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[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Czai24:
Dirty flashed and tried it again.. its working now, I think

I also noticed that when you turn on Dolby, and play mp3 files it would still show the s24_le on the state file.

But without it, it would only show if you are playing 24 bit flac. So for now I'm turned off h/k. Dolby is on but set as "none" on settings.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] eriknors:
Has 24 bit support only been given to the m7 and/or the m8 devices in this most recent version? Reason I ask is cause I remember a few versions back I was able to have it on my DNA but now I'm stuck with 16bit. Is there anyway to enable 24 bit for the DNA?
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
Why don't you try it out yourself?

I'm pretty sure 24bit will work because of Dolby, if it works for the m7 then it will work for the DNA. GPE and Sense only.

Sent from mah haytch tee see Juan via crapatalk
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] eriknors:
That's just it I am using ur mod but when I check data/audio/persist.htc.audio.pcm.bitsize it shows me 16 to where in the past it used to reflect 24. Maybe you have enabled it a different way and I'm not aware of it but also in previous versions after flashing your mod changes where made to audio.policy.conf to reflect 24bit
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
That's obviously because you are looking at the wrong file. Search the thread on how to find out, we've been over this many times in this thread now.

Just read back a couple of pages, none of what you said is valid in the latest versions.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] eriknors:
My apologies it's been awhile since I fired up my DNA
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deadeye*:
Dam still experience Dolby drop out. It mostly havens when I use my phone. Tried whit boom sound off and on
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] worstenbrood:
What version of android do you use, which rom. I'm on aosp lollipop and i never have drops. Maybe your rom has more aggressive memory management ?
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deadeye*:
Its skydragon gpe whit his kernel. I think op was also using same rom. But never had problems on his. Also Soff and newest gpe firmware
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
No, I said I'm using complete stock GPE lollipop rooted and Kangeroo Kernel. I'm not using a custom rom.

I also said I used to run cm12 and never had problems with dolby. I never said anything about skydragon gpe.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] drsamratroy:
[MENTION=4388232]ZeroInfinity[/MENTION] many thanks for this awesome mod... just have a small but annoying issue... whenever i use any music app other than the default music app in Sense, sound skips after a few minutes with Dolby turned on... but turning it off solves the issue... is there any way i can use both Dolby & Poweramp/any other player together as the sound is too good with Dolby turned on? rite now am being able to use the Dolby only in the default music app... also m on Eragon ROM & Kangaroo...

Ok now this skipping occurs even with Dolby turned off in Poweramp... [emoji30]
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
I'm on stock gpe lollipop rooted with kangeroo kernel, I do not have any issues whatsoever with poweramp + dolby (My setup currently).

I suggest you try a different ROM and see how things go.

If you read a few posts above, another user has been having issues with a skydragon rom too, I think it's a ROM issue because no one else has reported this issue before.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deadeye*:
Apologies i assumed you using skydragob my bad

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Is cm12 worse in sq compared to gpe? Or same any thoughts?
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
AOSP will forever suffer in the depths of hell in terms of audio quality :p :p :p
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] threetwentyfizzle:
As well as sheer performance in general. I'm really glad HTC has released GPE devices the last couple years and hope they continue to, they are sooo much smoother and bug free than aosp. Although AOSP customizations from CM and PA make it all to tempting.. The struggle of rooting and running custom Roms lolol.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Flylowguy:
Hello! I can't help but notice that this mod uses asound.conf. I am half deaf, and as such I use one earphone and would really love a way to force system wide audio downsampling to mono. According to the official documentation, http://alsa.opensrc.org/Asoundrc, it is possible to do this through the asound.conf file. Am I able to modify this file within this mod? What I have in mind is ssh into my phone, remount the file system read write, and add the code from my link to the asound.conf file. Could this work?

EDIT: Well, I can report that this idea does not work. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Should I alter the code somehow? Here's what I used. I really want this to work.... any help is greatly appreciated.

pcm.!default makemono
pcm.makemono {
type route
slave.pcm "hw:0"
ttable {
0.0 1 # in-channel 0, out-channel 0, 100% volume
1.0 1 # in-channel 1, out-channel 0, 100% volume
}
}
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
If you want to increase volume, you'll need to use the snd_soc_msm_2x_Fusion3 (/system/etc/snd_soc_msm/). We don't increase volume with asound. In the file, you need to look for "headphones" and increase RX3/RX4/RX5/RX6 (all of them) values but do not increase significantly, just around +3 or +5 to the value. If it causes distortion, well there's nothing you can do about it.

Reason why I do not increase headphone volume in my mod is because I do not want to compromise the audio quality.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] smeejaytee:
Happy holidays people have a great one
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Flylowguy:
I do not want to increase volume. I want to down mix. That is, take a stereo stream of audio and combine the left and right channels into one. This allows me, with my one good ear, to get the full effect of the music.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
So you want to combine stereo to mono in just one channel? Best for you to install Viper4Android and select the channel pan so you can completely have everything on the left or right channel. (link:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2191223)
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Flylowguy:
If I understand correctly, panning left or right will just decrease the volume in one channel and increase in the other, not mix them into one channel. Some songs have two separate channels. E.g mandolin in left vocals in right. I want them mixed into one so I can hear both.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
well, I'm not sure about it then. No one's ever requested this before :p
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Flylowguy:
No one here maybe, but Google has been ignoring us since 2011.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17337

I'm just trying to find a solution... iOS had this feature. Why can't it be implemented?
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] myrigon:
I may be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure there is a music player which can set to mono. I can't remember which one though. Possibly poweramp, or xeno.

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Just checked. It is poweramp. I know it won't help with system-wide audio, but at least it will do the job for your music.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Flylowguy:
I can't use poweramp because I'm an all access subscriber. The link I provided has an example of an asound.conf file that makes this possible. You guy's seem to know more about that then I do, any idea why it wasn't working for me?
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] myrigon:
Ah, I really don't know much, I just happened to remember a mono button somewhere. :silly: however, if poweramp can give you mono music, then it seems entirely possible that you may well be able to find an app to give you system-wide mono. I wouldn't know how to modify files to achieve it.

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It seems something like this may be the simplest option for you. It's a little adaptor Jack that gives you both channels in both ears. Much simpler than altering files, and you won't have to do it with every fresh install.

http://www.showmecables.com/product/3-5mm-Stereo-Jack-to-3-5mm-Mono-Plug.aspx
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] poondog:
Merry Christmas everyone
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ABQNM:
I have been using this sound mod on my M7 GPe for some time and it is amazing. Thanks, ZeroInfinity! I'm on Lollipop now and it works great and the phone is now better than ever. I have a question, which has probably been addressed before, but the search at xda using tapatalk is not great in huge threads, so forgive me for asking again if this has been already covered.

On the M8, I know you can leave Beats disabled and it will always be enabled automatically for just the speakers, but this isn't the case with the M7. If I shut it off, it shuts it off for both speakers and headphones. The speakers sound really bad with it turned off, and the headphones (line out) are much better with it turned off (coupled with V4A or Dolby) as it just adds too much processing to the line out.

I was wondering if anyone has figured out a way to selectively disable Beats only for the headphones like the M8 does? Or maybe located an intent for Beats audio that can be toggled with Tasker? It is really frustrating to have to go into the settings and turn it back on every time I disconnect my headphones or from my car and remember to turn it off when I use the headphone output. I would be happy with a permanent mod that would disable it all the time for the headphones or even just an intent I can use with Tasker as I use Tasker to automatically set up and start playing music when I connect to my car anyway, so it would be easy to add to the task if it exists.

One would think that HTC would have changed this in one of the many software updates along the way. I guess it is nice we have the choice to disable Beats audio for the speakers, but really I'm not sure why, as it doesn't sound very good with it off.

Again, my apologies if this has been addressed. I searched the thread, but Beats brings up pages of results and none seemed relevant to my query.

Sent from my brain using human to phone transport technology.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
AFAIK it's not really possible for m7. Does m8 let you do that? I wouldn't know because I don't own one :p It's too bad tasker does not support oem-specific features. There is something you could try, however. It's a long shot but I would assume it's ROM-related - you could try this ported m8 4.4.4 rom for the m7 http://xdaforums.com/htc-one/development/rom-android-4-4-4-sense-6-3-28-401-7-t2943434. Maybe it will allow you to do this in that ROM. If it doesn't, it's probably a kernel feature well then, that's not really easy to port over.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ABQNM:
Tasker could support OEM features if there is a public intent exposed in the settings app for it. I just don't know if there is one. Unfortunately intents don't come with a user's manual. ?

Thanks for the suggestion, but it isn't enough of a bother to go back to a Sense ROM let alone back to Kit Kat. Lollipop on the GPE M7 seriously turned the M7 into a new device. It made it feel like they upgraded the Snapdragon 600 to an 801 just with a software update. It really is that good. And the battery is amazing too.

On the M8, the Beats toggle only affects the headphone port. If you try to disable it when you don't have headphones connected the option is greyed out and it says it cannot be disabled when using the speakers. If you disable it when you have headphones connected, it just gets enabled for the speakers and then turns back off when disconnected. I don't own one, but I have used one and seen the software plenty of times.

Unless someone else happens to know of a way or an intent that Tasker can hook into, I guess I will just continue with how I have been doing it. When I connect the line out, I have Tasker set to pop up the audio settings menu for 8 seconds so I can toggle it off. I just have to remember to enable it manually again for the speakers because I have Tasker set to turn off the screen as soon as headphones are unplugged since I am usually getting out of my car.

Anyway, thanks for the quick response.

I had another question, if you don't mind. I use multiple music apps (Spotify, Google Play Music, Songza & Rdio). All of them except Rdio show up with the dsp playback device as "state=start" and output 24-bit audio. Rdio, for some reason does not. It shows as "state=close" and no 24-bit. It isn't even affected by Beats audio. I can toggle it on and off with no effect, and the same with Dolby and V4A--they have zero effect on Rdio. It seems like it is using a different virtual playback device. Is that common? Is there any way to apply the dsp effects to a different playback source?

Edit: found the playback device. Instead of "MSM8960 Media1" it is using "MSM8960 LowLatency." I can try asking in the V4A thread, but you seem to know the processor better. Do you know if there is a way to force it to use the MSM8960 Media1 playback device or to apply the effects to the MSM8960 LowLatency device?

Thanks again.

Sent from my brain using human to phone transport technology.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
I have no idea about Rdio - never used it.

Dolby will force 24Bit playback with MSM8960 Media1, AFAIK LowLatency playback has been disabled with my mod (due to all the enhancements).

I can't do anything about app-specific issue, since all the other apps work normally so I can't give you any tips on that. Effects cannot be applied to lowlatency. DSPs will always force Media1 playback, Rdio is just being stupid and forcing everything to low latency :p you need to ask developers about that I'm afraid.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
[MENTION=587643]ABQNM[/MENTION] the m8 has BoomSound Not Beats xD especially without xposed on lollipop and not being a sense Rom could be difficult to get something like that working...you could try to add a widget like app shortcut maybe you can add like on nova launcher a setting a shortcut.

For the Rdio problem...in developer settings you can change the player which is used by android or so...try to change it from nuplayer back to awesomeplayer, reboot and try again...
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
Ah yes! hahaha! I forgot about that!

Yes, BoomSound will be forced on speaker for the m8, Beats Audio never had this so we won't be able to get this feature unless we have boomsound. Blame HTC for not giving m7 BoomSound :p
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Haha :D yea the h/k mod has the feature to turn off clarifi but it's not exactly like BoomSound...for some songs it's really good for some not [emoji14]

Like I said the only thing I would think off would be such settings shortcut which you can add with third-party launcher
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
beats and boomsound are two different things, both behave completetly different...it's not just marketing, boomsound is now HTC's own enhancement for audio and completely got rid off beats etc...beats is just nearly pure crap compared to harman/kardon and boomsound :D
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
I hate how HTC confused everyone about boomsound. On m7, only speakers were advertised as boom sound. Now m8 has an actual boomsound effect which replaces beats audio as well as the speaker amps.

Sent from mah haytch tee see Juan via crapatalk
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ABQNM:
The audio profiles may be different, but the M7 was dubbed by HTC to have BoomSound speakers (see link below--it is from HTC and picture the BoomSound speakers on the M7). After the Beats partnership ended, HTC began using BoomSound as both a name for the speakers and their audio enhancements.

I'm not arguing that Beats was/is crap. The speakers sound good with it on, but it destroys the audio coming from the headphone jack when enabled. Since HTC didn't have to use the highly overrated Beats name as a marketing gimmick on the M8, they were able to do what they should have done in the M7--leave the enhanced audio profile enabled for the speakers.

I can guarantee you that the only reason Beats was even able to be disabled for the speakers was just to show off "how great Beats Audio is" by making the speakers sound like garbage with it disabled. So now, when you enabled Beats, it appeared like it was some magical audio wonder that made music into something spectacular when turned on, thus making Beats look like it has done something awesome. In reality, HTC just tuned the speakers to sound like garbage with Beats disabled so really, by disabling it for the speakers, you are really just enabling the "we tuned your speakers to sound like **** to make Beats look amazing" mode.

So, M7 owners are the unfortunate victims of a crappy marketing ploy due to a partnership with a highly overrated "audio" company.

[http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one-m7/

Edit: for clarity, what I was referring to as marketing was the fact that Beats could be disabled to demonstrate what music sounded like without Beats and then with Beats, as explained in this post. This was how they demonstrated the "advantages" of Beats Audio, when really it was mostly just the hardware that made the difference.

Sent from my brain using human to phone transport technology.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
do you really think i don't know these things? dude my dad has the m7 complete stock and my mum aswell as me the m8, okay here is stock mine is rooted, with custom rom, custom kernel and harman/kardon audio :D i really know well that the m7 speakers are advertised as BoomSound speakers. They just had to give the speakers/feature a name so they took BoomSound because it sounds insane in stereo :P and now the M8 has like zero said a real BoomSound effect due to newer libs and configs for the DAC which is on the Snapdragon 801 :P
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ABQNM:
Take a deep breath lol. I wasn't trying to offend you.

Also, I had started typing my reply and set my tablet down to answer the phone before Zero replied, so I didn't see his post until after I had finished typing my reply. Anyway, it would have been less confusing had HTC used a different name rather than recycling their marketing name for the M7 speakers into the entire audio processing system for the M8, but I guess I can't really expect them to be that original considering they couldn't even come up with a new name for the device and instead just tacked on the model number for the M8.

Anyway, I will keep digging and maybe (hopefully) with Lollipop GPE there is a public intent to toggle Beats, but I'm figuring I will probably have to live with the results of HTC's failed audio marketing gimmick/partnership that was Beats Audio on the M7 and toggle it from the settings menu each time.

Cheers!

Sent from my brain using human to phone transport technology.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] smeejaytee:
[MENTION=4388232]ZeroInfinity[/MENTION] I've come across a music player that looks rather interesting, it is the only music player to pay [MENTION=1280634]432[/MENTION]hz apparently and it has some science involved, I just wanted to get your opinion on this as you know your sound a lot better than I do but it does sound intriguing.

Here is a link take a look.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2959938
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
Tried the app but my ears don't seem to like the pitch shift :S

432Hz sounds interesting but a lot of people on reddit seem to think it's all pseudo-science BS

http://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/2qls4t/can_someone_explain_this_432hz_vs_440hz_debate/

http://www.reddit.com/r/audioengine...lling_all_audio_engineers_can_we_please_kill/

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiratar...st_rwearethemusicmakers_there_are_people_who/

http://www.reddit.com/r/IsItBull***...ull****_you_should_convert_your_music_to_432/ (replace **** with the correct word)

http://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/26s7fq/432_hz_and_444_hz_tuning/

http://www.reddit.com/r/IsItBull****/comments/1u1um6/isitbull****_tuning_a_song_to_a432hz_makes_it/ (replace **** with the correct word)

http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/25we50/so_ive_looked_about_on_the_internet_about_this/
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] smeejaytee:
Interesting article thanks.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
ugh, the pitch shift has made my head go all weird though - doesn't feel good :-/
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] smeejaytee:
Lol I don't think I'll try that one then, the reason I mentioned it was because if it was good I thought you might be able to implement it but from that article and what you've said it doesn't sound good.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Therefore it would be better if you would try it yourself haha but yea it sounds really bad, mindfukk lol
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] smeejaytee:
True but I thought it sounded interesting but after the comments from yourself and zero I want to try it now to see how bad it is lol.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] poondog:
Lets find some more patterns with numbers and make a new magic number :) then [MENTION=4388232]ZeroInfinity[/MENTION] [MENTION=3301438]geko95gek[/MENTION] we can make an app :P
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deadeye*:
Dam im still getting Dolby HD drop out. Im on RUU loli whit Elememtalx kernel. Zero is there anyway to force Dolby to always play like high process priority ?
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
I can't do anything about it if you are the only person having this issue. I've never, and I'd assume anyone else here, has never experienced Dolby dropping out on them randomly before.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deadeye*:
Are you on M8 or M7?
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ZeroInfinity:
M7 on GPE Lollipop stock rooted
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deadeye*:
Im on M8 we need to get you somehow that lol
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
When I was on sd lollipop Rom I had no problems as well now back on sense too...if I remember right I used a long time ago an app with which it was possible to set an app's priority higher, like launchers to keep them in memory...but I really can't remember the name...I will try to find it tomorrow when I have time
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] smeejaytee:
I think it's called memory locker, its by the same people that make ram booster I believe.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ABQNM:
[MENTION=4388232]ZeroInfinity[/MENTION] I just wanted to let you know that for some reason Rdio has decided to play audio using the proper output device now and has stopped using the low latency device. The only thing I did was freeze Dolby with Titanium Backup and reinstall Viper4Android as a system app and reboot and now for some reason it is now using the correct audio device so I can now control it with Viper4Android. I had been dealing with it using the low latency device for months now and then the most counterintuitive action fixed the issue. Who knows, but it works.

Also, for fun I defrosted Dolby and froze Viper, and rebooted and it still played using the Media1 device. And Viper didn't modify the build.prop--it still has the same date and file size as before. Strange, but it works now for whatever reason.

Anyway I just thought I would let you know that it is working now. Thanks for your help the other night and thanks again for the great sound!

Sent from my brain using human to phone transport technology.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] worstenbrood:
Can you try to use the attached apk ? I changed it so it is excluded from recents.
[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deadeye*:
Will try thanks

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Should it not show in task manager/recent app swicher? Because it still shows. I did restart after installed app

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Also wandering can this happen because ive disable Dolby from notifications?