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[Q] Playback through Car aux connection

I play audio podcasts through car's aux in and just plug in the other end to my Focus's headphone jack. I have noticed that many times the podcast suddenly lowers volume to nearly inaudible levels and happens intermittently.
Once the problem shows up if I
- play songs, the volume level is fine
- stop and start playback of podcast, the problem persists.
- unplug and continue playback on Focus' speaker, the volume level is just fine
- unplug and plug it back in and the problem goes away.
- never have this problem when playing back over headphones (when in gym)
I have this problem only with Podcasts and don't get it at all with songs or videos.
Anyone else noticed this?

Audio output sucks on this phone, that is for sure. Major issues. Sorry to hear about yours.

Thresher said:
Audio output sucks on this phone, that is for sure. Major issues. Sorry to hear about yours.
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how so? i'm not having any problems at all.

Did any of you notice it's not your standard 35mm jack? The headphones that come with the phone are clearly deeper than the standard jack, and have two bands around it instead of the normal one.
I presume you are using standard cable to connect to car's aux jack....
I would check to see if there is a special samsung accessory to make the proprietary jack into a standard aux output?
Samsung are notorious for using this style of jack on their phones. The Galaxy line of android phones use the same jack.

dead_on_the_floor said:
Did any of you notice it's not your standard 35mm jack? The headphones that come with the phone are clearly deeper than the standard jack, and have two bands around it instead of the normal one.
I presume you are using standard cable to connect to car's aux jack....
I would check to see if there is a special samsung accessory to make the proprietary jack into a standard aux output?
Samsung are notorious for using this style of jack on their phones. The Galaxy line of android phones use the same jack.
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that is weird. i hook mine up to my car with the same jack i used for my iphone with no problems. in fact i am under the assumption the sound quality is actually better than with the iphone.
maybe this is a canada thing?

The plug is set up to use headsets with the microphone, and may not work well with some older stereo audio cables. However, I have used it with a podcast and found it to work quite well. I suggest trying another cable, cuz the Focus works fine.

The line level output of the 3.5mm jack is approx. 40% less than that of the iphone, or my HTC Tilt2. That is the issue I have and that others have commented on.
For instance, iphone plugged in playing on my car stereo, Panteras Cemetary Gates @ 320kbps MP3 is mind boggling loud at 50% volume on the car and 100% volume on the iphone. With the Focus the car stereo volume needs to be at 90% to be equal to the volume of the iphone.
Also, since the Focus needs to be at 100% and the car stereo nearly 100% you hear the phones whining, hissing and popping and every non-music portion.
Super lame.

There's some volume problems that I've noticed on the Focus, in that it's not consistent through playback sessions and such.
The iPhone 4 uses a Cirrus Logic codec with an integrated headphone amplifier, the Focus seems to use the built-in codec with it's headphone amplifier, which might not have the same amount of oomph.
I've measured a 7-8dB lower volume on the Focus when using a line-out cable to an Audio Precision test machine.

Thanks for reporting that! Great post.

Does anyone have this problem?
Ok, I have a mp3 car adaptor that I used with my Tilt and Tilt2 without any problems. Rich sound and bass. I plugged in my Focus (just got it last night) and music only comes out one speaker.

In my '95 M3, I run an Alpine HU (9814 IIRC) with a Line in Adaptor, I run very HD (thick) gold plated lines and a Splitter (all from Monoprice.com, one goes to my portable Sirius, other pops up by my center console sunglass cubby, split happens under the passeger seat) and I usually have my 120Gb Zune attached to it, but I tried with the Phone the other day and it worked great. Played a Tool concert and it sounded as good as the Zune. Like the Zune I set the volume to about 80%, still had plenty of head room for serious volume in the Alpine. (only way to listen to Tool is LOUD!) I do run an old school Pioneer Amp, Pioneer Kevlar Components, 2 JL Audio Stealth Boxes (each is an 8" Sub).

I want to escalate this issue but I need you guys to quickly reply on the MS forums so that it gets taken seriously. Please hit the "I need an answer too" button and give some sort of descriptive reply.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com...7/thread/9c92dad9-5e12-465d-a0fb-b9465179b436
I hope that his is a software side optimization since we are able to make the volume higher with the diagnostic codes.

I added my vote there.

Raptor550 said:
I have a second complaint. When I stick a headphone jack in the mic turns off, it probably is expecting an inline mic with the headphones. My problem is when I then go to pull out my headphones the phone doesn't notice and will continue to not hear. It takes two or three times reinserting and pulling out the headphones to remidy this. Is anyone else haveing this issue.
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Same problem here. But is worst, I connect the Focus to my Car Auxiliary jack to use it as a mega speaker, I mean, when someone calls I can hear them, but they can not hear me. The microphone is dead when I plug it in. Someone knows a fix for this?

jaraya13 said:
Same problem here. But is worst, I connect the Focus to my Car Auxiliary jack to use it as a mega speaker, I mean, when someone calls I can hear them, but they can not hear me. The microphone is dead when I plug it in. Someone knows a fix for this?
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Can't say that I have a fix for it, but it may be the connection your cable is making with the jack in the phone. I do the same thing, have the phone mounted in a jack around the same height as my head unit and people hear me fine when I speak during a call. I am currently using a cable from radioshack designed for recessed headphone jacks. Can't think of the brand off the top of my head however.

rswilson411 said:
Can't say that I have a fix for it, but it may be the connection your cable is making with the jack in the phone. I do the same thing, have the phone mounted in a jack around the same height as my head unit and people hear me fine when I speak during a call. I am currently using a cable from radioshack designed for recessed headphone jacks. Can't think of the brand off the top of my head however.
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Hi pal, thanks for the reply, but I couldn't understand very well your explanation. What is a recessed headphone jack? What is the head unit?
Thanks in advance!

I have not noticed this problem however the microphone shutting off is very annoying and funny since at&t says texting while driving is unsafe yet i have to unplug my phone while driving to turn on speaker and talk. they need to fix that ASAP

improve Dell streak audio

I plug my phone in to my car audio Jack... but it sounds really low? Please hep me fix this...

Any one?

You mean to tell me out of the 118 people that read this post... not one of them has run in to this problem?
Or do I stink?? :-\

What do you mean it's really low? And what kind of jack are you using in your car? Is it a tape-aux converter? Is it just a 3.5mm plug on your header unit? Is it a USB port? We need some more information.

Thremix said:
You mean to tell me out of the 118 people that read this post... not one of them has run in to this problem?
Or do I stink?? :-\
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You do not stink.That means that so far there's no way to fix that.There are some apps such as poweramp that might help.

Yeah, I have been looking all over to see if there was a fix for this yet. I started looking here a while back, but no fix. Then I posted this on the DELL mobile devices forum. No answer there either. Here's to hoping for a fix.....

Perhaps you need a headphone amplifier or some thing like that,how about a fiio e5 or e3?They doesn't sound very good,but they are cheap to get and easy to use,and dont forget the bass enhancement!
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After u plugged in, u turned the volume all the way up on streak AND AUX volume up on your car?...U might be forgetting that your car stereo has seperate aux volume...my streak sounds better than iphone...

Some headphone amps can actually be destroyed due to the wiring when you hook it up to your car, like the cmoybb. I believe steves rom has a volume fix. The strength of the volume is also dependant on the build. At a certain point dell capped the volume. I know build 31x had it but I'm not sure before that.

yes all the way up on the phone as well as the car, 3.5mm aux jack from my cd player to the phone... I was looking in to volume+ but I don't know or dspmanager...

What music player are you using?
I'm using Mixzing and with the volume turned all the way up, I turn my stereo up to about 80% and it sounds perfect. Sure, it is kind of low still, but not the end of the world.

Ive had the same problem and couldn't find a solution, I recently upgraded to a Bluetooth stereo and its nice and loud using that.

yeah no fix, i see get an external amp as a sort of solution but that is sh*t imo.i havent seen another device with this lack of aux volume. there cant be a reason for it other than laziness on dells part? i guess i can take my spare streak go to the eml list and the audio and start entering values to see if anything happens. i too am in disbelief that there isnt an easy fix to this, its voulume adjustment. i would donate for a solution, there has to be one other than get an external amp.

I found that the 3.5mm port on the streak just plain stinks, had a tinny sound for me. I use the a2dp bluetooth profile, sounds much better + wireless is nice. Blackberry makes a gateway, you can find it for around $30-40, and it plugs into a 3.5mm jack (or tape adapter)
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I'm sorry but I think yous all need new head units in your cars, if the amplifyer in your head unit can't amplify the sound to a decent level from a 3.5 mm Jack, then it must be pure ****e... either that or yous aren't using you head units properly and you've not got it on the aux volume.

iz probably replacing the radio will get u a higher volume

why would it bethe HU's job to overcompensate for the crap volume out of the headphone jack?
i can plug a iphone/ ipod/ droid x/ ipad into the HU and they sound great. the streak voulume just sucks. it seems to be the only solution the the lack of volume is add more crap, i havent plugged it into the usb on the back of my alpine only because im not going to pull it out to try it yet. im sure i could make it sound decent with 600w rms going to the doors alone but that isnt the issue. i have to have my volume at 35 to get what a iphone or droid x will get at 18.
let me guess use them for your truck, i am but i really want the streak to be my all in one for audio, bt calls, gps, and car tuning once superchip releases the avid

Just seems strange, my headphones are proper loud, my little x mini portable speakers which are about the size of an egg are really really loud, how come such little things can boost the volume so much, but Your head unit can't?

Poweamp works amazing to tune the volume and up the gain!! Now if can just get dspmanager to work we would be good system wide!

Alexanderbooth said:
Just seems strange, my headphones are proper loud, my little x mini portable speakers which are about the size of an egg are really really loud, how come such little things can boost the volume so much, but Your head unit can't?
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My head phone volume is crap as well, I have tried 4 headsets just making sure I'm not crazy. I get the same results every time I'm running stock 2.2.2. I can make it loud in my truck but like I said it requires more effort that comparable or substandard devices. I have giving up on the streak as a musical device and will just keep the iPod rocking. The USB on the back won't read the streak at all, it will chafe it but it says no device found when searching for music. I'll just fill it up with movies and videos

[Q] Nook speaker as a microphone?

Is there a utility out there or is someone considering development on a utility that would allow one to use the nook speaker as a microphone? Maybe support added into the OS? Or is this not even possible on the nook?

nope.. same way why a new radio head unit won't turn your car speakers into microphones.. cuz they're speakers, not microphones.

dennisi01 said:
nope.. same way why a new radio head unit won't turn your car speakers into microphones.. cuz they're speakers, not microphones.
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Well, I don't have an answer for the OP, but just so you know, a speaker & a microphone are essentially the same thing. Just like a motor is the same as a generator. Just depends on the circuit that it's connected to.
Cheers,
kev

bugeyed1 said:
Well, I don't have an answer for the OP, but just so you know, a speaker & a microphone are essentially the same thing. Just like a motor is the same as a generator. Just depends on the circuit that it's connected to.
Cheers,
kev
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Yeah, kinda - but your not going to power your microwave by pushing your Pinto Wagon down a hill.
Even if the Nooks speaker were able to generate a sufficient electrical signal from audio induced vibrations (which it can't) there isn't any electronics there to interpret those electrical signals.

bugeyed1 said:
Well, I don't have an answer for the OP, but just so you know, a speaker & a microphone are essentially the same thing. Just like a motor is the same as a generator. Just depends on the circuit that it's connected to.
Cheers,
kev
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True... back in the day I connected a pair of headphones to the line-in on a cassette recorder and was able to use them as a microphone to record my voice.
But as others have mentioned, it's mighly unlikely this would work on a Nook Color given the lack of supporting hardware.

martian21 said:
Yeah, kinda - but your not going to power your microwave by pushing your Pinto Wagon down a hill.
Even if the Nooks speaker were able to generate a sufficient electrical signal from audio induced vibrations (which it can't) there isn't any electronics there to interpret those electrical signals.
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True & the only reason that I brought it up is in response to the statement;
"nope.. same way why a new radio head unit won't turn your car speakers into microphones.. cuz they're speakers, not microphones." seems to dismiss the OPs question as ridiculous.
Cheers,
kev

dennisi01 said:
nope.. same way why a new radio head unit won't turn your car speakers into microphones.. cuz they're speakers, not microphones.
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It's obvious to me that you have absolutely no background in electronics, and you believe whatever label is put on a device. Have you never used one of the old style walkie-talkies? How about intercoms? Their speakers are both speakers and microphones. With your way of thinking, a nook would be nothing more than an ereader ... cuz they're ereaders, not tablets.
However, just because a speaker can be used as a microphone doesn't mean the supporting electronics are there, i.e. amplification stage, etc. That's why I asked the question.

Bluetooth, S Voice, Bluetooth head unit issues...

I'm hoping I can get some answers here about this. I have a Kenwood bluetooth head unit in my truck. I like to use S Voice to text, play music and other stuff without touching the phone while driving.
My issue is if Bluetooth is on and if I say Hi Galaxy then say Play Music it acts if it doesn't hear me. If I turn off bluetooth connection between the Note 3 and head unit then say Hi Galaxy then play music it hears me fine and plays music.
I was thinking maybe the mic pickup wasn't cranked up enough to hear me on the head unit. On my head unit I have a setting for Mic Gain. Is this suppose to increase sensitivity for the mic to hear more clearly? It was set to 0 but I cranked it up to +8 and then tried it again with no result.
On the sound bars, below the microphone button on the S Voice, if sound is picked up it will move up. It never moved so it's not hearing me. Now if I banged on the top of my dash with my fist the sound bars move and shows it is picking up sound but it has to be a loud bang to a point I feel like I'm gonna cracked my dash if I keep on doing that.
I can't tell if the issue is my head unit or the phone itself. Bluetooth volume is cranked to the max on the phone.
Do bluetooth head units have built in microphones? I would think they do otherwise it would be a pointless head unit and pointless to have call button functions on the head unit.
Anybody have suggestions?
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Nevermind. After looking over the manual to my head unit I somehow skimmed over the microphone part even though it came with the head unit. I have no clue why I didn't attach it and understand the point for it was to communicate hands free or else the person would not hear me.
Had to take the unit out and install it and it works perfectly now.
This thread can be deleted.
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[PX5] [DSP] Absolutely terrible audio quality even with Viper4Android

So I have a PX5 head unit equipped with DSP and I've tried tuning the sound with the stock 36 band dsp equalizer and installing Viper4Android. I've tried multiple IRS files but I still can not get a good sound setting! Either the audio sounds like it's playing in head phones, sounds like it's in a can or there is way too much bass and it muffles out the rest of the music. I've also had problems where the bass causes the volume to dip up and down. Other issues include configuring the direction of the audio, the tweeters work but sometimes it sounds like audio is only coming from the middle back. I'm running stock 2009 Honda Civic speakers which used to sound really good with the stock radio.
I'd really like to know what settings you guys have for your audio and how it's working out. If it persists I might just have to revert back to the stock head unit.

Sounds a lot like you have something wired wrong so that the polarity on one side is the reverse of the other side. Start by setting the fader to front only and see if the sound improves then try back only. If there is an improvement check that the speaker wire harness is pinned as per the label on the radio and that the wires go to the correct terminal on the speaker end.

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Sounds a lot like you have something wired wrong so that the polarity on one side is the reverse of the other side. Start by setting the fader to front only and see if the sound improves then try back only. If there is an improvement check that the speaker wire harness is pinned as per the label on the radio and that the wires go to the correct terminal on the speaker end.
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Hi,
If I set it to only the front it will play only from the front but I can not recreate that sweet spot that my stock head unit had. Either the sound sounds like it's too far back or too far front with no bass. It is very frustrating..

Of course you wouldn't want to listen to it with the fader all the way forward or back! That's only so you can figure out if there's a speaker wired backwards and which one it is.

Anyone have a good IRS solution? Or maybe there's a way to install Dolby Atmos?

Bump,

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And of course: Remove Viper4Android as soon as possible.
On newer versions of Android and these units it will only make your sound worse. It was developed years ago for Android 4, or something like that, and the latest "official" supported android version is 7. And for devices without DSP.
It is not "even with Viper4Android". It is "and Viper4Android makes it even worse".

surfer63 said:
And of course: Remove Viper4Android as soon as possible.
On newer versions of Android and these units it will only make your sound worse. It was developed years ago for Android 4, or something like that, and the latest "official" supported android version is 7. And for devices without DSP.
It is not "even with Viper4Android". It is "and Viper4Android makes it even worse".
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So then how can I adjust my sound. The stock DSP Equalizer on my unit is dog ****. It has 32 bands Eq but no setting to make an adjustment to the bass. Is it possible to flash a different DSP Equalizer to my unit?

Bumping again #YOLO