alright so I've found the Acer a500 lacks a little on sound especially when connected to headphones.....so i was wandering are there any kernel tweaks available to increase maximum output through headset.
I've tried the apps they don't work i also realize increasing it past vender specified range might blow the speakers or decrease there life..
i thought just a simple kernel tweak would be enough or maybe even through Adb shell access but this was the only thing i could find
http://androidadvices.com/increase-volume-android-mobile-phones/
I'm even willing to go as far as a speaker replacement which wouldn't be hard at all right just swap out some compatible speakers?
any thoughts on it? Thanks again
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Hi,
I'm a 50+ old punk/new wave musician and rock fan. I don't have any greater hearing problems, but the sound level, playing media files from whatever source, with my (wired) headphones on my HTC Wildfire is TOO LOW. Especially when I'm in the underground/metro, or in other places with a quite normal to loud background noise.
I think there ought to be at way or possibility to increase the sound volume permanently, after my own standards and requests, without having to root the phone or buy software.
I found some hints in this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884188, but that is only supposed to work until you restart the phone, then you have to do it again. I haven't tried this on my Wildfire yet, since I'm not sure how well it turns out.
Any ideas, solutions or best shots, anybody?
Best wishes,
Goran, Stockholm (otherwise quite satisfied with my Wildfire)
Search for dsp manager. Not sure it works for stock/sense but we have it on cm7 and works a treat.
Hope this helps
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk
Try getting some noise isolating earphones/headphones. A good quality pair will make so much more difference.
Thanks for the suggestion, f0xy, but it seems like I have too root the phone and I'm already messing enough with my computers, so I've at least had the intention not to mess with my Wildfire as well... ;-)
There is an app on the market called volume boost that is supposed to increase the volume level on wildfire headphones.
I think the volume on the phone itself is way too low. When playing videos etc i find i'm constantly putting my hand behind the phone speakers to deflect the sound to my ears. I think there is a health and safety regulation being enforced to deliberately lower the volume levels on phones. I read that somewhere concerning Sony Ericsson walkman phones. There was a way to extract the file from the phone, modify it on pc and restore the modded file. Not sure if the same sort of thing is possible on htc phones.
poweramp for example has an equalizer that allows you to boost treble, midd and bass, so making the sound louder overall... But there may be better solutions
This works for me: http://www.appbrain.com/app/volume-boost/com.kiboweb.android.desiresoundunlock
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Has anyone found a way (or an app) to increase the mic volume? When I am google video chat with someone they say they can hardly hear me.
Snap! I was just about to post the exact same question. I've hunted aroudn and found a fair few people asking the quetsion in various threads but can't seem to find an answer, I know it can be done as I've had it too loud on other phone and they've tweaked it and altered the volume so surely it's fairly easy tweak (if you know what to tweak) to do it the other way. Probably just altering a register somewhere.
We got my mother in law a transformer and she calls us on Google talk. She can't hear us very well and we can only just hear her too. I know the speakers are very quiet but Google talk is just silly, even at full volume it's still very quiet.
I would also be very interested in learning if there is a way to increase mic volume.
Thus far I'm not aware of a way, but I too have the same issue. Mic is ludicrously quiet, only picks me up reasonably well if I turn the tablet so the microphone points directly to me (and hence, I can't see the screen).
Short of Asus fixing it, or a third-party making a fix (which will likely need root access to apply), the only solution is to use an external microphone.
Similar experience with Gtalk.. however not much of a problem with Skype.. heard that the pinout is similar to iphone.. so any iphone compatible headset should do the trick.
when speaking to my mother in law my father in law iss often there as well so headset is not an option.
Yet another thing we need a fix for! This fix list is geting longer Poor sound at the best of time to having quiet poor sound makes it almost unuseable!
i have the same problem with Fring
lets hope one of the clever bods can fix it for us
I am rooted and this was one of the reasons I did it.
Rooting is very easy to do on here now with the pure root package and I can't really see any downside to it other than it doens't update OTA but thats hardly a killer.
The microphone is bad on the Acer A500 as well. Trying to use the google voice to text is rather frustrating because it affects the accuracy of the translation. I was hoping the asus would be better in this regard, but if it's not then there's no point in switching tabs. I guess I will just have to speak LOUDER!
Rob
nobody worked out a way of fiing bad mic volume then?
The sad thing about the mic's location on the TF is that it is facing the wrong direction to pick up any voice. I too, am having issues with the TF not picking up my voice very well. I was hoping that there is a fix by now, but guess not.
voodoo
For rooted users you can install the voodoo kernel which improves audio including micropone volumes. From what i read I am tempted to root my device just for this.
Search on the market for voodoo, (and then show me how you did it
iansykes said:
For rooted users you can install the voodoo kernel which improves audio including micropone volumes. From what i read I am tempted to root my device just for this.
Search on the market for voodoo, (and then show me how you did it
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I wasn't aware voodoo had any effect on mic? Plus it has not effect on speaker volume, only volume / quality on headphone output (can connect external speakers to it via that) I may be wrong though. I already have voodoo but use volume+ to increase built in speaker volumes. Mic is still terribly quiet
Folks,
I am experiencing low mic volume output after installing cm-10.1-20130411-EXPERIMENTAL-p5110-M3 on a Samsung Galaxy Tab p5113. The application we are testing is video and in this case the mic volume is really low. This is a tablet to tablet skype like video session. Here the other end perceived very low Audio coming from the Tab with the CM-10.1-20130411-EXPERIMENTAL-p5110-M3. Stock ROM mic levels were fine. I read through a bunch of the forum and saw some folks noting this issue with other older CM builds.
I was able to install the Alpha Widget app and it has a mic gain control function. Does anyone know what this gain control actually manipulates within the Android OS/Kernel? It would be great to manually manipulate this mic gain at OS / CLI level.
Is there any file/value that I can modify at the OS level to manipulate the Volume output of the Mic?
Any other ROM's that you might recommend that handle mic volume/Audio/Video better than the ROM mentioned above?
Thanks in advance.
-red
Hi
Hope I'm posting in the right forum but since this is related to hardware I'm posting it here.
For most musicians this is a big issue.
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9913
(I'm a new member and can't post outside links)
As I understand it there is no way of lowering the input gain on android which makes recording sound, say at a concert or in the rehearsal room, impossible because of the distortion created by the high input gain on the mic of android phones.
I can't believe that this hasn't been fixed but apparently it hasn't. I think we seriously need this fixed and it should be possible on a custom ROM shouldn't it? I'm not an app developer and I don't know how to code but it should be possible right?
If anyone manages to to fix this I'm sure there'd be a lot of people who be very grateful.
An interesting question.
I'm not sure how many Android devices use ALSA as the underlying layer.
ALSA supports controls.
I haven't looked into my Kyocera Rise.
On my Barnes & Noble Nook Touch I use a Lexicon Alpha 24 bit interface and a Shure SM58 through USB OTG and ALSA.
I use a custom recorder app (since Android doesn't support 24 bit).
It makes dandy recordings.
Thanks for the answer but what I want to be able to do is to record directly to my phone in a high volume environment without the use of an external soundcard or even an external mic. I know that the sound quality wouldn't be very good but it would suffice in the rehearsal room or at a concert for personal use.
Good morning all,
I am aware that there is a mod out there that works with root to force high impedance mode, I also know that one can buy 3.5mm jack add ons that will add the needed resistance to trigger high impedance mode.
These are great things that I am glad are out there, and total credit goes to the people that have worked and discovered these things.
For the LGV10 there was an app that could toggle high impedance mode on or off with the touch of an onscreen button. I have searched but there does not appear to be a similar app out there for the rooted LGV20. I don't mind going into system files as needed with the above mod, but high impedance is something I do not always need but in a few situations, need the added volume, so a quick toggle would be great. Is this something out there that I am just missing? Is this even possible to create? (rooted of course)
I agree, I'm glad people are making mods for this phone. I also don't always need high impedance and I think some headphones sound better without high impedance activated. I hope someone can help with this problem.