Mi Max Sound Problems - Xiaomi Mi Max Questions & Answers
How are people dealing with the audio problems on the Mi Max? It is affecting the Global MIUI 7&8 and the China MIUI 8 ROM. Xiaomi has done nothing despite many complaining on the MIUI forums for months. Even the latest ROM has the same problems.
The output through the headphone jack is half the volume it should be. You can easily listen to YouTube at full volume and it's not even loud. Also the sound quality is appalling with quiet vocals and heavy bass even without using the system EQ (which crashes anyway in MIUI 7). There is also a noticeable hissing/static though headphones for a few seconds before and after a system sound plays, but listening to music doesn't have the same problem.
Considering its a standard Qualcomm DAC used in many phones its terrible what Xiaomi has done to mess up the output. My Mediatek powered phone from 2012 sounds so superior and with the Mi Max being a media consumption aimed phone it's a real poor effort.
I believe the phone is taking a low internal DAC output (caused by a bug) and amplifying it hence the distorted sound and low max volume. It's the only thing I'm extremely disappointed with and wondered how others are handling the issue?
By ditching MIUI...!?
Does the Mi Max not have these issues running CM etc?
I'm sure many are currently using MIUI and I won't be ditching it at least until the years warranty is up, also want to see what MIUI 9 is like based on Nougat.
F27 said:
Does the Mi Max not have these issues running CM etc?
I'm sure many are currently using MIUI and I won't be ditching it at least until the years warranty is up, also want to see what MIUI 9 is like based on Nougat.
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Except some low volume issues which are fixed now haven't heard of much complains...
nijel8 said:
Except some low volume issues which are fixed now haven't heard of much complains...
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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=m...i+max+sound+problems+site:en.miui.com&start=0
F27 said:
How are people dealing with the audio problems on the Mi Max? It is affecting the Global MIUI 7&8 and the China MIUI 8 ROM. Xiaomi has done nothing despite many complaining on the MIUI forums for months. Even the latest ROM has the same problems.
The output through the headphone jack is half the volume it should be. You can easily listen to YouTube at full volume and it's not even loud. Also the sound quality is appalling with quiet vocals and heavy bass even without using the system EQ (which crashes anyway in MIUI 7). There is also a noticeable hissing/static though headphones for a few seconds before and after a system sound plays, but listening to music doesn't have the same problem.
Considering its a standard Qualcomm DAC used in many phones its terrible what Xiaomi has done to mess up the output. My Mediatek powered phone from 2012 sounds so superior and with the Mi Max being a media consumption aimed phone it's a real poor effort.
I believe the phone is taking a low internal DAC output (caused by a bug) and amplifying it hence the distorted sound and low max volume. It's the only thing I'm extremely disappointed with and wondered how others are handling the issue?
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I can confirm the low headphone volume bug exists for some media/music player apps on the miui 8 global rom. However, there's an easy workaround. Open Google play music app and play an audio file in that app. Increase the headphone volume from that app beyond the 'Warning: high volume can damage hearing' volume level. Leave the headphone volume at the highest setting. Close Google play music app. The next time you play audio in your preferred media player (other than Google play music), it should already be fixed. If you don't have Google play music, you can download it from Google Play store.
F27 said:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=m...i+max+sound+problems+site:en.miui.com&start=0
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That wasn't necessary... I am well aware of all things about Mi Max from day one.
And you were asking about CM so...
I thought my new earphones were faulty when I used them in my Mi Max. I was going to give them away but then I read about sound problems on Mi Max. Both my xiaomi phones have poor sound quality, mi4 always had poor quiet sound.
The low volume has been fixed for me on g8
There's some cracking but that's sorted by clean cache in the play music app there's also a equaliser in the app settings
This is a workaround for get high volume during listening to music by using IEM/Headphone. Only work with poweramp v3 alpha build 703/704
(Please Google it for APK. It's free in Poweramp forum)
Install poweramp v3 alpha, go to setting > resampler.
Select resampler type > SoX
Resampler cutoff frequency ratio > 97% ~ 99%
Dither > Improved e-weighted noise shaping (Poweramp indicate it slow but actually it fast enough)
Tap back button and select Hi-Res Output and then turn on Wired headset/aux (it will upsampled lossy format thus higher volume and audio quality improved a little bit. Another thing is make sure the 24-bit Snapdragon DAC is activated during listening session).
WARNING: Lower the volume at 20% or lower before activating Hi-Res output during playback. Trust me you'll thanks me later xD
If you can hear distorted sound at high volume, go to replay gain (RG), set preamp for songs without RG info to -7dB. (Just to make sure the sound is not clipping).
The Mi Max audio quality is pretty good even the DAC is just an integrated DAC.
In the screenshot is DSD128 playback. Working but it was downsampled. As for 24bit/96kHz source, it will upsampled to 192kHz.
Thank you for the replies. I have tried upping to volume in Google Play Music and it did increase the volume in other apps by around 20% so it's a start and thank you for the tip but it's still not really near the quality and loudness it should be for a stock Qualcomm 652 DAC. I will give the V3 Poweramp beta trick a try. I am currently using the Poweramp Pro to listen to music and the Mi Max sounds poor.
Basically Xiaomi need to go through how MIUI is handling audio and overhaul it imo, and hopefully version 9 won't need any of these work arounds because I've never had trouble on other budget phones... or I'm off to another ROM!
F27 said:
Thank you for the replies. I have tried upping to volume in Google Play Music and it did increase the volume in other apps by around 20% so it's a start and thank you for the tip but it's still not really near the quality and loudness it should be for a stock Qualcomm 652 DAC. I will give the V3 Poweramp beta trick a try. I am currently using the Poweramp Pro to listen to music and the Mi Max sounds poor.
Basically Xiaomi need to go through how MIUI is handling audio and overhaul it imo, and hopefully version 9 won't need any of these work arounds because I've never had trouble on other budget phones... or I'm off to another ROM!
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If you want more loudness still, louder than what the stock MIUI 8 can give you, I suggest you install music players with a 'pre-amp'. Neutron is one of my favorites among 'audiophile' grade music players (though I like BSPlayer more due to its multimedia capabilities). You can download the trial version of 'Neutron' at Google playstore (or purchase the full version if you are satisfied with the player.) Here are screenshots of Neutron music player where the pre-amp was adjusted (above zero) so as to increase the Mi Max's maximum attainable headphone volume (without buying an external portable headphone amp). Please note that too high a pre-amp setting can cause audio clipping which results to bad sound quality.
As to sound quality, yes the Mi Max headphone sound quality is really poor out of the box (MIUI 8). I have an Audio technica ATH-M50s/LE headphones which I used to listen to FLAC music on my previous Huawei Mate 7 phone. The sound quality was just ethereal. It's like listening to live musicians. I missed the headphone sound quality on my Mate 7 [DTS enabled] using the Audio technica as my headphones and BSPlayer as my preferred player (highlights the Audio Technica's strengths). Anyway, when I changed to the Mi Max, I used the same Audio Technica headphones only to be disappointed. I found out the Mi Max can't quite match the Mate 7's music reproduction [headphone DTS enabled] using the same music player (BSPlayer) or any music player for that matter. Fortunately, the Mi Max comes with headphone settings and a built in equalizer. Did a little experimentation and came up with the following settings that managed to somehow 'resemble' what my previous Mate 7 phone was able to deliver with regard to sound quality. Please note your mileage may vary depending on the quality of the headphones you use and your preferred media or music player:
1. Set Mi sound enhancer to 'ON'. Choose 'Mi headphones'.
2. Set the equalizer as follows:
These settings should improve the Mi Max's sound quality tremendously... Well, at least from my experience --- using the same Audio technica headphones and BSPlayer music player as audio player. I've saved the custom equalizer settings above as 'Mate7' because it reminds me of the sound quality of my previous Mate 7 phone. It's not a perfect match, but at least it comes close. Please note you really need good quality over-the-ear headphones if you want to overcome the Mi Max's 'poor headphone audio' shortcomings. Alternate headphones that I have thoroughly listened to and would also highly recommend are the B&W P7 and Sennheiser Momentums. I would have bought the B&W P7 had I not auditioned the Audio Technica side-by-side it and the Sennheiser Momentums. If you are serious about audio but can't give up the Mi Max for another phone with better audio components, then the recommendations above are about as good as the Mi Max can get.
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If you want more loudness still, louder than what the stock MIUI 8 can give you, I suggest you install music players with a 'pre-amp'. Neutron is one of my favorites among 'audiophile' grade music players (though I like BSPlayer more due to its multimedia capabilities). You can download the trial version of 'Neutron' at Google playstore (or purchase the full version if you are satisfied with the player.) Here are screenshots of Neutron music player where the pre-amp was adjusted (above zero) so as to increase the Mi Max's maximum attainable headphone volume (without buying an external portable headphone amp). Please note that too high a pre-amp setting can cause audio clipping which results to bad sound quality.
As to sound quality, yes the Mi Max headphone sound quality is really poor out of the box (MIUI 8). I have an Audio technica ATH-M50s/LE headphones which I used to listen to FLAC music on my previous Huawei Mate 7 phone. The sound quality was just ethereal. It's like listening to live musicians. I missed the headphone sound quality on my Mate 7 [DTS enabled] using the Audio technica as my headphones and BSPlayer as my preferred player (highlights the Audio Technica's strengths). Anyway, when I changed to the Mi Max, I used the same Audio Technica headphones only to be disappointed. I found out the Mi Max can't quite match the Mate 7's music reproduction [headphone DTS enabled] using the same music player (BSPlayer) or any music player for that matter. Fortunately, the Mi Max comes with headphone settings and a built in equalizer. Did a little experimentation and came up with the following settings that managed to somehow 'resemble' what my previous Mate 7 phone was able to deliver with regard to sound quality. Please note your mileage may vary depending on the quality of the headphones you use and your preferred media or music player:
1. Set Mi sound enhancer to 'ON'. Choose 'Mi headphones'.
2. Set the equalizer as follows:
These settings should improve the Mi Max's sound quality tremendously... Well, at least from my experience --- using the same Audio technica headphones and BSPlayer music player as audio player. I've saved the custom equalizer settings above as 'Mate7' because it reminds me of the sound quality of my previous Mate 7 phone. It's not a perfect match, but at least it comes close. Please note you really need good quality over-the-ear headphones if you want to overcome the Mi Max's 'poor headphone audio' shortcomings. Alternate headphones that I have thoroughly listened to and would also highly recommend are the B&W P7 and Sennheiser Momentums. I would have bought the B&W P7 had I not auditioned the Audio Technica side-by-side it and the Sennheiser Momentums. If you are serious about audio but can't give up the Mi Max for another phone with better audio components, then the recommendations above are about as good as the Mi Max can get.
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FYI, the audio quality pretty impressive with IEM (Audio Technica ATH-IM50 and Trinity Audio Engineering Delta). You feel the sound is not quite loud enough because of internal amp suck. Mi Max can't handle high impedance headphone like yours (ATH-M50X). To overcome your problem, you have to pair your Mi Max with portable amp such as fiio e11k.
btw, didnt you noticed your source is clipping too much across low freq??
Actually the 'Neutron' screenshots did not show any headphones attached. The music was played on Mi Max's loudspeakers which can't reproduce low frequency so you can't hear the clipped low frequency sounds. The recording is actually only piano, vocals and cymbals. The low frequency is from instrument feedback (low frequency hum). On my ATH-M50s/LE headphones, that volume level would have been half as much since 100% is already too loud, eliminating the low frequency clipping. I don't need an external amp for my headphones. They're loud enough for me except for some Chesky recordings.
At the end of the day we shouldn't need to do any of these fixes and tweaks to make the sound from the Mi Max reasonable, Xiaomi should fix it but it seems they have very poor customer service when it comes to feedback and bugs. This Qualcomm DAC chipset is in many phones yet they don't have sound quality and loudness issues. I don't expect perfection but the Mi Max out of the box sounds worse than by budget Mediatek powered phone from 4 years ago!
i modded the mixer_paths files to make the sound louder. My roms all include this already. You need to make sure in your build.prop that fluence is enabled by making sure there is a line that says ro.qc.sdk.audio.fluencetype=fluence and make sure the two lines persist.audio.fluence.voicecall and persist.audio.fluence.speaker are set to true. Then flash this in twrp or replace your three mixer paths files in system/etc with the ones in the zip file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5I_q70mNuR4c1pxODNpTk12Y2M/view?usp=sharing
AeroMiku said:
FYI, the audio quality pretty impressive with IEM (Audio Technica ATH-IM50 and Trinity Audio Engineering Delta). You feel the sound is not quite loud enough because of internal amp suck. Mi Max can't handle high impedance headphone like yours (ATH-M50X). To overcome your problem, you have to pair your Mi Max with portable amp such as fiio e11k.
btw, didnt you noticed your source is clipping too much across low freq??
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Try out Foobar2000 (available on the Play Store, free & open source) instead of Neutron & you can skip the entire default sound processing with usage of the Open SL sound output & you will find a built in DSP section mostly sufficient. I am against modifying sound picture to much & as much as I sow in GSM Arena review the output sound picture is almost perfect & thick behind iPhone 6s (I plan to buy Max now). Rest is mostly influenced by quality of sound source & used headphones. For more well use dedicated external DAC & Amp.
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ajsmsg78 said:
i modded the mixer_paths files to make the sound louder. My roms all include this already. You need to make sure in your build.prop that fluence is enabled by making sure there is a line that says ro.qc.sdk.audio.fluencetype=fluence and make sure the two lines persist.audio.fluence.voicecall and persist.audio.fluence.speaker are set to true. Then flash this in twrp or replace your three mixer paths files in system/etc with the ones in the zip file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5I_q70mNuR4c1pxODNpTk12Y2M/view?usp=sharing
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Would actually rather increase (in small steps) output volume
In <!-- Play Scenario --> section for headphones & speaker if I whose you.
Don't exaggerate with it!
Best regards.
I did the opposite and reduced headphone volume to get rid of the hissing. I had the same problem on the Note 3 Pro, on MIUI 8 and CM13/CM14, so it's down to how the Qualcomm mixers are configured. By reducing gain and turning off companders you're dropping the noise floor. The drawback is that headphone volume is low, so this hack only works well with low impedance IEMs like Xiaomi Pistons.
1. Get rooted, open up all mixer_path_*.xml files in /system/etc.
2. Change HPHL Volume and HPHR Volume to a low value like 2.
3. Change any Comp* Switch values to 0.
4. Change RX HPH Mode to CLS_H_HIFI
5. Reboot and enjoy.
My own solution - Use VLC. Fixes the volume problem well - after you set the Audio Output to ES
skerry2006aj said:
My own solution - Use VLC. Fixes the volume problem well - after you set the Audio Output to ES
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Use Foobar2000 instead, VLC is bad when it comes to music.
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Neutron music player
professional music player... try it
It brings better sound, but the front end is better of Poweramp
i can´t belive, a realy parametic equalizer !
has it better sound than stock music player (Im satisfied with it)
I think you need good ears and headphones to hear the sound difference. Neutron uses 32 bit audio processing, it is better than Poweramp and stock SGS3 player's sound, but the app itself is is not that better
camspy said: I think you need good ears and headphones to hear the sound difference. Neutron uses 32 bit audio processing, it is better than Poweramp and stock SGS3 player's sound, but the app itself is is not that better Click to expand... Click to collapse Actually, for me it is since I use the volume normalization feature that no other player has. If you have a mix of different encodings with somewhat different effective volume, this feature will adjust the preamp setting for each file so you don't need to fool around with the volume rocker on each track
Are there any recommended settings to use with our beloved SGS3? Is there an option to have more volume-steps for the SGS3? The volume is rather high (even on lowest volume-bar) for me... I wish I could adjust the volume more precise...
U can adjust preamp on most good players,like poweramp-neutron-playerpro,they all have adjustable preamp...or wait for supercurio to release voodoo sound.he boost and modify the wolfson dac (sound chip) and the improvement he makes is "over the top" fantastic and it also contains a preamp
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Walkman'ish quality?
Hi guys, so one thing has been bothering me since I plugged my earphones into my Z1C - the sound quality. I used to own a Walkman mp3 player and I loved its sound quality, but it's less than half of that in my phone. I don't get as many bass if any at all when using crystal clear sound or whatever it's called. If I manually turn the bass down, it increases by a small amount, but the overall sound quality goes down significantly. Is this a common problem? (or a problem at all?) What do you think? Do you enjoy your music experience or do you try to fight it? Is there any way to make music sound better without installing any 3rd party players? Have a nice day.
Comparing to sgs 2 for me crap... Sound from my Sgs2 was much much better on same headphones
mosespl said: Comparing to sgs 2 for me crap... Sound from my Sgs2 was much much better on same headphones Click to expand... Click to collapse Exactly the same story here.
The clear audio + mode sounds terrible in my opinion. I'm using the Unique and bass boost equalizer presets in sound enhancements. They sound much closer to my Walkman.
if you have root you can install viper fx and inside it there is an option to configure a lot of thing and mod sound in headphone i dont use it but everyone in viper fx thread confirm that it makes a miracle so maybe it's worth to try
Pathetic Sound Quality Is there any mod to get deeper bass & clear highs????
Try: - Viper4Android: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223 - eXtremeBeats: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2634729
Wasn't planning to root at the moment. However problem solved - Poweramp.
Mi max Sound Problem on Miui Global 8.2
Dear Developers I have facing problems with my new Mi max 32GB. The Rom version of my new device is Miui global 8.2 | stable 8.2.1.0 Everything is right without the Sound. I m very much disappointed with the sound on headphone. Actually i have another Mi max which i brought 3 months earlier. And Rom is Miui global 7.3 | Stable 7.3.15.0.0 and sound is pretty awesome. What to do . Please give me a complete proper solution. I love Xda. Tauhid Bangladesh
You use which app for music?
Actually i m talking about overall sound quality. As example in sound cloud i get awesome sound in my other device but in 8.2 i got very much poor.
smartboydcc said: Actually i m talking about overall sound quality. As example in sound cloud i get awesome sound in my other device but in 8.2 i got very much poor. Click to expand... Click to collapse Sound quality is rather good but loudness isn't. You can get a trade of on that in many ways for music & video it actually depends on your choice. One of the ways is that you for instance disable Mi sound enhancer & use Google play music but it's not a best one. Other method is to use apps (VLC, foobar2000...) that suport OpenSL audio output & enable it this isn't bad but still not the best practice. The best practice is to use sound-volume amplification (gain) in apps (most MMC apps suport it in dB form) & along with Mi sound enhancer & remember if you cross the line with amplification the sound quality falls exponentially 1.8~2.2dB is usually used in studio's as hire volume is actually loo you can go up to 3.8dB not hearing much of distortion after that it is present but no one is stopping you to get it up as much as you like. Xiaomi purposely lowered the volumes in mixer patches as it whose afraid someone will get its hearing damage & lawsuit them. I use Kodi for movies (with 93dB set for a music and 3.8dB amplification set for a movies & pass true) and foobar2000 with DSP resasampler set to 96000 for music & quality is actually really good at least with solid quality budget over the ear headphones that I use (Panasonic HTF295, Superlux HD-668B).
Dear bro i have tried ur system but not working ...thanks
smartboydcc said: Dear bro i have tried ur system but not working ...thanks Click to expand... Click to collapse Well it works very good in Kodi, not so good in foobar2000. In foobar2000 you can enable the OpenSL output (warning before doing this revert reply-gain to at least 0db), this way you gain a lot on loudness but lose some quality (as always). I prefer quality & with good headphones & decent quality sources it's good enough for me as I described before & a real pleasure with HiFi lossless flac (I have cuple 24bit 96000Hz ones) one's. OpenSL is also hardware accelerated so it's not much power hungry. Best regards.
Try sound booster by goodev to enhance your sounds and add it to autostart. Sent from my MI MAX using Tapatalk
Flash Modified MIUI Global Stable it have Louder sound Mod and many features. download From here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-max/development/rom-miui-8-global-t3439698
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Hey guys... ScreaMySkrillEX here. This is an audio mod made for the redmi note 3(kenzo/Kate) which also works on mi max(hydrogen/helium) as both the devices share the same audio codec and streams. What does my mod do? It enables dual speaker config on your device and has two variants(htc10/stereo). And there's also a stock version which only tweaks the headphone audio output. Htc10 version uses both earpiece and loudspeaker for audio output. The output is mono and hence earpiece acts like a mid-range booster and adds more detail to the speaker audio. Stereo version also uses both speakers for audio output but earpiece behaves as left speaker and loudspeaker behaves as the right speaker. Instructions. 1) Download the latest zip from the drive folder link below: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5ratNhH-7mGU3AtTVFmekE4VG8 2)Reboot to recovery. 3)Flash shox Audio Mod zip.(while flashing the file shows that its made for kenzo/Kate. Don't worry, it will work for your device also xD) 4)Reboot. 5)Feel the shox effect! Enjoy the music... If you have any requests or problems, feel free to ask. I will definitely help you. And you guys are most welcome for your suggestions. Read the 2nd post for more info and recommended tips. Thanks to: @chdloc - For his biquads app and support. He has thought me many things. A brilliant dev. @UltraM8 - For his Ainur Sauron audio mod. @zhuhang - For his viper4android app and IRS samples. @Albertkuba - For actually informing that this mod works for mi max too. This thread is because of him @ZeroInfinity - He is the inspiration for me. His works are really brilliant.
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V1.1 - tweaked the values a bit to further remove the hissing noise as reported by @MurdererFight.(thanks bro for being the first tester and reporting me) V1.2 - added some tweaks which will truly enable HiFi audio through DAC with the help of a magisk module..now the DAC detects the impedance of the earphone or the headphone connected.this ensures proper voltage levels through the amp for the earphones/headphones. V1.3 - Merged surround audio mod along with hifi audio.. Enjoy stereo-like sound on your kenzo (earpiece speaker also outputs sound now xD, videos feel more alive to watch now).Thanks to @AgentBuBu for the soundmod. I just merged his mod with mine.. V1.4 - Changed the earpiece thresholds to remove the crackling sound and readjusted both the speaker sound to the same level. Now enjoy stereo like never before on your kenzo's speakers. Thanks to @Androbots for reporting this.Also made the mod universal by making a magisk and SuperSU version.. V1.45 - Readjusted the values again for both earpiece and loudspeaker to remove distortion completely, increased audio volume through headphone jack without disturbing the quality. So, now there's a very little drop in the audio but the quality is absolute eargasm. v1.5 - Readjusted and increased the volume of both earpiece and speaker without inducing distortions. The sound level is more than stock now. And further pushed the volume through headphones for louder volume..Now the stereo feel is amazing.. And included biQuads support for headphones for expert users. Now you can correct the frequency response of your beloved cans, IEMs. Link for biQuads is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70194192&postcount=226 v1.6 - This time made sure to keep the audio levels same at the earpiece and loudspeaker to increase the stereo and ambience. Very little changes to headphone volume again. Removed some unused codes. Its true stereo now. Enjoy the stereo on speakers like never before v1.7 - Fixed the messed up headphone gain as reported by @AravindhStanley and now has 2 new versions... 1) Stereo Version - The present version which you guys are using..earpiece acts as the left speaker and loudspeaker acts as the right speaker. The speaker volume and earpiece volume is balanced 2) HTC 10 Version - The new one!!!! it is based on the new HTC 10 loudspeaker audio output.. Its mono but still uses earpiece for sound. But here the earpiece acts as a mid range and bass booster and significantly increases the detail of sound heard through speakers. Here, the loudspeaker is louder than the earpiece. The earpiece just adds detail here. So don't complain about unbalanced audio levels as its kept unbalanced. This version removes all the audio libs to disable audio offloading to the dsp..Now the audio goes straight to the DAC untouched.. So please flash your audio mods once again after flashing the mod to get them back working. Now biQuads is fixed by the founder @chdloc himself..So its finally working now.... I recommend all the users to try both the version and keep the ones which you like. The link to new biQuads is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70194192&postcount=226 v1.7fix - This is only for HTC 10 version...Many users would have experienced no audio from the loudspeaker after flashing v1.7(it wasn't intended to work like that). This issue has been fixed. Now enjoy audio on both earpiece and loudspeaker. Loudspeaker has louder volume than earpiece as earpiece just acts like a mid range and bass booster like before.. Enjoy the sound now.. v1.8 - Made significant changes to headphone audio.... Now the audio is decoded at 24bit 192khz..but still the output is 16bit 48khz..wait for the Poweramp to fix it or if anyone knows how to edit audioflinger please pm me...if audioflinger is hacked, 24bit 192khz audio can be made systemwide.... And enabled hardware Dolby and DTS-HPX support... Use any of the sound mod which has support for them...you will feel a difference.. Nothing much changed in speaker audio.. Reflash your audio mods again....dirty flash v1.9 - Rebased with the stock mixer_paths.XML and edited it from the start again..its much clean and removed useless codes from the file.. Fixed the bug - in-call voice through speakers even though the phone was in earpiece mode as reported by @AravindhStanley Finally the mod is universal! One flashable zip for all ROMs and kernels so no hustle of magisk or su versions. Dropped the HTC10 version as I dint see much potential in it..It will be continued only on demand.. Temporarily removed biQuads support as it requires an in-depth inspection..will include it in the next build.. V2.0 - *Fixed low audio volume on headphones as reported by many.... *Introducing a stock version, which only tweaks the headphone audio leaving the speakers untouched(stock config) *Reincarnated the HTC10 version as requested by @mahmoudthassan V2.1 - *added bass filter for earpiece in both htc10 and stereo version to protect the speaker.. *added a bass filter for headphones also to improve bass range which also reduces distortion.. *created an uninstaller for the mod.. V2.2 - *renamed the mod from HI-FI AUDIO PATCH to shox Audio Mod. *finally implemented biQuads and added my sound signature to the headphone audio output. *increased the amp volume to 16 to increase output volume. *included patched kernels also for the mod as it is mandatory.
This is a guide for creating your own biQuads which replaces the existing ones in the mod. As you all know, biQuads is a set of 5 IIR filters which can be used to enhance the music and also correct the frequency response of the headphones/earphones which you use. Continue from here only if you know what sampling rate, bit width, lowpass, highpass, peak filters mean. Otherwise google those terms and learn what they are and what they do So here's how to design your own biQuads and listen the music in your way: 1) Download biQuads flashable zip from the XDA thread here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/reference-qualcomm-audio-codec-iir-t3093000 Thank @chdloc for this great work. 2) Flash the zip in recovery and reboot. 3) You will see an app named biQuads in the apps drawer. 4) Open the app and give it root access. 5)As I told earlier, there are biQuads numbering from 1 to 5 6)After every filter you create for every number, tap design biQuad and wait for 20-30sec. You will be redirected to another window where the app check whether the filter is designed correctly or not with a spectrum graph. After that, increase the biQuad number 7) Do the same step 6 again and again from 1 to 5 until your biQuads is ready. 8)Finally, select review filter where you get a final graph and parameters of different IIR filters. 9)Then select save and give your biQuads a name(make sure there are no spaces included in the name). Click accept and the file gets saved in the internal sdcard with the filename you specified. 10)Open the *.coeffs where * is the name you specified for the biQuads in a text editor. 11) Replace IIR2 with IIR0 wherever found and change INP1 to INP2 wherever found. 12) Finally copy everything from the file and replace the contents in the mixer paths(present in /system/etc) under path name headphones. You will find similar lines there which are my biQuads already implemented.(make sure that you file editor has root access) 13) Replace those lines perfectly and align the lines as they were. Save the file when you are done and reboot. 14) Magic.
Hi! I can't download from the gDrive link, it seems not working now...
Kamaal said: Hi! I can't download from the gDrive link, it seems not working now... Click to expand... Click to collapse Try again..
Thanks. I've been waiting for a dual speakers mod for a long time. HTC 10 mod version makes the sound output like it's coming out of a can. But the stereo mod is great.
ScreaMySkrillEX said: Try again.. Click to expand... Click to collapse No luck: it's me? ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED Edit: weird, the problem was only accessing from my Mi Max. Thanks, i'm gonna to try your mod.
Is there a way to make the earpiece speaker louder that default? On the Mi Max, mine at least, it's far quieter than the main speaker, meaning it, doesn't seem like it does much. This also means that in Stereo mode, the left channel is far more underpowered when stereo content is playing, and it's noticeable.
Cooly568 said: Is there a way to make the earpiece speaker louder that default? On the Mi Max, mine at least, it's far quieter than the main speaker, meaning it, doesn't seem like it does much. This also means that in Stereo mode, the left channel is far more underpowered when stereo content is playing, and it's noticeable. Click to expand... Click to collapse Maybe htc10 version is more suitable for this device.. If you have a kernel with sound control, try increasing microphone volume.
ScreaMySkrillEX said: Maybe htc10 version is more suitable for this device.. If you have a kernel with sound control, try increasing microphone volume. Click to expand... Click to collapse Was the same with the HTC10 version, and I'm not sure if I have a kernel that can do that, and even if I did, how would I go about doing that?
Discovered a bug with this mod. Installing this would disable mic thus any video you record has no audio. Worse uninstalling this mod would not remove the bug. So I had to reflash ROM.
Cocoyg said: Discovered a bug with this mod. Installing this would disable mic thus any video you record has no audio. Worse uninstalling this mod would not remove the bug. So I had to reflash ROM. Click to expand... Click to collapse I have the mod installed and do not have this issue. my recorded videos all have sound
Mod is working great, but i feel unsafe, any side effect after using call's speaker for a long time?
MM.626 said: Mod is working great, but i feel unsafe, any side effect after using call's speaker for a long time? Click to expand... Click to collapse Nope, as far as the speaker doesn't distort
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hello and kudos for this feat. but forgive me for asking a stupid question, will this work with bluetooth stereo headphones? ------- UPDATE tried it... worked! muchos gracias!
Working but it have a bugs which video recording has no sound and it also break Hi-Res audio playback on PowerAmp alpha build 704. IEM/Headphone left channel volume sometime really quiet while right channel was too loud. I have to unplug and replug audio jack to make both channels working again. Tested with Mi Max hydrogen 6.0.1 + Audio Technica ATH-IM50/ATH-M40X/Trinity Delta For anyone who suffer same bugs, replace mixer_paths_wcd9326.xml and mixer_paths.xml in /system/etc and set permission to 0644
thanks for the heads up. mine is hydrogen on GlobeROM 7.7.20 + Viper4Arise did not loose audio on video recording.
nougat Hi, Will this work on stock rooted nougat based rom 8.5 ? please revert as i m finding it impossible to install viper on nougat for mi max prime helium
satankid said: Hi, Will this work on stock rooted nougat based rom 8.5 ? please revert as i m finding it impossible to install viper on nougat for mi max prime helium Click to expand... Click to collapse Viper4Arise is only used to further tweak the settings that this MOD offers. so i think its just but OK not to install Viper. also, if you already have a 3rd-party recovery, you can easily flash this.