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[GUIDE] LT18i - Arc S - General Tips, Guides, and Mods

Sony Ericsson LT18i – Arc S
I’ve decided to line up a few important tips about this phone, which may or may not help the new users. I’ve migrated here from a Samsung i9000-GT Galaxy S, so my reviews are based in comparison with the Galaxy S. Overall one thing I like about Sony Ericsson is that Sony Ericsson is looking after their mobiles, The Firmware That the phone was shipped with (4.0.2.A.42 – 2.3.4) is bug less and Quite smooth. Sony Ericsson has even provided a convenient page with guidelines to unlock your bootloader and, They even released an Official Alpha Ice Cream sandwich Rom.
Despite what’s on the news about Sony Ericsson’s current status, I’d say It’s better than many other Mobile Manufacturers I know. This is My second Sony Ericsson Phone, First one being the S700i.
Mods and APK's I posted are for the 4.0.2.A.42 – 2.3.4 Firmware. Please Check that in Settings -> About Phone before replacing mine over yours.
Pros
Sleek design
Active Noise Cancelling Mic
Leather Pouch in the Retail Pack
HDMI Port
Sony Ericsson Goodies such as Timescape, FB Inside and Track ID
Being on the Ice cream Sandwich announced List
Sony Ericsson Retail Headset. You can actually enjoy music on these
Automatically connects over Mass Storage Mode even when debugging is enabled
Cons
USB On the Go needs a SE Live Dock
Camera Produces washed out Low Quality Images
Heats up when Playing a game for more than 15 Minutes (Fishing Kings HD)
Google Maps scrolling, dragging around is Not smooth
When you’re on a Call over the wired Headset, You can hear yourself through the headset
MicroSD cannot be hot swapped
Tips
Root Access
I believe rooting is quite important, and Rooting has never been easier. All you gotta do is visit this Guide by DooMLord and download the Easy Rooting Toolkit. The Rest is Just Click and wait.
Clockwork Mod Recovery
Yeah, this is Important. Mainly because of the Backup Function, At least to me. Other Than that, CWM is a necessary if you’re planning to flash custom ROMs that come in ZIP packages. To get this, There’s a Tool. No Flashing, or Flash Tools are required. Just Root Access is enough. This is the Link and Thread for the Tool. Read the Thread for Guidelines.
Modding System APKs.
Some APK files need facelifts and a mods here and there. The Most Important thing to remember when you’re dealing with Sony Ericsson is that File Permissions matter. Unless you set the Permissions correctly to the Modified APK’s, Your APK is worthless and might even result in a system crash or a Bootloop. Also, The required permission cannot be set when the File is in the SD card. You need to Move it to System\ and then set the permission and Move it to the Apps folder. If you paste it right away at the System\App\ folder, the System Force Closes before you set the permissions. So make Sure to Move it to the Root of the System\ folder first, Set the Permission and then move it to wherever you want it. The correct permission for System Apk’s are displayed below. Many People write it as rw-r-rx and in numbers. I didn’t Understand that, But I can perfectly understand this.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Changing the Font
This is easy, You don’t need third party tools to do this. Browse to the System/fonts/ folder and locate the DroidSans.ttf file. This is the main font that displays everything. Now there are two things you can do, Grab a new font and change its name to this and Paste it over the original file, or Grab the Original file and open it in a Font editor (I prefer Highlogic) and Paste the Glyphs from your Favorite Font. I recommend the latter because these fonts contain extended characters and dialects that might be handy in sending romantic text messages. If you’re going for the first option, Make sure to grab font that has everything. My favorite is the Ubuntu font I used in the Galaxy S. grab it if you want it.
Homescreen and Docks
No, Five Homescreens are not enough for me. Also I don’t like the Thick Dock with those four Shortcuts, I’d prefer it to be Transparent, so that It wouldn’t outstand over the wallpaper. So Going over the Android Development Pages, Thanks to various modders I’ve found the Mods. I’ve made myself a Homescreen with 7 Pages and a Transparent Dock. Grab it if you want. Sorry, To post credits Honestly I don’t remember who I leeched these tips from. This is where I started Reading.
Notification Bar
Seriously? There are no Quick Toggles in the Pull down Notification Bar? That was so disappointing and Heart Breaking. I need those toggles and I use them to switch the Status of Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Who wants scroll several Homescreens to find the widgets that does it or go all the way to the settings page? After some searching I’ve found that someone has ported it. But the icons were a bit pixilated. So I corrected it with new icons. Once again, Sorry, I don’t know who I leeched this from. Its not from a single page. This is where I Started reading.
Yours to grab it If you like it.
Settings Page
Ok, this looks so gloomy in Sony Ericsson. The Settings Page on Samsung Galaxy S was a lot nicer and Colorful. While browsing around, I found the Perfect Solution, The Galaxy SII Theme for Sony Ericsson by thomassafca. I wouldn’t recommend everything in the Theme Package, But the Settings Page is a Must. Head over to the Thread and Get the Theme. You can grab mine from here, If you are also on 2 - 42 firmware
Correct Size for the Wallpaper
Picking up Wallpapers is a wee bit too hard, But then again If you know the Correct Resolution You can make one for yourself like below. The Correct Resolution for the LT18i is
960 x 854
You may Use a Editor of your choice (Mine is Photoshop) to make one. Yeah, In case you need the Megan Fox one I made, You can get it from here.
World Clock
Oops, There is no World Clock support in the default clock. So to get that, You can visit this thread download the widgets.
Full Screen Call Image
One thing more I love about Sony Ericsson. This is coming from their earliest phones. Back then All the other phones only displayed only a Tiny Image. When someone calls, If you have their Picture saved in the Contact, It is displayed Full screen (well Almost).
The Best Part about this is, The Image is actually saved in the VCF file (Contact Card), So you dont have to keep it in the Phone memory. Earlier days, You had to keep the Photo in Phone memory, and It shows up in the gallery as well. Those days are gone it seems.
Even when browsing through the contacts, The image is displayed vividly across the header.
So, What is the Correct Image Size for a Contact Picture ?
Its -> 3264 x 1990 (pixels). Resize Any Image of your choice, and Transfer it to the SD card. Open the Contacts Application and Browse for the Image using the Gallery or a File Explorer. Once You add the Image, You can delete it from the memory.
Will Update - Thank you. !

Thanks for the post bro, but I have a little question, why does SystemUI.apk needs permission to make phone calls ?! I just couldn't understand why :thinker:

DeepUnknown said:
Thanks for the post bro, but I have a little question, why does SystemUI.apk needs permission to make phone calls ?! I just couldn't understand why :thinker:
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This is the SystemUI manifest:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" android:process="system" android:versionCode="10" android:versionName="2.3.3" package="com.android.systemui"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" android:targetSdkVersion="10" />
<[B][COLOR="Red"]uses-permission android:name="android.permission.STATUS_BAR_SERVICE"[/COLOR][/B] />
<application android:label="@string/app_label" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher_settings" android:allowClearUserData="false" android:persistent="true">
<service android:name=".statusbar.StatusBarService" android:exported="false" />
<activity android:name=".usb.UsbStorageActivity" android:excludeFromRecents="true" />
<activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog.Alert" android:name="com.android.internal.app.ExternalMediaFormatActivity" android:excludeFromRecents="true" />
</application>
</manifest>
Statusbar Service is the only permission it requires.
Where did you get that it requires permission for phone calls?

Do you use the Ubuntu font in your screenshots?
Because it looks nice.
Might add it to my Arc after christmas, won't start flashing now on christmas
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Thanks mate, really nice tips.
Flo95 said:
Do you use the Ubuntu font in your screenshots?
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JazonX said:
My favorite is the Ubuntu font I used in the Galaxy S. grab it if you want it.
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DeepUnknown said:
Thanks for the post bro, but I have a little question, why does SystemUI.apk needs permission to make phone calls ?! I just couldn't understand why :thinker:
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iridaki said:
This is the SystemUI manifest:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" android:process="system" android:versionCode="10" android:versionName="2.3.3" package="com.android.systemui"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" android:targetSdkVersion="10" />
<[B][COLOR="Red"]uses-permission android:name="android.permission.STATUS_BAR_SERVICE"[/COLOR][/B] />
<application android:label="@string/app_label" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher_settings" android:allowClearUserData="false" android:persistent="true">
<service android:name=".statusbar.StatusBarService" android:exported="false" />
<activity android:name=".usb.UsbStorageActivity" android:excludeFromRecents="true" />
<activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog.Alert" android:name="com.android.internal.app.ExternalMediaFormatActivity" android:excludeFromRecents="true" />
</application>
</manifest>
Statusbar Service is the only permission it requires.
Where did you get that it requires permission for phone calls?
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Now that's a Good Question, I still dont know how to check the Permissions required by Apps, or to understand what is needed by what. I found the original file over the thread where it had scrolling widgets with another APK that can move them around. They were already in a better order, So didn't go moving em or disabling them. Hmmm...

that's what I see when I attempt to install the apk file, so what do you think guys?
another quick question, I updated my phone yesterday to: 4.0.2A.0.62, will I be still able to use what's posted in this thread?
iridaki said:
This is the SystemUI manifest:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" android:process="system" android:versionCode="10" android:versionName="2.3.3" package="com.android.systemui"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" android:targetSdkVersion="10" />
<[B][COLOR="Red"]uses-permission android:name="android.permission.STATUS_BAR_SERVICE"[/COLOR][/B] />
<application android:label="@string/app_label" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher_settings" android:allowClearUserData="false" android:persistent="true">
<service android:name=".statusbar.StatusBarService" android:exported="false" />
<activity android:name=".usb.UsbStorageActivity" android:excludeFromRecents="true" />
<activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog.Alert" android:name="com.android.internal.app.ExternalMediaFormatActivity" android:excludeFromRecents="true" />
</application>
</manifest>
Statusbar Service is the only permission it requires.
Where did you get that it requires permission for phone calls?
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It needs all of these to display your notifications and make them interactive too. As I said, the manifests registers this app as Starusbar Service.
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Otg doesnt need a dock...you just need a otg adaptor or cable
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DeepUnknown said:
that's what I see when I attempt to install the apk file, so what do you think guys?
another quick question, I updated my phone yesterday to: 4.0.2A.0.62, will I be still able to use what's posted in this thread?
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I never Installed them to notice this, I just Paste them over the file in System/App/
Afaik, System Apps are never installed.
rkanwar said:
Otg doesnt need a dock...you just need a otg adaptor or cable
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Yeah, That's for us.
For beginners who have no idea about Module loading, Terminal / ADB commands, There is no OTG without the Dock. To enable OTG (for Flash Drives) there's so much work to be done.

JazonX said:
I never Installed them to notice this, I just Paste them over the file in System/App/
Afaik, System Apps are never installed.
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Fair enough, thanks bro, will do so once I am able to root my device since I updated last night.

JazonX said:
I never Installed them to notice this, I just Paste them over the file in System/App/
Afaik, System Apps are never installed.
Yeah, That's for us.
For beginners who have no idea about Module loading, Terminal / ADB commands, There is no OTG without the Dock. To enable OTG (for Flash Drives) there's so much work to be done.
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Oh right my bad. To be honest the only difficulty im having is choosing between arc and arc s
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rkanwar said:
Oh right my bad. To be honest the only difficulty im having is choosing between arc and arc s
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Arc S (LT18i) is a actually an Arc (LT15) with a Faster Processor. The Rest is Almost the same.

Thanks dude! Much more understandable.

World Clock link sends me to Arconium ROM, do I have to have it, or it's somewhere in that thread??

It's a amazing guide, THX ;-) I consider to change the settings apk, do you know if the language will be in english or the file will work normally and use the language my phone is set to?
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JazonX said:
Cons
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Camera Produces washed out Low Quality Images
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What?? The Arc has one of the best cameras around. Do you consider these as low quality images? Just look at this thread and you will see how good the camera really is. The camera kicks ass if you know how to use it.

DerEineDa said:
What?? The Arc has one of the best cameras around. Do you consider these as low quality images? Just look at this thread and you will see how good the camera really is. The camera kicks ass if you know how to use it.
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I can show you the same or better with a Galaxy S or a Galaxy SII. Just check on the GSMarena Camera comparison chart, you will notice what gets washed out.
on the other hand,
The camera kicks ass if you know how to use it.
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Can you guide me to the basics then ?

This guide is awesome! Thanks so much for this.
One thing - changing the font, can you also change the size (make it smaller) so that the screen displays more? When replying to a text message I can hardly see the message that came before! I can't believe this isn't an option on such an advanced phone.

JazonX said:
Arc S (LT18i) is a actually an Arc (LT15) with a Faster Processor. The Rest is Almost the same.
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Not forget a better internet connection (instead of 7.2 MBit/s are 14.4 MBit/s).

Freezes and blue screens

for about a month or so my gaming machine running windows 8 has been randomly rebooting and freezing. with a quick look into the event log, these two events keep coming up:
An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.The Registry could not flush hive (file): ''.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General" Guid="{A68CA8B7-004F-D7B6-A698-07E2DE0F1F5D}" />
<EventID>6</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-06-12T21:35:35.040449000Z" />
<EventRecordID>41270</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>ShinigamiH4ck3r</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="FinalStatus">0xc000014d</Data>
<Data Name="ExtraStringLength">0</Data>
<Data Name="ExtraString" />
</EventData>
</Event>
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and
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000000a (0xfffff80143d62c88, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff80123a93f74). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 061113-18860-01.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting" Guid="{ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-8631-84FA6C525952}" EventSourceName="BugCheck" />
<EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-06-12T02:15:50.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>41044</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>ShinigamiH4ck3r</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="param1">0x0000000a (0xfffff80143d62c88, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff80123a93f74)</Data>
<Data Name="param2">C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP</Data>
<Data Name="param3">061113-18860-01</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
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the former pops up way more then the latter. Heres also a quick run through of my specs
windows 8 64 bit.
amd fx 8150 eight core processor
nvidia geforce gtx 460 v2
and 10 gigs of ram
anyone know what the problem is? as you can probably guess its really annoying

Sounds like either a problem with your RAM or your disk, if registry flush operations are failing. I'd run some heavy diagnostics on both.
I've got the FX-8350 and have had no issues at all.

GoodDayToDie said:
Sounds like either a problem with your RAM or your disk, if registry flush operations are failing. I'd run some heavy diagnostics on both.
I've got the FX-8350 and have had no issues at all.
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ive already run drive checks and memory diagnostics, both came up clean.
Should i be using a different tool other then the built in windows ones?

Hmm... normally, those would do the job, so long as you did a full scan rather than just checking the filesystem or just the first 4GB of memory (as older tools will do) or some such thing. Have you tried an OS reset? You'll need to back up your data first - it's basically an automated Windows reinstall - but it should fix any software problems, if you've ruled out hardware.

TheAtheistOtaku said:
ive already run drive checks and memory diagnostics, both came up clean.
Should i be using a different tool other then the built in windows ones?
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You would probably want to use memtest for memory testing.
The windows ones fail to catch errors due to badly configured RAM. They only find actual physical flaws.
On the looks of it, your problem is about poor configuration in RAM. I suppose you never tried twiking around in your BIOS. Since yo use DDR3, try the following configuration
Frequency: 1333 Mhz
timings 9-9-9-24
Voltage 1.2V
check this out too
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ddr3memoryfrequencyguide.aspx

mcosmin222 said:
You would probably want to use memtest for memory testing.
The windows ones fail to catch errors due to badly configured RAM. They only find actual physical flaws.
On the looks of it, your problem is about poor configuration in RAM. I suppose you never tried twiking around in your BIOS. Since yo use DDR3, try the following configuration
Frequency: 1333 Mhz
timings 9-9-9-24
Voltage 1.2V
check this out too
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ddr3memoryfrequencyguide.aspx
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will try this out.
And no, i havent messed with my bios, ill also give that a shot

For what it's worth, my (GIGABYTE) motherboard didn't detect the memory timings correctly; I had to enter them manually in "overclocking" mode (even though they're actually clocked a bit below their, or the board's, maximum). Very disappointed in GIGABYTE.
With that said, when the memory was set wrong, it didn't cause crashes or anything; the system just ran slower. If I tried manually entering setting that the system didn't like, it wouldn't even finish the boot process.

GoodDayToDie said:
For what it's worth, my (GIGABYTE) motherboard didn't detect the memory timings correctly; I had to enter them manually in "overclocking" mode (even though they're actually clocked a bit below their, or the board's, maximum). Very disappointed in GIGABYTE.
With that said, when the memory was set wrong, it didn't cause crashes or anything; the system just ran slower. If I tried manually entering setting that the system didn't like, it wouldn't even finish the boot process.
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I had the same experience with GIGABYTE motherboard. My issue was however, incorrect voltage, and it crashed very very often. Took me a while to figure out what was happening. The A.I of the mobo changed voltages the moment work load increased. So as long as i stayed with low workload, the system was fine.

Yeah, I turned off that dynamic overclocking stuff for the memory. The CPU will dynamically overclock, but only within the design specs (from 4.0 to 4.2GHz). I haven't tried messing with voltages at all, or permitted the "AI" to do so. I still don't expect I'm buying GIGABYTE again; that board was more hassle than it was worth.

Headphones Volume Increase for CM11 or KitKat based CM

TO USE THIS MOD, I NEED ALL OF YOU TO USE FX FILE EXPLORER AND ITS FILE EDITOR TO EDIT THE MIXER_PATH FILE. MULTIPLE USERS HAVE REPORTED ERRORS WHEN THEY USE OTHER FILE MANAGERS. I HAVE TESTED THIS ON CM11, GUMMY, MOKEE, AND CR-DROID AND IT WORKS...BUT I DIDN'T HAVE ANY AUDIOMOD ENABLED LIKE VIPER4A. I DONT LIKE HAVING AUDIOMODS SO IF THEY KINDA HAVE CONFLICTS WITH AUDIOMODS I WILL NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I HAVE TESTED VALUES UP TO 30 AND!!!!! 20 IS THE MAXIMUM! GOING OVER 20 MAKES THE SOUND VOLUME LOWER FOR WHATEVER REASON SO SPARE THE EFFORT. FOR THE LATEST XPERIENCE KERNEL, DO NOT GO BEYOND 14 PLEASE, OR ELSE IT WONT WORK WITH FAUXSOUND. THANKS.
(OKY YOU MUST BE ROOTED BLA BLA BLA BLA HAVE A FILEXPLORER THAT CAN ROOT EXPLORE BLA BLA BLA)
now starting
1- open the explorer and got to /system/etc/
2- scroll down till u find this file mixer_paths.xml and open it as text (ES File)
3- now scroll down till u find this line <!-- These are actual sound device specific mixer settings -->
under it look for this
<path name="headphones">
<ctl name="SLIM RX1 MUX" value="AIF1_PB" />
<ctl name="SLIM RX2 MUX" value="AIF1_PB" />
<ctl name="SLIM_0_RX Channels" value="Two" />
<ctl name="RX1 MIX1 INP1" value="RX1" />
<ctl name="RX2 MIX1 INP1" value="RX2" />
<ctl name="CLASS_H_DSM MUX" value="DSM_HPHL_RX1" />
<ctl name="HPHL DAC Switch" value="1" />
<ctl name="RX1 Digital Volume" value="58" />
<ctl name="RX2 Digital Volume" value="58" />
<ctl name="HPHL Volume" value="11" />
<ctl name="HPHR Volume" value="11" />
CHANGE THE BOLDED VALUES TO ANYTHING THATS NOT OVER 20. YOU CAN PUT 20 FOR MAXIMUM GAIN. DONT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE PLS. DONT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE. AFTER CHANGING, REBOOT AND YOU WILL NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU PLAY MUSIC VIA HEADPHONES. REMEMBER, AFTER MAKING THE CHANGES, SAVE.
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583408
UPDATE!!!
EVERYONE! STOCK ROM and OMNI ROM CAN USE THIS CONFIG TOO, AND CAN GO UP TO 30! (BUT NOT CM AND ITS DERIVATIVES IE THE ROMS AT THE BEGINING OF THIS POST..STILL MAX 20) REMEMBER TO SAVE DEFAULT VALUES IN CASE YOU NEED TO CHANGE EM' BACK!

Do you save after u change and reboot or do you just change the vaules and reboot

Causes music player fc and no sound at all on my Gummy ROM with furnace 1.3.1 but I will keep trying Low headphone volume has been my only complaint about custom roms but I'm glad the issue is getting recognized and solutions start to come up. Thank you!
Update: Flashed a fresh new gummy, did this trick and now it works! There are a few very minor derps with V4A but it's totally bearable
Xavier, you should save when you make the change.

Xavier102296 said:
Do you save after u change and reboot or do you just change the vaules and reboot
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Obviously you have to save.
If you don't save, then the values will be as same as they were before

Changed the values in cm11 didn't really notice to much of a difference

Xavier102296 said:
Changed the values in cm11 didn't really notice to much of a difference
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try going to 20 which is the maximum

hottu_doggu said:
Causes music player fc and no sound at all on my Gummy ROM with furnace 1.3.1 but I will keep trying Low headphone volume has been my only complaint about custom roms but I'm glad the issue is getting recognized and solutions start to come up. Thank you!
Update: Flashed a fresh new gummy, did this trick and now it works! There are a few very minor derps with V4A but it's totally bearable
Xavier, you should save when you make the change.
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I prefer sound to be stock EQ wise, but hey, to each and their own! well for me this solution beats having to fork out money to use that fauxsound app that in turn has to be used with kernels with that support that thing

OldYellowBricks said:
I prefer sound to be stock EQ wise, but hey, to each and their own! well for me this solution beats having to fork out money to use that fauxsound app that in turn has to be used with kernels with that support that thing
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Editing mixer_paths.xml turned up the volume but the sound quality seemed worse. I read your post and just got FauxSound since it was really cheap and flashed xperience kernel. It does a great job at boosting the volume. What's interesting is that analog output gain defaults to -6. Setting it to 0 (tough you can set it to +6) makes it so much better and louder without affecting the quality. Why is it so that no custom rom's kernel have this feature or the analog output set to 0 or whatever the stock rom is using? I feel like we should be able to have MotoG's stock sound volume on custom roms without having to flash custom kernel and buying any apps. I'm not complaining, I have this issue solved for me, I'm just curious.

hottu_doggu said:
Editing mixer_paths.xml turned up the volume but the sound quality seemed worse. I read your post and just got FauxSound since it was really cheap and flashed xperience kernel. It does a great job at boosting the volume. What's interesting is that analog output gain defaults to -6. Setting it to 0 (tough you can set it to +6) makes it so much better and louder without affecting the quality. Why is it so that no custom rom's kernel have this feature or the analog output set to 0 or whatever the stock rom is using? I feel like we should be able to have MotoG's stock sound volume on custom roms without having to flash custom kernel and buying any apps. I'm not complaining, I have this issue solved for me, I'm just curious.
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I Swear dog, i feel you, but on my side, there's no quality distortion of any sort. I changed to CM and then Gummy because there was this Moto G stock rom bug where speakers wouldn;t work after unplugging headphones (you'd have to reboot). Google that up. The problem I had wit the faux app was the settings wouldn;t stick after booting. That drove me crazy up until i found this solution, but hey, to each and their own. Thanks for sharing, man

hottu_doggu said:
Editing mixer_paths.xml turned up the volume but the sound quality seemed worse. I read your post and just got FauxSound since it was really cheap and flashed xperience kernel. It does a great job at boosting the volume. What's interesting is that analog output gain defaults to -6. Setting it to 0 (tough you can set it to +6) makes it so much better and louder without affecting the quality. Why is it so that no custom rom's kernel have this feature or the analog output set to 0 or whatever the stock rom is using? I feel like we should be able to have MotoG's stock sound volume on custom roms without having to flash custom kernel and buying any apps. I'm not complaining, I have this issue solved for me, I'm just curious.
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and, by right, the faux settings should be able to be modded via init.d scripts but after googling, I found out that the fauxsound thing has been coded to not allow init.d. It needs the app. In other words, no app, no fauxsound settings.

hottu_doggu said:
Editing mixer_paths.xml turned up the volume but the sound quality seemed worse. I read your post and just got FauxSound since it was really cheap and flashed xperience kernel. It does a great job at boosting the volume. What's interesting is that analog output gain defaults to -6. Setting it to 0 (tough you can set it to +6) makes it so much better and louder without affecting the quality. Why is it so that no custom rom's kernel have this feature or the analog output set to 0 or whatever the stock rom is using? I feel like we should be able to have MotoG's stock sound volume on custom roms without having to flash custom kernel and buying any apps. I'm not complaining, I have this issue solved for me, I'm just curious.
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and tbh, i do admit that the fauxsound tweaks (volume boost wise) do sound maybe 20% better compared to this thing over here

OldYellowBricks said:
and, by right, the faux settings should be able to be modded via init.d scripts but after googling, I found out that the fauxsound thing has been coded to not allow init.d. It needs the app. In other words, no app, no fauxsound settings.
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Not true. I use init.d scripts to mod my faux sound settings. [emoji6] and they work flawlessly.
Moto.G_XT1031_CrDroid.B10_Furnace.1.3.1

justin1221 said:
Not true. I use init.d scripts to mod my faux sound settings. [emoji6] and they work flawlessly.
Moto.G_XT1031_CrDroid.B10_Furnace.1.3.1
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if so please share it with me bcs Ive been having no avail with init.d :crying: here's a source. Can you share your init.d lines?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...018-nexus-5-3-4-hybrid-uv-oc-t2509655/page440

Pm me if u need the scripts.
Moto.G_XT1031_CrDroid.B10_Furnace.1.3.1

on mixer_paths.xml i put the value 30 and its amazing sound, loud and clear...and the bass? wooow!!!! thanks man

woozie.2007 said:
on mixer_paths.xml i put the value 30 and its amazing sound, loud and clear...and the bass? wooow!!!! thanks man
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WEIRD ive tried 30 or any value above 20 and it made sound become less loud than stock. What rom are you using? thank you

OP updated with better instructions

stock asia retail dual sim, i am very heppy with this sound, no distortion, very clear and low frecv bass

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WEIRD ive tried 30 or any value above 20 and it made sound become less loud than stock. What rom are you using? thank you
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Yea same here, nothing about 20 worked. 20 us great though.

woozie.2007 said:
stock asia retail dual sim, i am very heppy with this sound, no distortion, very clear and low frecv bass
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ok now i get it. This config is for CM dervivatives. there you go, EVERYONE! STOCK ROM CAN USE THIS CONFIG TOO, AND CAN GO UP TO 30! Will update OP. Thank you!

[Request] Speaker balance mod

There are a lot of users with uneven speakers, some have even exchanged their phones and still had the same problem with their second device. So I don't see the point in exchanging mine atm.
Using power amp I fixed my issue by panning my sound a little more to my bottom speaker, however this only works when listening to music.
Since the fix for music was so simple, is there anyone that can make a mod to change the phones speaker balance for the whole system?
I tried viper4android which has channel pan, but that setting is not available for phone speakers. Is there any other solution?

jamespat93 said:
There are a lot of users with uneven speakers, some have even exchanged their phones and still had the same problem with their second device. So I don't see the point in exchanging mine atm.
Using power amp I fixed my issue by panning my sound a little more to my bottom speaker, however this only works when listening to music.
Since the fix for music was so simple, is there anyone that can make a mod to change the phones speaker balance for the whole system?
I tried viper4android which has channel pan, but that setting is not available for phone speakers. Is there any other solution?
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I do not have a 6P, but I still follow especially audio-related posts with interest.
One solution (root required!) would be to first play around with the audio mixer while playing music (or other audio material). First, go here and download the tinymix_lollipop.tar.gz file from the second post. This is the user-space mixer interface that at least on my Nexus 5 also works on Marshmallow. Copy the binary (tinymix) from that archive to, for instance, /system/bin and make executable (permission 755). Once installed, go to a root shell on your phone and execute
Code:
tinymix "Left Speaker Gain" X
and/or
Code:
tinymix "Right Speaker Gain" Y
where X and Y seem to be 20 by default. Carefully (!) change X and Y independently of each other until you find a satisfactory balance. I'd suggest you go one "tick" at a time and initially lower the gain instead of increasing it. Without having looked at the device-specific kernel, I don't know what the range of this mixer control is, but you can find out by issuing
Code:
tinymix "Left Speaker Gain"
Note X and Y that sound good to you and hard-code them, I believe, in the "speaker-gain-default" section of your /system/etc/mixer_paths.xml file and reboot.

chdloc said:
I do not have a 6P, but I still follow especially audio-related posts with interest.
One solution (root required!) would be to first play around with the audio mixer while playing music (or other audio material). First, go here and download the tinymix_lollipop.tar.gz file from the second post. This is the user-space mixer interface that at least on my Nexus 5 also works on Marshmallow. Copy the binary (tinymix) from that archive to, for instance, /system/bin and make executable (permission 755). Once installed, go to a root shell on your phone and execute
Code:
tinymix "Left Speaker Gain" X
and/or
Code:
tinymix "Right Speaker Gain" Y
where X and Y seem to be 20 by default. Carefully (!) change X and Y independently of each other until you find a satisfactory balance. I'd suggest you go one "tick" at a time and initially lower the gain instead of increasing it. Without having looked at the device-specific kernel, I don't know what the range of this mixer control is, but you can find out by issuing
Code:
tinymix "Left Speaker Gain"
Note X and Y that sound good to you and hard-code them, I believe, in the "speaker-gain-default" section of your /system/etc/mixer_paths.xml file and reboot.
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Thank you so much! this is extremely helpful and seems like it will be a great solution. I'm trying to go through the steps now but just need a little help.
I download tinymix_lollipop.tar.gz, extracted the tinymix file and copied it to system/bin. Then I changed its permissions to 755 to make it executable like you said. Next I tried to use terminal emulator and typed 'tinymix "Left Speaker Gain" 1' just to test it. However it just gives me the error message 'failed to open mixer'. I'm rooted and made the file executable so I'm not sure why it didn't work?

jamespat93 said:
Thank you so much! this is extremely helpful and seems like it will be a great solution. I'm trying to go through the steps now but just need a little help.
I download tinymix_lollipop.tar.gz, extracted the tinymix file and copied it to system/bin. Then I changed its permissions to 755 to make it executable like you said. Next I tried to use terminal emulator and typed 'tinymix "Left Speaker Gain" 1' just to test it. However it just gives me the error message 'failed to open mixer'. I'm rooted and made the file executable so I'm not sure why it didn't work?
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Before executing tinymix you need to make sure that this particular shell session has been granted root privileges. You need to type
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su
in your terminal emulator to accomplish that. The prompt should switch to #

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Before executing tinymix you need to make sure that this particular shell session has been granted root privileges. You need to type
Code:
su
in your terminal emulator to accomplish that. The prompt should switch to #
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Yeah its working perfectly now thanks! Just going to play with it a bit till I find settings I'm happy with but this is exactly what I was looking for!
The range is 0-31 so does that mean its safe to put the gain anywhere between those numbers?

jamespat93 said:
The range is 0-31 so does that mean its safe to put the gain anywhere between those numbers?
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Who knows? I'm guessing things will start to audibly distort at gains higher than 20, maybe even to the point of physical damage at the top end.

Wow guess I'll be leaving it below 20 then, but seriously thanks again!

jamespat93 said:
Yeah its working perfectly now thanks! Just going to play with it a bit till I find settings I'm happy with but this is exactly what I was looking for!
The range is 0-31 so does that mean its safe to put the gain anywhere between those numbers?
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What values did you end up using? And just to confirm....the top speaker is left?? because my top speaker is way louder than my bottom...so should I increase the bottom "1" or decrease the top speaker "-1". Also I'm assuming you can do a negative gain right?

bsg411 said:
What values did you end up using? And just to confirm....the top speaker is left?? because my top speaker is way louder than my bottom...so should I increase the bottom "1" or decrease the top speaker "-1". Also I'm assuming you can do a negative gain right?
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Yeah top speaker gain is for the left speaker. The gain is '20' at default and it changes to whatever number you change it to. So to reduce it just change it to any number below 20. I changed my left speaker gain to 16.
Also elemental kernel now has left and right speaker gain controls too.

jamespat93 said:
There are a lot of users with uneven speakers, some have even exchanged their phones and still had the same problem with their second device. So I don't see the point in exchanging mine atm.
Using power amp I fixed my issue by panning my sound a little more to my bottom speaker, however this only works when listening to music.
Since the fix for music was so simple, is there anyone that can make a mod to change the phones speaker balance for the whole system?
I tried viper4android which has channel pan, but that setting is not available for phone speakers. Is there any other solution?
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How did you install Viper4android and get channel pan? I installed using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...er4android-t3250579/post65464645#post65464645
and the setting seems to be missing!

HBO MAX no sound FIX - Solution for Amlogic boxes

Hello, I've found a solution for the no sound on HBO MAX problem.
Root is needed OR to modify the system.img and upload it to the device.
You need to find this file /etc/media_codecs.xml and edit it.
Search for a line with this sentence OMX.google.eac3.decoder, my is <MediaCodec name="OMX.google.eac3.decoder" type="audio/eac3" />
You need to remove the whole line, or to change it to comment like this <!--<MediaCodec name="OMX.google.eac3.decoder" type="audio/eac3" />--> then save the file.
Reboot the device and sound should work in HBO MAX.

There is an option in droidlogic settings on some devices that limits audio that can have the same effect of forcing aac.

Yes there is, but it doesn't work on my device for some reason.