hi. i just got this phone and flashed lineageos right out of the box so i dont know if this is a hardware or software problem.
when i for example watch youtube videos in landscape mode, sound only comes from the (real) bottom of the phone. making it appear as if the sound comes from left/right direction depending on how you hold the phone.
pretty annoying with mono sound appearing to come from left or right.
i feel like this should be a premium phone and have stereo sound in landscape mode for watching videos and playing games.
can anyone enlighten me on this?
The only loud speaker used for media is at the bottom of the phone, if you want to use the earpiece speaker you need to flash a mod (If one exists)
I know this is a late reply,
but I'm having the same issue - although I'm on a custom stock ROM, where nothing but bloat is removed.
Have I disabled this somehere?
What's the feature called?
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Hi there,
since i flashed ICS AOKP i found the right speaker was much louder than the left one.
OK, searched and applied the fix from the DEV forum.
For me this did not solve the issue, so i thought the left speaker was broken.
I installed Mobo player from the market, there you can mute the speakers individually. When i mute the right speaker, aktually the left speaker got muted... and vice versa.
Anyway i found that the left speaker was still working and that if playing a video the difference in volume is not so critical compared to the standart Android sounds, so i guess my speaker is not broken.
Has anyone observed something likely?
Cheers,
Happen
I was unable finding anything about this problem so I decided to ask you guys here. So the thing is that my top speaker is louder than my bottom one. For example when I watch movies/videos in landscape mode I can always hear the sound coming from the left (top) speaker louder than the right (bottom) one. It's as if there is a small subbuffer integrated to it or something. By the way if I watch movies or some clips on youtube and decide to turn the phone clockwise even though the top speaker is located on the right and the bottom one - on the left, the audio is always like this top=left and bottom=right, so I can't decide wether or not it's a software or a hardware issue. So is this a normal problem? Is it possible that you guys have it but dont notice it? Is it a software or a hardware malfunction? Is it fixable?
I couldn't find any threads about this so I'm not sure if anyone else has already found out about this, but I'll share my findings here.
For those of you who own a Pure XL or have watched/read a review about the phone, you may have came across a point regarding the phone's "thin-sounding" rear speakers.
I own a grey Pure XL and to me, it sounds like the phone is EQ'd to have high treble and low bass by default when outputting to the rear speakers, which makes it sound like it is lacking in substance, somewhat lifeless, and again, really thin-sounding.
There may be music that sound good with this EQ preset, but I haven't came across any (yet).
The common solution is to only listen with headphones, which sound slightly better (but will sound a lot better with the Hi-Fi/dts setting turned on, depending on your taste)
Thankfully, there is a solution to this that lies in the stock system Music/Video app, which is that dts setting.
All you need is any audio or video file with an extension that is supported by the phone.
In Music app:
Play your audio file
Tap the bottom section of the screen where it shows your track name and artist, along with a circular 'play' and 'next' button.
Tap the icon with three squares and a triangle at the bottom-right (beside the circular 'next' button)
Tap 'Equalizer'
Turn on dts
DONE!
In Video app:
Play your video file
Tap the oval dts option on the left side of the screen so that it turns red
DONE!
You can only change the dts sound settings if you have headphones plugged in, but it's way better than the lifeless sound that comes out the speakers without it.
This doesn't just apply to only those two apps though. I've tested this with the YouTube GApp that came factory loaded and it works with it. Will need others to confirm that it works with other multimedia apps (Spotify, SoundClound, etc...)
The result? Better-sounding rear speakers! The lows are now MUCH more apparent and the highs have been brought down to reasonable settings, resulting in a much more richer and balanced audio experience (but don't quote me on this, since I'm no audiophile).
Short Circuit said:
I couldn't find any threads about this so I'm not sure if anyone else has already found out about this, but I'll share my findings here.
For those of you who own a Pure XL or have watched/read a review about the phone, you may have came across a point regarding the phone's "thin-sounding" rear speakers.
I own a grey Pure XL and to me, it sounds like the phone is EQ'd to have high treble and low bass by default when outputting to the rear speakers, which makes it sound like it is lacking in substance, somewhat lifeless, and again, really thin-sounding.
There may be music that sound good with this EQ preset, but I haven't came across any (yet).
The common solution is to only listen with headphones, which sound slightly better (but will sound a lot better with the Hi-Fi/dts setting turned on, depending on your taste)
Thankfully, there is a solution to this that lies in the stock system Music/Video app, which is that dts setting.
All you need is any audio or video file with an extension that is supported by the phone.
In Music app:
Play your audio file
Tap the bottom section of the screen where it shows your track name and artist, along with a circular 'play' and 'next' button.
Tap the icon with three squares and a triangle at the bottom-right (beside the circular 'next' button)
Tap 'Equalizer'
Turn on dts
DONE!
In Video app:
Play your video file
Tap the oval dts option on the left side of the screen so that it turns red
DONE!
You can only change the dts sound settings if you have headphones plugged in, but it's way better than the lifeless sound that comes out the speakers without it.
This doesn't just apply to only those two apps though. I've tested this with the YouTube GApp that came factory loaded and it works with it. Will need others to confirm that it works with other multimedia apps (Spotify, SoundClound, etc...)
The result? Better-sounding rear speakers! The lows are now MUCH more apparent and the highs have been brought down to reasonable settings, resulting in a much more richer and balanced audio experience (but don't quote me on this, since I'm no audiophile).
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Tried it through the music app (didn't need music on the phone just click more -> equalizer). Had Spotify playing in the background and heard a major difference. So much better.
Thanks!
This is great. Thanks
It's been known for a while that, on the original Lollipop-based stock Rom for this phone, when the screen rotation was in secondary landscape mode, the audio mix would be adjusted accordingly so that the right channel of audio would be played out of the top speaker and the left channel of audio would be played out of the bottom speaker (for all other orientations, the left channel would be played out of the top speaker and the right would be played out of the bottom). Unfortunately, this seems to have been broken as of the official Marshmallow stock Rom release on the phone, and nobody has found a solution...
Until now! I happened to be reading a thread from 2015 in XDA's NEXUS 6 forums, in which somebody actually complained about the momentary period of silence that would occur during this transition. Senior member springer.music stepped forward with the answer saying that "ro.audio.monitorRotation" in the build.prop was the location of the hidden setting for turning this feature on and off. Changing it to "true" yields the desired effect, allowing the stereo mix to be corrected in landscape. Turns out that the same value is just as relevant under Marshmallow on the Pure Edition as it was for Lollipop on the NEXUS 6!
Here's a direct quote of springer.music's original post with further background:
springer.music said:
Code:
ro.audio.monitorRotation=true
If I got it right, this makes it so that the left speaker always plays the actual "left" audio channel and the right speaker plays the "right" channel in landscape mode regardless of the screen position (landscape or reverse landscape).
If this were not in place, when the device is in reverse landscape, the left speaker would play the "right" audio channel, and the right speaker would play the "left" channel.
In order to avoid this, the system must swap the audio channels on the fly, hence the short pause when you rotate the screen.
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EDIT: I forgot to mention that the short audio pause when rotating the device happens only when playing music through the built in speakers, and it doesn't happen when using a headset. It further proves that this is due to the system adjusting the L/R audio channels and it is actually a feature, not a bug.
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It is worth mentioning that "ro.audio.monitorRotation" was not originally present in my device's build.prop file, so it was simply a matter of adding the entry. To my surprise, it was a runaway success. As springer.music pointed out, this tweak is only for the speakers and (thankfully) does not affect the headphones, so you can feel free to apply this without risk of messing up the headphone-based listening experience. I used JRummy Apps's "BuildProp Editor," available on the Marketplace, to make the change.
Hi everybody, all of you know that bottom speaker's place isn't comfortable for using phone in landscape orientation. In this way while gaming I have to turn the phone over so that the bottom speaker is on the left, but then audio channels messed up (if in game sound came from right I will hear it from left). If turn phone back (bottom speaker is on the right) - channels are correct. That anomaly appears only while gaming (YT Vanced works correctly). Is it firmware bug or can I configure it in settings?
Get the Buds+ and be happy... or some better LDAC based headphones or earbuds.
Or maybe bt speakers.