HDX 8.9-very poor volume - Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

Meaning I have to have it within a foot of me or I can't hear it.
I'm rooted with the xposed HDX tool and everything works fine, just the speaker volume is so low I have trouble hearing on the nightstand in a quiet room.
I tried various music players, including Viper for Android, all the same. Viper had no effect at all.
Any help or suggestions would make me very grateful!
Thanks,
Rich

dorpmuller said:
Meaning I have to have it within a foot of me or I can't hear it.
I'm rooted with the xposed HDX tool and everything works fine, just the speaker volume is so low I have trouble hearing on the nightstand in a quiet room.
I tried various music players, including Viper for Android, all the same. Viper had no effect at all.
Any help or suggestions would make me very grateful!
Thanks,
Rich
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try installing gravity box for jb from xposed, most things wont work since it is intended for use with vanila android but some of the media tweaks might work for you. they did on my 7"

spaghettiknight said:
try installing gravity box for jb from xposed, most things wont work since it is intended for use with vanila android but some of the media tweaks might work for you. they did on my 7"
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Appreciate your response, but GB is already installed-no affect for audio.
Rich

dorpmuller said:
Meaning I have to have it within a foot of me or I can't hear it.
I'm rooted with the xposed HDX tool and everything works fine, just the speaker volume is so low I have trouble hearing on the nightstand in a quiet room.
I tried various music players, including Viper for Android, all the same. Viper had no effect at all.
Any help or suggestions would make me very grateful!
Thanks,
Rich
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try this on setting 7
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FREE.android.lvh&hl=en

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[Q] Noise in the background when playing music after 4.2.2 update

I have a strange problem after 4.2.2 update. When I connect headphones and start playing music or audiobook or anything else via headphones or internal speaker, I hear in the background some kind of silent but constant noise, it is there in the background, always. And its stops abut 2 second after I stop the music. I'm sure it didn't happens in 4.1.1 and started immediately after 4.2.2 update. And it really worries me, because I use this phone mostly for audiobooks... Help? anybody?
I got the same on original music application . Go get poweramp it solved the problem for me
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium
Turning off beats audio pretty much relinquishes audio hiss, otherwise you can try flashing zeroinfinity`s audio mod which apparently also woks on 4.2.2.
ryanjsoo said:
Turning off beats audio pretty much relinquishes audio hiss, otherwise you can try flashing zeroinfinity`s audio mod which apparently also woks on 4.2.2.
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So You are trying to tell me that this is normal? I'm sure everything worked fine on 4.1.1
Same issue in poweramp.
ryanjsoo, you're right, turning beats audio off helps a little... but this is ridiculous, beats audio device with hiss in the background when turned on.
I'm on stock right now, custom rom will help?
korc said:
So You are trying to tell me that this is normal? I'm sure everything worked fine on 4.1.1
Same issue in poweramp.
ryanjsoo, you're right, turning beats audio off helps a little... but this is ridiculous, beats audio device with hiss in the background when turned on.
I'm on stock right now, custom rom will help?
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You can try using an external dac/amp such as a fiio e6, using a custom rom may help, try flashing this mod,make a backup since i cannot guarantee that it will work with 4.2.2 however i have heard of people having success, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231742, otherwise i cannot think of anything else except backing up your apps and contacts, wiping data and flashing stock?, also, not sure if this works but using root explorer, under the directory etc, change all the 48000 ang 48 vales to 44100 and 44.1 in asound and audio_policy to remove any resampling which may destroy quality.
ryanjsoo said:
You can try using an external dac/amp such as a fiio e6, using a custom rom may help, try flashing this mod,make a backup since i cannot guarantee that it will work with 4.2.2 however i have heard of people having success, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231742, otherwise i cannot think of anything else except backing up your apps and contacts, wiping data and flashing stock?, also, not sure if this works but using root explorer, under the directory etc, change all the 48000 ang 48 vales to 44100 and 44.1 in asound and audio_policy to remove any resampling which may destroy quality.
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Thank you. I will try to do it, because right now my night sessions with audiobooks become a nightmare. Honestly, whole 4.2.2 update is a one big mistake in my opinion. They gave me hissing sounds, lock screen lags and take away some of my favorite widgets.
Can I downgrade and install viper x based on 4.1.1 via hansontool ?
EDIT: Problem solved. I've done another factory reset, this time with format data. Was getting ready to unlock BL but when I checked audio quality, there is no hissing sound, nor popping now. And general responsiveness is also improved. I don't get this, but it works now

[Q] i9100 audio issues

I've been having an issue with the audio on my i9100 since I rooted and flashed the supernexus build 4 ROM from here (android 4.2.2)
I first tried contacting the developer, but have had no response so thought I'd try here.
The issue is hard to describe, but such that you would spot it instantly if you had the phone in your hand. Anyway, I'll try:
It's almost like there is a threshold in audio volume that needs to be exceeded before the phone will output any sound. In a typical music track, there are several moments below this threshold, so basically for certain moments in the track you hear silence instead of the quiet parts. This is extremely irritating, and makes some tracks bordering on unlistenable, especially at lower volumes which seems to make the problem worse. The problem occurs with all headphones I've tried, the phone speakers and also when transmitting audio over Bluetooth.
Has anyone got any ideas what the problem might be? Am I missing something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is driving me mad! Cheers.
Try a different music player from playstore
andrewwright said:
Try a different music player from playstore
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Thanks for the reply
The problem occurs on all the music players ive tried
Different rom? Have you tested a different rom to see if it follows you.
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Different rom? Have you tested a different rom to see if it follows you.
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The problem didn't occur with the stock rom, it began when I flashed the supernexus rom. I'd like to avoid flashing another rom if possible, everything else on the phone is pretty much how I want it. I was hoping there might be some option in the settings that ive missed, perhaps something to do with noise cancellation?
Thanks
Try the milestone build from supernexus.

S4 and Beats audio

So, i've got and s4 and monster betas tour headphones, microphone and play pause bottoun work perfectly, but volume control seems working only on my sister's iphone, is there a way to make it work on android?
noooooo said:
So, i've got and s4 and monster betas tour headphones, microphone and play pause bottoun work perfectly, but volume control seems working only on my sister's iphone, is there a way to make it work on android?
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Hello there,
Now I'm not a beats user however I looked at some pictures. If the volume buttons are touch sensitive then this could be the problem.
Or since it worked on the iPhone, it maybe compatibility issues. If it does not work on a stock rom (Galaxy S4) then try installing a custom rom. Some custom roms have special audio drivers that MAY make it work.
If I helped, hit the thanks button!
TheUnknownThing said:
Hello there,
Now I'm not a beats user however I looked at some pictures. If the volume buttons are touch sensitive then this could be the problem.
Or since it worked on the iPhone, it maybe compatibility issues. If it does not work on a stock rom (Galaxy S4) then try installing a custom rom. Some custom roms have special audio drivers that MAY make it work.
If I helped, hit the thanks button!
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Tried more than 10 custom rom, from aosp to sense to cm aokp and other, but no one make it work
This is an issue with headphones made for an iPhone. They use a different band layout. Mine have never worked and won't. After hours troubleshooting it, this was the answer I got from beats and apple
Wayne Tech Nexus

[GUIDE] [ROOT] Install ViPER4Android on Nougat

I heard that there is a lot of confusion about installing ViPER4Android on Nougat. After searching around the web i found a way to do it ^_^ It should work on all Nougat build released until now. Last test on N4F26J
First of all unistall any previous ViPER4Android app.
Requirements:
Root
TWRP
SuperSU 2.78 or higher
BusyBox 1.24.2 or higher installed in \su\xbin
Installation:
Flash ViPER4Android_2.5.0.5_guitardedhero.zip in TWRP
Go to vendor\etc and remove/rename audio_effects.conf using any file manager with root access (ex. Root Browser)
Open ViPER4Android app and install driver (Grant root permission). (It could freeze for a few seconds, just be patient!)
Reboot
Disable MusicFX app
Reboot
Done :3
I hope this will help you
Thanks to guitardedhero for the modified zip file
EDIT: fixed google drive link
ElementalX kernel not required. Thanks for the guide.... Enjoy
Works on stock?
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
Magisk + V4A Add-on is how I use it flash those in twrp and then install v4a apk no editing system partition and you can install ota updates then just boot twrp and flash magisk again
I want to know if its working system wide.
viper4android saying not enable and not processing....anyone with the same issue?
for me its only working in compatible mode.. anyone else?
Did not completely work for me. At first when i did the procedure everything was ok,driver installed neon,ok. But when i played native audio or pandora no difference. Also when i plugged in my Fiio K1 DAC it change to not supported abnormal. Tried clean installing into system 3x, edidtin,deleting, the file in vendor. No luck, maybe we just have to wait a bit longer, rom used is Purenexus. Also when i did it,i already had the drive installed.....
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UPDATE:
So i did get it working, but i used the Viper 6.01 that guitar user posted in the nexus 5x forum.
Works with only Headphone jack,
NOT with usb out. When using USB out it just dosent work.
Also for some reason my pandora now keeps crashing
BUT IT WORKS, so i think ill keep it. Ill leave the DAC/AMP at home for my laptop, and use the viper limiter at maximum and just up the bass a bit.
All i wanted was to get the bass higher with out maximizing the volume.
Id suggest using arise, it's way better than stock Viper
If I may make a suggestion that will ultimately save you a lot of grief, move to the updated ARISE sound mod by guitardedhero and others. The latest is deuteronomy 2.x and, as opposed to the tweaks, futzing and issues of sound being processed/sticking or not, this is a much simpler install and just works.
Head over to http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/r-s-e-sound-systems-auditory-research-t3379709 and just install the base version. You'll get Viper4ARISE. I still flash a permissive kernel zip with my Nougat ROMs, but since I switched to ARISE, V4A has worked flawlessly, and it sounds even better than the old V4A from this thread.
It also removes MusicFX with the install process and I haven't had to disable/remove the audio_effects.conf file either.
Lastly, I'm not sure development is continuing on the base V4A anyway. ARISE is the way to modify your Android sound processing now.
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banccalif said:
Id suggest using arise, it's way better than stock Viper
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Sorry, only noticed your post after I posted my longer response saying the same thing
ultyrunner said:
If I may make a suggestion that will ultimately save you a lot of grief, move to the updated ARISE sound mod by guitardedhero and others. The latest is deuteronomy 2.x and, as opposed to the tweaks, futzing and issues of sound being processed/sticking or not, this is a much simpler install and just works.
Head over to http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/r-s-e-sound-systems-auditory-research-t3379709 and just install the base version. You'll get Viper4ARISE. I still flash a permissive kernel zip with my Nougat ROMs, but since I switched to ARISE, V4A has worked flawlessly, and it sounds even better than the old V4A from this thread.
It also removes MusicFX with the install process and I haven't had to disable/remove the audio_effects.conf file either.
Lastly, I'm not sure development is continuing on the base V4A anyway. ARISE is the way to modify your Android sound processing now.
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I amd a bit confused. So i still need to flash a kernel zip besides the ARISE file? I am on 7.1.1 preview with stock kernel
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angle409 said:
ultyrunner said:
If I may make a suggestion that will ultimately save you a lot of grief, move to the updated ARISE sound mod by guitardedhero and others. The latest is deuteronomy 2.x and, as opposed to the tweaks, futzing and issues of sound being processed/sticking or not, this is a much simpler install and just works.
Head over to http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/r-s-e-sound-systems-auditory-research-t3379709 and just install the base version. You'll get Viper4ARISE. I still flash a permissive kernel zip with my Nougat ROMs, but since I switched to ARISE, V4A has worked flawlessly, and it sounds even better than the old V4A from this thread.
It also removes MusicFX with the install process and I haven't had to disable/remove the audio_effects.conf file either.
Lastly, I'm not sure development is continuing on the base V4A anyway. ARISE is the way to modify your Android sound processing now.
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I amd a bit confused. So i still need to flash a kernel zip besides the ARISE file? I am on 7.1.1 preview with stock kernel
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You don't need to AFAIK and it isn't a kernel. V4A used to need SELinux permissive to run, but stock and most custom kernels run enforcing. I just mentioned that I flash a permissive mod out of habit FYI. You are likely better off going to the A.R.I.S.E. threads to discuss issues.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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Just flashed Deuteronomy 2.1 (non classic) on my nexus 6P. After enabling V4Arise and enabling speaker optimization, the phone speaker sound is actually worse than stock, more muted across range. I haven't tried headphones yet. kinda disappointed. My advice: V4A is overhyped. just keep stock sound.
angle409 said:
Just flashed Deuteronomy 2.1 (non classic) on my nexus 6P. After enabling V4Arise and enabling speaker optimization, the phone speaker sound is actually worse than stock, more muted across range. I haven't tried headphones yet. kinda disappointed. My advice: V4A is overhyped. just keep stock sound.
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Sorry, but you clearly haven't tested anything at all yet. Speaker optimization isn't that great and yes it mutes it, but that's to avoid the pop and tinny issues with many phone speakers. However, if you use that, then play with the EQ and other settings, you may surprise yourself. That would require more than a 5 second evaluation though.
Have you tried the EQ presets or customized them? What about dynamic sound or the various compressions? How about any number of things most people would play around with before writing something off? These types of tweaks are, after all, the point of a sound mod with a detailed EQ.
Since you admit you haven't even tried headphones, let alone bluetooth and haven't played with the EQ at all, it may just be a wee bit early to pronounce it a failure. And ... the VAST majority of people who use it would disagree.
ultyrunner said:
Sorry, but you clearly haven't tested anything at all yet. Speaker optimization isn't that great and yes it mutes it, but that's to avoid the pop and tinny issues with many phone speakers. However, if you use that, then play with the EQ and other settings, you may surprise yourself. That would require more than a 5 second evaluation though.
Have you tried the EQ presets or customized them? What about dynamic sound or the various compressions? How about any number of things most people would play around with before writing something off? These types of tweaks are, after all, the point of a sound mod with a detailed EQ.
Since you admit you haven't even tried headphones, let alone bluetooth and haven't played with the EQ at all, it may just be a wee bit early to pronounce it a failure. And ... the VAST majority of people who use it would disagree.
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What's the point of installing it if you have to do all the work yourself in that department? I'm not an audio engineer, I don't know what is best for my phone.
siren_shadows said:
What's the point of installing it if you have to do all the work yourself in that department? I'm not an audio engineer, I don't know what is best for my phone.
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Exactly. If regular people have to spend hours or days to tweak the settings what's the good? I wish it's the install and forget type of app.
angle409 said:
Exactly. If regular people have to spend hours or days to tweak the settings what's the good? I wish it's the install and forget type of app.
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Worst part is I've had hearing problems since I was an infant, so like, i can't really test settings and **** since I can't really tell the difference incrementally.
angle409 said:
Exactly. If regular people have to spend hours or days to tweak the settings what's the good? I wish it's the install and forget type of app.
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Hours or days? It takes me a few minutes of playing on a fresh install until I hit what I like. Plus, you can save your settings as a profile. However, it's clear from your responses that you can't be bothered to actually test it. If you have a home stereo, you play around with EQ until you like it. If you listen to music in your car, you set treble and bass, balance and other things. This is no different. How on earth a sound app that, at its heart is an EQ, could be set and forget BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT is beyond me. That's not even the purpose of it. If that's what you want, then you're not looking for a sound mod. The entire point of a sound mod / EQ is to allow people to adjust the sound to their preference for their hardware and listening preferences/context.
angle409 said:
Just flashed Deuteronomy 2.1 (non classic) on my nexus 6P. After enabling V4Arise and enabling speaker optimization, the phone speaker sound is actually worse than stock, more muted across range. I haven't tried headphones yet. kinda disappointed. My advice: V4A is overhyped. just keep stock sound.
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ultyrunner said:
Sorry, but you clearly haven't tested anything at all yet. Speaker optimization isn't that great and yes it mutes it, but that's to avoid the pop and tinny issues with many phone speakers. However, if you use that, then play with the EQ and other settings, you may surprise yourself. That would require more than a 5 second evaluation though.
Have you tried the EQ presets or customized them? What about dynamic sound or the various compressions? How about any number of things most people would play around with before writing something off? These types of tweaks are, after all, the point of a sound mod with a detailed EQ.
Since you admit you haven't even tried headphones, let alone bluetooth and haven't played with the EQ at all, it may just be a wee bit early to pronounce it a failure. And ... the VAST majority of people who use it would disagree.
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siren_shadows said:
What's the point of installing it if you have to do all the work yourself in that department? I'm not an audio engineer, I don't know what is best for my phone.
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ultyrunner said:
Hours or days? It takes me a few minutes of playing on a fresh install until I hit what I like. Plus, you can save your settings as a profile. However, it's clear from your responses that you can't be bothered to actually test it. If you have a home stereo, you play around with EQ until you like it. If you listen to music in your car, you set treble and bass, balance and other things. This is no different. How on earth a sound app that, at its heart is an EQ, could be set and forget BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT is beyond me. That's not even the purpose of it. If that's what you want, then you're not looking for a sound mod. The entire point of a sound mod / EQ is to allow people to adjust the sound to their preference for their hardware and listening preferences/context.
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ultyrunner is absolutely correct here. The criticisms you have leveled against this project would be considered rude (and a bit ignorant) even if you actually had a solid point to make, or some evidence to back it up. As it stands, you don't have either, and asking a question like "What's the point of installing it if you have to do all the work yourself in that department? I'm not an audio engineer..." is just unthinkable. People specifically poured blood, sweat, and tears into this thing for that exact reason... so that people who aren't engineers can improve their experience via the developer's knowledge. Either you were just being flippant about "having to do all the work yourself" and you don't actually mean that - in which case it would have been preferable for you to just say "thank you but I am having a few problems," et cetera, and be on your way...OR you do actually think you're doing all the work, which is a smack in the face to a developer... a developer whose work you very obviously do not grasp the complexity of, nor the amount of time and effort required to produce said work. Don't bash people's work if you haven't yet evaluated it properly, and most especially make an effort to understand it at a high level before you complain (if you really need to complain at all, which you don't).
I'm sorry, but if I was the developer, seeing a comment/comments like these would be enough for me to close down the project ASAP. And I'm not just pulling that out of my ass, I've been through five or six phones and development communities here on XDA, and I have seen exactly that happen on more than one occasion.
And that's the problem with XDA. People take things to personally. This isn't a forum for babies. We're allowed to express our opinions and concerns here, believe he or not.

[REQUEST] Surround sound

It'd be awesome to enable the earpiece as some other devices have for media sound, that would help a lot in noisy situations, especially that the speaker is on the back.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.omegacentauri.Earpiece tested on Kate, works great... Although if you meant you'd like to use your earpiece and loudspeaker at the same time, that's not probably possible, but even if it were, it would have made hardly any difference.
Turbo2200kBps said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.omegacentauri.Earpiece tested on Kate, works great... Although if you meant you'd like to use your earpiece and loudspeaker at the same time, that's not probably possible, but even if it were, it would have made hardly any difference.
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that thing is made only for android 4.2 and below, how the heck did u run it, it crashes everytime at opening ?
AgentBuBu said:
that thing is made only for android 4.2 and below, how the heck did u run it, it crashes everytime at opening ?
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Haha xD now I see it is written there... So I just tried installing it under my current rom (latest official CM13) and it still works just fine. Have you tried installing it? I have Kate. The first time I used this one was under stock stable (miui_HMNote3ProtwGlobal_V8.1.3.0.MHRMIDI_14698da799_6.0.zip).
The volume is controlled via media volume, not phone volume. So you press a volume button and then have to manually adjust media volume by expanding the volume panel.
Turbo2200kBps said:
Haha xD now I see it is written there... So I just tried installing it under my current rom (latest official CM13) and it still works just fine. Have you tried installing it? I have Kate. The first time I used this one was under stock stable (miui_HMNote3ProtwGlobal_V8.1.3.0.MHRMIDI_14698da799_6.0.zip).
The volume is controlled via media volume, not phone volume. So you press a volume button and then have to manually adjust media volume by expanding the volume panel.
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Im using the latest lineage, im not going to change between roms just for a potential feature and not necessarily a gimmick, i still question your use of application considering it still was marshmallow what you had used
AgentBuBu said:
Im using the latest lineage, im not going to change between roms just for a potential feature and not necessarily a gimmick, i still question your use of application considering it still was marshmallow what you had used
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What do you mean you question it? Like I have any reason to lie about it? I can make you a video if you want. ATM I have ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.7.4-20161113-kenzo, the app also works.
Turbo2200kBps said:
What do you mean you question it? Like I have any reason to lie about it? I can make you a video if you want. ATM I have ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.7.4-20161113-kenzo, the app also works.
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nonono, i just don't understand how you're running an app without having the requirements for it

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