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Hey guys,
When I first got my inspire I loved the audio output coming from the headphone Jack. I am now running the android revolution rom and the sound quality sounds like it leaves something to be desired on the lower end frequencies, I was wondering if anyone else noticed this and what you did to fix it
Thanks
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ARHD 6.1.0 has known audio issues on the Inspire (judging by the comments in the dev thread). Earlier versions may need the Inspire tinny fix applied to them (link is in the dev thread).
BTW your question would be better placed in the Q&A thread for ARHD.

Youre right, my apologies. Can the mods please move this to the right section?
And while I'm at it ill ask this question to everyone. Which ROM have all of you found to have the best sound quality?
I came from a Captivate and the Voodoo sound enhancement made phone sound better than my laptop with SRSwow sound effects. I was hoping this phone would be just as good if not better with the Dolby and SRS built in
*EDIT* I was using poweramp then decided to give playerpro with the DSP pack a try and it sounds waayyy better. Definitely worth a try

VinceG said:
And while I'm at it ill ask this question to everyone. Which ROM have all of you found to have the best sound quality?
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not to shamelessly plug away....but......

With a response from the dev himself I'm going to have to check it out
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Yeah I never had a problem with the sound in the stock firmware. It was a lot better considering I came from an x10 which had horrible quality. Depends on what your standards are.

[Q] anyone know of a headset+handset+BT booster

​ So I've looking around, and tried a few things to increase the volume, like dst manager, which doesn't seem to work, but cannot find something legit. does anyone know how to boost the volume for the phone's speaker/ bluetooth sound? or if this is possible?

Omg!!! Post in the right section!!
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technokid said:
​ So I've looking around, and tried a few things to increase the volume, like dst manager, which doesn't seem to work, but cannot find something legit. does anyone know how to boost the volume for the phone's speaker/ bluetooth sound? or if this is possible?
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There may already be a similiar thread under the accessories header, please look around and use common sense when posting. This is for development only...

VooDoo v10 is bad ass for headphones.
get a VooDoo enabled ROM/Kernel, and get VooDoo controll Plus (worth the money)

Voodoo rocks headphone Gain
Nuff Said,Vegas

I'm looking for the same thing... I think this guy is looking for something cooked into a kernel. Coming from an inspire, most kernels come with anywhere from 10-25% audio boost.
VOODOO is great for music and bass boost but doesn't do a thing for phone calls.
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A) post in the right section
B) phone call quality is controlled by the modem

jdbeitz said:
A) post in the right section
B) phone call quality is controlled by the modem
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well I didn't know jeeeze!

And now ya do.
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well I didn't know jeeeze!
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Please post all questions in the forum marked with a BIG Q&A
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Beats Audio on any Gingerbread ROM

I haven't installed this yet, but will give it a run later. All credit goes to Fuss132 for his awesome work. Here is the link to the original thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523760
If I helped in anyway click the thanks button.
Here is the file from the original post:
http://www.4shared.com/zip/SRovGyu2/flash.html?refurl=d1url

Will this work on costom roms like zeus?

Bubonic78 said:
Will this work on costom roms like zeus?
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Yes, according to the link, it will work on any gingerbread rom. I installed it about 30 min ago, and can notice a slight difference on my low-grade headphones. Will try again on my good ones at work.
EDIT: I'm at work, using good headphones, and the quality difference is distinct enough to notice easily.

has anybody flashed this yet? Cuz last time I modified stuff with the audio my phone bootlooped. So I don't wanna flash cuz I'm away for weekend
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Flashed on R3volution. Sounds great. No issues. Make sure you do a nandroid backup first, though.
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Flashed on Zeus 5.2 no problems on boot. No app settings, I didn't really read about it in the thread hehe.
I don't have my headphones on me right now but I played the stock player on the phone speaker and it was noticeably louder.
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Flashed this on the stock lb3 and works flawlessly. Five Finger Death Punch has never sounded this clean.
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Just installed it on my phone. I have ZAGG buds which have decent sound for their price (I got them half off too). I admit I'm a little skeptical being a little more on the casual audiophile side. I know that with the DAC this phone has, high quality music shouldn't need silly gimmicks to make it sound better, but I'm about to see what I think now I guess!
Edit: Bah, I'm dumb and listened to Spotify before I applied so I had a crappy comparison. Anyway, playing FLAC in PowerAMP after installing sounds pretty good, but I almost feel like I hear a little compression that may be caused by Beats. Might remove the mod and test some more over the weekend. Overall it sounds pretty great though. No complaints.

JordanElliott said:
last time I modified stuff with the audio my phone bootlooped.
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I had the same thing happen but found it to be something that titanium backup was restoring.
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Beats audio is software EQ only. Voodoo Control app is more functional, better, and doesn't consume battery life as an extra EQ layer on top of your audio. Also according to supercurio (twitter.com/supercurio), the ports violate HTC and Beatsbydre licensing, while also asking for donations for violating said license.

Well...that threads been out a while, so apparently someone got permission, so until they start shutting threads down i say beats is much more clear than voodoo... Good job bro...
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Flashed on Revelation, no problems that weren't there before.
As for audio quality, I'll test that when I'm not at work.

what's the best music app to go with this? =D
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dustinhayes93 said:
what's the best music app to go with this? =D
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Google music. Not using this beats audio thing, but I love it.
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dustinhayes93 said:
what's the best music app to go with this? =D
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Google music works great.
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So I just put this onto my phone today, which has Revelation Rom on it. Downloaded the file from my browser, then rebooted to recovery. I made a backup of my system through recovery when it rebooted to it. Then I flashed the zip, rebooted phone and voila! The phone seems like the audio is much better, but I don't know if there is anywhere to verify the flash took. There is no app in my app folders, maybe theres a beats folder in my phone somewhere.

The are multiple files. One that you can just check is in the system/bin folder. You will see files that say ibeats in them. That is the only folder i can remember right now.
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holly jesus santa clause ****, my headphones made the music sound better!

Nice works good

dman3285 said:
Well...that threads been out a while, so apparently someone got permission, so until they start shutting threads down i say beats is much more clear than voodoo... Good job bro...
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I'm sure supercurio would disagree.
but voodoo and this are two different things with different purposes. cant be compared. voodoo is an open source driver from wolfson for our chip hacked into a module to replace the closed source Samsung driver unlocking some native features and givving acess to the hardware volume control. there is more it does on cm7 but it was left out of the Samsung roms because we have some software correction or emulation or eq in our libs that the rom depends on and can't be turned off. supercurio didn't want to stack layers of emulation or correction because of unpredictable or poor results or an effect of diminishing return.
this is software effects and/or equalization. the problem I have with that is the nature and quality of the effects is unknown. it may be sophisticated correction for the htc hardware and possibly have negative effects on our hardware. it might just be some compression or reverb to emulate a listening environment, might be a combination. we dont actually know. we also don't know how this plus our Samsung software is really effecting the integrity of the signal. but if you think it helps by all means use it. I personally see no reason to mess with it especially on a Samsung rom.

Beats Audio and xLoud mod

Just a heads up to those who may not know, there is a Beats Audio/xLoud mod/port on the board and it works on the Atrix 2. Beats adds a deeper, cleaner bass and cleans up the mids/highs too. xLoud is a Sony Ericsson thing, it basically boosts the overall volume of ur audio. I just flashed this mod to my phone and holy ****, huge difference! I had to turn all my volumes down media/ringer/alarms. My good cans are packed (moving this weekend) so no testing with them yet but after hearing the difference I just heard with only the phone speaker I'm expecting to be very happy.
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Here's the link to the thread for it....make sure to d/l and flash the 3.2.12 one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525226
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where is the xloud .zip file?

Whoa - déjà vu!
xLoud is included in the zip.
Audio volume really is increased overall (I too had to turn everything down) and the beats makes the bass sound sweet!

cogeary said:
Whoa - déjà vu!
xLoud is included in the zip.
Audio volume really is increased overall (I too had to turn everything down) and the beats makes the bass sound sweet!
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Yep, very noticeable difference. This one is much better than the first one w/o xLoud.
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Maybe its just me, but I can't seem to find a difference in quality using the car dock. Audio goes out the car docks 3.5mm jack to my Volvo s60r's stereo. I was hoping for some more volume.
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So will this work with pandora ??? I love pandora but the sound quality is shaky at times...
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I flashed the first beats mod without xloud, can I flash the xloud mod over it?
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Yes you can, it will just overwrite the one you just installed.

lilhaiti said:
Yes you can, it will just overwrite the one you just installed.
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It failed to flash when I tried it, idk what I did wrong.
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Tried this tweak last week and it's great. My highs have come alive and it sounds much cleaner.

So how does the mod affect the Motorola stock equalizer?
I'm assuming the beats audio is only effective in the My Music app? So do I have to disable the "Effects" in settings to hear the Beats Audio? Or should I switch that to custom?

This work well seems crisper...... Did notice if the bass is overpowering the mids and lows go to sound settings and un-tick enable audio effects..... For me with headphones will set effects enabled effects profile custom surround ambient eq bass punch WOW!!!!!

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I'm assuming the beats audio is only effective in the My Music app? So do I have to disable the "Effects" in settings to hear the Beats Audio? Or should I switch that to custom?
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Nope, it's not only in My Music, I use PowerAmp and it works perfectly

916x10 said:
Nope, it's not only in My Music, I use PowerAmp and it works perfectly
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wait, so, it works by default, and all the additional effects are additional? but my system sounds are not any louder than they were before, which other people seem to be reporting

iarejohnsmith said:
wait, so, it works by default, and all the additional effects are additional? but my system sounds are not any louder than they were before, which other people seem to be reporting
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Mine are....I have had to turn all my volumes down since installing this mod. I haven't done any critical listening since I don't use my phone like that anyway, I was just hoping for louder system sounds and that's exactly what I got. The Beats is just an added bonus.

Ok are we supposed to download the one that says older zip files test301.zip or the allandroidzip.zip that looks to be the newest?
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Awesome
Works great thanks! Sounds a lot better ican tell right away

So im sorry but I did this. And to be honest it didn't sound better at all. In fact I think it was worse everyone keeps saying stuff like wow... what a difference. But I hear worse clarity, more bass but... im a musician and so sounds I hear more clearly maybe than most but Idk.... anyways like I said im not trying to be rude.

Deliberate said:
So im sorry but I did this. And to be honest it didn't sound better at all. In fact I think it was worse everyone keeps saying stuff like wow... what a difference. But I hear worse clarity, more bass but... im a musician and so sounds I hear more clearly maybe than most but Idk.... anyways like I said im not trying to be rude.
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Yea these are some of the same complaints I've heard about the actual beats headphones because they're made really for more hip hop songs and not a wide range of music the highs are where those headphones usually suffer IMO
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[APP] [ROOT] Beats Audio Installer

I wouldn't be sharing this if I didn't think that it was helpful, so please look into this.
There is an app on the play store called [ROOT] Beats Audio Installer. It is made by motioncoding, so all the credit and thanks should go to them. What this app does is that it installs the beats audio drivers to any android phone, as long as the phone is rooted. It is advised that one makes a backup of their data (nandroid and titanium will suffice), because once you install this app and run it to install beats audio, you can't uninstall this. The only thing you can do is factory reset. I have used this app and it worked for me. My music quality is substantially better. YOU DO NOT NEED BEATS HEADPHONES FOR THIS APP TO RUN. I do not know if this app will give you beats audio quality sound if you use youtube, pandora, or spotify. I believe that it shall, if you use headphones to listen to your media, because a "beats audio" notification appears every time you use headphones. I do not know if a lot of people know about this, but I just wanted to share this app, because I believe it is great. The link is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motioncoding.beats&hl=en
There is also a mod that you guys can try. You need to have DSP Manager for this to work, but you can try to see how it works without it. Remember, i am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone. The flashable zip is linked.
If you have any questions, please comment. Remember, thank motioncoding...and you can press the "thanks" button if i have helped you

This is pretty cool. They say they use Rockodev's beats mod, but having this app to do it for you is nice. (Also having the notification is sick!)
I find the first review funny, he says "the app works without root, notification appears, but please actually make the sound quality better" lol he doesn't realize...
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gagdude said:
This is pretty cool. They say they use Rockodev's beats mod, but having this app to do it for you is nice. (Also having the notification is sick!)
I find the first review funny, he says "the app works without root, notification appears, but please actually make the sound quality better" lol he doesn't realize...
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Yeah, I came across this while looking for a beats audio zip file on my 4.1.1. rom for my droid incredible. Oh dear...poor him lol.

dont do unrooted
if you do unrooted it has a chance of screwing up your phone if it is one of the newer versions. even though the app says "continue without root" . trust me. dont.

ra9b said:
I wouldn't be sharing this if I didn't think that it was helpful, so please look into this.
There is an app on the play store called [ROOT] Beats Audio Installer. It is made by motioncoding, so all the credit and thanks should go to them. What this app does is that it installs the beats audio drivers to any android phone, as long as the phone is rooted. It is advised that one makes a backup of their data (nandroid and titanium will suffice), because once you install this app and run it to install beats audio, you can't uninstall this. The only thing you can do is factory reset. I have used this app and it worked for me. My music quality is substantially better. YOU DO NOT NEED BEATS HEADPHONES FOR THIS APP TO RUN. I do not know if this app will give you beats audio quality sound if you use youtube, pandora, or spotify. I believe that it shall, if you use headphones to listen to your media, because a "beats audio" notification appears every time you use headphones. I do not know if a lot of people know about this, but I just wanted to share this app, because I believe it is great. The link is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ng.beats&hl=en
If you have any questions, please comment. Remember, thank motioncoding...and you can press the "thanks" button if i have helped you
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Your link:
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This is really cool. I never thought that a simple app could improve the music quality on my phone.
Now it's time to dump my ipod.

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this one?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motioncoding.beats&feature=search_result

i have tried this out on one of my rooted androids and it really does make a big difference well of course if you have headphones on atleast.

Leandre20 said:
i have tried this out on one of my rooted androids and it really does make a big difference well of course if you have headphones on atleast.
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It made a big difference in my music. I wasn't sure if it was good or not, but I got used to the new soun d
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sorry about the link not working. They changed the name of the application so, I edited the link in the first post, and here is the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motioncoding.beats&hl=en

for my Atrix right? Thanks

There was a debate about this around a while back on whether it is a placebo effect right?
I seem to remember Supercurio giving a review on this.
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Markuzy said:
There was a debate about this around a while back on whether it is a placebo effect right?
I seem to remember Supercurio giving a review on this.
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At least for me, the difference was VERY noticeable.
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Markuzy said:
There was a debate about this around a while back on whether it is a placebo effect right?
I seem to remember Supercurio giving a review on this.
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Same here, i heard an actual difference in my music. i was able to hear beats and other musical effects that i hadn't heard before.

varanhia said:
for my Atrix right? Thanks
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Yup, it works for any rooted device. i haven't tried this on an unrooted application, but people who have done so have had bad experiences.

cool
Going to give this a shot on my exhibit 2 4g running cm10

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Going to give this a shot on my exhibit 2 4g running cm10
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Great, let me know how it works!

Works! But not as loud as the oneX/evoLTE?!
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work well
Beats Audio works well for me in the Jellybam rom :good: