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[Windows Phone 7 General] HaVoKeR:
This App would be pretty useful for my samsung focus. Right now, some songs are pretty flat to listen from it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] morpheus1982:
When I installed the update via the normal means last month, it completely over-wrote my attentive phone that was also in the settings menu. I am not even sure Attentive phone still works in the background.

Thanks for this link anyway, I will use it and see if it fixes my issue.

EDIT: Nope. Doesnt work as it knows that it has already been installed, and no way to uninstall it. I think I need to contact HTC.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MeatHead88:
I got the sound enhancer installed

On my new Nokia 900, but it doesnt do anything...

The app shows under system, and opens, but changing the settings as no effect. :(

Any ideas?
[Windows Phone 7 General] sinister1:
It won't work unless you have some head phones or an aux hooked up to it. Have you tried that?
[Windows Phone 7 General] ShotSkydiver:
How did you even get it to install? I keep trying to deploy the XAP for 2.2.0 (patched and unpatched) and it always gives me the 0x81030120 error.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MeatHead88:
I'm dev unlocked

dev unlocked. installed the htc hub first then used reinstallit to install to my Nokia instead of my HTC
[Windows Phone 7 General] sinister1:
It's a shame that Windows Phone still doesn't have an equalizer other than the current lame HTC Sound Enhancer one while Androd gets new ones daily (See details here).:mad:
[Windows Phone 7 General] sensboston:
It's not a "shame" but current API/platform limitations. The only one way (now) to create an equalizer - it's decoding MP3 tracks "on the fly" in the app and changing (equalizing) waveform in code. This way is very complicated and very resource intensive. What's why no apps - equalizers on the mp.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sinister1:
I agree with you that it is a complicate and very resource intensive option but it still is a shame because of all the limitations on WP which is getting in the way of creating actual useful apps; the market place is flooded with sound board, fart machine and flash light apps. Being a Windows Mobile fan for over 5 years; this is a big time let down, having a stripped down OS that is so locked down and has so many restrictions is like having an iPhone, that's why I never liked the iPhone. Oh well maybe one day Microsoft will wake up and realize why they aren't selling many phones.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pvt_nemesis:
Sound enhancer is not mango comparable but can be upgraded to new HTC Sound Optimization which (I have read) is good for mango

Sent from my HD2 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] darkeingel:
Can you share the XAP's for 2.2.0?

Or anyone around have the XAP from a new versions?

My "Live" account got terminated some days ago, and I can't use reinstaller to try to get the app in the Marketplace - and on a basic search it won't show it.

So I need the xap's so I can update the basic 1.2 version to the new Sound Optimization app.

my HD7 was branded T-Mobile, now it's fully unlocked but I don't find the app on the marketplace - my account is set to US. HTC apps doesn't have any of Attentive phone or Sound Optimization --- using Intrinsinc that doesn't come with this apps pre-installed :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] JohnMcD348:
Just curious but did the original Zune Players have this functionality? I have an Arrive and have the Sound Enhancer and rarely use it since I don't usually listen to it with phones. I do occasionally plug it into a pair of powered speakers that I still have from the way back Walkman days to listen to it in my garage.

I just was wondering if, they had it with the original Zune Player, why would they have taken it out when incorporating it into the smartphone. I've never even touched a Zune so don't know anything about them is the reason I ask this.

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Zunes didn't have one, if I remember well, weird heh? They also lacked any support for lossless formats :rolleyes:
[Windows Phone 7 General] prohibido_por_la_ley:
I don't see how having mobile surround sound with deep rich bass and clear,crisp mids and highs could be lame but whatever.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Yeah lol. Also, apart from Htc phones the other WP7 devices have a quite muddy output, so that wouldn't probably help much anyway. Get dedicated devices for music people, quality is really cheap nowadays (Sansa Clip + FTW).
[Windows Phone 7 General] Laquox:
While I think it would be nice to have an equalizer for windows phone just to appease the masses I have never honestly seen a need for an equalizer on what is basically a Zune/Ipod/Mp3 player. When you are jamming out to music are you really using your phone/portable whatever? Most people I know have dedicated sound setups, car setups, pc setups for rocking out. They use their phone's player for things like audiobooks, the occasional "mix cd" while working out, and stuff like that.

I personally don't really see a need for an equalizer for MOST digital music anyway but I know other people's mileage varies. I think it really boils down to can this even be done with the way the software is currently setup? I think WP just needs time. iOS was terrible in its infancy (and could be argued still terrible but that's a whole other topic.) Android likewise was just plain bad up until about a year(ish) ago. For only being on their second update to date I would say WP is on par with its older siblings.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sensboston:
Change your defective handset with "quite muddy output". My handsets (Lumia 900, Focus and even old Sammy Tailor) have a perfect sound ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Perfect compared to what? A chainsaw maybe? :rolleyes:

Also, I higly doubt there's anything wrong with my brand new Koss i150.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prohibido_por_la_ley:
For what's it worth I can't even stand the sound of my dads iPod after hearing the sound of my HD7.

Don't think so, still quite flat compared to my HD7 with SRS enabled.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sensboston:
OMG, if your Lumia sounds comparable to chainsaw - definitely you should exchange your defective phone ASAP! ;)

Handset means "phone", not a headset :D

BTW, I'll continue discussion only after proof:

- you known what the abbreviation "DAC" is, how DAC works, and what kind of DAC's are usually used in cell phones and in the professional audio equipment;

- you known how the equalizers are working; what is the difference between graphic and parametric equalizers, and what kind of distortions equalizer adds to the signal.

See, I don't ask for a bachelor degree in mathematics or physics with digital signal processing specialization!

After that I'll discuss (probably) all that BS about "chainsaw" and "quite muddy output" :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] sitizenx:
If you go to a party it is nice to be able to just plug in your device and play your tunes. Also playing music in a room away from your main setup is nice. I actually don't do this because I haven't found a great solution and the money to set it up.

And something like pandora streamed to your phone which is connected to your car's stereo would be pretty nice.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sensboston:
Update: vnvman, I'm so sorry; seems like your Lumia 800 has a big problem with audio (it's a hardware design defect, I think so) http://discussions.europe.nokia.com...mia-800-disastrous-audio-quality/td-p/1236759

I don't have this problem on my handsets (Nokia has fixed the issue for Lumia 900). Sell it and buy Lumia 900 (or Focus S or whatever...)
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Sorry about that, I read that wrong...anyway...proof?

What is this, a trial or what? :rolleyes: Anyway, the DAC is the little thing doing the magic of converting digital output to analog output, basically what makes you able to ear your mp3s or whatever format you use. Graphic and parametric equalizers...not a big deal: graphic ones actually show a grafic of the selected frequences, they don't allow you to fiddle too much but are more hassle free for regular users; parametric ones instead are meant for "professionals", you can do a more precise work with them but visually you basically don't know much about what is going on. Idk if you're serious when you ask me this, however the distortion you add playing with an equalizer actually depends on a lot of factors, first of all the quality of the DAC, and then wether you're using a hw or software based eq. Speaking of quality, the one of the DAC is given by its stats (obviously): dynamic range, monotonicity, resolution and some other **** I can't recall. Phone DACs are generally cheap, they have pretty low dynamic range and puke put the signal together with a funny amount of armonic distortion and noise. Add the CPU and radio noise by which all phones are affected, stereo crosstalk when headphones are attached and there you have it: a very uninspiring performer. Try to use some low impedance earbuds with a sucker like that and you'll feel like someone just dropped some poo inside your ears. No equalizer will save you, it's like polishing turd, you may even make it more dirty IMHO.

Wrapping it up: the Lumia (800) sounds cold, noisy, the volume is too low with high impedance headphones and the sound is deadly crippled on low impedance in-ears. Stereo crosstalk is huge, there's a lot of noise, both during the playback and inbetween the tracks. When you raise the volume you get clipping, and especially bass frequences become really muddy and muffled. Using an external DAC isn't even worth it IMHO: all in all you'll be forced to listen to 320 kbps mp3s and you can still get a decent player for even less money.

No worries man. I'll rather stick with my Cowon tho: mass storage, Wolfson DAC, hw equalization, BBE, gapless playback and support for every format. However that's me, you can do whatever you wanna do, just don't tell me that whatever Lumia phone sounds awesome, it really doesn't, at least when you compare it do a decent, dedicated device. Once you've used one, you'll know what I'm talking about. And no, iPods aren't good, at least not the new ones. Their Cirrus DAC makes everything sound canned and cold as ****, I hate them. Add some half assed equalization on top (not to mention the limitations in terms of format and more) and you'll have a smoking pile of crap.

Obviously I'm mostly speaking for my 800, but I doubt that the 900 can be much different, it still has the same SOC after all. Maybe it has slightly better drivers but that's it IMHO. However if you're happy with it, then good for you. This is not an audiophile forum after all ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] sensboston:
vnvman, you should believe me: Lumia 900 sounds really good. Just for proof, at the lunch time I've took my car player (Sansa 280, it has a good DAC, with RockBox firmware installed) and compared with Lumia 900 (first time w/o equalizer, and second time with Jazz preset). I've especially grabbed Sennheiser HD448 headphones from our Q&A guy. Played jazz (Madeleine Peyroux), didn't feel any difference in sound (but of course RockBox firmware is much "smarter" than MS).
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Well, maybe optimized drivers can do wonders at times. Anyway you may also wanna keep in mind that generally higher impedance headsets don't really stress the DAC too much: the HD448 have a 32 Ω impedance, and that's a pretty big difference compared to most of the more pocketable earbuds, especially the good ones. For example, my i150 have an impedance of 8 Ω, which is actually pretty sick: the smallest bit of cpu noise really sounds like a chainsaw to my ears if it's coming through these things, they're a pretty tough benchmark actually ;) It may also depend on the format, and especially the kind of music you're listening to. Generally on my PMPs I got used to pretty extreme eq settings: I cut a lot of stuff, and basically only these super loud Korean players seem to satisfy me. I can't really see myself downgrading to a phone anytime soon for my music, and as a "phone" the 800 serves me very well, the form factor is perfect to me, while I find the 900 a little bit on the bulkier side. Lately I've been listening to a lot of 80's rock, and with those sick reverbs, dirty and mean guitars the super crisp, pure output I get from this J3 when playing FLAC files is astonishing. There's some kind of very special "dirt" going on with those tracks, so I need to keep that dirt "clean", so I'm sure it's the real thing and not something else. I know, I'm crazy...Cum on feel the noize! :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] slaydemon:
does anyone know what DAC the lumia 900 has??? I feel like my old 3gs sounds better... but I also got a new pair of IE8's with the lumia 900, so it just might be my earbuds breaking in.... any info? thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Afaik the 3gs has a Wolfson DAC, or at least a Cirrus one. I wouldn't be surprised if it sounded better.

Edit: yeah it's a Cirrus, Apple dropped the Wolfson in 2005. This one doesn't sound bad compared to most phones, but it's not as good as the Wolfson. Still definitely better than whatever Lumia phone can offer tho.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sensboston:
Can't really answer your question but take a look to the attached "Audio concept" part from the service manual... I have no idea what is the "Boost Mono" or "QTR8615L" are but if you know something about, please share with us.
[Windows Phone 7 General] slaydemon:
i just found out that the lumia 900 (nor any other windows phone) supports any type of lossless format. so all my songs have been converting to mp3s whenever i sync it with the zune software. I'm thinking about going back to my 3gs or waiting for the new iphone to come out.

i'm still in shock of the no lossless support in WP.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lilg4mdalbc:
Actually, on the Nokia website, it says wma lossless is supported. The Zune software is automatically setup to change your music to mp3 format, which I'm assuming, is to help conserve space. But, in the Zune software, if you go to

Settings>Phone>Conversion settings, you should be able to change it so that only the unsupported formats get converted. And like I said, it says on the Nokia website that at least the Lumia 710, WMA lossless 9 is supported. Hope this helps.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sitizenx:
This was addressed in another post. You guys need to read directions and set your phone/Zune software correctly and quit complaining. Okay?
[Windows Phone 7 General] stevov:
i love my titan but i also have a onex. if you want to see what windows 7.5 music player should be check out ZPlayer on google play. as i understand it the features bio,similar and related are available to U.S. users but not U.K users of windows phones as i cant access them on my titan. i love the integrated equaliser.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emokid09:
i think the only things i hate about wp7 (or mine anyway) is the lack of apps, the sound quality and the interface.

love the phone just needs more... erm... umpfftt
[Windows Phone 7 General] Kcmyers98:
HTC One M8 does!

I have the HTC One M8 (I updated it to Windows 8.1 Update 2), and it has BoomSound in "settings" under "extras." By default, it is on when audio is playing through the phone speakers (you can't change it), but you can turn it on and off when any external audio is connected to it (not sure about Bluetooth audio devices, though). Hope this helps.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwiflasher:
So my desire is rooted then I s off'd with revolutionary and loaded a new recovery, now I want to change hboots so I put an pb99img.zip file on the scard and booted into bootloader but the zip file is not found.... Am I missing something?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
It will be best if you start using fastboot, it's fastest easiest and safest way to do so.

Look for ADB/Fastboot guide (they are all over the place..), you need to setup it once and then you just flash hboot by simply executing few commands for example:

fastboot flash hboot cm7r2.img

fastboot erase cache

fastboot reboot-bootloader

And you're done, so just learn how to install and use adb.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muellersmattes:
If you want to use the pb99img.zip method, make sure that the file really is called PB99IMG.zip. Windows is default set that it doesn't display file type endings, so it would show "PB99IMG.zip", but the file really is called "PB99IMG.zip.zip", which won't be recognized.

Anyway, I prefer fastboot. If you can't use it (e.g. no own pc with adb around), the zip method also works. But fastboot is faster (as the name says!) and you don't have to mess with files on your sd.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwiflasher:
Ok so readup a bit about adb and fast boot then installed jdk then installed the sdk then installed platform tools which included adb and fast boot and added path to adb folder under path environment variable. Connected phone and booted into fast boot. All good so far.

Running adb or fastboot devices command lists my phones serial number so all looks like its working so then I put the ing files I want to flash in the same folder as the adb.exe file then run the command - fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-oxygenr2.img but I get an error failed to load etc etc

Did I miss something? Am I putting the img files in the right place? Should I use the alpharev zip files instead of the img files?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
What errors exactly are you getting, it will be best if you paste whole log including commands that you were executing.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwiflasher:
see attached for error message
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehTerminator:
Just put the PM199IMG.ZIP File to the root of microSD card and goto boot loader and it will detect the update file and ask you if you want to update or not there just press yess and then goto recovery and restore your nandroid backup. Or flash New Rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwiflasher:
Don't you mean PB99IMG.zip file not PM199IMG.zip? If so have tried that as per first post. If not then I'll try that too.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3lcior:
Maybe you have misspelled the img name, rename it to something shorter like oxygen.img also make sure you're in fastboot mode while flashing it! (power off, then hold vol- & power on, select fastboot)

And the last thing the img file has to be in same directory as the fastboot.exe
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 777ace:
Cuz, sorry to confuse you, but seriously, forget all about adb, terminal emulator, PB99IMG.zip etc. Just install Android Flasher, plug your phone to PC (leave on main screen, it'll be fine) and push .img file to phone.

It seriously is a piece of piss, mate. You will have no dramas.

There's a thread in dev section to give you the how-to.

E: If coming from another HBoot, make sure you push "downgrader" (from alpharev) first.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
No need.

10chars
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehTerminator:
Typing error Sorry
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tillus:
You are on right track, you just need to put the img file to the location of fastboot.exe .

Dunno why you guys are talking about adb...that's a completely different story and you can't flash hboots with adb.

Apart from that i am quite surprised about how far you got,given the partly confusing answers.

You either use fastboot or android flasher (which is basically a fastboot GUI I think) or the PBblabla.zip hboot-zip method. Don't mix them up - you are using fastboot (which is the safest and in my eyes most straight forward way) , so stick to it ;) You're almost there!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwiflasher:
Ok so I put the image file in the same folder as the fastboot.exe file so sounds like I did nothing wrong and it should have worked? Must be something wrong with the jdk or sdk install so will try using the Android Flasher method.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiwiflasher:
Yay for Android Flasher that did the trick, thanks to all...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 777ace:
Sweet as! :)
[Vibrant General] bobshute:
I counted about a dozen sweet Ice Cream Sandwich Roms in the Development forum based on at least three completely open source repo's.

I say up yours Samsung, we don't need your kind around here!!!
[Vibrant General] papi5120:
they said that cuz our phones dont have the memory to handle the ics using touchwiz framework

and i doubt they would ever remove it so no official update for us
[Vibrant General] jeremy2420:
They have a SGS II port in the i9000 forum that is ICS touchwiz and it seams to run pretty well, (they have a video, i tried to port it but the kernel is hacked to make it work) so really they just dont want to do it.:mad:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1521974
[Vibrant General] papi5120:
samsung u bastards! lol
[Vibrant General] Conkrete:
I recommend checking out ICZen, im running rc 1.3 and its the best rom ive tested thus far.
[Vibrant General] bobshute:
Already a Zenaholic...lol.
[Vibrant General] ast32:
Just ODIN>JFD>CM9 Alpha>Slim ICS

I'm enjoying Slim ICS far more than I expected. Looonnng time xda lurker, I hope I can bring something to the table.
[Vibrant General] West420:
They want us all to spend more money on newer phones.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
are you guys still stuck on this subject? GET OVER IT. We have amazing ICS ROMS in our dev section already. Samsung has their business style just as any other company.
[Vibrant General] N00B_IN_N33D:
If you guys are really still stuck on the subject, you could try to spread the word of this petition...

http://www.change.org/petitions/samsung-were-asking-you-bring-the-galaxy-s-users-an-update

Sadly the petition started to slow down about a month ago, but hey, maybe you guys can give it a second wind. Although I honestly doubt we'll get an official upgrade at this point in time.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinoypower:
I am not sure if this post belongs here, mods please feel free to move to appropriate section if not.

I recently noticed my phone bill in the last 2 months were much higher than normal. I went through my bills online and checked my call history, I found out there were messages sent by me, and some messages sent to me from 60140 and they cost £1.50 for each message! Now, I am very certain that I did not send any message to that number. I checked my phone's messaging history and there were 3 text messages I received 4 days ago, but my online bill also reported I sent 1 before I received the 3 messages. These messages are nothing but simple tips for android power users, which are pure rubbish (screen shot attached).

I was also able to trace the dates when I got these messages, the first was the day when I flashed Darky's Rom, and the other was when I flashed CheckRom v6 4 days ago. I had flashed a lot of custom roms in the last 3 months and it's only in the last 2 roms that I had this issue. I've sent a "Stop" message to 60140 and got a reply that says I am now unsubscribed.

I am suspecting it was an app that caused this. I wonder if there's anyone who can shed light to this. I was thinking of wiping my phone and reformatting the internal storage but so hesitant as it is running perfect at the moment on Checkrom V6. Would really appreciate any help ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mustang2012:
That is very very unusual !!. I also flashed many different type of custom rom but never experience one ....