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.
I can get SRS WOW working on my HTC touch with normal wired headphones. I can't get it working with bluetooth headphones. I get music in my ears, but it's like the SRS WOW is turned off. And no, it's not my headphones. Does anyone know a fix for this?
Yes you just have to look after SRSWowHD fix ( I don't remember if it says it's for BT) but In fact it just copy the A2DnP?? reg keys into an other one.Search a little bit about Bluetooth and A2DP and the light will come
Hi,
I'm using the default headset that came with Raphael. It is extremely loud - I need to set the music to the lowest level so it doesn't tear my ears apart.
Is there any way to make the quieter?
Hi all,
Exactly the same problem here!
Even if I put the music volume at 1% it's really too lourd.
The TouchFlo 3D embed music player is unusable as is...
Any registry hack to fix this?
Thanks
Try using the Advanced Config Tool (posted a couple places on this board). Scroll down to Touch Flow 3d sound settings and bump the volume all the way down to like 20 (i'm testing 10 right now, will update with how that goes).
Actually, 10 works very well. I'd keep it there...
Great! It works fine thanks
Bumped the "Music player volume" down to 20, but I left my earphones at home - will let you know how that works.
Strange.. because mine even set at 100 isn't quite loud..
Hey Guys,
what I am planing to do is to use my Topaz for navigation on my bike.
Generally it works as I want it to work but I have one problem left. The sound is not as loud as it should be.
What I did so far:
- Install TomTom 7 on my Topaz
- Install a bluetooth headset in my helmet
- Redirect system sound to BT headset via BTA
- Set system volume to max as well as TomTom volume
So far everthing works great but when I am riding my bike its pretty hard to understand anything. So I have to get the sound louder somehow.
The Tool AudioBooster just says "No Headset Connected" when I am trying to start it.
Any idea how I could boost the sound output via BT?
Greetz Topaza
Unzip attachment and copy to your Windows folder overwriting original and your max volume level will be increased.
BTW, this is a common question and solution is readily available with a simple google search. No need to open a new thread for this.
thanks for your reply. The file you provided increases the volume via. the Topaz speaker and via. (cable) headset a lot.
Unfortunately the sound via bluetooth stays the same or is increased a little but i cant recognice a difference...
any other ways?
topaza said:
thanks for your reply. The file you provided increases the volume via. the Topaz speaker and via. (cable) headset a lot.
Unfortunately the sound via bluetooth stays the same or is increased a little but i cant recognice a difference...
any other ways?
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I don't use BT so I cannot confirm if it increases with this file but opening the .cvs show settings for BT, so I would assume it should increase BT as well.
I have an Extra loud one if you want to try it, however you will need to adjust your speakers to a lower level to avoid distortion.
Please let me know if you notice an increase in BT vol.
still cannot recognize any signifficant change in volume via BT
Thanks for the confirmation.
Personally I think BT allows for too much background noise and your best option would be earbuds to cancel excess noise...
Unless you're on a Harley, then there's no way to hear anything but your motor...
Sorry man...
damn, the idea was so great and everything works perfect except this ****ing BT headset - whose integration into the helmet was hard work btw...
There HAS to be a solution. Still don´t know how but i will get this thing working somehow...
Maybe I have to tune the hardware... a better speaker, a small amp or somewhat ^^
Anyway, if someone has an idea how to boost the sound, please let me know!
Hello people
I want to use PocketMusic with my new BT earphones, but somehow every time I push a button on the Jabra, the TF3D player kicks in.
The same happens with every other app, sound comes through Jabra as intended, but the controls can only control the TouchFlo player.
Is there any workaround to that?! I've been searching for a while and found nothing.
I'm using stock rom.
A couple of days back I managed to get the headset keys working with PocketMusic, without TouchFlo kicking in, but I can't even remember the steps. Possibly it was random.
I'm thinking it could be as easy as a registry edit but for the life of me, I don't know that much about registry editing...
Is there an available option to set PocketMusic as the default player? I'm thinking it has something to do with that but I can only think of these possible work arounds as I have no real experience with editing the registry, aside from editing what others have said to edit. Wish I could be of more help...
Well I thought so too, but it turns out it's a matter of drivers..
I found this after hours of searching (again, it was right under my nose!). I really was reluctant to try a 6.5 driver on a stock 6.1 device, but I did and it worked!
Only disadvantage is that it broke Jabra controls with the TouchFlo 3D Music player, but really, who cares
I will continue testing it but I don't think it breaks anything else.