After trying stock GB and the latest ICS from Samsung, I soon became fed up with the poor sound quality on these releases. I have tried Equalizer and DSP manager on these releases. Equalizer helps somewhat, but I couldn't get DSP manager to work properly.
Yesterday, I tried the latest CM9 nightly and was impressed with the music quality! This was without any equalizers at all, as DSP manager does not currently have any effect (tested with Pandora). Any thoughts on why there is such a big difference or if there is any way to modify stock to produce the same result?
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I would like to know how good is the aux quality?
It seems to have low dynamic range, horrible stage, compared to a 3GS, and max ~16bit/44.1khz.
Does android support flac 24/96?
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The test was done with royalginger, android 2.3 . Used built-in player, winamp, flac and mp3 with a very good 2.1 sound system. Compared with 3GS and good soundcard.
The results were strange. I used 1.1.2 ice glacier before and the quality was good with a subpar 2.0 system/decent soundcard and with stock earbud. When i switched to royalginger i noticed a loss of quality with earbud but i didnt bother. The loss was evident with aux.
For the moment i cant have access to the 2.1 system so i will test the roms at hand with the 2.0 setup.
m4a/acc at mytouch, flac 24/96 at PC:
Ice Glacier 1.1.6:
2.0setup- good.
RoyalGinger 1.6:
2.0setup- good.
RoyalGlacier 1.3:
It would be nice if an RMAA test could be conducted with this phone. I'd be all over it but I lack the proper hardware.
I'm running CM7 with PowerAmp as the player and the sound is atrocious in my car with a very nice/higher end JL system. My Nano sounded much better.
So basically my old android died and I'm on a friend's Dell XCD35 (ZTE Blade) Gen2 now. I tried to listen to music with it with my brand new headphones, and the sound quality is really disappointing
Can this be something related to the stock ROM i.e. can something like this be fixed by a custom ROM? Because I've never noticed a huge difference in music performance across android devices, and the music in this Blade isn't up to the mark at all. Is there a ROM specializing in music (with something like Beats and xLoud) which might fix this? Or is the Blade known to have not-so-good sound quality?
cyanide911 said:
So basically my old android died and I'm on a friend's Dell XCD35 (ZTE Blade) Gen2 now. I tried to listen to music with it with my brand new headphones, and the sound quality is really disappointing
Can this be something related to the stock ROM i.e. can something like this be fixed by a custom ROM? Because I've never noticed a huge difference in music performance across android devices, and the music in this Blade isn't up to the mark at all. Is there a ROM specializing in music (with something like Beats and xLoud) which might fix this? Or is the Blade known to have not-so-good sound quality?
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No problem with sound quality from Headphones (I use a pair of AKG K77 to listen music) on both Gingerbread and ICS.
For your second question, there's a flashable zip for CM7-based rom (not sure if it works even on other roms) here for both xLoud and Beats audio, but I've always seen both of them as only a placebo, no real performance increase when I tested them.
Blades music quality through earphones is sh1t
no matter which earphones you try
Yes, I really just call it bad. I don't really remember how was it in its brand new stock KK state, but now it's bad. I remember battling with the annoying hissing sound, Dorimanx kernel fixed it, but now I (since the hiss fix) feel the audio quality being pretty... bad.
Like, compared to any other source I have here (LG G Pad 8.3, Asus Xonar, onboard sound card, ELEDAC, whatever), the G2 sounds the worst. Sounds lacks life, mids are melting into one disgusting-to-listen-to gunk, basses are horribly weak.
My current setup is stock 4.4, Dorimanx kernel, TWRP recovery, G2 TweaksBox (but with disabled hiss fix), XCam advanced drivers and whatnot, but I'm really considering reverting back to a completely stock and fresh KK or trying out different stock ROMs, I would rather use a really really outdated stock ROM without hissing and good audio quality, than this mess...
Funny thing is LG was promising high-end audio output with 24/192 support. Well, the support is here, but the quality...
Are there any audiophile G2 users? What are your opinion on G2 audio quality amongst different ROMs?
am not good exper on sound as i cant tell a difference , but maybe in LP is better have you seen dorimanx kernel for audio.
as @raptorddd suggested - flash a stock LP rom, and flash dorimanx kernel for LP...
dorimanx has improved the sound on LP by a mile... KK kernel didn't get that far considering audio quality improvements...
Does LP get XCam? I would rather sell this thing than keep using the camera without the option to disable LG's retarded noise cancellation...
All I need is XCam features, good audio quality without the hissing and smooth UI. I don't really care about gaming performance, all I play is some picross and 2D platformer.
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Does LP get XCam? I would rather sell this thing than keep using the camera without the option to disable LG's retarded noise cancellation...
All I need is XCam features, good audio quality without the hissing and smooth UI. I don't really care about gaming performance, all I play is some picross and 2D platformer.
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yes, Xcam exists on lp for ages
Zarrick19 said:
Does LP get XCam? I would rather sell this thing than keep using the camera without the option to disable LG's retarded noise cancellation...
All I need is XCam features, good audio quality without the hissing and smooth UI. I don't really care about gaming performance, all I play is some picross and 2D platformer.
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yes give a shot. try it then decide.
Heh.
I was surprised how's craapy sound quality after installing TWRP via AutoRec on my new phone with stock KitKat.
Horrible noises on stock headphones from Samsung's phone (which one's are better anyway than stock from LG's) even on +70% of max volume.
I writing about quality after installing AutoRec, because i was thinking it's made by downgrading bootloader. This may be my fault, because don't exactly remember if that noises are on absolutely stock KitKat firmware, maybe i just didn't hear it before...
But I've find solution. Installing bruce's kernel for stock KK (which includes some fixes for audio) and from his DSP package only folder called "soundfx", of course replace libraries to the right direction in /system/lib/soundfx. This was gave me nice quality of music, without fireworks, worse from my Ace 2 but without these crappy noises and normal bass.
Maybe some audio mods will bring the quality even higher, but my opinion is only about stock KitKat firmware + bruce's kernel + DSP libraries from his package.
On stock official LP + Dorimax kernel, where am I now, quality of sound is worse for me.
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forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732648
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358552796
I have been using MoKee based on MM for a while now and I thought of flashing a Nougat based ROM. I first flashed AOSP Extended and then I flashed Ressurection Remix and whenever I played music, the speaker output wasn't clear and there was a lot of distortion. Calling was fine and even the headphone jack was satisfactory.I disabled the equalizer in Play Music but that just reduced sound output. I tried to play music in other music players as well like Poweramp(Paid version), Blackplayer and the default Music app but it was all the same. Even the output when I was watching a video on the Youtube App was the same. I flashed the DivineBeats sound mod and that didn't help either. My speaker on Marshmallow based ROMs works perfectly fine,with or without mods. So, I wanted to know whether there is a ROM that doesn't have this problem and if there are people who are facing this issue as well.
All nougat roms are like this, I hope there was a fix for this....
best rom for sound output is miui
whatever steps u have performed ,i also done same as that of u.i also tried various players but there is no use. then i come to kno that the es explorers music player is great since it produces great sound op as compared to previous players such as poweramp normal version,mi player(chinese version). u can try it its great.but the output which we were getting thr the miui rom is uncomparable. missing the miui rom.
In my opinion, the MIUI have a best quality sound. But, custom roms have a good quality, like Mokee and lineageOS. But I don know if are better or not than MIUI. I'm use a Phillips headphone in many times. Actually, I'm using Mokee Nougat 7.1.1.
It's a good question! :good:
Still the Audi Fx of most nougat ROMs is not mature as of marshmallow so flashing mods won't help
Wait till nougat attains stability
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Still the Audi Fx of most nougat ROMs is not mature as of marshmallow so flashing mods won't help
Wait till nougat attains stability
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Cool. Thanks for the reply!
I have two Le Pro 3 phones here, one has Lineage OS 15.1 and the other one is out of the box with stock rom. So it is very easy for me to test the sound for both roms at the same time.
I know already that stock rom offers the best audio quality with the built in internal spakers. Stock rom offers fuller and richer sound with also more bass with the internal speakers. There is no chance to have similar sound with the internal speakers using a custom rom without using any audio mods like dolby atmos or viper.
But even using these sound mods I was not able to tune the sound of the speakers similar to stock sound.
I made some longer sound tests with both phones and found that there is one big difference between stock and custom rom:
As the phone has Stereo speakers (upper one and lower one), the eqalization of both speakers is totally different with stock. While the upper speaker offers much more mid-range frequencies and nearly no highs the lower one is giving much more bass and high frequencies but nearly no mids. This effect is present with and without activated dolby atmos in stock rom.
So it seems to me that the stock rom uses different settings for left (upper) and right (lower) speakers. With headphones, both channels offer same sound, of course.
Using Lineage OS 15.1 without any sound mod, both speakers offer very similar sound characteristic. I am not able to hear different equalization between upper and lower speaker. The upper one has the same amount of highs, mids and lows like the lower one.
By using dolby atmos or viper, the sound quality improves impressingly but this effects both speakers in the same way.
Maybe becouse of this difference there is no chance to have the same sound characteristic with the speakers like in stock rom.
And maybe this info could help someone to imrove speaker-sound with lineage?
Hi @walking-desaster , maybe you can give the MIUI Ares ROMs a try and compare the sound quality.
This ROM are based on a clone of the X720 (Cool Changer S1 with JUI ROM) and should use similar or updated drivers with Nougat and MIUI 9 on top.
The ROM is posted both on 4PDA and by @tsongming in his Megadrive.
I am not sure why the version posted by Alex_Agir is different from Tsongmings megadrive, maybe he can explain.
Would be interesting to learn your experience.
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Hi @walking-desaster , maybe you can give the MIUI Ares ROMs a try and compare the sound quality.
This ROM are based on a clone of the X720 (Cool Changer S1 with JUI ROM) and should use similar or updated drivers with Nougat and MIUI 9 on top.
The ROM is posted both on 4PDA and by @tsongming in his Megadrive.
I am not sure why the version posted by Alex_Agir is different from Tsongmings megadrive, maybe he can explain.
Would be interesting to learn your experience.
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There is no difference between the Rom Alex_Agir and the one on my Megadrive and I gave him credit.
I posted the file on the megadrive and will soon add it to AFH as well. Just to make it easier to get to. Alot of people use browser that do not translate sites as 4PDA very well. Plus, the Megadrive link includes additional addon, to enhance the MIUI Ares ROM, and to make installation quicker for someone new to Miui.
Like @walking-desaster, I am a big fan of audio.
In fact for me, as a hobbyist recording musician, its usually the most important aspect of my phone. But, I too have multiple Leeco's ( four) so its easy to tryout everything. Plus, I still have my old iPhone, which I use like an iPod for my car.
I agree that stock EUI sound is far superior, and modded EUI's out there seem to be just short of the stellar sound offered by stock. but its close. My issue with stock is that its using marshmallow, which I can't stand.
The Miui Ares rom has the best sound quality of any Rom that I have used since stock. To go on Stock sounds better with Dolby and custom Roms sound better with Dolby. Both sound better with Viper.
Viper is better than Dolby because it has all of the same tools. such as EQ and compression but takes it a step further with the option of being able to add profiles. The profiles include packets of .irs files. Which are convolution reverb impulses ( which are actual acoustic measurements of rooms or speakers) these convolution files allow you to simulate the sounds of room reverb and speaker acoustics. They are similar the impulse responses used in electric guitar amps and headphone emulators.
You can download profiles from my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KtNtBOw1Hj7Rw4OVT2wWdE1ujDAZgo9x
or better yet use these instead
Use the profiles from my drive but use impulse files from sites such as these : https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2372750
Note, you have to manually add the profiles here: storage/Viper4Android/
BTW, were you aware the Leeco CDLA headphones has a DAC chip and use Dupont speakers?