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[Nexus 5 General] hpsauce37:
can you advise me how you get it to work as a system app?

I have the same issue with it working fine when i play amazon mp3 or google music but does not wotk with tunein or iplayer radio or youtube.

I want it to work 'system wide'
[Nexus 5 General] lensgrabber:
I am carrying a Nexus 5 and Moto X. One in each pocket. Even with the volume pegged up on the N5 I can barely hear notifications. The X, at 80%, sounds like a loudspeaker coming out of my pocket. I do not like the speakers on the N5 at all. Between the speakers and low vibration I'm not sure the phone will be a keeper for MY needs.
[Nexus 5 General] myorks1127:
My speaker is excellent, better than my N4
[Nexus 5 General] radeon_x:
That probably has a lot to do with speaker positioning, no? What if you put the N5 in your pocket upside down?
[Nexus 5 General] zivan56:
Anything will be better than my N4. I missed so many calls due to the crappy back speaker. If you put it down on a leather couch at max volume, you can't hear it unless you are in a completely silent room. Even on tables its barely audible.
[Nexus 5 General] lensgrabber:
Yup, upside down for both of them. So that would make the X's speaker deeper in the pocket and the Nexus closer to my ear.
[Nexus 5 General] shadowcore:
OG as in Optimus G? Right? I always thought the low noise was because of the glass back.
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
He means the n7 2012

>^.^< Sent from meow nexus7 2013
[Nexus 5 General] flex420:
rattling power button. its far louder than the ois that rattles a bit too. when i put the phone on the table, the powerbutton is def hearable as rattling -.- well lets see how it tourns out
[Nexus 5 General] dc82:
The phone.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Forum Runner
[Nexus 5 General] Globespy:
FauxClock/kernel is one thing, but as far as I can see his FauxSound app is not yet compatible with the N5 and that's what I'm waiting for to crank up the volume.

Also can't wait for Viper to update compatibility with the N5 - in conjunction with FauxSound, this made my N4 sound almost as good as the old Voodoo sound days.

I expect the N5 will get support soon.
[Nexus 5 General] digweed4me:
Don't worry about speakers guys superchurio the Wolfson dac pro guy also has his nexus 5 yesterday. He could do wonders with nexus 5 speakers.
[Nexus 5 General] markwebb:
Yes, the speaker is not very good. Voices sound shrill with a tunnel effect. The speaker on the BB Bold is better...and that is saying something. This is one of the Nexus' weakpoints. :(

Power button is tight..there are no rattles on my phone. In fact, I could not get SIM card tray to open: the supplied sim card opener broke and the pin is stuck in the phone, so I had to use a thin knife to open tray (now have a slight scratch there). But, it is working. :)
[Nexus 5 General] Vanhoud:
For those saying it sounds like crap, turn the volume down a few notches. System max volume is too loud by default. Same with bluetooth audio streaming, way too loud and distorted. Had to use the equalizer app to turn all frequencies down a few notches to make it sound good
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
audio through headphones is more than satisfactory, quite good actually.
[Nexus 5 General] xXghostXx313:
The speaker is just bass heavy I believe thats the issue.
[Nexus 5 General] nxt:
I have the HTC One running CyanogenMOD 10.2 Nightlies.

There's no "beats" on it, but several months ago they figured it out and able to output GREAT sound, it's super freaking loud and no distortion (before on CM ROM there was distortion). (Because HTC closed source the boomsound drivers)

I ordered the Nexus 5 (lost package, another thread), but I played with my friend's Nexus 5 and I'm VERY disappointed too.

The speakers on the HTC One is a NOT just a "beats eq", it's a totally special speaker that can output very loud. It runs on "two five-volt NXP-controlled speakers"

Here's a recent article (yesterday) regarding the NEXT GENERATION of the NXP speakers that's on the HTC One:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/nxp-reveals-TFA9895-speaker-audio-chip/
[Nexus 5 General] bgaccord:
i think the poor sound can be fix with sofware. i was messing with eq on google music app and sound was louder and cleaner.same loudness as a g2.

:good:
[Nexus 5 General] Globespy:
You mean supercurio..... where did you read that the nexus 5 has the Wolfson chip set? If it does then we are in for some voodoo magic, but I can't find any sites that mention the audio hardware? I thought it was the same crap from the N4 that needed a ton of developer magic to sound decent.
[Nexus 5 General] tsupersonic:
The HTC One seriously spoils you. Dual stereo speakers should be required on high end smartphones. It's not even the Beats equalizer - you have to trust the HTC One owners - it is just that much better than the N5.

I got my N5 today, and yep, the speakers are the biggest disappointment. To some it might be the camera, but I don't really use my cell phone to take "serious" pictures. I would rather just use a real camera and get much better pictures. Other than that, I'm loving the N5.
[Nexus 5 General] beaver2233:
I think you misread/misinterpreted what he wrote.
[Nexus 5 General] F4M0U569:
You get what you paid for
[Nexus 5 General] _MetalHead_:
You know what I hate about the speaker? The placement. When I play games in landscape it gets covered by my finger/palm completely and I can't hear anything. I've been trying to figure out a comfortable way to hold it without covering the speaker and have been unsuccessful. Same complaint I had with my iPhone.
[Nexus 5 General] Jeimygirl:
Compared to the speaker in the SGS2 that I came from it's a great upgrade!
[Nexus 5 General] Globespy:
Lol. Was there a joke I missed? :)
[Nexus 5 General] Galactic2:
The speaker are little lacking in bass and could benefit from an EQ. But they've definitely UPPED the volume compared the N4.

And I love the placement. Especially if i'm watching a video, the speakers aren't faced AWAY from me as in the nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] Globespy:
Sound will be improved through software/hardware hacks by Faux.

I know that $400 is a decent amount to drop on a phone, but it's still hundreds less than buying a SGS4/HTC/iPhone outright. Corners have to be cut somewhere for LG to make their money and no doubt Google is subsidizing to increase market share. For example the screen quality of a super amoled is better because it's more expensive to produce, similar to whatever speakers HTC used.
[Nexus 5 General] trent25:
I've been playing with my N5 for the past few hours and I must agree, the only negative I can come up with is the speaker. In addition to sounding like music coming out of a tube, the volume is just not there. I've heard better volume on much cheaper phones.

Obviously I mostly use my phones with headphones, so this is barely an issue. But everything else about the N5 seems to be good if not more based on my few hours of testing (cannot judge the battery yet), oh ya and it smudges like crazy, the black version that is, case is in the mail to solve this problem.
[Nexus 5 General] Ddot196:
If it is anything like the nexus 4, it is garbage. Sorry but that thing sucked. I would have to cup the speaker on most YouTube or internet videos and still have absolute complete silence in order for me to hear it. For people saying it isn't a big deal, clearly you never watch videos on your phone. Because there is nothing more annoying than having to hold your phone at a perfect angle to hear anything.
[Nexus 5 General] paul_59:
Coming from HTC One it was probably inevitable that the sound quality and particularly volume would be disappointing.

Otherwise I am very happy with my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] pulsarvp:
Could you clarify if the nexus 5 has stereo speakers or mono (one) as there are 2 separate speaker grills at the bottom?

Also, those who are not happy with the speaker quality, would you say that it is still better than the one in Nexus 4?

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Mitty1990:
To be honest I find the speaker quite loud and im coming from a HTC One, the HTC One sounds better but not as loud where as the Nexus 5 is louder but not as bassy.
[Nexus 5 General] ccs1676:
I have to agree, speaker is lacking. Comparing the same sounds from differents apps, the N4 was louder and clearer, while the 5 was quieter and somewhat distorted. This was at full volume :crying:
[Nexus 5 General] Giuku:
reviews

All the reviews I found till today are pretty incoherent, someone says audio it's great, someone else says it sucks, same goes for the screen ... Maybe they forgot how much the N4 sucked (talking about the speakers only) or what a ridiculous price they payed for the N5 lol.

Anyway even if it's strange to say I think that volume it's quite a subjective thing, the same decibel ammount could be too high for me and too hard to hear for someone else.
[Nexus 5 General] jprakes:
Just got mine today. As for the speaker, it sounds miles better than my Galaxy Nexus. Of course, it could be new phone placebo effect
[Nexus 5 General] esiemi:
skip to 4:52, according to him speaker is pretty good

http://youtu.be/DO4UEzBf3XA
[Nexus 5 General] iPWNtehNOOB:
Speaker is fine for me for calling/notifications and music, but systems sounds like tapping on something or typing on the keyboard are so quiet that they're almost non-existent.
[Nexus 5 General] eksasol:
I can't imagine it to be as bad as the Nexus 4, so still an upgrade for me.

That's the system sound, which is tied in with how loud you set the ring sound to be, you can use an app like LightFlow to manually change the system volume.
[Nexus 5 General] iPWNtehNOOB:
I already have the system volume all the way up, but it's still not loud enough unfortunately :(.
[Nexus 5 General] alsheron:
I completely agree that for me the speaker on my N5 is a disappointment. It just seems to be a low quality speaker. It distorts at high volume. It sounds "muffly" and yet in some instances it sounds completely fine. Youtube videos in particular always seem too quiet, as does Google Navigation voice prompts. Other stuff like certain ringtones seem very loud. It's strangely inconsistent but still I think they put a low quality part in there which is a dumb dumb dumb thing to do given the cost of a "decent" part I'm guessing would have been pennies more. This "race to the bottom" thing sure does suck when companies make silly decisions like this. Having said that I think Kitkat has some new DSP "stuff" going on and maybe that's a bit buggy or not set correctly somehow yet? I'm hoping a software solution will come for this but I've already tried Viper4android and boosting the volume just mangles the sound quality very badly - the speaker really does seem to be a dud.
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Its mono and there is only one speaker. The right speaker port is actually a microphone not a speaker.

>^.^< Sent from meow nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] dhinez:
This is my review of the speaker. It's definitely no Boomsound from HTC. I bought the phone knowing that. The volume when watching videos is pretty low compared to a phone like the Nexus 4 or Note 2. Volume playing music is pretty solid but can be a little distorted at high volumes. Notification is low but very audible compared to the Note 2 or Nexus 4. Overall I would give it 7 of 10. Just wish Google matched the volume of playing movies to that of play music. There's a incredible difference.
[Nexus 5 General] edr1983:
Its definitely lower then the nexus 4. Probably one of the worst speakers on any smart phone.
[Nexus 5 General] vimto25:
I've noticed playing video its stupidly low volume I'm not happy at all with the speaker its such a shame
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
i change my vote

although this will probably be fixed soon
[Nexus 5 General] eep2378:
Google changed a lot of the app API's with KK. App developers need to update their apps to accommodate KK.
[Nexus 5 General] crawlgsx:
Only thing better than someone not cropping their forum images, is someone quoting their uncropped images. /s
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
I'm coming from the GS4 (still have it). The audio quality from my N5 sounds better/clearer than the S4, albeit at a lower volume. I'd like a little more range and for it to be able to go louder, but it's doable. However, my N5 did come with a DOA vibrator motor so RMA underway. Love the phone and KitKat!
[Nexus 5 General] Flam3h:
To anyone saying their speaker is fine/ok.

Can you test something for me. My loudspeaker is fine when playing back music or videos. However, if I put a call onto loudspeaker and turn the volume up the speaker starts to distort heavily. If I turn it right up, their voice can be hard to understand and you can easily tell it's quite heavily distorted.

Does this problem show up on anyone else's phone?.

TIA.
[Nexus 5 General] jphilippon:
I don't know if this has been posted yet but:

http://www.androidcentral.com/nexus...hat-you-hear?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=twitter

Looks like it's software and as such it can be fixed!

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Mr. Sprinkles:
From the article:

That's a pretty accurate description of what it sounds like at lower levels if anyone is curious.

A software issue is what I suspected when I realized the speaker magically starts producing treble when you turn the volume past 50%. I'm not sure what google was attempting to do when they did whatever they did... but it's not working so well.
[Nexus 5 General] jonathan3579:
I got my N5 today and some notifications are arguably louder than others. They don't always coincide with the volume levels. :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] Sunielsoto:
Very disappointed by the speaker. Love everything else about it. I hope it can be fixed with software changes :/
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Hey dude, how you doing? Nice to see you here. Bought the phone for the right reason, it's a great dev phone. Ex-sr users rock!:)
[Nexus 5 General] Jimlarck:
The Galaxy Nexus had an awful speaker too, but there was a mod that made it louder and clearer so I wouldn't worry about it.
[Nexus 5 General] theesotericone:
Doing well man. Waiting patiently for UPS to get the phone in my hands. Just ordered one of the Anker speakers linked upthread so my speaker problems are solved. lol You still own the Rocket? wantowan2 just updated DU yesterday. It's pretty sweet. Now back to your regulary scheduled complaining. :rolleyes:
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Still have the rocket, great device. 4.4 coming soon too. I'm a couple of weeks out on the n5
[Nexus 5 General] theesotericone:
Cool. I was worried about going to a device with only 32gigs and no sd card but a 5 dollar OTG cable seems to have fixed that as well. I'll have it in my hands by Friday. The device that is. Still deciding if I'll even boot into the OS before I unlock, flash a recovery, root and flash a kernel. I might keep it stock for a few days just to see. It will literally be a coin toss. As soon as DU makes it's way over here I'm all over it.
[Nexus 5 General] golfinggino:
i just received my nexus 5 today - havent put in my sim card yet will probably get around to that next week but the speaker to me sounds really good for such a small device - watched some youtube videos and it is better then i thought it would be - i picked this up as a back up phone to my xperia z ultra and galaxy tab 7.7 - when i wanted something smaller when travelling, etc.
[Nexus 5 General] Felchy:
Can anyone who's had an S3 compare their N5 speaker to it? How about to the Nexus S? I have an S3 and am really happy with it.

I have a Nexus 5 ordered and I'm worried about the speaker so I'm considering cancelling.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
If you ordered the n5 for its speakers I'd cancel. This is a dev phone
[Nexus 5 General] Felchy:
Thanks for the constructive response. I'm just trying to get a sense of how bad it may or may not by comparing it to something I know. Some reviews are saying it's fine, some are saying it's not any good. I had a Nexus S but not a Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] pfriederichs:
I'm finding YOUTUBE, GAMES, etc it seems fine but a lot of the notification sounds are really low (IE: Alarm Clock APP all of the alarm sounds are pretty low for my liking considering I am a heavy sleeper).

I am hoping someone makes some kind of mod / fix to increase the volume on the N5 ASAP -- has anyone tried any of these so called volume boosting apps on the Play Store do they really work or just crap?
[Nexus 5 General] elementaldragon:
Well, i have a Galaxy S3 running Quantum ROM, and my Nexus 5. Played the same Youtube video on both phones (the song Love Somebody played by Sungha Jung), and while yes, the S3's speaker is able to be turned up louder than the Nexus 5 is by default, I have to say that the Nexus 5's speaker seems to have a much better range of response, especially on the lower end. Quite often couldn't even hear the more subtle knocks when he bumps the face of the guitar with his wrist while playing the song. Doesn't sound quite as tinny either on the highs.

Easiest way i can think of to sum up the fact that i strongly feel the Nexus 5's speaker has better sound quality, even though it's quieter, than the S3 does? Play the video i mentioned... Love Somebody - Sungha Jung.... on your Galaxy S3, and while it's playing, put two fingers right next to the speaker opening... one on each side? Chances are... you'll feel very little... if anything. Nexus 5? You can actually feel the music being played.
[Nexus 5 General] bradm23:
On the bottom of my nexus 5 where the speaker is, there are two grills, one to the left of the charger port and one to the right. Are both of these suppose to be speakers? I'm am wondering this because only the one on the left plays music, the right one doesn't do anything, is this the mic?
[Nexus 5 General] kaywalker23:
Yeah the other one is the mic.
[Nexus 5 General] iexplus:
Yes, the left one is a speaker and the other side is mic, like iPhone although I don't want to say that.
[Nexus 5 General] bradm23:
Bought the phone just for fun and to see what they hype is about, my HTC one kicked ass in the speaker department, I have a hard time hearing my ringer and notifications with the nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Mr. Sprinkles:
Well the HTC One is a pretty tough act to follow loudspeaker wise.
[Nexus 5 General] hello00:
well there is no comparison when it comes to htc1's speakers
[Nexus 5 General] DiNoise:
Same here, huge difference in volume and sound quality between 2. After Galaxy Nexus and Nexus4 I really appreciate Moto X sound quality. Hope they'll "improve" N5 speaker sound with software. It's still a phone, and it's logical to have LOUD ringer/notifications.. They just never learn that...
[Nexus 5 General] caribouxda:
Sound on earphones is awesome though!
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Are you sure? Cause mine is trash just like the speaker. My nano sounds better then Nexus. Same track using the same headphone.
[Nexus 5 General] drawde40599:
? Your nexus 4 was broken then . both my nexus 4’s were louder than this N5 . OP is 100% dead on .
[Nexus 5 General] alsheron:
Try Viper4Android FX. Can't find link right now but Google it - there's a post on XDA where you can download it. You'll need to be rooted and it doesn't fix it completely but there's a setting called Xtra loud on the speaker tab in the app that does help boost volume somewhat. Its a great EQ anyway - used yo use it in my N4 to improve headphone audio. Such a shame about the N5 audio quality. Really do hope its something to do with the new DSP in KitKat. Anyone know about the technics of the new DSP and if it could be misconfigured and affecting the sound? Personally I think the speaker itself is very low quality and a decision to put one like that in is a very crappy decision as I suspect better quality speaker units would have cost pennies more. Oh well... Otherwise loving my N5.... Apart from the very "warm" screen temp. But that's another story.... Waiting for Franco's kernel to fix that one...!
[Nexus 5 General] Sunielsoto:
After messing with Poweramp's EQ, I think the problem may have to do with the phone's bass. I just brought the bass down(I think) and can clearly listen to music without distortion at full volume.

Hope this helps bring an answer!
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Same here the motox puts the n5 to shame. I just can't believe that the beta testers and engineer's thought these speakers where proper.

>^.^< Sent from meow nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] Kenneth131:
Agreed iv found at about 40-50% vol the distortion is most prominent and it sounds like the bass output is higher than the little speaker can handle thus causing the terrible drop in quality when the audio contains a bass line. Spend an extra few £ and I'm sure they could have sourced a better speaker component
[Nexus 5 General] owen1978:
Sound is not loud enough compared to my S2, but then again on my S2 i had tweaked the volume using stweaks
[Nexus 5 General] stickbo:
The speaker sucks. No other way around it. I use mine all day and was so bummed when I played my first YouTube video. I don't expect the best but I want to at least be able to hear it. I work in the field so I can't carry around terrible portable speakers and headphones are not always practical. I REALLY hope the devs can work some kernel magic here. I have a lot of phones(15 androids/3 iphones/5 windows)and the nexus 5 has the lowest output of them all, including the nexus 4 which wasn't good either. The HTC one sounds like a 3000watt car stereo compared to a boom box in the nexus 5. Besides that the phone is really amazing. I think every other aspect is perfect.
[Nexus 5 General] omf05:
Speaker are to low! Mine plays music perfect just to low! No bad bass, no low quality and music over the headphone sounds as good as any smart phone I own * iphone 5, Gs4, Htc One).

I would be happy just with a sound volume boost as even in a room by myself at night watching hulu or netflix I can hardly hear.
[Nexus 5 General] dk206:
+1000000

Exactly what I want to say.

I bet playing music through the earpiece would be better judging from the calls I have had with the speaker ON.

SO bad...even for 340 pounds this is really bad
[Nexus 5 General] Matt1408:
I can't believe some of you guys who say that the Nexus 5 speaker is quiet. I got scared when a friend called me and my ringtone played, it was so damn loud.

Clarity is another thing though, and I'm sure it's not all that great but what can you expect from a small speaker like that? You're not going to get studio quality performance out of the thing.
[Nexus 5 General] haydonxda:
No, it's not a dev phone. And stop saying that.
[Nexus 5 General] onthecouchagain:
Coming from an HTC One, I think the speaker is one area that will disappoint.

Aside from that though, I think everything else will be an upgrade.
[Nexus 5 General] supercakefish:
The way Google has marketed it clearly shows that it is not designed to exclusively be a dev phone!

Pocketnow actually had an article which stayed that the speakers may have a software fault and could be fixed by an update.
[Nexus 5 General] scirio:
Dafuq are you even doing in this thread then? Thanks?

No.
[Nexus 5 General] alan-31:
Small battery and speaker are the main problems. Speaker has low volume. It can accidentally mute it by putting a finger on it but that might not be a problem if a case is used. The battery is 2300 and it should have been 3000. I'm returning and will try for a used Lg G2 later.

My phone also has some very faint gray horizontal lines or shading that are visible when the background is dark grey.
[Nexus 5 General] cc999:
Screen

Aside from the HTC One speakers the screen on the HTC One is the best out period.

The N5 will not hold a candle to either, really undisputable.

469 pixels per inch for HTC One vs. 445ppi for N5. Its not only the PPI but also the color rendition.

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