Ok I have had my 1020 for a few days now and so far I love everything I have tried with the exception of only one thing......
Stored music (MP3), plays at good level, however when I watch video from the net or use Tunein the sound seems to lack volume.
Now I went into settings and can adjust an EQ and add Dolby for music, however I was not able to find a setting for video sound, much like the one that is in my HTC Radar (WP7.8) , that I could add SRS to video.
Am I missing a setting somewhere??
If not is there a simple way to gain more volume even if I take a hit on battery life??
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I have transferred the 2 video files from my G2X onto the Sensation SD Card and when playing these files there is the option to turn on the HTC SRS enhancement.
It really makes it louder and more crisp.
My question is, is there a way to implement the SRS enhancement on all sounds on the device?! Basically to have it on no matter what is playing, in order to improve the low volume for our ringtone/notification sounds?!
If not is there such a thing as a hidden menu where we can boost the volume?!
It seems to me the speaker hardware is capable of playing louder sounds it is just somehow crippled in the software... (my opinion)
When I am not streaming iheart radio, I listen to high quality mp3 files from my 64 gig card at work.
I use two sets of headphones, v-moda Crosfade LP2's & v-moda trueblood V-80's.
I briefly played with the stock G3 audio player when I first got the phone & found it sounded pretty good after adjusting the settings under SoundAlive>Custom> EQ + the Extended settings. I like powerful bass & always jack it up some in any app I am using.
After that, I forgot about the stock player as I have always used both PowerAmp (paid version) & also the paid version of PlayerPro. I like these two apps & both work with the Headset button app allowing skip forward/back from ANY headet with either one or three button inline controls.
This morning, I clicked on an audio file that has a fair bit of bass & immediately noticed that it sounded better than I was expecting it to. It is a song I am very familiar with so I know what it usually sounds like. The bass was super deep and rich and it took me a minute to realize I had accidentally clicked on the stock audio app instead of PowerAmp.
I clicked out of the stock app & fired up PA but I immediately noticed the bass in the same song was nowhere near as powerful. I figured that was easy enough to correct using tone/eq settings in PowerAmp but after trying every change in settings I could think of I was never able to duplicate the rich sound coming from the stock music player app.
Am I doing something really stupid here (entirely possible) or is there some kind of simple explanation for what I'm hearing??
So my current pair of headphones are broken, in that the right ear is significantly quieter than the left ear. Its pretty easy for me to remedy the issue on my laptop, as there are easy volume controls, however android seems to lack these options (as far as I can tell). I've tried looking for apps that do this, but I have failed at finding any outside of specific music player apps which I am against using simply because all of my music is on Google Play Music.
Any suggestions? I should also mention that I'm running CM10, so I don't have access to any Beats enhancements (at least I don't think i do).
And yes I know the easiest solution would be to buy new headphones
I know you don't like external music programs, but PowerAmp has a balance control :laugh:
Also has other settings i.e Bass, Treble, Equaliser
Poweramp cant access Google Play Music though, can it?
I have very little music on my phone to conserve space. I usually upload any new music i get to the cloud, so being able to access it is essential.
I'm kind of surprised that something as simple as this is somewhat difficult to find. I guess that not that many people want to adjust these settings.
Any one have a fix for the low audio when playing movies with mx player? You can hardly here anything with the stock speaker when watching a movie. However youtube and all the other apps have alot louder audio.
pollardhimself said:
Any one have a fix for the low audio when playing movies with mx player? You can hardly here anything with the stock speaker when watching a movie. However youtube and all the other apps have alot louder audio.
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Swipe up on the right hand side of the screen whilst playing. MX, like many videoplayers, has internal volume control.
Look into Dice player - it has built-in settings to amplify the sound... Besides that, it's the best video player I've used...
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pollardhimself said:
Any one have a fix for the low audio when playing movies with mx player? You can hardly here anything with the stock speaker when watching a movie. However youtube and all the other apps have alot louder audio.
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I found that Volume + is the best app for boosting volume for any players including internet video streaming and Youtube etc.. It's a master volume boost for all your audio, master volume, headset volume and blue tooth volume. The boost is extremly high so set to about +14 (+20 is max) should be suitable for anything you throw at it. After you installed, make sure you go into preference of Volume+ and set the gain, then go into settings ->sound.> effect volume and put a check for volume+, reboot and voala!
buhohitr said:
I found that Volume + is the best app for boosting volume for any players including internet video streaming and Youtube etc.. It's a master volume boost for all your audio, master volume, headset volume and blue tooth volume. The boost is extremly high so set to about +14 (+20 is max) should be suitable for anything you throw at it. After you installed, make sure you go into preference of Volume+ and set the gain, then go into settings ->sound.> effect volume and put a check for volume+, reboot and voala!
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Yes, Volume+ works fine, but it's just another app that will always be running, sucking up CPU cycles and memory.... I've found that my volume is fine for just about everything except for certain videos, which is where Dice really shines...
More of a personal preference (I used to use Volume+), but if you start adding all of these little "add-ons" (volume+ to increase sound, Lux to do auto-brightness, live wallpaper to display a static wallpaper, etc), you end up consuming quite a bit of memory and/or CPU cycles for things that you don't really need extra apps for...
When I was trying to tune the stock kernel, I tried to (and did) find ways around using all of these "add-ons" (due to the poor performance of stock) and I think that my system is better tuned because of it...
Just my opinion, of course!
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I was searching all over the play store for a way to boost the music sound and nothing was working in fact it would make the sound worse and lower than it already was and this is another thing we can't change without root permissions but luckily I found PowerAmp and this app literally made the music almost 50% louder so if you like your music louder I suggest you give it a shot and it can easily be found on the play store! Make sure you learn to use the equalizer and pre amp features because it makes it extremely loud but if you go into the settings and turn on the gain levels you can make it so loud that it's going to hurt your ears so just a warning lol.. Google Play Store PowerAmp!
My issue is not so much the speaker but the ear piece for calls. It just seems very low. I have issues hearing everyone unless it is cranked.... and it is still not loud enough.
Does PowerAmp affect the ear speaker too?
Update: I am guessing not since this is a "music player"
player911 said:
My issue is not so much the speaker but the ear piece for calls. It just seems very low. I have issues hearing everyone unless it is cranked.... and it is still not loud enough.
Does PowerAmp affect the ear speaker too?
Update: I am guessing not since this is a "music player"
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No this is only when you're playing music or videos through the PowerAmp player. Have you tried adjusting the hearing settings in settings then accessibility and Hearing? See if that may help or you can go through Settings then Sounds and Vibration and tap Sound Quality And effects and go through the entire process.
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I was searching all over the play store for a way to boost the music sound and nothing was working in fact it would make the sound worse and lower than it already was and this is another thing we can't change without root permissions but luckily I found PowerAmp and this app literally made the music almost 50% louder so if you like your music louder I suggest you give it a shot and it can easily be found on the play store! Make sure you learn to use the equalizer and pre amp features because it makes it extremely loud but if you go into the settings and turn on the gain levels you can make it so loud that it's going to hurt your ears so just a warning lol.. Google Play
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@mmw68666
What are you trying to say? Lol..
It should be noted that the lower the bitrate of the audio file being played, the lower you will be able to increase the pre-amp level before getting massive distortion. I bought PowerAmp long ago and have used it almost exclusively, and the pre-amp I generally set pretty high, but most of my audio is FLAC with some 320WMA mixed in and the rare 192 and lower for rare stuff I had to rip from Youtube or other less than ideal sources. With FLAC files you can boost the pre-amp quite high and lot lose any quality or introduce any distortion. Using my Sony MDR-XB500 headphones and FLAC files, and the PowerAmp pre-amp, the audio levels easily get to painful/damaging-to-your-ears levels without distortion, but "standard" bitrate music (192kbps-ish) starts to distort pretty low on the pre-amp.