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Voice Recording problem

Since the stock voice recorder that came with captivate produced very low quality sound, I tried other free recorders in the market. But all the apps that I tried spit out an error when I select the 44Khz sampling rate. The error that I get is "The application ___ has stopped unnexpectedly. Please try again."
Can someone please confirm if they can record above 22Khz (This is the maximum setting I can use, but occasionally it does stutter)? I find that I have to reinstall the application if I choose the 44Khz option prior to choosing the smaller rates.
And also, is there an app that filters out background noise captured by the mic before the sound is sent to other programs?

So no one experienced the above problem?
Since day 1, I also find that all of my voice recordings stutter once in a while. I know others have complained about the stuttering in the 720p video recording. I am wondering whether this might be due to the limitation of the write speed of the partition in the internal sd card or whether it is a hardware defect. Any feedback appreciated.
I have already applied Ryan's lag fix, but that didn't help with my stuttering problems.

any voice recording app that uses wav causes a force close for me regardless of the sampling rate i select. not really a problem for me since i never use voice notes for anything and if i ever need to the stock one does fine.

Thanks for clarifying the force close problem..
The stock one records to 13bit 8Khz AMR. This is a very lite rate, but I still notice stuttering once in maybe 3min as opposed to like once every 30s w/ 16Khz wav. I usually record for like 60min straight and I have noticed stuttering in all of my recordings. I sometimes record music so I would love to have a clean recording.
Do you notice the stuttering? I don't want to be the loner.
I would ideally like to record to my external SD card and see if it resolves the issue but I haven't found an app that does. Any suggestions appreciated.

Try Rehearsal Assistant
I agree. Stock Voice Recorder sucks on Captivate. They need to get this fixed. The voice is over processes and it sounds as chipmunks.
For me Rehearsal Assistant works the best. You can chose .wav or .3gp.

The Captivate seems to be hardware-limited to 22kHz sampling rates or below. This really sucks! Tape Machine on the Captivate won't let you select anything above 22050 Hz. On Evo, 44100 works flawlessly. I wonder why nobody is complaining about this?

I recently flashed to JM5 and applied RyanZA's lag fix. Now I am able to record at 44khz. Not sure what could have enabled it. But i still notice minute stuttering at that rate. I will keep you guys updated.

No more stuttering @ 16khz. I think this problem has always been the RFS file system lag. hopefully after supercurio's file system fix even 44khz will be butter smooth.

Audio Crackling/Audio stutter when screen off after 3.1 Update

All,
I noticed a couple possible defects after upgrading to 3.1 manually.
1. When playing audio from certain applications (XMP for Android for instance) The Audio cuts out shortly after the screen turns off, and then halts for a period of time before coming back shortly, then cuts out again.
2. Once you turn the screen back on, there is a distinct crackling in the audio.
Workaround:
1. Turn screen back on (get the crackling)
2. Unplug the 3.5mm audio jack
3. Play music from the speakers
4. Plug back in the 3.5mm audio jack
Anyone else seeing these issues with other audio applications?

Yep, I had the crackling and long pauses start happening today after the FOTA update.
Seems to happen (more often?) when applications interrupt an audio stream. For instance, listening to music and get an IM or email.

Yeah I had issues with this as well afer updating to 3.1...I saw in another thread that doing a "hard reboot" will fix the issue and has seemed to work for me so far. Hold the power button down for 10-15 sec until the unit reboots.

same problem
I have the same problem as well. The audio stops functioning properly when the screen times out or when I lock the device with the power button. The weird thing is that this behaviour is not consistent for all apps.
For example, "Music" stops only at the end of the song. From the "3.1 ROM issues" thread, other users are experiencing this as well. In contrast, in the apps "Listen" and "Audible", almost as soon as the screen goes off or I lock it, the audio stops, starting after some 30 seconds, halting again after 10 seconds. It repeats this cycle a few times and then stops completely. If I lit the screen by hitting the power button, the audio resumes with crackling noises as mentioned in the original posts.
Also, hard reset didn't work. I am tempted to do a factory reset except that I don't really know what's going on and I don't know if that'd fix it!
UPDATE: I found the following workaround solutions:
1- Winamp works flawlessly for songs, not a peep or hitch!
2- BeyondPod is working fairly well for podcasts. (It has paused once after 11 minutes so far.)

I did the fota update.
and I've the the crackling. Sucky.

me too. Hope they get an update out to fix this asap. Extremely annoying bug.

Would like to add I am also experiencing this issue although mine didn't start till a couple days after the update to 3.1. A hard reset works for a little while but the issue eventually presents itself again. Might be due to a caching issue with the music player?

Anyone try another music player?

I discovered the crackling noise problem last night.
At first I thought the FLAC songs were recorded from a dirty vinyl record.
I also discovered the problem where the Music app does not continue to the next song when listening with the screen turned off. How stupid is that.
These are two big problems that ASUS needs to address ASAP.
I am already annoyed by the pop sound when turning the Transformer on and whenever any sound to the speaker (Headphones are fine) is played after a long pause.
They must have used a really cheap sound chip in the Transformer.

Yes I can confirm the same problems with google listen. Have tried the hard reset but it doesn't really help very much. Things worked fine after the restart, but as soon as the screen turned off, then the audio paused, and began to crackle, then more pauses. It is almost as if some part of the system is in some sort of low power mode and is not able to feed the data at the required data rate...

gloomyandy said:
... It is almost as if some part of the system is in some sort of low power mode and is not able to feed the data at the required data rate...
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I believe this could be exactly the problem. I have not yet gotten my TF, but looking forward to one greatly. However, I get exactly this problem on my Galaxy Tab 7" WHEN using setCPU to add a profile that scales the CPU down when screen is off. It sounds to me as if ASUS has added some sort of governer/scaling that does this. I could be wrong of course This is just based on reading, and personal experience

corodius said:
I believe this could be exactly the problem. I have not yet gotten my TF, but looking forward to one greatly. However, I get exactly this problem on my Galaxy Tab 7" WHEN using setCPU to add a profile that scales the CPU down when screen is off. It sounds to me as if ASUS has added some sort of governer/scaling that does this. I could be wrong of course This is just based on reading, and personal experience
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Yes. I get a lot of weird little problems with the Tab 7'' when setCPU scales clock speed down too far, including random reboots. I guess that's the sacrifice Asus made to give the TF such a tremendous battery life.

grainysand said:
I guess that's the sacrifice Asus made to give the TF such a tremendous battery life.
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I don't know about "tremendous"
More like pretty good...

i can confirm that i have this issue using google music app. I previously purchased PowerAMP (arguably the best android music app) and no problems whatsoever when the screen goes off.
I do like the google music app as it seems like a truly lightweight player but its still in beta stage and needs a bit of work.

I just discovered something. The problem does not occur for my Transformer when the unit is plugged in!
So it must be power management problem, the question is how to fix it?

Hey guys, loving the xda forums btw, much love. I have a acer iconia a500 16gb, and same problem here:
Using Acer_a500_4.010.13_com_gen2
The default Music player is buggy and crashed fairly often, the audio stopping when screen turns off and stopping intermittently is also present on iconia with the default music player and the others as well.
The audio crackling is also present under same conditions.
To add insult to injury, sometimes when i connect a headphones the speakers dont turn off. And if i play with he "dolby mobile" settings, the sound on my headphones get really tinny untill i unplug the headphones and plug them back in, or i reboot the sys in some cases.

I just thought I should add to this thread that I have the same problems on my Acer Iconia A500. It consistently only finishes the song after I turn the screen off then it waits MINUTES to start the next song. I only occasionally have problems with the crackle sound. I had the crackling a lot when I first got it but it doesn't seem to happen as often any more. It doesn't seem to happen when I use doubleTwist but I really wish that the STOCK APPLICATION (which I like the best) would work...
Is there ANY way to fix this stuff? I mean even downgrading to like 3.0 or something. I like to use my tablet to play on my stereo system and I don't enjoy having to effing go back every time I want to play the next song. I also don't want to leave the screen on all the time and murder the battery.

I have the same thing happening on my A500 (running the ASUS PRIME ROM, though). When the screen turns off, anything audio related gets really skippy.

apparently there's some sort of setting build in for the cpu to underclock to the point of not being able to continue running the music application when the screen turns off. (that's me guessing it could be wrong) It always happens with stock music app though it didnt happen when in 3.0.
I installed winamp and doubletwist and both played nonstop.
Also i noticed that if you had music in your external sd and you open music app (also happened with winamp) and remove the sd the applications wont work anymore (thy always fc)unless you install the sd back (that is if you had your music library in the sd even if you also have it internally)
I tried moving the music to the internal storage but the error persist. the only way to get rid of it is formatting the tablet and passing the music to the tablet before running the apps. However if you install the sd and you happen to have music and music app open, youre screw again.
thats the error ive been having and im stuck with a 16gb sd in the tablet to hear music, (which i find it sucking cause my tablet is 32gb)
any suggestions?

[Q] Equalizer/Audio Booster

I am currently running AOSP CM7 Mod (Gingerbread).
I am looking for an equalizer/audio booster besides the DSP which comes with the ROM. DSP actually does boost audio, but results in extra noise being added randomly.
The other option would be for those CDMA Hero owners who are running DSP successfully - could you suggest any optimized settings? Everything I've tried hasn't worked.

Try power amp music. Search for it on the market. It might be what your looking for.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*

laie1472 said:
Try power amp music. Search for it on the market. It might be what your looking for.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
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Searching for that app I found another one called "Equalizer" which works great as well, plus it can be used as a widget for easy adjustments.
Just another suggestion..

flashinglights said:
Searching for that app I found another one called "Equalizer" which works great as well, plus it can be used as a widget for easy adjustments.
Just another suggestion..
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I've used that app great app no doubt but pa is much better. Has a widget and a kilker eq
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I have been using the DSPmanager on my cm7 rom for a while. I found when I turned up any one of the fields past 5 then my audio output becomes choppy and sometimes my phone becomes nearly unresponsive. I try not to turn up any field past 3 or 4. The higher you increase any field the more resources your phone uses. I have also heard talk in other threads about your CPU speeds could affect audio playback. You may experience noise or blips if you min CPU speed is 176 or lower. Once I made these changes I stopped having problems with my phone not working properly. But I do get occasional pauses or stuttering.
I wonder if your SD card speed could affect your music playback. I get short pauses occasionally during playback and I'm not sure if its related to the DSP or SD card or what. Or could it be the format of my SD card is fat32 instead of an ext file format? Has anyone else had this problem?
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i use Louder Volume Hack ... i love it. makes everything so loud.

[Q] Poor Sound Quality When Using Camcorder

Does anybody know if HTC has acknowledged the problem with poor sound quality when recording video on the Sensation? As in -- it's super loud and distorted even when recording in a relatively quiet environment? This has been the single most disappointing thing about this phone for me.
I have seen a couple of threads started about this but there is not much info out there that I've been able to dig up.
Does anybody have more information about the problem or know of anything that can be done to alleviate it? Even if there's a different video recording app someone can recommend, I'd be happy. (From what I've read it sounds like a software issue -- something with the default codec or volume level being borked. Hopefully it doesn't actually have anything to do with the mic itself.)

[Q] Netflix lock up

Hello,
Has anyone else experienced Netflix locking up during playing (and requiring a reboot)?

bittersound said:
Hello,
Has anyone else experienced Netflix locking up during playing (and requiring a reboot)?
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Occasionally. Maybe every 3 or 4 shows that I watch.

Hmmm, it's a right pain in the minge isn't it?
Still, could be worse.

I'm actually more annoyed at my recent upgrade for PowerAmpPro. They got the album art right but it freezes in mid-song. Often. Oftener than Netflix anyway.

I have also encountered this problem unfortunately... I just want to enjoy my Dr. Who darn it...

rtfm1777 said:
I'm actually more annoyed at my recent upgrade for PowerAmpPro. They got the album art right but it freezes in mid-song. Often. Oftener than Netflix anyway.
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I was having some glitchness with Poweramp when I first installed it. It would freeze if the screen went off. My solution was to disable the screen from turning off while the player was active and on top. It will play for 4 or 5 hours without any interruptions that way. Not the best work around power wise. There has been one or two versions released since I originally had that issue (currently on build 2.0.5.-build-488 Full Version), so not sure if the problem is still there in the newer versions
As for the Netflix issue, I've been hoping that they'd release a magical update fixing the issue on the 7.0+, but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe if/when ICS drops it will work right...

Thanks. I'll try that out tonight, see if it makes a difference.
Speaking of audio difficulties have you experienced the low level audio fluctuations that are bothering a number of us. Different apps, different audio streams, all with annoying varying audio at low levels.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527635&page=3

rtfm1777 said:
Thanks. I'll try that out tonight, see if it makes a difference.
Speaking of audio difficulties have you experienced the low level audio fluctuations that are bothering a number of us. Different apps, different audio streams, all with annoying varying audio at low levels.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527635&page=3
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I can't say I have noticed the low level volume issue ever. I mainly use poweramp/tab 7.0+ connected to a mixer and amplifier at work, so i never have at it set to low. Haven't noticed any volume issues on netflix on headphones either (rarely use low volume for anything i suppose).