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Is there a way to get better sound quality when using custom roms?

When ever i use a custom rom the sound quality isnt like the stock rom? I always have dts enabled when playing music and it sounds great, but i dont have the option when using hellfire or cyanogen. So i guess im asking if there is a way to improve my sound?

I know huh! Barely got this phone yesterday o. Stock and it sounds better. Any help??
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you could try downloading and flashing beats audio. make sure you back up because thats the only way to revert

I never use the Stock music player. Use Power Amp from the market place. You can increase the base and treble for amazing sound quality. It's a 1 or 2 week trial after that you'll have to buy it. I Highly recommend getting Power Amp.

jwalker3181 said:
you could try downloading and flashing beats audio. make sure you back up because thats the only way to revert
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I tried it and it might have only affected the headphone sound, but I can barely hear a difference.
p.s I am currently running Hellfire ice cream sandwich.

Beats audio hack for hashcodes cm9?

Like the sign says..is there anyway to add beats audio to hashcodes stock cm9 rom. I know there are custom roms with beats built in but a lot of my apps just seem to work better with the stock cm9 rom he built.
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TexasRules777 said:
Like the sign says..is there anyway to add beats audio to hashcodes stock cm9 rom. I know there are custom roms with beats built in but a lot of my apps just seem to work better with the stock cm9 rom he built.
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I just installed the same one I always have, the one labelled for Gingerbread, I think.

Do you have a link to one that works? I've tried two or three different ones floating around and I get an immediate system sound f/c upon reboot.
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My ROM features Beats Audio Feel free to try it out!

gedemis said:
My ROM features Beats Audio Feel free to try it out!
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Installed your ROM yesterday. Works great!.
As for Beats Audio, I don't even know what that is or why I should care
Can you point me in the right direction?

dferrey said:
Installed your ROM yesterday. Works great!.
As for Beats Audio, I don't even know what that is or why I should care
Can you point me in the right direction?
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It's a set of software libraries that should provide you with better sound I'm able to hear a clear difference when comparing the stock ROM and gedeROM, but be the judge of that yourself.

I thinks it's funny how Beats Audio on the hardware side is so terrible but the software aspect is pretty damn good. I was really skeptical but the bass is much fatter in comparison and the whole thing just has better sound overall. It's now totally obvious to me the main design focus was cosmetics to make all the little hipster kids happy when they should've been smart and focused primarily on functionality. But who does that nowadays, right? On a side note, I can't stand the ridiculous white ones. They might as well make them bright yellow with flashing lights, like "Hey, everyone, look how trendy I am!"

+1 for ged's rom being awesome
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+1 for ged's rom being awesome
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Oh don't get me wrong i'm using ged's rom too and love it..i just have an issue where dsp manager does absolutely nothing (ie: i move the sliders no sound change) and any other eq app i've tried f/c's immediately when opening. I love the sound change beats provides but i also would like to be able to fine tune with and eq. I've flashed G's rom with a fresh install and 3 different downloads and still get f/c's on any eq app? So i thought maybe one of the thousands of beats.zips floating around might work if i flash it over a stock cm rom. I want your rom to work for me ged, but the lack of eq bums me out. Any idea what i'm doing wrong with dsp manager?

TexasRules777 said:
Oh don't get me wrong i'm using ged's rom too and love it..i just have an issue where dsp manager does absolutely nothing (ie: i move the sliders no sound change) and any other eq app i've tried f/c's immediately when opening. I love the sound change beats provides but i also would like to be able to fine tune with and eq. I've flashed G's rom with a fresh install and 3 different downloads and still get f/c's on any eq app? So i thought maybe one of the thousands of beats.zips floating around might work if i flash it over a stock cm rom. I want your rom to work for me ged, but the lack of eq bums me out. Any idea what i'm doing wrong with dsp manager?
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yes same here dsp manager did nothing..i think its not recognizing headset input..
And tried all the equalizers but getting fcs
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gedemes 27 april cm9+Hash's 28 april kernel

Yea i even tried a DSP 1.0 zip i had used before..nothing.

TexasRules777 said:
Yea i even tried a DSP 1.0 zip i had used before..nothing.
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I tried DSP yesterday. I heard difference as soon as a changed a setting. This is from the internal speakers not headphones.

So is it possible to add Beat Audio to, say, Modaco ROM?

Badgerino said:
So is it possible to add Beat Audio to, say, Modaco ROM?
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I still haven't got any zips to work..
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MR2-MiKe said:
I tried DSP yesterday. I heard difference as soon as a changed a setting. This is from the internal speakers not headphones.
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Same here, headphones don't register. Found an eq that works and sounds great with beats on ged's rom.
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I installed the Beats 5.1 ZIP from this thread, using TWRP on Hashcode's #10 ROM.
Works great, other than the DSP no longer works and the ROM likes to throw an occasional error at boot up to tell me so. I think this is generally intentional on the part of Beats, since it now manages sound. Since stock DSP no longer manages sound, it would make sense it no longer works.

kenikh said:
I installed the Beats 5.1 ZIP from this thread, using TWRP on Hashcode's #10 ROM.
Works great, other than the DSP no longer works and the ROM likes to throw an occasional error at boot up to tell me so. I think this is generally intentional on the part of Beats, since it now manages sound. Since stock DSP no longer manages sound, it would make sense it no longer works.
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Yea I actually found beats audio in of all places the play store! Now I can flash it with any rom! Just get that " sound system has stopped" error on boot but it goes away and the sound is much improved.
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TexasRules777 said:
Yea I actually found beats audio in of all places the play store!
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WTF?!? IIRC, Beats and HTC have an exclusivity deal in place. I'm surprised HTC hasn't requested this be removed from Play.

kenikh said:
WTF?!? IIRC, Beats and HTC have an exclusivity deal in place. I'm surprised HTC hasn't requested this be removed from Play.
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Yep. It's just an Apk that builds a flashable zip that you use in CWM. I didn't think it would work , but it did.
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ROM/KERNEL Combo that doesn't introduce skipping music?

Howdy all, after some advice please. Been trying a few different ROM'S & Kernels and can't find a combination that doesn't skip while playing music. Maybe I have a dud phone? It is pretty random and not all the time but is very annoying.
Baseband V20c currently using meemo's DNA GB 3.3.3 ROM with samno's new super stock Kernel.
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Probably has more to do with sd card and read ahead speeds/caching
Try an app like SD speed increase and try different settings to see which works best. 4096 works best for me. Also minimizes micro skips in video recording too...

Thanks mate will try that, had myself convinced it was from using sd boost at one stage!
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Going to jinx myself but I think it is my external sd card. Bummer so much for getting a 32GB class 10 card. Music hasn't skipped once from the internal card.
Ahhh, would you believe it skipped while typing this!
Think I need a new phone.
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Still happening
I have flashed a heap of different ROM's and Kernel's to no avail. Intermittent skipping on internal and external cards.
Can the baseband effect this? I am on V20c and maybe that is why the ROM/Kernel's are playing up?
Don't want to go to cyanogenmod (loose 3D) but it is the one that seems to work best.
Maybe I need to get a Gnote and just keep the O3D as a 3D camera.
Any ideas, willing to try almost anything now, love my tunes and it is driving me crazy

From what I know, it can't be the baseband. It only manage your network, I think. Flashing rom with wrong baseband-the only effect is, you don't have network.

Well been running cyanogenmod now and not one skip. DSP manager is pretty great as well. Might just have to make do with out the 3d I guess.
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Couldn't help myself, flashed back to stock and so far so good. Looks like no ROM's for me for a while, well at least until ICS!

Try Promethius ROM + Promethius kernel and set longer audio buffer in PowerAMP (+750ms). Works for me.

olex195 said:
Try Promethius ROM + Promethius kernel and set longer audio buffer in PowerAMP (+750ms). Works for me.
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Thanks, since I am on base V20c will I need to flash V21e base for Promethius ROM? think the answer is yes but need to be sure
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olex195 said:
Try Promethius ROM + Promethius kernel and set longer audio buffer in PowerAMP (+750ms). Works for me.
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Well stock didn't seem to last to long without a skip!
Switched to Power Amp on your suggestion and put both the options for audio skip (buffer & priority) on full and it seems to have done the trick!
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Just wanted to share my two cents... I love the app called n7player... it has a neat feature for streaming music to itself to fix the skip issue... it works great but it eats battery...
Then one day I tried playing some music that was FLAC format... where a single 3 min song takes up like 25 megabytes...
And I had to download a special app that could play flac. And I am amazed that a 25 mgbyte file plays flawlessly with out a single skip... but standard mp3 at about 5 mgbytes skips every few seconds...
So I tried this with several other audio formats... from .wav to .wma to .mpg and they all played fine
All played from my ext SD by the way.. so I don't think it is a problem with read write speed..
Whichever leads me to question...
Anyone know if our phones have a hard time decoding/extracting mp3 compressed audio
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Thanks for the tips. Might try out some flac and see how it goes. What program did you use? I have power Amp now and that says it will play flac.
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saint_cow said:
Thanks for the tips. Might try out some flac and see how it goes. What program did you use? I have power Amp now and that says it will play flac.
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EDIT: I was wrong n7 player does have Flac support

Well balls, my phone has random skipping with flac as well.
I have tried a heap of different players, codecs, roms and kernels and yet I get random skipping. Besides the 3d I hate this phone.
Maybe LG should have just released it as a 3d camera.
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saint_cow said:
Well balls, my phone has random skipping with flac as well.
I have tried a heap of different players, codecs, roms and kernels and yet I get random skipping. Besides the 3d I hate this phone.
Maybe LG should have just released it as a 3d camera.
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Even the camera is bad.
Rant
I feel as if the o3d was rushed, like they had the hardware part down but not the software part. So we got beta software they released it then they lost intrest in the o3d ($800 from me) they released other phones and then came ics and they were like, oh sh!t lets give them gb yeah that should keep them busy till the next version of android.
We gonna get ics when all the other devices spit on ics and look at it with shame ang lg will be like look theres ics we promised you there it is and will be like, but but what about jellybean which they will respond.. whoa we never said anything about jellybean buy the new 2013 Optimus 3d maX Ultra With ICS then you might get jellybean when android 5.0 comes out lol.
went off topic Also on the Gnexus so it depends i use to have stuttering when i had crossfade on and the stock player has never stuttered.

CyanogenMod works great, except for the fact that when I use it in my car through aux it pauses itself and even when it does play it sounds stuffed!
Can't win with this thing.
Will keep posting any updates here just in case someone else is in the same boat,
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try this Goto Settings > Sound and Uncheck Haptic feedback tell me if the music still skips

defcomg said:
try this Goto Settings > Sound and Uncheck Haptic feedback tell me if the music still skips
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In stock or CyanogenMod? Either way I always turn haptic feedback off. Might try the RC builds to see if they fix the aux problem.
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saint_cow said:
In stock or CyanogenMod? Either way I always turn haptic feedback off. Might try the RC builds to see if they fix the aux problem.
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stock noticed the stuttering occurred during me touching the captive buttons and the captive buttons lighting up and after the have gone off after switching the feedback of the stuttering hasn't happened tried inducing skipping in poweramp by skipping through songs fast and pushing power on and off nothing happened. maybe its a voltage control issue.
My music 320kbps 48khz 3-9 min
128 kbps 44khz mixes
192 kbps
haven't tested flac
try this also see if it helps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bluesteel.cka&hl=en

The only thing that works is cyanogenmod. Just don't turn the volume up past 75% when using auxiliary out (car etc) as it pauses by itself. Loud as at 75% anyway and no skipping / glitching while playing music!
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Equalizer app w/ Beats included

Perusing in the general android section and read the last few pages of this link. Member confirmed working on stock/rooted S3. Made a nandroid and ave it a shot. Have tested with bluetooth headphones and changes are noticeable. I really like the bass boost.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728391

Edit: got it installed with no problems on synergy r52. Just need to test it on something besides the phones speaker to see if it actually is using the equalizer or not. I don't have headphones with me.
The music does seem louder than it was before tho...

You are correct. Which is why I backed up prior to install. After installation, you can go into System-Sounds and there will be a new menu option, Music Effects. Select Awesome Beats (fyi I got a MusicFX force close for some reason).
You will now have an app named Awesome Beats. You can open that and make your adjustments for wired and wireless headphones.
I use bluetooth wireless, so I made my adjustments while listening to music.
This may be no better than an app that is on Play. I was in a modding mode, so I did it.
FYI - you will also not see the red Beats logo on the taskbar.

Installed fine, with no force closes so far. But it didn't do anything to the music.

Installed on Synergy r53 working great.

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Installed on Synergy r53 working great.
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You can actually hear a difference in the music though? I couldn't hear any changes when switching between presets. Even on the headset that came with the phone.

Brian Gove said:
You can actually hear a difference in the music though? I couldn't hear any changes when switching between presets. Even on the headset that came with the phone.
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I hear some small changes like you said the music seems louder and I think the bass boost is working. Not entirely sure but did get the force close for MusicFX.

Just flashed it, works but only for for native music player.......
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DSP Manager is an excellent equalizer app, as well.
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JawaH8r said:
Perusing in the general android section and read the last few pages of this link. Member confirmed working on stock/rooted S3. Made a nandroid and ave it a shot. Have tested with bluetooth headphones and changes are noticeable. I really like the bass boost.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728391
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Curious what ROM you're running and what DSP settings you're using?
Bass sounds pretty distorted to me.
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[Help] In-call sound quality

Since I rooted and started trying different ROMs I finally settled with CleanRom. Problem is since flashing I've noticed when I'm on the phone talking with someone they sound all distorted and computer like. I sometimes get a nasty echo. The echo happens in my car on Bluetooth as well. My wife has the same phone not rooted and hers sounds fine. I've tried a beats app and ac!d app from devs, but none seem to make it better. I would post under Scotts forum for CleanRom but I'm not allowed yet.
Any ideas how to fix this? I don't want to go back to stock rooted. I hate all the big red and sammy extra junk.
The sound distortion I've noticed the distortion on a few other ROMs I've flashed as well.
Searches haven't helped or I wouldn't be asking.
Thanks.
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Have you tried Goodness ROM? It does have good sound quality with no need to flash acid or beats.

I'm having the same issue and on CleanRom as well. I was hoping to find a solution on this thread lol