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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
I switch phones quite often and have had samsungs, motorolas, and ofcource once upon a time an iiphone.

This is the first time I have a SE, I must say I think it has the best audio compared to all other brands out there. I use it with my klipsch headphones and while its not the best, I like it alot.

The samsung with Voodoo is much better than stalk, but I think my arc is still marginally better than Sam+Voodoo
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Step666:
Don't wish to start an argument but surely if you're an audiophile, you wouldn't be using a phone to listen to music on.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unleashed12:
I also have an iphone 4 and to be honest i cant tell a different at all between the sound quality, so its just as good if not better than the iphone 4. The phone also has easy to access equalizers within the music app..
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiyu727:
Its ok, I would put it next to an iPod.

I think it lacks overall, giving a ... medium experience.

Im using Phonaks Audeo PFE.

It cant compare against a Cowon E2 though and thats probably the cheapest of Cowons line.

Also the placement of the headphones jack is so stupid, since I use a phone bag, I cant put it inside the bag while listening music ...

If I want quality I use my Cowon, for random music listening I take my Arc.

Im not an audiophile yet, but I do care about clearness and detailed sound. Those youtube rips give me goosebumps when I hear them :(
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1235sam:
wow majority of you are pleased with the sound quality :) It will be interesting to know on which setup you have tested the music . Lets start a template to compare Sound Quality(SQ)

Headphone used :

Your previous SQ benchmark :

Music Player Used on the Arc:

(Stock, powerAmp etc)

Music files used:

Equalizer used :

Overall SQ impression:
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1235sam:
I will start

Headphone used : Hippo VB

Your previous SQ benchmark : Iphone

Music Player Used on the Arc: Stock player

(Stock, powerAmp etc)

Music files used : MP3 all encoded at 320kbps

Equalizer used : Flat(very less energetic) , Hip pop (boosts the bass and treble but it suits music I hear - Trance)

Overall SQ impression:

Decent enough but overall clarity is not top notch. Bass is not as deep. Treble is smooth. Loudness is not a problem at least for me . I would rate SQ 7 out 10. ( Iphone 9 out 10 :p)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhawk1:
I use power amp with equal bass and trebble. With sennheiser mm70i soldered to Arc stock cables. The sound quality is as good if not better of iPhone.

The mm70i was designed for iPhone of course
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShyamSasi:
Does DPS Manager from CyanogenMod works? Maybe you could improve the sound quality using that. I used to have HTC Wildfire so SE is far more best.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cherryfish:
Headphone used : stock

Your previous SQ benchmark : SE C905

Music Player Used on the Arc: stock

(Stock, powerAmp etc)

Music files used: stock ones, some of my own (now I actually hear a difference in the quality, lol ^^)

Equalizer used : Normal, Rock

Overall SQ impression: I was pretty impressed by the sound, especially the bass, especially in Rock mode. Not at all an expert, though. ;-)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bartbla:
Before my iPhone 3Gs I used a Galaxy S with stock software, the sound was overdone (to much mid and distorted) by the standard samsung eq settings and they could not be disabled...

This was one of the reasons to go back to a iPhone 3Gs, but now the sound on my Arc is as good or better.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robiceli:
The SQ of the Arc is good but not perfect. Even with high quality iems (I use my Sennheiser IE8 and Sony EX700's) the soundstage isn't that great either. If you want good sound quality, go for a standalone mp3 player from Sony, Cowon or Samsung. I still use my Sony X Series Walkman and I must say that the sound quality is brilliant.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1235sam:
I am curious to know which DAC is used in the Arc.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1235sam:
anyone ? :rolleyes:
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_iceman:
How would I find out?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1235sam:
After playing with PowerAmp settings I have started to like the sound :cool: :)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajftl:
Hard to beat the iPhone sound unless u get a Samsung phone and instal voodoo.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEndHK:
Try Rockbox you should get better sound over PowerAmp.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperDeform:
Depends on the player your usin
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1235sam:
Where can I get it for Xperia Arc ?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheEndHK:
It's still in beta and not available on market. You have to download and install it on your arc by yourself.

My account is new and not allowed to post direct link, please fix it by yourself. You'll see a couple of apks at the page buttom, just pick one and do install.

rockbox.org/wiki/AndroidPort
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1235sam:
any change in Sound Quality after the latest firmware upgrade ?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] av4tar:
comparing this to my iphone 4 i think they sound very similar to each other! with my senheiser headphones the arc sounds tinny and poor compared tothe iphone. add to the arc the "equalizer" app with rock enabled i think it sounds very very good .. as apple say, theres an app for that :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smr309:
I use the mono headset and the sound is good and clear
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harlz:
I may not have the arc yet but since using the xperia x10 and an ipod 4th gen I can state for a fact that sony has the better sound quality out of the two. I was using Bose in-ear headphones which have awesome sound quality IMO. I cant wait for the ARC to be released as from what I have read its an upgrade to the x10 in every possible way:D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shtreber:
i m using headset, and the quality is very good for me...8/10, i wish that headphones can be louder. so can i increase volume at the phone anyway?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kondejm:
TRY

Rockbox-r29922-480x800 vertical orientation only,working on arc.quality sound from arc\good player with a lot of settings.10\10.Worth of try:)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pngface:
The headphone/earphone volume is really low..(using the same earphones and same songs as my x10)

Speaker is great though
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] murrayalex:
In my view, the sound on the Arc is better than that on my Desire S but not as good as that on my iPhone 4. However, you'd only notice a major difference if you encoded your songs at a high level and used very expensive headphones, for the majority of us the Arc provides very decent sound quality I'd guess?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kondejm:
try on AKG K330 headphones and rockbox player.rockbox has the possibility volume increase
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] down4wotever:
I used mediascape on the x10 for a year with westone 3s and then westone 4s. Broke my x10 attempting to change to a white housing and went for the arc, using the media player with no enhancements. After 3 days of thorough disappointment, including using poweramp and winamp (which sounded better than the stock player) I returned the arc and now have a white x10. Not only was the sound quality inferior to mediascape, the arc has serious album art issues. You just have to google it to see people are having problems with this. All my art shows up ok on x10. arc is hit and miss, albeit mostly miss.

In fact if the august gingerbread update for x10 gives us exactly the same sound quality as the arc, I for one will not be upgrading until the issues I have mentioned have been sorted.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pngface:
Exactly! Mediascape had a nice and easy way of looking for album art automatically.. I don't see any way of doing that with the arc
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Awesome_Aleks:
Hmm I have an X10 myself right now, and these comments are somewhat worrying.

How do you guys transfer the music? I transfer my music to my X10 with Media Go (I tag the pictures in Media Go as well) and it worked perfectly for album art on both a Sony Ericsson Aino and the X10 Xperia using the stock music apps.

Mind you, the whole Album Artist thing on the Arc seems pretty badly screwed up, so it wouldn't surprise me too much if other things were screwed as well.

I'll have to see what it's like when the Gingerbread update for the X10 ships :-/
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkstevo:
I have had my Arc for two weeks and I think the sound is stunningly good. My MP3's are all encoded at 320kbs for the best sound quality. I have an iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, my wife has an iPhone 3GS, the Arc is slightly quieter but much smoother sound than any of the others.

The only thing that betters it is my HiFidelio connected to an external DAC and fed through a valve headphone amplifier and Bose headphones.

I really am very impressed. Far better than any other mobile device I've had so far. I didn't think a mobile device could sound so good.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Step666:
Not difficult when all you've had are iPods.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkstevo:
I use Sony Ericsson Media Sync (Mac) and iTunes.

I have for a number of years made sure that I manually embed the Album Art in iTunes to ensure that it is available across all my devices, Apple or not.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lastword112:
I find my arc with the stock in-ear phones and poweramp settings- eq : techno,preamp level (the 3rd bar on the slider coincides with the dotted line),disable tone. outperforming my ipod easily.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shtreber:
Is there anyone with good headphones with good bass, does it eat battery? Their name is skullcandy, and are they compatible with my arc?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyrand3:
try this:

1.Play music using stock app.

2.Use trackID and search.

3.Better sound quality.

no joke my arc have better bass now!!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ucubz:
It has been discussed here friend :)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lastword112:
try ubermusic beta 3 with metro skin
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkstevo:
Well, I could count my HTC HD Mini, my Diamond Rio, Samsung U800, Palm Pilot, Palm T3, Aigo F529, iRiver N10... But you'd probably get bored.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Step666:
You had a N10?

Was that one of the little sort of necklace DAPs?

I had (and still have somewhere) an H340.

An amazing piece of kit, unfortunately rather dated now and very chunky :(
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] datagubben:
PowerAmp is much better compared to the built in Vanilla music player and somewhat better than PlayerPro (But I love the UI and the -fetch Artwork- of PlayerPro though)... :rolleyes:

All of this is only in regard to the headphones, with the new xLOUD of the latest firmware the backspeaker of the phone behaves good. ;)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micks_address:
Hi folks problem using my senheisser ie8i phone says invalid accessory when I plug them in and I get no audio. They worked fine with my HTC desire
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkstevo:
Yes it was! I'm surprised anyone remembers it... I found the menu system almost impossible to navigate, sometimes a key moved to the next level, and other times it seemed to jump out of the menu altogether. Aaarrgghhh! Superbly small and light though, seemed ideal for me on my cycle ride to work. It was only 256Mb too. Soon filled that up. Worked very well with my HiFidelio, but those menus soon sent me over the edge. I sold it on to someone else.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micks_address:
sorted - taping down the mic button on the headset and all is good again.. would have had to take phone back if it didnt work.. i am not doing without my ie8s!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] system02:
Does "xloud" only affect music playing or does it work for ringtones, too?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abanglek:
i'm maybe not really a audiophiles, but maybe poor music lover.

listen: everything from JB to RHCP, from instrumental to heavy jazz (as long not dance bass music)

sq preferred: big, wide, hi-fi, little fun (just little bit, just to added some color)

i own: xperiaArc, rockboxed sansaClip, soundMagic PL10 (cheap but great for instrumental), dell v130, my last samsung omnia i900

my surrounding: iphone4, ipad, 4g iTouch

xperiaArc setup: ubermusic (usable widget since i'm not using stock launcher), volume+ v1.72 (latest give crap sound)

my opinion:

* everything pair with my trusty sm pl10 (except mentioned)

- iphone & ipad give the very clean, hi-fi, very elegant, but not really satisfying me for long duration listening

- itouch same as iphone but added some reverberation, give wider sound & some fun but i got ear-ache after some listening time, er, i'm not interested

- rockboxed sansaClip give the cleaners sound, all the goodness & gapless but lack some sound separation, but very satisfied

- dell v130 (95% on ubuntu, remove all sound enhancement on win7) very big & wide sound, lack some sound seperation, but very good, i don't have any problem attaching earphone when using my lappy

- omnia i900 - neight, nothing to say about, crap, worsen by srs wow hd (installed later)

- xperiaArc (with stock everything included earphone), good hifi, bassy & into fun side, maybe good to normal user

- xperiaArc (with some volume+ tweak & sm pl10), GREAT sound seperation, quite big & wide sound, good hi-fi, maybe little shallow, little noise on song but overall better than iphone in term of satisfaction.

conclution: all the devices listed can't beat my rockboxed sansaClip in-term of overall satisfaction, but now with my tweaked arc, i can forget my clip. at least because i'm too lazy to charging too many device & also i want all-in-one portable device. just sometimes i missed & remembered my clip.

* i've tried overated powerAmp, too much fun side with narrow bass & treble, too much noise on song, maybe good to stock earphone, no fun at all on my pl10
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
Hi all,

Two weeks ago, I download Gingerbread Official version for DHD Here

After that my device is Unroot and HBoot S-ON

I have try to use GingerBreak appli, but unsuccessfully.

After I try to use a Ruu 1.32, but the result is the same.

Then I follow this thread: How to Downgrade 1.7x/1.8x/2.x to 1.32.405.6

I have that:

I put the PD98IMG.zip on my SDcard.

I reboot on bootloader, but nothing happened. My screen stay on bootloader menu or fastboot menu.

I can read:

So my Device is not S-OFF that's why I can't use PD98IMG.

Does anyone have a clue for me for:

- How to Root my phone

Then I can turn on HBoot S-OFF and change my Rom :)

Thanks for all, and sorry, I am French :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nayan8teen:
I followed the very same guide just a few days back to root my DHD. Your adb terminal seems to be fine.

You got "#" in the shell, that says temproot was fine (according to the guide).

Make sure you put the PD98IMG.zip file in the "root of your SD", not inside any other folder.

Reboot into bootloader, and it should automatically recognize the rom image and ask you to update. Say yes, and you are ready to root and S-OFF your device.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
in the root folder?

that is where I put it:
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
no, By using the downgrade method in the Thread, you dont need S-OFF

you do S-OFF after you have downgraded.

The reason why nothing happens is your sd card. Get some other sd card and try.

The same thing happened to me, on one sd card it wouldnt read, but i got another one and it did. So try it with a different sd card
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
I try with 2 sdCard :/

But with the other I have CID error :/

EDIT: With one I have format on fat32 and nothing happen, I try to take pictures about that

EDIT2:

From my n°1SD:

From my n°2SD:

Thanks for your answer :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
yea, if you have a CID incorrect error, then you need a GoldCard. Google how to make a GoldCard.

Remember to use the mmc2 ID and reverse it, make sure its mmc2 and reversed!

If you dont know what im talking about, just google GoldCard, and you will find options about mmc (mmc0, mmc1, mmc2, ...) choose mmc2.

There are many tutorials about making goldcards
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
i used this link when i was making my goldcard : GOLDCARD-LINK
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
I edit my last message!

Uhm, My n°1SD is a goldcard, but mmc0, I don't find mmc2

Thanks for your link.

What is reversed?

I try your link.

EDIT: Do you have the GoldCardHelper apk?

because I am in Norway, so I don't have data access from my phone, and there is no available Wifi xD

that's maybe okay, I use the internet continu connexion from my computer.

I try to connect to internet
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
wait, i didnt get you .. you want me to upload the goldcardhelper?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
Ok, so I have that:

I follow the tuto

No that's okay, I have found it on internet ;)

Thanks :D

EDIT:

I use 00b400...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
your welcome!, just remember to press the thanks button!...and yes

use the 1st reverse ID (00b400...)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
yes I have to press thanks in few minutes!

But I can't paste write with HXD :/
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
Okay That's great I success, because I select Read Only ;)

So know What does I have to do?

Direct use PD98IMG? or I have to do the thread about how to downgrade to 1.32?

(2 thanks for you :D )
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
you do the commands on your phone - that was written on the downgrade thread.

Then you copy the .zip file onto your GoldCard

Then you go into bootLoader!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
okay I try immediatly :D

thanks again :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
your welcome, :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
... Is that correct?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
ummm...you're suppose to get the same screen as you did before.

Try again, but do it carefully. - make sure you restart you're phone before you try again
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
Yes I am supposed...

I will try again xD
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skanino:
Again the same :/

I don't format my µSD To Fat32 because it's ever format in Fat32

do you think I need to format an other time?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] arahma:
why T959VUVKC1 and not T959VUVKD1 because T959VUVKC1 is more stable and T959VUVKD1 has frequent self reboots.

Condition to be fullfiled before flashing this rom is at below link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079930

Install procedure:

1- Download Rom to PC from below link.

2- Put Rom.zip in sdcard.

3- Use Rom Manager to Reboot into recovery mode.

4- Choose Install Zip from sdcard.

5- Wait untill completed and reboot the phone.

6- wait for 3-5 mins for phone to fully come up first time.

Features included in the Rom:

1- Deodexed

2- Root

3- 6 LockScreens and Extended Power Menu options.

Rom.zip download link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MQGXTBMS
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] remarquian:
it doesn't work for me.

cwm3 complains about it being amend not edify.

not to complain, but did you test this?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] arahma:
Have you followed this first before flashing:

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1079930
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
I clicked on it several times to read the link. I got:

404 PAGE NOT FOUND

The page you requested not found
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] remarquian:
Of course not.

I ran it directly from the orange ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.2.8.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] joedeveloper:
Can you please tell me why you continue to post telling people to use ROM manager? I know that you have used it, but there is no official release of CWM (FOR SGS4G models) inside of ROM Manager yet. Additionally, Edify is the current standard for CWM 3.x.x not Amend so why are you pointing people to use zip's not following edify scripting.

Furthermore, do you really have any proof that KC1 (AN UNRELEASED BUILD from Samsung) is MORE stable than the KD1 WHICH WAS released?

Again for people who just take your word and then mess up their phone it's not helpful.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] badboy68:
I say ban. Already
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] joedeveloper:
+1 i agree
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mavictb:
Im so sick of this forum.... seriously worst collective group of enthusiasts ever.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] badboy68:
don t come back then, seriously, we are not the ones with the problems, its rooks like you.. u obviously missed a thread. im jus saying:D
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mavictb:
lol as if you know me. cocky much?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mavictb:
oh and also I dont have any problems with my device... and Im far from a "rook" I have been modding smartphones since smartphones existed... and before that I was modding pocketpcs and psps. It seems people like you jump to conclusions.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] joedeveloper:
There's no reason to be enthusiastic over a bad solution such as the one proposed in the OP.

My point for commenting wasn't to not be enthusiastic, the point is THIS PROCEDURE may work for the author, but it's not the recommended nor the proper way to use CWM. It's not the CWM designed for this device.

So pardon me to rain on the parade, preventing users from doing something to mess up their device.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] badboy68:
i dnt have to know you, wen it comes to the 4g, ur a rook, if i made u mad sorry, if das all u can say, den like i said, dnt come back to this forum
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Jerry D:
Thank you for your comment. I'm a noob. I've been reading and rereading everything in our forum and to tell you the truth I'm am getting confused.

I definitely need the correct, easiest and simplest method. Not because I'm lazy. I'm just a brand new noob and if I screw up my phone I'm in real trouble.

I barely know the basics but I'm itching to mod my phone. I'm missing all the fun! Lol.

All this dialog concerning our current developments and different methods may be annoying to some of the more knowledgable but to a noob like me it is very informative.

Thank you all for your input.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mavictb:
I have had my 4g since 10am release day... still not seeing how I'm a "rook" but I guess everyone is entitled to an opinion, ignorant or not.

P.S. its spelled didn't, that's and then.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Bl4ckpheniX:
Like joedeveloper said. Use the CWM from krylon. This is going to cause issues in the long run. The CWM from krylon is still beta, but that is the version you want. Not from the vibrant.