I haven't taken the jump yet to install Oreo over N, although one thing that has disappointed me with the PH-1 is the lowest media volume, for me isn't that low.
Previously with 6s I would sometimes listen to a podcast at night without disturbing my wife, although now she is complaining that the volume is too loud.
I wondered if anyone happen to notice if it's any different after installing Oreo?
I have the same issue with it's volume. I have installed Oreo, same issue exists.
dont even seem like audio mods help much. i installed viper and dont make much difference. blows
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I think I read something about someone else having the same problem, but my xoom only has two settings. Loud or silent. Anyone else going through this? I didn't test it out before rooting, so don't know if that's the issue. I would imagine it isn't exactly a hardware problem, but can't see anything that might be messing with the volume running.
I have this issue and I'm not rooted
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well, I guess mine was easily solvable. I just had to reboot.
So, I notice that things like Movies are a bit quiet. But, not too quiet... as in I can still listen okay. Headphones work fine here.
For things like music. MP3's or Pandora it is plenty loud. I have it running right now actually. I have it set to just over 50% and it is plenty loud.
I tried music first before movies... and so when I started a movie I thought initially that the sound was not working on my file. But, I turned it up and the movie got to a louder part and I noticed the sound for sure then. I restarted the movie with the increased volume and I could hear it.
If it were a noisy room? Probably too quiet. But again, noisy room I would use headphones anyway.
I remember the review at Anandtech I believe, he talked about the volume being an issue. He also mentioned that turning it up would maybe hurt the speakers. I would 2nd that last assertion since at just over 50% I think music is pretty loud and cranking it would be problematic to the longevity of the speakers.
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I'm going to try to explain this as thoroughly as possible.
So I have been having this issue with every single 7.0 preview and now it has followed me into the actual 7.0 release. My in call speaker phone and regular volume is very low. I have no idea why this is. The headphones sound is fine, playing music through the speakers is fine, it is just whenever I get into a call that the volume drops. It is very hard to hear the other person. The other person can hear me easily, however. This issue never appeared while I was on Marshmallow, only exists on Nougat. I am rooted, so I do have the ability to do whatever root fix exists, although I have tried a few, including editing the mixer paths.xml.
Anyone also have this issue and have a fix or anything related to it? I REALLY don't want to roll back to Marshmallow if I can help it.
Do you have viper4android installed??
I also had this problem but it was only after installing viper4android. I reflashed the system image getting rid of viper and everything went back to normal. There is a conflict somewhere but I haven't figured it out yet.
When I first got the V20, one of the things I was always impressed by was the speaker. It was loud, clear, and it seemed like LG had implemented some sort of volume compression/limiting to keep things clear without clipping or distortion. I rooted the phone about six months ago, finally, and have tried a few custom ROMs. Some amazing work done by the people here, but it seems that the speaker no longer sounds anywhere near as good, and it often crackles and distorts when playing anything just slightly above hearing level. I reflashed the h918 stock mod and all was taken care of, but I don't wanna be stuck with a stock ROM and lose the versatility being rooted brings. Another thing I noticed was that when I send audio messages on Facebook Messenger, they don't record nearly as loud and clear as they do with the stock ROM.
I'm currently using LOS16 with Gamma Kernel (SS).
I was wondering if anyone could maybe figure out what LG did with their speaker (and possibly mic) settings and find a way to implement them somehow with a mod? I'm not sure if this can be done via XML or anything like that. I just hate how all my custom ringtones sound now and having YouTube, my music player, and anything crackle has just taken my enjoyment of these ROMs a notch. Maybe even come up with some similar settings via Viper4Android using the compression tool?
Thanks a lot of any help! :laugh:
I upgraded to Oreo 8.1.0 OPJ28.111-22 from Marshmallow and it seems that playing anything with sound like music, podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or Netflix, there is a static sound in the background which is especially noticeable at low volume and in quiet parts. It is apparent on two different headphones, a pair of earphones and the built-in speaker.
I've factory reset my phone and it's still got the issue so not really sure what to do other than downgrading to Nougat or Marshmallow.
Any advice appreciated.
EDIT:
Flashed a TWRP backup of Nougat and Marshmallow and both have the same problem so it seems like it's a hardware issue, which is strange since I started noticing it when I updated to Oreo.
Since there is no objective way to measure speaker sound quality, I cannot tell for sure but, it kin of feels that the speaker quality is worse with the official LineageOS ROM when compared to the official Samsung ROM. I have turned off the equaliser and the Dolby Atmos in the settings.
Does anyone else who use LineageOS ROM feel the same thing, or am I wrong?
Yes. But recent version has improved it. Still not bassy and rich sounding tho.
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Yes. But recent version has improved it. Still not bassy and rich sounding tho.
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That's a shame. Does speakers need a proprietary driver? I wonder what is causing this.
After installing the latest (September) update, I could not feel any sound improvement. So, I reverted the tablet to the stock ROM today. After the initial setup is done, I immediately played the same song that I had played on LineageOS, and yes, it sounded much better.
I had installed LineageOS because it was version 12.1 (12 enhanced for tablet, as far as I know) and Samsung stopped the official ROM at 11. But frankly, I could not find any useful tablet features in 12.1. I at least expected a volume slider (like the one on iPad), but no. The only thing that was remotely useful was double-tap status bar to turn the screen off, but that was LineageOS's feature, not Android 12.1's. Android 11 is still very useable, so I guess I am just going to use the stock ROM. I use tablets mostly for media consumption so bad speaker sound was just not bearable.
Let this be warning to future people who want to install LineageOS. Do not install it unless you don't use internal speakers.
While I never used stock ROM, I noticed some speaker peculiarities while watching youtubes (on NewPipe). I tried to set my volume at a considerate level, not blaring which could annoy others nearby but loud enough to hear. When a speaker started talking in a low voice it inexplicably became completely inaudible. I could not understand what they were saying at all. Then it would get normal or too loud when the speaker spoke up. I had to turn the volume at annoying and unacceptable levels just to hear what was being said.
I tested the videos on another device with the same version of NewPipe and it was not an issue.
DOes anyone with cRdroid rom have this issue? I don't use it much for videos/audio so I don't care too much but reading this thread it seems to be an issue
If you want equalizer you need
PowerAmp Equalizer
It does all multimedia apps but games not yet.
yourrealking said:
After installing the latest (September) update, I could not feel any sound improvement. So, I reverted the tablet to the stock ROM today. After the initial setup is done, I immediately played the same song that I had played on LineageOS, and yes, it sounded much better.
I had installed LineageOS because it was version 12.1 (12 enhanced for tablet, as far as I know) and Samsung stopped the official ROM at 11. But frankly, I could not find any useful tablet features in 12.1. I at least expected a volume slider (like the one on iPad), but no. The only thing that was remotely useful was double-tap status bar to turn the screen off, but that was LineageOS's feature, not Android 12.1's. Android 11 is still very useable, so I guess I am just going to use the stock ROM. I use tablets mostly for media consumption so bad speaker sound was just not bearable.
Let this be warning to future people who want to install LineageOS. Do not install it unless you don't use internal speakers.
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A bit off topic, but I don't think Google has implemented anything particularly useful in Android in a few major versions.
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A bit off topic, but I don't think Google has implemented anything particularly useful in Android in a few major versions.
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Jadelor said:
A bit off topic, but I don't think Google has implemented anything particularly useful in Android in a few major versions.
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I have been using crDroid 8.10 and I do notice the volume fluctuates, someone in a post said he thought it was magisk 25. I'm not sure yet I'm still looking into it.