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Bluetooth is amazing!!

Specifically the sound quality when streaming music. Wow is all I can say. I stream music to my motorcycle helmet (Chatterbox Xbi2) and have lots of listening experience with my Garmin Zumo GPS and my 3GS iPhoney. I must say that my i9000 kicks both their tales by a huge margin. I fidelity of the sound is fantastic, a tiny bit of base is lost but holy moly the rest is awesome. I'm not sure if it can attributed to BT 3.0 or what but I don't care, I am happy. Good job Samsung.

agree
i used to stream a lot of BT using previous phone, but the BASE on the i9000 is almost intact even after streaming
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Yay. Finally something nice to say about sgs. Mind you we are the only phone with bluetooth 3.0 out so far. Nice
Typed with bloodied fingers on a Apple Newton 2100. Hail Fuhrer Jobs!

Bluetooth streaming in BMW
I have an Iphone 4 and a SGS and except for the stuttering on my radio. (which the iphone 4 doesnt do) the sound is really really good and is MUCH better than iphone 4 streaming quality. I am very pleased with the quality. I believe Froyo will fix it. . Still cant dial out using Bluetooth on SGS

there are tricks to dial out using BT
and it will depend on your headset or the car deck function keys
or voice activation key

opensourcefan said:
Specifically the sound quality when streaming music. Wow is all I can say.
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Is it then worthwhile to buy a BT headset?
I mean, will the sound quality of a good BT headset, be as good as a wired headset? And wich one?
I have no idea...

I've been an avid fan of Samsung's Yepp line of MP3 players. They have some of the best quality audio output on the market. WAY WAY WAY better than iPod's.
It's not surprising to see their know-how transfer over to their high-end Galaxy line.

betoNL said:
Is it then worthwhile to buy a BT headset?
I mean, will the sound quality of a good BT headset, be as good as a wired headset? And wich one?
I have no idea...
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I haven't tried a household bluetooth headset but if the quality is the same as my helmet one I would consider it over a corded version if the circumstance required it. I'm interested in trying out a bunch now just to see.
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Terrible Speaker!!!!!!

I'm on this G2, and the build is great but DAMN the external speaker is terrible! In calls and in games... It's like scratching my ears. Anyone else feel this way?

No one else having speaker issues?? Should I get a replacement?

I have the same problem when its at its highest volume setting but that's normal for htc phones I had the same thing from my G1 to my nexus 1 so idk about returning but you could
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mine's the same

Yeah, it sounded pretty shrill and metallic. I was not a fan.
I guess my question would be: "What phone has a good speaker?"

The Vibrant sounds gorgeous compared to this.

the Droid 2 has a good speaker as well..... but that shouldn't be a deciding factor.

funkadesi said:
the Droid 2 has a good speaker as well..... but that shouldn't be a deciding factor.
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yeah, i noticed that motorola phones usually have very good external speakers.

Yes, motorola's got great speakers. I had a rizr and a rokr e8. One of those speakers was better than the g1 and g2's combined! Just a figure of speech of course...
This one does sound pretty crappy though but it never gets used in my use so that's really not a concern to me.
Even so, don't think you'll get a replacement because of it...
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iphone has a good speaker

What? Its that bad? Someone told me it was "loud and clear". Was planning on doing some gaming on my Desire Z..

Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's also not very loud. I was a bit shocked when i tried to play Pandora through it today...

Thasts weird, i think it sounds pretty decent in this clip.
/watch?v=jaYks8qHD1w
Guess ill have to try it out myself when it reachers a nearby store.

AndreasA88 said:
Thasts weird, i think it sounds pretty decent in this clip.
/watch?v=jaYks8qHD1w
Guess ill have to try it out myself when it reachers a nearby store.
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Sounds crackly on Chrono Cross, but otherwise good.

Jon C said:
Yeah, it sounded pretty shrill and metallic. I was not a fan.
I guess my question would be: "What phone has a good speaker?"
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The Incredible actually has a great speaker. Very loud and fairly clear.
My G2 speaker on the other hand, (why cant they use the same speaker in all their phones?) is not great. not even as good as the nexus imo. Its quieter and a bit less clear.

P.S. Check out this pic detailing the difference between the G2 speaker and Incredible speaker. Big difference in size and mesh cover.
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to me the speaker is VERY loud and pretty clear but it ALL highs just sounds like a tweeter. no real signs of "bass" at all sounds like a car stereo with just tweeters lol

Did you notice that the Sim Card goes halfway into the speaker lol!!

Maybe if we could apply a bassy equalizer to all sounds it would sound better. Any idea how to do this?

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What? Its that bad? Someone told me it was "loud and clear". Was planning on doing some gaming on my Desire Z..
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mine is very loud and very clear...this is coming from a G1 though, not sure if that matters (G1 was terrible)

Low volume while playing to music!

I'm a music guy! I listen to music a lot! I use Beats By Dre Studio headphones... I have MoDaCo based on stock rom installed...
I think that the volume on this phone is just too low! I tried installing this mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012575
and it just sounded terrible!
When I have my headphones plugged in to my pc it's totally loud and clear!
What should I do? any suggestions for me?
I am super sensitive about the quality

I have beats tours and they sound loud and hurt my ears at max. Try the audio mod in the themes and apps section.
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Ace42 said:
I have beats tours and they sound loud and hurt my ears at max. Try the audio mod in the themes and apps section.
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After installing Awesome Beats I'm scared to try random mods... do you know any sort of player that may increases the volume?
earphones are always very load because you put them in your ear and headphones are more clear.
Studios sound awesome i don't want to go back to earphones

how about trying these to increase volume? they are what i use.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiiO-E5-BK-...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1359670868&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generation-...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1359671246&sr=1-1

Hard to carry around specially at the gym
what music player do you guys use?

Stupid question...is it plugged in all the way?
I find the jack weird and sometimes I swore I connected my ear buds fully in when in reality they had that "extra" click to go thorough.
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I'm not a apple fan boy buy iPhone quality is way higher in term of music

shahabk818 said:
Hard to carry around specially at the gym
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that fiio headphone amp is tiny (< 2" square), weighs next to nothing and has a clip on it.

I use Sennheiser CX 300 II earbuds and PlayerPro music player and have no problems with low volume. I've also used MP3Gain, a windows app, to level all my music volumes inside the MP3 files themselves. You can set the level as high or low as you like. I've noticed that MP3's from amazon.com typically have the volume set at 99 dB which is much louder than from other sources so I level all my MP3's down to the default 89 dB in MP3Gain.
http://www.sennheiserusa.com/private_headphones_earbuds-and-ear-canal-headphones_502740
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro&hl=en
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

...chuck away the beats. its going to spoil your ears >_>
the CX300II is a great all rounder. you could also try the Feels Pro.900 (korean company hence the weird name), the Audio Technica CKM500 is not bad as well.

Default sound volume on Nexus 4 is incredibly low. I'd say 50% lower than the HTC One X with beats for example.
The only mod I have found that increases the volume is the Nocturnal mod in the Android Development forum. I am not sure what rom's it's compatible with but I am using AOKP.
While it increases the volume, it's still not enough, and the quality of the music on the Nexus 4, mod or not, is just not good enough.

have you tried this mod? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025486
it works and the speaker is as loud as my droid razr

Galaxy S4 Speaker Loudness

Anyone know if any comparisons or video's showing the loudness of the S4's external speaker? How does it compare to the Note 2 or HTC One?
I'm not talking about raw stats but a video showing something playing on the S4.

http://youtu.be/yFgU1EnZc9Y?t=53s

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http://youtu.be/yFgU1EnZc9Y?t=53s
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Still doesn't play a video or music to show the loudness /quality of the speaker.
Any other video's that do?

Check out the gsmarena review. It actually compares the speaker loudness volume of different phones. They rate gs4 as good, comparable to the one.
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I already read that review like I said in my first post would like a video just like there are tons of videos showcasing htc boom sound.

I would love to know the quality of the speaker output. Don't really need it to be any louder, just sound better. For boombox purposes. Thicker phones traditionally have better speakers. The Note and Note 2 have better speakers than the GS2 and GS3. Since the GS4 is only 7.9mm, and there hasn't been any major speaker breakthroughs in...forever, I wonder how it fares quality wise with other phones.

It will be better then my galaxy nexus speakers for sure. Either way I have a small portable Bluetooth speaker that has amazing quality and is louder then I will ever need it to get.
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I doubt how much of the placement of the speaker going to affect the output.Also when using phone covers !
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rcarlossgs said:
I doubt how much of the placement of the speaker going to affect the output.Also when using phone covers !
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Buy a cover that have speaker holes, and almost all covers have it.

WTB Video that shows something playing with S4 and speaker loudness!

It sounds more louder ... but can't tell the quality of the speaker :/
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JUSMEJOSE said:
It sounds more louder ... but can't tell the quality of the speaker :/
How's the loudness compared to the Note 2? same? More ? less?
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From GSMArena:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_vs_htc_one-review-913p5.php

Comparison threads aren't allowed
And apparently those numbers don't actually have anything to do with the loudness, check over in the One thread for more info

CNexus said:
Comparison threads aren't allowed
And apparently those numbers don't actually have anything to do with the loudness, check over in the One thread for more info
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Hehe I was just asking for a video to hear and it turned into this monstrosity of Charts!!!

CNexus said:
Comparison threads aren't allowed
And apparently those numbers don't actually have anything to do with the loudness, check over in the One thread for more info
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Just because posts in this thread have mentioned other phones doesn't make it a comparison thread.
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Post your best EQ settings

Thought I'd make this thread to help all those guys who are currently facing issues with low sound quality. Choose the EQ settings that you think suits your needs the best. Post them with the following details:
Music Player
Headphones
Screenshots of the settings
Specialty
Pure Audio
Viper4Android

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MODs, please remove this thread to general.
@The-Hulk
Mate, please move this thread to general.
Tnx
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Amritttt said:
Thought I'd make this thread to help all those guys who are currently facing issues with low sound quality. Choose the EQ settings that you think suits your needs the best.
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This won't help with anything... Everyone have different ears and they hear music different. Another thread just for spam... Maybe I could open thread about your camera setting, sound setting, internet setting, screen setting, keyboard setting, sync setting etc?

my setting
check attach files :good:

mobde3 said:
my setting
check attach files :good:
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Which sound mod are you using?
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Stock. Clear Audio+, Dynamic Normaliser. Loudest setting, great quality.

I'm using ClearAudio+ and these settings on PowerAmp
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Currently I have the A-Jays Three headphones and the sound quality is simply amazing.
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Everybody here use the same earphone and listen the same music genre?!
That's nice!
Nope.
(Do i need to say that I'm kidding? Hope not)
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charis93 said:
Which sound mod are you using?
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i have Xperia Z and PureXAudio V23
if you have Z and rooted with recovery please check link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2584137

This is the best settings/mod/tweak you'll find.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Fi...t=US_Pro_Audio_Amplifiers&hash=item1c354f990c

The BEST settings for your music are based on your device/amp/headphones/inner ear/brain combination. Sharing them is as pointless as sharing YOUR favourite water temperature for taking a bath. But nevertheles proper eq settings are cruicial. To find them just use XenoAmp headphone calibration.
P.S. I'm using FiiO Mt Blanc + Phonak Audeo 232 + 38 years old ears (cleaned) + a slightly used brain.

Try this using any beats audio headphones or the stock sony earphones. No regrets at all.
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slimldj said:
Try this using any beats audio headphones or the stock sony earphones. No regrets at all.
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Not bad at all well balanced but not enough bass for my ears. I do have my own settings but experimenting to see if there are better for me
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This will give you a stock walkman app with a good bass.
Surround settings - studio.