu said:
so I got Francos kernel flashed, how do I go about changing the colors? Thanks ahead of time
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If you download the Franco kernel updater app from the market, there's an easy UI for over clock, and other kernel settings, such as changing the gamma settings for color
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drewtang said:
If you download the Franco kernel updater app from the market, there's an easy UI for over clock, and other kernel settings, such as changing the gamma settings for color
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it doesnt change the gamma it changes the RGB correct if im wrong.
lazcoreaedu said:
it doesnt change the gamma it changes the RGB correct if im wrong.
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From the thread:
* Added ColorControl by Ezekeel:
/sys/class/misc/colorcontrol/v1_offsets
V1 gamma offset triple (default -4/0/5, set with 'echo "-10 0 -2" > v1_offsets' for example, causing green tint when 2. value < 0)
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From the thread:
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But can this "gamma offset" be used to fix the gamma being off causing video nastiness (as described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344714 as well as here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23862)? If so, I will definitely consider trying franco again (despite the awesome battery life I'm getting from leankernel 2.0.1).
phiquantu said:
I thought mean your Galaxy Nexus is possessed and acting weird on its own. I was going to come in and help you "cure" that.....
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Phiquantu, my new Galaxy Nexus appears to be acting possessed as you describe. Randomly, there seems to be no way to reproduce it, the touch screen will start to register random touches. Is this as you describe? Is there a fix for it?

Voodoo sound by Supercurio in progress !

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21396374#post21396374
His Twitter : https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/supercurio
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Awwww snap
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Can't wait!
I posted this way back. We already knew it was in progression. It all comes down to a matter of when.
Can't wait for his Voodoo color as well
vennstrom said:
Can't wait for his Voodoo color as well
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Franco kernel kind of already has this feature in his app + kernel combo.
zephiK said:
Franco kernel kind of already has this feature in his app + kernel combo.
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No one seems to know the best values and voodoo color is preset
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I've never used voodoo but from what I've heard its nothing short of amazing
I use voodoo sound on my sgs. Wouldn't use a rom or phone without it. This entices me a little more to get a GNex.
Thanked you by mistake, your welcome.
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hansonator said:
I use voodoo sound on my sgs. Wouldn't use a rom or phone without it. This entices me a little more to get a GNex.
Thanked you by mistake, your welcome.
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Same here, once I had voodoo sound and color, there was no going back to anything without it. Can't wait for this.
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Absolutely fantastic
Forgive me for not researching but what exactly does voodoo put on the table? The ti sound chip has awesome stereo as is.
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Google gave me this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806195
Seems good but tbh I'm not bothered by the sound as I don't play games/watch movies/listen to music on my Nexus
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Forgive me for not researching but what exactly does voodoo put on the table? The ti sound chip has awesome stereo as is.
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The general sound improvement on the SGS1 with voodoo-sound compared to stock was night and day. Seriously.
So good in fact that coming to the Galaxy Nexus was a bit of a bummer. It's not as good as the SGS1 with Voodoo sound.
The SGS1 went from beeing averagely OKish to ZOMG IS THIS IMPROVEMENT SOFTWARE ALONE? It completely revived my Shure earbuds and my entire MP3 library.
If Francis can do anything remotely close to that on my Galaxy Nexus, there is absolutely nothing on this phone I will be complaining about.
hansonator said:
I use voodoo sound on my sgs. Wouldn't use a rom or phone without it. This entices me a little more to get a GNex.
Thanked you by mistake, your welcome.
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Thanked you on purpose, you're welcome
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@rbiter said:
Forgive me for not researching but what exactly does voodoo put on the table? The ti sound chip has awesome stereo as is.
Sent from my Nexus in Texas.
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Could you repeat that, please? I couldn't hear you the first time
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Hi everyone!
I'm flattered so much interest in Voodoo sound but I must say this thread title is at best misleading.
skynet11 said:
Could you repeat that, please? I couldn't hear you the first time
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Lol. Atm, and the big picture is don't have time to look at the details. I wasn't looking for an answer like josteink gave. I am looking for a short precise answer like it it custom equalizer, supercurio enhanced, something like audio enhanced or does it correct some flaws in the chip or fill in the gaps. I see too many posts about how good it is rather than why it's good. That's all. Haven't been on xda much lately. Breaking in new equipment and getting more. Video and audio equipment actually. Miss plasma. And great stereo. I am seriously considering getting a turntable because even with vinyl's flaws there is a lot to be enjoyed with it and I miss that.
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supercurio said:
Hi everyone!
I'm flattered so much interest in Voodoo sound but I must say this thread title is at best misleading.
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Are you claiming second hand news on the internet is somehow overstated, inaccurate or sensational?
Seriously though. Just knowing that you are spending any time at all on the issue fills me with hope that I will get even more out of this device some day

Pocket amp

Anybody able to recommend A decently priced pocket amp? Since voodoo sound isn't compatible with this device and volume plus sucks I need something to go with my new headphones
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ShinigamiH4ck3r said:
Anybody able to recommend A decently priced pocket amp? Since voodoo sound isn't comparable with this device and volume plus sucks I need something to go with my new headphones
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You mean "compatible"?
Mark.J.Linskiy said:
You mean "compatible"?
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lol still not used to the huge screen just got it a few days ago so typos are frequent
ShinigamiH4ck3r said:
lol still not used to the huge screen just got it a few days ago so typos are frequent
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Haha, yeah it's fine. I was just letting you know there was a typo.
As for your question, you might want to look into some ROM, I believe some have it included (probably mostly Gingerbread ROMs).
If you don't want to flash any custom ROMs, I'm sure there's something but I'm just not aware, since I don't use any of that lol. Sorry.
Mark.J.Linskiy said:
Haha, yeah it's fine. I was just letting you know there was a typo.
As for your question, you might want to look into some ROM, I believe some have it included (probably mostly Gingerbread ROMs).
If you don't want to flash any custom ROMs, I'm sure there's something but I'm just not aware, since I don't use any of that lol. Sorry.
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well i came from the epic 4g and in order to use voodoo plus you had to have a compatable kernel, and there were many custom kernels that could be flashed to any custom rom. Right now im running codename android ics. from what i saw in the development forum there are no custom kernels, and no voodoo for ics. I will have to read around on some gb threads to check for voodoo
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well i came from the epic 4g and in order to use voodoo plus you had to have a compatable kernel, and there were many custom kernels that could be flashed to any custom rom. Right now im running codename android ics. from what i saw in the development forum there are no custom kernels, and no voodoo for ics. I will have to read around on some gb threads to check for voodoo
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Yeah, I know there is some GB kernels that support it.
This should have it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341564.
Gunslinger kernel EL29 has louder app compatibility baked in. It's a paid app though. I don't know if the dev for the app has all the snafus ironed out yet.
Have you tried a boostaroo amp?
www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2732095
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Yes but the louder app just makes it louder, no sound improvement, and no I have not,I haven't tried any pocket amp.I kinda want someone to give me a good recommendation of one before I buy one.
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ShinigamiH4ck3r said:
Yes but the louder app just makes it louder, no sound improvement, and no I have not,I haven't tried any pocket amp.I kinda want someone to give me a good recommendation of one before I buy one.
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The ROM I'm using has DSPManager 1.0 included, it's not in the Play Store (Market) though.
You can Google it though, although I think it's just an equalizer or something? Not sure if that's of any help.
Mark.J.Linskiy said:
The ROM I'm using has DSPManager 1.0 included, it's not in the Play Store (Market) though.
You can Google it though, although I think it's just an equalizer or something? Not sure if that's of any help.
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i actaully know about dspmanager from my time witht he epic 4g, on that device it couldnt really compare with the combination of volume+ and voodoo i had set up. but at this point im willing to try anything
for cars.. ( pre-amp into aux) you can build opa! amp.
fiio pocket amps are popular if you want buy and go option.
I was looking into voodoo sound also, but i think Epic touch uses diffrent sound chip than voodoo sound project.
I have no idea if you can find it but I have a Meier Corda Headsix Amp and it is a fantastic portable amp and a reasonable price 150ish new if i remember. I recommend it.
I looked up the amp you suggested it's not the type of amp that fits in my pocket (if I found the right one) the type of amp I'm looking for us like this one here http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004QVPGXK/ref=mp_s_a_9?qid=1334102729&sr=8-9
It gets good reviews on Amazon so I guess I'll take a chance n order it in a week or so. thanks anyway
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Voodoo sound for GS2?

Are there any kernels that support Voodoo sound. I'm still a little new to this phone and I'm on the latest Pacman ROM and I've been reading the rom threads and kernel and don't see any mention of that.
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As of right now, there is currently no kernels that support the feature as supercurio has stopped development for our phone... as far as I know.
There are plenty of ROMs that offer alternatives however, such as AC!D audio or KingBeatZ which are just as good.
I miss voodoo sound with the Wolfson dac in my old Nexus S. Excellent sound and volume. T989 isn't bad, actually its better than most. But that Wolfson DAC is second to none.
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RushAOZ said:
I miss voodoo sound with the Wolfson dac in my old Nexus S. Excellent sound and volume. T989 isn't bad, actually its better than most. But that Wolfson DAC is second to none.
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I'm actually trying to confirm the DACs inside the S2's. Because there were so many models we're not exactly sure what we have inside ours.
The result from our phone is here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100512
Just posted a message in gt-i9300 section to get a result as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37113839#post37113839
I'm curious if the result will be the same.
Plus this says something interesting
http://mydragonboard.org/apq8060/
bsd1101 said:
I'm actually trying to confirm the DACs inside the S2's. Because there were so many models we're not exactly sure what we have inside ours.
The result from our phone is here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100512
Just posted a message in gt-i9300 section to get a result as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37113839#post37113839
I'm curious if the result will be the same.
Plus this says something interesting
http://mydragonboard.org/apq8060/
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Nice! Good way to cure my curiosity. I know some thing though, its no Wolfson
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I've tried Acid and all that stuff but it just doesn't compare to Voodoo. On my Vibrant the sound sucked but when installed Voodoo it was the best.
Main thing I care about is that it has a big volume increase when plugging in to a auxiliary jack
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