Anyone with an Atrix bought the sensation yet?
Specifically, Is the sound quality ok (I have an Atrix and I think sound is the best of any device I ever owned) ...
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Not a Sensation owner (yet, mine is coming soon), so I can't judge on a first-person perspective.
However, I can refer you to an extensive review done by GSMArena that tests this area as well.
Main Review Page: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation-review-605.php
The Page with Speaker Test: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation-review-605p5.php
The Page with Audio Quality Test: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation-review-605p7.php
yikes.. the speaker is even worse than the Nexus One if you compare the numbers in the gsmarena reviews for both..
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yikes.. the speaker is even worse than the Nexus One if you compare the numbers in the gsmarena reviews for both..
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That is so disappointing. The Nexus One speaker was a joke. It's not important to many people, but I listen to podcasts and satellite radio over the loudspeaker while doing work and the Nexus One couldn't be heard over even the slightest bit of noise. Maybe root and DSP will help, but this makes switching to the Sensation a much tougher decision than I thought it would be.
I dont understand what it is with HTC these cheap POS speakers...at least the ones on the G2 and the MyTouch4g had decent volume
The older buisness phones like the kaiser and the touchpro had very good speakers but thats probably because they were designed to be used on speaker phone alot more.
The speaker on the sensation is not that bad for calls but if you were planning on listening to music on it you will be disapointed, but I dont imagine anyone would want listen to music on a phone speaker
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The older buisness phones like the kaiser and the touchpro had very good speakers but thats probably because they were designed to be used on speaker phone alot more.
The speaker on the sensation is not that bad for calls but if you were planning on listening to music on it you will be disapointed, but I dont imagine anyone would want listen to music on a phone speaker
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i do and most of my friends do as well. Sony and Samsung phones sound SO good that you would think a small audio system is playing not a cell phone. loud too. useful at BBQs, listen to radio before bedtime, at work etc.
HD2 and Nexus One have been very disappointing in this department. Sony Music phone and Vibrant have been very good.
I definitely think that the external speaker volume is lower than my hd2, which was really loud. Is there a software fix for that?
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Player pro was the only fix I could find. But it plays the music louder than every other player I tried. It's made my loudspeaker serviceable until we can get rooted.
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Player pro was the only fix I could find. But it plays the music louder than every other player I tried. It's made my loudspeaker serviceable until we can get rooted.
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I'm thinking that player pro would be for music, what about general system sounds, like notifications, coming out the speaker?
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Samsung phones sound SO good that you would think a small audio system is playing not a cell phone.
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Not the SGS2. It's speaker is maybe a little bit better than the DHDs, which is CRAP (imo)
The speaker is one of the only things that the iPhone 4 does better than the latest HTC flagships.
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i do and most of my friends do as well. Sony and Samsung phones sound SO good that you would think a small audio system is playing not a cell phone. loud too. useful at BBQs, listen to radio before bedtime, at work etc.
HD2 and Nexus One have been very disappointing in this department. Sony Music phone and Vibrant have been very good.
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While the SGS phones are amazing compared to the N1, that doesn't say much. I come from the Motorola Droid series and those things are like boomboxes compared to any of these phones. SE seems to do a good job too. SGS is in the middle of the pack. I need my ringer on 5/7 or 6/7 to hear it outdoors for my Nexus S, but the Milestone rings like a champ at 3/7.
But here's the thing. The N1 also had a crappy earpiece. How is the earpiece on the Sensation? As important as speakerphone is, I'm sure the earpiece is even more important. If you can't make calls on the earpiece, then how is speakerphone gonna fix anything?
If where talking about ringing. I can hear the sensation with no problems. When I get a call.
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I'm finding myself slightly disappointed in the earphone volume. My g2x seemed to be better in this department. My remedy to use the equalizer app doesn't seem to work either..at least not to boost the volume.
I believe that app doesn't work because HTC has some type of sound leveling going on, because when I reset the equalizer app back to normal levels, the.volume lowers, them it raises again by itself.
I need to find a way to disable whatever they have going on...
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Are you referring to the volume during a phone call or while playing music?
Have you tried the "Settings > Call > Hearing aids (HAC)" setting yet?
It dramatically boosts the in-call volume through the phone's ear speaker... I'm not sure of it also works with ear phones though.
I'm referring to music volume through headphones
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Did you try using the SRS enhancement?
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Are you referring to the volume during a phone call or while playing music?
Have you tried the "Settings > Call > Hearing aids (HAC)" setting yet?
It dramatically boosts the in-call volume through the phone's ear speaker...
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Thanks for the tip! I'm trying it now.
I'm not hard of hearing (I don't think ) but to me, the standard volume is a bit too low on the Sensation...
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Are you referring to the volume during a phone call or while playing music?
Have you tried the "Settings > Call > Hearing aids (HAC)" setting yet?
It dramatically boosts the in-call volume through the phone's ear speaker... I'm not sure of it also works with ear phones though.
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Unfortunately this doesn't work for music volume..
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try this player bro http://https://market.android.com/details?id=org.deadbeef.android.freeplugins&feature=search_result
it's a free player with eqwilizer and thanks to this player the music sound much beter
yes sensation got lower sound than other htc phone i compared personally with desire and incredible s ...and the hell qhd screen has lots off issues with game and apps...still not all apps working with sensations...and gave back my sensation to the shop today...htc got mad...making phones but still lots of problems and lacking .... they could make sensation with 1ghz and 1gb ram rom....and evo 3d with 8 mp camera..they are really clever somehow...i would say incredible s is better than upcoming some phone...even 1.2 ghz felt slower than single core phones ...huh...sucks somehow
that's tipical for HTC, never get finish any phones, every phone get some probleme....
What is typical on the most recent HTC phones (sensation, g2, nexus one) is a weak max volume. I want it to be like the iPhone...where the max volume is TOO loud and makes one want to turn it down. That way, you have choice. It seems that HTC decides the max volume level that is much lower than others..
And the link to that app u gave me doesn't work..
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What is typical on the most recent HTC phones (sensation, g2, nexus one) is a weak max volume. I want it to be like the iPhone...where the max volume is TOO loud and makes one want to turn it down. That way, you have choice. It seems that HTC decides the max volume level that is much lower than others..
And the link to that app u gave me doesn't work..
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Are you sure for that, because right now i listen the music witch
are you try to instal via market on your phone?
I wont to thold that every phone HTC have the problem, not juste the volume, but data conexion also sucks and if you go around this section you will see the other people have at last one problem witch Sensation... I am not the bad atention, just tell the truth.
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I listen to music using poweramp. You can tweak the eq settings, I have a decent set of in ear headphones and I can honestly say that the sound quality is fantastic and very loud. Much better sound quality than my ipod!
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If I have one gripe with the sensation it is definately the volume on the speaker and the speaker phone. Phone calls are low. And music volume on the speaker us depressing. Other wise plugging in through headphones or the aux in my car the sound quality is great. Hopefully they can fix some of these issues with a ota. If not I'm sure the developer community will......
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Yeah, the loudspeaker is pretty low. You'd think that they'd would put a good one in seeing they are touting the Sensation as a multimedia powerhouse.
yes, sound level is low, bass is terrible
I can confirm that the sound is much worst than with DHD or HD2 (I have all 3)
sound level is much lower, bass is terrible, also with SRS (I use Sennheiser IE8i, a bass powerhouse) the difference with DHD is HUGE
Note that PoverAMP still doesn't support SRS for Sensation so one comment from the "Nokia guy" doesn't count.
Anybody knows why?
Driver or Audio hardware?
Ok I know it's a little bit late for that but coming from N1 and DHD background and now having the sgs2 I wanted to post some very first impressions about a Sensation I could handle for 30mins:
+Phone feel very nice in hand, waaay better than the sgs2 ''fridge''
+Sense 3.0 is the best rom ever
-Carousel replacing the scrolling wallpapers is big step backward from htc, what the hell? using a qHD screen with 540x960 resolution wallpapers while DHD was 960x800??
-Speaker is even weaker than DHD which was the weakest in the market, even with volume+ set to maximum the speaker only gained a tiny 10%, if a cat begin to miaou you wont hear the ringtones
+Screen is exellent even under sunlight, though it doesn't have pure blacks of sgs2 but it has a superb image quality thanks to qHD,again too bad we can't use 1080x960 wallpapers
Even if it has some negatives I am still pretty much considering swapping my sgs2 with a Sensation, I missed so badly Sense!
+1 for the speaker volume.. its horrible
Interesting the comments about the speaker. While not outstanding the speaker on mine is a fair bit better than on my DHD.
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Interesting the comments about the speaker. While not outstanding the speaker on mine is a fair bit better than on my DHD.
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Well, depends on how you define better.. i can tell you that when assigning a ringtone on my OLD sony W610i, it sounds better and louder than on the sensation, which is a damn shame if you ask me.
The built in ringtones on the sensation are fine, loud and clear, but when assigning my own ringtone, the sound is horrible both quality and volume wise. I totally expected more from a $600+ phone
I must recon I tried Volume+ with a S-ON sensation, dunno if it matters for this app to have root?
Speaker is the worst on the Sensation. My cliq xt overpowers it in sound under a pillow.... I'm not exaggerating.
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Speaker is the worst on the Sensation. My cliq xt overpowers it in sound under a pillow.... I'm not exaggerating.
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I believe you. Its a shame and i hope it can be improved with a ROM although i dont get my hopes up too much as its probably a crappy hardware issue
Agree with you on speakerphone, it sounds hollow, weak and poor.
as for the ringtone, i was able to use some from zedge which i can hear unless i am in very noisy place and phone is in my pocket.
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Ok I know it's a little bit late for that but coming from N1 and DHD background and now having the sgs2 I wanted to post some very first impressions about a Sensation I could handle for 30mins:
+Phone feel very nice in hand, waaay better than the sgs2 ''fridge''
+Sense 3.0 is the best rom ever
-Carousel replacing the scrolling wallpapers is big step backward from htc, what the hell? using a qHD screen with 540x960 resolution wallpapers while DHD was 960x800??
-Speaker is even weaker than DHD which was the weakest in the market, even with volume+ set to maximum the speaker only gained a tiny 10%, if a cat begin to miaou you wont hear the ringtones
+Screen is exellent even under sunlight, though it doesn't have pure blacks of sgs2 but it has a superb image quality thanks to qHD,again too bad we can't use 1080x960 wallpapers
Even if it has some negatives I am still pretty much considering swapping my sgs2 with a Sensation, I missed so badly Sense!
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+ 1 for poor sound
Poor external speaker +2 hope that with more custom kernals there will be a way to enhance the volume
abachhan75 said:
Agree with you on speakerphone, it sounds hollow, weak and poor.
as for the ringtone, i was able to use some from zedge which i can hear unless i am in very noisy place and phone is in my pocket.
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Whats zedge? care to elaborate?
The speaker is quite poor, I agree. But the strange thing is on my previous model is was noticeably better (tested them side by side) than the one I have now.
Use adownloader or another music download app and trim ringtones yourself. This will assure you much better quality.
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Volume +
Volume + made a HUGE difference for me, along with a custom ROM, I've actually had to turn it down in some situations.
+10000.... Speaker is absolute garbage.
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Who cares about speaker. Download sound+ and it will be just as loud if not louder than any other phone. Steve jobs tutorials sound great at loud volumes!!!! Lol j/k
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Hey OP,
What advanyages would you say the SGS2 has over the Sensation?
Thinking about trading my Sensation for one, just to try it out.
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Whats zedge? care to elaborate?
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An app from the market. You can download wallpapers, ringtones and notification sounds for free with that one.
durps said:
Hey OP,
What advanyages would you say the SGS2 has over the Sensation?
Thinking about trading my Sensation for one, just to try it out.
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Super AMOLED Plus, more RAM, and a faster processor.
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Super AMOLED Plus, more RAM, and a faster processor.
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Hey, thanks!
I know about this, but I also kinda wanted to see what he has to say since he actually owns one.
I have a Belkin stereo bluetooth receiver paired with my One X. The audio is very quiet and sounds like it's in a tunnel or a tin can.
I've tried every audio "filter" on the phone and it still sounds pretty much the same, just with more or less bass.
Plugging the phone directly into the aux port sounds great.
Any ideas?
My bluetooth audio isnt great either. Not terrible but not great. I use a Motorola T505.
However I just installed the DSP Manager app and disabled the stock music app/sound enhancer app/beats notifier thing.
The dsp app has improved the Bluetooth audio. It's not perfect and I'm still playing around but looks promising.
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Welcome to HTC Sense based ROMS the default bitpool setting for NON officially supported bluetooth devices is set to 32 which is causing your sound quality issue. This has been happening since the HTC Hero ROM and I have personally reported this issue to HTC support twice now the last time I reported this problem was when I got my HTC EVO 4G 2 years ago. Here is my post from Aug 2010 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7805461&postcount=4
I also recently tried to get this looked into again last week so far the best response I have received is "we will forward this to the appropriate blah blah blah" I'm not holding my breath on this problem ever being fixed the only thing we can hope for is a CM port for our phones since AOSP ROMS are the only ones that default to 53 giving you full quality.
Some light reading related to this issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26051136
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1551707
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708685
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213571
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=699985
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1029302
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10848895&postcount=51
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1562603&page=178
My bluetooth is garbage as well.
I connected it to every bluetooth enabled car stereo that I sell (electronics store) and on all of the radios, my phones bluetooth starts to cutout/drop if i move more than a couple feet away.
Emailed / Called many times, no fix or solution offered.
Mine sounds pretty good. But I have beats wireless so its probably got better sound quality because of HTC being partnered with beats or whatever
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Mine sounds pretty good. But I have beats wireless so its probably got better sound quality because of HTC being partnered with beats or whatever
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Lol yeah.. blame att.
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Volume+ seems to have helped quite a bit. I've removed all the other 'enhancers' and instead use this app instead. Setting it to beats emulation and +8 on the volume made a big difference. (The author also has the non free app available from his website although I personally would go ahead and pay if it works for you). Well worth the pennies.
Have you noticed how bad is audio in HTC One S? No, I'm not talking about equalizer or BeatAudio (with headphones) but how the sound is distorted, trashed, and often with micro-stutterings, for example with games like Pinball Arcade, or emulators like Mame4Droid etc.
With games you can often hear distortions, audio channels clipping on maximized sounds, little crackles and often micro-stuttering...
Max volume is also very low.
HTC has to improve the poor audio drivers for this phone, definitely...
Poor audio drivers and limited multitasking are the only defects of this sp IMHO.
hexaae said:
Have you noticed how bad is audio in HTC One S? No, I'm not talking about equalizer or BeatAudio (with headphones) but how the sound is distorted, trashed, and often with micro-stutterings, for example with games like Pinball Arcade, or emulators like Mame4Droid etc.
With games you can often hear distortions, audio channels clipping on maximized sounds, little crackles and often micro-stuttering...
Max volume is also very low.
HTC has to improve the poor audio drivers for this phone, definitely...
Poor audio drivers and limited multitasking are the only defects of this sp IMHO.
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You need a new phone.
HTC One S has been praised for its sound quality. No problems here. Also this phone is one of the best sounding music phones when paired with eq I have ever heard!
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You need a new phone.
HTC One S has been praised for its sound quality. No problems here. Also this phone is one of the best sounding music phones when paired with eq I have ever heard!
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Gsmarena does a review on like every phone, in their review for the One S we had the best audio ever basically. No buzzing, crackling or anything.
Also, a lot of times its the games audio that's messed up because its not 100% compatible with our phones/ the game just sucks.
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I've had similar problems with the sound but only when the headphone jack has some pressure on it or is being moved.
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I agree with what everyone is saying on here. The one s audio quality is brilliant and is one of the reasons why I have it. U may need to try a new phone
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I've been running cm9 for a bit and I was gonna agree but cm10 the audio is amazing
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I have to add in that at times I heard some slight static like noise when I have the phone to my ear during call. Very minor though.
For the most part though I use plantronics bluetooth head set.
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I have the same sound problem. However the company doesn't want to change the HTC One S ):
I have problems with mine, as well. Almost during every call I get this small and annoying interruptions in headphone. Music sounds great, though. And no, my problem is unlikely to be connected to signal strength or radio as I`m always under fulls signal area and I`ve tried all the radios possible and got the same result.
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I have problems with mine, as well. Almost during every call I get this small and annoying interruptions in headphone. Music sounds great, though. And no, my problem is unlikely to be connected to signal strength or radio as I`m always under fulls signal area and I`ve tried all the radios possible and got the same result.
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The 1.11 and 1.11t radios eliminated the in call audio issues I was having so if you haven't checked the development thread in a while you may want to check out the new one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069237
Hey all, I'm new to XDA and just picked up a HTC sensation. I noticed the sound quality, coming from an iphone to Sensation, is not even close. Any sugguestions (apps/tweaks) since this model does not come with beats audio already on it? (FYI I have not rooted/unlockd the phone) Thanks in advance.
Root it. Then you can put on a rom that has beats already installed. All it is is software
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like the above post says. First root your phone then install any custom rom that has beats audio in it.
root your device.. Then you can install new mods (softwares) which can increase the sound of your speakers or like the above stated.. Use a beats enabled ROM.. The thing about iphone is (after using iphones for past 3 years) its not as customizable as the android phone. And i feel, amongst the android phone.. HTC device has the most quality and best community interms of development.
You can try what you like but nothing I've done (beats/volume+/etc.) has made any real difference and compared to the iphone the sound output is a complete joke (my friends and family with iphones have literally started laughing out the output.)
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You can try what you like but nothing I've done (beats/volume+/etc.) has made any real difference and compared to the iphone the sound output is a complete joke (my friends and family with iphones have literally started laughing out the output.)
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It actually is embarrassing trying to play a song I like for my girlfriend on this phone and it royally fails. I then sheepishly ask to use her 4S which just abuses this phone. And good luck talking on the phone with the windows down. You won't hear a damn thing.
Literally my only complaint about this phone. Wish they would have put a better speaker in this bad boy.
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Does rooting really enhances the audio quality? How drastic is the change?
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Hey all, I'm new to XDA and just picked up a HTC sensation. I noticed the sound quality, coming from an iphone to Sensation, is not even close. Any sugguestions (apps/tweaks) since this model does not come with beats audio already on it? (FYI I have not rooted/unlockd the phone) Thanks in advance.
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sensation has a terrible loudspeaker
nothing you can really do about it to be honest. equalizers wont help much since its more of a hardware issue (they used a ****ty speaker)
headphone quality is amazing though
Using srs made my sensation sound better than a 3gs
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aperez86 said:
Hey all, I'm new to XDA and just picked up a HTC sensation. I noticed the sound quality, coming from an iphone to Sensation, is not even close. Any sugguestions (apps/tweaks) since this model does not come with beats audio already on it? (FYI I have not rooted/unlockd the phone) Thanks in advance.
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Install Poweramp, its a powerful music player with equalizer controls. It beats having Beats.
root it
Root your device and install Viper-S Rom
It has beats-audio and you will love iT
aperez86 said:
Hey all, I'm new to XDA and just picked up a HTC sensation. I noticed the sound quality, coming from an iphone to Sensation, is not even close. Any sugguestions (apps/tweaks) since this model does not come with beats audio already on it? (FYI I have not rooted/unlockd the phone) Thanks in advance.
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Sound quality in sensation is hardware issue more than software (although the stock player isn’t good too, as crosstalk problem is really serious). Not only the speaker mentioned above, chip used, amp circuit used are not quite well in sensation. Having beats audio won’t help much too as it is only a (software) equalizer boosting the bass and treble, if you able to try EQ with variable cf and Q, or 1/2Oct EQ, boosting first 3 and last 3(for 1/2 Oct) with 4dB, you'll get what HTC called "beats audio". Qualcomm CPU is also a problem affecting sound quality as it forced resampling the sound signal from 44.1kHz (usually used by CDs and Android will also force resampling to this) to 48kHz(used by video format), which increase the total harmonic distortion.
Few things you can try to improve sound quality of sensation, install music player (Poweramp, PlayerPro, Neutron, Rockbox, etc.), using a better headphone (better with active noise cancellation as mobile phones usually have serious distortion due to wireless signal, monitor, mobile signal, etc.). Equalizers won’t help sound quality but coloring it.
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Does rooting really enhances the audio quality? How drastic is the change?
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Its not rooting that enhances the sound its the mods you can apply afterwards that will.
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OTA possible?
aperez86 said:
Hey all, I'm new to XDA and just picked up a HTC sensation. I noticed the sound quality, coming from an iphone to Sensation, is not even close. Any sugguestions (apps/tweaks) since this model does not come with beats audio already on it? (FYI I have not rooted/unlockd the phone) Thanks in advance.
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We got our Sensation 4Gs with OS 2.3.4 and the audio in/out sucked. The OTA ICS 4.0.3 update addressed a lot of those issues. It doesn't fix the hardware but the speakers sound a little louder and definitely clearer, as does the audio in newer video recordings. Recordings played back from before the ICS update still exhibit "audio crappiness".
root your sensation first