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[Q] Music quality declined after updating to newest firmware

I own a Legend that I bought in Singapore and it came shipped with the 1.31 or similar firmware. I was blown away by the music quality as it reproduced bass better than my iPod.
After upgrading to the newest firmware (2.03 & 2.05) that changed at its now pretty damn weak. All my base are belong to god-knows-who now.
Could anyone confirm this? Give your opinion on the music quality and your level of "impressed-ness" in the poll.
I've got some type of in-ear skull candy headphones so they should not be the issue as they've been solid with other music players.

I don't find the legend having any sort of bass in the first place actually. (default player)
If you are a bass lover, try powerAMP. It's equalizer really allows for loads of bass without distortion.
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Calex93 said:
I don't find the legend having any sort of bass in the first place actually. (default player)
If you are a bass lover, try powerAMP. It's equalizer really allows for loads of bass without distortion.
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PowerAMP ? Gonna find out more about it, thanks. Default music player on any android version for my legend sucked balls hard actually. No bass what-so-ever. Had to use mixzing, which worked for a couple of months pretty good. But now it just refuses to work after everytime i pause music, and minimize it. That was just a offtopic.

Strange.. Did your Legends come with newer firmware or did you update? What's your current versions? I want to downgrade back to 1.31 to try it out and verify this but it seems too cumbersome. I am 100% sure about the decline however, the bass was amazing before.

I think you may be right about this. I'm using a pair of Sennheiser bluetooth headphones (MM-450 I think). I was amazed with them to start with but the last few weeks I have really noticed that the base is not as powerful as it once was. I was beginning to wonder whether the headphones were damaged.
It's hard to conclusively confirm this as a bug as it is quite subjective, hard to measure and not immediately noticeable. I am convinced that bass quality has reduced sometime since the last (shockingly awful) update. Lets hope the elusive Froyo update fixes this.

Yes i think you may be right... I'm using the SuperFroyo ROM and have noticed a big change in the quality of the music
Using Klipsch S4 earbuds

Post your best voodoo sound examples!

This might be fun...
I was pretty skeptical of what voodoo sound could do at first, but now that I have it, I am definitely convinced of the advantages provided by this little mod.
Individual instruments ring through, the mids and lows are given a lot of depth, and the highs have excellent fidelity with out being overbearing. This is by far one of the best additions to my phone.
Sooo...I was thinking we could all link what we feel best exemplifies the improvement in sound quality given to us by voodoo. That piece you can't help but play over and over again because it sounds so good now. I'll start us off
http://db.tt/eyxqOe5
(It's ska, which I think is one of the best audio tests, given the large range of sounds in any given song; and it happens to be my passion lol )
Let's keep it to one per user. And I would say don't directly attach anything, because I'm not sure if I'll get in trouble lol.
Maybe when it's all said and done we'll have a cool little xda-epic4g soundtrack. Think of it as a sociology experiment
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Whoa I thought this only existed on the vibrants... or something. Please tell me how to get it!!!
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Whats voodoo? Software?

I keep reading about Voodoo profiles but all I can change is the volume. What am I missing?

I am not really sure how to use this either, I tried to look it up but a thread with over 100 pages is hard to find stuff,lol.

make sure you keep it legal...

Voodoo is an addon by http://twitter.com/supercurio , I'm under the impression its a set of kernel enhancements along with config/control apps you can install from market (or include in ROM). "Voodoo" is kind of his brand name. He's spent quite a bit of time improving sound qualities, but he's also messed with screen color accuracy and camera picture quality.
As for how to get it - I saw its in the most recent ACS ROM/twilight kernel. Haven't tried it, though I'm excited too.

Latest Viper ROM has voodoo baked in. FYI
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I have it in my rom. (srf frozen 1.0.2) but don't know how to use it.tried looking it up, but too much to sift through. If anyone knows a good setting to put it on, please let me know..( I don't use head phones so I'm not sure if that is all it adjusts or not)
Thanks
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1. How do you use it?
2. Does it only kick in when headphones are used or does the external speaker quality benefit as well?

stir fry a lot said:
1. How do you use it?
2. Does it only kick in when headphones are used or does the external speaker quality benefit as well?
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headphones are nothing but external speakers, so yes any audio out will benefit...
there's a voodoo control app that comes with syndicate (which is what im running right now)...there are a few options in there that can be turned off (as well as a bunch of options you can enable to provide better recording quality)...but from my understanding, there are improvements that voodoo gives you that may not have an actual "option" to enable/disable. im not so sure though, as the details given in the voodoo thread are a little inconsistent with what we can see in the voodoo control app (such as the parametric equalizer)...
my guess is that the port of voodoo (which is for the international galaxy s) to the epic is still somewhat of a WIP...
all that being said, the best way to hear improvements would be to have an epic with out voodoo and one with voodoo, and hear them side by side...or another version of the galaxy s since they all probably have the same stock audio filters...
since i dont have two phones, i played the same song before and after I flashed syndicate. call it selective perception if you want, but i definitely hear an improvement.

Yeah, I'm running acs 1.0.3, I just haven't updated my signature. I just don't see any other playback options other than being able to adjust the headset volume option.

X10 users .. Share your Happiness here :D

This is a general discussion to share your opinuin about your x10 after the updates and (((bravia engine ))) .....And at the same time i would thank our devs and SE for what they did for us ...

I'm realy happy with this update...and i was on fire waiting for it till my friends became calling me "GINGERBREAD"......

fast and stable, my xperia is live again

Im not happy at all this is the biggest piece of crap ive ever seen its extremly laggy mote ****ty then 1.6 !
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What if we aren't happy with the update?

I'm having no problem at all, I wipe all the stuffI don't use (timescape) facebook inside xperia), and IM really happy with it, best battery life ever
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pngface said:
What if we aren't happy with the update?
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good question ...
anyway i removed timescape and a process called event stream and it's pretty fast now .. seriously.... try using customized stock rom maybe you'll feel the difference ... good luck

Well done SE ..
Awesome ROM ..
No lags after 1-2 hours of flashing it..
Super Smooth..
Super Fast..
Awesome Camera !!
Yay !!!

the music playback is making me an unhappy little boy right now..
and the ugly ass timescape..
other than those i feel good with this update
currently waiting for root (not preroot) that's all

Advantages:
a) apparently better battery (it would drain faster before GB).
b) I'm running Wolf's bare metal hotfix 3 with FPS uncap - and is definitively smoother than stock 2.3 and previous 2.1
c) was able to root quickly after the official update went out, thanks to the devs!
d) I can use hacker's keyboard!
e) Skype mic works!
Disadvantages:
a) music player stuttering (playerpro or built in player, its not dependent on the player). When doing some CPU intensive tasks or when CPU reduces speed after screen is off, the music hicks up for a bit. Not that annoying but is there. With stock 2.3 it was very obvious, now very rarely with Wolf's ROM.
b) home button is a bit lazy (meaning that on 2.1 the screen turned on faster when pressing home button, now its a bit more slow).
c) WiFi 2.1 still not fixed (takes ages to connect to a hidden SSID up to the point where I made the wifi sleep policy to be always on to avoid frustrations). No big impact on battery life though.
But since X10 mini connects in 10-15 seconds to the wifi, I believe its a big bug in X10 since it's the same setup I connect both.
d) Camera still slow for my tastes (compared to N8 at least) and they did not fix the auto-flash, you still need to fiddle in the menus to turn it on.
Other than this - the phone is old now but just became decent - fast enough and with better battery thus I will keep it a bit more.
I was tempted to switch to Samsung/HTC and avoid Sony for a while as I don't want to risk again to wait 1 year for an update (actually Sony should beg for my money, not I should beg Sony for an update once I payed). So probably I will go to HTC, seems they were always taking care of their customers.

Yep, the music player interrupts music for half a second when going to lockscreen or something...Cant this be fixed by making the priority of the music player higher?
Stock ROM was lagg in menu, but Wolfbreaks custom ROM with tweaks is Smooth

without words, i sick of multi orgasms after update D:!

Im unhappy:-( check my sig \/
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Soundlags and overheating (45 degrees) when listening to music. X10 is unusable for me after update because listening to music is the main reason why I switched from my mobilephone/iPod combination so a smartphone.
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Let Gingerbread build caches for a few days and you will definitely feel the diffrence! It's now much smoother then when I flashed the ROM. I also got alot of apps installed.

The music app's a bit dissapointing...it looks great but the equilizer are just presets and aren't configurable, and there are lag spikes when unlocking, and there is no way to repeat your playlist and shuffling is retarded.
That said the sound quality is excellent, much better than 2.1, so it's not terrible but could be better.

i want the miui 2.3.4 music app that trip uses it in his roms
Edit : Same as this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929727

I am happy. The update transformed Xperia into a much better device. As with any ROM there might be a few bugs but to me they are well within the norm.
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Extremely happy now that we can root stock gingerbread
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I think the phone gained my favorite again after rooted 2.3.3 update.

[MOD]Beats-Flashable-Sense 3.0+

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original post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308993
Just sharing the news.
smokin1337 said:
I personally didn't think beats was all that great but alot of users like it so i made this flashable version for my rom. Figure everyone else would enjoy it as well. It does replace some files though such as services.jar and framework.jar. I have only tested it with my rom but it should work with any rom but i suggest making a nandroid backup just in case.
This is the full beats with icons and eveything
Now with HotSpot working (Thanks Leoisright)
Sense Roms ONLY
Anyways just flash it in recovery and enjoy
Now has universal updater-script so it can be flashed on any device But probably will not work so try at your own risk !!
A few have reported that it flashes on other devices and it boots so it may just work on some.
This is developed for the Evo 3D it is on the portal and because of my title it says for ANY Sense rom but it was made for the 3d. but if you want to try it on other devices i strongly recommend a nandroid backup before testing. I'll be looking into the possibility of multiple devices soon. Sorry for the confusion..
If you are getting FC with Music try the FC-FIX and see if it works and post if it did or not. I am trying to figure out what the problem is
ORIGINAL Download (First boot may take some time, Be patient !!):
Beats-HotSpot-signed.zip - 7.9 MB​
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Here are links to the files with update-script for our phone that I know work.
Post in this thread only to confirm working and to discuss the effects. Post in the original thread for support.
WARNING:​
1st boot will take extra time.
It might possibly screw up your phone. MAKE A BACK UP.
If your running a theme, ask your themer to incorporate this.
Dont ***** if it doesnt work.
Download ----
TB-Beats
TB-beats fix (only flash if you are seeing fc's in music app

I'm currently running gingeritis 3D and Chingy ported this over in his ROM, now I hear a slight difference but i assume by HTC it was made to best be heard using beats earphones/headphones. Have you tried this and confirmed it working?

Yeah. most are saying its best used with Beats headphones. But those already have amplified bass. So I dunno if they are just thinking it works better or not.
I cant flash it on my phone (well not yet at least) the stock music player wont load on my. I broke it somehow. . I do however own a set of very nice headphones that are better audio quality than 'Beats' but cant test the new audio stuff yet... Would be nice to get a little deeper bass with stock music app (once I reflash a clean ROM)
What difference did you notice?

bad4u6669 said:
Yeah. most are saying its best used with Beats headphones. But those already have amplified bass. So I dunno if they are just thinking it works better or not.
I cant flash it on my phone (well not yet at least) the stock music player wont load on my. I broke it somehow. . I do however own a set of very nice headphones that are better audio quality than 'Beats' but cant test the new audio stuff yet... Would be nice to get a little deeper bass with stock music app (once I reflash a clean ROM)
What difference did you notice?
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a very slight difference on stock ported gingeritis, but when time permits I'll make a backup and flash this and test it out. Hope someone has tried or is trying this and keep us informed, I also read from adrynalyne that 95% of the beats ports where fake so...I'm not sure if this on a software level or if this includes hardware.

Most people commenting in the original thread are saying they hear a difference. But it might be all in their head.
As far as trying this out, he stated this was is based off desire HD roms because of the sense 3.0. And Im pretty sure our roms are also based off the Desire HD rom for the sense 3.0. So theoretically it should work... but we all know how well those go... Hense all the warnings i put in the OP.

All it is is some compression and.altered eq...maybe a bit of gain....on a pair of studio monitors it.makes everything sound ****ty but for a pair of cheapo headphones it might have some benefit, I also noticed it accentuated audio clicks, glitches, things that overshadow the whole objective of the app/dsp in the first place.
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The CPU usage is also unreasonable.
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This is kind of useless unless you have a beats optimized output device
You should have killed me, when you had the chance

Read this
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/htc-sensation-xe-with-beats-audio-review/
Go to the software part, it tells you pretty much what "beats audio" does to the output. That being said, I have a pair of beats pro's and *maybe* noticed a tiny difference at the most. Most likely all this does is take the stock EQ and bump it up in certain places, if it actually does anything at all.

No go on synergy r267. Shows install went ok. Cleared davlik and cache.
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shadowpunx said:
This is kind of useless unless you have a beats optimized output device
You should have killed me, when you had the chance
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that made me LOL. Beats optimized output device...? So... over priced headphones?
I tried the beat mod on chingys Gingeritis. It does slightly increase the mid bass. That was the most noticeable change, well besides the fact it also greatly increases the hi's so the sound doesn't become muddy. And as stated before you will definitely hear crackling on max volume.
I have played audio out both to my car stereo via head phone jack and to my headphones (definitely not cheapys, and better than any "optimized beats equipment") Its all the same noticeable difference. I haven't tried on my cheap ear buds yet, but will give them a good run tomorrow when I take my street bike out for a Sunday put put.
Using this mod does disable the stock EQ that is built into htc music app. or at least it did on my phone.
I will officially classify this mod as 80% hype and 20% function.

If you have anything professional you wont need to eq anything that was recorded and mastered properly. I promise.
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Its not like I need more bass or high end out of a radiohead album, the Guy who's best at deciding the equal of everything already determined that. All of this post processing bull**** is just to make wank headphones sound "Fuller" "richer" but by no means more accurate, and to be honest a complete waste of CPU.
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bad4u6669 said:
that made me LOL. Beats optimized output device...? So... over priced headphones?
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I wrote this on rootz, figured I would share it here too.
People seem to forget what beats are about. They don't make the music sound "better" they make it sound "clearer". You want "better" sounding music then yes, the others do a good job of that. But if you want to hear the music, how it sounds to artists in a studio, without extra filters, eq's, etc. put on by Bose, Sony, and the other manufacturers, then Beats are the way to go. I'm going to guess none of you have ever been inside a real studio (not your friend's basment with a mic and a padded wall, that isn't a studio) so you saying that beats don't do this, and are all marketing bs, don't really know what you are talking about.
I have had the Solos, sold them and got the Studio's, and sold them and now have the Pro's and I can say I have never heard music clearer before than I have with these. Want to know why the base sounds "deeper" or the treble is "louder" with other headphones? Because that's how they are made. Beats are made to sound exactly how the artist made the song in the studio and wanted people to hear it.
/endrant

I am an audio production major, my school has a multi million dollar studio and no one uses beats. AKG, SENNHEISER, AUDIO TECHNICA are the three major brands for lower end accurate audio reproduction. Truly "clear" headphones are electrostatic such as the ~$1000 stax in Japan, they require their own amp. I think its hillarious that you think beats (which have over accentuated lows and highs...to give compressed music come off of a ****ty audio driver (like the tbolt) a bigger richer sound? More accurate? Absolutely not recessed mids are guarunteed when you "eq" a set of headphones like beats chose to do. The most hillarious part is were in a discussion thread talking about a plugin that does that same eq/compression/gain bull**** and above poster is repping beats to be about accurate sound reproduction. You obviously know a lot less about audio than you pretend to....
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Not to mention with all of the money they put towards marketing, Justin bieber beats, p diddy beats, lady GaGa beats....its obvious that its directed at the commercial consumer market, NOT FOR THE AUDIOPHILE/PRODUCER. Go test a pair of ATH-M50s if you don't believe me...
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Case and point, beats useless, if you really know how you want your music to sound use playerpro with dsp pack, if your getting cracking, then lower your preamp and get a better output. My brother works the sound board for the starland ballroom in nj, very big venue, and I'm assistant production manager. We have had everyone from Justin bieber to as I lay dying. Beats that you guys are using isn't even the true beats that comes with whatever phones its coming with these days. Do some research and you'll find that out
You should have killed me, when you had the chance

And what I mean by beats optimized is its set up to work best with the way beats headphones are set up...is that alittle easier to understand?
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Music Mod [XtremeMusic][V4A][Dolby Atmos]

Hello everyone
Found a very useful sound mo - latest version works on Z5C, with Xpower 5, Z3C (Confirmed) and probably others.
MOD LINK
Just sharing it with the community

Which one did you install?
did you notice any difference?

Balaram12 said:
Which one did you install?
did you notice any difference?
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Installed the latest (Non systemless one) pretty sure it was version 7.9 or something.
And yeah the difference in what you can change, if you know what you are doing, it can sound amazing

Well they're not bad
Quite good
Can get more bass out of the stock player
And i noticed the sound also doesnt go over the normal volume limit which is nice

Do we have to use the stock music app to see some changes or it works with every music app (I've Soundcloud in mind) ?

Mwa, using 10 different audiomods is overkill. This is just a combination of 4 equalizers, 5 bass boosters, 6 sound enhancers and so on. It's true that a good sound mod can improve your sound a lot, but only if you use it in a clever way.
I used this for a while, but I removed these mods because this just doesn't work. It does give you a lot of extra bass and treble, but it also amplifies noise. Not just a little bit, but a lot. If you just stick to one mod (like Viper4Android) it's much better for your sound and you have more control.

I used to use this soundmod back on the Xperia Z2 that enhances bass and clarity, however it also became one of these "Supermods". Too many audio engines running would kill your battery (as to what I've read) and most of them overlapping would just give you a placebo effect. Good share though. I have been tempted to flash one of these supermods again, I guess I'll be holding back for now.