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AS A FORMER OWNER OR THE A500 THE THING I MISS THE MOST ABOUT THE tablet is the dolby srs included in the rom.Because of the awful sound and good audio hardware on the tf i would like to see if srs could be ported over to the tf.I see the thrive and a500 have it and know its a software thing not hardware because on the a500 port to the gtab srs was enabled and everything sounded 100% better. someone please give the port a try i will donate and sure others will because of the sound quality and boost we will get from it.I tried eqs and dsp manager they just dont match the dolby mobile srs sound!!! thank you!!!! THis will most like solve most of our sound issues for the tf. The srs will affect the internal and external speakers as well as raise the soundstage and give us more headroom!
Did you seriously have to make the first 15 words all caps? Why don't you look into how they do it? It's probably just a few kernel modules.
The transformer has srs sound out of the box already. The sound sucks because of the speakers I think, if you put a headphone you'll notice the difference.
srs is awsome
caps was accidental i know its supposed to have srs but if you ever used a a500 you would know what i was talking about. its more like reverb but they have it perfect in settings there is a menu for dolby mobile sound you can enable disable and chosse the level of enhancement.Itr makes a huge differnce in sound.I mainly use my tf as my car stereo and the acer and tf have the same audio output hardware. they both sound similar when srs is off but when you turn it on it is amazing.I also tested my gtab with the acer port and its sounds identical.I tried every reverb 3d sound eq i could find and nothing matchs the sound!!
If you can supply an srs_processing.cfg file from a500 I could ive it a try.
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The transformer has srs sound out of the box already. The sound sucks because of the speakers I think, if you put a headphone you'll notice the difference.
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No, the sound still sucks. In fact, the TF has the worse sound of ALL my portable devices capable of audio. And no, my device is not defective at all. I have tried on several TFs and the sound is just plain awful. SRS my butt.
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No, the sound still sucks. In fact, the TF has the worse sound of ALL my portable devices capable of audio. And no, my device is not defective at all. I have tried on several TFs and the sound is just plain awful. SRS my butt.
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Heh hook up srs to your butt and make reverb sounds all day.
mackdaddy187 said:
Heh hook up srs to your butt and make reverb sounds all day.
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Hehe, farts in srs?
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Hmmm. When I had the a500, I compared it to the Transformer in several audio tests and found the transformer to be better in all regards. Maybe that's just me... I was a musician for 10 years, so what do I know about audio quality
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EP2008 said:
Hmmm. When I had the a500, I compared it to the Transformer in several audio tests and found the transformer to be better in all regards. Maybe that's just me... I was a musician for 10 years, so what do I know about audio quality
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Interesting! Most others would disagree, at least most reviews/comparisons. I would tend to trust a musicians ear; my wife is an amateur singer and I defer to hers all the time. Not sure on this one.
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AS A FORMER OWNER OR THE A500 THE THING I MISS THE MOST ABOUT THE tablet is the dolby srs included in the rom.Because of the awful sound and good audio hardware on the tf i would like to see if srs could be ported over to the tf.I see the thrive and a500 have it and know its a software thing not hardware because on the a500 port to the gtab srs was enabled and everything sounded 100% better. someone please give the port a try i will donate and sure others will because of the sound quality and boost we will get from it.I tried eqs and dsp manager they just dont match the dolby mobile srs sound!!! thank you!!!! THis will most like solve most of our sound issues for the tf. The srs will affect the internal and external speakers as well as raise the soundstage and give us more headroom!
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Just curious, what caused you to make the jump to the TF from the Iconia?
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Interesting! Most others would disagree, at least most reviews/comparisons. I would tend to trust a musicians ear; my wife is an amateur singer and I defer to hers all the time. Not sure on this one.
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I either had a defective a500 or have an amazing Transformer. LOL
I had to send my TF in for repair because the speakers weren't working, so when it came back, I did all kinds of test to make sure it was working well. What I found about the a500 was that the sound seemed hollow or distant, but that could very well be because its speakers are in the back. I suppose if you turned it around and listened to it like that, it would sound great, but who would do that? Lol. It might have better sound, but not the way most people would use their device.
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they didn't give us the botton to switch the iso
how can they treated us like this
i just had have high expectation on them,now i'm so disappointed
and how's everyone's thought of the new camera apk
the size of those photos really improved,but i just can't distinguish the 2.3.4 & 4.0.3 's photos which has the better resolution
ISO switch is either not implemented in camera driver or the sensor simply doesn't support manual ISO switching.
Do you mean that the sensor itself doesn't have the ability to be changed its iso by user?
Correct.
The camera performance is better after the ICS update, though the JPEG compression is still aggressive and that's never something good. I mean, zoom in after you have snapped one picture and the loss of details is horrible.
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Ive had a few phones sony phones now and as far as i know you could neva have changed the ISO level, my xperia pro doesn't and my x10 mini pro didn't ether, i didn't even know it was possible on a phone, out of a matter of interest what phones support this?
manual ISO setting
Hello,
I think with the App CameraFV-5 you will be able to change ISO-settings manual.
But i don´t regognize any diffenerent in the Pictures.
Best Peter
Macro is also removed, isn't it?
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Macro is also removed, isn't it?
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yes,they removed the micro focus selection but it will appear in auto mode when you get close to something , it does not so bother me at all
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Ive had a few phones sony phones now and as far as i know you could neva have changed the ISO level, my xperia pro doesn't and my x10 mini pro didn't ether, i didn't even know it was possible on a phone, out of a matter of interest what phones support this?
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Xperia S have this feature !!
So i thought the ICS update would give us the ISO selection
charlesfu4 said:
Xperia S have this feature !!
So i thought the ICS update would give us the ISO selection
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Of course Xperia S has a totally different camera hardware-wise and it is an entirely different story firmware-wise...
charlesfu4 said:
Xperia S have this feature !!
So i thought the ICS update would give us the ISO selection
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The Exmor R sensor is improved and newer on the Xperia S, that's why it supports the manual ISO-feature, specially camera driver softwarewise, compared to the Arc S.
It sucks though that the macro mode is removed, Arc S macro setting is one piece of fantastic eyegasm on real close-up shots!
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how about video recording ?
I noticed they are so laggy, already you can find some tests on youtube made by an italian forum boy.
it's a bug i think, ram management isn't releted to video recording, and in ics the system could be slower, but the cpu is the same and the gpu also
so, why not smooth video ?
I had high hopes that ICS will improve the camera, these reports are a big dissapointment.
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I had high hopes that ICS will improve the camera, these reports are a big dissapointment.
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Then we're 2 about that. The improvement is there, but not at the level that I (and many others) hoped for..
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charlesfu4 said:
yes,they removed the micro focus selection but it will appear in auto mode when you get close to something , it does not so bother me at all
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Yeah, but I use normal mode and chose the stuff like macro on my own, that's impossible now
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The camera performance is not good on my Arc. I'm hoping it's because I'm using Arc S software on my Arc but the ISO seems to be locked on crazy high.
Looking back at pictures taken on 2.3 seems to be most commonly between 80 and 160. On ICS it's defaulting to the region of 320 with the lowest I've managed to get it being 160 (and that was using night scenery mode) and sometimes going up to ISO-800 taking a normal picture indoors in descent lighting! Something dodgey is going on here.
Someone needs to somehow come up with a fix to sort out it's mental auto-ISO settings.
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Yeah, but I use normal mode and chose the stuff like macro on my own, that's impossible now
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Me too,it sucks that they removed a good feature..why did they anyways?
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how about video recording ?
I noticed they are so laggy, already you can find some tests on youtube made by an italian forum boy.
it's a bug i think, ram management isn't releted to video recording, and in ics the system could be slower, but the cpu is the same and the gpu also
so, why not smooth video ?
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I didn't notice this flaw until you mentioned it
Truely,when I was recording the car's movement,I could easily find it moved not so smooth just like there's a traffic jam
And I was surprised to know that the frame is only 26fps
Hope Sony rectifies these issues and fix them in upcoming ICS update for Xperia arc
I'm on paranoid (though i don't actually think that's causing this) but my skype audio is atrociously low. I have to use headphones for video chatting, and even then, it's still pretty quiet. I have this same issue on my LG Revolution, but had attributed it to a lack of support from big red and LG.Any ideas?
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The S4 and Note 3 have this issue, random and quite annoying popping when recording audio. I was really disappointed when I heard it on the Note 3! Hopefully it has been fixed on the S5!
Can anyone confirm whether or not it's there?
popping? my s4 never had any pops. it recorded amazing audio.
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The S4 and Note 3 have this issue, random and quite annoying popping when recording audio. I was really disappointed when I heard it on the Note 3! Hopefully it has been fixed on the S5!
Can anyone confirm whether or not it's there?
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We'll see when I get mine. I'll let you know. But I think, it'll not be there for some S4 and Note 3, there's no popping when they record.
I've had numerous S4 and Note III samples through my hands and they have this issue. It's not an isolated issue. My Note II, HTC One, G2, iPhone 3/4/5s etc. have no such issues whatsoever. Normally I record video and audio separately but the argument (the best camera is the one you have with you) applies to a cell phone to capture things as they happen, unplanned. It's annoying to have these sounds in the audio.
cpufrost said:
The S4 and Note 3 have this issue, random and quite annoying popping when recording audio. I was really disappointed when I heard it on the Note 3! Hopefully it has been fixed on the S5!
Can anyone confirm whether or not it's there?
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Do you have an example of the issue?
weird i never experienced such thing on s3, n2, s4..
like I said, I've recorded plenty of guitar videos with my s4, through a Marshall dsl100 stack, which is loud and bassy, and it never ever ever had a problem with audio. it was always so clear and detailed, albeit only 128kbps. my g2 has that horrible underwater wishy-washy sound that makes the video camera unusable. I've never once seen audio artifacting on the s4. I had the snapdragon version, maybe you had the exynos?
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my audio was terrible on my S3 when recording video at festivals/concerts...hope this is fixed on the S5...everyone i know that has iPhones has no issue recording loud audio.
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like I said, I've recorded plenty of guitar videos with my s4, through a Marshall dsl100 stack, which is loud and bassy, and it never ever ever had a problem with audio. it was always so clear and detailed, albeit only 128kbps. my g2 has that horrible underwater wishy-washy sound that makes the video camera unusable. I've never once seen audio artifacting on the s4. I had the snapdragon version, maybe you had the exynos?
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Yes the problem is not with loud music like other devices which hard clip especially on kick drum hits...
This popping noise is most common when it's very quiet like recording at night with just the crickets outside...
And yes the audio was completely unusable on the G2 for me as well, if you recorded video in a loud cafe, no problem. But as soon as you went into a quiet area the gain levelers started getting really confused and there was all kinds of problems with sound. Ashame too since its camera (G2) was so nice...
Back to the S5, I have one in hand and while I have not put it through the gears my preliminary findings reveal a completely changed recording from the S4/Note3 hardware. The AGC does tend to bring up the levels higher when ambient sound changes but at least there's no nasty pops. The pops on the S4/Note3 can be removed with a click/decrackle plugin on most DAW software but they shouldn't be in there in the first place. This looks promising.
The video low light performance looks very good, I was shining a focused down aspheric torch (flashlight) around the pasture at long range and the screen was 100% black except where the beam was hitting objects at hundreds of yards away (barn, trees, etc.) and the detail looked shockingly good! I viewed the video on my Macbook Pro w/ retina display so it's a valid test.
Have not tried to see if it's IR filtered. Tonight we'll have the burn barrels going, that's the best IR test I know of without taking it to the lab.
These processors are so powerful it would be nice if they gave us the option of lossless audio recording and even a RAW photo option, although these tiny sensors would need a LOT of post processing to make the images useable. Still, however I always find that RAW+ Photoshop CS6 post processing looks better than the camera's aggressive post processing tuned for speed and convenience. With a 128GB microSD card, RAW+JPG would be fine.
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This is not me/my video, but this is exactly how it sounds. Both the S4 and Note3 do the same exact thing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwTBJ5ew08
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my audio was terrible on my S3 when recording video at festivals/concerts...hope this is fixed on the S5...everyone i know that has iPhones has no issue recording loud audio.
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Yep, I have several concerts recorded in 2012 and the audio clips worse than these kids with their pyramid amp powered systems playing hip hop with the bass turned to 11!
That's why I always record audio and video on separate devices. They won't allow a real camera (no cams with removable lenses that is!) in most venues...
I was at a gig on Friday night and sadly all my videos have distorted sound quality. Issue stll exists..
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I'm just back from a gig, i took a vid it seems fine on the phone a little blown out, but then again i was pretty near the speakers.
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I was at a gig on Friday night and sadly all my videos have distorted sound quality. Issue stll exists..
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Yep, common issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0Oa4HYr6Y
I can confirm the popping is present in my unit too. Had it on S4 as well. It tends to occur less when the sound is turned to minimum while recording.
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I absolutely love this phone but tonight I recorded my wife's Band with 4k video and the sound is awful, I did loads of videos on my Xperia S and the sound was great. Feeling gutted about this hope it's just a software problem.
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JOHNNYMED9 said:
I absolutely love this phone but tonight I recorded my wife's Band with 4k video and the sound is awful, I did loads of videos on my Xperia S and the sound was great. Feeling gutted about this hope it's just a software problem.
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the z2 has a lousy mic, as simple as that lol...it's as bad as my galaxy s1 4 years ago.
It's awful, I think Sony know this hence the smt10 they have brought out, I hope that makes a difference.
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JOHNNYMED9 said:
It's awful, I think Sony know this hence the smt10 they have brought out, I hope that makes a difference.
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it's also the wrong way to do things...the mic should be there to enhance the sound quality, not to make up for subpar standards. so they come up with something ****ty and earn more from it at the same time? i mean..the rest of the phone is great, no doubt about that. but this is really not right =(
Exactly, coming from the xperia s I expected this to be even better feel really deflated. Other than the sound issues the phone is awesome. Hopefully a software update can enhance the mic.
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