[Q] Sound and Volume Levels - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am hearing impaired and wear hearing aids in both ears, and was wondering if somebody could comment on the volume levels of the ringtones and notifications on this phone. I tried the HTC Inspire 4G but I couldn't hear it.
capman231

It's LOUD. I rarely have my phone on full volume now. A total contrast to my HTC Desire.
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do you notice the difference in speaker quality/ volume versus galaxy s 1?

and how is the earbuds?

Yes, i also want to know how is the quality and the power with the headphones (in-ear). Do you compare it to an ipod or to a Cowon Iaudio for example (would be perfect...). Just tell me if its good quality and powerful enough.

I got round to trying out the headphone volume for the first time last night and have to say compared to the SGS I find the audio volume to be quite poor.
With the volume up to the max it is only just acceptable.
On the SGS if I turned that to max it would have hurt my ears.
I have tried it on various Media players all with the same effect.
Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

Beards said:
volume to be quite poor.
With the volume up to the max it is only just acceptable.
On the SGS if I turned that to max it would have hurt my ears.
50% of volume level through stock headphones loud enough for me .
100% far far to loud .
Thats on original stock through to KE7
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JJEgan said:
Beards said:
volume to be quite poor.
With the volume up to the max it is only just acceptable.
On the SGS if I turned that to max it would have hurt my ears.
50% of volume level through stock headphones loud enough for me .
100% far far to loud .
Thats on original stock through to KE7
jje
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Yes... I have a sneaky feeling I may have a problem with my SGS2.
I have asked a few colleagues at work and they all agree the volume from both the Headphones AND Speaker is quite poor.
I have now purchased Volume + (Sound Boost) and tried increasing the levels but with no success.
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Beards said:
Yes... I have a sneaky feeling I may have a problem with my SGS2.
I have asked a few colleagues at work and they all agree the volume from both the Headphones AND Speaker is quite poor.
I have now purchased Volume + (Sound Boost) and tried increasing the levels but with no success.
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Agreed. I'm comparing it to my iRiver H340 which is unfair but the GSII sounds pretty s**t through my Shures, low volume and overall bad dynamics. This wouldn't bother me in the slightest in regards to MP3 use as I have never used a mobile phone as a music player, there isn't a phone in the world that can compete to a proper music player, especially with Rockbox installed like my iRiver. However, the bad volume and dynamics also effect video playback, both in terms of Youtube and local video files. I did a direct comparison between my GSII and my brother's Desire HD with the same Youtube music video and my Shure E2C earphones last night and to say the Samsung was found wanting is an understatement. That does bother me.
Anyone aware of a way to increasing the volume at the very least?

try this m8
go to dailer *#*#197328640#*#*(You need this one i think.)
Click 5 Audio - 2 AP volume config
1 nb voice call
then setting are there to abmax of level 100 click on any then it will say input value hope it helps

Do a search for Dsp manager in the forums. Made my S2 sound crisp.
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stesteste said:
try this m8
go to dailer *#*#197328640#*#*(You need this one i think.)
Click 5 Audio - 2 AP volume config
1 nb voice call
then setting are there to abmax of level 100 click on any then it will say input value hope it helps
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Had a look at this... boy was it confusing. There is a mountain of settings which made absolutely no sense to me.
I tried the method you kindly mention but it didn't seem to follow sorry.

skanj said:
Do a search for Dsp manager in the forums. Made my S2 sound crisp.
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I see it requires root.
This is something I have yet to do. Don't want to do it until I have the SGS2 sorted.

skanj said:
Do a search for Dsp manager in the forums. Made my S2 sound crisp.
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I tried searching for this dsp manager..all of the threads are about roms on other devices, how did u get it onto the SGS2?
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iznee said:
I tried searching for this dsp manager..all of the threads are about roms on other devices, how did u get it onto the SGS2?
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All you need to do is look here.
There you will find the topic, information and App for download.

Beards said:
All you need to do is look here.
There you will find the topic, information and App for download.
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Thanks beard,
You are always a great help to everyone..
Cheers
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iznee said:
Thanks beard,
You are always a great help to everyone..
Cheers
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Absolutely no problem... and if you feel happy enough about it a thank-you will also see £10 coming out of my wallet for my nursing staff.
They check my profile at the end of each week. This week so far they will be tearing £20 (I think) from the leather.

Beards said:
I see it requires root.
This is something I have yet to do. Don't want to do it until I have the SGS2 sorted.
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You don't need root mate. Its running perfectly on my unrooted S2.
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skanj said:
You don't need root mate. Its running perfectly on my unrooted S2.
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Really...... Interesting as it says at the top of the topic ~ "You must be Rooted…Make a Nand Backup before flashing…I’m not responsible for problems. It should work on any 2.2 ROMs…YMMV"

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1066078&highlight=sound+amazing

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[Q] increasing ringtone

hello im new to the fourms is there a way to disable this on the at&t i777 ? this thing is really driving me nuts.thanks
Mike Powell said:
hello im new to the fourms is there a way to disable this on the at&t i777 ? this thing is really driving me nuts.thanks
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I don't remember mine doing that.
yea it starts out low and gets louder as it rings
Is it doing this with every ringtone? Are you rooted and/or on another rom? Never seen this myself on various roms.
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yes im rooted tried two different roms still does it
I have the complete opposite problem - ringtones start out very, very loud then drop down to a lower volume after about 5 seconds. Same effect no matter what ringtone I try. Odd.
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[Q]ICS Ring Volume

I found that one other person posted this in the Shostock thread, so I figured I'd at least ask. I'm currently on Shishir's ICS rom, but I noticed it also on the UCLC2 leak: when I get an incoming call, the ring volume starts off very quiet for the first half-second or so, then immediately jumps to the set ringing volume (which for me is pretty high). Has anyone else experienced this? If so, is there any fix? Or is it a bug that's well known and not yet fixed and I'm just an idiot? Any help would be appreciated
A lot of Samsung phones have the Increasing Ringtone. When I had the Samsung Eternity, it started with low volume then jumped to a higher volume, same with my Samsung Captivate. I think it's one their "features" for their phone.
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roa57 said:
A lot of Samsung phones have the Increasing Ringtone. When I had the Samsung Eternity, it started with low volume then jumped to a higher volume, same with my Samsung Captivate. I think it's one their "features" for their phone.
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I never experienced it on stock 2.3.4 though. My gf's captivate doesn't do it either. So I don't think that's it. Any other ideas?
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I remember that feature on old pre-smartphone era phones. I haven't seen that in any versions of the S II or android from GB to ICS...
I wonder if bumping is allowed in this forum.
Does anyone have any useful information about this at all? Is it even happening to anyone else on custom ICS roms?
karate104 said:
I wonder if bumping is allowed in this forum.
Does anyone have any useful information about this at all? Is it even happening to anyone else on custom ICS roms?
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I know this won't be much help but I have used a few ROM's...unnamed..Phone Bricker...Turkbey....Turkbey ICS and never had that issue.
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Am on Binnacle beta 7 now...it does it but I like it. gives me a sec to answer phone before it goes crazy in case it's close by.
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Random bump to see if anyone knows anything now. Does it happen to anyone on Sammy-based ROMs? AOSP ROM users do chime in too please
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Increasing ring, you can remove it by modding it.
Shostock, Phone-Bricker, not sure what else have removed it so it doesn't do that.
when I get an incoming call, the ring volume starts off very quiet for the first half-second or so, then immediately jumps to the set ringing volume (which for me is pretty high)
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Wouldn't that help you get to it quicker since you have it "pretty high"
roa57 said:
A lot of Samsung phones have the Increasing Ringtone. When I had the Samsung Eternity, it started with low volume then jumped to a higher volume, same with my Samsung Captivate. I think it's one their "features" for their phone.
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This is exactly correct.
LiLChris06 said:
Increasing ring, you can remove it by modding it.
Shostock, Phone-Bricker, not sure what else have removed it so it doesn't do that.
Wouldn't that help you get to it quicker since you have it "pretty high"
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How complicated would such a mod be, especially on an odexed ROM? XD
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karate104 said:
How complicated would such a mod be, especially on an odexed ROM? XD
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I have no idea how to mod on odex files.
Shirshir knows I believe since his rom is the only odex in our phone.

[Q] Hum from external speaker

Hi,
Just wanted to ask a guick question, when I am using my phone and open any app, turn on bluetooth, gps etc I get a very quiet hum for about a second or two from the external speaker. Has any one experienced this with there galaxy ace?
If not i'll contact samsung and see what they say.
Thanks
This is normal for me
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Same here. It's a mix of a very low volume hum and static noise.
It's done that from day one on stock rom and all custom roms i tried so far.
I guess it's hardware related.
Both aces have that.
Thanks for the reply guys good to know me phones ok.
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Low outcall volume (people can barely hear me)

Any way that I can adjust the outcall volume? On phone calls the person on the other end can hardly hear what I'm saying, if at all. It seems to be low no matter which ROM I try. I am rooted and s-off if that may give me some more options.
Thanks.
Try to get into the epst settings and change the CDMA configuration as explained here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37710750
Be careful with those settings, if you follow the instructions there is a setting that you can change to change the call quality... Good luck!
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jocarog said:
Try to get into the epst settings and change the CDMA configuration as explained here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37710750
Be careful with those settings, if you follow the instructions there is a setting that you can change to change the call quality... Good luck!
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Thank you, that looks promising. I'll take a better look at it tomorrow.
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Can u report how it goes. I always have volume issues on aosp
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corcgaigh said:
Can u report how it goes. I always have volume issues on aosp
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For aosp flash this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pnj5actqnxzqtar/10.1 deck_volume-75(1).zip
Deck increased the volumes and somebody gave this zip, don't remember who, anyways it works great, all credit goes to Deck and his amazing work on CM 10.1 for our Evo... Flash in recovery...
Thanks man.
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corcgaigh said:
Thanks man.
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Did it work for you? I hope so it helped my phone even with the low aux volume when using my car stereo and my Bluetooth headset... Be careful Do not to blow up your headset speaker.... :silly:

Sound BOOSTER for the NOTE 2 with revert back to normal

DO NOT USE THIS ON CM10
So I got tired of having such a great phone. But very poor sound quality on the speaker phone when making a call.. Plus I like having my music little louder then normal.. And I have to say.. I hit this one right of the park for you guys.. All the sound is perfectly setup for the note 2. No more asking the person on the other end what they sayed..
Just flash in twrp recovery.
Link.. http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877489996720
md5: f5df4f10158fc3a0cbc1404d4e714e96
Here is a revert file to use. If some reason you don't like what I did..
Link... http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877489997418
md5: 1bcf4d244343be7c94b805f54a7ae461
If this works for you. Hit the thanks button..
i am currently using volume + app from play store
will this work with it or any better than volume +
neckbonest said:
i am currently using volume + app from play store
will this work with it or any better than volume +
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It should. Try it out. Then leave feedback
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Is this the same thing as the defaultgain thing?
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thunderbread said:
Is this the same thing as the defaultgain thing?
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No sir. I have turned up dpi. So we can get better sound. The government sets every volume control at certain level. On each phone. .
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Will this work with beans' ROM?
this should work for any ROM right not just clean ace? And if I've used trickster to turn up sound levels through my kernel, this will raise it even more?
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I just installed this on CleanROM 4.9 and don't notice any difference with in-call volume being louder....
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Will this fix the horrible volume issue in aosp based roms??........................... I Would love to go back to aosp 4.2.2 roms but I can't stand the horribly low in-call and speakerphone volume!
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YankInDaSouth said:
I just installed this on CleanROM 4.9 and don't notice any difference with in-call volume being louder....
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according to the OP that only mentions speaker phone and music, this would not affect in call volume when not using the speaker.
IT.Guy said:
Will this fix the horrible volume issue in aosp based roms??........................... I Would love to go back to aosp 4.2.2 roms but I can't stand the horribly low in-call and speakerphone volume!
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Edit the file manually to boost volume....default_gain.conf located in system/etc
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Can I attempt to use this on AOKP?
P2o8wer said:
Will this work with beans' ROM?
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Flashed on beans 20 and noticed little improvement.
volume is loud and crisp.
But I don't know about more loud or more crisp.
Basically all I'm saying is that it didn't brake anything once flashed haha
Downloading now
I am downloading now, will post back soon with my thoughts!
This will not work on aosp roms. Touch wiz based roms only.
Guys. Once I get a chance. I will post a revert up. I been really tied up with my dad at the hospital on life support... I am sorry I cant do anything right now
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ezgoing2406 said:
Guys. Once I get a chance. I will post a revert up. I been really tied up with my dad at the hospital on life support... I am sorry I cant do anything right now
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hope everything works out the best it can sorry to hear that
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ezgoing2406 said:
Guys. Once I get a chance. I will post a revert up. I been really tied up with my dad at the hospital on life support... I am sorry I cant do anything right now
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Damn dude, sorry to hear about your Dad! Hope everything turns out OK!
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ezgoing2406 said:
Guys. Once I get a chance. I will post a revert up. I been really tied up with my dad at the hospital on life support... I am sorry I cant do anything right now
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Hope all is well EZ.
All is good guys. I will post something tonight or first thing in the morning...
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