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Run Gingerbread? Need a louder speaker? Use this application.

Volume+ Sound Boost for Gingerbread
Download: Here
Credits: MeltusI've tested it and it's increased the speaker volume drastically without reducing sound quality. It's great for streaming music, radio, live scanner feeds and stuff. It makes the loudspeaker LOUD. Works on my custom ROM (See it in my signature). ​

Thank you so much!!!!!
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Thanks! Will give it a shot.

Warning! Don't have it set at insane or 8 at all time you will blow your speakers
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Thanks, I just thought it was the phone, had no idea it was the ROM I was running lol. This app works great, using it at one notch below Insane, and it sounds much better now

Thanks. Works great
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Don't blow your speakers
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will it work on cm7 by chance?

I'm using it on cm7 so yes
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awesome, thanks.

Yeah, I haven't tested it on Insane, and probably won't. It's plenty loud enough as is now lol

I tried it on insane it will work loud but if you keep it on insane you will blow your speakers
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Can someone post their settings?
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acPIZZA said:
Can someone post their settings?
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BETA Version (1.61 whatever)
Speaker Phone:
Speaker Modifications: ON
EQ Settings: GOOD QUALITY
Volume Level: FIVE OR SIX
Bass Enhance: OFF

i ran it on cm7 made NO difference at all ... not a tinny bit :S

Works on CM7 here, stock kernel.
Just a question for you guys: have you come across a volume/equalizer app that works on a speakerphone call? I've gotten Volume+ and DSP Manager to work on everything except for when the phone is in speakerphone mode. I was hoping to reduce the "tinnyness" of callers with a treble reduction and midrange boost.

Can something similar be done with the headphone jack? I use it often to connect to my car stereo and even at max volume it's not very loud.

Well it seems to have solved MY problem, which was low volume on the ringtones - I was missing calls, with the phone in my pocket - beyond that, I didn't fiddle around with the settings.
Thanks much!
-Mike

should we restart after applying settings? i rely find no difference at all . som1 can explain me why?

Psionfenix said:
will it work on cm7 by chance?
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CM7 has DSP Manager which will boost volume perfectly.
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Sound is very bad when recording.

Anyone have an idea why the sound is so scratchy when recording in a nightclub?
Isnt there any limitations on the microphone?
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Give HiFiCorder a try. There's a free trial version. If that works, consider buying the full version. I've never tried it in a loud environment, so can't comment whether it'll work for you.

Si_NZ said:
Give HiFiCorder a try. There's a free trial version. If that works, consider buying the full version. I've never tried it in a loud environment, so can't comment whether it'll work for you.
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Will try tonight! DJing tonight.
While djing yesterday i recorded a video, img qlt is good but the sound, OMG

Yeah I've noticed this too. Voodoo sound has an option to enable HiFi recording, but I haven't tested it yet.
Greetz

A phones microphone recording good audio in a night club....dude you're nuts. As a a DJ you should know that man.
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frutelaken said:
Yeah I've noticed this too. Voodoo sound has an option to enable HiFi recording, but I haven't tested it yet.
Greetz
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But i meant like, when recording a video on a concert and such things. If you record a video with Iphone 4 the sound and image is crystal clear, when recording with Nexus s, the img is good but the sound is messy

albundy2010 said:
A phones microphone recording good audio in a night club....dude you're nuts. As a a DJ you should know that man.
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Lol, are you serious? If you are standing where the DJ is standing the speakers aint pointed at you. Im standing on a stage...

So you DJ with out monitors ? You do this at a club? A DJ booth/ stage with no monitors.....
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albundy2010 said:
So you DJ with out monitors ? You do this at a club? A DJ booth/ stage with no monitors.....
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Two monitors that i turn off for the moment for recording I can post a video tomorrow so you can see .
Go to my link in my signature. My mixtapes and edits!

Ah. Makes some more sense now.
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So bad ear phone from Samsung

Least bass effect . Ear phone for optimus one was far better than this .
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You must not have put the correct size of buds for your ears. The earphones are very good. The bass, I agree is not the best, but it is good.
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dilipd1 said:
Least bass effect . Ear phone for optimus one was far better than this .
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I would second that, use tips which give you quality sound and ones which don't cause pain.

Tried everything . Bass is less
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dilipd1 said:
Tried everything . Bass is less
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Try the bass enhancement option in Music settings. Else you'll just have to buy better ones.
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For someone who isn't all that into music, I have found the earphones to be pretty good. I would say they are on par with the Nokia Music Express earphones that I had before.

AbShake96 said:
Try the bass enhancement option in Music settings. Else you'll just have to buy better ones.
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but with samsung phones all kind of headphones doesn't works, i've got awesome headsets with nokia n8 but when i use that with R i don't hear any voices

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Tried everything . Bass is less
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Try poweramp the best music player with excellent bass control.
Any ear phones/head phones rocks with that..
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vrajan said:
Try poweramp the best music player with excellent bass control.
Any ear phones/head phones rocks with that..
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poweramp is paid app, you can use dsp manager also, see "titanium rom" and "infected rom" they both have dsp manager.

xlm13x said:
poweramp is paid app, you can use dsp manager also, see "titanium rom" and "infected rom" they both have dsp manager.
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You can very well give a try installing trial version and decide which one is the best. Btw i'm not promoting here. Just a satisfied user after trying all other apps
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One could also try N7player from Google Play/Market currently its free as its in beta and had a different interface from the regular players.
It has a Bass Boost option which can be boosted by quite a good amount.

Try out Music volume eq from market..You wil feel the real diff..Seriously i felt the same but after using this , i never thought of changing headphones.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...esult#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImhyLnBvZGxhbmljYSJd
check the review too..

BAD seriously ?????
i don't think So.... its Cool...
Works great with POWER AMP..!

one of the best earphone
if you want..... you can buy creative earphones....
in.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=437&subcategory=861&product=14744[/url]
this one, is the best earphone out of all earphones i have used...

@ OP
the bundled earphone is good enough in term of bass, do not let the sound leak by using appropriate size of eartip with thm and it could get you enough amount of bass...
btw which earphone were you using before this ??

PowerAMP iz teh bestz! :-D
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Try them with voodoo sound ! Really good sound!

I agree, the headphones included are pretty much trash, compared with my CX870 they sound terrible. I know these are expensive, but any good headphones for about 20-40$ will sound better and probably last longer. I'm in love with sennheiser, the cx200 can be found for 20$ and they sound really good too for the price.

Yes !! the Effect is really good when used in Power AMP, but when compared to my Nokia N8 ear phones, its bad.

I also have a i9000 phone and its earphones look identical as the provided by the i9103. Except for the jack, which stripes are white instead of black. The i9000 ones sound way better that the i9103.
They are also incompatible, I mean, I can't swap them. Using Voodoo on both phones.

[Q] Does anyone know of a Rom that is best for bluetooth headphones?

so i just bought the Jaybird Bluebud x bluetooth headphones, and they have amazing sound quality on my iPhone but when i switched them over to my galaxy s3, the sound quality wasn't as good, it was all grainy and stuff, i am currently using ParanoidAndroid 3+ as my daily driver i tried all different equalizers on the play store and it helped a little but it still wasnt that good, so my question is does anyone know of a good EQ or ROM that works good with bluetooth headphones? wired headphones sound great its just the bluetooth.

ryanskeltis said:
so i just bought the Jaybird Bluebud x bluetooth headphones, and they have amazing sound quality on my iPhone but when i switched them over to my galaxy s3, the sound quality wasn't as good, it was all grainy and stuff, i am currently using ParanoidAndroid 3+ as my daily driver i tried all different equalizers on the play store and it helped a little but it still wasnt that good, so my question is does anyone know of a good EQ or ROM that works good with bluetooth headphones? wired headphones sound great its just the bluetooth.
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All touchwhiz ROMs seem to have great sound aosp not so much
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cstrife999 said:
All touchwhiz ROMs seem to have great sound aosp not so much
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what would be the best touchwiz rom in your opinion? ive had bad luck with the Synergy Rom, the one where they changed the lockscreen to all blue for better unlock, it always slowed down for me after 15 days or so were it would take forever to unlock and open apps, and could name the top 3 that you like,

Cleanrom is the only one I stick with really.
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You can always change lockscreens. I can't help in the Bluetooth though.
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Nexus 5 Audio/Sound (DAC) Quality

Hi,
Could someone give some feedback on the sound quality of the Nexus 5, any idea what sort of DAC the phone is using? Is it using something similar to the LG G2 as that has the same chipset.
Thanks

I think the Snapdragon 800 uses the same awesome audiochip feom qualcom as the other Snapdragon 600 devices. But we have to test this out..
I'll test it with my ciem as soon as it arrives
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costcutter said:
Hi,
Could someone give some feedback on the sound quality of the Nexus 5, any idea what sort of DAC the phone is using? Is it using something similar to the LG G2 as that has the same chipset.
Thanks
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Im not 100% sure but i dont think its the same chipset as the g2

I am no audio expert but I was listening to music last night on headphones and was very impressed with the quality of sound. It was just about loud enough which was my main worry. Bass was very good too. I was not using stock music player as I use a Synology media server and was therefore using DS audio. I just need to get a decent graphic equaliser installed as I can't find one on the phone. Any suggestions?
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irhut said:
I am no audio expert but I was listening to music last night on headphones and was very impressed with the quality of sound. It was just about loud enough which was my main worry. Bass was very good too. I was not using stock music player as I use a Synology media server and was therefore using DS audio. I just need to get a decent graphic equaliser installed as I can't find one on the phone. Any suggestions?
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You need to use DS audio? Else you could use the jetaudio player or neutron.
If you need a systemwide one, what about dsp manager from cyanogen? I think they'll soon got a ROM up for the N5.

Please someone knows what is the nexus 5 DAC?

it's WCD9320. The same one as in G2
Just keep in mind that if the Soc is Snapdragon S4, regardless the generation, there is always a very good DAC inside .
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7205/LGG2-9955.jpg
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Please someone knows what is the nexus 5 DAC?
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bl4ckdr4g00n said:
it's WCD9320. The same one as in G2
Just keep in mind that if the Soc is Snapdragon S4, regardless the generation, there is always a very good DAC inside .
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7205/LGG2-9955.jpg
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Great news!!!

I returned my G2 after comparing head-2-head with my GS3 w/Wolfson. Some like it though.

bl4ckdr4g00n said:
it's WCD9320. The same one as in G2
Just keep in mind that if the Soc is Snapdragon S4, regardless the generation, there is always a very good DAC inside .
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7205/LGG2-9955.jpg
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If that was true shouldnt that be in the specs of the nexus 5. Theres no mention of the dac on the spec sheet so i wouldnt be so confident.

bl4ckdr4g00n said:
it's WCD9320. The same one as in G2
Just keep in mind that if the Soc is Snapdragon S4, regardless the generation, there is always a very good DAC inside .
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7205/LGG2-9955.jpg
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This is actually a Snapdragon 800 which is better than what the S4 and the HTC one has. To my knowledge, only the Galaxy note III and LG G2 have the same SoC in the states

If the SoC is Snapdragon 800 then it already has WCD9320 integrated, which is a very good DAC.
Hence WCD9320 is 100% confirmed, unless LG is crazy and stupid, and they solder another DAC on the board.
Actually, the amplifier matters more, and affects a large portion of sound quality.
malek777 said:
If that was true shouldnt that be in the specs of the nexus 5. Theres no mention of the dac on the spec sheet so i wouldnt be so confident.
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How about the loud speakers? When watching YouTube videos for example?

bl4ckdr4g00n said:
If the SoC is Snapdragon 800 then it already has WCD9320 integrated, which is a very good DAC.
Hence WCD9320 is 100% confirmed, unless LG is crazy and stupid, and they solder another DAC on the board.
Actually, the amplifier matters more, and affects a large portion of sound quality.
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does the nexus 5 have a good amplifier though?
anyone able to compare this to the htc one?

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I am no audio expert but I was listening to music last night on headphones and was very impressed with the quality of sound. It was just about loud enough which was my main worry. Bass was very good too. I was not using stock music player as I use a Synology media server and was therefore using DS audio. I just need to get a decent graphic equaliser installed as I can't find one on the phone. Any suggestions?
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Viper4Android is the way to go!

according to the service manual for the nexus 5 the DAC is indeed the WCD9320. so same as in the G2.
from listening to it its better than the nexus 4 but not as good as the woflsons in the S3 but still very decent.

Listen to some city and color and you will enjoy the speakers and any headphones you plug in .
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does the N5 support audio thru usb OTG so we can use external DAC/AMP? I've read sumwhere mention usb OTG in kit kat. However, this doesn't mean the nexus 5 support USB OTG nativly (like the N4).

I am somewhat underwhelmed with the audio quality on the N5,unlike most I knew that the two grills on the bottom of the phone only one of which is a loud speaker,However the audio is IMO piss poor.via headphones its outstanding paired with my seneizer cx300II's (spelling) via the loudspeaker its very quiet and tinny,not to mentions the grills are VERY easily muffled. Just my two cents.
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imeem said:
does the N5 support audio thru usb OTG so we can use external DAC/AMP? I've read sumwhere mention usb OTG in kit kat. However, this doesn't mean the nexus 5 support USB OTG nativly (like the N4).
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It's not looking like it supports it right out of the box.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2511921
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