[General Questions and Answers] Nikky_Flash:
Headphone's are useless in this phone...

So , to the guy that was looking to boost his headphone volume , I'm trying to do the same thing ... I found the path to that file / it's system / etc / media_paths.xml , hope that helps ya / but wow - since I use that 3.5 mm jack in EVERYTHING , it's annoying because it makes this phone only good for talk and text / camera / do these companies forget (Windows with GWX.exe and now Krocera ) , that this is an item WE own! The computer is MINE , the phone is MINE , wow I'll never use Krocera again , and I didn't like windows before , I've used linux since 2011 , but now for sure , I'll never buy a Windows product since they lock users out of GWX folder and force updates like raging dickheads ...

to me this HydroWave issue is the same thing concept ... I understand making sure you don't ruin the phone , but no need to go so far as to stop delvelpoers that know what they are really doing , I mean this phone is MINE ,

For the headphones , it's probably their lawyers instructed them to make the headphone jacks basically useless , the conversation in the boardroom or conference call probably had a quote from a lawyer like this , " guys , I'm recommending we make the headphone jack super quiet , so they can't damage their ears and sue us later for damage to hearing, turn that **** down to almost nothing"

This phones headphones / jack is so quiet that I can't use this phone in my car , because the sound of the street / driving / air vents / is louder than the output / which is about 50% of the time I'm listening to music / messages / etc ...

I promise this is the reason headphone output , is set at 9 . Like our parents protecting us from ourselves for our own good.

if it helps the other poster , it took me forever to find the file that was killing my headphones , this is the evil bastard right here:

in the media_paths.xml file ,

in system/etc ,

if I could just save this file , it would be fine , and I would like to clear out space , but it's hard to tell which things I could delete ... I get a limited style temp root , combining KingRoot and randomly hitting up , ES file explorers Root Explorer toggle switch ... it refuses to stay with RW privileges on System / and I don't mean a few minutes , I mean for one second / I've been able to delete a few apps that I couldn't before , but can't tell which is important and which isn't so I only deleted FaceBook and Google plus crap ...as far as files I haven't been able to edit this damn file and keep it that way ; sometimes it says I saved the file , and sometimes it says -not allowed - but either way , even if it "saves" , during temp-limited root , when I go back later , the volume is back down to 9 , but I can't save a file in system / etc , and have it stay that way for good.

This phone is stupid , I'm going to look at which phone can use that little tiny SIM card .

I'm also interested in , loading a whole image onto a phone ... I know this phone we probably can't , but I'd be interested in using an old phone and looking up how I could load a complete image to it , kinda like wiping a windows computer and loading a linux distro from an image.iso / anyone successfully done that yet ?

That would be fun.

good luck everyone ... let me know how it goes, or should we all chuck our hydrowaves in lakes for future generations to find and use for only talk /text /video but not music ?