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Headphone Music Increase (It's too quiet as an MP3 player)

Hi, Just got my HTC HD2 after a break from HTC handsets.
I've noticed when listening to music, even when turned up max, the music is quite quiet.
I've tried the audio booster but that seems to just do bass, vocal etc. not the overall volume.
On my old Omnia I had the same issue, but you could run SoundTester.exe and manually increase the db's.
But I don't seem to have that on the HD2.
Any ideas how to make the music louder? I mean walking past traffic & the music is easily drowned out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

searh for srs wow in the apps section of this xda hd2 forum.
and if you are a junglist check out ukbreakbeat.com

Maybe its the headphones? I have a set of fontopia headphones and on full volume it is properly painful.

Yeah my sennies get hilariously loud on full whack, suggest noise isolating as opposed to simple in ear. Once I got the correct sized ear adapter on em, even the tube cant intrude on my tunes

I'll check out srs wow thanks.
I'm using a set of Sony MDR-XD200 headphones at the moment, as I wasn't a fan of the standard HTC ones. They've been ok with other handsets & MP3 players (Except the omnia which had this problem too).

This guy gotta be deaf lol

jrvenge said:
This guy gotta be deaf lol
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what was that...?

lol, no it was definetly quiet, alot more than it should be.
Do you remember on some of the old custom roms (I had one on my p3600) the audio broke and was really quiet, that is what this seems like.
But the SRS WOW has just about done the job, thanks
You know on normal windows mobile you can click on the speaker at the top and adjust ringing volume & device volume, I can't do that on the HD2, I can use the volume keys on the side, but that just does 1 generic volume, I was wondering if the device volume was set low, but I can't check it.

HTC_Junglist said:
You know on normal windows mobile you can click on the speaker at the top and adjust ringing volume & device volume, I can't do that on the HD2, I can use the volume keys on the side, but that just does 1 generic volume, I was wondering if the device volume was set low, but I can't check it.
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Settings tab, sound and display, the 2 volumes are there and a switch to link them or not.

Audio Oblivion said:
searh for srs wow in the apps section of this xda hd2 forum.
and if you are a junglist check out ukbreakbeat.com
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is that a flash site? doesnt load on hd2. is it dnb or nuskool breaks? my pc is dead so i cant check it

I'd say he needs some better headphones with higher impedence. I have Sennheisers and they are very very loud but then they are 70 Ohms

The only problem I have with my HTC HD2 as a music player is probably going to sound pretty minor. I have a set of Sennheisser in ear buds that I love and used to use on an iPod Touch. At it's loudest, the volume is a bit much for me usually, but the bar just below it I find isn't loud enough. Picky, I know, but it just seems like a big leap between volume levels. Is there any way of helping this?

Starfury said:
I'd say he needs some better headphones with higher impedence. I have Sennheisers and they are very very loud but then they are 70 Ohms
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Yep I have some too, dug them out last night to give them ago, no better really.
So I've tried Sennheiser Eco Ear Canal, Sony MDR-XD200 & the standard HTC ones packaged with the HD2.
All are too quiet, it's not my hearing, tried them all on the Omnia & they are deafening, also with the HD2 I can hear other stuff going on around me, cars, walking on gravel etc. Very strange others are not having this issue.
kilrah said:
Settings tab, sound and display, the 2 volumes are there and a switch to link them or not.
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Thanks! Yeah, unfortunately they were both on 100%

I have akg 321 in-ear buds, before that akg 315 normal style, I haven't experienced any volume problems with music.

NathanRandom said:
The only problem I have with my HTC HD2 as a music player is probably going to sound pretty minor. I have a set of Sennheisser in ear buds that I love and used to use on an iPod Touch. At it's loudest, the volume is a bit much for me usually, but the bar just below it I find isn't loud enough. Picky, I know, but it just seems like a big leap between volume levels. Is there any way of helping this?
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I had this issue. If you go to the volume screen that appears when you press the side volume buttons you can adjust the system volume by touching the bars to get gradual and precise volume increase/decrease. Using the toggle buttons makes it jump too much, stupid design imo.
Also the music player should have it's OWN volume control, instead it adjusts the entire system volume, again a ridiculous design flaw IMO also the volume graphic in the music player dissapears sometimes in rom 1.44, can't comment on other roms. I've had 2 HD2's and both have done the same thing.
Getting back to Junglist: I think you have a hardware issue mate, the full volume on this unit is very loud and even louder when used with audio booster. No one else has this problem. I use the sennheiser (spelling!) cx300's awesome headphones, and cheap
Talking of Audio booster again, in conjunction with the music player it is excellent, it handles the frequencies very well compared to say coreplayers eq that end up distorting the headphones with even minor bass frequency boosting. Using coreplayers pre amp is pointless also, complete distortion and hard to control, not very finger friendly.
It's such a shame about the Audio Booster switching itself off when jumping tracks even when it is left running in the background, it's only use therefore, is listening to long mixes. Too much of a pain to keep switching it back on after individual tracks You also have to switch it back on if you pause music and navigate away for a bit.
I hope HTC are aware of this and fix it in the next firmware update

jonbaker76 said:
is that a flash site? doesnt load on hd2. is it dnb or nuskool breaks? my pc is dead so i cant check it
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its a flash site yes... best to check it out on a pc tbh...
both dnb and dubstep are represented by this record label.
check out the music... there are links on their site to their soundcloud and myspace.
the website itself is sick! check out the spacialiser!!!

Audio Oblivion said:
its a flash site yes... best to check it out on a pc tbh...
both dnb and dubstep are represented by this record label.
check out the music... there are links on their site to their soundcloud and myspace.
the website itself is sick! check out the spacialiser!!!
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Will do, not a fan of dubstep but i used to play dnb, i make/dj breaks/nu skool breaks now, you into that?
check my tracks/remixes and mixes @:
www.soundcloud.com/billvega
can't beat a bit of self promotion, totally off topic, sorry!

jonbaker76 said:
It's such a shame about the Audio Booster switching itself off when jumping tracks even when it is left running in the background, it's only use therefore, is listening to long mixes. Too much of a pain to keep switching it back on after individual tracks You also have to switch it back on if you pause music and navigate away for a bit.
I hope HTC are aware of this and fix it in the next firmware update
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From the sticky at the top of this forum - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
25. Allow Audio Booster to Stay On.
Notice how after every song Audio Booster turns off again? A very simple solution is to press the Home button and not the "Done" softkey. This keeps Audio Booster running.
58. Keep Audio Booster Running After Each Song
Another way to keep Audio Booster running while playing music is to use the following reg tweak:
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config\enter_su spend and change 1 to 0
Although I have left the booster off and the volume no higher than 85% as with my Sennheiser HD-25 professional monitoring/DJ headphones on its too loud above these settings. With other headphones I have tried I agree its a bit quiet but not too bad. Maybe you have deafened yourself by having your music too loud

Starfury said:
From the sticky at the top of this forum - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
25. Allow Audio Booster to Stay On.
Notice how after every song Audio Booster turns off again? A very simple solution is to press the Home button and not the "Done" softkey. This keeps Audio Booster running.
58. Keep Audio Booster Running After Each Song
Another way to keep Audio Booster running while playing music is to use the following reg tweak:
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config\enter_su spend and change 1 to 0
Although I have left the booster off and the volume no higher than 85% as with my Sennheiser HD-25 professional monitoring/DJ headphones on its too loud above these settings. With other headphones I have tried I agree its a bit quiet but not too bad. Maybe you have deafened yourself by having your music too loud
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Thanks mate but i know about them. The tweaks don't work
even when audiobooster is still in the background (and dutty's task manager says so) it still doesn't work. Sometimes it does though, it's a bit random.
It certainly doesn't work if you pause the music and come back to it

Tried Nitrogen? I downloaded the other day but its still sat on my sd card

increasing earphone volume

Hi,
Is there any solution to increase earphone volume and call quality like in HTC or samsung by using service codes or any modifications?.
I think the volume and call quality in X8 is very low and poor.

If you are using cyanogenmod rom with working DSPmanager, turn on compression, it will give you a real boost

fanox said:
If you are using cyanogenmod rom with working DSPmanager, turn on compression, it will give you a real boost
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Does turning on compression improves in-call volume?
GDXv3

Dare-Devil Inside said:
Does turning on compression improves in-call volume?
GDXv3
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Sorry man, never tried calling with compression enabled, you`ll have try it yourself

fanox said:
Sorry man, never tried calling with compression enabled, you`ll have try it yourself
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Absolutely useless advise. DSP does not work with earspeaker.
Having installed cyanogenmod7, also faced with the same problem - my xperia x8 has very low sound via earspeaker. I can hardly hear what caller is speaking to me.

then this must be your cell phones problem, not with the rom. I dont have any problem listening even on a busy road.

Try to clean your speaker of dust......

FXP roms over 028 and official CM71 rom have bug there - very low call in volume.

Too loud volume...

My GalaxySII is very very loudly.
Anyone might be feeling this, (for example...music) the volume is too loud to hear.
Is there any solution for this?
Ofcourse,I have root permission.
Sent from my SC-02C(Japan's model) using XDA App

Just turn the Volume Down ! You are the only and first person to say Volume is Loud! However, while listening to Music at above 10 the Vol is loud indeed

Ah...
I made it's volume to "1",but still it loud.

Thats a good thing its loud for u! For me watching a movie with 15 volume up is also not loud enough. However apps. and music player got a good loudness. Its only when watching a video. Any idea why is that?

Harsha Raj said:
Thats a good thing its loud for u! For me watching a movie with 15 volume up is also not loud enough. However apps. and music player got a good loudness. Its only when watching a video. Any idea why is that?
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I listen to musics on "Power AMP" player.
I don't know whether it can play movies(such as mp4 file),but how do you use it?
The player can change volume with equalizer.
You may watch the movie with lower volume...a little

Volume loudness while playing videos sometimes appears lower simply due to the fact that the audio track of movies is often recorded at low level, to maintain a good reserve of dynamic for sound effects.

No don't mock this guy has a point. My S2 is extremely loud on volume 1. I wish I could turn it down more!
This happened recently as far as I know, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my custom rom and/or kernel (villian rom 3.0).
I also dropped the phone and cracked the screen if that could have affected it.
But seriously, too loud!

moruru1 said:
I listen to musics on "Power AMP" player.
I don't know whether it can play movies(such as mp4 file),but how do you use it?
The player can change volume with equalizer.
You may watch the movie with lower volume...a little
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Actually the music player, games and applications got good loudness in its volume. However the stock video player is not loud enough even when the volume is set to 15. Is this normal? Are u telling that the Power AMP may solve this?
JuniorGG said:
Volume loudness while playing videos sometimes appears lower simply due to the fact that the audio track of movies is often recorded at low level, to maintain a good reserve of dynamic for sound effects.
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hmm u got a good point there. Let me do some tests and get back later. Could u suggest on what means I should select the sample of videos? or u have any suggestions to try out? Thanx.

jamesyb0i said:
No don't mock this guy has a point. My S2 is extremely loud on volume 1. I wish I could turn it down more!
This happened recently as far as I know, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my custom rom and/or kernel (villian rom 3.0).
I also dropped the phone and cracked the screen if that could have affected it.
But seriously, too loud!
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Thanks for reply! I also think that.
In my S2, rom is default,but kernel was changed(in order to get rooted)
or there are some hardware problems ...

Harsha Raj said:
Actually the music player, games and applications got good loudness in its volume. However the stock video player is not loud enough even when the volume is set to 15. Is this normal? Are u telling that the Power AMP may solve this?
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Ohh,sorry...I misunderstood.
I wanted to say that Power AMP can the volume "higher" with equalizer, and you might solve your problem.
I can also make my S2's volume down,but it still has been loud

moruru1 said:
Ohh,sorry...I misunderstood.
I wanted to say that Power AMP can the volume "higher" with equalizer, and you might solve your problem.
I can also make my S2's volume down,but it still has been loud
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You can use the EQ on power amp, the first slider is the Gain Control, which can be used to lower the volume further
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Headphone Volume Mod?

Anyone know of a mod or App (that actually Works) to increase headset volume on this. I am on HV1.2 (HC3.2)
Its just too quiet to watch a movie on a plane....

some apps i use for volume beside the Dolby digital is an app call equalizer which will boost the sound wave not very much but at least to a better hearing level does the rom you have support Dolby digital
https://market.android.com/details?...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5lcXVhbGl6ZXJhcHAiXQ..

mahalocat said:
Anyone know of a mod or App (that actually Works) to increase headset volume on this. I am on HV1.2 (HC3.2)
Its just too quiet to watch a movie on a plane....
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Make a person regret throwing out those "powered" headphones we used to have a few years ago

mahalocat said:
Anyone know of a mod or App (that actually Works) to increase headset volume on this. I am on HV1.2 (HC3.2)
Its just too quiet to watch a movie on a plane....
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This is what I bought for planes, trains, and headsets. Works great for me.
http://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Boostaroo-Portable-Amplifier-Clear/dp/B000219896

You may want to try Thor's rom, it have a much louder sound, even more since v14.

Note 4 - Increase Max Volume for headphones?

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has been able to adjust the default max volume level for the Note 4, mine just needs to go up a couple of notches louder, I know this has been done on the Note 3 by adjusting some values in the mixerpaths.xml file
I've not rooted my note 4 yet, however if someone knows a confirmed working method then I may just do that.
Thanks in Advance

Louder? Damn, I can't go near max loudness without going deaf!
Have you tried adjusting the Adapt sound? That increased the loudness/clarity of my bluetooth headset quite a bit.

EP2008 said:
Louder? Damn, I can't go near max loudness without going deaf!
Have you tried adjusting the Adapt sound? That increased the loudness/clarity of my bluetooth headset quite a bit.
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Yeah, always love my music loud in my ears, not mindblowing loud..... but I like it loud, think I'm going deaf anyway.
Not tried adjusting the adapt sound, didn't know that would impact volume level.
I'll give it a go, my earphones are not bluetooth just wired so it may or may not work

martytarty said:
Yeah, always love my music loud in my ears, not mindblowing loud..... but I like it loud, think I'm going deaf anyway.
Not tried adjusting the adapt sound, didn't know that would impact volume level.
I'll give it a go, my earphones are not bluetooth just wired so it may or may not work
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Yeah, try the adapt - it made a huge difference (both for wired and bluetooth). I'm sure there are hacks out there, but I tend to start with stock and then move to hacks when that fails.
Good luck.

There are a couple threads with hacks. Pretty sure one of them are in the tmobile theead.