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Hi!
After many years of windows mobile, ive had an iPhone (so sorry) for a month now, and im going back to WinMo (through the HTC Touch Pro) now.
However, what I loved with the iPhone is how it integrated well as an mp3 player. However, I remember when I tried to use the Touch Dual as an Mp3 player, it sucked the battery big time! (10-15 minutes of playback drained 10% of the battery at least).
Just wondering if this is still an issue with the Touch Pro? Or if mp3 playback is not such an power consuming activity any more?
Anyone here use their Touch pro's or diamonds for music regularly?
Thanks!
I use mine almost daily for biking and still have roughly 75% left after 2.5-3 hour workouts. I do turn off all data connections and am only running the HTC music player from the today screen.
Thats not too bad! Definetly better than my previous experiences! Have to get a mini-jack converter though ofc. lol
I use AD2P Bluetooth headset, it works very nicely
The only thing that I'm missing is the absence of Shake-Control, to changhe the current track without turning on the screen or using any keys.
Ya do need to use the mini-jack convertor. I bought the one that has the 3.5 jack and mini usb for charging. It works pretty good but sometimes briefly cutsout when I am riding hard. Wish it had the 3.5 as standard. Sounds like HTC is getting smarter with the HD.
any other experiences concerning battery usage of the mp3-player?
EDIT: Ive also heard that if you have lots mp3's on the device, the touchFLO will have a tough time when trying to load it all up!
My MP3 setup
I just use MP and I use a2dp headphones (big DJ style Motorola ones) Sound is great and I use voice command to control what I'm listening to or the buttons on my headphones. Batter life seems fine when using mp3, but overall the battery life on my Touch Pro is pretty poor.
A2DP (stereo bluetooth) is a joy to use.
619619 said:
I use AD2P Bluetooth headset, it works very nicely
The only thing that I'm missing is the absence of Shake-Control, to changhe the current track without turning on the screen or using any keys.
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A true A2DP headset has track change controls on it...
Try the Sony DR-BT22 headset, really small and compact folding headset with good Bass quality and integral mike for call answer and pairs perfectly to the Touch Pro.
Battery life on the Touch Pro is quite good considering the technical specifications! However, as I mentioned, I currently (untill I get my Touch pro tomorrow) have an iPhone, which does have a great mp3-player!
Just wondering.. It seems Touch Pro checks for all mp3 files each time you access the music player, even through touchFLO, and ive read that if you have a lot of music this will take a while and is annoying if you access your music player a lot!
Thanks!
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Battery life on the Touch Pro is quite good considering the technical specifications! However, as I mentioned, I currently (untill I get my Touch pro tomorrow) have an iPhone, which does have a great mp3-player!
Just wondering.. It seems Touch Pro checks for all mp3 files each time you access the music player, even through touchFLO, and ive read that if you have a lot of music this will take a while and is annoying if you access your music player a lot!
Thanks!
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It only checks for new files if any changes have been made. I have over 4Gb of music on my SD card and after the first library update, it never had to check again.
Tad better than the old manual library update you Had to do in Media player every time you changed something.
So even with 4GB of music, there are no slow downs etc?
Btw, how well does music playback work when you are using your device? Does the music start chopping the moment you start using another app as well, etc? Remember my Touch Dual had some choppiness.. lol
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So even with 4GB of music, there are no slow downs etc?
Btw, how well does music playback work when you are using your device? Does the music start chopping the moment you start using another app as well, etc? Remember my Touch Dual had some choppiness.. lol
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Not that I've noticed. Only glitch I've ever come across was when connecting to USB for activesync (using BT headset) but this is really understandable as Async is processor heavy and needs multiple file access.
A good Equaliser would be preferred for use with BT as the standard included only works when wired is connected. There is a tweak available to fool the unit into thinking the wired HS is on but this dissappears on soft reset.
Still, overall I am quite pleased with this as battery life is better than other HTC products. Had a second Touch Pro in my office desk (evaluating them for a project) for 8 days on standby when a call came through on it!!
The slowdown happens when you add new music to the memory card (specifically, after you disconnect "Disk Drive" mode or when you turn the device on and TF3d loads). How much of a slowdown depends on how much music you add at a time, but once it's scanned the files and updated the library database, the slowdown doesn't occur again.
Listening to mp3s in the background while using other applications is possible, but it's not perfect. As a point of reference, I've had no problems listening to music and using Opera. However if there are some extra background apps, chopping can occur. But on the bright side, it always seem to be relatively brief, and so far hasn't caused my device to lock up or crash. I haven't done any precise or extensive testing, so naturally YMMV.
+1 for the Raphael battery not being great, but the TF3d music player not using very much power.
i charge my phone during work, then i turn on music and proceed to take an hour train ride back home, check some email and continue to listen to music for a couple of hours til dinner; afterward setup new appointments and crap for the next day, then more music for hour or two, then go to sleep without charging. next day the 3 alarms ring for the full length, then the hour train ride to work with music again. 35% +/-4% remaining when i get to work. the cycle continues
Thanks for your experience! Gives me great confidence in getting one! Just hoping I can find a mini-jack converter in time
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Thanks for your experience! Gives me great confidence in getting one! Just hoping I can find a mini-jack converter in time
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im NOT saying the headphone came with raphael is decent in any way, but i would use it over my ipod headphone...
A2DP question
Just wondering with the touch pro, does the device slow down when using A2DP? I have a hermes and whenever I use mortplayer with A2DP the device is almost non-responsive even though the music sounds great.
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A good Equaliser would be preferred for use with BT as the standard included only works when wired is connected. There is a tweak available to fool the unit into thinking the wired HS is on but this dissappears on soft reset.
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Hi. Where do I find this tweek?
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Just wondering with the touch pro, does the device slow down when using A2DP? I have a hermes and whenever I use mortplayer with A2DP the device is almost non-responsive even though the music sounds great.
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I think it's actually very good - no slowdowns that I've noticed. For example listening to music with my SE HBH-DS980 A2DP-headset and browsing through RSS-feeds I can't detect any slowing down or choppiness, neither in music playback nor RSS-browser. Also I think the UI stays (almost) as responsive as ever.
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Hi. Where do I find this tweek?
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mkhattab has collected a few tweaks (sticky in Diamond thread) that work for the Touch Pro also.
Enable Audio Booster without headset-->HKLM/System/State/Hardware/Headset set the value to 1 (soft reset will bring it back to 0)
I prefer adding individual reg edits via a reg editor rather than one of the Tweak packages as I had BT connection problems with my Infiniti handsfree after using Schap's advanced configuration tool.
This one is a simple little gem that does not use up memory. Run it on your PC when connected via Async.
Hey,
I have had a HTC Touch sins 5th of December and i have found a problem I'm not sure if anyone is aware but its quite annoying. The sound through headphones and even to the extent of through the speakers is very quite and I'm not sure what i can do to improve that. Is there some kind of update or something. I could understand the phone speaker being quite and i don't partiuclly mind that but when trying to use it to listen to music or watch a film i find i can't even make out what there saying.
I don't have bad hearing so it can't be that.
Thanks for any help you can provide in advance
Did you make sure that your device volume is turned up all the way? Also make sure that your media player volume is turned up all the way.
It may also be that the media files you are playing have very low volume. Compare this by playing these files on your computer - do you have to turn your computer speakers up high just to hear? this would confirm low sound right in media file.
Do you have wow or srswow or whatever it is called installed. I have heard others having problems with this installed on their devices. this could be the problem. Uninstaling did not work in their case and they had to perform a hard reset (possibly because it had changed registry settings) I don't know if there is any other explanation or solution to your problem. The only time I have ever experienced low sound volume was when my volume settings were set low and I forgot to turn them back up.
to my knowledge there's no way of increasing hardware volume..
you can amplify the media using Goldwave or something.. and check that the volume meter is up all the way both in your media player and on your device.
Hi guys
I have one big problem with my orbit2. If I use my headset to listen to music, the music is far to loud for my to enjoy it.
So here ist my question is there a prog or a regestry hack so i can change the volume lower, especially in the htc audio manager?
I allready searched, but couldn't find a good solution to my problem.
Have a nice day
FallenOne
turn the phone volume down maybe
Well I allready tried that. Music gets quieter, but not quiet enough.
maybe muting the sound altogether may be the trick
(joking of course im not really experience with this type of phone, may i sugest changing thread title to "changing default volumne on orbit 2"
WMP
Hi
If you use Windows Media you can turn the system volume down to minimum and then WMP volume down to 5%!
That will definitely be quiet enough, if you can hear it at all!
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
Have you noticed the extremely low volume of the G1 speaker. i can bearly hear the audio whever i play mp3 or video files. Even the phone ringing is relatevly low compared to any phone i have ever owened!!!
Is there a way to alter the hardware setting and get higher volume out the speaker???
Seems fine to me, doesnt seem too low, mayb its the mp3 ur using. I raise the volume of my files with itunes, but even the default sounds on the G1 seem fine.
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Have you noticed the extremely low volume of the G1 speaker. i can bearly hear the audio whever i play mp3 or video files. Even the phone ringing is relatevly low compared to any phone i have ever owened!!!
Is there a way to alter the hardware setting and get higher volume out the speaker???
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Yeah, adjust music/video volume using the keys on the side of the phone while playing a song.
I'm sure you already did that so.... there's a program called volume control that let's you adjust every volume setting the phone offers. Also, my speaker has never been that loud anyways but that program helps a bit.
Any one of you guys know where i can but a new speaker phone peace/thing for the G1. I blew mines out with the volume hack. -.- Thanks in advance.
I've noticed the low volume on Cyanogen's ROM, but on every hero ROM I've tried it seems MUCH louder.
I've noticed it too, but I've always used Meltus' AudioHack app to correct that problem.
The only thing I noticed on the G1 that is weak would be the vibrate. That is pretty weak.
My phone started doing this before donut was out. I was using Xrom, and thought it was the rom causing it. I'm running Dwang 1.13 now, and discovered that my issue is being caused by T-Mobile's Visual Voicemail apk. The speaker would work great until I opened VV. The VV apk, routes the media sounds through the headset speaker, like when holding the phone to your ear in a phone call, but it doesn't always re-route the media sounds (and ringer for that matter) back to the loud speaker. There is a hack/apk/widget out to fix it, claiming it to be a cupcake issue, but I only had it happened to me after using VV.
To figure out if you have the same issue, block the loud speaker with your finger and play a song. If it gets louder when you remove your finger from covering the loud speaker, then you have a different issue. If it stays the same volume, block and unblock the headset speaker to see if it changes.
MT3G Fix
shobbow said:
Have you noticed the extremely low volume of the G1 speaker. i can bearly hear the audio whever i play mp3 or video files. Even the phone ringing is relatevly low compared to any phone i have ever owened!!!
Is there a way to alter the hardware setting and get higher volume out the speaker???
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If you are running MT3G/Magic You can also try this on the G1 to see if you get better sound
CM's system usually doesn't add the MT3G Sound XML
Download and run this: http://drop.io/tfwtv3d/asset/volmt3g-signed-zip
If this doesn't help, use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=517745
i had this more then one , dont know for sure bit this is after i did a switchrom, a simple reboot is a fix
shobbow said:
Have you noticed the extremely low volume of the G1 speaker. i can bearly hear the audio whever i play mp3 or video files. Even the phone ringing is relatevly low compared to any phone i have ever owened!!!
Is there a way to alter the hardware setting and get higher volume out the speaker???
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I always cup my hand under the phone when watching videos, it boosts the volume a bit
dclaw_fantum said:
My phone started doing this before donut was out. I was using Xrom, and thought it was the rom causing it. I'm running Dwang 1.13 now, and discovered that my issue is being caused by T-Mobile's Visual Voicemail apk. The speaker would work great until I opened VV. The VV apk, routes the media sounds through the headset speaker, like when holding the phone to your ear in a phone call, but it doesn't always re-route the media sounds (and ringer for that matter) back to the loud speaker. There is a hack/apk/widget out to fix it, claiming it to be a cupcake issue, but I only had it happened to me after using VV.
To figure out if you have the same issue, block the loud speaker with your finger and play a song. If it gets louder when you remove your finger from covering the loud speaker, then you have a different issue. If it stays the same volume, block and unblock the headset speaker to see if it changes.
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This problem is really annoying, can someone post a link to the fix for me, I haven't been able to find it.
This also happend to my phone. Started with the last stable before the whole google thing with cyan. Tried a hero rom and it was pounden out sound.
So if anyone does have any insight on how to fix this, with reasoning, that would be nice. No "i did this and reset and it just worked" stuff.
Thanks
Also wish my G1 would be louder when a phonecall came in. My older HTC Juno was extremely loud which I prefer because Im not where my phone is 100 percent of the time.
I would also greatly appreciate some insight on how to make the speaker louder with some tweaks and or apps.
Thanks in advance.
legend221 said:
Also wish my G1 would be louder when a phonecall came in. My older HTC Juno was extremely loud which I prefer because Im not where my phone is 100 percent of the time.
I would also greatly appreciate some insight on how to make the speaker louder with some tweaks and or apps.
Thanks in advance.
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Use Meltus' audio hack, it makes the phone really loud. I suggest using g7-6r2
Aye, that should do it
Also, for people experiencing routing problems, my files might also fix that too.
The G7 files included fixes so that they would run on the Cupcake/Donut/Hero/Sapphire. It might fix it, i'm not promising anything though
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Aye, that should do it
Also, for people experiencing routing problems, my files might also fix that too.
The G7 files included fixes so that they would run on the Cupcake/Donut/Hero/Sapphire. It might fix it, i'm not promising anything though
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+1 If your G1 is quiet download Audio Hack from the market and it will not be quiet anymore. People tell me all the time, "dude your phone is ridiculously loud". I love it..
Meltus' app is amazing, i used to hate when i went to show everyone a video from youtube and you cant hear nothing when your out in public. Def recommend it to anyone who thinks their speaker is low.
Meltus Audio Hack.
Your welcome.
My G1 speaker is terrible!
The other end hears constant echo, and it's very soft for me to hear anything.
I recently bought Sony Ericsson MW600 BT headset and I've been using it for about a day. I can tell you that the sound quality quite good (using my Sennheiser earphones) for a stereo BT headset although audiophiles may disagree
Pairing was child's play.
The good thing about this BT set is that it has a cool OLED screen which displays the song title and also the incoming caller name.
I did not expect it to show caller names though. Thought it was compatible only with Ericsson phones
In all, this BT headset does its job well for my daily commute to office (40 KMS each day)
I will update the battery life of this headset after i use it for a week
Just my thoughts.
Nice found it here for around 45 euros.
Hi
How does it works with playing music does the play/pause controls works as it should?
I have had problems with other bt headsets and player controls.
It works very well with the default Sense player and works with Core Player and S2P too. But when you use Core player or S2P it does not scroll the song title on the OLED screen.
I did not try with other players though. Hope this helps
Lemme know if you need more info here.
Thank you.. I am using Core player so it sounds good. I will probably order one this week.
whenever i pick call using bluetooth , it doesnt work.. the sound comes to nil , and then i have to set it back , i use custom rom cooked room from here only
BT-Headset Sony Ericsson MW600
panzercool said:
I recently bought Sony Ericsson MW600 BT headset and I've been using it for about a day. I can tell you that the sound quality quite good...
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I can only confirm that this is a really good investment! So easy too use, excellent battery performance and it includes a radio-receiver!
4,5 of 5 stars!
PS: Only thing thats annoying me is the lack of keylock. Because it´s hard to move it when using the "snap-holder", without pushing any button. There are buttons on all sides except the back...
Probably to late...
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whenever i pick call using bluetooth , it doesnt work.. the sound comes to nil , and then i have to set it back , i use custom rom cooked room from here only
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I little bit late, but... Do a reset of your headset and re-sync it with your phone.
To reset the headset:
1 Make sure the headset is turned off.
2 Press and hold down the power key until the pairing indication appears.
3 Simultaneously press and hold down the power key and the call key until the headset turns off.
Hope it helps!