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[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Settings for viper can be kinda hard to specify, I have really good ear buds and the settings I use would sound like rabid ass on other things (I've tried lol) but for a good starter, for phone speaker, our speakers are sick, they don't need much, but, >=) not much to me, well, that's different, for external I drop the low end (anything below 125 mhz or so) as our little speakers can't reproduce that low sound and muddles the highs, I use 250 or so as my bass line (the lowest boom you can hear) boost 1k and 2k a little higher and level out all the way up from there. Never over +6 dB usually.

Keep in mind, "phone speaker" heading also controls the sound on HDMI! Works great on movies!

A good basic setting for headphones, turn on "dynamic system" (this is basically "beats audio" but a ton better) at least 8%, turn on viper bass (I use subwoofer) raise the frequency from 40 to 50, and plus 6db, Turn on viper clarity, natural, and match with bass (6db), I also use "spectrum extender" at. 5. Then use the eq to tune to taste.

Keep in mind that a rough setting, it can be boosted alot sometimes, but gives ya a good idea where to begin. The rest of the settings I swear are for sound engineers, reverb that can simulate moisture in the air... Whoa

If some of these options aren't shown, click the menu, ui setting, expert.

I use the GravityBox, flat style colored bars, and xtoast xposed modules.
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
So quick question on xposed. I have to flash all 4 files to get xposed.

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[Shield Tablet General] radio five:
Help me out on this one. At the end of the paragraph when you say "Don't navigate to straight / things go bad if you mess about in those files....", which files are you talking about, exactly?

When you say delete everything except what you need on the external sd card, you mean EVERYTHING internally, all folders, all files, EVERYTHING, right?

Thanks
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
One more random question. Which version of Xposed Alpha do we use for SHIELD?

xposed-sdk22-arm-20150514.zip or xposed-sdk22-arm64-20150514.zip? I really can't remember what kind of processor we have cause I keep seeing it as K1, so I get all confused >.<
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
Welp I fudge up. Had her running good. But decided to go back and do the app delete. Now all I get is black screen when it boots past logo. God I suck

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[Shield Tablet General] JohnK71:
Thanks for the help. I tried all that and nothing would work. I don't know why the audio just disappeared. I just went ahead and went back to KitKat, rooted and installed TWRP and my sound is great again. Now I'm not sure if I want to go back to Lollipop until the audio issue is fixed. On other forums other people are talking of issues of popping and burnt speakers. I think I will "slowly" make the upgrade!
[Shield Tablet General] koop1955:
The xposed-sdk22-arm-20150514.zip version.

Once I installed that, I used the Gravity Box APK from here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59019071&postcount=2
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Same as koop said, just a bit more, arm64 is the 64 bit version (Nexus 9) we have just arm, 32 bit. And if your wondering (and gods I hope I'm still right lol) 32 and 64 bit.... 32 bit is written for a single cpu (or core) and 64 bit uses 2, 32 bit streams (2 cores) quad core just disperses the load over 4 cores using 2 32 bit streams. We have a single 32 bit stream spread over 4 cores.

Probably more than ya needed but info is power.

But arm is 32 bit

Arm64 is 64 bit

Same as pc (x86 is 32 bit x64 is 64bit)

Also we have a Kepler (k1) tegra chip. Nexus 9 has (Denver I think) the 64bit version of our chip. Same gpu (graphics) chip though. And Nexus 9 is dual core not quad core as well. (sorry I rambled there)
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
One thing (and I noticed this myself) viper audio stops the audio popping and damage as far as I can tell. I've never had the audio bug until I reflashed and forgot the viper install. It would pop all the time, lock screen, any time the sound would turn "off" after making a noise. It would pop. I don't get that on viper at all.

I would try to download again (sounds like a bad download possibly) and try ota 3 again. No audio is a new bug I haven't seen (trolling) looking around on ota 3 upgrading.

Please try again to see if the issue can be resolved, I haven't seen this one.... But I know that this ota is far better than kk......(finally)
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Bah, ya don't suck. I've bricked this thing like 8 times...

It doesn't hurt a little thing to go back and do her again..... (maybe this time she'll listen =x)

I think I've re flashed this ota at least 12 times to write this thread. (made sure I got each thing right, BEFORE, I told anyone to try it) (and tried as hard as I could to get it WRONG so I could fix it)

That black screen... Don't let it ruin ya, boot back to twrp and go again, from the top, it really is a damn shame nvidia couldn't ship this device with ota 3...
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Pretty much anything that is NOT IN THE FOLLOWING, (use big letters so ya know it's the good shtuff) ;)

/system

/cache

/data

If it is in /(something) and NOT in those folders. Please don't touch it unless you know exactly what it is.
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
Yeah I got... I'm same boot wipe flash wipe flash. Going to wear out the memory. Currently restoring apps. Then I'll try the viper mod and then work on figuring out xposed

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[Shield Tablet General] eurominican:
Any thoughts why?

I have selinux set permissive and busybox pro before installing the viper4android apk. I'll reinstall the driver right now just in case
[Shield Tablet General] gqukyo:
I'm not too concerned about saving space but I'd like to stop the optimizing when I reboot. Installing new and or updating xposed modules can be annoying. I read the entire tutorial but can't seem to pinpoint which steps are required just to stop the reboot optimization.
[Shield Tablet General] koop1955:
Have you tried wiping Cache and Dalvik Cache? In TWRP go to Wipe-> then Advanced and select both those.

Also, if you are using ART you might try switching back. It was a known issue a while back.

EDIT: Found this on the GeForce Forums - https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/834525/android-5-1-optimizing-apps-issue-and-workaround/
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
What do you mean using ART? I'm curious, I haven't flashed xposed yet, but what else could you use? Isn't ART what L uses anyway?
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Can't really wear out memory. You will get a new device before then, no matter how hard you try. Like 10,000 flashes.... No worries mate. Unless you physically damage it....

Yeah it takes a couple wipes at times, but after, your shield will destroy your friends (insert device here)....... >=) hehehehe

And it will sound better and look cooler....(mwahahaha) ahem. Sorry. Lol
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Yes. I'm not sure if L uses anything but art. (never changed it)
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
Can I bother you to answer to some questions I posted in a long comment a few posts above? :p I made another post soon after so you probably didn't see that one... My bad >.<
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
Well its offical I'm a goober. Just realized I have WiFi and not LTE shield. Oops back to flashing. FYI loading the LTE os works on WiFi version .

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[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
:good:
[Shield Tablet General] koop1955:
Sorry, that was a complete brainfart from an old guy. :o Yes, of course, ART is the default for Lollipop.
[Shield Tablet General] radio five:
Hey, guys. Need a little help. I'm ready to install Viperaudio, but the link to the most current android version is busted. Does anyone have an alternate link?

And on a separate issue, I installed the themed swiftkey app, but I'm running into a problem that I can't seem to find a solution for online. Hopefully one of you has the answer. I'm using a Bluetooth keyboard and the swiftkey onscreen keyboard pops up everytime I begin to type something. I can tap a button on the screen to go away, but it comes up again when I tap a field to start typing in. In a perfect world, as soon as I start typing on my Bluetooth keyboard, the onscreen keyboard would simply go away. I apologize if this is skirting the edges of off-topic, but since the themed Bluetooth app is one of the recommended apps, I thought others might run into this issue as well.

Thanks in advance
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
OK back up running. Running fine. Did loose my home n recent key odd. Viper doesn't want to load drivers. But I've got my asop browser working so that's a plus

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[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
That REALLY is starting to sound like a bad download. Very very odd

Issues like that usually come from a bad download or installing lte version on wifi model. Remember to check the md5 for all downloads (if possible)
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
I've gotten that before, usually from selinux not being permissive... Could try uninstalling the driver (via the menu) uninstalling and reinstalling viper apk from the top again. Made mine work when I first tried to install it on the shield on lollipop

You can also try "compatible mode" in the viper menu. But it shouldn't be necessary....
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Honestly not sure about the SwiftKey issue. I know mine pops up at times using my Bluetooth controller (ipega 9023 extending controller (if you ever liked the psp, it's a dream)) thinking it's a keyboard.

It may be in main android settings, language and input, (somewhere), an option to disable it popping up for physical keyboards...

Sorry I can't offer more help, never had a keyboard to use...

And a quick Google search should turn up an alternative viper download. It's viper version 2.3.4.0.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
No worries lol, thanks for the help!
[Shield Tablet General] GOALAR:
what browser can I install for flash support on web pages, only puffin and photon work OK,but I hate them
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
I tried my keyboard with goggle keyboard and had no issues, it was perfectly fine. From what I have remember Swiftkey should only show a line at the bottom of the screen making word suggestions... But I think that within Swiftkey's settings there is something about Bluetooth keyboard settings, I had played around with it a little

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I believe dolphin browser also supports flash, there are institutions on how to do it on the web.
[Shield Tablet General] GOALAR:
I have tested dolphin, it does not work anymore for android 5.1, crash, I try with latest adobe flash apk and modded apk from XDA guide for kit Kat 4.4,
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
Oh I see! Well, I hope you figure it out! If you do let me know how it goes, I'm curious! I'm used to not using flash in Android anymore, I don't need it much anyway, but my dad wanted stable flash to play a game so I might be able to use it for his tablet if there's something to be done about it.
[Shield Tablet General] JohnK71:
I tried again with a full wipe and coming slow from KK still no audio at all but a one pop when coming to setup screen. I kept root the whole way from KK and never used kingroot. I put 5.0.1 in and it did one pop at loadup and now is fine. Very strange but both copies, downloaded and ota, had no audio at all. Can't figure it out but at least I can run lollipop 5.0.1 for now.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
That is really weird.... Sorry to hear that mate
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
I think I may be missing the question here. But doesn't chrome beta work for that. It's the only browser I ever use...
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
Looking for a browser with flash support. From what I remember, Chrome doesn't support it... that's why we were talking about alternatives. Chrome and Chrome beta are the most convenient for me as well, I can live without flash on my device :P
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Someone will have to point me to a sight or something that I would need flash support for (I thought flash was built into android system, not the browsers since ice cream sandwich).
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
Well you'd need it for videos that play with flash player instead of YouTube or HTML 5 or something. Or some web games like Settlers. My dad wanted it for the latter but flash crashed, I've heard it's a very badly coded game, it makes flash crash even on pc browsers... I don't think it's built in, but I can't say that I know, I never looked into it much
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
dolphin beta supports flash.

check the beta group for it on g+

https://plus.google.com/communities/105383868011227937315

i think you need the jetpack addon
[Shield Tablet General] radio five:
Pariahnoble,

I got Viper audio installed and I followed your equalizer recommendations as close as I could, but I was wondering if you would be willing to post some screenshots of your various eq settings for different modes (phone speakers, head phones, etc...)? I suspect you probably have the most experience in the community with these settings as they pertain to the Nvidia Shield Tablet, and I do have some concern about damaging my tablet's speakers.

Thanks
[Shield Tablet General] GOALAR:
dolphin beta does not work, if you have a full flash compatible browser you can see this http://wechoosethemoon.org/ I can only via puffin or photon paid browsers
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Tried dolphin. Don't work (why the heck they advertise it, I dunno), didn't try dolphin beta yet. flash Fox crashes when I try that site. So far photon worked perfect, but has ads. Didn't try puffin yet, what about opera or actual Firefox?
[Shield Tablet General] GOALAR:
Firefox does not work, and puffin works,but puffin and photon are free with ads and after weeks you have buy it, bad browsers,
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Dang, sorry ur having so much trouble. Hope ya find something. And actually thanks for the heads up. I didn't know flash was an android limitation. I'd honestly never noticed it wasn't supported... Let me know if u do finally find a way to watch/play flash.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
New unified kernel builds out from [MENTION=6411851]BitOBSessiOn[/MENTION] (one file for all shield tablet models) flashes super easy in twrp (remember to clear dalvik and cache after you flash, and before you reboot)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3069776
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
Adobe killed flash support for android since beginning of jellybean. Its all about html5.

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[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Thanks for the info! I had honestly never noticed lol. I must really not use any site that need it.
[Shield Tablet General] BitOBSessiOn:
You can use Dolphin browser if you need Flash support.
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
Most sites have made sure that their sites can run with HTML5 instead. I used to watch anime online and the site has a flash version of the video player for computers and an HTML5 player for mobile devices so you just switch and you're good. Adobe had stopped supporting flash for android around the time I got my kindle and I got it in 2012 :p
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
There are some browsers that try to run flash but I've found them bugging and not a fan of other browser's. Chrome beta and asop . if a site hasn't upgraded to html5, means there not to worried about upgrading.

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[Shield Tablet General] GOALAR:
guys, the 90% web sites for streaming live football (soccer) videos are in flash, maybe future changes. Flash is not dead. Dolphin does not work for 5.1 nvidia shield, I think adobe flash 11.1 apk needs to be modded by some xda genius programmer, maybe 5.1 missing libraries.
[Shield Tablet General] Mr_Cyrus:
1,000,000 thanks.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Dolphin and dolphin beta have both cut support for flash, they say it does flash, but if you go to a flash site (we were trying wechoosethemoon.org)

Says not supported (even though I tried turning "flash always on" and flash reader mode) tried dolphin myself, someone else here tried beta... (thanks dolphin lol) :shrugs:
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
The beta of dolphin needs the dolphin jetpack to work

?DOLPHIN JETPACK V7.0.0 Beta4?

Dear beta testers,

Dolphin Jetpack V7.0.0 Beta4 is available for you now !

We have optimized the Scrolling Performance and now we support Auto-fit Text !

Please kindly check it out here: http://bit.ly/1B0MYCA

Change log:?*

[Improve] Now you can scroll more smoothly on desktop mode

[Bug fix] Fixed Auto-fit Text failure issue

[Bug fix] Fixed Flash Game Mode failure issue

[Bug fix] Fixed download failure with Video downloader add-on?*

[Bug fix] Fixed some crash bugs

Notes:?*

1. Currently Jetpack V7 supports Android 4.3+.

2. Try to re-enable Jetpack in Dolphin settings and Restart Dolphin to activate Jetpack V7 Beta4.

We would highly appreciate your feedback on this new beta version.

Thanks for your continuous support !

Cheers,

Team Dolphin?
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
(oops) (supposed to be a quote)
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Thanks for the info, if anyone can verify this works I'll add it to the op (don't have time to test myself right this minute)
[Shield Tablet General] GOALAR:
checked, dolphin does not work for nvidia shield, My other cheap tablet with jelly bean works fine via dolphin and Firefox,
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
I have no need for flash so I've never tried it tbh.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
It was pointed out that support stopped at jelly bean at some point, so it would have worked natively (via a chip I thunk). I DO remember Oracle (the makers of flash) getting bent over Google not asking first, or some such, lawsuit, Google was forced to pull support for it, pretty sure that's about the time html5 really took off. Probably why. Google was a bigger company and people adopted html5.

Did dolphin beta, with jet pack (it's in play store I think) not work either?
[Shield Tablet General] moosc:
I just can't stand it.

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[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
I'm trying dolphin beta myself (waiting for Google to catch up that I'm a beta tester now) I'll get this figured out for folks.

Whether I have to get cracked apps to do it. (yeah I'm damn good at that) I'll get this.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Wow been a beta tester for over 5 hours and I still haven't gotten the beta apk
[Shield Tablet General] YuriPan:
Really? I've never happened to have to wait so long and I've singed up for at least half a dozen beta apps
[Shield Tablet General] berryman13:
Dolphin beta is disappointingly slow on the shield tablet.

I had rooted OTA 2.2.1 before flashing the full (not incremental) 3.0 zip in TWRP, now my internal and external sdcard is read-only when not in recovery. My tablet is basically useless unless I flash what?
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Damn that's the second time I've heard of that happening. Someone posted a question in q and a few days back. Flashing again doesn't help? Flashing a cm rom then wipe and try again. I really dunno mate.

It's almost like, nvidia has made multiple variations on these shield tablets. Like different chip makers making different parts. There has been some really weird inconsistent results from this ota. Saw a couple people have no sound after flashing ota 3. Seen one guy get a hard brick (black screened at boot) only some people get optimizing apps. No matter what you do, it comes back for some people.

To me though it sounds like twrp didn't do something right after the flash. I'd ask steel01 in his multirom thread. He would truly know more than I'll probably ever learn....
[Shield Tablet General] fards:
Oracle don't make flash.

Adobe make flash (although technically the standard is there so anyone can build it)

Oracle own Java, which is what the court case was about.
[Shield Tablet General] berryman13:
I can't be the only one experiencing this....wtf.

I will try flashing again, this is just twisted. Everything was fine on OTA3 until I flashed a custom kern.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Ah, I knew it was something. Always got those 2 confused for some reason.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
I think there is an issue from time to time with twrp. I had the same thing happen the VERY FIRST time I tried twrp. It wouldn't mount /system or /cache anymore. Then twrp wouldn't even load when I tried a reboot.

I fixed it by using nvidia stock recovery (vol up and power at the bug droid) and use it to flash ota3 full. You'll be back to stock and no root. But up and running. Or since I'm pretty sure you have access to a pc yes? Use adb to flash the full 2.2.1 system recovery (the one you have to flash all the different things (I remember dtb and battery stuff.)there was like 5 or 6 things to flash and it should take you back to the day it was bought.

Recovery images are here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2988881
[Shield Tablet General] radio five:
I solved this issue. At the bottom right corner of the screen there is a little keyboard icon. When you tap it opens a "Change keyboard" menu. At the top of this menu is an option to enable/disable "Hardware - Show input method". Make sure you disable the option and VOILA!!!

The Swiftkey keyboard will disappear when you begin typing on your bluetooth keyboard.
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Wonder if that works if I have ime selector turned off via gravity box (I use the cursor control keys for my keyboard through GravityBox, and it disables the ime by default.) but I'll kill it there too.

Thanks for the information. I'm sure that had to be driving a few people bats. Lol
[Shield Tablet General] Pariahnoble:
Never did get the beta app. Checked like 5 times over the last couple days. Says I'm a tester but I still get the same damn app I did before I signed up as a tester.

I honestly don't think there is a reliable way to use flash anymore, other than a pc. Maybe an old ass tablet or something just for flash. As Stephen King said, "the world has moved on since then"
[Shield Tablet General] radio five:
Indeed. I understand this a feature that a lot of people want but I don't understand why. Not to be a troll, but Flash is most certainly dying and has been since Apple opted not to support it with the first iphone. I used to try and get flash on my older android devices, but as you said, the world has moved on and more and more of the sites I used to need it for have switched to newer formats. At this point, it's a little like fighting for the VCR. Just my two cents.