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Headphone louder

I used my X1 to listen mp3 via headphone plug (3.5mm plug not Bluetooth) and Parrot Party Black (http://www.parrotshopping.com/fr/p_parrot_item.aspx?i=164978). I've in,creased sound everywhere: from Windows panel, from Windows palyer, and from the Parrot. But it's still not enough loud.
How can I do to increase volume of the headphone? Thx

Use a Software called MP3Gain to increase the volume of the Song files in your computer and then add them to Xperia.
which headphones are u using?

I uses this speaker Parrot Party Black with 3,5 mm plug.
Good idea. I know MP3gain.
Do you have an other way but to listen web radio, MP3gain doesn't work.

syrinx said:
I uses this speaker Parrot Party Black with 3,5 mm plug.
Good idea. I know MP3gain.
Do you have an other way but to listen web radio, MP3gain doesn't work.
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U should try other equipment also ..maybe the speaker isnt loud enuff?

I have the same problem, and I don't think the equipment is to blame. My earbuds will blow my head off on other devices, but the Xperia just doesn't seem to be putting out enough volume.
I know there are some nanny state regulations in Europe that require manufacturers to restrict their max volume, but is this really what SE has done on their international X1i? Seems a shame that the rest of the world has to suffer from European bureaucracy.
Max volume must be controlled in the registry somewhere. I've experimented with several suggestions elsewhere in these forums but have yet to find the answer.

I use philips sport-earplugs for running and I listen to MP3s with my phone during that (the internal GPS draws me the route I was running and measures the time -excellent sport-device ).
Most of the time i have the volume at 50 to 60% and it's very loud, 80% and more would definitely blow my eardrums out after short time.
So I cannot complain about the volume, it's awesome and approximately as loud as my Sony MW-S202 music player with the same earplugs.

skycamefalling said:
I use philips sport-earplugs for running and I listen to MP3s with my phone during that (the internal GPS draws me the route I was running and measures the time -excellent sport-device ).
Most of the time i have the volume at 50 to 60% and it's very loud, 80% and more would definitely blow my eardrums out after short time.
So I cannot complain about the volume, it's awesome and approximately as loud as my Sony MW-S202 music player with the same earplugs.
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Which app are you using to track your route?
I had one on my n82, it could also be ported to google map to show you your route in sattelite view.
thanks

mo.ammi said:
Which app are you using to track your route?
I had one on my n82, it could also be ported to google map to show you your route in sattelite view.
thanks
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I use smartrunner http://www.smartrunner.de/pages/ which works fine with google maps. The software is free and runs great, but uses 640x480p, so on the bottom the screen is white which is no problem. But it's a german version, don't know if there is an english one outthere too.

Nocturnal310 said:
U should try other equipment also ..maybe the speaker isnt loud enuff?
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This Parrot is noud enough but not withe the X1.
I will try via Bluetooth.

to get it louder you need to edit audiopara file, please make sure you read the mods sticky at the top of the forum before posting new threads on same old subjects
a quick search would reveal that there are several threads already on the volume issues.
theres another freeware gps app that works well if also only vga, in the diamond forum, called gps cyle computer. i use this quite a lot, very simple stylish and effective

fards said:
to get it louder you need to edit audiopara file, please make sure you read the mods sticky at the top of the forum before posting new threads on same old subjects
a quick search would reveal that there are several threads already on the volume issues.
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Thanks for your help. For your good understanding, I've seek during 20 minutes before starting this thread.

syrinx said:
This Parrot is noud enough but not withe the X1.
I will try via Bluetooth.
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With BT, my Black Party works well.
Now I'll try to replace the audiopara file by this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459437&highlight=audiopara

Skiing with HD2

Hi, wanted to briefly comment on my largely positive HD2 & skiing experience.
Video
Worked fine right down to about -15c (-25 with wind chill), noticed some jerks in recording but cant say if it was cold related, Here is the HD2 video I made.
Bear in mind that some videos had gamma/brightness adjustments.
Camera
Yea, not too bad after the HTC camera patch, the last image at the end of the video is a (curve adjusted) photo taken with HD2. I was impressed with the camera under some conditions (medium-good light levels and little movement), still not in the same league as an N95 especially in low light conditions.
Music application
Worked OK, but its still pretty lame, making the experience quite frustrating:
1. no volume control on the headphone piece
2. long pauses while (large) playlist loads, why is this not cached???
3. Cant use your own headphones with remote (like Nokia) so had to use crappy HTC ones
4. Scrolling large lists in the cold! (I believe there is a scroll bar in 1.6x)
5. loads more niggles
General
No problems most of the time but a couple of times in extreme cold (-15) I found the keyboard became really erratic and once it even completely stopped responding. I also noticed that coming in from the extreme cold quite a lot of fog behind the screen, this cleared up after the phone warmed up with no ill effects.
All in all I was happy, BUT I was pretty pissed off to find, after running for the plane, a scratch on the screen, keys or coins the culprit.. just shows how wrong the unscratchable claims are!

Sorry to hear about the scratch on your screen. You should have listened to your head and bought a screen protector. It's not too late.....
WB

And you really should have tested the SatSki application, then you could also have tested the GPS functionality.
Had this application already running on my previous phone, excellent application for skieers and on the big HD2 screen it is really handy.

I've downloaded Satski and will be trying it in Les Deux Alpes in a couple of weeks, will report how it goes.
I must admit I noticed the same thing about not being able to ajust the volume using the remote on the headset. That's a real pain.
Also intending to buy some new thin gloves for using the phone poss The North Face E-Tip or Blacks do their own version which I tried in store and they work ok (perfect for texting your mate at work while you're have a beer on the slope)

Headset
I use my HD2 when snowboarding with Jabra bt620s bluetooth headset. It works great and I can adjust the volume, skip songs and answer calls with buttoms on the headset. And its nice not to worry about wires.

kaospiloten said:
I use my HD2 when snowboarding with Jabra bt620s bluetooth headset. It works great and I can adjust the volume, skip songs and answer calls with buttoms on the headset. And its nice not to worry about wires.
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I only ever have one earphone in - I like to be able to hear out of control boarders coming so that I can get out the way ;-)

Pete1909 said:
I only ever have one earphone in - I like to be able to hear out of control boarders coming so that I can get out the way ;-)
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Strange, I have the same problem with people on GAYSTICKS

kaospiloten said:
Strange, I have the same problem with people on GAYSTICKS
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To be fair I don't really have a problem with you guys being behind me...........because you can't keep up on your trays.
What I really need is a camera that can look out for groups of you sitting down just after the brow of a hill.

Pete1909 said:
To be fair I don't really have a problem with you guys being behind me...........because you can't keep up on your trays.
What I really need is a camera that can look out for groups of you sitting down just after the brow of a hill.
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Here is a pic taken with my HD2 tonite at my local hill I am sitting down just after the brow of a hill with my dog watching my mates building a big jump

Try mapping your snowboarding as you go down the slopes, i'm gonna test the skiing mode this weekend. But there are some ski trips recorded with sportypal that I found, http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/124172

HTC is beginning to piss me off with their lies

One big problem with navigation:
If you turn the volume of the speaker up playing music, gps loses satellites. The speaker in the back interferes with the gps radio.
HTC's reply? A complete and utter lie - it's overheating, and we turn off gps for you so the phone doesn't overheat. I tested this just now. It's the speaker or having something to do with the volume of the speaker. Heat in irrelevant in this specific case.
So, first they lie about the fps cap, then they lie about overheating. I'm beginning to get ticked off at these people.
P.S.
Another very small bug - when navigation is active, and you attempt to make a bt call from the bt car kit, screen turns off and the bt car kit starts to beep. I had to push the power button, and then everything worked perfect. Still, a bit annoying.
P.P.S. Oh yeah, stock rooted rom, 3.0 kernel for epson panels.

acrh2 said:
One big problem with navigation:
If you turn the volume of the speaker up playing music, gps loses satellites. The speaker in the back interferes with the gps radio.
HTC's reply? A complete and utter lie - it's overheating, and we turn off gps for you so the phone doesn't overheat. I tested this just now. It's the speaker or having something to do with the volume of the speaker. Heat in irrelevant in this specific case.
So, first they lie about the fps cap, then they lie about overheating. I'm beginning to get ticked off at these people.
P.S.
Another very small bug - when navigation is active, and you attempt to make a bt call from the bt car kit, screen turns off and the bt car kit starts to beep. I had to push the power button, and then everything worked perfect. Still, a bit annoying.
P.P.S. Oh yeah, stock rooted rom, 3.0 kernel for epson panels.
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Was fine for me on my stock rom. Have you tried it with the actual stock kernel?

donatom3 said:
Was fine for me on my stock rom. Have you tried it with the actual stock kernel?
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Was what fine?

donatom3 said:
Was fine for me on my stock rom. Have you tried it with the actual stock kernel?
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What's that? never heard of it.

I have a stock rooted rom and running the gps+pandora radio+receiving phone calls all the time and no problems. I work on the road all day long.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

You need to make the volume loud in the external speaker to lose gps.

funny i use my nav pandora etc etc all day and all together dont have troubles
if your that unhappy you can take it back and get a iphone4 just make sure you have some duct tape

why don't you use the car's speakers, instead of the phone's? i plug my phone into the radio, listen to it and adjust the volume through there. i think trying to use the speaker on the phone while i'm in the car would be a horrible experience

Sporkman said:
funny i use my nav pandora etc etc all day and all together dont have troubles
if your that unhappy you can take it back and get a iphone4 just make sure you have some duct tape
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How is it HTC's fault that the phone doesn't work?
Are you serious?

timothydonohue said:
why don't you use the car's speakers, instead of the phone's? i plug my phone into the radio, listen to it and adjust the volume through there. i think trying to use the speaker on the phone while i'm in the car would be a horrible experience
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By bt car kit doesn't have that option.

Sporkman said:
funny i use my nav pandora etc etc all day and all together dont have troubles
if your that unhappy you can take it back and get a iphone4 just make sure you have some duct tape
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+1 the chuckle of the day
p.p.p.s. I don't have any problems even the volume at max

trentlythp said:
+1 the chuckle of the day
p.p.p.s. I don't have any problems even the volume at max
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Do you have headphones plugged into the phone? Or are you playing the music through bt?
As I said earlier, it has to be the external speaker of the phone itself.

If your phone is rooted dont blame HTC for nothing, get a life, or an Iphone 4, like i seen so many ppl say my camera doenst work, after i rooted my Evo, cmon ppl, you know what you doing when you rooting your phone.
Ps. I am rooted with everything stock and mines work fine
Pps. Get an Apple phone, Or a motorola , I herd they dont have issues!!!

acrh2 said:
Do you have headphones plugged into the phone? Or are you playing the music through bt?
As I said earlier, it has to be the external speaker of the phone itself.
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I use an FM transmitter. So I guess you could classify that as headphones

Others with this problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702596

acrh2 said:
Was what fine?
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I never experienced any of these problems doing the activities you speak of
Plancy said:
What's that? never heard of it.
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You said in your post you're using an aftermarket kernel, so how can you blame HTC.

donatom3 said:
I never experienced any of these problems doing the activities you speak of
You said in your post you're using an aftermarket kernel, so how can you blame HTC.
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I just tried stock kernel. Same problem.
Go read the other thread. Every single person, who said they didn't have that problem, later confirmed having it after more testing.
Here's how to test it.
Go outside and turn on gps and maps. Walk like 30-40 feet, see how responsive the location marker is (it works instantaneously, both in movement and rotation).
Now switch to the music player, run a fairly loud song, turn volume to maximum. Go back to maps.
It will either say gps lost, or the location marker will be stuck in one place.
Lower the volume to zero or plug in headphones, and gps will work again.

[PROJECT] Headphone Controls - HandsFree

I would like to start working on a way to change the function of the push button received from the headphones. Mainly for when your driving, but this would also be helpful when you need to work with your hands, but still would like to use your phone!
I would love to make an app, but i have no exp in doing this, so basically this is my REQ for a developer to work with to create,develop,test help build my idea.
A customizable app that allows you to choose to open apps, perform actions, play music, skip, pause,play etc with different clicks of the button (Like the older/newish ipod shuffle controls)
If your interested or have any material or ideas for me to start looking into gpio settings please add to the post.
My ideal click config would be:
[Current]
1 click - Depending on Phone State : Open up Music Player/play/pause/answer call/end call
[Additional - Needs to be added]
2 clicks - Next Song
3 clicks - previous song
Click and Hold - Open Voice Control Program (in my case Vlingo) Should be configurable via GUI or config file
(I'm not sure how many commands we can actually store, but if there are more then we can surely add more and more features)

warri said:
I would like to start working on a way to change the function of the push button received from the headphones. Mainly for when your driving, but this would also be helpful when you need to work with your hands, but still would like to use your phone!
I would love to make an app, but i have no exp in doing this, so basically this is my REQ for a developer to work with to create,develop,test help build my idea.
A customizable app that allows you to choose to open apps, perform actions, play music, skip, pause,play etc with different clicks of the button (Like the older/newish ipod shuffle controls)
If your interested or have any material or ideas for me to start looking into gpio settings please add to the post.
My ideal click config would be:
[Current]
1 click - Depending on Phone State : Open up Music Player/play/pause/answer call/end call
[Additional - Needs to be added]
2 clicks - Next Song
3 clicks - previous song
Click and Hold - Open Voice Control Program (in my case Vlingo) Should be configurable via GUI or config file
(I'm not sure how many commands we can actually store, but if there are more then we can surely add more and more features)
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How much money do you have?
I already have the answer. Get a set of the Motorola S9-HD Bluetooth headset. You can do all things you require with them (over bluetooth of course) The sound quality is AWESOME

well, that's not the correct answer, ths idea for an app is really nice, I dont have experience in android development either but I'd like to have this app, and I would donate, Once I saw an application like this for WM and it was awesome( Former WM user)

wpb2 said:
How much money do you have?
I already have the answer. Get a set of the Motorola S9-HD Bluetooth headset. You can do all things you require with them (over bluetooth of course) The sound quality is AWESOME
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yeah, right.
AD2P simply SUCKS quality-wise.
If you don't notice the difference, well, good for you .
but with the same kind of money you can get so much more quality you can't even compare.
The kind of fearure the OP is working on would be just awesome for who wants quality or doesn't. want to spend money for the same of it and remote controls . looking forward to it.

I been trying to do something like this with Tasker but sadly i can't get it to recognize the headset click

tytdfn said:
I been trying to do something like this with Tasker but sadly i can't get it to recognize the headset click
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I'm going to start sifting through the Kernel and Source Code that was posted from samsung for anything related to the headset. They defiantly have a way to recognize the clicks, I just dont know how to access them to tell the phone what to do.

tytdfn said:
I been trying to do something like this with Tasker but sadly i can't get it to recognize the headset click
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Fingers crossed that this is on topic enough...
On my Captivate, the hardwired headset that came with it has a button in the wire. This button doesn't seem to do anything. What is it supposed to do?
Also, I have a bluetooth Jabra BT3030. None of the buttons function with the Captivate. They all worked fine on my Tilt (WM). Should all of the bluetooth buttons work with this phone? Also, when I turn on my bluetooth it pairs fine, but doesn't automatically connect. I've read about this happening with other people. I'm wondering if it's just this old bluetooth device isn't compatible with the Captivate. Any opinions?
Thanks,
Rich

richb500 said:
Fingers crossed that this is on topic enough...
On my Captivate, the hardwired headset that came with it has a button in the wire. This button doesn't seem to do anything. What is it supposed to do?
Also, I have a bluetooth Jabra BT3030. None of the buttons function with the Captivate. They all worked fine on my Tilt (WM). Should all of the bluetooth buttons work with this phone? Also, when I turn on my bluetooth it pairs fine, but doesn't automatically connect. I've read about this happening with other people. I'm wondering if it's just this old bluetooth device isn't compatible with the Captivate. Any opinions?
Thanks,
Rich
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The button you speak of will pause and un-pause music from my experience. I'm not sure if it does anything else.

It also answers incoming calls and in at least one music player (can't remember which one, maybe DoubleTwist?) a double click skips to the next track.

The files you are looking for are
linux-2.6.29/arch/arm/mach-s5pc110/include/mach/sec_jack.h
linux-2.6.29/arch/arm/mach-s5pc110/sec_jack.c
just don't ask me what to do with it
Sherpa

I would donate fo' sho'!!!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

no driver said:
It also answers incoming calls and in at least one music player (can't remember which one, maybe DoubleTwist?) a double click skips to the next track.
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MixZing do this

SetiroN said:
yeah, right.
AD2P simply SUCKS quality-wise.
If you don't notice the difference, well, good for you .
but with the same kind of money you can get so much more quality you can't even compare.
The kind of fearure the OP is working on would be just awesome for who wants quality or doesn't. want to spend money for the same of it and remote controls . looking forward to it.
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You obviously haven't tried out the s9_HD pair. They are really good quality. I have a $50 pair of Sony buds, and the S9s are just as good.
BTW you can get them for $60 on the net. So where did you say you can get better quality buds for far cheaper?
Also I mostly use my S9s' at the gym, because my wired pair of buds kept getting caught on the weight bars. When I run on the treadmill I always set my phone on the top tray and kept yanking on the cord. I actually knocked my phone on the floor a couple of times.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

TMC_Sherpa said:
The files you are looking for are
linux-2.6.29/arch/arm/mach-s5pc110/include/mach/sec_jack.h
linux-2.6.29/arch/arm/mach-s5pc110/sec_jack.c
just don't ask me what to do with it
Sherpa
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Thanks, downloading the Source now, damn its a big download

richb500 said:
Fingers crossed that this is on topic enough...
On my Captivate, the hardwired headset that came with it has a button in the wire. This button doesn't seem to do anything. What is it supposed to do?
Also, I have a bluetooth Jabra BT3030. None of the buttons function with the Captivate. They all worked fine on my Tilt (WM). Should all of the bluetooth buttons work with this phone? Also, when I turn on my bluetooth it pairs fine, but doesn't automatically connect. I've read about this happening with other people. I'm wondering if it's just this old bluetooth device isn't compatible with the Captivate. Any opinions?
Thanks,
Rich
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its supposed to pause and play your music or atleast thats what it does on mine

Yeah, my buttons doesn't do anything with any music player I've tried. I don't use the stock captivate player, I prefer pretty much any other music player over it. Right now, I'm using the one I pulled for the vanilla rom awhile back.

In Slacker radio the button pauses and unpauses. I think this is going to be more of an issue of the software developer using the functionality of the button, not making the button talk with the software.

dewt said:
In Slacker radio the button pauses and unpauses. I think this is going to be more of an issue of the software developer using the functionality of the button, not making the button talk with the software.
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Through more investigation it seems that the software determines what happens on button press, so really this is going to be a look through to see where it allows us to select which program launches on button press.

no driver said:
It also answers incoming calls and in at least one music player (can't remember which one, maybe DoubleTwist?) a double click skips to the next track.
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I wish I looked into it before my 30 days were up. The button on my headset does nothing (never has). I dont know if it's just the wire or it's the phone (hardware or software).

Yeah I would definitely DONATE too if you could work this out, it would make my life much easier

gps speaker phone

The shift is my first android phone, so i'm still not used to finding where to enable things stuff.
i've been using the google nav on this phone, and i've noticed that the TTS only uses the phone's regular hold-up-against-your-ear speakers. is it possible to switch it to use the speakphone speakers?

Weird. Both telenav and google maps use the speakerphone on mine.
Sent from my PG06100 using XDA App

I tried to find a setting, but I could not.
Mine also uses the loudspeaker by default.
Shifted from my PG06100 using XDA App

Mine uses loudspeaker by default too. I don't think there is a setting to not have it as speakerphone because that's not very intuitive.
I know this is a stupid thing to ask but I have to ask it anyways, did you check to see if you turned up navigation volume all the way?

it turns out, it does use the loud-speaker. it's just not very loud. i'm coming from a t-mobile shadow. there aren't a lot of good things i can say about that phone, but it has some really loud loudspeakers.
when i play mp3s on this thing though, it's quite loud.
wonder what's up.

There is a separate navigation volume... Make sure it is all the way up

I also notice the speaker phone isn't loud at all. Are there any other that feel the same way?
I had a windows phone a couple of years back that someone made a hack to make the speaker phone louder. I wonder if someone could do something similar for this phone.

ttown said:
I also notice the speaker phone isn't loud at all. Are there any other that feel the same way?
I had a windows phone a couple of years back that someone made a hack to make the speaker phone louder. I wonder if someone could do something similar for this phone.
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I did at first, but after some tweaking it works great.
Search for DSPManager.
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