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[Q] DTS Ultra Mobile

from t-mobile's specs on the phone it mentions:
"DTS Ultra Mobile™, which includes two innovative audio technologies – DTS Envelo™ and DTS Boost™ – for a premium surround sound experience. When listening to music or playing games on the T-Mobile G2x, customers will enjoy rich, enhanced sound that adds depth, dimension and volume levels that are robust without distortion."
so this is just something built in? anyway to control it? i did not see it anywhere in menus or apps or processes. hmmm

Yep, there's a button in the music player to turn it on while you are listening to music. meh, i guess it works, nothing amazing.

Is there any way to use in spotify or any other app for the matter? Or is it only possible to use it in the default music player?

mapin0518 said:
Yep, there's a button in the music player to turn it on while you are listening to music. meh, i guess it works, nothing amazing.
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It works well! There's a major difference in the loudness when you turn it on. Turn it off, and it gets much quieter.
jsauce75 said:
Is there any way to use in spotify or any other app for the matter? Or is it only possible to use it in the default music player?
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No, it's only in the stock music and video players that you can utilize it, at least for the time being.

No, it's only in the stock music and video players that you can utilize it, at least for the time being.[/QUOTE]
True. I haven't tried it on WinAmp's player yet, but it is not accessible through Power Amp. I will say though, with Power Amp EQ settings, my music sounded awesome through the device, good enough to stop carrying my iPod touch.

I have cm7 on mine, is there anyway to get the dts to work again? If not is there a way to put the stock player back on it and still have cm7?

same boat as you, would love the LG Video Player in CM7
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I have cm7 on mine, is there anyway to get the dts to work again? If not is there a way to put the stock player back on it and still have cm7?
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been wondering about this forever. only thing that i don't like about CM7 and EB is the lack of the LG Video Player, audio player i could care less about but the video player i like
add me to the list of those wanting this for the CM7 GB roms

The DSP Manager app in cm7 and associated GB roms blows away the dts function.

But can I get the left speaker working with that?

Edub85 said:
But can I get the left speaker working with that?
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That's a microphone.

still not the video player though. no thumbnails of videos w/the cm7 stock one. i messed w/the dsp manager on a few roms and i've had some off and on weirdness w/custom ringtones when using it w/the speaker at times.

adevilfish said:
The DSP Manager app in cm7 and associated GB roms blows away the dts function.
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No it doesn't. I've tried all presets and even did my own tinkering, doesn't match up to DTS on the stock player. I believe DTS if only available in the g2x version of this one.
Anyone have the stock music player. That's the one thing I'm missing from cm7.

you will notice a difference with headphones and dts enabled
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yeah i really loved all the options available with DTS like turn on or turn off, it's awesome

I agree. I miss the dts function. Though CM7 has dsp options, out is not as easy as dts.. I would be happy with just mimicking the dts settings. If anyone can just figure out how dts changed the sound profile for the g2x, it would make me very happy.

You obviously haven't used a voodoo kernel yet.
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FatalityBoyZahy said:
You obviously haven't used a voodoo kernel yet.
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Voodoo is only for headphones on our phones isnt it?..and even then it only increases volume, which is useless because volume on headphones can already go louder than nessecary..

fadownjoo said:
Voodoo is only for headphones on our phones isnt it?..and even then it only increases volume, which is useless because volume on headphones can already go louder than nessecary..
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Well, that and by default the phone is already set to the maximum gain that voodoo will allow :/
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it would be great if i can have the default video player with DTS feature(zip or an apk) that i can install on my G2X after flashing a custom rom

Edub85 said:
But can I get the left speaker working with that?
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Lololololol, you thought it was a speaker?
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[Q] Audio lag in video

Alright, I just flashed the latest and greatest Bali kernel to my phone, and noticed that when I take a video with the camcorder at any resolution i get an audio lag on play back in the stock video player and double twist. When I play them on my computer or upload them to Youtube, the lag is gone.
Curiously, I had this problem before I flashed the kernel, but all the videos I had prior to the flashing are now fixed in that respect. The only difference is I can see and hear the difference while the video is recording.
I've seen posts about this for the I9000 as well as other phones, but none for this specific phone, on top of there being virtually no known fix to my knowledge. I would really appreciate any insight on this topic. I know it isn't being caused by the kernel. Can anyone shed some light on this problem?

I also get that problem but i think i also noticed that problem with stock...my brother's Vibrant also had that problem on stock.. idk why they have that issue

Well I am going to flash a rom on here tonight and see if that yields any results.
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try going into cwm --> advanced --> fix permissions. if not. look into icbnb or the audiophile roms. they have a fix for 1080p recording.

Yea..some roms dont have the audio lag..abd audiophile doesnt have 1080p recording yet
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Well I just got around to flashing ICBINB with theme. Still got the problem. Thanks for the tips Jager, but something is still up. :\
On a happier note, I would like to thank everyone who develops on this phone. I couldn't be happier with ICBINB, and the honeycomb theme for that matter. It's just wonderful.
Keep up the good work.

brandond15 said:
Yea..some roms dont have the audio lag..abd audiophile doesnt have 1080p recording yet
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well considering we have real lifes and i have alot of real life stuff going on sorry i cant get to the 1080 recording right now!!!
on another note deinstall double twist u will notice stock player lag goes away..

I just tried this out and there is lag. Stock froyo with Bali kernel. The videos don't lay when I open them up in vplayer, however!
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RaverX3X said:
well considering we have real lifes and i have alot of real life stuff going on sorry i cant get to the 1080 recording right now!!!
on another note deinstall double twist u will notice stock player lag goes away..
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I just said that there wasn't 1080p because someone had said that there was a "fix for 1080p"... didn't mean to say it as rushing you to finish it faster.. thanks for working on it though
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RaverX3X said:
well considering we have real lifes and i have alot of real life stuff going on sorry i cant get to the 1080 recording right now!!!
on another note deinstall double twist u will notice stock player lag goes away..
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No rush Raver.
but alas, double twist has been uninstalled. I even tried a few players from the market to no avail. Thanks though.
I'm am curious to know if this miracle of 1080 on our phones would fix such a problem. I bid you good luck on your endeavors Mr. Raver. As for me, I shall try to dig deeper into this problem.

Mp4 video playback

This may be a more general issue affecting other android phones as well but for a long time now I've had issues playing mp4 format videos. The sound is perfect but the video plays back abominable slow so they are completely out of sync. I wanted to post here to see if anyone else has any ideas on this. I've tried multiple players including rockplayer, moboplayer, stock player, vplayer and many others and I just can't get them to play right. All other formats play without any issues.. flv ..mov ..avi ..xvid..mkv.. all are great.. just not mp4. Please if anyone has any ideas I'd really appreciate a hand with this...thanx!
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seabhac said:
This may be a more general issue affecting other android phones as well but for a long time now I've had issues playing mp4 format videos. The sound is perfect but the video plays back abominable slow so they are completely out of sync. I wanted to post here to see if anyone else has any ideas on this. I've tried multiple players including rockplayer, moboplayer, stock player, vplayer and many others and I just can't get them to play right. All other formats play without any issues.. flv ..mov ..avi ..xvid..mkv.. all are great.. just not mp4. Please if anyone has any ideas I'd really appreciate a hand with this...thanx!
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im not sure if its just because of the hardware on the Thunderbolt but I have the same issues aswell. my workaround is overclocking as well as using good apps like MX Video Player & if you are playing 720P videos check out Dice Player.

Appreciate the response. I'll try out those players as well. What are you overclocking to? I'm usually at about 368 low end and 1.2 high end I think right now using the bamf tools to do it on bamf forever cubed rom.
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seabhac said:
Appreciate the response. I'll try out those players as well. What are you overclocking to? I'm usually at about 368 low end and 1.2 high end I think right now using the bamf tools to do it on bamf forever cubed rom.
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regardless of the rom, I always set low to 245 and high about 1.2 if its an aosp rom and 1.4 if its sense based. I don't like to go much higher as I've had my battery get very hot and battery life goes down a bit also.

voxigenboy said:
regardless of the rom, I always set low to 245 and high about 1.2 if its an aosp rom and 1.4 if its sense based. I don't like to go much higher as I've had my battery get very hot and battery life goes down a bit also.
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I can't go below 368 on mine or phone will do random shutdowns. I try to use my phone and it was powered off. As soon as I moved it back to 368 never happened again.
If I helped you in any way please use the thank you button

Bamf forever cubed settings won't allow me to overclock past 1ghz or very close.. going to look again... Are either of you using setcpu or some other app to overclock?
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seabhac said:
Bamf forever cubed settings won't allow me to overclock past 1ghz or very close.. going to look again... Are either of you using setcpu or some other app to overclock?
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i use setcpu for all roms(even if they come with bamf settings, cyanogen settings, etc). if it's not letting you go past 1ghz then you'll have to install a kernal that will. i was recently using that bamf soab rom and they had an imogean(sp?) kernal for it in the same thread. you can either check bamf's thread for a specific kernal they recommend or check here on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1249328

Eh just checked setcpu and it does the same... Neither are allowing me to go past 1024000 and minimum is 245768. Not being allowed to clock it past up to 1.4 which is weird because I know I've done so on past Roms.. maybe it's just this rom? I'm using Bamf Forever Cubed with the stock kernel it came with. Any suggestions on why I'm being locked down to a top end overclock of 1024000?..
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Sorry just posted my response as you responded.. yeah I have the 3 optional variations of the Imoseyen kernel that works with his rom.. it was a stock, learn and 368 something... Maybe I'll switch and try them out instead...kinda odd being locked down to 1024000 when the phone can handle up to 1.4..
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You are wasting your (cpu) time if you are playing anything more than 480p on it. In landscape mode you only have 480 pixels vertically, so playing a higher rez movie means you are making it scale on the fly and probably dealing with a higher bitrate on the source file as well.

kierandill said:
You are wasting your (cpu) time if you are playing anything more than 480p on it. In landscape mode you only have 480 pixels vertically, so playing a higher rez movie means you are making it scale on the fly and probably dealing with a higher bitrate on the source file as well.
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personally, I download a lot of shows with my phone and watch them on the phone. Lots of times(especially lately) I will find stuff only available in 720P.
why no tv?... well, when you drive limos you can't always just go back home in between jobs & I don't want to get a big ol' inverter and bring my laptop.

Interesting. I convert a lot of dvds to mp4 format to watch on my phone and have never had any playback issues. Phone running the latest leak, rooted and debloated of coarse. Unfortunately, the AOSP roms don't have nfl network.
I also use system panel to kill all running tasks before playing any videos. All videos are played on Vplayer and I doubt any of them are 720p. Seems like overkill to me.
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[Q] Choppy Music Playback Valhalla Black Rc2

Hi,
I just installed the latest update of Valhalla Black Rc2, and before i complain i feel i must say that this ROM is fantastic in just about every way. Smooth, Fast, Simple, Conservative. Well done and much thanks to RaverX3X and Company. My issue just came up with this latest install. No matter the media player i use, my Audio Playback is very choppy. This issue reared its ugly head immediately after flash, and was never an issue with previously flashed ROMs. To ensure i didn't have a bad SD card, i put another one in to test and the issue still remains. What confuses me is that my Video Playback is perfect. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!!
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Kernel: 2.6.35.7-sms-kj6-vo.1.1-rc1+
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ROM: Valhalla-BlackEddition-CM Hybrid

No issue here
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UPDATE: This only happens when using the graphic EQ in DSP settings.
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Audiophiliac1221 said:
UPDATE: This only happens when using the graphic EQ in DSP settings.
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Raver didn't post it in the OP, but yes, it's caused by the EQ. Just disable the EQ itself, but you can leave the other settings enabled to fix this.

Thanks. BTW, if anybody feels they cant live without an EQ, the Market App "Equalizer" works well enough as long as you don't go too crazy with the settings.

Mine has no issues
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i can use any of the provided effects with the exception of the EQ and it works great. But the instant i enable and modify the EQ settings, here comes the choppiness. Any idea where this comes from? Its funny, it sort of reminds me of the same issue that i had with my Acer Iconia A500. If i recall, that stemmed from a memory leak issue and was mostly resolved upon OTA Updates.

you can use the eq leave loudness compensation off

Your right. However i have to disable all the other affects as well if i wish to use the EQ. Thanks for the ROM Raver!!! Better than good enough to be a daily driver.

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.