I recently flashed Cyanogenmod 11 onto my HTC One M8, and I'm loving the **** out of it. However, it has some flaws. As it is a nightly version, I'm totally cool with that, and I'm wiling to try and work around them. However, the speakers sound noticeably worse. At max volume they crackle like crazy and searching the settings menu, I noticed there is no "Boomsound" setting as there is in the stock OS, and in the GPE os. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, maybe a way to flash boomsound on separately, or if you think CM will add that in at a later date, or anything really. Loving this phone and OS, and I'd like to get all I can out of the awesome speakers.... thanks!
watchmuu said:
I recently flashed Cyanogenmod 11 onto my HTC One M8, and I'm loving the **** out of it. However, it has some flaws. As it is a nightly version, I'm totally cool with that, and I'm wiling to try and work around them. However, the speakers sound noticeably worse. At max volume they crackle like crazy and searching the settings menu, I noticed there is no "Boomsound" setting as there is in the stock OS, and in the GPE os. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, maybe a way to flash boomsound on separately, or if you think CM will add that in at a later date, or anything really. Loving this phone and OS, and I'd like to get all I can out of the awesome speakers.... thanks!
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Boomsound is proprietary HTC software. It will probably never go to CM. However, there are EQ setting for any sort of effect you may want... never noticed a difference with Boomsound besides slightly louder audio. I did notice the crackling at max volume, but didn't really use speaker at max too often so it didn't bother me much.
You can always use GPe+Xposed for bugfree and customization. That's my setup.
watchmuu said:
I recently flashed Cyanogenmod 11 onto my HTC One M8, and I'm loving the **** out of it. However, it has some flaws. As it is a nightly version, I'm totally cool with that, and I'm wiling to try and work around them. However, the speakers sound noticeably worse. At max volume they crackle like crazy and searching the settings menu, I noticed there is no "Boomsound" setting as there is in the stock OS, and in the GPE os. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, maybe a way to flash boomsound on separately, or if you think CM will add that in at a later date, or anything really. Loving this phone and OS, and I'd like to get all I can out of the awesome speakers.... thanks!
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Same issue! Such distortion!
We need to port boomsound.
I've heard of using ViPER4Android as a replacement for Boomsound, but not actually tried it myself.
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Hi there!
As you might see, I'm new here, so please kick my ass kindly if this issue has already been discussed (even though I'm pretty sure it didn't, after spending a couple of hours reading tones of threads).
I was kind of disappointed when I unpacked my Desire a week ago, discovering how low the headphones volume was compared to my former iPhone 3G (R.I.P). Fortunately, the froyo update came out a couple of days after, I installed it, hoping it will solve this issue... Obviously, it didn't.
After being able to root my desire (thanks to the downgrading hack ), I started trying a bunch of roms, starting with the Psychosis-1.2 one, and happily discovered that the music was finally as loud as on my iPhone with this rom.
The issue here is that I still get the same low volume problem with other roms (so far, I tried OpenDesire and Pinky (this name should definitely be changed...).
I also tried the NexTSense rom and unsurprisingly, the volume was good on this one as well (unsurprisingly, as Psychosis is based on that rom...).
My question is quite simple: would you know which .apk/.so/.jar could I extract from NexTSense in order to get a decent volume on the rom I will finally hang out with?
Thanks.
No one?
Just tried out the LeeDroid rom, and the volume is also ok with this rom...
LeeDroid does nothing really fancy.
So either your problem is fixed in the new 2.09 official update (and all the custom roms based on that one, like pinky, nextsense, leedroid, modaco r7)
It will for sure NOT be as simple as extracting a single .apk. The volume (and even mp3 decoding and media playback) is not handled by the music player software at all.
So you'll have to look in firmwares, libraries or kernel being used and stuff like that. Not something you easily dive into and rip out if you're new to linux / android developing. It might also be something with the new radio that you probably installed to get the latest leedroid or others running.
For what it's worth, I never noticed (too) low volume on my desire, and tried a lot of ROMs (2.1 official based, 2.2 official based, AOSP, Cyanogen)... never noticed a difference in volume. You sure it isn't some placebo effect?
Yep, 100 percent sure its not a placebo effect, I compared for each Rom the volume on my desire with the one on my former iPhone, using the same song and headphones, and the volume was only at the same level with the Roms I mentioned.
Plus, It's not radio related, as I had this issue with stock sense on both radios, and as I tried all the Roms with the last one...
I'm pretty convinced it's library related, I'll do a comp of the ones dealing with audio and tell you what.
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Hey all,
why in any custom rom the maximum ringtones, notifications, songs, and anything that uses the phone speaker is very low you can barely hear the ringtone, the morning alarm - sometimes i miss it -, however in stock roms the sound is amazing and sometimes noisy? why guys? and any fix or a possible solution to fix this?
am running CM10 nightly BTW
Hossam.Abdelsalam said:
Hey all,
why in any custom rom the maximum ringtones, notifications, songs, and anything that uses the phone speaker is very low you can barely hear the ringtone, the morning alarm - sometimes i miss it -, however in stock roms the sound is amazing and sometimes noisy? why guys? and any fix or a possible solution to fix this?
am running CM10 nightly BTW
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I don't know if this phone is like my previous LG Optimus 2X but it also was like that, on Stock ROMS the speaker was way louder than on CyanogenMod based ROMS, try using a stock based ROM or install Volume+ from the Play Store it helps with the speaker volume. (Be careful with Volume+ and don't put the value too high or else the sound may be distorted.)
i've already tried the volume+ with no luck, i think its related to the speakers drivers in sense stock rom, and am looking for an advanced help to be brought to CM10, hope anyone from the dev team to find a real fix for this.
probably due to a proprietary driver in the tegra that is closed source... android is an open source software for closed source handset...
I played around with cm11 but I decided I'm not ready for it yet, so I'm back on sense 5.5 KK 4.4 ARHD. Even though I liked the cm11 very much what I really miss about it is the snappy vanilla sounds it has for unlock/lock/touch..
If anyone could upload them into a flashable/nonflashable zip it would be amazing.
Edit:: I did manage to extract the ogg files from the cm11 ROM.. I guess it is no longer needed for me but others might want it.
Edit2:: appearntly , changing the 'tick' or 'touch' sounds in system data cripples the speakers, basically does a weird sharp static sound every time you 'tick' or 'touch' anything even on silent which got me worried, but switching back to stock 'tick' sound fixes the issue.. Anyone has an explanation to why this is behaving like this?
I've been running V4A since I first unlocked my 10, and it works fairly well, but not as well as when I have the Nexus 6 and Note5. Although you can flash the standard V4A in TWRP and have it work, you need to a modified version that patches the audio config files in order to not lose BoomSound or Audio Profiles. You can find the flashable ZIP that patches here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/htc-10-audio-thread-t3358064 (v2.1)
My primary reason for needing it is to boost the volume output to my car through Android Auto, which is Bluetooth powered. Play Music is so low when used this way, that I need to keep my radio near 30 (45 max) in order to get decent sound. Same car (2015 Sonata w/ Infinity radio) and the Note5 would achieve the same quality closer to 15/45.
The 2.1 zip I mentioned above seems to break all system sounds when applying a ROM update, but not every update. When it happens, I need to dirty flash back to the latest Viper full ROM, then take the OTA again, then flash V4A and hope it doesn't break. I'd prefer some other options to raise Bluetooth volume levels if anyone can recommend an alternative.
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I've been running V4A since I first unlocked my 10, and it works fairly well, but not as well as when I have the Nexus 6 and Note5. Although you can flash the standard V4A in TWRP and have it work, you need to a modified version that patches the audio config files in order to not lose BoomSound or Audio Profiles. You can find the flashable ZIP that patches here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/htc-10-audio-thread-t3358064 (v2.1)
My primary reason for needing it is to boost the volume output to my car through Android Auto, which is Bluetooth powered. Play Music is so low when used this way, that I need to keep my radio near 30 (45 max) in order to get decent sound. Same car (2015 Sonata w/ Infinity radio) and the Note5 would achieve the same quality closer to 15/45.
The 2.1 zip I mentioned above seems to break all system sounds when applying a ROM update, but not every update. When it happens, I need to dirty flash back to the latest Viper full ROM, then take the OTA again, then flash V4A and hope it doesn't break. I'd prefer some other options to raise Bluetooth volume levels if anyone can recommend an alternative.
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Have you tried any other mods like AcoustiX_Audio_ZeroInfinity ?
I feel like that increases Bluetooth output
Question for you -- I remember you from YEARS ago (been here a long time -- just haven't contributed as you have) ---
I'm on AT&T and am currently using IceROM .... and specific reasons you use Viper? PM is ok if you'd rather
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Have you tried any other mods like AcoustiX_Audio_ZeroInfinity ?
I feel like that increases Bluetooth output
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I have not. Is there a version that maintains BoomSound function? That's why I've previously stuck with the thread I linked above. A vanilla V4A install works, at the expense of BoomSound, and I'm trying to avoid losing it.
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I have not. Is there a version that maintains BoomSound function? That's why I've previously stuck with the thread I linked above. A vanilla V4A install works, at the expense of BoomSound, and I'm trying to avoid losing it.
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I wouldn't swear to it but I believe that mod now maintains Boom Sound
check my edited question on my previous post if you have a minute
jcrompton said:
I wouldn't swear to it but I believe that mod now maintains Boom Sound
check my edited question on my previous post if you have a minute
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Used to run Viper because it was a godsend on the Nexus 6 and its horrible audio setup. On the 10, I'm using it for Bluetooth volume more than anything else. The slight boost to speakers is nice with the Extra Loud toggle, but I can go without it.
Do you have a link to the specific mod you're talking about? I'll try flashing it later tonight to see how it works.
NotATreoFan said:
Used to run Viper because it was a godsend on the Nexus 6 and its horrible audio setup. On the 10, I'm using it for Bluetooth volume more than anything else. The slight boost to speakers is nice with the Extra Loud toggle, but I can go without it.
Do you have a link to the specific mod you're talking about? I'll try flashing it later tonight to see how it works.
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Here is link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2211163&highlight=boom+sound
Sorry my ADHD made my question not understandable --- I was more asking about ViperROM (not the Viper4A) ........ but I agree with what you said about V4A
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Here is link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2211163&highlight=boom+sound
Sorry my ADHD made my question not understandable --- I was more asking about ViperROM (not the Viper4A) ........ but I agree with what you said about V4A
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Gotcha!
For me, I like maximum customization options, and for me Viper has offered that since I had the One M7 a few years back. When I made the decision to unlock my 10, I went straight to ViperROM, so my experience for this device is currently limited to a week on stock, and then Viper for custom.
But I have no doubt that each ROM currently available has pros and cons, Viper included, and it's up to everyone to give them a shot and use what works best for them.
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I have Note 5 Pro (6GB-^$GB), Global ROM, MIUI 10.2.1 - updated from previous MIUI 9
The sounds for various notification etc are damn crap and I personally feel the ones in MIUI 9 were much better, I wish I knew this before updating, then I wouldnt have.
As though cannot complaint much being on 10.2.1 apart from other notification sound I can stay on it.
The only extremely annohying one is Screenshot sound, it just hurts ears, not sure who decided to put this sound but its well annoying. I do take many screenshots, and I wish I could change this sound and put either old one (from MIUI 9) or any better one replacing this. I know I can switch OFF this sound but I rather change it then switch OFF, uless there is no other good and simple possible way.
Do not wanna go on Rooting, though Bootloader is Unlocked.
Any way to do this?