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[Q] link volumes together

Hello,
just asking whether or not there is a way for linking ringtone and/or Notification and/or System Volumes together, since it's really annoying having to set these 3 each time...

My1xT said:
Hello,
just asking whether or not there is a way for linking ringtone and/or Notification and/or System Volumes together, since it's really annoying having to set these 3 each time...
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you could try ultimate sound control on google play

just as I thought it needs root, but no problem since Kingo...
but also not the thing I want. I heard that Google unified Ringtone and notify volumes and I want this too and MAYBE go a step further by putting System volume ion this unity too...

[Q] Help needed - difference in volume between music apps

Hi all, [I did a forum search using volume galaxy note 3; volume mod galaxy note 3 and didn't find anything related to my post below]
I have quite a bit of a head scratcher here and I'm not sure which way to go to resolve it....
I have an AT&T Galaxy Note 3 that is rooted running stock MJ5 firmware. When playing music using the speaker and built-in music app (or when setting up the sounds to use for ringtone, notifications, etc.), the volume output is decent respective to it's factory output level. However when I'm playing music via PowerAmp or JetAudio Plus - the volume output is not at the same level as it is with the built-in music app. I've made sure that AGC is off in JetAudio, de-selected the Limit option in PowerAmp, and checked and unchecked the Direct Volume Control option within the advanced audio settings in PowerAmp. In spite of all that I have checked - the volume output is not the same and it's driving me crazy. Here are all of the things that I've done so far (in no particular order) to see if I can 'fix' the problem:
1) Factory Reset my phone (from within the OS itself)
2) I've tried using the Volume Boosting Mods found in this forum post to see if that would correct anything.
3) Performed a FULL firmware restore (courtesy of this post) to see if I mucked something up along the way. (I kind of messed up my haptic feedback which was the catalyst for the restore. The volume restore was along for the ride at that point )
None of the above seems to work (EVEN with the firmware restore). Please note that with the firmware restore - I tested it out BEFORE loading my applications (except for JetAudio and PowerAmp). What makes the built-in music application different than apps such as PowerAmp, JetAudio, etc. that it accesses a different volume stream (say digital vs. analog)? (I know that last question was kind of confusing, but think of it as being analogous to Line Out vs. the 3.5mm headphone port for external sound output )
I know that the file used for modifying volume output levels is located in system/etc/snd_soc_msm (the file snd_soc_msm_Taiko_CDP is what's used to make the mods) but is there a specific line or lines contained within that file that control analog volume output for the built-in speaker?
I'm not sure how the PowerAmp or JetAudio app is configured to access volume output streams (if that makes any sense) but there seems to be something different because the volume output drops pretty badly when using either of these apps vs. the stock music player.
Has anyone else noticed this oddity (and found a way to fix it) or am I the odd man out here ?
Any help would be appreciated.

Silly question: Did you try disabling Adapt Sound?

ShadowLea said:
Silly question: Did you try disabling Adapt Sound?
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I don't recall having Adapt Sound enabled (I did see it but don't remember having any checkboxes ticked....). I'll reply back once I downgrade my phone back to JB (I was forced to take an OTA update to kitkat and I need root access).

rob.allen78 said:
I don't recall having Adapt Sound enabled (I did see it but don't remember having any checkboxes ticked....). I'll reply back once I downgrade my phone back to JB (I was forced to take an OTA update to kitkat and I need root access).
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So after going through a full factory reset (via ODIN), I can confirm that I'm not using Adapt Sound and have also ensured that I am not using any equalizers to enhance the sound in either application.

You cant compare PA or JA to the stock audio because those 2 apps using different drivers than a stock 1

rob.allen78 said:
I don't recall having Adapt Sound enabled (I did see it but don't remember having any checkboxes ticked....). I'll reply back once I downgrade my phone back to JB (I was forced to take an OTA update to kitkat and I need root access).
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meawww said:
You cant compare PA or JA to the stock audio because those 2 apps using different drivers than a stock 1
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Thanks for the info (The driver usage may be what the difference is respective to audio output.)
I wasn't really trying to compare the apps per se as more of a process of finding out if I have a unique hardware issue in which I would need to send my phone back to AT&T/Samsung for a warranty exchange.

How to improve audio with Viper4Android (Root required; tested only on Lollipop)

The other day I went looking for an audio DSP to use on my Shield Tablet running Lollipop. I came upon some posts recommending "Viper4Android" and went looking for a away to install it.
Here's my instructions, adapted from this article: http://www.droidviews.com/guide-viper4android-make-work-lollipop-lrx21o/
Download "TestLolliViPER_v2.3.3.0.zip" from this post (pre-Lollipop users can download ViPER4Android FX from the official thread and install the APK, skip ahead to step 5)
Change to permissive mode with SELinux Mode Changer from the Play Store (required for Lollipop, maybe for KitKat too)
Enable developer options and uncheck "Use Nuplayer" (Lollipop only)
Reboot to recovery and flash the zip you downloaded; reboot back to Android
Open Viper4Android and let it download its drivers (reboot required)
Open Viper4Android and under settings switch "FX Compatible" mode to "Compatible"
FX compatibility mode caused most apps to not use V4A. Leave it on the "Normal" setting instead.
Specific apps:
For PowerAmp, enable MusicFX under Settings > Audio > Advanced Tweaks, turn on "Tone/Volume". Also, switch off the Equ, Tone and Limit under Tone/Volume
For GoneMad Music Player, select "Use External DSP" under Preferences > Audio > Equalizer
Spotify appears to just work now.
Effects:
Turning on "Speaker Optimization" makes the Shields' speakers sound less tinny
Try some IRS files to imitate/replicate various bass boost, etc effects from various manufacturers
Alternatively, try some headphone correction filters (these attempt to flatten the frequency response of your headphones, making music sound the way musicians really intended it to sound)
See also the explainations for all of the settings.
I hope this works for other people. Tell me if I've made a mistake or left something out.

Thanks! will give this a try soon, what about boosting volume? I haven't seen anything for boosting volume yet in lollipop

Folks will discover this after clicking the first link: this solution requires Root. I've heard great things about Viper, and if you have your device unlocked and rooted, give it a go.

jaredmorgs said:
Folks will discover this after clicking the first link: this solution requires Root. I've heard great things about Viper, and if you have your device unlocked and rooted, give it a go.
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Oh right, thanks for that. I keep forgetting that not everyone has root access and a custom recovery
And even though I've been reading XDA for years, I've only written a few posts.

genicles said:
Thanks! will give this a try soon, what about boosting volume? I haven't seen anything for boosting volume yet in lollipop
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Yes, there is the "Extra Loud" option, with three strength levels.

Does this method work with Spotify? I don't think you can change audio settings via the app and don't these V4A instructions only apply on an app by app basis?

I've tried this and it doesn't appear to have any effect on the sound on my shield. Followed instructions exactly but makes no difference to sound quality regardless of what player I use.
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mossief1965 said:
I've tried this and it doesn't appear to have any effect on the sound on my shield. Followed instructions exactly but makes no difference to sound quality regardless of what player I use.
Sent from my SHIELD Tablet using Tapatalk
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Try playing with the settings--specifically the NUplayer toggle and the settings in PowerAmp (if you're using it). In most guides for Lollipop for V4A, it says to turn off NUplayer. But for some reason, on my other device (a G3 with CM12), I need NUplayer on. I don't have to use compatible mode on it either.
It's a stretch, especially since the OP tested his steps on this device, but I don't think it'll hurt.

sixstringedmatt said:
Does this method work with Spotify? I don't think you can change audio settings via the app and don't these V4A instructions only apply on an app by app basis?
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I just had a try with Spotify and it seems to work with no changes required. It even opens V4A when selecting 'equalizer' in settings, so it appears to be quite aware of external DSPs.
Soundscape also has no settings for audio, but doesn't go through V4A. I don't know what to do about that, besides complaining to the company.
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... making music sound the way musicians really intended it to sound ...
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There is so much wrong with that I don't know where to start LOL (but this is not meant to be any sort of observation on the app itself).
But ya know, whatever sounds good in the end

diji1 said:
There is so much wrong with that I don't know where to start LOL (but this is not meant to be any sort of observation on the app itself).
But ya know, whatever sounds good in the end
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I was referring to Beat's claim that their bass-heavy headphones make your music sound the way the musicians wanted it to. Tyle from Inner Fidelity (who has tested many headphones with a pretty sophisticated setup) has said:
I would think most recording studios in the world use a curve called "flat." That way they know what they're hearing on the monitors is what's going onto the disc. The Audio Engineering Society is filled with engineers who write papers and learn about how to achieve a flat and neutral audio response, and then design and build the gear that goes into recording studios. I've measured four of the Beats full-size headphones, and a handful of their in-ear models, and they deviate significantly from flat.
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The headphone correction files I linked to attempt to flatten the response of each headphone, making them sound more like professional-grade studio monitors (speakers) or headphones.

The V4A mod sounds great, but it seems to break streaming audio to the Shield Controller.

after Ota 3.1 upgrade Viper is not working anymore

[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
Code:
su
in your terminal emulator to accomplish that. The prompt should switch to #

chdloc said:
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!

G900F mixer_paths.xml RECORDINGS (Whatsapp) are far to low, as well as the speakers?!

Dear folks,
I used to search this and other forums for an easy solution to increase the volume level of my Galaxy S5 (G900F) in both directions, to mic something and for listening. I do not care of speakers (to destroy them) or my ears (they are already in bad status since the DISCO-Beats in early 90ties), smile, but I hate to anoy my friends with to low volume messages (even when I am at home with no background sounds). In the car it is even worse. My phone is rooted. Android 8.1.0 Extend Version AospExtended-5.4-unofficial, 2018-April-05, G900FXXU1CPC9, with Kernel 3.4.113-lineageos-g808bf80, Build-Number OPM2.171019.029, Moderate
I have downloaded and testet micgain26higher.zip, micgain26normal.zip, Mic_Gain_Mod_v11.9.zip, and s5_Volume_Boost_Version_vX...zip
None of it works.
I even extracted / copied the three files from container to /etc, with no positive result.
I tried to increase the numbers within mixer_paths.xml by hand, no improvements.
Please give me a solution (preferable a ready made mixer_paths.xml to copy/paste).
Thanks.

I think there is no solution - mine is loud for me, but my mic level is poor. I expect nobody is good enough to help you here.

Copy the mixer_paths.xml that i have attached to "/vendor/etc" and change permissions to "rw- r- r-". (ps : i think it is not necessary to change permissions anymore but just in case you can try)
For me it works on recording audio

The guy in this thread.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3202087
Knows a *lot* about adjusting the xml file to make adjustments to various volume level parameters. He was able to give me a lot of help when I needed it. Why not ask in that thread.
Sent from my SM-G900F