[Nexus 4 Themes and Apps] the1onewolf:
Wow!

Just tried this and it's amazing. I'm really happy that I stumbled upon this thread :D.

Thanks alot for this mod!

I haven't had a real chance to test these out conclusively but I'm always interested in flashing and trying out various new roms, mods and etc. So I thought it would be fun to do some side by side music/sound tests. Obviously this is neither a well controlled nor fair comparison but I thought I would share my experience.

Quick side by side comparisons with 3 nexus devices (all tested indoors)

1)Nexus 4 runnig codefire SR8 and motley experimental kernel

2)Nexus 4 running xylon 18 (linaro version) latest faux 123 kernel

3)Nexus 4 stock with motley mainline kernel.

I only applied this mod to phone 1, phone 2 and 3 don't have this mod applied.

Loudspeaker volume produced mixed results for me. Although I didn't conclusively test the loudspeakers and testing indoors is relatively useless. I'm really hoping this mod will help the loudspeakers shine outdoors (car navigation, ringtone, using speakers during a call outdoors and etc) I found there to be no difference in volume or quality when testing google now and various youtube clips on the loudspeaker between the three phones (of course take this with a grain of salt since none of the three phones are running the stock kernel)

I felt that the in-call speaker quality was slightly better with phone 1 (mod installed). It's a bit louder and clearer. Again these are just quick subjective tests with my phones. Although I did call from the same spot, my mobile carrier signal is spotty around the house and varies heavily.

Music quality is significantly better with this mod applied. I used several cd quality lossless flacs during testing (16 bits, 44100hz). I really feel that mid range portable products particularly benefit.

I found that using generic ($5 dollar) earphones doesn't really make a difference on the 3 phones. This is simply because these earphones suck.

I found that using the apple earpods phone 1 sounded significantly better than 2 and 3. I think this is due the dsp/equalizer and the IEM (at least I think the earpods are IEM) kicking in.

I found that using audiotechnica m50's directly plugged into all 3 phones doesn't make a difference. This is because none of the phones can really drive the headphones (IMO, a lot of people will disagree with that).

However, when I used a portable external amp with the m50, I found the sound on phone 1 was significantly better than the other two phones. Quite nice and enjoyable. I really enjoyed the m50's on my modded phone with an amp as opposed to the two other unmodded phones.

Moving up to the Sennheiser 650's; I hit the point of diminishing returns. At this point I have to use a ¼ to 1/8 adapter for my portable amp and my portable amp isn't powerful enough to drive the 650's. So, as expected, all phones produce lackluster results because the phones + amp simply can't drive the 650's.

Now bordering on the stupid side, I plugged hooked my phone into my DAC (burson conductor's preout) with some adapters and gave it a listen with my 650's. This of course is completely ridiculous because I'm still feeding an already processed low grade signal into my DAC and doesn't make a difference for the headphones whatsoever.

Again these are just subjective observations from me playing around but oh what a difference this makes.