[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Mr_Element:
[APP & GUIDE]: Volume+ - Increasing your music gain & quality through your headset

Hello guys and let us begin!

During my cohabitation with my beloved Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 , I had always one complain.

The bootloader was locked , battery life was awfull , there was no incall volume , camera gave too noisy pictures , the stock ROM was laggy , we didn't have fps uncaped... :p

...no seriously just one complain. I could never enjoy music being played on my headset using my mobile phone.

At this point many negative people may say that Android is not a music/multimedia platform and the hardware provided (headset etc.) is not of the best quality. Agreed! But I will answer we will have to work with what's being given.

So after using several custom ROMs equiped with DSP Manager I wasn't exactly getting the result I wanted. I had several undesired results such as:

The first few seconds of the song being played didn't actually play.

The bass was off the hook resulting in my headset playing a farty noise in my ears whenever there was a song that demanded deep bass.

I had generaly low volume resulting to not being able to listen to my favourite music while on my 3 hour bus travel every day to my university... :rolleyes:

After some search around market and xda-developers forum I found the Volume+ application which is descent in it's free version BUT performs wonders as a paid version.

Now what I'm about to say onwards is about the paid version which in my humble opinion deserves its money.

AS THE DEVELOPER SAYS , I REPEAT TOO... THIS APP CAN GO -VERY- LOUD. I AM IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE IF BY YOUR OWN MISTAKE YOU DAMAGE PERMANENTLY THE SPEAKER OF YOUR DEVICE.

First of we begin by setting any other equalizer stock or non stock to OFF. And if there is no disable option then we select the "FLAT" preset (that goes for stock Music player that can't disable its equalizer).

1.Then run Volume+ and chose Headset Settings.

2. Tick Speaker Modifications under Settings to Enable it.

Do not enable Virtual Room Effect. It's all about distortion imho.

3. Do -NOT- touch Basic Settings at all.

Basic Settings give some pre-made presets and none of them is good enough for x10. They all lack something and francly I've never been satisfied.

4. Tick Speaker Modifications under Advanced Settings.

That's for enabling the advanced equalizer to allow us to set each frequency channel independently.

5. Apply the following values.

Now these are the settings I use and I'm so much satisfied with them. They give me a rich overall volume , with correct frequencies.

At this point I want to say that if any other user has settings that believes are better than mine, feel free to post , share and explain!

Low: 100
Low/Mid: 120
Mid: 105
Mid/High: 100
High: 95
Volume Level: 7
Bass Boost: 8
Echo/Delay Level: 4

6. Although this application claims not to need a restart of device I strongly DISAGREE!

Reboot your device after you are done and

under no reason

should you kill the Volume+ service in case you are using a task killer/manager. Just add it to

exceptions/white list

.

So once you are done your settings must look exactly like this:

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How/Why:

In case you liked the result you can go on reading.

Those settings were not copied or found around the internet although I'm pretty sure anyone can Google and find something similar.

Those settings came from me and took quite a lot of my time since the whole process of "perfecting" them was listening to a bunch of different favourite songs (each song has its strengths and weaknesses) tweaking , restarting and again from the beggining. That's the best way to work with this application and needs quite a lot of patience but produces a neat result.

That being said , I want to say that my thing about music is that I'm a mainstream freak. So the songs I used to make my configuration are limited to certain kinds such as House , Electro , RnB/Hip-Hop , Pop , some slow Ballads. So for hardcore (Psy) Trance , (Death/Black) Metal , Opera listeners out there ... well guys , don't expect miracles! :D

Sample of songs used:

(Youtube quality has no relevance I just wanted a way to present them to you. I have those songs in full quality in my SDcard ofcourse.)

1. Claydee & Dimension-X - Call Me

(Pop with great vocals and hints of electro sounds and steady beat)

2. Alexunder Base ft. Mirela - Feelings (Club Version)

(Nice deep vocals and smooth bass. Also deep steady beat)

3. Fly Project - Goodbye

(Pop - High pitched tones during the reffrain natural and distorted guitar notes included)

4. Ela Rose ft. David Deejay - Lovely Words

(Nice deep bass , deep vocals , ambient sounds at the beginning)

5. MIMS - Move (If You Wanna)

(RnB - Very deep strong bass , human speech , harsh mid sounds like percussion)

...and about 20 others!

Regards! :cool: