so whats the word on this voodooable sound chip? - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

so there was some talk a few days back, on the beta phone, that the sound chip for this isnt as good as the galaxy s, and voodoo wont be able to boost the audio, is this true for the final sgs2 as well?

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this is still on the first page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053978

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this is still on the first page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053978
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[Q] Low Volume Fix - Xperia X10

Hi,
I have read conflicting info on the status of the volume issue on the X10.
I have a X10 - now running Free X10 2.2 Beta 3 (LOVE IT!).. but the in call volume (and speakerphone) is still atrocious. I'm not after a debate as to whether you have the same problems or not, many people clearly have this problem.. for me it is so bad that I can generally not hear a phone call unless I am indoors and in a very quiet location..
Does anyone know;
a) Is Sony Ericsson actually working on a fix .. or are they just ignoring this. Xperia-x10 quoted last august that SE are working on it.. but it seems a long time for no fix to arrive
b) is this possible to be fixed in a custom ROM.. or is it impossible until the bootloader is cracked.
I have Poweramp, so I can sort of boost the volume when playing music, but honestly this could easily be 20 - 50% louder and then it would be similar to most other phones.
Anyone with anything helpful.. I would be most appreciative.
CheerS!
Hello.
Wait for developers to fix the 2.2.1
I wonder if this is not a android problem in general.I tried a desire HD and that was than mine ,the samsung galaxy S i tried was decent but not great
Tehouster said:
Hello.
Wait for developers to fix the 2.2.1
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So you mean 2.2.1 will fixed the problem?
u91tedpark said:
So you mean 2.2.1 will fixed the problem?
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Yes, I think because the title says : SEMI STABLE
Tehouster said:
Hello.
Wait for developers to fix the 2.2.1
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I have read that the problem can't be fixed unless the bootloader is hacked, or Sony actually come out with a fix.
Can anyone confirm this. I have read through 300 pages of posts on Free X10 Beta 2 /3 , and there is NO mention of a volume fix in the works.
Tehouster said:
Yes, I think because the title says : SEMI STABLE
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I hope this is true, cos this is the ONLY problem i hope it to be fixed, and it will be a PERFECT phone for me.
u91tedpark said:
I hope this is true, cos this is the ONLY problem i hope it to be fixed, and it will be a PERFECT phone for me.
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and the Camera Recorder is not done yet, be patient a little
Tehouster said:
and the Camera Recorder is not done yet, be patient a little
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Yea, I'm so looking forward, thanks for your kind reply.
u91tedpark said:
Yea, I'm so looking forward, thanks for your kind reply.
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No problem bro.
hate to say it but I suspect it's hardware limited - I don't think that the earpiece speaker that they've put in (most, if not all of the units) isn't really upto the job - mines better since the 2.1 update, but I still have to have it on full volume.. when I use a headset though, it's fine... in fact I have to turn the volume down a bit.
I had my hearing tested for work, I heard near 0 decibels, I've used the dog whistle app and according to that I can hear 18Khrtz.
It's not "us", It's the phone.
I'm dying to get this solved. My X10 lives in a drawer and I have since gotten a BlacBerry torch ( Which by the way is the most boiled pop-tart of a phone) and the sound is much better.
I still bring it to restaurants and play Angry Birds on it
gross a blackberry? People still use those?
fiscidtox said:
gross a blackberry? People still use those?
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Huh? Say again,Sorry I was on the phone and couldn't hear you.
want a volume boost ? use Louder Volume Hack. works for me pretty good. especially in headphones when im listening to my music.
i found v 3.6 on google. not the latest but works
mrljlamon said:
want a volume boost ? use Louder Volume Hack. works for me pretty good. especially in headphones when im listening to my music.
i found v 3.6 on google. not the latest but works
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There is no way that, That app worked.
NOT COMPATIBLE
Nexus One
Desire
Acer A1
Dell Streak
The LG Optimus range
All Motorola Devices
All Samsung Devices
All Sony Ericsson Devices
Everything Else
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/louder-volume-hack-v41_nyo.html
Delete it and maybe try to get your money back.
Blackberries are the worst phones I've ever used.. I owned three and they were so buggy.. I'm an electrical engineer and I know now how bad their build quality is as well and how horrible the os is.
Didnt buy it....but w.e lol
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My in call volume was ok till I put custom rom tmr_cyanogenmod_005 on it

[KERNEL] For the sceptics Kernel no wonk

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmo...on Model Network Owner Summary Stars Priority
FWIW I've been on this kernel all day and no wonks as of yet.
I will continue to test and report back.
Fingers crossed!
cyberon said:
Fingers crossed!
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Words of Cyanogen
Yeah, the retry logic in the i2c driver is there because the touchscreen and display wakeup can block the bus. This could be the reason why my N1 (which is AMOLED) never has the problem. Hmmmmmm, maybe a locking issue in LCDC suspend/resume? Maybe you just found the correlation, I hope
superatmel said:
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Yeah, the retry logic in the i2c driver is there because the touchscreen and display wakeup can block the bus. This could be the reason why my N1 (which is AMOLED) never has the problem. Hmmmmmm, maybe a locking issue in LCDC suspend/resume? Maybe you just found the correlation, I hope
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I don't think so, i have AMOLED and it wonks too
crazybyte said:
I don't think so, i have AMOLED and it wonks too
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With that radio to 5.08 or 5.12
5.08 is better for amoled
crazybyte said:
I don't think so, i have AMOLED and it wonks too
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Pero si eres español, quien eres en los foros?
MOD EDIT:
Translation: But if you're Spanish, who are on the forums?
English only please.
superatmel said:
With that radio to 5.08 or 5.12
5.08 is better for amoled
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huh...so, 5.08 with amoled=no wonk? Maybe I should just try that...
Edit: Flashed 5.08 = uninstalled Dewonkificator...rebooted...made 5 calls...received 10 calls from 3 different numbers...NO wonk! Damn...wish I knew this 2 months ago! hahaha... Anyway...tomorrow is another day...*fingers/toes crossed*
P.S. Maybe a poll should be made...
Test my kernel for sceptics.
SiNJiN76 said:
huh...so, 5.08 with amoled=no wonk? Maybe I should just try that...
Edit: Flashed 5.08 = uninstalled Dewonkificator...rebooted...made 5 calls...received 10 calls from 3 different numbers...NO wonk! Damn...wish I knew this 2 months ago! hahaha... Anyway...tomorrow is another day...*fingers/toes crossed*
P.S. Maybe a poll should be made...
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interesting..will test that too
I'm on 5.12 with an amoled att nexus and I've had one wonk. Do you guys think I should flash 5.08 over... I remember when the original korean came out and it had rumours of faster data transfer and clearer calls. Wouldn't the latest be the greatest... thought someone would educate me on the subject
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ChongoDroid said:
I'm on 5.12 with an amoled att nexus and I've had one wonk. Do you guys think I should flash 5.08 over... I remember when the original korean came out and it had rumours of faster data transfer and clearer calls. Wouldn't the latest be the greatest... thought someone would educate me on the subject
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I have gone back and forth between Korean and non. I have T-Mob version. I would NOT flash. I would fastboot img files. Much much safer wrt to radio upgradeing or down.
Docmjldds said:
I have gone back and forth between Korean and non. I have T-Mob version. I would NOT flash. I would fastboot img files. Much much safer wrt to radio upgradeing or down.
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+1 on that. The radio is the only thing I won't flash. Fastboot will either write correctly or fail to write, either way it is the safest way. Although, I haven't read of anyone here is a looooong time bricking their device by flashing radios
SiNJiN76 said:
huh...so, 5.08 with amoled=no wonk? Maybe I should just try that...
Edit: Flashed 5.08 = uninstalled Dewonkificator...rebooted...made 5 calls...received 10 calls from 3 different numbers...NO wonk! Damn...wish I knew this 2 months ago! hahaha... Anyway...tomorrow is another day...*fingers/toes crossed*
P.S. Maybe a poll should be made...
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I have amoled and 5.08 and I have been getting wonks.
Can we get back to the topic?
Is this kernel working or not??
Using 5.08 radio on T-Mobile US with amoled nexus and have never had any wonk with any of the gingerbread builds regardless of kernel. I don't use phone more than a couple of times a day for calls but never once experienced any problem. Thanks though to superatmel for some great investigative work and an awesome rom!
Amoled, 5.08 radio, zero wonk on any kernel, on any cm7 build.
N1
vegetaleb said:
Can we get back to the topic?
Is this kernel working or not??
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It seems to be working for me since I flashed it yesterday. Up till now no wonk. Total of maybe 15 calls in and out
Also just noticed a new kernel commited this morning for passion.
As of now still no wonks here! Latest radio and HBOOT..
But didn't call that much!
How can i check if i have amoled or not?

Wut, you can't pause video recording? REALLY?

So is it really true that android can't do such a simple thing? even my old symbian dumb-phone can do that! LOL. seriously wtf man? It's seriously needed when recording stuff!
well i can live with this, but it was a bit wtf moment when i realized it
I've never owned a phone that can. Or if I never noticed.
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Sparksltd said:
I've never owned a phone that can. Or if I never noticed.
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Have to agree with this Might fire up one of my old Nokias and test someday though I guess
I can pause while recording using the epic 4g.
Maybe its tw 4.0
inb4 "who needs to pause while recording, anyways?"
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I know I am in the wrong forum and not too sure if it would of changed from the SGS1 captivate to the SGS2 but even when I was on stock or custom roms I was always able to pause the video recorder and restart it. I just would hit the record button on screen to records, then hit the record button to pause it. Then hit the record to continue recording. If you hit the stop button it will not continue.
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I'm not sure why we can't do it on our phones, but the Samsung Infuse can do it. So its not a limitation of Android, its Samsung's decision not to allow us this feature.
RockRatt said:
I know I am in the wrong forum and not too sure if it would of changed from the SGS1 captivate to the SGS2 but even when I was on stock or custom roms I was always able to pause the video recorder and restart it. I just would hit the record button on screen to records, then hit the record button to pause it. Then hit the record to continue recording. If you hit the stop button it will not continue.
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We get a dedicated pause button on our camera. Samsung doesn't love you.
But no seriously, why would they have that in every gs1 phone variant, but not the gsii?
Are you holding it the wrong way?
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Well, because I want to have the possibility to choice of recording in a big 1 file (with pause buttom) or in multiples files.
Pause button since my W810i, N96, N97, N8 and N900.
Very strange indeed, that they removed this feature.
I don't find this as a big problem cause it's fast and easy to put several together using "Video maker".
My friends laughed out on me when GS2 couldn't do a simple job as this when their Nokia phones could Hope GS2 had the pause feature.
Limpperi said:
So is it really true that android can't do such a simple thing? even my old symbian dumb-phone can do that! LOL. seriously wtf man? It's seriously needed when recording stuff!
well i can live with this, but it was a bit wtf moment when i realized it
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Symbian isn't as dumb as you say. Might be a disaster commercially all right though ...
Good question actually makes a refreshing change to see a valid question on here as opposed to "can i root" what is the best ROm for battery life" and other such nonsense that is duplicated on here on a daily basis!!
This isn't something ive ever thought of and if i was recording something chances are i wouldn't be pausing, however knowing you have the option to do this would be very good indeed and i too am puzzled why this option is not available on the SGSII?
maybe it's something some devs could look into?
ronni.rasmussen said:
Very strange indeed, that they removed this feature.
I don't find this as a big problem cause it's fast and easy to put several together using "Video maker".
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So the feature was there in the first place or you mean on other phones?
EleCtrOx666 said:
So the feature was there in the first place or you mean on other phones?
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Actually the pause option while recording the video is available in Galaxy S.
Harsha Raj said:
Actually the pause option while recording the video is available in Galaxy S.
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Strange thing is both functions and the image for pausing(camera_pause.png) are included in the Camera.apk of SGSII, will see if I can bring it back.
EleCtrOx666 said:
Strange thing is both functions and the image for pausing(camera_pause.png) are included in the Camera.apk of SGSII, will see if I can bring it back.
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Then we can see some pausing action in my GS2! Gonna do a matrix kind video with it Good luck!
I just shot a video of my son playing there and there is no definitely no option to pause the video, surely some dev can come up with some hack here?
Anybody found a solution or an alternative video recorder ?
I'm gonna check camera apk and see what can be done.
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Damn miss my n95 for that

Is cyanogenmod of ICE CREAM SANDWICH for the S2?

I was looking the cyanogenmod of the 4.0 ice cream sandwich but I wanted to know if its full working and stable, cuz I think that what I'm looking is what is call CM9 but they are releasing Nightly versions every day.
Cuz ICS is officialy released for our S2 but dunno if Cyanogen could already have it done...
If you can live with http://teamhacksung.org/wiki/index.php/CyanogenMod9:GT-I9100:Nightly:Known_issues then yes, it is.
:O they don't see to be much arround, but the question is what do they mean?
NFC support on GT-I9100P and SGH-I777 is missing I got SGH-I777
FM Radio: try Spirit FM from market ?
Wifi Direct What is this? or what is it for...?
Orientation sensor is rolling when pitching means switching the different sides of the phone?
Not trying to be anoying but just trying to understand if its or not a good deal to install it now...
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I got SGH-I777
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GTFO of the I9100 forums then, before you do something (else) stoopid.
You intelligence level suggests you should stick to stock ROMs and never flash anything on your device.
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:O they don't see to be much arround, but the question is what do they mean?
NFC support on GT-I9100P and SGH-I777 is missing I got SGH-I777
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FYI, this is the I9100 forum, not the I777 forum. I777 forum here.
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FM Radio: try Spirit FM from market ?
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It's a radio app, on the market/play store. What's not to get here?
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Wifi Direct What is this? or what is it for...?
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Wifi Direct.
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Orientation sensor is rolling when pitching means switching the different sides of the phone?
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Sort of... pitch and roll are aeronautical terms. (See here) If you have the phone flat, home button would roughly correspond to the tail of an airplane. Roll is rotating the phone on the lengthwise axis, pitch is rotating the phone on the horizontal axis. There's a picture that illustrates it in the Wikipedia article I linked.

[Q] Voodoo sound working on the GS3 (Sprint)?

My OG Epic 4g kicked the bucket. I loved voodoo sound on my phone. Does voodoo sound work with the GS3 yet? I know it has the same codec. Did a quick search on the subject and didnt find anything,
Its not working yet on the i9300 but the dev who makes it stated its coming to the i9300 so I'm sure it will soon to u guys not 100% though
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supercurio has no us variant to test with yet. the international uses a completely different DAC (wolfson) so its like a different phone in terms of voodoo sound. It requires completely separate legwork. He's curious about the us version but is not working on it and hasn't even heard audio through it yet so don't get your hopes up. I desperately want it too, just trying to be realistic.
The US sgs3 doesn't have the wolfson audio chip that the International version and all other voodoo devices use so it is unlikely that we will get voodoo sound. It is possible that supercurio does some other sort of sound enhancement like his voodoo louder he made for non wolfson devices. We'll see what happens after he gets it working on the international s3.
I thought it was confirmed a few days ago that the US variants DO have Wolfson DAC?
Anyways, OP try Awesome Beats mod in the Mods section. Not exactly the same but it should keep you satisfied until we figure out whats going on with Voodoo Sound
stonew5082 said:
supercurio has no us variant to test with yet. the international uses a completely different DAC (wolfson) so its like a different phone in terms of voodoo sound. It requires completely separate legwork. He's curious about the us version but is not working on it and hasn't even heard audio through it yet so don't get your hopes up. I desperately want it too, just trying to be realistic.
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Oh man this is so disappointing. I thought it had the wolfson. :crying:
fhurricane said:
Oh man this is so disappointing. I thought it had the wolfson. :crying:
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I know I cried too lol. It absolutely doesn't. Supercurio chilled with peeps from wolfson so he knows.
it doesnt need wolfson... this is the same level only qualcoms chip.
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it doesnt need wolfson... this is the same level only qualcoms chip.
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the same 'level'? What u mean? voodoo good. no voodoo bad.
stonew5082 said:
the same 'level'? What u mean? voodoo good. no voodoo bad.
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I think another way to word it would be the same quality. So it's still a great DAC, just not Wolfson

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