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HD7 Volume.

The volume on the HD7 seems low anybody else have this issue?

i dont dont have a hd7 but if you have any wp7 games downloaded it might be worth going back into the game, and checking the volume on the game first, it seems that game volume can also affect the system volume as a whole. increasing it could help if that is the problem. just a guess.

Nope, no problems here, but I use a stereo bluetooth headset with mine. The only bugbear is that the sound for videos always comes out the main speaker, which is a pain when playing games with video sections, like Need for Speed Undercover.

Have you already downloaded the sound enhancer form the htc hub. It makes a huge difference.

tbk21 said:
Have you already downloaded the sound enhancer form the htc hub. It makes a huge difference.
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I have but not much louder.

Are you talking about speakerphone?
If so then yes. The volume is lower on that than everything else, otherwise, the phone is loud.

I just got a replacement hd7 phone yesterday and this ones speakerphone is way louder then the launch day phone I had. Even vibration is stronger. I dont know if it just me, but the screen colors look brighter and not as washed out as previous phone. I wish I could compare with other phone but screen broke on that one.

Is that a hardware issue? HTC mozart is ****ing loud. Max volume without my ears searing is 22...

You guys are lucky still, volume on the lg optimus 7 is horrible. It is half to 3 quarters of my volume on my N80 or Omnia 1. Vibration is beyond horrible I tried another unit to be sure it wasnt mine seems to be it the handset.
LG Optimus great phone but 3 bad things that annoy me.
Speaker volume overall - poor
Vibration - extra extra crap
The Buttons for Back/Search - make too much of a clicking sound.
If anyone has a htc surround 7 - how is the speaker/vibration for that I am thinking of switching to that. I love the windows 7 os

I too find the volume on my HD7 too low. Although there are some songs that play with loud volume. I'm wondering does zune convert some of the files when we transfer them?

Yeah I too can barely hear the speaker and my headphones are super low too. I tried to watch some netflix on the light rail yesterday and I couldn't hear a thing. Is there anything else beside the HTC app to increase the sound?
My TouchPro2 was hecka loud compared to this. Speaker and Headphones.

I just got mine yesterday (10-03-11) did the mango update and the volume is CRAP.. there is no way these alarm sounds or even trying to use it as a gps in the car even makes sense... the volume SUCKS..

I really think it is app based. for some reason, my Slacker Radio got a little louder since my Mango update... its been a little bit louder i think. Or that might just be me. Let me know XDA people!

I think gTablet is too quite, any ideas how to make it louder?

I think gTablet is too quite, any ideas how to make it louder not using some external speakers?
May be there a way to adjust speaker levels via software?

Which ROM are you using? I believe Vegan ROM is louder than TNT and stock.

Same issue here (no pun intended). My hearing stinks to begin with, but even at full volume the sound from my GTab (VEGAn b1 5.11) is of no use and I have to use a headset.

When listening to music with power amp I can turn the pre amp all the way up and it sounds great. There is deffinate room for adjustment on stock Max output. If I did that on my mt3g it would blow the speakers and my ears out, on my gtab though it's barely comfortable to listen to maxed without a headset.
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I'm using precisely Vegan ROM, I guess on TNT and others it will be just whispering
Even in headset my ipod x5 times louder!

I spent a few minutes in a Verzon store this weekend with my GTab. I went up to the display of tablets and sent the iPad, iPad2 and Xoom to the CNN webpage and clicked on a video - and then loaded the same video on the GTab. My GTab display was ok - not quite as good as the others, but passable. The real difference was that on all 3 of the other tablets you could hear the sound, while it was basically inaudible on the GTab.
Both iPads just feel so much more elegant in your hands than the others. Both the GTab and the Xoom feel like a tank in comparison.
All things considered:
- I'd have an iPad(1) WiFi if it had external storage and could run Flash
- I'd have an iPad2 Wifi, if it could run Flash
- I'd have the Xoom if it were WiFi only and $200 cheaper.
It's so early in the product lifecycle of tablets. For those of us with limited funds to spend on toys it's just crazy to spend too much on these things right now.
I'd be much, much happier with my GTab if I could get to all of the apps in the Android marketplace. And if I could hear it. <sigh>
- michael

Have you guys tried louder volume hack?

goodintentions said:
Have you guys tried louder volume hack?
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since the OPs question was:
"May be there a way to adjust speaker levels via software?"
- obviously not!
Anyone else heard of this or tried it?

goodintentions said:
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didnt work for me, errors out on tntlite 5, installs and runs fine but when you go to apply the settings it says some error that goes away too fast to copy LOL

I intend to use the gtab mostly for work and reading/editing documents, so I guess sound just isn't that important to me.

goodintentions said:
Have you guys tried louder volume hack?
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Wow, haven't heard of that and I searched the gtab xda forums. Where is it from? Is it a load from cwm or a rename from .zip to .apk installation?
Edit. Broke sound on my device. In fine print it says not for android 2.1+ don't use this thing as it will break your sound.
Reboot fixed sound but I still don't know wharf it replaced or edited. Going to restore my backup.
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Q: Speaker boost?

Hello, I watch films etc quite alot on the transformer but I find some files they have quite low volumes, is there a way to boost and/or improve quality of speaker volume?
Voodoo is only for headphones, poweramp have an eq setting specifically for speakers making them slightly tinnier but much louder, this however is only for audio.
Thanks for reading, any input to the matter would be great!
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I bought a couple of X-Mini II speakers from amazon at 15 each and that's more volume than i need, do that and you wont regret it...
I need a boost for the microphone, it's really crappy... when i use a htc headset it works great but if i use the builtin people hear me low.. skype or whatever...

The free app called equalizer will boost volume. Just crank everything to Max. will increase by 200 or 300%.

I had seen on this forum about this. It may be the exact thing goodintentions is talking about

Volume+ is one I have used. Can boost on all outputs I use.

Is there a maximum safe voltage that can be applied to the speakers? Don't wanna blow them out..

How to increase volume without volume+ or rooting

For those looking to crank a bit more volume out of the stock setup, here is an easy way, that requires no additional apps or rooting (some apps claim to work without root, but other than Volume + they are a mixed bag, with varying degrees of performance. Some plain just don't work.
Start Google Play Music App. Begin playing something you know well. Choose the menu from the top right (3 stacked blocks), and select Equalizer. Either drop the selection down to "custom" or just start raising the bands. Raise them most or all the way to the top. A "bigger" sound can be achieved with a classic "V shape (boosting the low and high frequencies, and leaving the center, 1000hz at or below midway)
Oh, then hit the "On" switch in top left corner. You will be AMAZED at the difference in sound, if you toggle it off and on a bit while playing music.
This is technically not the loudest, that can be achieved by pegging all bands to the top, but the mid-frequencies tend to sound "tinny" or "Like a small or cheap speaker" to most folks ears. By reducing it, and boosting the bottom and top frequencies you get a nicely boosted sound, though somewhat colored (an audiophile is not likely to be wowed by this type of spectrum boost, but, depending on the source material most folks like this, as it's comparable to what a "loudness" button does, and with the Infinities VERY small speakers. Yes there are 2 in there, and they are stereo, though how Asus expected to get ANY separation or any type of "sound stage" through a 1.5" x .5 " grill remains a mystery, even if they did apply some delay, echo or reverb, which I do not believe they did.
Some swear by Volume+ and I had good experiences with it on my Prime, but when something in my setup caused both Volume+. Musicfx (the built in Equalizer I just described tuning) and settings to crash every time I used it, I decided to see what I could do without it. I am quite happy wiith the boost that musicfx provides

speakers problem
Hi.
I have a problem with my speakes, from few days. I don't know if was app that change the sound because now the sound is like an old radio. I changed the equalizer, but nothing happened.
Could you help me? Anyone have the same problem?

spaker off
dnoguera said:
Hi.
I have a problem with my speakes, from few days. I don't know if it was app that change the sound because now the sound is like an old radio. I changed the equalizer, but nothing happened.
Could you help me? Anyone have the same problem?
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Hi, I discovered today that the problem was one speaker defected. At the end of the day this speaker off. Now my music is in mono.
Anyone knows how to turn on again this speaker, any solution??

dnoguera said:
Hi, I discovered today that the problem was one speaker defected. At the end of the day this speaker off. Now my music is in mono.
Anyone knows how to turn on again this speaker, any solution??
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I have a feeling that you aren't speaking of the Asus TF700T Infinity.
Are you having a problem with plug-in speakers or bluetooth speakers?
The Infinity has but one single speaker.
Is the speaker inside the Infinity working?

one of my speakers turn off
Thats OK said:
Ive a feel that you aren't speaking of the Asus TF700T Infinity.
Are you having a problem with plug-in speakers or bluetooth speakers?
The Infinity has but one single speaker.
Is the speaker inside the Infinity working?
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Hi
Yes I'm talking about TF700T infinity
No problem with the plug in.
The TF700T has two speakers in the same place. One of them turn off.
I know that because my music sound in mono insted stereo.

dnoguera said:
Hi
Yes I'm talking about TF700T infinity
No problem with the plug in.
The TF700T has two speakers in the same place. One of them turn off.
I know that because my music sound in mono insted stereo.
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Sorry,
Don't know what to tell you.
Sounds like a manufacturing defect.
Apologies to the OP for the thread hijack...

Thats OK said:
Sorry,
Don't know what to tell you.
Sounds like a manufacturing defect.
Apologies for the thread hijack Mr. SmartAs$Phone...
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That's right buddy!
Any solution?

Doesn't work globally (for me at least)
There's only one problem, from what I can see this only boosts sound via the app itself or perhaps music. I fired up a game to test this and the levels were the same as before.
The global solutions is to use the app: equilizer and do the same thing (I raise all sliders to the top). I used this on my HTC until I found a way to get volume+ to work on that.
Volume+ however, isn't compatible with JB but in any case there is a limit to how much you SHOULD risk bumping up your volume. I already get a little distortion using equilizer on the louder audio files I have, the limitation is going to be the speakers installed which can be damaged.
Unfortunately as with so many Android devices sound quality isn't a priority with manufacturers which amazes me particularly on both the HTC (targeted to audio users with a phone barely adequate in stand alone volume level / quality) and the TF700 which is a flagship tablet with price to match.

louiscar said:
There's only one problem, from what I can see this only boosts sound via the app itself or perhaps music. I fired up a game to test this and the levels were the same as before.
The global solutions is to use the app: equilizer and do the same thing (I raise all sliders to the top). I used this on my HTC until I found a way to get volume+ to work on that.
Volume+ however, isn't compatible with JB but in any case there is a limit to how much you SHOULD risk bumping up your volume. I already get a little distortion using equilizer on the louder audio files I have, the limitation is going to be the speakers installed which can be damaged.
Unfortunately as with so many Android devices sound quality isn't a priority with manufacturers which amazes me particularly on both the HTC (targeted to audio users with a phone barely adequate in stand alone volume level / quality) and the TF700 which is a flagship tablet with price to match.
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Oki doki
Thanks buddy!

You're welcome...or thank you again!

SmartAs$Phone said:
For those looking to crank a bit more volume impossible. stock setup, here is an easy way, that requires no additional apps or rooting (some apps claim to work without root, but other than Volume + they. tommixed bag, with varying degBluetooth
erformance. Some plain just don't work.
Start Google Play Music App. Begin playing something you know well. Choose the menu from the top right (3 stacked blocks), and select Equalizer. Either drop the selection down to "custom" or just start raising the bands. Raise them most or all the way to the top. A "bigger" sound can be achieved with a classic "V shape (boosting the low and high frequencies, and leaving the center, 1000hz at or below midway)
Oh, then hit the "On" switch in top left corner. You will be AMAZED at the difference in sound, if you toggle it off and on a bit while playing music.
This is technically not the loudest, that can be achieved by pegging all bands to the top, but the mid-frequencies tend to sound "tinny" or "Like a small or cheap speaker" to most folks ears. By reducing it, and boosting the bottom and top frequencies you get a nicely boosted sound, though somewhat colored (an audiophile is not likely to be wowed by this type of spectrum boost, but, depending on the source material most folks like this, as it's comparable to what a "loudness" button does, and with the Infinities VERY small speakers. Yes there are 2 in there, and they are stereo, though how Asus expected to get ANY separation or any type of "sound stage" through a 1.5" x .5 " grill remains a mystery, even if they did apply some delay, echo or reverb, which I do not believe they did.
Some swear by Volume+ and I had good experiences with it on my Prime, but when something in my setup caused both Volume+. Musicfx (the built in Equalizer I just described tuning) and settings to crash every time I used it, I decided to see what I could do without it. I am quite happy wiith the boost that musicfx provides
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Trying to respond to this using the Infinity and Dolphin browser is almost impossible. No hitting spacebar twice to end a sentence. Messes everything up big time!! It has a real hard time dealing with the code i guess. Might be a good time to try another browser.

Low volume on Surface

I noticed that even though the volume is all the way up its still pretty low comparing previous tablets I owned .is Anyone experiencing the same issue or is my tablet defective ?? does anyone know know if there is a booster or a tweak that can make this tablet louder

Romcrazguy said:
I noticed that even though the volume is all the way up its still pretty low comparing previous tablets I owned .is Anyone experiencing the same issue or is my tablet defective ?? does anyone know know if there is a booster or a tweak that can make this tablet louder
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have you tried to go into Settings/Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Sound/ double tap/click on speakers under playback, click on enhancement tab and then check the loudness equalization. This helped here.
cheers
here is the post with original instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970464
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Your tablet is not defective..I have the same issue and so do a lot of other people. There is a thread that remedies this issue somewhere on this forum, I think. Haven't attempted it yet.
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derausgewanderte said:
have you tried to go into Settings/Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Sound/ double tap/click on speakers under playback, click on enhancement tab and then check the loudness equalization. This helped here.
cheers
here is the post with original instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970464
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Those tweaks do help, but only a little. It also helps, a little, to have the kickstand out & the device standing up w/ the screen facing away from you (unless you're watching a movie, of course) - the speakers are angled back, so if the keyboard is folded behind the unit, it muffles them somewhat.
But even then, the speakers aren't loud enough to listen to, say, a podcast in a moving car, or music in a room that's not silent.
They're adequate for notifications and game sfx, but for actual media consumption I use external speakers or headphones, always.

Simple hack
Romcrazguy said:
I noticed that even though the volume is all the way up its still pretty low comparing previous tablets I owned .is Anyone experiencing the same issue or is my tablet defective ?? does anyone know know if there is a booster or a tweak that can make this tablet louder
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My simple hack is to cup my hands on either side just behind the speakers. This will make the sound bounce off your hand and towards you instead of away from you and you get the full stereo experience.
Why oh why Panos did you go through the trouble of including stereo speakers (which none of the other tablets have) but have to screw up the loudness and the angling away of the speakers?