Want to try to overclock to 1.3ghz+?
Tired of the speaker not being loud enough?
Tired of hiss and noise with your high sensitivity headphones?
What is this?
I have made a free app in the Android market to tweak a few things I've added to the Nook Color kernel. I hope to add more features to this app later. For now you can adjust:
*CPU speed per stepping. Allows you to overclock as much or as little as you want.
*CPU voltage control. Undervolt for better battery life and/or overvolt for better overclocking.
*Headphone analog gain
*External speaker analog gain
*DAC gain
*USB Host control(requires OC kernel 06/18/11+)
*U-Boot control(courtesy of FatTire)
What can I do with this?
The CPU settings allow you to customize the CPU clock rate. With my overclock kernel the OMAP CPU has 5 OPPs(steppings) available. This app allows you to change the clock rate for each of those OPPs at runtime. Want to try to overclock to 1.3ghz? This app allows you to set the clock rate of your choosing.
You can also use this app to help get rid of hiss and noise on your headphones. I have sensitive headphones and I find the hiss and noise to be downright abnoxious on the Nook Color. With B&N default settings, I can only turn up the "Android media" volume to 25-35% before its too loud. This means the volume difference between the noise floor and the audio is very small which makes the noise noticiable. To partially fix this issue you can either turn down the DAC volume in this app or turn down the headphone analog gain. I prefer to just turn down the headphone analog gain until I can increase the "Android media" volume to 85-90% for comfortable listening levels.
If the external speaker is too quiet you may need to increase the DAC gain. Note that this will also increase the headphone volume so you may need to subsequently decrease the headphone analog gain.
Why use this app and not the other apps in the market?
The primary advantage to using this app versus other more generic apps you might find in the market is that this app makes low level changes in the driver to increase volume. Other apps must make these changes in software to be hardware agnostic. This leads to reduced audio quality versus hardware level changes.
Note: This app requires kernel support. For audio settings you will need a newer 2.6.32 kernel found in CM7 Nightly 88+ or my(Dalingrin) overclock kernel for B&N Froyo 1.2 and CM7.
For CPU settings you will need a 2.6.32 overclocked kernel from 06/09/11 or later.
Download:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dalingrin.nookcolortweaks
I love it! It works great so far for external speaker, really helps when in the car with music and in a case watching netflix. Thanks again!
Awesome app Dal, just what I was looking for! Thanks for all your awesome work on the NC.
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I am running CM7 5252011 #87 nightly & this app notifies me that the kernel is not compatible & I need a later ver of CM7. What am I doing wrong. BTW thanks for this app. It is a big deal!!!!
Thanks,
kev
Just tried messing with the settings for the headphones, and wow, its so much clearer now! Awesome app, really makes the NC that much better.
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two good things happen with this apps:
first, it really reduces hiss in the headphones to levels i cannot hear
second, finally it has a link to donate to the person who contributed the most in making the nook the great device it is now
don_ernesto said:
two good things happen with this apps:
first, it really reduces hiss in the headphones to levels i cannot hear
second, finally it has a link to donate to the person who contributed the most in making the nook the great device it is now
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I think people should get the app just to donate to Dal
EDIT: Ah ha! A direct link. DONATE PEOPLE!
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=S8ZMTYR2J2JFu
ace7196 said:
I think people should get the app just to donate to Dal
EDIT: Ah ha! A direct link. DONATE PEOPLE!
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=S8ZMTYR2J2JFu
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Absolutely!
Thanks Ace.
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Man volume fixes, and usb host coming in at the same time.. you know somthings are brewing when the devs go quite for a while.
I am actually having some problems with this app. I can increase the DAC a little bit, but if I even touch the external speakers option the sound goes out which requires a reboot. I am running nightly 87, with the oc kernal of 5/23. Any ideas? Great app by the way, I can tell from increasing the DAC that it helps a lot.
5 stars for you on the market
of course!
thefamousmoe said:
I am actually having some problems with this app. I can increase the DAC a little bit, but if I even touch the external speakers option the sound goes out which requires a reboot. I am running nightly 87, with the oc kernal of 5/23. Any ideas? Great app by the way, I can tell from increasing the DAC that it helps a lot.
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Lol. I thought I was the only one!
So, increase the DAC, then if you open the speaker or headset, the sliders go mute by default. So open it and just slide the sliders over
A bit confusing. I even did a restart because I thought I broke something...
FYI, CM7 nightly 87 does not have kernel support for this app yet. You will need to wait for the next nightly or you can use the OC kernel now.
ace7196 said:
Lol. I thought I was the only one!
So, increase the DAC, then if you open the speaker or headset, the sliders go mute by default. So open it and just slide the sliders over
A bit confusing. I even did a restart because I thought I broke something...
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I am probably missing something really simple, but for the life of me can't figure out how to fix this without a reboot.
I increased the dac slightly, then I increased the external analog gain slightly, and it stopped playing... or i thought it did.
I checked my speaker volume through the main settings and it was all the way up. I checked it in the cm7 settings and it was all the way up. Then i went back into this app and increased the dac about halfway and could hear what was playing, but barely. And when I increased the gain more it did get a bit louder, but not loud enough to listen to from more than a couple inches away.
Story for the trouble, i know I'm just missing something. Thanks for any help
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ansleyj44 said:
I am probably missing something really simple, but for the life of me can't figure out how to fix this without a reboot.
I increased the dac slightly, then I increased the external analog gain slightly, and it stopped playing... or i thought it did.
I checked my speaker volume through the main settings and it was all the way up. I checked it in the cm7 settings and it was all the way up. Then i went back into this app and increased the dac about halfway and could hear what was playing, but barely. And when I increased the gain more it did get a bit louder, but not loud enough to listen to from more than a couple inches away.
Story for the trouble, i know I'm just missing something. Thanks for any help
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This issue is fixed and the app is updated.
The problem was that the gain settings were defaulting to 0 on first run. This should not require a reboot to fix. All you need to do is turn up the speaker analog gain. I would turn it all the way up. You should have no problem hearing the speaker at this point and it will no longer default to 0 once you adjust the gain.
dalingrin said:
This issue is fixed and the app is updated.
The problem was that the gain settings were defaulting to 0 on first run. This should not require a reboot to fix. All you need to do is turn up the speaker analog gain. I would turn it all the way up. You should have no problem hearing the speaker at this point and it will no longer default to 0 once you adjust the gain.
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Perfect! Thanks, this is great!
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Excellent program, thanks for putting this together!
Nightly86 + 5/23 kernel = kernel not compatible
mr_fosi said:
Nightly86 + 5/23 kernel = kernel not compatible
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Same combo working fine for me...?
mr_fosi said:
Nightly86 + 5/23 kernel = kernel not compatible
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I would reflash the latest OC kernel.
yeah, im going to download this as soon as i get home tonight, this is awesome, thanks.
hay, dalingrin, do you think this will be merge with cm in the near future? this with cyanogens DSP Equalizer would be a great combo.
Ok in that file towards the bottom are 2 lines referring to audio..both values are set to 1.. if increasing the values to 3 or 4, will that make the volume of ring tones and what not louder?
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Usually the values are 1 and 0, 1 being on and 0 being off or enabled and disabled.
There's a thread in development that shows how to increase volume, I never looked at it though.
Ya there was the qpst thing i tried but i didnt not a difference
3vo powered trucker!!!!
mababer2 said:
Ya there was the qpst thing i tried but i didnt not a difference
3vo powered trucker!!!!
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Try this app, I use it and it makes speaker+headphones so much louder on MT4G and it has equalizer for both.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.TEST.android.lvh&feature=search_result
Also try the DSP settings app in some of the custom ROMs, that will also give you volume boost. Id stay out of the build prop if you dont know exactly what your doing, Ive heard bad things can come from a simple mistake.
I am now on cyanogenmod, but have the feeling that the original ROM has longer battery life because of the different auto backlight levels.
Does anybody of you know which values should I use in Cm7 to have about the same settings of the stock Rom?
Cheers
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hmm, i cant telly ou exactly now, due to my atrix being in repairs, but if i remember correctly you have to go to cyanogendmod settings and than find there (im not 100% sure its under display) the option to filter sensor input (must turn on, at least so it was on the early nightlies) and adjust backlight levels accordingly than.
Yeah it's right. Actually, I was asking for the values to be used there for having the same experience of Motorola ROM
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Meh, try it out to your liking, I've had like 10 steps, first one at lowest brightness (which the stock rom can't even do).
At night even at 0% brightness I find the phone too bright and would like a way to lower it. I also think the minimum volume level is too loud to be comfortable in a quiet room and would like a method to lower that as well. My last request is a technique to seperate ringtone and notification volume levels. If any of these are actually possible through MODs without hobbled fixes by apps in the Play Store, I would love it! I'm running a modded stock non-deodexed ROM with unlocked bootloader and ROOT. Please help and thanks!
techwynn said:
At night even at 0% brightness I find the phone too bright and would like a way to lower it. I also think the minimum volume level is too loud to be comfortable in a quiet room and would like a method to lower that as well. My last request is a technique to seperate ringtone and notification volume levels. If any of these are actually possible through MODs without hobbled fixes by apps in the Play Store, I would love it! I'm running a modded stock non-deodexed ROM with unlocked bootloader and ROOT. Please help and thanks!
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to lower the autobrightness values, everything is in /system/framework/framework-res.apk - res/values/arrays.xml
reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904691
andybones said:
to lower the autobrightness values, everything is in /system/framework/framework-res.apk - res/values/arrays.xml
reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904691
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Thanks for the reply! Will modifying these values enable the phone to go lower than the stock 0% brightness? I don't use auto brightness and keep my DNA at 0% brightness most of the time, only going higher in sunlight.
techwynn said:
At night even at 0% brightness I find the phone too bright and would like a way to lower it. I also think the minimum volume level is too loud to be comfortable in a quiet room and would like a method to lower that as well. My last request is a technique to seperate ringtone and notification volume levels. If any of these are actually possible through MODs without hobbled fixes by apps in the Play Store, I would love it! I'm running a modded stock non-deodexed ROM with unlocked bootloader and ROOT. Please help and thanks!
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I don't know if you'll consider this a "hobbled app" fix, but I've been using Power Toggles to substitute for my CM habit.
You can adjust notification and ringtone volumes from the notification drawer that way.
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androidxen said:
I don't know if you'll consider this a "hobbled app" fix, but I've been using Power Toggles to substitute for my CM habit.
You can adjust notification and ringtone volumes from the notification drawer that way.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it out and while it does have separate sliders for the two volumes, it does NOT actually work. The two volumes are still tied together in practice. After ICS I think I've read its linked at a system or kernel level and I was hoping someone might work on a fix to address this. Also, referring to "hobbled" app fixes, I saw an app that used a workaround by switching to a custom ringtone to adjust that volume separately but was hoping for a streamlined system built in mod so that I don't have any extraneous apps or screens to delve into to adjust settings. I like minimalistic and debloat anything I dont use. Thanks again for the feedback.
i agree 100% with the sound being too loud, which has been an issue since ICS on even the Rezound...so i think their whole upgrade of the newer OS's made the volume louder. the rezound, on lowest sound level, was 20%..that's ridiculous, it should be half that, or around like 5%. even changing volume steps never worked because there was no lower volume.
Can i change the way my phone vibrates. I want to make it similar to the htc one mini vibration. I have a blu life play device. Is it possible to change the vibration while typing and using system keys?
rdlegy said:
Can i change the way my phone vibrates. I want to make it similar to the htc one mini vibration. I have a blu life play device. Is it possible to change the vibration while typing and using system keys?
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try this app
https://play.google.com/store/search?clientAction=534.click&q=vybe
Can you tell me, how can I change vibration frequency? This app can't do that. Vibration is too loud because my phone fell down. That's why I want to do it more silent, than it's in normal state.
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I'm actually know, that some rom's has this "change vibration" function in settings menu. Like s2w.
solution
Hi everyone!
The problem is solved! TricksterMOD can change vibrator strength!
That's what I need! :victory:
Hope it helps!