Well I am in the mood/ a mission to just royally mess up my phone today and luckily the portal is chock full of suggestions and mods to help me do just that.
The first I found was the GPS fix from earlier and now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523760
Beats by DRE for all Gingerbread roms.
I went through it a bit and it didnt seem like it was gonna mess with anything (mostly different files) so I went ahead and flashed it.
Everything is working fine and there doesnt seem to be any conflicts with Voodoo Sound. Does it improve the audio? I guess I am not enough of an audiofile to really know...
Just wanted to say that it seems safe to flash and throw it out as an option
Just to help people understand what Beats is (from what I know). It is more or less an audio filter that changes how the audio is processed coming from the device. It also changes the EQ curve some to accentuate the lower frequencies and then gives you a "distorted" output.
How can you tell if it installed correctly? is there any settings? Thanks.
As far as I can tell there no settings, and they are just under the hood enhancements.
Charged up post!
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As far as I can tell there no settings, and they are just under the hood enhancements.
Charged up post!
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+1 Yeah, the reason I asked cause I couldn't tell the different after installed. I heard everyone swore that it's huge different in sound quality, well I guess not for me. Thanks.
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+1 Yeah, the reason I asked cause I couldn't tell the different after installed. I heard everyone swore that it's huge different in sound quality, well I guess not for me. Thanks.
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it may have to do with the quality of the audio card in the charge. I felt like i noticed more of a difference when I flashed this on my kindle fire than I did on my charge.
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it may have to do with the quality of the audio card in the charge. I felt like i noticed more of a difference when I flashed this on my kindle fire than I did on my charge.
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The charge has one of the best DACs around on a phone... That's why voodoo sound works
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The charge has one of the best DACs around on a phone... That's why voodoo sound works
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That was my whole point... A device that renders sound exceptionally well is going to benefit less from minor software tweaks than one with a ****ty card that plays poorly out of the box.
Just because someone says "build quality" doesn't mean that they mean "bad build quality".
I think Beats sounds like crap anyway. It overemphasizes the bass and muddies up the mids. It's really intended for bass heavy music and doesn't really work well for anything else, IMO.
Beats... Audiophiles? Thanks for making me laugh this morning.
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Ok. I CANNOT find a thread which talks about the DAC in Sensation. How is the sound quality through headphones on this? Any previous Nexus S /SGS owners who would like to compare the Voodoo with sensation? Does it have Wolfson DAC in it?
*cough*6postsbelowyours*cough*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093383
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093383
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I read those but no one seems to confirm wolfson. If sensation has wolfson and get the voodoo project ported im getting it assuming bootloader is going to get cracked lol
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I read those but no one seems to confirm wolfson. If sensation has wolfson and get the voodoo project ported im getting it assuming bootloader is going to get cracked lol
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Hate to break it to you but Supercurio, the creator of Voodoo sound, doesn't give a %&$# about the Sensation. He already has his hands full with the SGSII. And according to his words, not mine, he described the Wolfson Media Hub 8994 as "mediocre." He seems to think that the preamp is more important in audio quality and I happen to agree. Oh and the chance of the Sensation having the Wolfson DAC is the chance that an ice cube has in hell. Hope for a better preamp instead or OTG DAC+AMP support.
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Hate to break it to you but Supercurio, the creator of Voodoo sound, doesn't give a %&$# about the Sensation. He already has his hands full with the SGSII. And according to his words, not mine, he described the Wolfson Media Hub 8994 as "mediocre." He seems to think that the preamp is more important in audio quality and I happen to agree. Oh and the chance of the Sensation having the Wolfson DAC is the chance that an ice cube has in hell. Hope for a better preamp instead or OTG DAC+AMP support.
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Yerr that's why I said "ported" because I remember Supercurio saying porting is possible
btw, I've been following supercurio for a long time and I cannot imagine to think that he would have thought the wolfson DAC is "mediocre" (obviously I may be wrong). If he thought so, he wouldn't have bothered with Voodoo Sound? Anyways thanks for the reply It seems time will tell everything.
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Yerr that's why I said "ported" because I remember Supercurio saying porting is possible
btw, I've been following supercurio for a long time and I cannot imagine to think that he would have thought the wolfson DAC is "mediocre" (obviously I may be wrong). If he thought so, he wouldn't have bothered with Voodoo Sound? Anyways thanks for the reply It seems time will tell everything.
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Supercurio bothered to create Voodoo sound because he thought the preamp was "mind blowing" which he said in the same post as his DAC comment.
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Any updates on this? I would love to find out if someone made a way for us to update our sound capabilities without having to rely on CPU intensive apps such as volume plus. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I hate it, the only con for this phone. My speaker rattle when on highest.
I was over in the in the Development section and was reading threads and they were talking about voodoo audio not being able to inject blah blah blah something like that. so me question is. what exactly is voodoo audio and why do we need it?
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I was over in the in the Development section and was reading threads and they were talking about voodoo audio not being able to inject blah blah blah something like that. so me question is. what exactly is voodoo audio and why do we need it?
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OMG what a noob question LOL JK.
Its awesome it makes your headphones louder and it adjusts things that have to do with audio and recording audio.
lmao! is it just a Samsung thing? I have Motorola & HTC, and have never heard of this "Voodoo audio" but its good to know.
and is it just me or are these stock head phones the best with 5.1 sorround sound enabled?
i think i would die of they break or soemthing, how much are they?
About $10 on Amazon. I keep an extra pair on hand.
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really? can i have link to the legit ones. i saw some for 4.99 thats why i kinda asked seemed to cheap
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really? can i have link to the legit ones. i saw some for 4.99 thats why i kinda asked seemed to cheap
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I use the Studios, and they sound awesome. Yeah it only is a Samsung thing.
the voodoo label is a "supercurio" thing. he is a dev responsible for the ext4 lagfix and for sound and color improvments. the voodoo sound project is really his baby though. basically the original line of sgs phones the charge and the infuse all have a very good audio chip from wolfson. voodoo sound replaces the samsung driver with a driver that supercurio built wolfson sources. it also has an app that has audio controls and forces a higher digital volume and allows you to adjust the analog gain to reduce hiss and noise and increase overall fidelity.
it is not for all samsungs, just some sgs phones and a few other models, it will eventually come to the infuse. he also is working on a version for the lg transformer that has a wolfson headphone amp (different model) but the headroom is less and it is not as sophisticated as one samsung has. and also in the defence of the transformer supercurio said the code was much cleaner. i would assume the transformer has good audio out of the box and wont see a big improvement like you may see on the samsung.
On top if what dani said voodoo sound also had support for recording profiles allowing you to record loud things with less distortion.
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Voodoo lagfix is what we have been working on in the dev section, not voodoo audio.
I'd like to know and share with others what experiences everyones had listening to music on their g2x.. what rom , kernal, apps headphones. etc.. I'm currently running fits' latest kang and just use the dsp manager and earbuds that came with my wife's sgs4g ... The sound is great... Anyone else?
Dude...the way to go is CM7 with faux's kernal and Voodoo. I also run Power Amp for my music app. Btw... I'm using Beats by Dre for headphones. The sound is amazing...get voodoo for sure. You'll love it.
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Dude...the way to go is CM7 with faux's kernal and Voodoo. I also run Power Amp for my music app. Btw... I'm using Beats by Dre for headphones. The sound is amazing...get voodoo for sure. You'll love it.
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Haven't checked voodoo out yet.. been meaning too. Thanks
Apparently we cant just yet (or so I read in another thread)...when you got to install you get an incompatible device error. The thread mentioned something about the dev updating it for our P999's
Those who are using voodoo ... did you have an apk of it previously?
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Dude...the way to go is CM7 with faux's kernal and Voodoo. I also run Power Amp for my music app. Btw... I'm using Beats by Dre for headphones. The sound is amazing...get voodoo for sure. You'll love it.
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Uhh I have news for you, those headphones are horrible compared to the competition at the price point. The only thing they do have is that they are a great looking set of headphones.
http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD595-Performance-Premiere-Headphones/dp/B0001FTVE0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317303510&sr=8-1
Are miles better for around the price of the Beats Solo.
As for the rom/music app/headphones I use the Latest MIUI Build/Winamp/Grado SR80i
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Uhh I have news for you, those headphones are horrible compared to the competition at the price point. The only thing they do have is that they are a great looking set of headphones.
http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD...TVE0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317303510&sr=8-1
Are miles better for around the price of the Beats Solo.
As for the rom/music app/headphones I use the Latest MIUI Build/Winamp/Grado SR80i
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Watch out bro there are some true beat lovers here....lol
Fauxs kernel works with fits build it is based off cm with some cherry picks that's all, and voodoo works fine.....u flash the kernel then grab voodoo control plus u do NOT have to do anything inside the app voodoo automatically loads up u are ready to use it no need to load module. Although it does say kernel or device not supported it still works well for me atleast . I think faux needs to update the voodoo drivers. But your good man I love music on the g2x with voodoo awesome sound.... I'm running fits latest voodoo, faux 0.4.2 and some Sony headphones I had laying around sounds great
I like to think of Beats by Dr. Dre as a cooler version of Bose Headphones. Great, but crazy overpriced. On a side note, the phone works great for most times listening during the day, but there's far too much noise at the lowest volume levels for it to be really amazing. That doesn't really matter much when I listen to dubstep or black keys, but throw on some fleet foxes or mumford & sons and it's a little annoying.
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Fauxs kernel works with fits build it is based off cm with some cherry picks that's all, and voodoo works fine.....u flash the kernel then grab voodoo control plus u do NOT have to do anything inside the app voodoo automatically loads up u are ready to use it no need to load module. Although it does say kernel or device not supported it still works well for me atleast . I think faux needs to update the voodoo drivers. But your good man I love music on the g2x with voodoo awesome sound.... I'm running fits latest voodoo, faux 0.4.2 and some Sony headphones I had laying around sounds great
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I'm gonna have to try the voodoo app tonight ... I can't believe the sound I get out of the little earbuds that I have... they came with the wife's sgs4g... Sarni I thought you had jumped ship and went to the sensation ... Hadn't seen you in any threads in a while... Or maybe its just me being burnt out from work ...
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Fauxs kernel works with fits build it is based off cm with some cherry picks that's all, and voodoo works fine.....u flash the kernel then grab voodoo control plus u do NOT have to do anything inside the app voodoo automatically loads up u are ready to use it no need to load module. Although it does say kernel or device not supported it still works well for me atleast . I think faux needs to update the voodoo drivers. But your good man I love music on the g2x with voodoo awesome sound.... I'm running fits latest voodoo, faux 0.4.2 and some Sony headphones I had laying around sounds great
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So you have to use Voodoo Control PLUS? The free ver is the one that gives the incompatibility error.
Anyone know what DAC the G2X is using? Did a quick search but didn't turn anything up. I'll keep looking.
Weapon g2x, faux kernel w/voodoo, Power Amp, Panasonic hje-900 or my custom triple fi-10.
I have yet to uplaod my music collection to Google music. Anyone using Amazon music service? Thinking about going that route because I can actually purchase new music if needed.
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Uhh I have news for you, those headphones are horrible compared to the competition at the price point. The only thing they do have is that they are a great looking set of headphones.
http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD595-Performance-Premiere-Headphones/dp/B0001FTVE0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317303510&sr=8-1
Are miles better for around the price of the Beats Solo.
As for the rom/music app/headphones I use the Latest MIUI Build/Winamp/Grado SR80i
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Nope, I've had everything from Sony, Bose, Shure, to sennheiser and I am for sure Beats all the way. They are pricey and I'm the first to look for deals but Beats By Dre (HD) are definitely well worth the price. I got mine a few months ago and I definitely think they sound better than anything else out there.
Wdave said:
Uhh I have news for you, those headphones are horrible compared to the competition at the price point. The only thing they do have is that they are a great looking set of headphones.
http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD595-Performance-Premiere-Headphones/dp/B0001FTVE0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317303510&sr=8-1
Are miles better for around the price of the Beats Solo.
As for the rom/music app/headphones I use the Latest MIUI Build/Winamp/Grado SR80i
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+1. Totally agree with you on this one bro...I've tried the HD5's, Sony V900HD, and the Beats by Dre...Sorry to say but the bass coming from the Beats sounded like butt compared to the HD5's...
Please, what audio parameter on the headphone out changes when the kernel or ROM is changed?
Thanx.
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Weapon g2x, faux kernel w/voodoo, Power Amp, Panasonic hje-900 or my custom triple fi-10.
I have yet to uplaod my music collection to Google music. Anyone using Amazon music service? Thinking about going that route because I can actually purchase new music if needed.
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I use Amazon Cloud for stuff stored on the Web and Uber Music for stuff I side load. Both work well, but the Amazon player just looks stupid. Uber Music has a great UI, imho, and has a nice feature where when you choose an album to play, it will offer a page of band info, etc., of the sort you might see on Allmusic.com or some such.
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I'm gonna have to try the voodoo app tonight ... I can't believe the sound I get out of the little earbuds that I have... they came with the wife's sgs4g... Sarni I thought you had jumped ship and went to the sensation ... Hadn't seen you in any threads in a while... Or maybe its just me being burnt out from work ...
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Nah man I'm still here, just been super busy with college at night construction in the day and wife and 3. Kids lol g2x is better then that crapsation and not sure if the free one works or not but I have voodoo control plus version 3.0 and it works fine
To the person that asked what rom/kernal I was using I believe it was either fauxs rom and kernal that is included with it or fitsnuglys rom and fauxs 4.1 stick voltage kernal.. either one are great...
Oh and for those that like poweramp I suggest player pro it is just as good IMO and its equalizer is very nice in combination with dsp manager and voodoo u have to grab the separate equalizer that goes with it in the market its called dsp pack
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Nah man I'm still here, just been super busy with college at night construction in the day and wife and 3. Kids lol g2x is better then that crapsation and not sure if the free one works or not but I have voodoo control plus version 3.0 and it works fine
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Lol .. I was jk about the sensation ... I know just by some of your posts yous never switch ...going to college, very cool... I hear ya with work.. I have a small autobody shop and I'm the only employee .. I just can't count on someone doing the quality of work that I myself would do... Luckily my kids are grown up, 20 year old son in the navy and a 16 year old daughter with the attitude of a 30 year old... she alone is a hand full...
Wdave said:
Uhh I have news for you, those headphones are horrible compared to the competition at the price point. The only thing they do have is that they are a great looking set of headphones.
http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD595-Performance-Premiere-Headphones/dp/B0001FTVE0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317303510&sr=8-1
Are miles better for around the price of the Beats Solo.
As for the rom/music app/headphones I use the Latest MIUI Build/Winamp/Grado SR80i
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Those headphones have a 3M cable...
I love the Voodoo headphone amp as it boosts the headphone output to a decent level, but installing voodoo sounds has its problems on ICS with calls, etc and all the know bugs. Is there a headphone amp app or widget or something? Best I've found is to make a preset EQ with everything boosted but this affects sound more than Supercurio's work on the Wolfman chip and enabling the headphone boosts.
Jetaudio is the player I've been using on my other phone. Get it from play store. Once you have it go to EQ and look at the top. There is a built in preamp. Slide the bar to 10 and watch your ears bleed. It is by far the best free player that I've used.
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Jetaudio is the player I've been using on my other phone. Get it from play store. Once you have it go to EQ and look at the top. There is a built in preamp. Slide the bar to 10 and watch your ears bleed. It is by far the best free player that I've used.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
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Actually thank eollie. I'm pretty sure he's the one that let me know about it. Well it was either him or Lumin. Hard to tell the other members of TFTN apart anymore. lol
I'll give Jet a try myself.
Not to hijack, if anyone knows of dev info on compiling new codecs for Android, would you PM me? The lack of Apple lossless keeps me from using my phone for music.
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Can you really tell the difference between lossless and compressed? I've tried with some really good earbuds and it's super hard for me to tell. Try talking some albums that you know really well and converting them to mp3 at 224. If you can tell the difference from the phone I'd be amazed.
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Actually thank eollie. I'm pretty sure he's the one that let me know about it. Well it was either him or Lumin. Hard to tell the other members of TFTN apart anymore. lol
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1673917
Yeah, I use Grado cans and anything below 512 kbps is like nails on a chalkboard to me. My library is all Apple lossless at this point and transcoding on the fly is a complexity I'd rather not deal with.
Edit -- Switching to IEMs has made anything compressed even at 512 kbps rather painful. As full-rate Apple Lossless or Flac is typically around 800-1000 kbps, at least for me, there isn't any meaningful gain for the pain.
jetAudio does support Apple Lossless now, and doesn't have the gaps between tracks that used to plague older Android players. It's got it's own usability issues, but it does a decent job.
Now if I can figure out why Voodoo Sound occasionally stops working for me to control amp gain so I can keep the digital gain maxed out.
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jetAudio does support Apple Lossless now, and doesn't have the gaps between tracks that used to plague older Android players. It's got it's own usability issues, but it does a decent job.
Now if I can figure out why Voodoo Sound occasionally stops working for me to control amp gain so I can keep the digital gain maxed out.
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Since I stopped using my 4g as a phone and just use it as a music player voodoo sounds has worked all the time every time. I think receiving phone calls might be what is causing it to stop working. I few others have reported the same. Something to take a look at at least. If your using jet it has it's own built in pre amp that works well.
I think that maxed out issue you are talking about is a setting in voodoo app causes the db keep going up
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I seem to be finding that either placing or receiving a call "disconnects" Voodoo Sound from the analog gain.
The preamp control in jetAudio is a little different -- Voodoo has the benefit of keeping the digital gain as high as possible and just using the audio gain, which should improve sound quality by keeping digitization noise lower.
I have logs for that i go on wheresmycellphone.com and call my phone run logocat right before the call. No one has provided logs yet ? There seems to be dual speaker mode thats changed and an audio route problem. Do u want me to up logs. Does voodoo work on any of ics roms with just dsp manager and how do u tell if it is working really. I think the tv out driver plays a slight role as well there is bluetooth sharing enabled during call when headset not being used or anything.
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I seem to be finding that either placing or receiving a call "disconnects" Voodoo Sound from the analog gain.
The preamp control in jetAudio is a little different -- Voodoo has the benefit of keeping the digital gain as high as possible and just using the audio gain, which should improve sound quality by keeping digitization noise lower.
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I bet you still listen to vinyl don't you. LOL I see your point for sure but on my earbuds I can't tell the difference. As long as it's loud and clear and loud it's good enough for me.
I do. And on audiophile the dsp manager says does not work with hardware on last tab to the right
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why does crapy network sprint get Harman kardon settings on their m8?
can we get that too is that hardware or software integration?
Just wondering what is it?
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Its an equalizer setting to (theoretically) make the speakers sound much better. Harmon Kardon is a high end speaker maker. It essentially does the same thing as the Beats did last year.
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Its an equalizer setting to (theoretically) make the speakers sound much better. Harmon Kardon is a high end speaker maker. It essentially does the same thing as the Beats did last year.
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We can get it if we change the false setting in the default xml in the system to true BUT it don't think it will effect sound due to not having the libs for it.
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Harmon Kardon is a high end speaker maker.
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They might have been, at one time (debatable). But, HK does nothing but buy other companies any more. They don't develop much of anything, themselves. The bulk of their branding is for high profit margin products like car audio and licensing of mass-consumer level audio tech.
You'd do better with Viper. Almost anything is better than the pre-installed audio enhancements, whether it's Beats, Harman, or whatever.
ive also read it may just be a software thing and not difference in hardware.
do you think viper is significantly better than the boomsound already on the phone?
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do you think viper is significantly better than the boomsound already on the phone?
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Viper4Android is a great mod don't get me wrong, a lot went into making this! Personally though after playing with it for literally hours in my car streaming music via BT, i couldn't get 1 setting that i felt was better than stock. Same with "Boomsound" for the external speakers. I'm completely happy with the stock "equalizer" personally. Don't see what this HK equalizer will bring to the table, i bet nothing special. I think HTC actually put a lot of time and energy into their equalizer knowing that Beats left them and this is their next big device since Beats left so they had to make it just as good if not better. I feel they've made it just as good if not better on this device :highfive:
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Its definitely just an equalizer setting. They wouldn't have developed entirely different speakers for a carrier variant. Its the same thing as the Beats integration last year, which has now been replaced by BoomSound.
Read this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498