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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] raveniselizabeth:
Soo I have been obsessively fiddling with viper for days. I. Tried everything on this thread and after reading another thread somewhere I finally got it working with Player Pro and think that the cache is the problem. Here is what I did and hope it helps someone.

First uninstall viper and your music player of choice. Make sure all files on your sd cards involving your player and viper are deleted. I use Clean Master off the playstore but it's important that there is no trace of your music player anywhere. I don't know why lol.

After you clean your cache and reboot, install viper4android as a user app (just click and install). Open it and install the "power saving" driver and give su permission . Then go into your Android settings/sound/music effects and choose viper4android and reboot.

Now you can clean install your music player. If you backed up your music app make sure you restore it without any data. For some reason this is why it wasn't working for me.

I don't use the hifi App but I would imagine you could. I know this install goes against what the OP says but it did work for me. It just seems that viper has to be installed before any media app and the media app needs to be a 100% clean install for viper to work. I am sooo happy right now. Been 2 weeks of commuting without good sound.

Hope this helps. Xo

???Sent from my precious Samsung Galaxy Note 3???
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
It's funny that most of the time I see people having trouble with the default Samsung player. I don't really think I can assist you any more. I've run out of suggestions.

I suggest you get as many as you can and find the one that's best for your ears. The samples are so small in file size, why not?

You're right, I don't recommend this, but if it got things to work for you or it helps someone else; GREAT!!! I made this post so as many people as possible would install and get V4A running. It's that good.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] raveniselizabeth:
This mod makes the music layer so beautifully. The minute I got it working I had to share my success hahaha. It's the best mod ever for music lovers.

???Sent from my precious Samsung Galaxy Note 3???
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] RICHIECATS:
Missing syntax

AM I supposed to create the directory "system/apps" or is it there. Cause I don't see it in the root of the directory on the phone or my SD side so I'm gonna try just creating the directory on the phone side. Fill me in if you could.... I love this app. Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MeetFace:
Heavens no! =]

You should see /system/ on the root of your device and then /app/. If don't see that then maybe you're using an iPhone? ;)

FWIW, I've never installed V4A apps as /system/ and I've never had a problem on my Note 2 or now my 3.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] DroidForLife33:
I was able to get Viper running on Google play music app but not on stock. I not sure why I changed the build prop saved and rebooted. I do like how clear the sound is tho.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Did you install it as a system or data app?

There was a new version available a few days ago. Sorry, I forgot to post a note here. Changelog reads:

Ensure that your Busybox is current (v 1.22.1). I just installed this version (clean system install, naturally...it's only 3 reboots folks) and WOW!!! V4A just keeps getting better and better! It's working flawlessly on stock self-debloated, modded ROM. I've tested with GoneMAD Music Player for .mp3s on the sdcard, streaming with Google Play Music, and sdcard movie with MX Player. It's quite an impressive update for something that sounded so good already!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] DroidForLife33:
I installed it from the market so it installed as a data app. I'll move it to the system apps and change permission and see what happens.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] DroidForLife33:
I did a clean install. Put app in system. It still not processing with the stock music player.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] phillymade:
Followed the OP and all went well. It works fine on 3rd party players, but not with Stock player. I have read some N3 threads that say it does work with Stock player, is this true? I am stock rooted and can not get it to work on stock player.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Guys, I'm not sure what to say on this one as I removed the stock music player as part of my debloating. As philly confirmed, it works perfectly on other players. I use GoneMAD, Pandora, Google Play Music, and iHeartRadio currently. I've used Neutron and PowerAmp and all of them work. Did you guys do the build.prop edits?

My current homescreen with Play Music and GoneMAD widgets and my Media folder:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] phillymade:
I did do the build prop edits. I found it strange that some say that they have it working on stock player when it does not support it. Thought I was missing some thing. Either way, it works beautifully with all my 3 party players.

Sent from One Bad Ass Note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mjh68:
I never got it working on stock either. Works great with any of the 3rd party apps.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] manatti:
It works for me on stock. I am using busy box, installed as system app and followed the directions to a t. Even works over blue tooth since I stream in the car or with headsets. This is the best.

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By stock I mean stock music player and on cleanrom
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Perhaps this has something to do with it. Maybe there were changes in the CleanROM that make the functionality possible. Are the rest of you that can't get it to work with stock player on custom ROMs? If so, which one?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mjh68:
I couldn't get the stock player to work on either baja or Hyperdrive.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Does anyone else have the stock player running on CleanROM?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] RomsWell:
I cant see why what rom your running would even matter. Its all the same player from the same base. It just doesnt work with the stock tw player. Not on clean rom or stock.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
It works for him and it's worked for others. I'm trying to figure out why. The ROM you're using could affect things tremendously. There's libs that could be added or deleted, modifications to system, etc, etc. I'm just trying narrow it down as to why it works for some and not others.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] TSKXDA:
I have Samsung Note 3 N-9005 variant.

I have installed viper4android as a system app as explained in the OP.

Everything is good and when i start my music player i can see that the processing is set to 'Yes'.

The sound turns amazingly well. But as soon as i close the music app and open it second time the processing never sets to 'yes'

I have tried with Samsung Music Player as well as with Power Amp.

Uninstalled and re installed app as a user also. But no avail.

It just works the first time and then nothing works again.

What am i missing? How can i get it to work correctly?

I am using stock Samsung firmware 4.4.2 with root.

I have also tried re installing keeping in system/priv-app but no avail.

Any suggestions?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
We're stuck on Android 4.3 here on Verizon, so I can't really help you troubleshoot. It sounds like the driver is not holding after initial installation. Make sure that the driver permission in system\lib\soundfx for libv4a_fx_ics.so (and libv4a_xhifi_ics.so if you have XHiFi installed as well) is set to r-w-r-r- after driver installation and before you try to use V4A.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
I just installed on stock 4.3 rom as a system app and it didn't work on the stock player until I added the lines to the build.prop file but now works flawlessly. I also had to freeze Music FX using Titanium; maybe that has something to do with it not working on the stock player?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
I just installed the Samsung stock player via .apk and installed TiBu to replicate this. Freezing Music FX didn't work for me. This didn't stop GoneMAD or Google Music player from processing properly. Now I'm baffled...

Did it work for you before you froze Music FX? DId you try?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
I never tried it before freezing Music FX. I have had that frozen since I rooted my phone. What are people experiencing when they say it doesn't work with stock? Does the player forceclose or just play without a change in sound?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
Since the new version has an option for "Super Audio Quality" should that be chosen rather than "High Quality"?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
V4A doesn't process the sound so no changes are made.

Thanks, I'll update now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
when I go to driver status in XHiFi it shows the driver version and everything else seems fine but under enabled, it says no. Viper FX says yes under enabled. Maybe I chose the wrong option when I first installed; when the popup shows after initially launching the XHiFi app, which option should be chosen for the Note 3?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] armeN0317:
Which APK are required to install the stock samsung music player? Thank you very much in advance.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
I was mistaken; Music FX is not frozen. I tried freezing it and when I go to settings/sound/music effects to choose Viper FX I kept getting settings has forceclosed message.

I am having an issue with Viper XHiFi though. I installed it in system/app and changed permissions, rebooted and opened the app and I had 3 cpu options so I chose the 3rd one and it seemed like everything installed fine. After rebooting again and checking driver status it says it's not enabled.

Does anyone know what cpu option is supposed to be chosen? Also, is anyone else experiencing this issue where it's showing not enabled?

Sent from my Verizon Note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
See the attached .apk.

As it says in step 3 of the OP, you should choose the bottom option (Cortex A9 with NEON or something like that). I've never had a situation where V4A works and XHiFi doesn't. It's usually an all or nothing deal. Have you looked in the libs/soundfx folder to see if the driver has the correct permissions? See my screenie below.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] armeN0317:
I tried installing that apk with root explorer and it would say application not installed. I'm running Eclipse. I also moved it to system/app rebooted and tried to install and no go. Any other apks I might be missing?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
I checked and permissions are all correct. See screenshots:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Maybe you need the .odex file as well. Not sure. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68066384/MusicPlayerWT.odex

I see both FX and XHiFi are not processing. When is this happening? Stock Samsung player? All players?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mjh68:
From what I have seen , you can only use one or the other at a time. Can't use both together.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] armeN0317:
I'm running a deodex ROM. Eclipse ROM to be specific.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
They're not processing because I don't have music playing at the time. When music is playing, the FX shows processing but the XHiFi still shows not enabled.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
The first time I ran the apps they seemed to run fine but now I can't even get either one to work. When I open FX and look at driver status, it shows everything fine but it says not processing. XHiFi shows not enabled. I am not sure if I am missing something here but if someone can please help me figure this out I would greatly appreciate it. I have checked and the permissions on the drivers are all fine. I know it is not working with stock player, but I have tried Poweramp and Rocket Player too and nothing.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Yes. It's completely possible to run both at the same time. I've been doing it way before I started this thread (on other devices). I prefer XHiFi's Audio Reconstruct over FX's Fidelity Control for tweaking the lows and highs. In fact, it's the only feature of XHiFi I use as FX handles the rest.

I suggest you ask that dev then. I don't think it's possible to run the player.

There's a big difference between the driver not saying enabled and processing saying not enabled. Which one is it? Driver not enabled means you have the wrong driver installed. Not processing means the correct driver is installed but, for some reason, it's not affecting the sound.

EDIT: Never mind. I looked at your screenshot. It says driver not enabled. You have the wrong driver installed. Do a clean install again. Uninstall you current driver, delete the app from system, then reboot. Install in system and reboot. Install driver (choose the bottom one) and reboot. Check system\lib\soundfx one last time to ensure that permissions are correct, then try to enable XHiFi.

Double EDIT: I just saw your latest post saying neither are working now. I suggest a clean install for both apps now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mjh68:
How do you run both at the same time ? It only gives me the option of using either fx or hifi for processing not both .
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
I'm not really sure what you mean by it's not giving you option. There is no setting to run both at the same time. You just install the apps as I've detailed in the OP, start a music player (besides Samsung for most), and then tweak them. If one of them is processing properly and the other isn't, then one of them isn't installed correctly (a driver issue is usually to blame). As above, I suggest you reinstall the one that isn't processing correctly. If that doesn't work, you can go into V4A and XHiFi's settings and try FX Compatible Mode, or XHiFi's Safe Mode (V4A no longer has one though you can choose Force Enable V4A at the top).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mjh68:
I guess what I meant was under music effects it let's you choose either viper fx or hifi , but not both at the same time so I assumed only one processor would work.

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Actually , I can't get hifi to install ...keeps repeatedly asking to install the driver. According to the review s on the play store it's happening to others as well. Do you happen to have the newest apk? Maybe that is the issue
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
You select FX in Music Effects as it's the main processor. XHiFi is an addon to FX and was mostly incorporated in the newest versions of FX. Again, I prefer its detail over FX.

You can get the .apk from here: http://vipersaudio.com/blog/?page_id=48
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mjh68:
I figured it out and have both working, thank you for the help .
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] bgs_piece:
I uninstalled drivers through the apps and deleted them from system/app and rebooted. Then I tried installing them as normal apps rather than as a system app. I installed drivers and rebooted and now everything is working. It must have been a fluke when I originally had them working with stock Samsung music player but they are both working with Poweramp and Rocket player. I had to enable certain settings a disable others within the players for the apps to work but everything is working flawlessly now and I couldn't be happier with the sound difference. Thanks for your help troubleshooting and getting these to work!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] alphamale:
What's the difference between the fx compatibility modes normal and compatible. Mine only works when I check compatible
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
From what I've read in the mod's thread, it has to do with how the driver interacts with Android; but I'm not sure or sure how.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] manatti:
So let me apologize to everyone. I have figured it out. The viper on clean Rom does work on blue tooth streaming that I can confirm. Today I used my wired beats headphones to take the dogs for a walk, and viper didn't do anything on the stock software. But I used my lg tones, my blackberry blue tooth streamer to my home theater and my car and viper all works on everyone one of those. Also my bose mini too. But when I use any wire n the headphone jack, nada. Hope this helps

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And I am referring to the stock music player with all of the above
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Sheeezy:
I got it installed on my Note3 intl. on a deodexed stock ROM.

viper was installed as a regualar app with root permission.

NEON Enabled: Yes

Enabled: Yes

Status: Normal

Audio Format: Supported

Processing: No

Sampling Rate: 48k

I cant get it to work with ANY player !

So far I tried:

- Stock Sammy music player

- ES Music Player

- MX Player

- PowerAMP

even my speaker optimization doesnt work ?!

How to solve my problem ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] stormy_ugur:
Same problem +1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Have you tried Compatibility Mode? Force V4A? Did you make the proper text edits in the OP?

If you answered yes to all of those and it still doesn't work, uninstall the driver, then the app and then reinstall as a system app as described in the OP.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] EJayMz:
Try google music
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Sheeezy:
I found a .zip in some other thread which made my V4A working but unfortunally it also broke the stock sammy music player.

But apart from that it worked wit MX Player quite well.

Sadly I dont want to trade my working sammy stock music player for V4A. Mainly because I use the new apple earbuds and I dont think V4A will make any major difference to it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mjh68:
If it's installed correctly it won't break the stock player. It won't have the effects , but the music still plays.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Sheeezy:
I don't know if it's just me but I think the whole thing isn't working as expected.

There is simply too much workaround and comatibility issues.

I'll this alone for quite a while and hope there will be a version which will fix all this problems ppl have.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] duwerk:
I know this is somewhat off topic in this forum, but I just wanted to thank [MENTION=4967345]docnok63[/MENTION] for these instructions now that I've moved to the S5. Installing as a system app using his instructions worked perfectly for my new phone (rooted, t-mobile). Only tested with spotify as of now, as it's the only music I use.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Congratulations on your new phone and carrier. I'm probably moving to Tmo soon myself. I'll have to make the choice of buying developer edition phones on Big Red or go elsewhere. With the limited availability of DE N3s, it looks like the latter is going to be much easier. I'll never suffer through a locked bootloader again. I tweak too much.

As I've said in this thread before, this is now my fourth device with V4A. As you've found, it works with every device I've ever tried it on. Sometimes we have to wait when a new version of Android comes out, but the dev gets it going proper eventually. Enjoy!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Every time I think this app can't get any better, [MENTION=1569052]viper520[/MENTION] proves me horribly wrong.

While the changelog is short, the difference is immense and immediately noticeable. You'll find the new features by going into the menu and changing the UI to expert (you should be doing this to unlock the convolver anyway). I didn't use the exact match for my headphones with DDC, but I found one by the same manufacturer that I liked more. I suggest you experiment as well.

FRESH install this update ASAP!!!

Edit: Now that I've had a few hours to mess around with DDS, I've selected a different manufacturer than my earbuds. I've actually chosen a headphones profile. Man do I love this. You know you've got it right when you think you've heard hundreds of times for the first time.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Reuben Van Heskey:
I'm using Note 3 (SM-N9005) and v4a does work on it... At first, i'm having same probs like u guys.. To solve that, all i did was installed it as system app, do the lpa-decode things, a few reboot and it works. Just use poweramp and untick the Direct Volume Control option...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] manatti:
I installed this on the 4.4.2 update and it worked only thing different is there is no sound effects option in sounds and I had to install the Viper while in the system folder with root browser
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MeetFace:
I've had this running since day one with my N3. But I just updated to the latest version and it keeps asking me to install the driver every time I launch even though it says installation is successful.

Any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
Yes. Something is stopping the driver from being persistent. Uninstall and do a fresh install.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] sxufeast:
Someone please help I made sure to follow the instructions correctly but once I have everything set up I go and start my music players (stock and poweramp) to see if its working but it says Processing:No I tried re-installing (several times) and nothing it still says not processing PLEASE HELP, PLEEAASSEEE.

Sent from my SM-N900V 4.4.2 Stock Deodexed Rooted
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
I see you're on 4.4.2. The instructions are for 4.3. A few posts above, some posted how they got it working on Kit Kat.

I'll be editing the OP as soon as I update and verify installation.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] sxufeast:
Thank you very much kind sir/ma'am

Sent from my SM-N900V 4.4.2 Stock Deodexed Rooted
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] rajtheforce:
the sound is awesome.....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] docnok63:
It's sir (if you really must get that formal. Anyway, I just got around to installing Bean's stock deodex ROM. The installation instructions for 4.4.2 are exactly the same except the V4A .apks go into system\priv-apps instead of system\apps. I actually made the mistake of installing to system\app first and installed the driver from then. When I rebooted and fired up V4A and it asked me to install the driver again, I knew something was wrong immediately. I moved the .apks to priv-apps and rebooted. I didn't even have to install drivers again. It just worked from there. All in all, it was a simple installation. I've tested with GoneMad music player, Google Play Music, and MX player and all work perfectly.

So go get that Kit Kat goodness and crank your favorite media with V4A greatness!!! (I never realized how awesome John Bonham's drumming in The Lemon Song was until today and I've listened to the song at least 100 times. That's how good V4A is.)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] airmaxx23:
They don't need to be installed as system apps anymore, you can just install them like a regular app, change the build.prop, install the drivers, get the IRS files and they work fine. This was changed quite a few months ago.