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[Nook Color General] ringbolo:
I Agree.

I use my CDMA Hero as my media player using a 16Gb sdcard and also with audiogalaxy. I've played the same song on both devices using the same setup (Sony headphone, from sdacrd or audiogalaxy, CyanogenMod 7 on both) and the Nook sound is always worse. The DSPManager helps a little but it is still bad. I get that it's an ereader but they do have audiobooks and if you are going to put headphone jacks in the damn thing at least make the audio decent, it's not like it's the most expensive part of any gadget.
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Agreed.. Nothing is going to help with that speaker. However, the OP used the same headphones in his/her comparison.

The poor sound quality is most likely due to the hacked software. My rooted NC with stock eclair sounds fine. I would like to hear if others with rooted NC AND running BN stock have the problems. What OS is the OP running - I bet it's not rooted stock BN.

Most likely it's the interface between CyanogenMod and the audio chips that's creating the distortion.
[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
Since the Nook Color is a e-reader I'm pretty show Barnes & Nobles went with the cheapest DAC possible.
[Nook Color General] IFLATLINEI:
All depends on the kind of headphones your using. I would bet the house your using ear buds. Those things blow if you want sound quality. Personally I like the style of headphones that cover the ear more. Bigger speakers capable of decent sounding bass and the help cancel out outside noise. Mine are made by Sony and they sound awesome. http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=11037408
[Nook Color General] FishDoc:
I agree with IFLATLINE. I use Jabra noise cancelling over the ear phones and I think the audio reproduction is first rate. I also agree that with ear buds the audio is lousy. I occasionally use ear buds with other MP3 players and it does seem that the Nook ranks right at the bottom. Big difference with better phones.
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
DAC is an integrated Ti chip TLV320DAC3100 http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/slas671/slas671.pdf

The specs on the chip is reasonable - so I would expect acceptable sound quality at "reasonable" output levels.

Rigy73: what ROM are you using? I bet that it's not rooted BN stock ROM.
[Nook Color General] evilPERSOn2009:
Is there any way you could bypass the Nook's DAC via USB to an External USB DAC?
[Nook Color General] rigy73:
I am using cm7 pherimod 5.1 and Sony's headphones, which are pretty good.

Is stock rom better? Should I go back to stock.
[Nook Color General] photoassign:
I am no audiophile, but FWIW both rooted stock and CM7 SD have a pretty decent output on corded external speakers and over the earphones including a BT FreePulse set.
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Mostly likely it is something in cm7 pherimod 5.1. Try going back to stock and let us know the results.
[Nook Color General] SpiffyRob:
There's definitely something funky going on with the headphone jack. I've found that often, when I first put them in, the sound is really tinny and the low-end is pretty much missing entirely. If I unplug them and immediately plug them back in, it improves dramatically. This has been the case both with my Sony buds and my Bose over-the-ears.

EDIT: This is on CM7. BTW.
[Nook Color General] ADude:
There is a problem with the Nook headphone jack, where you can push a plug into it in such a way as to get a mono sound - which has exactly the sound you describe.

Try pulling the plug out slightly.

The audio chip has excellent specs.
[Nook Color General] swaaye:
How much background hiss do you guys hear in CM7 off the headphone jack? I get quite a lot which is very apparent with quiet music. Volume levels don't affect it. I notice that the hiss goes away when the audio chip is reinitializing or whatever it does when apps release it.

I also hear some distortion some frequencies I think.
[Nook Color General] jinp6301:
usb host has to be enabled on the NC, which hasnt been done yet.

lots of hiss when the headphone out is enabled.
[Nook Color General] ajd88:
I use a pair of klipsch s4 in early buds. When connected to nook

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[Nook Color General] bugeyed1:
Using a variety of quality IEMs, I find the MP3 (320 kbp/s) playback quality of the NC to be pretty bad. Compared to a quality player like a Toshiba T400, the NC is much worse. I hear quite a bit of hiss between tracks & when the music is playing the fidelity is poor. Just not a very dynamic or involving sound. Sounds a bit compressed. I haven't checked to see if it does gapless playback. The poor MP3 playback doesn't bother me though. The poor speaker output volume does, a lot, but I don't use the NC to play music, as I find it easier to use a dedicated MP3 player that can be controlled independently of the Nook UI. I did notice that the NC has some trouble with hot plugging the headphones. Channel missing & distortion. Don't think it was the physical connection. Seemed more like the the audio ckt. doesn't like the headphone plug to be inserted when it is playing. Haven't verified this though.

Cheers,

kev
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
What ROM are you using? Is it stock?
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
BTW, i have it on good authority that our speaker quality can be much worse; anyone thinking our speaker is bad, has obviously neer heard the ipot touch's built in speaker. ;)
[Nook Color General] bugeyed1:
Auto-Nooter 3.0.0 (1.1 only)

I don't remember the player app I used. Probably stock.

"Divine_Madcat

"BTW, i have it on good authority that our speaker quality can be much worse; anyone thinking our speaker is bad, has obviously neer heard the ipot touch's built in speaker."

The iPod Nano is pretty bad, but it is only intended to be a used in desperation. Point taken though.

Cheers,

kev
[Nook Color General] swaaye:
Can someone check out the stock ROM's headphone quality? I am wondering if it could possibly have a better audio driver or audio software configuration. Ideally you would compare it to CM7.
[Nook Color General] hpark21:
I use stock ROM and use Creative Labs earbud and I can hear hiss and distortions.

The headphone sounds FINE on my IPod so it is not the issue with headphone.
[Nook Color General] swaaye:
Well I suppose that means that the Nook's audio circuit is just poorly designed. Oh well.
[Nook Color General] IFLATLINEI:
Im not ready to accept that yet. I have my Nook plugged into my rack system right now. I never do this but im doing it now because im curious. Im playing a 320 kbps track ripped by me from the original recording. My rack system is about 20 years old and made up of mederatley priced components.

The Nook is running the latest Nookie Froyo and im playing the track with Winamp. I dont know but it sounds good to me compared to other digital devices. I dont hear any hissing, popping or anything out of the ordinary. What I do hear is the same sound degredation i can hear with others phones or mp3 players.
[Nook Color General] IFLATLINEI:
Im not ready to accept that yet. I have my Nook plugged into my rack system right now. I never do this but im doing it now because im curious. Im playing a 320 kbps track ripped by me from the original recording. My rack system is about 20 years old and made up of mederatley priced components.

The Nook is running the latest Nookie Froyo and im playing the track with Winamp. I dont know but it sounds good to me compared to other digital devices. I dont hear any hissing, popping or anything out of the ordinary. What I do hear is the same sound degredation i can hear with others phones or mp3 players. Im no expert and i assume everyones testing with the best quality mp3s possible. 320 means nothing if the source wasnt original.
[Nook Color General] swaaye:
Put on headphones and sit in a quiet room. I have very apparent background noise in that situation, which makes the NC far worse than most devices. It doesn't even need to be playing for me to hear the noise. If I bought a digital audio player and it sounded like this, I would return it immediately. It reminds me of cheap motherboard audio due to the level of noise and I suppose that's what the deal is here: it IS low quality integrated motherboard audio. :) I also hear an occasional issue with distortion of some sound frequencies.

Headphones are a better test because there is no other possible source of noise. A receiver or powered speaker setup in general will have some noise on its own so you may not notice the Nook's. Also, headphones isolate the listener much more from outside noise so you can hear low amplitude sound better. But this does mean that the Nook is, as you say, not a bad audio source for a speaker system. Assuming it's not mangling frequencies too much (and I think it does somewhat).

This isn't exactly a deal breaker for me though. I didn't buy the NC looking for an elite digital audio player. ;) It's adequate for noisy situations.
[Nook Color General] IFLATLINEI:
I originally tested with my Sony Studio headphones. Im doing it again as per your request. Now im seeing a problem. I had to pull the headphone plug and put it back in a bunch of times. First it did sound tinny with static, then all I heard was the bass. Alternated a few times before finally sounding like it should.

So now I change my opinion to sounds good when working LOL.
[Nook Color General] rigy73:
Okay finally figured out the problem, its the headphone jack. When u plug headphones in too fast ,i.e without stopping in btw the sound is kind of okay but if u plug them in slowly u lose the bass. If the headphones are not completely inserted, u lose the stereo but get high bass.
[Nook Color General] aberrantphoto:
I'm experiencing the same problem as rigy73 has described it. Is this a problem with the Nook Color hardware or is this software related?
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Very interesting find. It may be a hardware design problem. The final output stage of the audio amplifier may be latching depending on how you insert the headphone. Since I never insert the headphone with the music playing I never saw/heard the problem.

The problem doesn't occur if you start playing AFTER you plug in the headphones.

Since this is reproducible, exchanging the NC won't help.
[Nook Color General] aberrantphoto:
Actually, I am able to reproduce this problem if I start playing music (pandora) after I plug in the headphones. I will pause pandora, then insert my headphones and hit play. It takes a few tries to get the audio right. This problem sucks big time. Having to reinsert the headphones over and over again to get the sound right is unacceptable. My guess is that a majority of nook colors have this and people just don't recognize the sound quality changing. They may just figure that's what it sounds like!
[Nook Color General] olm3ca:
I agree with the bad audio quality issue. I am on CM7 final and I have used all different kinds of audio players from stock to winamp etc.

Hopefully someone can help with a very minor issue I have though. When I plug my nook into a sound system to listen to mp3s, I am really annoyed at system noises being 10x louder than the song, causing skips and totally ruining the experience. I know I could just turn off all system notifications but isn't there a way to do this more intelligently? Like when music is playing to have notifications quiet by default?

Maybe that's asking too much... I guess I could just put everything on mute every time I want to play music but perhaps there's a better way. thanks...
[Nook Color General] aberrantphoto:
olm3ca,

might want to start a new thread to get some answers to your question.
[Nook Color General] olm3ca:
thanks. will do.
[Nook Color General] jinp6301:
It would be great if someone with a decent recording setup can do a RMAA test with the stock music player as well as a common alternative (winamp?) to see the graphs.

I would do it but I sold most of my audio equipment :(

If anyone has the equipment and needs help getting the measurements, let me know :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] BDC1980:
Just wanted to throw out that I've been using the Aldiko reader as a PDF viewer and have been pretty happy with it.

I am hoping they work on the speed sometime since the Xoom could probably handle some programing that phones couldnt but I've been pretty pleased with this.

You can import PDF files to your shelf and then setup catalogs.

It also saves your place in the PDF if you leave it.

As I said I have been pretty happy with it.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Sodikop:
I haven't tried Aldiko on the Xoom yet, as I had some major issues with it on my CDMA HTC Hero.

I tried ezPDF Reader, and so far it has my vote in its speed and functionality.

One thing to note though, is at certain zoom levels it seems to not "re-focus" the text. Other times it will just hang and continually load the page.

Besides those two nagging issues, I'm glad I spent the dollar on it.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Kah-Neth:
I tried Aldiko, repligo, and ezpdf. ezpdf is by far the best. Both in quality (best for math/physics papers), and in speed.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] chernggoh:
Aldiko seems to FC a lot on my WiFi Xoom. Does anyone know if the paid version is any better?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] queens49:
I tried Aldiko and find the text to be blurry. I've since switched to ezPDFReader and for the same pdf, ezPDFReader is far clearer
[Xoom Themes and Apps] HuckFinn:
I second the above post. I tried Aldiko and found that it did not render the text very clearly. The built in QuickOffice rendered the page very clearly but I do not like the page scrolling. EZpdf was an Amazon App of the Day a few days ago so I gave that a try. I have been very happy with it and use it exclusively for pdfs now.
[Thunderbolt General] hermy65:
I just switched from the Droid X and im curious who the devs to follow on twitter are?
[Thunderbolt General] dlongb13:
Some nice TB devs
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] memburn:
Does anyone have a link to just the update zip radio for XXXKB1. I flashed XB3 and didn't see much difference, maybe even slightly worse reception. I foolishly didn't make a backup prior to flashing the XB3 radio only becasue I thought the link for the XB1 radio on the same page would work. It didn't. File is corrupt. I have searched all over these forums for a good link to the download. Downloaded numerious times at different links. No good file.

I would like to avoid reflashing a stock ROM just to get XB1 back.

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LovellKid:
Im pretty sure the thread is still open.. but here is a CWM flashable..

http://lts.cr/WlB
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] memburn:
Awesome thanks. Yeah I know the thread is open, but my non-existant posting count prevents me from posting there.

I appreciate the help.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shaolin95:
Hi!

I saw this animation and it blew my mind off...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12596227&postcount=1

Anyone able to do this with the Penguins logo or at least tell me what I need to create that amazing looking 3d Logo?

Thanks!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] fritzgerald:
I can probably clean it up a bit when I get some more time but give this one a shot and let me know.

http://db.tt/WnCgSS3
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shaolin95:
DUDE that is Awesome!

What program did you use to create this...I want to learn this stuff. Only problem is I better find out how to turn this into a Live wallpaper or I will be rebooting my phone all day just to see the spinning logo LOL

Fantastic job...I will send make sure to remember you on Wednesday so you can have a beer or whatever you like for doing this for me. :-)
[Captivate Themes and Apps] fritzgerald:
Ill post a live wallpaper tonight.

P.s. I used Xara3D and Xara Xtreme to make it.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shaolin95:
Thanks a ton mate. I will look into this to see if it something I can learn..would be nice for sure. :-)
[Captivate Themes and Apps] fritzgerald:
That logo was my first one. VERY simple to make. Not only that but I used the free trials to make it so its completely free to do for 7 days. The software is something I will definitely be purchasing though.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shaolin95:
I can see myself getting addicted to this stuff...so if that happens I blame you! lol
[Captivate Themes and Apps] fritzgerald:
Here's the Live Wallpaper.

Just install like a normal app.

For the best effect go into settings and choose "Big" for the size and set the FPS to "60"
[Captivate Themes and Apps] harpo1:
You should do more or these, they're sick.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] fritzgerald:
All it takes is requests. I do stuff for myself but get bored of it easily. That's why I try to jump on requests like this.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] pwnerman:
Confusion

I thought it was supposed to be a boot animation with a penguins logo not a live wallpaper is there ever gonna me a boot animation
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shaolin95:
There are only 11 posts total and you were even able to read all 11...in fact you just needed to read two as the link is in the second post ;)

The live wallpaper is a bonus it threw in when I mentioned it and what a bonus it is!!!! :-)
[Captivate Themes and Apps] derek21:
Nice!

Wow that's awesome. Any way you could do a New York Rangers one?? I'd gladly donate. Thanks.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] eelall:
Corrected :-) But seriously, that is great. Nice work Fritzgerald!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] 95rr900:
A Flyers boot animation would be sweet.....pretty please!!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shaolin95:
OK someone requesting a Flyers animation on a thread created for the Penguins logo....it is just WRONG! :D

The live wallpaper crashes on CM7 unfortunately.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] iainash:
I can has a Devils one preeze?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] olebear1969:
Heck.. just do the whole league :P Hockey Rules!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] fritzgerald:
I'll be doing these in the order requested. Next up is Flyers and then Devils

Rangers boot animation and live wallpaper attached at the bottom
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shaolin95:
Anyone using CM7 has luck with the live wallpapers?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samaruf:
I am very happy with my Woot Gtablet but one problem I have with all the browsers(Stock, Opera and Dolphin) is that certain websites only work with IE. I changed the user agent in Dolphin to "Desktop" but still can't get into sites that have a pop up dialog for user authentication. I have disabled pop-up blocker in the browsers, but still no luck. You guys can try this site:

http://explore.lsc.edu and try to sign in. I see the "401 UNAUTHORIZED" message because the pop up authentication dialog doesn't appear. Any help is greatly appreciated.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myamid:
Honestly... don't get your hopes up. since IT uses a proprietary rendering engine, unless Microsoft ports it to linux and open-sources it, or someone ports WINE to android, it won't happen. Both seems nearly impossible...

You might want to try out the Firefox port for android to see if it you have better luck than with the other browsers.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pdiculous963:
You could try using a custom user agent in dolphin browser
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JasonSCarter:
That looks to be a Sharepoint Server website, which is only going to work fully with IE. Sorry.
[Xoom Accessories] oC|-TiTaN:
I'm looking into making changes to the .kl file for the diNovo Mini so I can wake my device with a keypress (I'm lazy =P) but there are several .kl files listed (more so than on my TB) and while there are individual files for the Logitech Revue keyboard, Apple Wireless and Motorola Xoom keyboard, there is one that is simply labeled Generic.kl which is listed as "Generic key layout file for full alphabetic US English PC style external keyboards"

I am at work and don't have the diNovo here to test with, so I wondered if anyone else uses the Mini with their Xoom and if they could test to see if they can add the WAKE function to a key and see if it works for them?

I expected another file for the diNovo to have been created when it was connected but maybe it just uses the Generic file, or maybe the one for the Revue keyboard?
[Xoom Accessories] djstepanich:
If you get this going would love to hear how you do it. Have a mini myself would love to use.
[Xoom Accessories] oC|-TiTaN:
It uses the Generic.kl file. I used a combination of adb logcat and the KeyTest.apk programs to figure out the correct file and key codes to edit in the file to allow the Windows button to wake and unlock the xoom as well as serve as the menu button. Mapped the Home and Back functions as well.

Once I get home I can update with which keys are what and what changes specifically I made to get it to work. When I get home and grab the dinovo mini, it takes just a couple clicks on the pad to get the xoom to recognize it is connected and to start typing.

Switching applications and generally moving about on the home screen is clumsy and somewhat random, but eventually you get there. I can sometimes get the app drawer to open by using the arrow keys in conjunction with ok/enter but there is no highlighting on the icon to indicate it is selected so sometimes you'll open another app or widget instead. Meh, I can typically get into googe voice to text easily and that's all I'm concerned with =)
[Xoom Accessories] jss42:
Any update on this? I've got a diNovo coming and with the mouse support in 3.1 this would be excellent!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ubuntuz:
Hi guys!

I signed up here for one specific reason (interesting captcha system O_o),

I have a Dell Axim x51v that was given to me by my dad and I have just recently been playing around on it. I've been experimenting with things like PocketDOS and I have decided to do something else next.

I've read up about WM6 on Dell Axims and decided I'll have a go. I have a few questions though:

Will I lose my files/programs in the upgrade process?

Will WI-FI work?

Thanks,

Ewan Smith
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TacoLoco:
You can backup/restore apps, I think there is an app for this ;) WiFi should work.. I had X51V some time ago and even WM6.5 was available but the problem is that axim has only 64MB RAM.. Good luck..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ubuntuz:
Well from YouTube videos there is no lag...

Can someone post a complete newbie guide for this? I have no idea what to do as the video on YouTube suck...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ubuntuz:
Ok, I haz a ROM for WM6 for x51v and researched. I have one more question though...

Will PocketSNES run on WM6?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ubuntuz:
Bump.

Can someone give me a full tutorial for this? Along with a decent ROM?
[EVO 4G General] hddwiper:
Seen a lot of post's for SD Card speed fixing for HD2's and others, but cant seem to find one for the EVO.

Has anyone tried any of these? does it work?

Is there a bootable zip for clockworkmod?

Thanks.

Looking for mod that will increase cache past 128kb. I think they're up to 4096kb now. Dont know why you'd want to go that high but i was thinking the 2048kb range.
[EVO 4G General] Jykinturah:
Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/44vxd86

;)
[EVO 4G General] iitreatedii:
Yeah it's in the development section
[EVO 4G General] Beknatok:
Yes, we covered it here 4 months ago.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=921530

If you dig further into the history of the tweak, it's nothing new.
[EVO 4G General] Pneuma1985:
ROFL That was hilarious.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
#winning, that was slick