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Is the Sound as good as the Atrix?

Anyone with an Atrix bought the sensation yet?
Specifically, Is the sound quality ok (I have an Atrix and I think sound is the best of any device I ever owned) ...
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Not a Sensation owner (yet, mine is coming soon), so I can't judge on a first-person perspective.
However, I can refer you to an extensive review done by GSMArena that tests this area as well.
Main Review Page: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation-review-605.php
The Page with Speaker Test: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation-review-605p5.php
The Page with Audio Quality Test: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation-review-605p7.php

yikes.. the speaker is even worse than the Nexus One if you compare the numbers in the gsmarena reviews for both..

pakraider said:
yikes.. the speaker is even worse than the Nexus One if you compare the numbers in the gsmarena reviews for both..
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That is so disappointing. The Nexus One speaker was a joke. It's not important to many people, but I listen to podcasts and satellite radio over the loudspeaker while doing work and the Nexus One couldn't be heard over even the slightest bit of noise. Maybe root and DSP will help, but this makes switching to the Sensation a much tougher decision than I thought it would be.

I dont understand what it is with HTC these cheap POS speakers...at least the ones on the G2 and the MyTouch4g had decent volume

The older buisness phones like the kaiser and the touchpro had very good speakers but thats probably because they were designed to be used on speaker phone alot more.
The speaker on the sensation is not that bad for calls but if you were planning on listening to music on it you will be disapointed, but I dont imagine anyone would want listen to music on a phone speaker

rumpleforeskin said:
The older buisness phones like the kaiser and the touchpro had very good speakers but thats probably because they were designed to be used on speaker phone alot more.
The speaker on the sensation is not that bad for calls but if you were planning on listening to music on it you will be disapointed, but I dont imagine anyone would want listen to music on a phone speaker
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i do and most of my friends do as well. Sony and Samsung phones sound SO good that you would think a small audio system is playing not a cell phone. loud too. useful at BBQs, listen to radio before bedtime, at work etc.
HD2 and Nexus One have been very disappointing in this department. Sony Music phone and Vibrant have been very good.

I definitely think that the external speaker volume is lower than my hd2, which was really loud. Is there a software fix for that?
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Player pro was the only fix I could find. But it plays the music louder than every other player I tried. It's made my loudspeaker serviceable until we can get rooted.
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Player pro was the only fix I could find. But it plays the music louder than every other player I tried. It's made my loudspeaker serviceable until we can get rooted.
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I'm thinking that player pro would be for music, what about general system sounds, like notifications, coming out the speaker?
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kolyan said:
Samsung phones sound SO good that you would think a small audio system is playing not a cell phone.
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Not the SGS2. It's speaker is maybe a little bit better than the DHDs, which is CRAP (imo)
The speaker is one of the only things that the iPhone 4 does better than the latest HTC flagships.

kolyan said:
i do and most of my friends do as well. Sony and Samsung phones sound SO good that you would think a small audio system is playing not a cell phone. loud too. useful at BBQs, listen to radio before bedtime, at work etc.
HD2 and Nexus One have been very disappointing in this department. Sony Music phone and Vibrant have been very good.
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While the SGS phones are amazing compared to the N1, that doesn't say much. I come from the Motorola Droid series and those things are like boomboxes compared to any of these phones. SE seems to do a good job too. SGS is in the middle of the pack. I need my ringer on 5/7 or 6/7 to hear it outdoors for my Nexus S, but the Milestone rings like a champ at 3/7.
But here's the thing. The N1 also had a crappy earpiece. How is the earpiece on the Sensation? As important as speakerphone is, I'm sure the earpiece is even more important. If you can't make calls on the earpiece, then how is speakerphone gonna fix anything?

If where talking about ringing. I can hear the sensation with no problems. When I get a call.
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Volume on the sensation

I'm finding myself slightly disappointed in the earphone volume. My g2x seemed to be better in this department. My remedy to use the equalizer app doesn't seem to work either..at least not to boost the volume.
I believe that app doesn't work because HTC has some type of sound leveling going on, because when I reset the equalizer app back to normal levels, the.volume lowers, them it raises again by itself.
I need to find a way to disable whatever they have going on...
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Are you referring to the volume during a phone call or while playing music?
Have you tried the "Settings > Call > Hearing aids (HAC)" setting yet?
It dramatically boosts the in-call volume through the phone's ear speaker... I'm not sure of it also works with ear phones though.

I'm referring to music volume through headphones
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Did you try using the SRS enhancement?

id242 said:
Are you referring to the volume during a phone call or while playing music?
Have you tried the "Settings > Call > Hearing aids (HAC)" setting yet?
It dramatically boosts the in-call volume through the phone's ear speaker...
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Thanks for the tip! I'm trying it now.
I'm not hard of hearing (I don't think ) but to me, the standard volume is a bit too low on the Sensation...

id242 said:
Are you referring to the volume during a phone call or while playing music?
Have you tried the "Settings > Call > Hearing aids (HAC)" setting yet?
It dramatically boosts the in-call volume through the phone's ear speaker... I'm not sure of it also works with ear phones though.
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Unfortunately this doesn't work for music volume..
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try this player bro http://https://market.android.com/details?id=org.deadbeef.android.freeplugins&feature=search_result
it's a free player with eqwilizer and thanks to this player the music sound much beter

yes sensation got lower sound than other htc phone i compared personally with desire and incredible s ...and the hell qhd screen has lots off issues with game and apps...still not all apps working with sensations...and gave back my sensation to the shop today...htc got mad...making phones but still lots of problems and lacking .... they could make sensation with 1ghz and 1gb ram rom....and evo 3d with 8 mp camera..they are really clever somehow...i would say incredible s is better than upcoming some phone...even 1.2 ghz felt slower than single core phones ...huh...sucks somehow

that's tipical for HTC, never get finish any phones, every phone get some probleme....

What is typical on the most recent HTC phones (sensation, g2, nexus one) is a weak max volume. I want it to be like the iPhone...where the max volume is TOO loud and makes one want to turn it down. That way, you have choice. It seems that HTC decides the max volume level that is much lower than others..
And the link to that app u gave me doesn't work..
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greengoldmello said:
What is typical on the most recent HTC phones (sensation, g2, nexus one) is a weak max volume. I want it to be like the iPhone...where the max volume is TOO loud and makes one want to turn it down. That way, you have choice. It seems that HTC decides the max volume level that is much lower than others..
And the link to that app u gave me doesn't work..
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Are you sure for that, because right now i listen the music witch
are you try to instal via market on your phone?
I wont to thold that every phone HTC have the problem, not juste the volume, but data conexion also sucks and if you go around this section you will see the other people have at last one problem witch Sensation... I am not the bad atention, just tell the truth.
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I listen to music using poweramp. You can tweak the eq settings, I have a decent set of in ear headphones and I can honestly say that the sound quality is fantastic and very loud. Much better sound quality than my ipod!
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If I have one gripe with the sensation it is definately the volume on the speaker and the speaker phone. Phone calls are low. And music volume on the speaker us depressing. Other wise plugging in through headphones or the aux in my car the sound quality is great. Hopefully they can fix some of these issues with a ota. If not I'm sure the developer community will......
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Yeah, the loudspeaker is pretty low. You'd think that they'd would put a good one in seeing they are touting the Sensation as a multimedia powerhouse.

yes, sound level is low, bass is terrible
I can confirm that the sound is much worst than with DHD or HD2 (I have all 3)
sound level is much lower, bass is terrible, also with SRS (I use Sennheiser IE8i, a bass powerhouse) the difference with DHD is HUGE
Note that PoverAMP still doesn't support SRS for Sensation so one comment from the "Nokia guy" doesn't count.
Anybody knows why?
Driver or Audio hardware?

Beats audio

How to add beats audio on my stock roted rom 2.3.5 with sense 3.
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straian said:
How to add beats audio on my stock roted rom 2.3.5 with sense 3.
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that's a good question i would like to add beats audio on my desire s stock 2.3.5 sense 3.0 too... so is it posible and how ??

beats on a non rooted has not yet been released on any app...but player pro music player is actually trying for it,hopefully they get it in their next release.

why not update to snese 3.5

straian said:
How to add beats audio on my stock roted rom 2.3.5 with sense 3.
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If you have rooted, install CWM recovery, make nandroid backup..flash Endymion 3.3 ROM, Which is awesome and that is my daily use ROM with lots of feature. I think beats audio is only available in custom ROM.

Is Beats Audio really that good?
Whats the difference to winamp i.e.??

i've read that you have to use beat earphone to know the difference.

i prefer srs sound.. beats mode have to much hight frequency.

Yes this lets understand this Beats Audio a bit better first. I used to ask for it until I read a bit more into it.
Firstly, it’s mostly a marketing gimmick. It is not as if any ‘Beats’ phones have any special sound processing hardware. It is simply someone’s idea of the best EQ setting, designed specifically to match a pair of Beats Audio headphones. Dr Dre has then stuck his name on it, to make him lots of money and lend some street credibility to it. Yo.
It sort of makes sense only if you are using official Beats headphones, on official Beats equipment. What normally happens is that the official Beats phone (lets say for the sake of argument it’s the HTC Sensation XE) recognises when official Beats headphones are plugged into it. It then applies this beats EQ, which is specifically designed to get the most out of this specific set of headphones.
Custom ROMs are simply snatching this part of the ROM from the Sensation XE, plonking it on your custom ROM, and frigging the headphone input detection so that it thinks ANY headphones plugged in are official Beats headphones.
The result will be a forced EQ that unless your are using the Beats headphones bundled with the XE, will be completely mis-matched to the headphones you are using. Likely as not it will sound pony. I’ve tried it on 3 sets of headphones ranging from cheap £10 efforts, a mid-range pair of Skull Candys, and my nice new pair of a-Jays. In all three cases I was better off using a decent player app like PowerAmp, and using the EQ in that to tune the sound to match the headphones being used.

Excellent statement, wnp, and very well put together
I agree, I use beats on my pair of bog standard Phillips in-ear headphones and to be honest, I cannot tell the difference.
Also beats company are well known to be as gimmicky as Apple selling way overpriced products.
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@ wnp_79
Thank You for this nice overview.
It is just what i thought it is.. marketing..

wnp_79 said:
Yes this lets understand this Beats Audio a bit better first. I used to ask for it until I read a bit more into it.
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Excellent lowdown on the whole beats thingy man! Thanks a ton. BTW I use beats Monster audio headphones and they make pretty awesome earphones...especially the in ear type...
As far as the beats audio software is concerned...I completely agree with you. I have yet to find anything that sounds better than poweramp no matter what earphone you use...Beats, Bose or otherwise...!
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SRS is better than Beats audio, and in all case, Egalizer do the same

olyloh6696 said:
Excellent statement, wnp, and very well put together
I agree, I use beats on my pair of bog standard Phillips in-ear headphones and to be honest, I cannot tell the difference.
Also beats company are well known to be as gimmicky as Apple selling way overpriced products.
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finally a phillips user, i too use the cheap she9700
btw any suggestion for the ringtone or message notification sound maybe from zedge, the external speaker sounds so low that i can barely hear it.

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i have used it on a rom and i can tell you that it isn't anything special if you are using stock earphones, to get the most out of beats you will need beat headphones.. i was all excited as you are until i experienced it

i tried it on CoreDroid rom...
And i must say that id did sound better on iFROGZ headphones... So better that i used stock player instead of my favourite PlayerPro.
Ofcourse, beats can't be anything else than propperly set equilizer...
I hope that guys from PlayerPro will include it in their next release.

wnp_79 said it all, this is exactly the case because it reminds me of apple when i see this, and htc bought beats so we're coming closer to the apple territory.
and thats why im searching for an srs like effect for my cm7 since it was so good when i had the stock sense.. any ideas?

Using beats on my desire S
I can still say theres quality in the music..

Can say it makes a huge difference using pro Sennheiser and Technics headphones. (not in ear ones)

Beats, EQ, DSPManager - What is best?

Hello to all, I was just wonder what sound enhancer people are using these days? I come from an Android device with DSPManager on it which would give extremely rich bass. Beats audio, although enhances my sound somewhat, is no comparison. I tried installing other EQ apps but they have no effect on my device. I think maybe the Beats engine is conflicting with other EQ plugins.
If anyone could share what they use or how they got it to work I would much appreciate it I'm thinking about rooting my device and uninstalling Beats with Titanium just to test it out. Thanks guys!

I'm pretty sure I saw another thread about this. As you may already know, Beats is just a bass heavy EQ setting.
I don't know why certain DSP programs don't seem to have any effect on this phone. The only consensus I've seen if that apps like PowerAmp work the best for actually tweaking the EQ.

IDK why lots of people diss on Beats Audio on their phone. I've tried most of these eq apps and Beats gives me the best sounding music through my ear buds than any other. JMHO
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Not dissing, I really like Beats Audio. I'm just an audiophile and I love to tweak my sound to perfection

I would like to see DSP manager working on our One S because personally I believe it's the best
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For gingerbread I use beats audio and for ICS I use DSP manager
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How did you get dsp manager working, are you on sense?

Seriously nobody here uses poweramp? Best music player + equalizer out there. I found it better than dsp and very easy to understand what you are doing. You can also combine it with the beats audio and make an amazing eq for your liking.
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Closed Source Project said:
How did you get dsp manager working, are you on sense?
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I am completely in my senses brother. And installing DSP manager on ICS is not a big task. Do you want a proof ?
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monil.verma said:
I am completely in my senses brother. And installing DSP manager on ICS is not a big task. Do you want a proof ?
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He meant are you on sense UI
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Lol yea. I meant the HTC's user interface 'Sense'. The thing your phone shipped on. And yes, I am starting to use PowerAMP again and it works amazingly well. I used to use it on my old device in combination with DSPManager

Closed Source Project said:
Lol yea. I meant the HTC's user interface 'Sense'. The thing your phone shipped on. And yes, I am starting to use PowerAMP again and it works amazingly well. I used to use it on my old device in combination with DSPManager
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Yeah poweramp is amazing
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elracing21 said:
He meant are you on sense UI
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Lol. Sorry my mistake
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elracing21 said:
Seriously nobody here uses poweramp? Best music player + equalizer out there. I found it better than dsp and very easy to understand what you are doing. You can also combine it with the beats audio and make an amazing eq for your liking.
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I've been using Poweramp for a couple years and I love it. The options and the equalizer are outstanding. I was just comparing it with Beats and there is no comparison in my opinion. I am not sure what Beats does. A t-mobile sales guy told me it decompresses the sound file. Whatever it is I am not impressed and it seems like marketing hype to me. I would prefer to remove it. I just signed with t-mobile and I am checking out the service and the phone so I am not ready to root or flash. I have not even seen a way to disable beats.

It's easy to disable. Plug in a headset, go to Sound and there you have an option for Beats. On German One S it's name is: Klangverbesserung. I don't know the english name.

Tecardo said:
It's easy to disable. Plug in a headset, go to Sound and there you have an option for Beats. On German One S it's name is: Klangverbesserung. I don't know the english name.
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Thanks. I should have thought to plug a headset in and then look for settings. Eviently disabling it in the notification bar did the same thing although at the time the notification option was persistent. It is gone now.

BEATS
beats is the most powerful tool to optimize the music.. works with my gaming Headset and Bose in Ear.. Top Sound..

I just traded a watch for some beats headphones (studios) and realized the integrated beats thingy has no affect one beats headphones. If you shut it off the headphones automatically adjust back to "beats" performance. Idk what this concludes but thought I would share.
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From my experience, Beats boosts both treble and bass, thus making it sound richer. It is disabled by going to Settings>Sound>Sound Enhancer. Just click 'no enhancements'. Headphone must be plugged in to do so. I leave it enabled in combination with PowerAmp for pretty good quality. Still not as good without DSPManager :'(

Started to use Poweramp before DSP was invented The EQ is doing a good job and for the most time i like the sound of it. In the first days of DSP I uninstalled it because it drained to much battery.
Beats is also nice, but i don't like that it turns on for every sound the phone does.
So i am finaly back to deinstalled DSP & Beats and using Poweramp only =)

HTC One S audio problems

Have you noticed how bad is audio in HTC One S? No, I'm not talking about equalizer or BeatAudio (with headphones) but how the sound is distorted, trashed, and often with micro-stutterings, for example with games like Pinball Arcade, or emulators like Mame4Droid etc.
With games you can often hear distortions, audio channels clipping on maximized sounds, little crackles and often micro-stuttering...
Max volume is also very low.
HTC has to improve the poor audio drivers for this phone, definitely...
Poor audio drivers and limited multitasking are the only defects of this sp IMHO.

hexaae said:
Have you noticed how bad is audio in HTC One S? No, I'm not talking about equalizer or BeatAudio (with headphones) but how the sound is distorted, trashed, and often with micro-stutterings, for example with games like Pinball Arcade, or emulators like Mame4Droid etc.
With games you can often hear distortions, audio channels clipping on maximized sounds, little crackles and often micro-stuttering...
Max volume is also very low.
HTC has to improve the poor audio drivers for this phone, definitely...
Poor audio drivers and limited multitasking are the only defects of this sp IMHO.
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You need a new phone.
HTC One S has been praised for its sound quality. No problems here. Also this phone is one of the best sounding music phones when paired with eq I have ever heard!
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LikeaG2root said:
You need a new phone.
HTC One S has been praised for its sound quality. No problems here. Also this phone is one of the best sounding music phones when paired with eq I have ever heard!
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Gsmarena does a review on like every phone, in their review for the One S we had the best audio ever basically. No buzzing, crackling or anything.
Also, a lot of times its the games audio that's messed up because its not 100% compatible with our phones/ the game just sucks.
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I've had similar problems with the sound but only when the headphone jack has some pressure on it or is being moved.
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I agree with what everyone is saying on here. The one s audio quality is brilliant and is one of the reasons why I have it. U may need to try a new phone
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I've been running cm9 for a bit and I was gonna agree but cm10 the audio is amazing
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I have to add in that at times I heard some slight static like noise when I have the phone to my ear during call. Very minor though.
For the most part though I use plantronics bluetooth head set.
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I have the same sound problem. However the company doesn't want to change the HTC One S ):

I have problems with mine, as well. Almost during every call I get this small and annoying interruptions in headphone. Music sounds great, though. And no, my problem is unlikely to be connected to signal strength or radio as I`m always under fulls signal area and I`ve tried all the radios possible and got the same result.

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I have problems with mine, as well. Almost during every call I get this small and annoying interruptions in headphone. Music sounds great, though. And no, my problem is unlikely to be connected to signal strength or radio as I`m always under fulls signal area and I`ve tried all the radios possible and got the same result.
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The 1.11 and 1.11t radios eliminated the in call audio issues I was having so if you haven't checked the development thread in a while you may want to check out the new one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069237