Develop Bugs

Increase Base Volume Levels?

Stupid question...
Is there any way to increase the base volume level on the Incredible? Listening to podcasts via the speaker phone is sometimes challenging in certain environments. I would like to be able to increase the levels if possible.
Anyone know if this is possible?

I also would like to increase the volume on this , Bluetooth and inbound calls.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

Same, but for all audio out.

There was an app called LVH (Louder Volume Hack) in the market that I purchased when I had my Eris that worked PERFECTLY for this on CM5/CM6/Stock Sense. But the app doesn't appear to work on my Incredible. Which sucks Because I LOVED being able to crank the headset/bluetooth volume.. I would love to see something like this working on the inc..
!EDIT! Apparently I just didn't try enough times because I got the app working on the official OTA 2.2! The app appears to work but I do not think the volume is actualy being increased.. gonna try the 4.0 Beta.
Devs Page: http://androidaudiohacks.com/home/

LVH Apparently Doesn't work for DINC!
Hi Guys,
Purchased the LVH from Meltus, thinking that with root, I'd have no problem using it, but while it did run, and say it had successfully pushed the proper values, it didn't seem to increase the volume. I wrote the dev, & he told me it doesn't work with the Droid Incredible :-(
His site: http://androidaudiohacks.com, does have disclaimers and info indicating the app is for earlier phones like the G1, and Saphire, and doesn't work on Droid, or branded android phones, but not clear enough for idiots like me! He also said in his reply that Google had locked access to the volume files on later phones, and so increasing the volume requires modifying the kernel.

Incredibles are known for blowing out their own speakers. I recommend avoiding this.my speaker is a little blown just with normal use. I now play audio 2 clicks from max volume.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

I've been looking for the same thing. Took a trip a week ago and could not hear a movie with my earphones on the plane ride. I just found a new post last night in the "themes and apps" sub forum titled Audio/Equalizer. It has a this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783737 to a DSP equalizer you can install. You must be rooted. Works well for me with a modest gain in volume and improved sound quality. You can simply put the zip in the root directory of your sd card and use clockwork mod to install the zip. (you may have to toggle signature verification off first). Just make sure to do a Nandroid backup first in case you encounter a problem.

Thanks guys! You both ROCK!
luvit said:
Incredibles are known for blowing out their own speakers. I recommend avoiding this.my speaker is a little blown just with normal use. I now play audio 2 clicks from max volume.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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Thanks, luvit.
I didn't know about the speaker issue. My interest has been more focused on use with headphones, and in-call, which is a different speaker than the one I believe you are referring to.
I noticed the sound from the Incredible rear speaker was quite a bit higher fidelity than on other HTC phones I've owned, which may account for its being a bit more fragile, but that's just speculation. I'll be a lot more careful with it.
marcmarshall said:
I've been looking for the same thing. Took a trip a week ago and could not hear a movie with my earphones on the plane ride. I just found a new post last night in the "themes and apps" sub forum titled Audio/Equalizer. It has a this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783737 to a DSP equalizer you can install. You must be rooted. Works well for me with a modest gain in volume and improved sound quality. You can simply put the zip in the root directory of your sd card and use clockwork mod to install the zip. (you may have to toggle signature verification off first). Just make sure to do a Nandroid backup first in case you encounter a problem.
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Thanks, marcmarshall.
That sounds like it might just do it. Thanks for the links, and instructions, too. I'll definitely give it a try, and reply back to this thread with my experience.
My best to both of you. This is just another example of why xda developer's forums totally ROCK!

[Q] Need Your Help

Friends i am very new to android system, still few days ago i flashed my tmobile g2 with cyanogenmod 7.0.3, now i came across fusion virtuous sense 3.0 rom, and wanted to flash, but i dont know i can flash or not? please guide me, i am planning to install this rom with rom manager premium, after removing cache/data and dalvik cache, so can i proceed? i realy dont like cyanogenmod.

You would need to wipe when flashing a new rom I reccomend using amazinglarrys superwipe download from here http://db.tt/7xNYpFp and flash in recovery manauly. I personally would not recommend using rom manager to wipe and flash. You are much better off booting in to CWM and doing everything manually. Just a word of warning virtuous fusion is still very buggy. I better rom to use would be suilmagic insertcoin rom.
[sig]My mission is to hit 1000 posts by 23/05/2011[sig]

I agree. Although Virtuous Fusion is very pretty, it is a HUGE memory hog, and will cause buggy/laggy behavior. I would suggest a different version of virtuous, g-lite, or insertcoin (as suggested above) if you're going for a sense based rom. I'm personally digging meXdroid V3, but it's similar to cyanogen. Flash away until you find exactly what you want. Happy flashing
Sent from my shiny metal G2 w/ meXdroid V3

you are right guys, i flashed that rom, and surprised to saw it wasnt gingerbread, none of the gingerbread app worked in fusion's rom, so get bavk cm7, but it doesnt support aac music in ringer, no smart dialing, and also we cant delete single message from the thread, have to remove whole thread, please
advice me which one should i use which has all the features mentioned above?

Alipk52 said:
you are right guys, i flashed that rom, and surprised to saw it wasnt gingerbread, none of the gingerbread app worked in fusion's rom, so get bavk cm7, but it doesnt support aac music in ringer, no smart dialing, and also we cant delete single message from the thread, have to remove whole thread, please
advice me which one should i use which has all the features mentioned above?
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Why do you need aac support for ringer? Just make a ringtone and move along.
What are you talking about can't delete single message? Works fine here.
Sent from my HTC Vision

Pirateghost said:
Why do you need aac support for ringer? Just make a ringtone and move along.
What are you talking about can't delete single message? Works fine here.
Sent from my HTC Vision
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Same here. In the stock messenging app I can delete a single message, all messages from one person, or just all messages by long pressing the desired selection. As far as aac ringtones go, use Ringdroid to snip out any part of an mp3 on your phone to use as a ringer/notification. There are also a few programs on the web that can convert aac to mp3
Sent from my shiny metal G2 w/ meXdroid V3

Pirateghost said:
Why do you need aac support for ringer? Just make a ringtone and move along.
What are you talking about can't delete single message? Works fine here.
Sent from my HTC Vision
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Why are you asking this question to a normal user?, dude I came from nokia symbian which supported all ringtones or audio formats (almost all) thats why I have huge number of ringtones and songs in aac and wma formats, cyanogenmod cant even play wma? What a **** of a roms he produces, it doesnt even have a flash player, had to install seprately, but what to do with a huge number of aac tones and songs I.already have? I am feeling headache converting 200 songs and 95 ringtones to mp3, now come to messages, I am saying that I cant delete 1 message from a whole thread of a contact, it has no option to delete 1 or some messages from a thread, it doeant even have a smart dialing, I love htc sense, but only problem is it produces very low sound in ringer. I thought fusion's rom is gingerbread so i'll able to use volume boost or dsp manager, but it gave force close error. Did.you understand now?

dont know what to tell you about the ringtones, i have always used ringdroid to convert the particular sound file i wanted into a ringtone.
for the messages, have you ever tried LONG PRESSING on the message you want to delete? if you want to delete an entire thread from someone, you LONG PRESS on their name and select delete thread.
i dont really think you understand what cyanogenmod is about. it isnt the work of one guy, and to put down the hard work the team has put into it, is fkn retarded and completely disrespectful. if you dont like it, build your own fkn rom and stop crying.
im done in this thread. i tried to offer a hand, but apparently you dont give a **** about alternatives, or suggestions. your attitude is ****

Pirateghost said:
dont know what to tell you about the ringtones, i have always used ringdroid to convert the particular sound file i wanted into a ringtone.
for the messages, have you ever tried LONG PRESSING on the message you want to delete? if you want to delete an entire thread from someone, you LONG PRESS on their name and select delete thread.
i dont really think you understand what cyanogenmod is about. it isnt the work of one guy, and to put down the hard work the team has put into it, is fkn retarded and completely disrespectful. if you dont like it, build your own fkn rom and stop crying.
im done in this thread. i tried to offer a hand, but apparently you dont give a **** about alternatives, or suggestions. your attitude is ****
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I mentioned that in my 1st post that I am new android user, I am not a developer, I am just a new born baby, they are a developer I dont have a computer like them, so dont give me a nonsense ideas about making own rom, they dont even like peoples like me to.complain about bugs in their roms, and btw just read ur 1st reply in manner u gave, but this time u replied to the point that long press message which I want to delete, this is called helping others, its my right to say anything which is missing in one's roms they develops. Right now I cant post in developers section bcoz of 10 post requirement.

Alipk52 said:
I am not a developer, I am just a new born baby
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My newborn baby is not nearly as rude and snippy as you. Especially to people that have been legitimately trying to help you.
The phone plays AAC and WMA songs just fine. You just can't use them as ringtones or notifications. You don't need 95 ringtones. Pick a few you like and convert them to MP3. AAC and WMA are proprietary formats (developed by Apple and Microsoft, respectively). If you wanted maximum compatibility, you should have stuck to MP3, which is the universally accepted standard.

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they dont even like peoples like me to.complain about bugs in their roms,
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That's bull****, the developers like having bugs in their ROMs reported, so they know what needs to be fixed.
Cyanogen himself does not check these threads for bugs. You need to use the issue tracker linked on his ROM post, if you want to report a bug.
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What a **** of a roms he produces, it doesnt even have a flash player
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Recently, Adobe has been updating Flashplayer frequently. Including 3rd party software in a ROM, that is going to be obsolete in a week doesn't make any sense, when you can just download the latest version from the Market.

redpoint73 said:
My newborn baby is not nearly as rude and snippy as you. Especially to people that have been legitimately trying to help you.
The phone plays AAC and WMA songs just fine. You just can't use them as ringtones or notifications. You don't need 95 ringtones. Pick a few you like and convert them to MP3. AAC and WMA are proprietary formats (developed by Apple and Microsoft, respectively). If you wanted maximum compatibility, you should have stuck to MP3, which is the universally accepted standard.
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well I never mind whatever you say, as far as I know, I have to sacrifice 1 thing, so opt for a sense ROM named as insertcoin, my main problem with sense ROM is just 1, its produces very very low ringer, but other than that its way way better then cyanogenmod Rom, I don't know why fusion's sense ROM doesn't support apps made for gingerbread, like volume boost etc, he mentioned its a gingerbread ROM. I have flashed cm nightly, fusion virtuous, droidv3, and next is insertcoin, so far droidv3 was the best ROM I used. faster, and not laggy. btw my question was replied in a rude manner 1st (why do you need aac ringtone? what are you saying about messages everything working fine for me) now take a look and think who was rude 1st, will u call it helping? thank God I don't help people this way.

Samsung galaxy nexus hands on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=excmUlBLAHw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Hey guys thought i would upload my video of my nexus from the UK as always anything you guys want to know or see ill try get an answer for you. Im on holiday but will be back tomorrow so will get pics etc up if you want then.
Cheers Kenny
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

Ok so im home and good to go for any questions you guys have on the phone

audio quality? compare to your recent mp3 player/phone?
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forgot to say, in earphone only.

Can you tell me, does Samsung Galaxy Nexus have usb-host? Google says that you can connect keyboards, mouses etc. But not any word about usb flash drives. Does SGN can recognise any flash drives like it can do Galaxy S2?
Thank you in advance.

@tvp I would say the audio is on par with the Galaxy S II for speaker use, Still the single speaker, but I found using headphones the nexus was slightly better than my S II. Plus i use my phone for music through my cars built in 3.5mm jack and ics has an equalizer in the music player meaning you can really get the best out of your music depending on what your using eg headphones, speaker, car etc just by tweaking the EQ

thanks for quick reply, another question.
This is a deal-breaker for me, does the phone support flash?

Can you tell me if the phone dialer works by spelling out a name on the phone dialer screen from your contacts to look up the number?
I have an HTC TB, and the HTC dialer is great.
I hope this phone does this, or i will have to find an app I suppose.

Ok Usb host: I have not been able to try this however it was a feature in android v3 so i dont see it being removed in ICS when i get the chance il try it.
Flash: I have as of yet not been able to get it to work. I have installed flash 11 with no joy I am awaiting confirmation on whats happening with this
And no name dialling it simply displays the number however on ever page of ICS you have a search bar and you just type the name into that and it brings up the contact where you can call straight from there

no flash ??? That's gone be an issue seeing as they are NOT updating flash to support new versions

I know it appears to be an issue since adobe gave up on flash. Im waiting to hear from Samsung regarding this to see if they have any solution as its kind of a major omission esp until everyone starts to use html5
Any other Q ?
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

Could you show the now playing in the notification and/or music on the lock screen, I'd love to know how it looks
Because one signature isn't enough

Jays2Kings said:
Could you show the now playing in the notification and/or music on the lock screen, I'd love to know how it looks
Because one signature isn't enough
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Here you go:

Man, no flash?
I might as well just get an iPhone then I reckon.
Joe

Thanks for the video, nice and in depth, pity about the frame rate though.

Yes great video, but the frame rate ruins the experience a bit.

keving75 said:
Can you tell me if the phone dialer works by spelling out a name on the phone dialer screen from your contacts to look up the number?
I have an HTC TB, and the HTC dialer is great.
I hope this phone does this, or i will have to find an app I suppose.
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I think an alternative (3rd party app) for the HTC dialer would be something like RocketDialer
And Kenneth, first of all I wanted to thank you for the amazing video you posted (also thanked you on the video itself Second, I wanted to ask if you could download the most memory/processor intensive apps that you know of and see if there is any sluggish performance or noticeable lag? (A video would be extremely appreciated) Third, I wanted to know with the multitasking, does it save the last previous state? E.g. for the iphone (as far as I know), when you load a webpage in the browser, exit out of it open some other apps, and then go back into the browser the exact state is saved so it doesn't reload the page when you re-enter the webpage. Finally, I would appreciate it if you could download some free games (e.g. wind up knight, tap tap revenge 4) that require a huge amount of graphics and attempt to play it on the phone. The phone is known to have a really, REALLY, outdated GPU and I wanted to know how it performs.
Sorry if this is too much to ask, and your help is very appreciated

Hey Ken,
Would you be able to find out if OTG usb works? Particularly whether or not the Galaxy Nexus can browse the contents of a usb thumb drive? I have been asking all over the forum and over the internet and as yet still cannot find information, documentation or videos that this is possible.
Thank you very much.

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Here you go:
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Very interesting, thanks, it's been bugging me about how it looked since it was first announced.

Great vid! Any graphic studdering during games or anything? I don't play many games but alil worried about the lesser gpu.

id ask a question but at this point I'm just waiting until Monday when we're supposed to be getting this phone. I want to see what its like in person & decide then if I want to keep this Rezound or switch up.
I just hope the 32GB model is $299(or possibly on some sale). ill be damned if ill pay that price just for 16GB.

call recording on ICS

hi
can u tell me if this works on your device?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.porcelli.Monitorpro
i am trying to configure it to work...but i get unreadable files..
(i'm on Elite's ICS V11)

$12 lol... Are you giving donations too? J/k I would hazard a guess that it doesn't work.
From my understanding call recording needs to be supported by the ROM system framework for it to work. It's not something you can just tack on with an app. :thumbdown: at least not in a way that would provide satisfactory/understandable audio.
Most application implementations rely on hooking the microphone. problem is with that you don't hear what the person your talking too is saying... Or it is very faint noise (almost unhearable)
Seems like there is a lot of recent positive review though so maybe it does work?
I looked for a way to enable to enable call recording on my phone back on gingerbread. Didn't find anything substantial. A lot of time has passed since then though.
I'm running cm9. Would be nice to see a free implementation built into our ROMs.
I for one would like to see some more constructive comments about this topic. Screen shots from the app look like gingerbread... Although it says rooted ICS supported.

Viper4Android for Lollipop

First off I'd like to say thanks for this great forum. I've used it many times over the years but just recently registered. I've never really had anything substantial to add (still don't). In the past I've had a Photon and HTC One M7, both from Sprint. I never really had the urge to mess with them at all. I recently bought a Note 4 and I decided to root it. I'm more of a computer person, building and customizing but never got into messing with phones.
With that said I'm in need of some help so I decided to register. Not sure if I have much to add at this point to become a contributing member so if anybody is hesitant to help I completely understand. I've been a noob on many other forums, and have also seen noobs come and go. So if anybody can help, that's great and I thank you ahead of time. If not, that's OK too.
I was completely torn between the new LG, an HTC One M9 and the Note 4........ I even considered the Nexus. The audio quality of the M7 that I had was and still is better than any other non-HTC phone on the market and it was really tough to convince myself to get something different. I wanted a big screen with great hardware. The Note 4 had all that except for the audio. The audio, speakers and headphone quality absolutely suck. I am terribly disappointed. I was going to see if HTC was going to release a version with a bigger display, I saw that it is a toned down version. If HTC made a 5.5-5.7" maxed out version like the smaller M9 I would have gotten it.
Now, I've rooted this phone and I've gone through all the steps of installing V4A and no matter what I do it does not function at all. The problem I see is that my phone upgraded to Lollipop. In order to properly install V4A the SELinux mode needs to be set to permissive. There was an app (I forget the name of it offhand) that could change the mode, unfortunately it is not compatible with Lollipop. Without changing the mode to permissive I cannot properly install V4A.
I've searched through this forum a couple times over and can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Is there another way to change this mode? What about recommendations for one of the custom ROM's that has V4A in it? I'm really open to any suggestions. I'm really fed up with this phone telling me what volume level is enough. I use this phone for music all the time and the stock equalizer automatically cuts the volume down to the highest equalizer setting. I can hear the difference, when using Spotify if I skip to the next song the stock equalizer (SoundAlive) takes a split second to kick in and you can hear how it should sound without SoundAlive. For all this Note 4 has, I'm really starting to regret getting this over the M9. It would be a great phone if I can get some volume back as well as some decent sound quality.

JJFIVEOH said:
First off I'd like to say thanks for this great forum. I've used it many times over the years but just recently registered. I've never really had anything substantial to add (still don't). In the past I've had a Photon and HTC One M7, both from Sprint. I never really had the urge to mess with them at all. I recently bought a Note 4 and I decided to root it. I'm more of a computer person, building and customizing but never got into messing with phones.
With that said I'm in need of some help so I decided to register. Not sure if I have much to add at this point to become a contributing member so if anybody is hesitant to help I completely understand. I've been a noob on many other forums, and have also seen noobs come and go. So if anybody can help, that's great and I thank you ahead of time. If not, that's OK too.
I was completely torn between the new LG, an HTC One M9 and the Note 4........ I even considered the Nexus. The audio quality of the M7 that I had was and still is better than any other non-HTC phone on the market and it was really tough to convince myself to get something different. I wanted a big screen with great hardware. The Note 4 had all that except for the audio. The audio, speakers and headphone quality absolutely suck. I am terribly disappointed. I was going to see if HTC was going to release a version with a bigger display, I saw that it is a toned down version. If HTC made a 5.5-5.7" maxed out version like the smaller M9 I would have gotten it.
Now, I've rooted this phone and I've gone through all the steps of installing V4A and no matter what I do it does not function at all. The problem I see is that my phone upgraded to Lollipop. In order to properly install V4A the SELinux mode needs to be set to permissive. There was an app (I forget the name of it offhand) that could change the mode, unfortunately it is not compatible with Lollipop. Without changing the mode to permissive I cannot properly install V4A.
I've searched through this forum a couple times over and can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Is there another way to change this mode? What about recommendations for one of the custom ROM's that has V4A in it? I'm really open to any suggestions. I'm really fed up with this phone telling me what volume level is enough. I use this phone for music all the time and the stock equalizer automatically cuts the volume down to the highest equalizer setting. I can hear the difference, when using Spotify if I skip to the next song the stock equalizer (SoundAlive) takes a split second to kick in and you can hear how it should sound without SoundAlive. For all this Note 4 has, I'm really starting to regret getting this over the M9. It would be a great phone if I can get some volume back as well as some decent sound quality.
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You need custom kernel to set mode from enforced to permissive... or google there is away to enable V4A to work with stock kernel that involve romtool.

This phone imo is top notch in all areas but I agree with you on the audio quality, stock music player that is. I use PowerAmp and all of that changes, even through the phones tiny speaker. My suggestion is to revert to stock and simply install the app if you're just looking to improve audio quality. Just my 2 cents.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer

patrick_1 said:
This phone imo is top notch in all areas but I agree with you on the audio quality, stock music player that is. I use PowerAmp and all of that changes, even through the phones tiny speaker. My suggestion is to revert to stock and simply install the app if you're just looking to improve audio quality. Just my 2 cents.
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I've heard many good things about PowerAmp but as far as I know that's only applicable to downloaded songs. It doesn't work with Spotify.

JJFIVEOH said:
I've heard many good things about PowerAmp but as far as I know that's only applicable to downloaded songs. It doesn't work with Spotify.
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Yeah that's true. Sorry

I'd suggest using the Emotion r14 kernel. That will get you permissive and a much snappier phone as well as having tweaks specific to sound. It supports Faux 123 sound on top of everything else. You should find a link to the kernel in the original android development area.
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Sorry the Emotion kernel can be found here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2990557

kenjesse said:
I'd suggest using the Emotion r14 kernel. That will get you permissive and a much snappier phone as well as having tweaks specific to sound. It supports Faux 123 sound on top of everything else. You should find a link to the kernel in the original android development area.
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Sorry the Emotion kernel can be found here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2990557
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Thank you for the recommendation. I'll check it out. If I can get the permissive setting I shouldn't have any issues getting V4A installed. Everything else that comes with that kernel is an added bonus.

OK, that kernel worked great! I was able to install V4A almost flawlessly. No disrespect to any of the equalizer apps out there but V4A is by far the best audio control I've used. I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get this installed. That kernel did make the phone a little "snappier" as you put it. I haven't had a chance to mess with Synapse, I might just leave well enough alone as it's now working he way I want. Thanks again.

im just curious do you still have data after flashing that kernal?

Do I still have data? Not sure what you mean.

Hello to all.
Can someone help me with the tunein radio not working with viper audio?
I changed my phone to permissive, and added the 2 zips somebody uploaded that changed the build prop. But i still cannot get viper and tunein to work together. Maven Pro audio works great as does iheart with viper.
Thank you in advance.
Blessings

I'm not a subscriber of Tunein, I wish I could help ya. Does V4A work with other audio services?

JJFIVEOH said:
I'm not a subscriber of Tunein, I wish I could help ya. Does V4A work with other audio services?
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Yes. I heart and maven pro music player works great with viper.
Thank you for your reply.
Blessings

ulremember said:
Yes. I heart and maven pro music player works great with viper.
Thank you for your reply.
Blessings
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According to this it's an issue with Tunein. It is a little old so not sure if there is a different issue since then, so take it for what it's worth.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2456073&page=24