What are some general suggestions for tweaking the speaker to make it sound acceptable...cause stock it honestly sounds awful...it really is tinny and piercing to the ear, really can't turn it up very loud...thanks for your help! Otherwise this is a fantastic phone.
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You'll get used to it (or not and sell it if it's a deal breaker) and never realize it's that bad :thumbup:
Otherwise you could use an equalizer app and tune it to your liking although it's pretty limited
Does it improve with time at all? Like it needs to break in a lil?
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Does it improve with time at all? Like it needs to break in a lil?
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I would like to say yes (as is the case with many speakers), but it also could be one gets more used to it as time passes and that's all they hear
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I would like to say yes (as is the case with many speakers), but it also could be one gets more used to it as time passes and that's all they hear
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That could be part of it, but ya I know with headphones I've had they take a few days to break in and become warmer sounding...
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That could be part of it, but ya I know with headphones I've had they take a few days to break in and become warmer sounding...
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Yup, good headphones are definitely like that. Guitars too!
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Yup, good headphones are definitely like that. Guitars too!
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Yes sir, that's correct. Will never get rid of my Peavey Delta Blues, best sounding amp I've owned!
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I think this could be improved via software, I have problems with a select range of frecuencies only...
Viper4Android could help the speaker a little bit. Root required.
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Can anyone recommend some good bluetooth earphones please?
Motorola s10-hd.
Love mine
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I've been using the Jaybirds. Work really well.
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will check them out thanks!
these look really good - http://www.jaybirdgear.com/jf3/bluetooth-headphones-features.html#
Is there a way to tell if they will work with the GN?
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Motorola s10-hd.
Love mine
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iammodo said:
Motorola s10-hd.
Love mine
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read few reviews have saying poor audio quality..
If you decide against Bluetooth I highly recommend ZAGG smartbuds! Love them! Better than my £90 phonaks
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read few reviews have saying poor audio quality..
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About the same as my skull candy low riders ( not as much base) but not close to my boss ones but for general use they are good enough. My ears are happy with them.
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Moto S9HD
im partial to nokia 905i's but those are headphones and not earphones i suppose
Jawbone Icon for the car... Plantronics Backbeat 903/906 for the gym. (Stereo bluetooth that wraps around the ear and has a soft cord that wraps behind the neck.)
Jaybird freedom confirmed working
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Jaybird freedom confirmed working
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That's what I use at the gym! Just waiting for my Seidio Surface + Holster to arrive then I'll be back to using them at the gym!
Motorola elite sliver.
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Jaybird freedom confirmed working
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great!! have placed my order. will report back when i get them!!
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Its terrible. I hate my S-10 HD's. They sound terrible with terrible bass and they are very uncomfortable. The S-9 HD's were much much better imo. The sound quality was better and it was slightly more comfortable. They both take a lot of getting used to. Idk why Motorola would make a product that is worse than the one before it.
Are the freedom jaybird headphones good? I think I will buy that next time. Motorola is falling off man. I hope Google helps them see the light.
Jaybird Freedom
Check out Jaybird Freedom's. Best headphones all around that I've owned. Includes a mic too.
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They work just fine with the Nexus. The main reason I picked these up was the sweat-proof guaranty. I read some reviews for other headsets saying that they would crap out after a couple of uses while doing any type of exercise. The two issue I see with these is the left ear sounds a little louder than the right, the other is that when the battery is low, you get a warning every 30 seconds. The warning doesn't come untill the battery is really about to die.
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My opinion is to purchase this:
Jabra Clipper
I purchased a couple of bluetooth headsets but they never really compared to the options you get with regular headsets. This options, you don't have to choose. I use it while running/working out and provide a great compromise.
If you're a runner or sweat heavily then I would recommend against any bluetooth headphones that go into your ear. I have had 3 S9's go out on me and I heard the issue is not fixed in the S10's either. I had looked for other options but most of what I read lead down the same road. If you sweat a lot then these BT headphones will short out.
The best option for me was either the jabra clipper or the sony ericcson mw600. I went with the Mw600 which allows me to use my own headphones and obviously even if i sweat on those it won't short out the bluetooth device since it's no where near my ears.
I really don't understand why there is no competition in these two fields. I think its been time enough and something should be done about this.
There is one set of head phones I(along with others I know) have always used and kept around even though its the only product I currently own from this company. I believe that company holds the standard for personal smartphone headphones. I believe these headphones are very convenient and comfortable. They come with the phone!
Every phone I get including the Nexus One, Galaxy Nexus, Bionic ect... I wouldn't even consider the headphones because of the mess they make.
The battery life, kind of all i really have to say. Everyone who's owned a smartphone with a very durable battery know how much there is lacking in competition. Well "I'm" telling you if you don't know. The same company with the headphone standard holds the battery one as well.
Am I wrong or what do you have to say?
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Ugh.. I call gibberish! You make zero sense...
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Slie said:
Am I wrong or what do you have to say?
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Are you ****ing drunk? I can't understand what you're saying or what it has to do with the Galaxy Nexus.
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Are you ****ing drunk? I can't understand what you're saying or what it has to do with the Galaxy Nexus.
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Something about his headphones not having enough battery.
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Something about his headphones not having enough battery.
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Frickin' hilarious. I almost spit out beer! Cheers!
I'm at a loss.
Bose MIE2 mobile headset, simply superb sound quality!
I think he is trying to say that Apple has better battery life and better headphones. If this is the case he is trolling, or retarded because my friends charge their iPhones twice a day while I laugh at their bleeding ears.
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Something about his headphones not having enough battery.
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Lol this is a good one.
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OP, I agree 100% The mess these headphones make is atrocious. Droppings all over my house and puke behind my television set. Never again.
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I think the headphones made a mess of this post and then the phone battery died before it could be fixed.
....either that, or Google Voice Actions really screwed up in transcribing this.
galaxy nexus audio out is awsome, I've had several Android phones and nothing has such a powerful output as this phone. The bass is powerful and highs very crisp. I'm loving the phone more every day.
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The stereo is awesome too. Mixes left and right very well.
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Yes this device has superb audio out quality thru a good set of headphones. Best of any phone ive owned.
Yeah, it's really good. People used to ***** that it didn't have the Wolfson DAP, but it performs quite well despite this.
Yea screw the wolfson, my sgs didn't sound this good even with voodoo. This just blows everything out when I load poweramp and pump up the bass a little.
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Yeah my transformer has the olfsen with voodoo and it can't compete. The sheer power commingle out of this phone is incredible. I have bought 4 sets of headphones and they all dissapointed me until today when I tried them. On this phone and wow. Dub step sounds like it does in my truck. The bass rumbles my head yet every detail is crisp and clean. I've used those same headphones on my last 5 phones and was disappointed. HTC dream flat, galaxy s decent, atrix weak bass, lg optimus 3d too quiet, iPhone 4 flat, galaxy nexus like I'm connected to my Yamaha reciever.
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which can are you guys using?
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Agreed. This blows my old hTc out of the water. Even the headphones it came with sound good on this phone.
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Agreed. This blows my old hTc out of the water. Even the headphones it came with sound good on this phone.
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it is indeed class above other bundled headphone/iem i've tried
It's the same one that came with my S2 and 10.1
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Dub step sounds like it does in my truck.
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... crappy?
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ph00ny said:
which can are you guys using?
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I use bose MIE2 mobile headset. Excellent headset. Dont let the bose name decieve you.
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... crappy?
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I bet if we set up a poll more people on this site listen to EDM than those who do not. I, for one, love wubwubwub.
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I bet if we set up a poll more people on this site listen to EDM than those who do not. I, for one, love wubwubwub.
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EDM is not just dubstep no matter what Skrillex says.
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Alsamixer and dsp manager w hell lot of bass w a pair of beats headphones...
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I gotta say, my RAZR sounded way better with almost twice the available volume.
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EDM is not just dubstep no matter what Skrillex says.
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Oh noes, i think I'm just going to stay out of this one.
But wait, prog. House is the best EDM, nuff said.
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No I have 2x 10inch subs in my f150 and its sick, its a small space fof that much bass.
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galaxy nexus audio out is awsome, I've had several Android phones and nothing has such a powerful output as this phone. The bass is powerful and highs very crisp. I'm loving the phone more every day.
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Try any HTC with beats audio and ull dump the gnex not only gnex. Anything !
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ajftl said:
Try any HTC with beats audio and ull dump the gnex not only gnex. Anything !
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the moment when you realize $20 skullkandies have the same quality
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I'm not impressed with beats headphones. I find they only focus on bass and highs and the mids are lacking as well as 3d imagery. I find the senheizer and bose headphones to be of much better audio quality covering the entire audio spectrum. I've been producing electronic dance music for years and no one I know in the industry takes the beats line of headphones seriously. Its all marketing.
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I know this has been mentioned many times and we all know how low quality the mic on the a100 is, but has anybody came to a final fix ASIDE from using a headset, through some of my playing around I noticed that the mic hole is actually lined up wrong, the plastic sides of the a100 can be removed, and when I saw where the hole is, it was positioned over a piece of plastic right beside the mic, and the mic itself is blocked.
So out of desperation a drilled a small hole right over the mic, that did seem to make the volume higher, but the quality...oh so worse (I had to fill that hole again with superglue, and it looks horrible), if anybody would like to see, just take the small piece of plastic off the side (it snaps in/out) and see for yourself how the mic hole doesn't even line up.
Now the second interesting thing is that I saw a chat session with a technical support guy at Acer about the mic on this tab, and he actually confirmed that the mic shipped with it is in fact a cheap low quality mic, so I was thinking, would anybody be able to somehow solder it out and swap it with a much higher quality one? Say from a headset or something, I don't have any mics of the same size as the a100 but if anybody has one can you maybe try and look into it, I sure will try as soon as I get good enough with soldering and find a headset, I mean we really don't have anything to lose other than a cheap mic that doesn't really work .
Much appreciated, thanks
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Went for the kill, opened it up and soldered a new mic I got from a pretty expensive Logitech webcam....results are, mic is so much better now, at least people can hear me through Skype now
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Metallica 4 Life said:
Went for the kill, opened it up and soldered a new mic I got from a pretty expensive Logitech webcam....results are, mic is so much better now, at least people can hear me through Skype now
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nice dude....this mic does suck donkey balls....i may open mine up...i got sone sweet mics at work...
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Yeah, it's a bit tricky to open up but I can help if you need help.
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Metallica 4 Life said:
Yeah, it's a bit tricky to open up but I can help if you need help.
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you should post up some pics if u ever tear her open again. would be a very good reference if ppl needed to open them up.....me thinks battery mod :-D
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you should post up some pics if u ever tear her open again. would be a very good reference if ppl needed to open them up.....me thinks battery mod :-D
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Yeah, I'd like to see what it looks like inside before I start looking for replacement mics.
Alright, I will post pictures on how to open it up and how to get the microphone out, its tricky indeed
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Metallica 4 Life said:
Alright, I will post pictures on how to open it up and how to get the microphone out, its tricky indeed
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right on man ! oh and metallica rocks! :-D
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right on man ! oh and metallica rocks! :-D
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Proud owner of The Black Album \\m// ... won't comment on their stuff after Load though.
Yeah Metallica and dream theater <3
I will start another thread as a how to and I will link it as soon as I post it.
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Tutorial link in my next post
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Alright here is the tutorial thread, hope it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25280243#post25280243
So, I've had the phone for a week now and I've been using eiher my generic Samsung headphones or my oversized Beats Pro. I decided to give the included headphones a try. Man, these were horrible. Am I the only one that thinks these are crap?
sebastianraven said:
So, I've had the phone for a week now and I've been using eiher my generic Samsung headphones or my oversized Beats Pro. I decided to give the included headphones a try. Man, these were horrible. Am I the only one that thinks these are crap?
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damn, figured they would be.
this is with beats audio on? off?
what type of music?
bass distorted, whats going on?
People actually use included headphones?
GrayTheWolf said:
People actually use included headphones?
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mine are still in the plastic, lol
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mine are still in the plastic, lol
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Me too.
I used them and I find them to be fine, considering they were included with the phone. Nothing beats my Bose though, in my opinion.
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Audiotechnica ATH-M50 all the way!
They really are awful. They feel like they will break in your hand. I tried them just to see how they would sound, never touched them again. I use my skull candy ear buds. Not the best in the world, but they have a good flat eq; which I like being a guy who records, mixes, and masters music.
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They're unmarked noise-cancelling Beats. They're not amazing quality, but they're certainly not terrible. 7/10 maybe. This has been discussed in the other forums for the carriers who received headphones with their phones. Seeing as I didn't pay extra for it, and not all carriers received it with their phones, I'm quite happy with it. The headphones work, they didn't come broken or defective, so why complain? Beats is designed for low bass, so if you're listening to country or pop music, it's not going to sound great. While listening to the music genres it was designed for, I was pleasantly surprised at how well the music came across. Listening to spoken audio or music with little bass will not be perfect on any Beats product, let alone some free earbuds. Bose or Audiotechnica will blow these out of the water across the spectrum, but when you didn't pay specifically for them, these are quite satisfactory.
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I used them and I find them to be fine, considering they were included with the phone. Nothing beats my Bose though, in my opinion.
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true, I do wish I kept the real pair that came with my Rezound.
I only opened them to try them out and the build quality is really bad, and the audio quality is not far behind (with or without the Beats setting).
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Audiotechnica ATH-M50 all the way!
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Same +1
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true, I do wish I kept the real pair that came with my Rezound.
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i still have mine. sound great and portable, but when i'm at home i prefer some over the ear. i had some ntune's, great sound with my dna, but the band snapped and now i'm looking to get some beyerdynamic pro's
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I only opened them to try them out and the build quality is really bad, and the audio quality is not far behind (with or without the Beats setting).
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I didn't really think they were that bad...
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I didn't really think they were that bad...
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They're definitely not terrible, but the difference between these and a higher end set is pretty noticeable.
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They're definitely not terrible, but the difference between these and a higher end set is pretty noticeable.
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No doubt a there but its an included set no real high expectations. Rezound was different but beyond that they've all been about the same.
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I thought they were quite comfortable and sounded decent...
for included earbuds they sound pretty good. I currently use them at work and find the nose isolation to be better then average.
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No doubt a there but its an included set no real high expectations. Rezound was different but beyond that they've all been about the same.
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My rezound buds are still kicking it. Don't know how much longer, my wife uses them and keeps dropping them...
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Stock earbuds at least have a mic, right? I got a pair of ATH-M30 but I sure can't walk and talk with them (not that I'd walk around with over-ear headphones anyawy).