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Request for all ROM makers

I have been using a lot of roms lately.. and loved everyones work over here except one big gripe I have.... I m sure lot of you might agree and disagree with me.. but I just want to throw it out there.
My issue is with boot animation sounds and ringtones.
CAN WE NOT CHANGE THE BOOT ANIMATIONS SOUNDS AND RINGTONES IN EVERY ROM AND KEEP IT STOCK.
and leave it at user selected ringtone and stock boot animations and sounds. And provide a separate .zip for boot sounds and ringtones if anyone wants, instead of giving them nobootanimation sounds.
I have flashed Viper roms couple of times and everytime I end up with these sounds which makes me look weird if the phone dies/rings/shuts down at work with default sounds.
I flashed synergy yesterday and today my phone rang at work and every one just gave me a glance like.."What do they call you....???" (due to the default ringtone)
Just a thought.. if it makes anyones life easier..
Thanks!

You don't like added ringtones, notifications, and alarms that come packaged with apps as well? I can understand the boot sounds, but not extra sounds that help you customize your phone.
And the custom boot animations are kind of the branding you have to deal with for using someone's work you didn't pay for. These developers work hard and most (essentially all) only get paid through donations. Having that boot/shutdown screen with their custom logo or image is their form of advertisement. I've had plenty of friends see my phone while it was rebooting or whatnot and ask what I was running. I've converted a few and brought them to the modding community =).
I guess I could understand where you're coming from if these developers forced us to pay for the product they deliver, but they don't.

In SRF:
Boot sounds: The sweet sound of silence. Ain't it grand?
Boot animations: Yeah, it's our logo... If you don't like it, flash another animation. If we didn't put in some kind of bootanimation.zip, you'd just get... crap. And how often do you reboot your phone, anyway?
Ringtones: The full stock library is there. But the default? It's a phone. Shocking.
If you ask me, a ringing phone sounds more normal than whatever crap Samsung defaults to.

make your own rom. Or customize the one you got... there's a secret sub forum called Themes and Apps.. don't tell anyone else about it, but you might want to check it out before somebody really rips you a new one..
kOnane that was a very classy retort nicely played
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App

seriously, anyone that has a phone at work that doesn't have it on vibrate is an idiot. and that would solve all these issues. its called silent mode, best feature of the phone. maybe you guys are 16 (its a great time, so no offense) but other than that, ringtones and nonsense like that would be the least of my concerns.

hardrock121 said:
I have been using a lot of roms lately.. and loved everyones work over here except one big gripe I have.... I m sure lot of you might agree and disagree with me.. but I just want to throw it out there.
My issue is with boot animation sounds and ringtones.
CAN WE NOT CHANGE THE BOOT ANIMATIONS SOUNDS AND RINGTONES IN EVERY ROM AND KEEP IT STOCK.
and leave it at user selected ringtone and stock boot animations and sounds. And provide a separate .zip for boot sounds and ringtones if anyone wants, instead of giving them nobootanimation sounds.
I have flashed Viper roms couple of times and everytime I end up with these sounds which makes me look weird if the phone dies/rings/shuts down at work with default sounds.
I flashed synergy yesterday and today my phone rang at work and every one just gave me a glance like.."What do they call you....???" (due to the default ringtone)
Just a thought.. if it makes anyones life easier..
Thanks!
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These are all things well within the end users control. Just check your ringtone, that's not the developers responsibility. If you want download my midNIGHT ROM and just pull the extras folder out. I ported over the Rhodium ringtones awhile back. There are a ton of zips in there that should work on most ROMs. k0nane is right someone will always complain.......

My only complaint is loud, obnoxious boot sounds, which I havent heard in quite a while... Viper had a pretty crazy one a couple months back. not really a big deal, as I know we can change it, or just use a diff. rom... as far as boot animations, im all for them, and if people want to brand their work, more power to em.

I have a well used option in Startup Manager that dumps startup and shut sown sounds. It absolutely amazes me how many people think that devs should do whatever they demand. Sorry guys, but these are volunteer operations and they do what they want. If you don't like it vote with your feet...
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Can somebody do me a favor?

I looked around the forum briefly, but I didn't find anything.
I'm currently on CM7 and I really don't care for the system sounds too much. Can someone running a sense Rom grab some files for me? I think you could just copy/paste them to the sd using astro. I'd like the alarm "snooze" (I sleep through cm7s buzzer sound ),the notification sound "major" (sounds like the super Mario 1up shroom), and there's a ringtone that sounds like a digital phone. I can't think of the name, but it's not the old school sounding ring.
Any help would be appreciated.

brivette007 said:
I looked around the forum briefly, but I didn't find anything.
I'm currently on CM7 and I really don't care for the system sounds too much. Can someone running a sense Rom grab some files for me? I think you could just copy/paste them to the sd using astro. I'd like the alarm "snooze" (I sleep through cm7s buzzer sound ),the notification sound "major" (sounds like the super Mario 1up shroom), and there's a ringtone that sounds like a digital phone. I can't think of the name, but it's not the old school sounding ring.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Download one of the several Sense ROMs on this site, then open the zip file, and go into the media folder and take all the sound files you want.

drumist said:
Download one of the several Sense ROMs on this site, then open the zip file, and go into the media folder and take all the sound files you want.
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Duh, I should have known that. It's been a very, very long day...
I still have zips for stock and liberated Roms, will have to dig them out tomorrow.
Thanks!

Few New MODs! VolumeStepping Fixed - More Mods in 2nd post!

Edit: Volume Stepping Mod fixed! More Mods Added!! See second post for new Mods.
Hello, my name is Doc....and I am a recovering lurker!
First post ever here! (Would that be Step 2 or 3 in the recovery program???)
Anyhow, I have been lurking around XDA for quite some time now, mostly just absorbing A LOT of fantastic information, and although it is not much I thought it was time I shared back!
Please keep in mind, that I can offer no promise of support. (These are mods I did for myself and figured others may appreciate them.) The main reason I have never participated here before is time, as in I don't have much of it! (Single Dad, 2 jobs, and all that jazz) I will do my best to help out (and keep contributing), but there will often be periods of time where I simply will not be around to respond. I am not trying to be an ass, just honest and up front. If there are any issues with what I share, I don't want people getting angry because the OP wasn't around to fix his stuff!
I have been using these for a few weeks now and have had no real problems, so I am fairly confident that they should work for the rest of you. Once I reach my 10 post limit I will move these into the Development section since it seems that very few people even vist these other areas anymore. I will also post links to the original threads where I got the mods.
If any of these have already been done for our phones please let me know. And of course, if anyone knows of a better way, or has any ideas, please do share!
Link to downloads are at bottom of post.
Remember, these are for STOCK FROYO!
NANDROID, NANDROID, NANDROID!!!
Remap Faves button to Settings (Rosie.apk) -(Thanks/Credit to the1wingedangel)-
I know there are quite a few of these already out there, but have not seen one made to go into Settings. I find I use it quite often and it has been very convenient for me. Hopefully someone else may find it usefull as well.
Smooth Spinners (Framework-res.apk) -(Thanks/Credit to D.O.C)-
This is simple eye-candy, but I like it a lot! It does what it implies...Smooths out the rotation of the spinning circles displayed while loading.
(NOTE: This mod is in Framework-res.apk, so if you are themed, you may not want to flash this) (I will post the modded smali files later on so you can do a simple copy paste and keep your themes intact)
Volume Stepping Increase and Smooth Scroll (Framework.jar) -(Thanks/Credit to AndroidON)-
The Smooth Scroll portion of this will disable ScrollingCache for the whole system. Apparently it was not implemented as well as it should have been and I find my Slide really likes having it disabled. (i.e. Under Settings > Applications > Manage Apps - when scrolling through the list of apps, it is very very smooth! No more skipping or hesitating!)
The volume portion will not increase the max volume of your Slide, but will allow finer control over the volume. It changes:
Media, Bluetooth and TTS from 15 to 30 volume steps;
Ringtone from 7 to 15 volume steps;
Voice Call from 5 to 10 volume steps. (I am uncertain what this changed, as in-call and speakerphone volume remains unchanged. I assume this may be overridden by another setting or it is not applicable to the custom ROM I am using. If anyone knows more about this, please share your knowledge!)
Download: min.us/mEspresso < copy/paste in browser
Thanks to everyone here at XDA!
ENJOY!

Extended Power Menu - All In One Zip - Decompiled files for Framework-res.apk
Here are a couple of more Mods...
All mods are flashable through CWM.
Extended Power Menu (Reboot) (android.policy.jar and com.htc.resources.apk) -(Thanks/Credit to ca1ne)-
My personal fave! This will add an extended power menu...Long press the power button and you will see an extra option, Reboot! Select this and you will get a second menu to choose the type of reboot. Choose from Normal, Hot Restart, Bootloader, or Recovery.
I do plan on uploading one without the htc.resources.apk for those that have already modded this file. The only reason it is included is for the Reboot icon. I made this icon for myself, but it is possible to default it to the generic Settings Gear icon you may have seen on similar mods, which would remove the need for including the extra file.
AllMods.zip - This is all of the mods I have listed so far, in one flashable file.
In my download folder, you will notice a few other items:
SmoothSpinnersMod_Themed.zip and AllMods_Themed.zip - These are the exact same mods, only the framework-res.apk is the one I personally use. (Others provided have not been themed). It isn't much, but I used UOT (Thanks to them of course!!) to spice up my Status Bar a little. Replaced many of the white status icons with prettier colored ones, changed the stock spinner to a Radar spinner, and included the Circle Battery with %.
I had it, so I figured I'd share it!
SmoothSpinners Files.zip - If your framework-res is already modded/themed, this is for you. Unzip the files, decompile your framework-res and copy/paste the files from my zip to: framework-res.apk/res/drawable/ Recompile. Thats it.
I know these are fairly minor mods, but I wanted to put them out there anyway in case someone is interested. I do hope someone finds some good use in these.
There are a few other mods I have attempted, but could not get to work on Froyo. I will likely be making the move to SalsaSlide sometime this week. (Finally, right??) Anyway, I plan to bring all of these over to GB as well as a few others I have been working on, so stay tuned!
Downloads: min.us/mEspresso < copy/paste in browser.

I know that these are for Froyo, which is probably not being used by very many people here anymore, but I am curious if anyone has even tried any of them and if so what did you think?
Sent from my custom MT3gS

Wow! It seems I am a bit more behind the times than I realized! I guess it is time to move on, eh? Ah well, Gingerbread here I come!

DocHoliday77 said:
Wow! It seems I am a bit more behind the times than I realized! I guess it is time to move on, eh? Ah well, Gingerbread here I come!
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Don't be so quick, I end up coming back to my favorite froyo rom because things just work. I loved your reboot mod. I have a request, I have seen other froyo phones with power control widgets on the notification, do you think that's possible on sense?

HEV Suit - Half-Life UI sound mod

an old thing i made a year ago that i wanna share with you guys.
if you flash it, it'll turn your phone into a HEV suit and you can get the feel of whacking headcrabs and aliens.
well, at least it'll sound like that...
the UI tap sound is Garry's mod's tap sound, and it sounds a bit loud, maybe you can just delete it or maybe disable it i guess.
enjoy and never lose hope for HL3!
it'll work on jelly bean, kitkat and lollipop. and if it doesn't work you can just extract it and edit it manually.

will try it...
Cheers ?

Hardcore bump here but recently i came up with same idea as @muhammadbimo1.
Used more sounds from HL1 HEV and mixed it with muhammadbimo's zip. Here it is

[GUIDE] [ROOT] Get the best sound out of your Idol 3!

Hi y'all fellow Idol 3 users! And welcome to my guide which aims to help you make your phone sound exactly how you want it to.
Okay, so if you bought this phone, chances are you wanted a great media consumption experience, since this is the Alcatel Idol 3's strength. When I got the phone and first plugged my headphones in to test out all that JBL stuff they were advertising, I couldn't help it but feel let down. Yep. I found it sounded muddy, disorted and clicky. But since we are talking about android, I knew I could probably do something about that. Plus I KNEW the audio chip in this phone was great. So I started tweaking and I finally can say that my Idol 3 sounds like a beast.
Here are the steps, then!
1. Disable the JBL setting. First and foremost, please, pleeease... go to settings > sound and notifications and disable "JBL". Honestly, it just doesn't sound good. It introduces a LOT of disortion in exchange for a little bit of bass. They are much better ways to get bassier sound without hardly disorting it, trust me. I don't know what they were thinking... this setting just assassinates the music IMO. However you are free to do as you want, of course.
* For step 2, root is needed.
2. Install Viper4Android. The following steps will guide you through the installation of this godly piece of software. For you guys which don't know what Viper4Android is, it's one of the best sound engines (in my opinion the best) available for android. It originated in China where it became really popular. Installing Viper4Android will not alter the sound signature in any way, it will just unlock the true potential of your sound-related hardware, getting rid of bottlenecks that worsen audio quality. Just installing it WILL get you a better sound. However, it also provides lots of settings and tweaks to change the sound signature if you want to, and they work really well, unlike this JBL setting we were given. In order to install it, you can either follow my own instructions or head to the official V4A thread and follow the steps there.
2.1 Install Busybox. Download one of the many installers in the Play Store, open the app and click install. Reboot if it asks you to. You can safely delete the app afterwards.
2.2 Download the Viper4Android apk from the official site. Be sure to download ViPER4Android FX 2.3.4.0 which is the one that works with Lollipop.
2.3 Extract the zip and then pick the apk called "ViPER4Android_FX_A4.x.apk" and put it in your phone's storage, then install it.
2.4 Install the V4A driver. Open the app and it should prompt you to install the driver. Select "Audiophile quality" for the best sound quality. Even though it warns you about high cpu usage, I did not notice lags or battery drain. However if this worries you a lot you can always choose "high quality" instead, though I wouldn't recommend it. It will ask you to reboot your phone, do it.
2.5 Make it run along enforcing selinux. This mod normally wont work with enforcing selinux, so you can either change selinux to permissive mode or just flash this zip (by XDA member maximumentropy) through custom recovery, wich will make it work with enforcing selinux. I recommend the second method.
2.6 OPTIONAL STEP: In ViPER4Android's thread the instructions say you have to edit the next lines in the "build.prop" file, which is located in /system. Lines to edit:
Ipa.decode=true to lpa.decode=false
tunnel.decode=true to tunnel.decode=false
lpa.use-stagefright=true to lpa.use-stagefright=false
I found that the second line was already set to false in my device. If you are not in stock rom you might not find this lines, if that's the case just ignore this step.
This step is optional because I used ViPER4Android for a few days without doing it and everything seemed to work. So if you prefer not to mess with the build.prop you can try without doing this.
2.7 Enable ViPER4Android. Open the app and you will find there are several tabs: "Headphones", "Speaker", "Bluetooth"... just activate the first checkbox in every tab if you want ViPER4Android working globally.
2.8 Turn off conflicting settings in some music players. Most player should work fine out of the box, but in some cases there are settings that conflict with V4A.
2.8.1 Poweramp: turn off EQ, tone and limiter. Go to settings > sound engine > advanced customization, and untick the first checkbox. The other settings didn't seem to conflict for me, but you can try disabling them too if you are having trouble to make it work (I have them all disabled).
This section needs expansion! Tell me how you made your favourite music player work with V4A.
2.9 Test it out! Play some music and open V4A. Click the dropdown menu and choose "Driver status". It should say:
NEON Enabled: Yes
Enabled: Yes
Status: Normal
Audio Format: Supported
Processing: Yes
If that's what you see, then contrats! Everything is set.
3. Grab a nice sounding music player. The consensus is that the one with the best quality is "Neutron Music Player". I do agree with this, however, the UI is really crappy and I just cannot cope with that scroll. That is why I use Poweramp, which also sounds nice, and has the addition of a nice little "punch" in the lower frequencies. If you know some other great sounding players be sure to comment below and tell so I can expand the guide!
4. Get a nice pair of headphones. The included ones by JBL do pretty well for the price they are valued at ($40) but that doesn't mean there aren't better choices out there! Also they didn't seem to fit comfortably in my ears with any of the sizes inlcuded. If you want something with a similar price and an even better sound, I recomend the Sony MH1C, a pair of IEMs you can get for $30 but sound like some good $100+ IEMs. If you want traditionally shaped headphones then my recommendaiton is the KOSS PortaPro (or the KSC75 wich are essentially the same but with a different form factor). They are also dirt cheap and have a very decent sound. For more recommendations you can ask me (though I am no expert) or just head to the Head-Fi forums. You won't get better advice anywhere else when concerning headphones! These guys really know their stuff.
Lastly, I hope this guide is of use to some of you and allows you to enjoy the Alcatel Idol 3 to the fullest. I wanted to contribute to this great device's community since I felt it diserves way more attention than it is getting. And by the way, english is not my first language, so please excuse any error I might have made!
FURTHER TWEAKING:
You will see that ViPER4Andoid has a lot of settings, especially if you select the "Expert" UI setting from the dropdown menu. If you want ideas and advice on using them, head over the the official V4A thread.

Thanks!!!

I use n7player. It produce nice sound with v4a combo plus convolver set on studer +1db updated. Also tried shuttle+ but n7 has nicer interface.
sent from Hell

Under cm12.1 do you need to disable "audiofx" before using v4a?

Attached is a flashable zip which should add the 3 lines mentioned in post #1 to the build.prop and remove any duplicates. The zip can be used to add ANY lines to the build.prop. You just add the lines to the tweaks.txt file inside the zip. I did not create the zip. I just modified it to put the 3 lines mentioned in there.
Code:
lpa.decode=false
tunnel.decode=false
lpa.use-stagefright=false

famewolf said:
Under cm12.1 do you need to disable "audiofx" before using v4a?
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Flash the removable script from cm 12.1 thread. It's on first page. Then supersu, and then v4a.. That's how I managed to make it work.
sent from Hell

Nikola Jovanovic said:
Flash the removable script from cm 12.1 thread. It's on first page. Then supersu, and then v4a.. That's how I managed to make it work.
sent from Hell
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You must mean a different "cm 12.1 thread" that unjustified dev's cause I don't see a "removable script".

Yes, I'm sorry. Here is the DL link https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934545546 and the thread is one for gapps in the first post of cm12.1 .
sent from Hell

famewolf said:
Under cm12.1 do you need to disable "audiofx" before using v4a?
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Yes, you do have to disable Audio FX unless you want to try and use both with V4A in compatible mode. I wouldn't recommend it though.

Langsuir said:
Yes, you do have to disable Audio FX unless you want to try and use both with V4A in compatible mode. I wouldn't recommend it though.
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Thanks for the guide..installed v4a tonight....seems to be working fine with spotify and bluetooth. I didn't use @Nikola Jovanovic's "cleaner" because it seemed to remove alot than just a few music apps...I used titanium backup to uninstall audiofx and I have n7player full installed (was free on amazon appstore)...haven't used it yet though.

It does, but really I don't see the reason to not apply it. Google cam is better than cm's, viper + n7 is better than apolo + audio fx.. So on, and so for..
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Nikola Jovanovic said:
It does, but really I don't see the reason to not apply it. Google cam is better than cm's, viper + n7 is better than apolo + audio fx.. So on, and so for..
sent from Hell
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It seemed to be doing something with vending.apk which is the google play store...I didn't want to chance that getting deleted. I use google calendar and it looked like it might delete it as well...will have to research when I have time and maybe modify.

It may also be the cause of apps crashing, but haven't experienced any reboots as the other users.
GPS stays on your phone, it deletes aosp cal but I installed Google calendar for that purpose.
It would be awesome if you could modify it in that way so the bloatware is cleaned but all other core apps are intacted.
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What do you think about Phonograph? Is it a valid music player, speaking of audio quality?

I just finished installing. All works fine so far. Testing some settings but think it's an improvement over "stock"sound. I really like the jetAudio music player. Been using it for a long time and think it's one of the best out there.

Thanks !

Thanks!!
Thank you! Works amazing with PowerAmp and Sennheiser Momentum On-Ear. Thought that sound was amazing already but now It's 200% better!

Or if you don't want to root simply use DFX player.... ?
Envoyé de mon 6045Y en utilisant Tapatalk

Anyone still gets stuttering, even with this installed? This is problem that happens to me with every player I tried. The one that gives less stutters and skips remains jetAudio... Is it a Lollipop problem?

Can't flash selinux patch, help please?