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[Q] Have a bug

Since I've had 6.1 CM6 and 6.0 both 2.2 Froyo. I cannot sometimes have DSP Manager's EQ on. I'll lose the right channel of sound or lose both, memory leaks and locks up and i'm forced to hard reboot. Wifi on, Last.FM, Bluetooth off, EQ and Dynamic Range on. I turn EQ off and get both back, Any fix for this?
Running CM6 6.1.0-RC1-Liberty
2.6.29.6 69 Kernel

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I have the same issue on CM6.0. Only affects the external speaker (thankfully, because I need the handset volume to be as loud as possible), and resolves when the equalizer is disabled.
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I upgraded from 6.0 for this fix however i can't find the apk for sense ui i like cm6 for music.
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Power Amp question - Getting the most out of the audio

Helllo everyone,
I have read about supercurio's audio analysis and how the audio chip in the GS2 might not be as great as the original GS but I have a GS2 so...I am trying to get the most out of the audio that is in there using headphones and my car stereo through auxialiary input.
I currently have both power amp and dsp manager installed and was wondering if dsp manager was necessary since power amp has a built in equalizer. I was also wondering if anyone had a nice equalizer setting that works well with the GS2 for most type of music
thanks!

audio booster
http://androidaudiohacks.com/home
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soraxd said:
audio booster
http://androidaudiohacks.com/home
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So then you recommand using only audiobooster and disregard poweramp's equalizer and dspmanager?
Does anyone still have some good equalizer settings? I am currently using the Rock preset on poweramp and am liking the difference between it and flat but I don't know if I could do better.
thanks

bump,
no audiophiles here have a nice audio setup to use with headphones or through aux?

nox156 said:
bump,
no audiophiles here have a nice audio setup to use with headphones or through aux?
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I'm far from an audiophile..
I could test mine with my Sennheiser HD 555s when I get the phone next week but thats not really what you'd want. They're not really something you'd use with a mobile phone.

mainly looking for someone who has experience with the phone and with equalizers to try and bring out of the strength of the phone and maybe hide the weaknesses if at all possible.
Someone recommended Volume+, would you only use that or use it with something else

nox156 said:
mainly looking for someone who has experience with the phone and with equalizers to try and bring out of the strength of the phone and maybe hide the weaknesses if at all possible.
Someone recommended Volume+, would you only use that or use it with something else
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I grabbed hold of volume+ after reading about it here. As Voodoo sound doesn't work, I'm using it to boost the base volume of the headset only. If I want to fiddle with the EQ, I have PowerAmp for listening so will use that. To be honest, these two in combination seem to work pretty well for me with fairly cheap headphones so I'm happy.

PowerAmp's EQ is the best, no question. Don't use any additional resident EQ's, they are very low quality compared to PowerAmp's one. After tweaking the poweramp EQ some, I'm getting a pretty good result with my etymotic HF2's.

can you post the equalizer setting you are using? Just to give me an idea
thanks

Poweramp working well. Is it much improved by also using external equalizer app?

poweramp works fine and its amplifier too is ok
however this wont fix the audio output of the sgs2
plug any decent headset (maybe not the bundled one) in the sgs2 then the sgs1 or an iphone and you can easily hear the difference even if youre not an audiophile or smth like that
personally this will make me jump to the next nexus or sgs, granted that their audio output is better, as soon as they're released
its not that the sgs2 output is horrible but its far from the leaders in that area

I'm using the settings described here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122361
They work rather well for me. Sometimes the output isn't loud enough though, so I've been playing with some of the equalizer and volume+ settings. I can jack the volume up a ton with those two, but I definitely lose some quality here and there and see a bunch of volume+ force closes so still working out the kinks there. Other than that, very satisfied with the audio quality on the SGSII with Poweramp.

+1 to these settings
im using the phone as my primary source for audio in the car, using poweramp and i find that the settings described in that post work quite well
the only thing to note is im not sure if the EQ settings work as it says that only the paid version can use custom settings but it seems to do something at least

[Q] Clicks and pops in pandora audio. CM7

Clicks and pops in pandora audio.
this looks like the basic stagefright issue but good lord how long will this go on?
I have tried to disable stagefright but have been unable to do it or tell that i have as the problem has not gone away.
i do still need to do that.
I see so little information on this.
CM7 2.6.35.13 pershoot kernel
It doesnt happen in jango. havent tried slacker.
Doesnt happen in radio time.
only happens on some pandora songs.
Coldplay songs on pandora have it often enough. "Clocks"
this is a tmobile g2. it is running off of 4g.
i have tried bumping the cpu up.
changing EQ settings and lots of searching.
it appears that some phones have this issue and other do not but most appearances of the issue do not have a solid solution.
if there is a solid solution to this i did not see it in a FAQ.
Is there no solution to this? is this still a fight between android and pandora audio format or what is the deal?

I noticed I get choppy audio from Pandora if "Cell Network Audio Quality" in "Preferences" is set to "Normal". After changing it to "High" the audio is clear and sounds amazing in my car!

Aw geese. I am using high quality audio.
The cm7 basic kernel does the same thing. It has done this since I moved off the stock rom to cm 6.
The clicks and pops and not easy to hear. But once I hear it then I think its happening all the time.
Slacker doesn't seem to have this issue.
I use blue tooth a2dp? Stereo head phones and they are working in this mode.
I have had a mobile 6.5 phone a 3g iphone and this g2 with these head phones. The g2 audio in pandora is unacceptable.
Ill use slacker but I like pandora.
And pandora should work.
I do not accept that it is an issue with only my phone.
I think if you listen with right song the clicks are very noticable. Anybody should be able to hear it.
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I use pandora mostly in my car with just a hair over 1000 watts total to door speakers and subwoofer. The door speakers have the majority of the power with a 760 watt amp, and I listen to my music loud. I'm sure I would have noticed any clicking and popping. I use a stereo jack though, maybe because you are using wireless it doesn't sound as good.
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it doesnt happen with all songs.
But it doesnt happen with slacker at all.
it is something to do with pandora.
I believe the past issues were with the android codec and a fileformat pandora used. I figure that must still be the case.
Not all of pandoras songs use the same file format as i understand it asn i dont hear the issue in every song.
I do hear it as well through the crappy car stereo mini plug input jack i use.
what are your phone specs? are you using cyanogenmod 7? which kernel?
Are you running in high quality audio for pandora.
have you tried it their coldplay songs?

also have you tried using bluetooth stereo headphones.
i dont use the miniplug input jack in my car.
the headphones i use are.
sony
dr-bt22a
they sound fine in pandora on all the phones i have tried that have bluetooth audio that is not broken. Granted a lot of phones have broken bluetooth audio.

I run MIUI 1.7.1, kernel 2.6.35.13-EB-CM7-Streamline5 on my T-Mo G2. Dunno the clock speed but whatever default is, I haven't tweaked it at all. I run Pandora with high quality audio, and I mostly listen to top hits, and electronic style music, not cold play specifically. Also, I don't have any bluetooth headphones, the only time I use Pandora is in my car, and I have a stereo jack input on my stereo.

cm7 nightlies here, I use pandora daily and have never experienced this issue... and I am definitely anal about audio quality.
are you using dsp manager on your bluetooth headset?

pmcqueen said:
cm7 nightlies here, I use pandora daily and have never experienced this issue... and I am definitely anal about audio quality.
are you using dsp manager on your bluetooth headset?
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Yes i am using dsp manager. sounds pretty cruddy without the EQ.
I always use it. i havent tried it without.
Is there a known problem with the DSPmanager?

CrunchyGremlin said:
Yes i am using dsp manager. sounds pretty cruddy without the EQ.
I always use it. i havent tried it without.
Is there a known problem with the DSPmanager?
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not any known problems that I'm aware of, but that would be the first place I'd look to when troubleshooting.
see if completely disabling DSP manager for bluetooth makes a difference.
I'll try a coldplay station (mind you, I'm not a fan. you owe me. ) on the way home today and see if I can pick out any infidelity.

some call it heterosexual gay music...
but what ever.
I think i have tried disabling it.
I dont know. I was really hoping there was some known issue somewhere.
Other songs do it too. in pandora. slacker, which i dont like much, does not seem to have this issue.

it does it without the dsp from what i can tell its just harder to hear but
red hot chili peppers "scar tissue" does it pretty clearly and horribly.
dsp on or off. even tried killing the dps service.
next song was matt kearney "nothing left to lose" and i did not hear it there but i think it is... if i hadnt heard it in the previous song I would not think it was in this one.
maybe i can make a recording of the audio...
Hmm. if i can get to happen from the audio jack as well. it sounded like it was doing it in the car with the mini plug.

Dolby mobile help please

So. I've noticed that the sound on my tablet seems to acting strange.
If I enable Dolby mobile in the settings while music is playing it sounds quite good. Then when exiting the settings menu Dolby seems to switch off even though its still ticked. Tried different music players.
Hope someone will test this out on there's.
I have searched but couldn't find no info on this
Cheers
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Ok so i tested on my girlfriends TAB and hers does not do the same thing.
Sigh!
Well i guess its something to do with been rooted and removing some of the bloatware acer installed. been looking for a reason to install flex anyway
hope this helps someone else in the future.

I'm fully Stock and have the same issue.

i think any dolby software really need DTS hardware to work properly.

I didn't have this issue prior to ICS

tigermrk said:
So. I've noticed that the sound on my tablet seems to acting strange.
If I enable Dolby mobile in the settings while music is playing it sounds quite good. Then when exiting the settings menu Dolby seems to switch off even though its still ticked. Tried different music players.
Hope someone will test this out on there's.
I have searched but couldn't find no info on this
Cheers
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I have an odd sound issue.
I was listening to some tunes with my headphones the other week and I seemed a little thin and tinny. Then I got an email notification and suddenly the volume level seemed to drop, but the sound was much fuller with a good base level.
A few nights later.... same thing... WTH ??

Actually if I turn off Dolby and then back on it sounds great..... its like it is not on by default even tho it is checked like it is.
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I decided to go custom. A lot less problems so far. Was just a bit of nightmare getting unlocked boot loader but was worth it in the end
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tigermrk said:
I decided to go custom. A lot less problems so far. Was just a bit of nightmare getting unlocked boot loader but was worth it in the end
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lol me too, flexreaper?

yer i tried flexreaper, currently on a different one which is not on XDA.. i like to try them all find the best one.
not a big lover of acer ring to be honest and at the time i went else were overclocking made me choose thor. now flex has overclocking i will be checking it out again in a few days. Im a flash junkie haha.
why cant acer make a rom like people on here id love to no.

Fixed, disable all sounds and you shouldn't have issues with Dolby EQ
I found a fix for you guys having trouble with the Dolby Equalizer, it turns out the EQ cuts off when you tap the screen and the sound effects are not compatible with Dolby where it's two separate EQ's for music and video, it seems that the treble and bass EQ still work because that EQ is system wide but the problem lies with the preset EQ's for music and video, so if you use the tablet to watch movies or listen to music, disable all the system sound effects such as screen tap sounds, lock sounds and keyboard touch sounds, you can still use vibrate for the keyboard, reply how you made out, but it should work.

Crackling and popping sound

So I've had my N7 about a week and its almost perfect. The only real problem I'm having is sound. Whenever I'm playing music locally or streaming from Google play, ill get ungodly popping and skips in music playback. It only happens when I'm multitasking, so I know its not a general hardware fault.
I'm currently using paranoid android, latest version. I've tried different kernels, governers and schedulers but nothing seems to fix the issue. Tried disabling DSP Manager and wiping/restoring. It's hard to see how the device can get overstressed while playing music. My Galaxy nexus doesn't have this problem, and its not as powerful.
I've tried researching the issue, but all I've been able to find are complaints about the speaker. I'm not using speaker and have tried several pairs of headphones.
Anybody got any ideas on how to fix this?
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