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LG G2 audio quality being bad

Yes, I really just call it bad. I don't really remember how was it in its brand new stock KK state, but now it's bad. I remember battling with the annoying hissing sound, Dorimanx kernel fixed it, but now I (since the hiss fix) feel the audio quality being pretty... bad.
Like, compared to any other source I have here (LG G Pad 8.3, Asus Xonar, onboard sound card, ELEDAC, whatever), the G2 sounds the worst. Sounds lacks life, mids are melting into one disgusting-to-listen-to gunk, basses are horribly weak.
My current setup is stock 4.4, Dorimanx kernel, TWRP recovery, G2 TweaksBox (but with disabled hiss fix), XCam advanced drivers and whatnot, but I'm really considering reverting back to a completely stock and fresh KK or trying out different stock ROMs, I would rather use a really really outdated stock ROM without hissing and good audio quality, than this mess...
Funny thing is LG was promising high-end audio output with 24/192 support. Well, the support is here, but the quality...
Are there any audiophile G2 users? What are your opinion on G2 audio quality amongst different ROMs?

am not good exper on sound as i cant tell a difference , but maybe in LP is better have you seen dorimanx kernel for audio.

as @raptorddd suggested - flash a stock LP rom, and flash dorimanx kernel for LP...
dorimanx has improved the sound on LP by a mile... KK kernel didn't get that far considering audio quality improvements...

Does LP get XCam? I would rather sell this thing than keep using the camera without the option to disable LG's retarded noise cancellation...
All I need is XCam features, good audio quality without the hissing and smooth UI. I don't really care about gaming performance, all I play is some picross and 2D platformer.

Zarrick19 said:
Does LP get XCam? I would rather sell this thing than keep using the camera without the option to disable LG's retarded noise cancellation...
All I need is XCam features, good audio quality without the hissing and smooth UI. I don't really care about gaming performance, all I play is some picross and 2D platformer.
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yes, Xcam exists on lp for ages

Zarrick19 said:
Does LP get XCam? I would rather sell this thing than keep using the camera without the option to disable LG's retarded noise cancellation...
All I need is XCam features, good audio quality without the hissing and smooth UI. I don't really care about gaming performance, all I play is some picross and 2D platformer.
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yes give a shot. try it then decide.

Heh.
I was surprised how's craapy sound quality after installing TWRP via AutoRec on my new phone with stock KitKat.
Horrible noises on stock headphones from Samsung's phone (which one's are better anyway than stock from LG's) even on +70% of max volume.
I writing about quality after installing AutoRec, because i was thinking it's made by downgrading bootloader. This may be my fault, because don't exactly remember if that noises are on absolutely stock KitKat firmware, maybe i just didn't hear it before...
But I've find solution. Installing bruce's kernel for stock KK (which includes some fixes for audio) and from his DSP package only folder called "soundfx", of course replace libraries to the right direction in /system/lib/soundfx. This was gave me nice quality of music, without fireworks, worse from my Ace 2 but without these crappy noises and normal bass.
Maybe some audio mods will bring the quality even higher, but my opinion is only about stock KitKat firmware + bruce's kernel + DSP libraries from his package.
On stock official LP + Dorimax kernel, where am I now, quality of sound is worse for me.
Links
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732648
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358552796

Audio differences on aux with different roms/kernels?

Got an audio related question here;
Comming from an Oxygen based rom I notice a sound difference from the aux output since running LinOS.14.1 (in combination with the flash kernel). The oxygen rom was combined with Franco's kernel.
Also, a low constant noise is hearable troughout the headphones which was not before and really disturbs the quality at low and lowest volume.
Could this be rom or kernel related, which probably is one of the two since the problem was not here before.
Any tips on how to fix it? Overall the sound quality at higher volumes is better strangely enough.
Thanks,
Niek

Well, this is Rom related, as LOS is based on AOSP and therefore, the audio stuff is also pure AOSP, so of course this will be different than on OOS.

Internal Speaker Sound with Stock Rom and Lineage OS 15.1

I have two Le Pro 3 phones here, one has Lineage OS 15.1 and the other one is out of the box with stock rom. So it is very easy for me to test the sound for both roms at the same time.
I know already that stock rom offers the best audio quality with the built in internal spakers. Stock rom offers fuller and richer sound with also more bass with the internal speakers. There is no chance to have similar sound with the internal speakers using a custom rom without using any audio mods like dolby atmos or viper.
But even using these sound mods I was not able to tune the sound of the speakers similar to stock sound.
I made some longer sound tests with both phones and found that there is one big difference between stock and custom rom:
As the phone has Stereo speakers (upper one and lower one), the eqalization of both speakers is totally different with stock. While the upper speaker offers much more mid-range frequencies and nearly no highs the lower one is giving much more bass and high frequencies but nearly no mids. This effect is present with and without activated dolby atmos in stock rom.
So it seems to me that the stock rom uses different settings for left (upper) and right (lower) speakers. With headphones, both channels offer same sound, of course.
Using Lineage OS 15.1 without any sound mod, both speakers offer very similar sound characteristic. I am not able to hear different equalization between upper and lower speaker. The upper one has the same amount of highs, mids and lows like the lower one.
By using dolby atmos or viper, the sound quality improves impressingly but this effects both speakers in the same way.
Maybe becouse of this difference there is no chance to have the same sound characteristic with the speakers like in stock rom.
And maybe this info could help someone to imrove speaker-sound with lineage?

Hi @walking-desaster , maybe you can give the MIUI Ares ROMs a try and compare the sound quality.
This ROM are based on a clone of the X720 (Cool Changer S1 with JUI ROM) and should use similar or updated drivers with Nougat and MIUI 9 on top.
The ROM is posted both on 4PDA and by @tsongming in his Megadrive.
I am not sure why the version posted by Alex_Agir is different from Tsongmings megadrive, maybe he can explain.
Would be interesting to learn your experience.

Wortelstok said:
Hi @walking-desaster , maybe you can give the MIUI Ares ROMs a try and compare the sound quality.
This ROM are based on a clone of the X720 (Cool Changer S1 with JUI ROM) and should use similar or updated drivers with Nougat and MIUI 9 on top.
The ROM is posted both on 4PDA and by @tsongming in his Megadrive.
I am not sure why the version posted by Alex_Agir is different from Tsongmings megadrive, maybe he can explain.
Would be interesting to learn your experience.
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There is no difference between the Rom Alex_Agir and the one on my Megadrive and I gave him credit.
I posted the file on the megadrive and will soon add it to AFH as well. Just to make it easier to get to. Alot of people use browser that do not translate sites as 4PDA very well. Plus, the Megadrive link includes additional addon, to enhance the MIUI Ares ROM, and to make installation quicker for someone new to Miui.
Like @walking-desaster, I am a big fan of audio.
In fact for me, as a hobbyist recording musician, its usually the most important aspect of my phone. But, I too have multiple Leeco's ( four) so its easy to tryout everything. Plus, I still have my old iPhone, which I use like an iPod for my car.
I agree that stock EUI sound is far superior, and modded EUI's out there seem to be just short of the stellar sound offered by stock. but its close. My issue with stock is that its using marshmallow, which I can't stand.
The Miui Ares rom has the best sound quality of any Rom that I have used since stock. To go on Stock sounds better with Dolby and custom Roms sound better with Dolby. Both sound better with Viper.
Viper is better than Dolby because it has all of the same tools. such as EQ and compression but takes it a step further with the option of being able to add profiles. The profiles include packets of .irs files. Which are convolution reverb impulses ( which are actual acoustic measurements of rooms or speakers) these convolution files allow you to simulate the sounds of room reverb and speaker acoustics. They are similar the impulse responses used in electric guitar amps and headphone emulators.
You can download profiles from my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KtNtBOw1Hj7Rw4OVT2wWdE1ujDAZgo9x
or better yet use these instead
Use the profiles from my drive but use impulse files from sites such as these : https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2372750
Note, you have to manually add the profiles here: storage/Viper4Android/
BTW, were you aware the Leeco CDLA headphones has a DAC chip and use Dupont speakers?

Question, sound quality on STOCK vs Custom.

Hey
Is it true that ZTE Axon 7 sound quality better on STOCK 7.1.1 than on custom LineageOS 14.1? Custom rom doesn't use the full support AKG chip?
I bought this phone only because of the great DAC, amplifier, speakers, Dolby Atmos and official LineageOS support, but if the custom Roma has worse sound quality than STOCK rom then I will have to return to the SPYING Google-Stock-****... but sound quality is more important than privacy...
(I apologize in advance for my weak English)

speaker quality little better on stock but headphone quality same i think.

atakan33 said:
speaker quality little better on stock but headphone quality same i think.
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Based on my experience i can say the same. AEX is the only custom rom i've used though, but i believe the story is the same with the other roms

Best ROMs for audio or stock is good help guys

Hey guys hope your zte axon 7 is still rocking ,well I am using my axon 7 for last 3 year and after a battery replacement it's now as good as new never tried custom ROMs coz of audio performance but now I want to try new ROMs for speed but can't compromise with audio quality can any one help me out choosing rit custom ROMs .thanx in advance

I don't know if there is a huge difference in sound between custom roms.
Mostly, it depends on equalizer like Dolby Atmos, V4A, JamesDSP, DTS:X etc.
But, there's a catch in custom rom, they use high quality dac on headphone and you can't switch it back to standard dac. I have one pair of headphone which sounds a little bit worse on High Quality mode than on Standard Quality. Don't know why and I really don't care that much.
Personally, I prefer Viper4Android to Dolby Atmos, due to many options in V4A, which let you fit - let's just say - to your sound preference.
I only miss surround virtualization from Dolby Atmos for movies.
I tried several Surround IRS but didn't found anything worth.
Using unofficial Lineage OS 15.1 (from Unjustified Dev), Bladder Kernel with Viper4Android 2.6.0.5 (using this version due to conflict between Selinux Enforced and Convolver).
Speaker Optimization sounds pretty bad, I recommend to try some of IRS for Convolver.
That one below, sounds pretty, it even gives nice bass but it didn't work on V4A 2.7.0.0 and doesn't sound same on JamesDSP like on older V4A.
Edit: Just be aware of volume, some of IRS may be louder than original volume and may damage your speakers.

klałn said:
I don't know if there is a huge difference in sound between custom roms.
Mostly, it depends on equalizer like Dolby Atmos, V4A, JamesDSP, DTS:X etc.
But, there's a catch in custom rom, they use high quality dac on headphone and you can't switch it back to standard dac. I have one pair of headphone which sounds a little bit worse on High Quality mode than on Standard Quality. Don't know why and I really don't care that much.
Personally, I prefer Viper4Android to Dolby Atmos, due to many options in V4A, which let you fit - let's just say - to your sound preference.
I only miss surround virtualization from Dolby Atmos for movies.
I tried several Surround IRS but didn't found anything worth.
Using unofficial Lineage OS 15.1 (from Unjustified Dev), Bladder Kernel with Viper4Android 2.6.0.5 (using this version due to conflict between Selinux Enforced and Convolver).
Speaker Optimization sounds pretty bad, I recommend to try some of IRS for Convolver.
That one below, sounds pretty, it even gives nice bass but it didn't work on V4A 2.7.0.0 and doesn't sound same on JamesDSP like on older V4A.
Edit: Just be aware of volume, some of IRS may be louder than original volume and may damage your speakers.
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I have very similar set now with latest unoff. Lineage, with beta baddar kelner, viper fx with xhr soundplus convolver, musicfx + removed audiofx, gcam 6.1.021 and etc.
I am quite satisfied with the sound and experience which i have from adwanced tweaking