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I have the international version of the S7. As I usually do when I get a new Android device it's straight to LineageOS or another AOSP based rom. The roms usually works just fine but a common thing I have noticed over the years is that the speaker on the given device never sound the same from stock to any other rom. In this case there is too much mid-range in the sound from the speaker. So my main question is:
Is there any way one can manually tune the speaker so that it sounds closer to the stock rom? I.e. managing a high-pass filter and lowering the mid-range on the system output. This is not related to the equalizer in any sense since it is mainly the ring tone that is affected. Playing music one can just use the 'AudioFX' settings.
How does the stock rom do this? There has to be a set curve for it to not blow the speaker for ring tones etc. You don't want to send loud bass frequencies to a tiny speaker for example.
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Running nookie, volume is still a bit low on max, any tricks to boost it??
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I'm running cyanogen and this is annoying the hell out of me as well. the speaker on the back is amazingly quiet. It was the same with every version rom/android I've put on this thing. I'd switch to a particular one if the need be, to fix this problem. DSPmanager only slightly improves things.
Mort player has an equalizer option, and after setting the sliders all the way up gives me a much improved volume. Just use the sliders judiciously so that the sound does not flutter. Its a tiny speaker after all, so can't expect much.
Can u install dspmanager on nookie emmc rom??
So, I was trying to use a custom sound for an alarm. It seems though any custom sound is only playing out of the back speaker, and is therefore severely dampened by the kickstand. Is there any reason for this? Why doesn't it play out of the front speaker (as it appears all the other alarm sounds do?)
I bought my Galaxy S3 (UK version) when they first came out, but recently had to have the motherboard replaced under warranty due to the phone suffering from Sudden Death.
Before the repair, the audio output via my earbud headset was perfect, but now I'm getting a persistent and annoying low-level background hiss. This is not affected in the slightest by the volume control - even at the lowest volume setting the hiss is still present at the same level. It lasts for about 4 seconds after audio playback has finished, and then stops with a slight click/pop as the audio circuit shuts down.
You can also hear it from the rear-panel speaker if you put it close to your ear and perform any action which causes a noise to be generated - e.g. keypress clicks or the notification tones when you press the volume rocker (just make sure volume is set low first though, as that speaker can be loud when you've got your ear up against it!)
I've done some checking and it's definitely hardware related - nandroid restoring my old ROM doesn't make any difference. It is really annoying when I'm listening to music at night in bed, usually at the lowest volume setting, as the hiss is much more noticeable without other ambient noises to drown it out.
There were a number of reports of similar issues last year but not everyone seemed to be affected, and the threads all seem to have dried up now. I'm wondering how many 'original' S3 users have this problem, versus more recent purchasers? I've added a poll, just to see how widespread this issue is - please treat any phone where the motherboard has been replaced for Sudden Death issues as a 'recent' phone.
And how do I go about getting it fixed if the current motherboards all seem to have the same fault? Is there any low-level firmware setting to reduce the physical gain of the internal audio amp circuit, as it does seem to be happening in the final stages of audio output rather than in the software-controlled stuff? I'm not worried about losing the top end of the volume range, I use bluetooth for more amplified playback anyway.
Andre
Background hiss / noise no and thats from one of the very first SGS3 .
But a fair number of the sound mods do add noise .
>>>is is not affected in the slightest by the volume control - even at the lowest volume setting the hiss is still present at the same level. It lasts for about 4 seconds after audio playback has finished, and then stops with a slight click/pop as the audio circuit shuts down.<<<<
That has been well posted up on XDA hiss + pop click on shutdown as you said long time ago .|Not seen any user posting really since those threads died . Most are just looking for more loud or more boom boom .
A number of kernels now have sound adaptations .
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Yeah, I first put it down to some sort of audio mod in the ROM that I had installed, so I nandroided back to the vanilla JB that was in the phone when I picked it back up from repair, and even back to my older ICS stock ROM (which had no audio mods at all) and they were all exactly the same.
Sound tweaks are all going to effect the source sound digitally, before it hits the analogue amp stage, and I suspect it's the final analogue stage which is generating the interference.
I don't care for lots of volume or boom boom (and anyway, I have amplifiers or car audio for that) but I do want my original lovely hissless audio quality back...
Andre
Do you still get the hissing with a good sound enhancing kernel (such as boeffla)? If you do, sounds like you have a hardware problem
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Ah, I didn't know some kernels were better than others for noise reduction. Although I'm not so interested in 'enhancing' per se, more reducing! But the problem I'm getting is not effected by the volume controls at all, the hiss remains constant whatever any of the level sliders are set to, just as long as the audio circuits are enabled.
The ROM I'm currently running is Omega AOKP v7.0, which is based on AOKP JB 4.2.2 milestone-1 and stock kernel. Is there a suitable kernel compatible with that which might help me does anyone know? (boeffla isn't as far as I can tell)
Andre
andrewilley said:
Before the repair, the audio output via my earbud headset was perfect, but now I'm getting a persistent and annoying low-level background hiss. This is not affected in the slightest by the volume control - even at the lowest volume setting the hiss is still present at the same level. It lasts for about 4 seconds after audio playback has finished, and then stops with a slight click/pop as the audio circuit shuts down.
You can also hear it from the rear-panel speaker if you put it close to your ear and perform any action which causes a noise to be generated - e.g. keypress clicks or the notification tones when you press the volume rocker (just make sure volume is set low first though, as that speaker can be loud when you've got your ear up against it!)
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My SGS3 is about 9 months old, and I have this too. However, in my case the background hiss is at an extremely low level - to all practical intents it's inaudible. Certainly not enough to be annoying, even in the quietest of environments.
Hey mates!
Well, i wanted to ask something about the different sound mods available for our phone:
Is any of the sound mods worthy in order to make the quality sound better? when i mean better, i'm referring to the vocals of the songs being clearly heard 'as loud as the instruments, because right now the voice is like half the volume of the instruments'.
Why i ask?, well i saw different opinions in some threads and some said that this or that sound mod makes the difference... but i also saw some saying that the only thing that does is to put Better EQ settings in the sound so that it can be heard in a better way, like it was any normal EQ in a music player if you mess around with it a bit.
So if that is only like a normal EQ player, it means... that it will not change anything about the sound quality or vocals being more clear/loud, is that right?
Example: Mixzing has an EQ and in every single song you can put different types of EQ's like a preset, if you mess around with that EQ you will surely be able to have the same quality and EQ settings as any other Sound Mod out there right?, Putting Bass lower and the Highs louder and the Gain louder, i think that will do the trick.
So the question is: Is any sound mod gonna make a difference? or a normal EQ in a music player will do just fine?
If there is a difference, then tell me what mod is better for me to install in order to get that audio quality/louder vocals please .
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Crazy Seed said:
Hey mates!
Well, i wanted to ask something about the different sound mods available for our phone:
Is any of the sound mods worthy in order to make the quality sound better? when i mean better, i'm referring to the vocals of the songs being clearly heard 'as loud as the instruments, because right now the voice is like half the volume of the instruments'.
Why i ask?, well i saw different opinions in some threads and some said that this or that sound mod makes the difference... but i also saw some saying that the only thing that does is to put Better EQ settings in the sound so that it can be heard in a better way, like it was any normal EQ in a music player if you mess around with it a bit.
So if that is only like a normal EQ player, it means... that it will not change anything about the sound quality or vocals being more clear/loud, is that right?
Example: Mixzing has an EQ and in every single song you can put different types of EQ's like a preset, if you mess around with that EQ you will surely be able to have the same quality and EQ settings as any other Sound Mod out there right?, Putting Bass lower and the Highs louder and the Gain louder, i think that will do the trick.
So the question is: Is any sound mod gonna make a difference? or a normal EQ in a music player will do just fine?
If there is a difference, then tell me what mod is better for me to install in order to get that audio quality/louder vocals please .
Every good answer will always deserve a Thanks button press
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You are right about putting the bass eq lower and the vocals eq higher, that is probably the only way to reach clear vocals. like you, I have tried pretty much every sound mod out there.
I used to think acid made a difference, but, on closer inspection, it didn't really.
Most sound mods only increased the bass in my ears, while others didn't make any differrence at all.
So I would recommend an eq to you, my favourite one being Viper for android, because you can exactly set howe much bass you want, it has a loudness increaser and many, many more features.
It took me a while to find out my favourite settings, but now I have the Ideal amount of bass and strong, clear vocals.
PS. Since a few days I have some mid to high end earphones, in combination with those, as said, VIPER fo Android works like a charm.
Kilroy. said:
You are right about putting the bass eq lower and the vocals eq higher, that is probably the only way to reach clear vocals. like you, I have tried pretty much every sound mod out there.
I used to think acid made a difference, but, on closer inspection, it didn't really.
Most sound mods only increased the bass in my ears, while others didn't make any differrence at all.
So I would recommend an eq to you, my favourite one being Viper for android, because you can exactly set howe much bass you want, it has a loudness increaser and many, many more features.
It took me a while to find out my favourite settings, but now I have the Ideal amount of bass and strong, clear vocals.
PS. Since a few days I have some mid to high end earphones, in combination with those, as said, VIPER fo Android works like a charm.
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So that means i'm right in what i'm saying :S.
Can you do a screenshot of your Viper settings and share it here mate?. Well in theory, if you're saying that Viper is good because of the amount of bass and loudness control, then i think it's the same thing that mixzing can do but even better because mixzing can save presets for every single song, because if we think about it: the bass is controlled by the Left bars of the EQ ( mostly controls the Drums and Bass ), the middle bars ( mostly guitar and a bit of vocals ), right bars ( Voice and making the sound more clear ), and another thing: EQ settings are not the same for every single song on a normal EQ, because not every song has the same amount of Db's or amount of Bass, Middle and High, that way some may distort, be louder than other songs, or lower. Mixzing let's you control the amount of gain and EQ settings of every single song, that's why i like it so much xD.
But if you think that Viper really makes a difference vs EQ settings of mixzing, then send me your screenshots please .
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I find I can't lower the notification volume and ringtone volume low enough.
Does anyone know how to change the volume steps? I have sound assistant but it only works for media volume...
I'm rooted if it helps and I've tried the AOSP based rom solution of changing the build prop but with no success.
Thanks for any help!
Have you tried "sound assistant" app. It is from Samsung and has function you are looking for.
Chaudhry69 said:
Have you tried "sound assistant" app. It is from Samsung and has function you are looking for.
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If you check the original post you'll have your answer lol
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If you check the original post you'll have your answer lol
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Ah my bad, don't know how I missed it. It is possible in two ways:
01- Get a custom kernel with volume modification support. I use a Galaxy S7edge with Surround sound, this makes the sound loud and more immersed but it has a drawback. The low threshold of volume is too high same as yours. I usually have a problem with the in-call earpiece audio which is too loud for me. I use MoroKernel and luckily a recent update brought the feature of MoroSound providing fine control over gains of 2-microphones, earpiece, and main speaker. You can also look for a kernel with such features for your device.
02- Manually modifying the sound configuration files. That is a bit difficult but good research with a bit of experimenting will eventually get you there.
Chaudhry69 said:
Ah my bad, don't know how I missed it. It is possible in two ways:
01- Get a custom kernel with volume modification support. I use a Galaxy S7edge with Surround sound, this makes the sound loud and more immersed but it has a drawback. The low threshold of volume is too high same as yours. I usually have a problem with the in-call earpiece audio which is too loud for me. I use MoroKernel and luckily a recent update brought the feature of MoroSound providing fine control over gains of 2-microphones, earpiece, and main speaker. You can also look for a kernel with such features for your device.
02- Manually modifying the sound configuration files. That is a bit difficult but good research with a bit of experimenting will eventually get you there.
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Any chance you know how to mod the sound config files on an S21? Unfortunately there are no custom kernels yet for the Exynos version
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Any chance you know how to mod the sound config files on an S21? Unfortunately there are no custom kernels yet for the Exynos version
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Yes, go to /etc/mixer-gains.xml and edit it. Drawback is your device entire volume range will be affected like for media and stuff. One more way and probably the more practical one just hit me.
Find your ringtone and notification tone from /system/media/audio/ or download them from google and use a software like Audacity or Adobe Audition to reduce their volume.
You reduce your phone's volume to the lowest and match pc's volume with it. Then reduce the audio gain in the software until you feel comfortable with it. Export it and use it.
For anyone interested. My solution ended up being the following, with my end goal being too optimize my audio with Dolby and have the volume still be lower (but optimized) on the phone speaker.
I tried a ton of different apps, a few magisk volume steps modules, ViperFX with Dolby and finally I found a good solution.
Turn off the default Dolby stuff on the phone.
Install Dolby Atmos ZTE A2019 PRO for magisk (google it and find it on GitHub).
Reboot.
Install JamesDSP from ZackPTG5's website.
Reboot.
Install Audio Modification library to use Dolby and JamesDSP at the same time.
Reboot.
Create a custom equalizer in Dolby and try max things out as much as possible with it still sounding great.
Open JamesDSP, go to Speaker, set limiter threshold to -5, go to post gain and set it to -10. Turn on the master switch. Leave everything else unless you want to change any Bluetooth or headphone settings. Hide the persistent JamesDSP notification.
Reboot.
Install Audio Compatibility module with all the recommended settings.
Reboot.
Result, Dolby Atmos handles all the audio, increases the volume, applies optimizations system wide. However because volume steps are tricky to change on this phone we are stuck with the phone speaker volume being too loud even on the lowest setting. JamesDSP lowers the volume to the built-in speakers but we still get the Atmos experience we want. Everything else I assume you want to be louder anyway, like Bluetooth and headphones.
Audio Modification Library makes James and Dolby work together.
Audio Compatibility Patch fixes some issues with certain apps not using the sound mods.
Success! You get Dolby Atmos everywhere, but it doesn't max out the phone speaker volume, but it will still max out everything else. Oh and you can also change whatever other settings you want in JamesDSP.