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[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Lordrdx666:
I have made this thread for all of you to discuss your equalizer app presets & to discuss sound, no trolling, flaming over brands people, (except apple :D) & noobs don't stick your neck unnecessarily if you don't know the stuff.... First read then post here.. Or else get pwnd! :)

I am giving my highly tested & tried personal suggestions for all the people who have tried various combinations & haven't been satisfied, my suggestions are going to satisfy your question for general sound improvement

" Don't expect any groundbreaking "heavy metal" quality improvements ;) but if you understand & follow somethings correctly you will get a pretty decent sound... "

HERE YOU GO -

Guys my personal suggestions -

Equalizer app -

www.appbrain.com/app/equalizer/com.smartandroidapps.equalizer

1) CATEGORY TYPE 1

For free or for people nearly broke + those who listen @ 30 to 60% of max volume( i.e volume of 4 to 7) on the volume scale of 1 to 15 in the stock player as shown in the touchwiz music player...

What to do in this case???

Use the stock samsung earphones + stock player + equalizer app from market + some common sense when setting the presets in equalizer app...

My setup for this -

I set the bass boost in equalizer app at approx 30%

Virtualizer @ 20-40%

Reverb @ large room or medium hall

The actual equalizer setup for me varies from music to music... Usually I like my mid range boosted (I'm a guitarist, so I like a midrange boost in my music to hear the instruments clear ;) )...

2) CATEGORY TYPE 2

You listen to music @ 30 to 70% of maximum volume... i.e you listen to music between the range of 3 to 10 out of max volume of 15

If you have some money to spend & can purchase a single app + earphones

Get Skullcandy Riot Mic'd series earphones...

These will cost you 1200 Indian rupees

Or if you can afford get Skullcandy Smokin Bud earphones.

These will cost you 1600 Indian rupees

And purchase the equalizer app from android market...

The basic settings can be kept the same as category one settings for the bass boost & Virtualizer & reverb...

CATEGORY 2 PEOPLE HAVE THE MAXIMUM HAPPINESS.... Because 1200 Indian rupees & $2-3 of cost of equaliser app is very less for the quality of sound you will get...

3) CATEGORY TYPE 3

You like your music very loud between 50% to 90% of the maximum volume most of the time.

And you have lot of money to spend -

Get sennheiser MM30i/MM70i/MM50i in earphones + poweramp music player full version = orgasm for ears...

Setup your poweramp player's equalizer in any preset, & setup its volume, bass, treble & stereo expansion controls in any way.. & use your new sennheiser earphones...

:D

Happy listening! :)

PS - Logitech UE 300vi & Logitech UE 400vi are good alternatives to sennheiser earphones, but test them before using!

& Thank me :D if you found this helpful in your audio experience, I haven't been active on the forums lately due to other commitments & change of phone! (still have my I9003 ;))

Tapashocked :) via my Galaxy Note with SwiftKey X !! :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Lordrdx666:
Thanks for the thanks people! Share your setups & earphones suggestions!

Tapashocked :) via my gt-I9003 with a random keyboard of my choice ! :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] .Harshit:
I would say DSP manager does the trick but you do require CM lib or legacy audio lib for it to work on Stock roms
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jimmychoy1995:
thank you very much, it's useful
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Lordrdx666:
I agree.

But personally speaking, I find the quality of effects of equaliser app & poweramp player to be superior than dsp manager!

And investing in good quality earphones is equally important :)

Tapashocked :) via my gt-I9003 with a random keyboard of my choice ! :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Taraen:
As this thread is also for sharing settings I would like to share my DSP Manager Settings for the standard Earphones (havent bought new good ones yet):

Bass Boost: Strong to Extreme

Equalizer: 3,0; 2,0; 0,5 - 1,0; 2,0 - 2,5; 1,5 - 2,0

Virtualizer: Off to Room (if translation from German to English is right here)

The results of these settings in my mind are quite ok for the standard earphones. Volume is about 60% - 70%
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] nitinvaid:
well i have bought

http://reviews.cnet.com/headphones/sennheiser-cx300-b-in/4505-7877_7-31727753.html

sennheiser c300 ii
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
I'm on CDMA Evo 3d with hboot 1.5 S-ON, unlocked bootloader via HTC METHOD, & on software 2.17. I'm not near a computer so I can't use adb etc & I don't even know how to do that. I've tried several ways to do this from bootloader! I tried renaming the TWRP to PG86IMG.zip & it told me "main version older, press power to reboot now" several times. I tried clockworkmod as PG86IMG.zip & it says "parsing" but nothing ever happens. People say these worked for them but it hasn't at all for me. Could any of you expert rooters help me please so I can use custom rom? I been stock for too damn long since OG EVO Launch when I had one! Much appreciated & I'll thank
[HTC EVO 3D] LfnsR:
FYI...http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/67 - Use the Download Image Method since you are on hboot 1.5.
[HTC EVO 3D] joeykrim:
There are definitely a few options and a few things to be aware of.

HTC official unlock does NOT unlock kernel/boot write access while in the custom recovery mode. Still is helpful to flash the custom recovery as all other features will work from recovery mode, just not the ability to write to the kernel/boot partition.

This means there are only two modes you can flash the kernel from, either fastboot mode (requiring a computer) or standard Android mode, for which I made a handy application, Flash Image GUI.

1) Using my application, Flash Image GUI, will allow you to flash custom kernels and also select ROM .zip files, and then load the kernel out of the ROM .zip, while then booting into recovery mode to load the rest of the ROM (system portion). My application will also allow you to flash the recovery.img or any .zip file containing the recovery .img.

2) Using the fastboot mode there are two ways to flash a kernel, both require being connected to another device, generally a computer.

2-A) fastboot boot c:\downloads\recovery.img . This command will temporary load the custom recovery with write access to the kernel partition and allow a full kernel .zip or ROM .zip to be loaded correctly.

2-B) fastboot boot c:\downloads\boot.img . This command will flash just the kernel boot.img file. The associated kernel modules, such as WiFi will not be loaded and must be loaded by the ROM .zip in the custom recovery, otherwise WiFi will not work.

HTC unlock is definitely very helpf when compared to no official option, but has a few quirks forcing us to take a few extra steps.

Hope that helps clarify a bit!
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
I have tried this & it says "main version older" idk what that means but it didn't work!
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
I have been able to use flash GUI you can find it on here or pay a dollar for it on the market here man let me get you two links http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1045797 download this on your phone flash gui.... install it with es strong file explore http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager then get the touch screen one CWM download it. Flash it through flash gui you should be good to go...
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
Bro the only reason I haven't gotten flash img GUI is because I don't have money in my credit card. I have +$20 in my sprint account but nothing on my armed forces bank card! That's also why I haven't donated to you reaper for all your help!
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
Its free grab the free one on that page i sent ya man .... no ads it's legit I used it today. The one for a dollar in the market is the same one as the free one just make sure you keep the apk file if you buy it from the market it will always install on your phone. The free one you have to install your self lol pretty easy man.. I have been messing with it all day lol..

Flash Image GUI

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Did you download it ? From the link I sent ya and download the latest touch screen touch of CWM for the evo 3d recovery...
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
IM SO CLOSE BRO. I GOT BOTH BUT FLASH IMG GUI SAYS IT NEEDS ROOT PERMISSION FROM SUPER USER. Remember dude I'm S-On & don't have a custom recovery yet! What do I do now? I also already have ROM manager
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
Either download superusers from the market free version works fine or just click okay on it.. May need superusers from the market. Didn't have any issues.
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
Got it, but how do I get superuser to give them the permissions? In the app I see the "app" catergory with nothing there.

Remember, all I've done is HTC unlock to unlock bootloader. I'm still s-on with no custom recovery, if I can get that I'll be fine. I got everything you said also
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
Now run the flash gui thing it should work now...
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
Tried it & this is what I get! I also have superuser from android market
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
This is gonna sound retarted man sorry just need to know does your hboot say unlocked at the top?

I know alot of folks were having issues when they applied the unlock code bin part using the HTC Dev way and it would say sucess but nothing would happen the phone would sit in hboot and no new screen would come up and say do you wish to unlock the bootloader.... Only way around that was to download the latest RUU exe 2.17 and use it then reapply the unlock code bin

I am trying to figure out why TWRP 2.0 was havin issues along with CWM and so I I have been swapping recoverys around on my phone all day to see if I could get the same issue you have been having...

I am running outta ideas since everything isn't wanting to flash over it's acting like the boot is still locked even tho you unlocked it.

Im hboot 1.5 S-ON

If nothing works you could try this then redo the custom recovery.. by fastboot flash.
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
yea bro I'm unlocked alright, I remember doing this through HTC method. I know that much I did do. I'm not near a computer btw, for that recovery can I do pg86img?
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
Might be able too. PC86IMG.ZIP I just can't figure out why nothing is flashin over to your phone recovery wise...

I did the same thing took the OTA software update before I rooted and did the HTC DEV applied the unlock code and chose to unlock boot even tho said it could void my warranty. Then I downloaded TWRP 2.0 which I don't recommend using put that in my platform tools folder and fastboot flash recovery recovery.img or what ever you renamed the file tooo.

This is the recovery I was using worked fine just copy the file that is in the zip to your platform tools folder and fastboot flash recovery cwm.img

I really am tryin to figure out what is going wrong with the recoverys not wanting to flash over....

I dunno why cwm isn't flashing right..
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
Tried to pg86img with stock recovery & failed. When dad gets here I'll take a pic proving I unlocked with HTC method. Idk what's going on really because people say these steps worked for them & nothing has worked for me at all!
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
I believe you on the unlocked part. Man im just stumped on this part the way it's acting up seems like the phone is still locked....

I have been tryin to screw up mine to see if I have the same issue as you...

I am really tryin to figure this out lol. :D

When you did the HTC Dev method you had latest java JDK and HTC sync 3.0 I think was the latest and ADB and the tools it needs downloaded...

Also you don't have two pc86img.zip files on your SD card right?

Some of the PC86IMG.ZIP files might error or not work due to them being named PC86IMG.ZIP.ZIP

Does the computer you were using have ADB installed on it with the tools you can download when you open up SDK manager there called SDK tools or platform tools...

Since you need these to work adb and make sure debug is on in the main menu of your phone under applications development.

I dunno why superusers wouldn't flash either.. Might be something with ADB or SDK tools or Platform tools aren't downloaded. On windows 7 if your right click on your platform tools while holding down shift it will open up a quick path to adb :D
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
The stock recovery I used astro zip to zip the stock signed recovery.img. It was named stock signed recovery.zip when I zipped it. Then I renamed it to PG86IMG.zip & powered off phone. I went to bootloader & it found the file like before, said "parsing" & nothing else happens but it goes back to the bootloader highlighting fastboot. I did this several times by clicking on fastboot & then clicking bootloader so it can load the file again. Still it said "parsing" & nothing else. Like before, the only one that said something different was twrp which said "main version outdated" & the only option after that was to reboot using power button!

Also, I'm not near a computer & the super user I downloaded is from the market! I'm on hboot 1.5 unlocked WITH software 2.17. Do you think it's because the ota?
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
There isn't a folder on the SD card called recovery is there?
[HTC EVO 3D] KaoMinerva:
Nope there isn't. It's not a folder named recovery on the root of the SD card or on the main root of the SD card where you see the really important files & you can see the system apks etc! What does this mean?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimicuk:
Hi just wondering what is the fastest custom rom on the Desire?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatDrOiD:
Feeling or quadrant?

If feeling, definitely dGB. Never used a smoother rom.

If quadrant, I do not know because I do not care about quadrant.

Sent from dGB using Transparent XDA App
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xelra:
Yeah, I second that.

Oxygen was fastest before and dGB is a derivative of Oxygen. The kernel that comes with it is also superb. It's optimized for battery life. The only other kernel worth trying besides it would be Tiamat. But there really is no need for that.

EDIT:

dGB is NOT a derivative of Oxygen! That would be MildWild. The rest applies.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudkcoce:
Definitely the ones in my signature. I am talking sense roms, of course.

As a side note, the only aosp rom I have tried is mildwild, and I did not find it faster than my current rom. ;-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
dGB ROM smooth and light weight. No frills. Barebones with sensible modifications. I decided to give it a spin last night and it's the smoothest AOSP rom I've used. I immediately felt the difference the moment I had all my apps installed. Unlike others that slows down a bit when you fill your phone with apps, this one's fast.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
:confused:

Nope.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malso:
I Don't Have Facts to Back This Up...

but the fastest I used so far is MildWild 2.9.5.

But I never tried dGB, so I can't compare them.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PreScoper:
Use CM 7.0.3 for long battery life and fast response! Stable too.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Since real world speed can only be measured by perception, no one can ask you for facts :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xelra:
Yeah sorry, for some reason I had MildWild on my mind when I wrote that.

Nonetheless, dGB is fastest! :D

Sorry for the confusion. No offense.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
None taken. Oxygen is a great Rom
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keith456:
aosop roms are usually the faster roms but i find they are stripped down to much .

oxygen - found this to be overall consistent in performance

mildwild -based of oxygen

redux - choppy when lw wallpapers are set

dgb - slightly faster performance then oxygen in my opinion
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twisted_forever:
i would like to add 'Supreme desire' for speed (CM7 based). been using a while and amazed with the speed and stability.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusta_HR:
Redux2 test build. Period.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Period? How so?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InMyBedNow:
Honestly, in the really end it depends on your personal usage. Such as, the amount of apps you've got installed, etc. I would say PURE AOSP roms are always the fastest, some of these roms are Oxygen, dGB, CyanogenMOD7, etc. I'm not sure about MIUI since I've never tried it before. If you want a ROM that's good looking try MIUI or a sense rom. I like the Runnymede AIO Special Edition ROM "http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1315961".
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusta_HR:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period

Period may mean a full stop: a punctuation in American-English.

That mean, Redux 2 test is fastest aosp I ever tried.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I know what "period" means. But it doesn't mean its the fastest YOU tried. It means the fastest ever, second to none. Not the same. Substantial claims ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snorrip3:
i'd recommend mildwild's oxxy or cm7 based roms. at least 2.8 used to be solid as a rock. very fast and low battery drain

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actually it would be nice if someone knew a link to mw's 2.8 version of CM7? he's for some reason beta testing a new launcher in 3.0 making the rom less usable
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusta_HR:
Look m8... i tried EVERY AOSP ROM i could find here on this forum.. cm7, gingervillan, dgb...even miui... and i found old Redux to be fast enough for my needs :-)

sent with Tapatalk@Reduxed Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erklat:
Umm, seen this but didn't bother to clarify last night. So it has to be combined with an absolute indisputable value. So :

Redux is the fastest. Period => fail, you're doing it wrong.

Desire forums are infested with idiots. Period. => win?

SwiftKeyed from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusta_HR:
And who are you to judge this?

Nataknem te ...

sent with Tapatalk@Reduxed Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidzone:
It's rather pointless to compare speeds of aosp roms anyway. Are you talking about an objective assessment like benchmarks, or people's subjective feeling of speed? If you keep factors like kernel factors, location of /data, services in background, launcher etc , aosp roms are going to be similar in performance. They do feel faster than Sense roms, but I've always felt that the way I have to set them to be usable (launcher, dialer, lock screen, camera), at the end, I get better quality from Sense. Minus custom apps, Sense seems faster-to me, which is again my subjective opinion.

So, faster or fastest doesn't mean anything. A ROM fully on nand and sparing nand data will feel fast. Until someone keeps control constants and do a series of tests, the opinion you hear is useless anyway.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusta_HR:
Totally agree. Speed is subjective feeling.

sent with Tapatalk@totally Reduxed Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erklat:
Šta će mi sada tip koji je demonstrirao svoju uporabu engleskog govorit šta ću ja komentirati a sta ne!? :D

I didn't comment on rom speed. I comment the period term which can be used only with utmost and indisputable certainty backup up with evidence - which your statement didn't have.

SwiftKeyed from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gusta_HR:
Deleted.

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Exactly what I am saying, meaning "period" cannot be used.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toob1994:
yes, quick and smart i also used it
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Seeing that everyone seems to agree that the answer is pretty much subjective unless we can get a scientist to run controlled tests to know what rom really is the fastest, can we close this thread now? LOL
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Don't ask us, ask a mod

However, it might be useful to have a laggy Rom thread
[HTC Sensation] thefeeny:
Hello everyone,

I finally unlocked and S-OFF'd my stock sensation and installed Virtuous Inquisition 3.

I can only say that this has been a total experience change. Battery life is much improved, speed is much improved, even browsing seems faster - and finally - bluetooth voice dialling works... it just never worked with the stock HTC stuff.

I also installed exDialer and it's overall just an awesome experience. Very happy.

I am finding stability at 98% or so - which I reckon is about as stable as the original HTC sense stuff.

The only issue I have with this phone is that the bluetooth stack seems to cut out on my HR monitor when I am using bluetooth with multiple devices. I have no idea if its the phone itself or the ROM.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hurrpancakes:
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you guys know about the Humble Bundle. Every once in a while, this website hosts indie developed games in a pay what you want model. For the next two weeks, their current offerings are games that will work on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android!

Just thought this would be cool to share, pay what you want for Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, EDGE, and (if you pay more than the average) World of Goo.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fcpelayo:
yea saw it on the front page and already bought my share of games lol
[HTC Radar] LenAsh:
Decided to sell after all - not matured enough for me!
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] DieH@rd:
Is there any video player for Samsung Galaxy R that can play 720p H264 videos with high profile of encoding [like any TV series release that can be found on the web]? I heard that Tegra2 is not really good with such kind of videos, but i really did not have any luck with finding any program that can play them back [they all stutter badly].

Also, if no solution can be found, can you recommend me some pc server/android client that can transcode that type of videos and stream them over the wifi?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] magsp:
DICE Player, MX Video Player. In my play very smoothly, without jamming.
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] akshatsourav:
DICE PLAYER is the best option for u....

and its free in android market....https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial&hl=en

u must download plugin ...https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.tegra2&hl=en....

njoy
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] zerocool_rkl:
Install MX player. It will download n update for tegra2 after installing. Works fine
[Samsung Galaxy R i9103] ronhoover88:
Give bs player a try
[GT540 Optimus General] reD.:
Is there an easy way to change icons all at once ? I downloaded Shiny Boxes,and there are a lot image files,so i am wondering how to install them ?
[GT540 Optimus General] andreas__:
you could try to make a theme for a home replacement, e.g GO launcher and ADW support it.

download any theme, unzip it and replace the icons
[HTC Rezound] sdlucky7:
I think I may have messed myself up in regards to the new OTA for the Rezound. Here is the story...

My phone is currently unlocked and perm-rooted enough to use Titanium Backup on a regular basis.

Not thinking, I backed up and uninstalled some system apps (bloat) using Titanium Backup in December:

Backup Assistant

Mobile Hotspot

Mobile IM

Mobile Instant Messenger

My phone downloaded the OTA last night and attempted to install. It gets about 1/4 of the way through and stops (picture of a phone and <!> ). I have to battery pull to get it to restart. The only error message I get is: "Update Failed, Code 410"

I have tried multiple times to run the OTA and get the same result each time.

The only thing I can think is that the OTA will not install because there are system apps missing (Mobile Hotspot specifically).

I have been unsuccessful in restoring the apps via Titanium Backup. It just hangs and doesn't actually do anything.

Is there anything else I can try? Did I permanently mess things up by uninstalling those system apps? Is there other issues I may be missing?

I'm open to ideas...