Hello
I own a Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 phone. My main purpose of using a smartphone is recording band rehearsals and some parts of live metal shows - that is in very, very loud environment. I have always had RIP Windows Phones and recording literally any loudness produced clean, non-distorted sound which could be then listened to without any problems. Even using lower-end Lumia 635.
As Windows Phone is dead, I was forced to switch to Android and I am extremely disappointed of Samsung's audio recording quality. For now - listening to recorded rehearsal is just impossible - recorded audio is one big distortion and - literally - I cannot figure out any single musical note or song I recorded. It is just impossible to hear anything.
I am a software developer and I do write Android applications, but after deep research - there is no any API for reducing microphone gain on system level, so I went further and found this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/development/how-to-microphone-gain-increase-s5-t3190613
Reducing gain by this method is proven to work somewhere on youtube, but this method requires a root and I do not want to root my phone.
Does anyone of you know any methods, APIs, SDKs, undocumented manifest permissions, anything, that could allow access and modify file system/etc/mixer_paths.xml in order to reduce microphone gains?
Any help would be appreciated
Thank you
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Hello, the other day I was recording a concert with the phone, but then seeing recording is heard very bad because, I suppose, to the gain of the microphone. It listens better my previous phone "Nokia N8" this. Is there any way to adjust the gain, or that this is handled automatically by kernel, ROM, ...
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Hey Guys,
I have a question, me being lame tried to record a live set from a dj without the video (I did not want to separate the two) but the built in audio recorder records only in mono....
Is there any recording software which :
- Stereo
- uses the full capability of the Microphone(s)
Thanks in advance!
I bought this phone to record stereo audio, but am having the same problems.
Does it record stereo video?
Then why not stereo audio!?
It really bothers me that no one has ever found a way how to bypass the camcorder lock on the stereo microphones.
I tried ALL RECORDING APPS on the market. And with every possible setting!
Everything is always mono. Using just the bottom Mic.
I Even tried nTrack and Fruity Loops, Field Recorder, etc.
Only way to record HDR Stereo Sound is by using the original HTC Camcorder app in 720p (to save storage space) and then to copy the audio out using
a converter. (I always set saturation to black and white, Exposure down to -2 and fixate the focus on a bright light to keep the overall video black to just save more space)
I then use Media Coder on Windows, or the MP3 Video Converter app that comes with TubeMate. No need to convert the audio, it just takes the audio track out of video without doing any alterations.
But still a big Problem. The Camera app always turns up the Background Light to 100% by default (and you can't even manually turn it down) so it eats up your battery.
(Any other camera app on the market doesn't do stereo either)
And the MP4 Video Files are huge compared to the AAC audio files, so no possible way to record stuff that's longer than 4 hours (unless you have several SD Cards and a Power Outlet at hand.
PLEASE!! If Any Of You Pros Are Reading This! Help Us!!!
I think it shouldn't be too hard to tear down the pre installed HTC Camera app programming, to find the key for unlocking the ways of Stereo Recording of Audio Only.
If I only had any programming knowledge I would try it myself.
But I can't even write a Pong game...
Sorry for my poor English. International Duderino...
I bought my Tab S 10.5 primarily for multimedia consumption on the go. I love the screen and nearly everything about this tablet, including the default software suite. However, from day one I discovered that there is an issue with sound volume. It's too low. I don't mean that I need the sound to blast my ears like I want to lose my hearing. The issue is with many videos and services that were recorded intentionally or unintentionally at a relatively low volume. And so when I play those few youtube or netflix videos, I really need to strain my ears in a noisy environment to hear anything.
Anyways, for me, the sound is the number one problem. Considering the 19:10 screen, this tablet was obviously meant for media consumption. In the light of that, it's truly perplexing that the stock OS has such lousy volume level control. Please let me know the best course of action. Should I try just some tweaking under after rooting, a custom kernel, or an entire ROM replacement distribution?
Thanks.
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Well, I have made some progress on this problem, and fortunately without replacing the stock ROM. I rooted the device with the Autoroot ROM for T800 posted on this board. After that, it turns out that the gain settings are in a plain text file in /system/etc/default_gain.conf. I changed the two lines that said:
{ "HPOUT1 Digital Volume", 121 },
to
{ "HPOUT1 Digital Volume", 161 },
both apparently under "Headphone" and "Headset out" sections near the top of this huge file. I used the ES File Manager's "root explorer" mode to do this. After that, I had no issues with the sound output level. In fact, on my first attempt, I used something like 191, but it made a lot of default sounds way too loud and it also made it possible to crank the volume level even in "quiet" youtube and netflix videos towards quite uncomfortable levels.
I am glad I could get away without replacing the entire ROM, because besides this issue and the time synchronization (also fixed with rooting and 3rd party app), I am mostly happy with the way the stock ROM works.
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hello this is unfortunately digital levels only and it does not adjusts gains of the hardware. Though it helps it produces distortion / bad quality in higher levels. I'm curios if the sound driver is possible to hack.
Apologies for the cross post, if you read the 6p forums you may have already seen this.
I use Chromecast audio for my home radio, it's a whole house intercom with a pretty mediocre amplifier.
When I cast via Google music it works great, but most apps don't support Chromecast audio, so I cast the whole phone via the quick settings tile.
On occasion this works well, but almost always the audio level is obnoxiously low, any good tips on boosting this? I'm currently unlocked but not rooted and running stock. I'll root for a solid fix, but would prefer not to.
If you root, AirAudio allows you to send any audio to any "cast" device. Demo is free, but has a time limit. You can adjust output volumes inside the app, but you can't over amplify (no positive gain, just max volume. I've not had many issues with it, as as far as I know, the volume at the phone and at the chromecast seem to be the same. (so if you have a mp3 at very low levels on the phone, it'll be low level at the device, too.)
Hey guys,
This is a minor but annoying problem, and I know I'm not the only one.
Is there a way to enable stereo recording for purely voice recording? I've tried many apps(the included Voice Recorder app, easy voice recorder, even Recordr) and everything came up mono even after enabling the stereo option.
I assume its a system level lock, because stereo audio is enabled when the phone records video.
I need this too, I hope it can be enabled.
The HTC one has good recording quality, and is one of the very few that doesn't distort when there are high sound pressure levels.
(so concerts, etc). So potentially the best choice for musicians and people who like to record live music.
Because of the focus of HTC on getting audio recording right, it is unexplainable that stereo recording is only available in video !
If HTC fixes this, they really have an extra USP.
User [D4v3|R4v3] posted that maybe he can help to get it enabled, see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/htc-10-audio-thread-t3358064/post69112492#post69112492
Mine is not rooted (yet) so I cannot help with this one.
But hopefully HTC will also fix it, so it will also be available to users that don't have their device rooted. should be very easy i guess.
I really don't understand the reason to block stereo recording to other apps.
At least HTC should make stereo recording available in their own voice recorder app.