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[Nexus 6P General] SpiritBreak3r:
[MENTION=5470070]droidguy22[/MENTION] It's really hopeless to improve audio from snapdragons onboard Wolfson DAC. Viper or any other equalizer are nothing but a placebo, which literally has no or negative impact. The only possible improvement would be for you is to install Franco/ElementalX kernel and ramp up the gain which again could distort audio.

If you look at the following VRMS Table (headphone jack), it's lower than that off Apple iPhone.

The only possible solution, get a portable Amplifier+DAC if you really love music and like the phone as well. I got myself a FiiO Q1(bugdet dac+amp) and works flawlessly with Onkyo/UAPP players. I was blown away by the audio quality and soundstage it delivered to my XB920(24Ω), XB90EX(16Ω) and JVC HA-SZ1000(16Ω+ monster amp headroom).

I call myself a basshead.
[Nexus 6P General] xSilas43:
The fact you make the claims on viper show you have not used it, it is a lot more than an "eq" it's a full post processing software. Please don't spread false information, and please read this.
[Nexus 6P General] SpiritBreak3r:
It was completely my opinion, no need to get offended. I personally preferred powerAMP's EQ and pre processing over to viper's post, have been using it for over 2 years and having only recently switching to usb dac. And once again, you simply cannot improve audio quality beyond existing hardware's limits even having the drivers changed.
[Nexus 6P General] @home:
I have used it & I don't think it's all that. It's never made a nexus sound anything better than average.

If it floats your boat, great but it's never gonna make a device that ok anything more than ok cause the DAC is poor.

I find Poweramp makes far more difference than viper does.
[Nexus 6P General] xSilas43:
IMHO its low output not necessarily poor quality as software can easily fix it dictating that the dac is simply underpowered. You will have bad luck with high impedance headphones but that is about it. Atleast the speaker kicks ass. http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Google-Nexus-6P_id9587/benchmarks

No offence taken (:

Viper is a mix of post and pre FX, does much more than eq or increase volume too. Glad you found something that works for you though.
[Nexus 6P General] @work:
It's the system wide eq and that makes a big difference, I also make use of the dynamic bass and, bass boost and clarity. There is a very noticeable difference. I've been able to boost the audio by using the volume lever in atmos. I know that there are drawbacks to that but I much prefer it over a fixed gain boost at the kernel. I've been experimenting with the agc in v4a too.

Another advantage to v4a is that you can have one set of controls for a plugged in headphone and a totally different set for a2dp or USB audio out.

Here are the settings I use with mee m9, in ears

https://youtu.be/C46__LbeLx0
[Nexus 6P General] SpiritBreak3r:
Application players like USB Audio Player, Onkyo etc, which costs about 10$ is only because they directly hook the USB dac with their own developed driver. System wide usb-audio routing is still not in par as google promised it would be for audiophiles but hey something is better than noting. HTC M9/M8 and LGV10 have their own dacs(ess in case of lg) and amps in htc, so wouldn't be fair to compare them.

Afaik, you cannot change the output. It's upto the manufacturers to decide the output on the jacks, huawei made a mistake. But that did not want me to return the phone as others did, I love this hardware and also it's not fair to have everything under one roof.

On a personal note, I suggest you to give any usb dac amp a go, perhaps even the fiio k1, low profile and let me know your thoughts. ;)
[Nexus 6P General] xSilas43:
You cannot change it but you can basically reverse it with viper4android with its bass and clarity it is more of a compensation fix but the difference is unnoticeable. Yeah I have heard nothing but great thing but I'm not sure I can be tasked to haul it around with me.
[Nexus 6P General] SpiritBreak3r:
coming up with diy case tutorial ;) I was as skeptical as you are, but a spigen rugged case + 3M dual lock = gold. Just ordered them.
[Nexus 6P General] BarryH_GEG:
From GSMArena...

Audio output fails to impress

The Huawei Nexus 6P went off to a good start in the audio quality test. The smartphone’s output was excellently clear when connected to an active external amplifier and it if wasn’t for its below average loudness we’d have called this a perfect showing.

Unfortunately plugging in a pair of headphones sends the stereo crosstalk sky high and results in even lower loudness. Dynamic range also falls a bit even if it still remains very good. Still with that kind of stereo we can’t really be happy with the Nexus 6P performance here – not in the day and age when smartphones that cost half as much can beat it.

Anyway, here go the results so you can do your comparisons.
[Nexus 6P General] chdloc:
This just repeats a common misconception that louder automatically equates to better quality. There is no direct correlation between the amount of maximum voltage offered by the codec (amplifier, really) and "audio fidelity". Most codecs are by design able to put out 1 Vrms. Some of them start to distort close to the 1 Vrms mark. That's why some manufacturers seem to limit the achievable output voltage. Some may even have a more"noble" cause: to save the user's hearing. Take my IEMs as an example. They are capable of putting out 125 dB SPL at 1 Vrms (search the web for the sensitivity of your headphones)! This is way beyond of what is generally recommended as being safe listening levels. 85 dB SPL is generally considered to be long-time safe listening levels without the danger of noise-induced permanent hearing loss. My particular headphones only need 10 mV (!) to achieve the 85 dB SPL mark. According to your graph, the Nexus 6p clocks in at 340 mVrms. This means that my particular headphones are still able to blast just north of 115 dB SPL into my ears. The document I linked to above considers 115 dB SPL safe for a duration of 28 seconds...
[Nexus 6P General] xSilas43:
Thank you very much for sharing! The clarity is always much needed.
[Nexus 6P General] matteventu:
Wait.

I never spoke about Galaxy S6 lol.

I absolutely know that it has a dedicated Wolfson DAC in the Exynos ;)
[Nexus 6P General] Sachi315:
Hey guys! I don't mean to jump in the middle of the discussion and I have not read all of your previous posts lol But I saw some people saying the sound was to low or harsh. If you want to boost the jack all you have to do is tweak the mixer_paths.XML file. The voltage is set by the software not the hardware which is why viper audio is always the first thing I install. Right now I have viper Sony edition and dolby atmos Sony edition installed. With the newest update mmb29q from Google they seemed to boost the jack and speakers already, I didn't have to tweak the .XML much at all. With the conjunction of viper and dolby together the speakers are loud and clear very close to my old M8 and M9 The audio with a good set of headphones or plugged into my stereo have clear and balanced sound I'm quite impressed its very similar in sound to my M9. Htc tweaks there audio to sound a certain way through the Qualcomm DAC as do sony. With viper and dolby Sony edition I get those audio libraries and with a little tweaking which most audiophiles do anyway. This phone is as good or better than both my m8 and m9.
[Nexus 6P General] heorung:
hello , coming from galaxy Note 5 , i can say that the music quality of this phone was bad compared to the Note 5. music playback feels lifeless , when increase volume it hurts my ears. How can we improve the sound quality? custom kernel ? if custom kernel so which settings?
[Nexus 6P General] @home:
I agree, the sound from the 6p is dross. No matter how good the music player, earphones or file type.
[Nexus 6P General] aniketkuber:
I do not agree ... I use maven player pro .. In that I set it to 'live' and adjust the equilizer.. It sounds great .. My sister has a lenovo vibe x3 which has a hi-fi DAC and Dolby atmos and its only slightly better .. For me music does not sound great on any phone with the play music
[Nexus 6P General] @home:
I don't use Play Music.

Poweramp, WAV files & Kilpsch X10 eaaphones & nothing can make the N6p sound anything but average.

Like all Nexus phones have been sh it with audio dac.
[Nexus 6P General] heorung:
outperform my old note5 in every aspect , except the music quality :D
[Nexus 6P General] aniketkuber:
Poweramp does not sound great on the 6p.. I have the paid version of that as well .. I have even tried their new alpha build .. .. Nexus 6p sounds anything but ordinary although volume might be a bit low ..higher db earphones can suffice that .. This is what my maven setup looks like
[Nexus 6P General] @home:
I'll give it a go later today & let you know the outcome.
[Nexus 6P General] @home:
Well I gave those settings a ago.

Truly awful sound. I couldn't stand more than 2 minutes with those settings. Sorry

The player it's self is horrid as well.

I think the 6p has sh it sound & nothing is going to fix it.
[Nexus 6P General] aniketkuber:
Well I use a xiaomi mi earphones pro .. So I feel the settings are fine for those ..may be does not sound good for yours .. Again I am no audiophile but I have a sense of what a good sound is ...yes the UI is not that great but it's functional and the sound is unmatched and I have tried all... Nexus 6p is not bad at all..
[Nexus 6P General] rcurtis805:
I use jetaudio, the paid version, which gives many sound enhancements like AM3D, plus, I have the Franco kernel and the fkupdater paid app, in which you can adjust the gain for the headphone jack. So I push the gain +6, and it gets pretty loud enough for me to the point of almost distorting at max volume, and with am3d applied and using the eq as well, it sounds like I have subwoofers taped to my ears along with some high fidelity mids and tweets. Lol. Seriously though, the sound is very good.
[Nexus 6P General] colonel187:
Is this issue just with the headphones jack?

I'm switching from Note 5 today and have an android auto had unit also stream over BT a lot.
[Nexus 6P General] WizeGuyDezignz:
If audio quality could be fixed with software like a custom kernel or viper, then high end audio hardware wouldn't exist. Anybody into audio can tell you hardware is much more important than software.

In the case of the 6P, a custom kernel and viper are just band aids to mask average at best hardware. The DAC is nothing special.
[Nexus 6P General] @home:
Amen to that.

Simple fact is that the p is a pile of poo when it comes to music play back through earphones. Mo matter what software you fiddle or tweak with it's never gonna fix a sh it DAC.
[Nexus 6P General] MrMarques01:
This.

I always find myself facepalming when people recommend Viper/super EQ/"sound boost mod OMG" and claim that it improves the audio quality. No folks, it doesn't, it simply adds an additional filter which makes the audio sound DIFFERENT, but this has absolutely nothing to do with audio quality itself.

However, there are situations where fiddling with software can help indeed. Have you ever noticed that weird "crackling" sound the 6p produces when listening to music over the headphone jack with very low volumes? This can actually be fixed by reducing the output gain. Yes, it reduces the overall volume, but in my case, it's still loud enough for my old UM3x.

That doesn't help with the 6p's poor stereo crosstalk though. The 6p is a great phone, but the audio capabilities are dismal unfortunately.
[Nexus 6P General] jayesh:
The simplest answer i found for the 6p? Connect it to my Fiio q1 and forget about the audio issues (Sennheiser 598s at work)
[Nexus 6P General] WizeGuyDezignz:
That's a good solution to be sure, but it probably won't apply to 99% of the people here unfortunately.
[Nexus 6P General] jayesh:
True. The Fiio q1 while being inexpensive (comparatively) does add an extra bit of equipment and cables to carry around.
[Nexus 6P General] Kaleshwar:
Yup definitely works.
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RicchieWrath:
Hello! I got my new OP2 last week. Straight out of the box had connectivity issue. Both wifi and data connection are fine at first glance, but the data keeps cutting off (both on wifi and LTE). When I wanted to log into google account I had to repeat the steps multiple times as it would give me an error "communication with servers unavailable" (or something simillar). Seems like the data flows through in short intervals. Browsing kinda works, since there is not much refreshing, youtube videos or downloading apps on the other hand are a complete nightmare (it took me a whole day just to update and DL some 20 apps). Anyways, I tried all possible "solutions" to similar problems I was able to find, such as clearing cache and changing from DHCP to static ip (on wifi).. Even went through trouble of (clean) flashing stock 2.0.1 and 2.1.1 oxygenOS ROM, changing Kernel,...the issue remains. :crying: So my question is: is there anything else I can try, or should I attempt to get the device replaced?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peresb184:
Hello ... first of all thank you for attending the message. Look g901f user'm overjoyed with tel ... but not its development. I have seen the note 4 and are almost identical except g901f 1g of ram and note 2k screen. For underdevelopment in serious s5 very difficult to adapt the roms of note 4? As I have seen as I am not cook and do not understand programming .... sorry if I ask something crazy but I like to tinker and can not do with this cucumber .... thanks for your time.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hedi.Karray:
i think there is no devs owning the G901F thats why there is no one porting roms for us :(
[Chromecast Audio] madejackson:
Is there any solution with an amplifier, where the amplifier turns automaticly on or off?

If I let the Amplifier always on, there is a static noise which prevents me from sleeping.
[Chromecast Audio] Malnilion:
I'm pretty sure the only way this would even be possible is with an amp that accepts optical input and can wake when audio is detected and then has an auto off feature.
[Chromecast Audio] matthelm:
I have a unit hook to analog in of a small cheap amp, and get no static. Impedance mismatch??? Bad amp? Volume cranked too high?
[Chromecast Audio] artymarty:
I've noticed a hum sometimes however now I mostly use optical so that doesn't happen. It's some sort of earthing interference. For example if you have the chromecast powersupply and your amp both plugged into the same power board. If the powersupply your using for the chromecast or the powersupply in the amp is a bit crapy it causes a loop because it's not all isolated properly. That's why it does not happen with an optical connection as there is no metal connection between the two units, and therefore no loop. Try another powersupply for the chromecast, shielded cables, line filters for the power plugs etc, you will find a combination of something that works without the noise. To further limit it, as someone was suggesting, keep the volume output on the chromecast as loud as possible and the volume on the amp as low as possible. Not the other way around.

You can get some very cheap and amazing quality amps from ali-express that have optical inputs too...

Hope this helps.
[Nexus 6P General] Nekromantik:
Hey everyone let's get all the slim ROM fans together and hope one of the devs gets angler!
[Nexus 6P General] SillyBearito:
+1 my nexus 6p would love some slim love. My favorite ROM from KitKat.
[Nexus 6P General] DrunkFuX666:
I agree... Not used slim in a while but its one of my favorites...

Sent from my Nexus 6P
[Nexus 6P General] Smallsmx3:
Unfortunately non existent for LP
[Nexus 6P General] Phazmos:
Check the slim n5 thread, I believe yank is getting 1 end of the month.
[Nexus 6P General] galaxys:
Yep, been awhile since using a Slim rom...
[Nexus 6P General] perXway1:
Slim unfortunately went from hands down the best to just a side piece. It used to be consistent, ALWAYS STABLE, everything worked, and devs like [MENTION=3087740]Jubakuba[/MENTION] [MENTION=4790322]kufikugel[/MENTION] and others were literally adding features per request like it was easy. Original features like chamber of secrets and more. Cataclysm has dominated the Nexus 5 forums since LP
[Nexus 6P General] CrashTestDroid:
It's a totally different experience with Nexus 6 SlimPop, Yank's builds have been the most solid, slick LP rom with all the great Slim features.
[Nexus 6P General] Franzie3:
Chroma is already available for 6p and is very very stable. Anyone who has used it knows the dev, zephiK, is very active and is always in the thread supporting issues and releasing builds every few days. Check is out if you haven't.
[Nexus 6P General] likonvampire:
Hey [MENTION=2033478]Yank555[/MENTION] we are here waiting for you to get us some slimmalow love . I hope you remember me from the N5 slim builders thread [emoji16]

May the force be with you and your Angler comes in soon !
[Nexus 6P General] Yank555:
It's due to arrive nov. 23-25th as long as all goes as planned ... or else I'll have to blame amazon ;)

Looking forward to start playing with big.LITTLE kernel stuff :D

JP.
[Nexus 6P General] fLipz:
sLim-ROMS "The Road To Marshmallow"

ANGLER-aLpha-0614
[Nexus 6P General] jaythenut:
November really ? Lol that will be in time for official n release :good:
[Nexus 6P General] Yank555:
Did you see the date of my post ? ;)

13/Nov/2015 ... so that was a ~10 days delay, cause 2015 is the year to consider here ;)

I've been enjoying my angler since end of nov 2015 on a daily basis :D

JP.
[Nexus 6P General] jaythenut:
Oops no haha thought you had it already:eek:
[Nexus 6P General] ps000000:
Woww Alpha build !!!! :laugh:
[Nexus 6P General] messiahfreedom:
Aaaand it doesn't boot for absolutely no reason for me. No idea why and I can't get a logcat because it won't boot.

Edit: Coming from the N preview, I used the wrong vendor image.
[Nexus 6P General] bossofindy:
Slim was the best on N5
[Nexus 6P General] headcreepz:
Can anyone tell me why I cannot place calls on slim? It just hangs for ten seconds followed by disconnect. Thanks in advance. BTW I'm on T-Mobile....
[Nexus 6P General] FanDroid09:
Which build are you running? I'm on the latest build (1.10) and I've made several calls today without issue, though I'm on AT&T.
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlerpt:
Good evening to all the community,

I haven't been here for some some time.... since I had my HTC Hero.

This was a phone that I installed so many custom ROM... Back in the days Android was not so developed and the demand was enormous...

But back to what I mention on the topic,

I am really disappointed with Sony, this phone costed me a lot of money, and not even two years have passed and they just don't give a FXXX.

Is there any way to install a pure android Marshmallow on Xperia Z1 Compact ?

And another thing... can we remove this big notification banners, as for whatsapp or hangouts... it's annoying...

Thank you for you attention!
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o-l-a-v:
The two years = no further support is completly normal. No difference in brands there.

Clean marshmallow? Possible. Bugfree? No. Take a look at fxp: http://fxpblog.co/aosp/aosp-6-0/

I find latest 5.1.1 update from Sony to be a good one, and I do not regret buying and owning this phone for two years :) Not loads of custom ROMs, but CM has always been good.

When CM13 nightlies start rolling and gets stable enough, I'll jump over to the custom ROMs wagon and enjoy bleeding endge Android again ;)
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlerpt:
Hi,

I've been into custom ROM's before.... thing is, some of them are not stable, and there is always something crashing or not fully working.

thanks for the tip, I'll have a look.
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munjeni:
Something like this http://s9.postimg.org/7oqzyxzkv/Screenshot_20151205_191800.png ?? :)

If you realy want to try Marshmallow you need to download unoficial build AOSP_M_151019_amami.zip from http://fxpblog.co/aosp/aosp-6-0/ and since these build can't boot I have fixed bootloop with recompiling kernel booth for boot.img and recovery.img, so simple replace recovery.img and boot.img with this new one https://mega.nz/#!ABhFTCLA!A55h9N0DQfJgi5Yxa9mmk3CrLlP_hEKOTDamZs6kaxs and try! And one more thing, its not for daily usage since audio is not working, camera...etc!
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlerpt:
is there some video of rom online ?

tks
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munjeni:
Only this one from me http://s9.postimg.org/7oqzyxzkv/Screenshot_20151205_191800.png
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlerpt:
Question,

Is this the "default ROM" for Sony's android : http://developer.sonymobile.com/kno...e/open-devices/list-of-devices-and-resources/ ?

Is there a similar way to install this as as having a "Pure Android Version" ?
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munjeni:
Thats not a rom, thats binaries needed for compiling AOSP.
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idlerpt:
What about CM 13 for xperia Z1 C ? will it be out ?
[Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] levone1:
We'll see if anyone wanting to build straight CM for us. Meanwhile, we have : http://xdaforums.com/sony-xperia-z1...resurrection-remix-marshmallow-amami-t3325195 http://files.championswimmer.in/?developer=championswimmer&folder=./ROMs/aokp http://xdaforums.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/general/vanir-roms-t3354146 http://xdaforums.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/orig-development/aosp-t3317511
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[Samsung Galaxy Ace 3] kalarse:
Hi everyone. I'm writing in regards to an ongoing issue that i have since i've installed this custom rom in my galacy ace 3.

Sometime there are apllications that suddenly stops, which could be fine if i would not lose the chat history from whatsapp every hour (considering i've backed up with titanium part of it) but it is stressfull backing it up every hour just to avoid chat loss.

Some apps have been with the same issue, but those are not key for my personal usage (messenger, hangouts)

And with facebook it has happening that the app opens, but after 2.5 sec it automatically closes...

I wi be attatching the images from my cellphone for further info

imgur. com/6QIZGDB

imgur. com/0nslZMW

Hope that helps describing he issue, if it is needed to add info please let me know. Tha ks
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SillyBearito:
Hey gang,

I was a flashaholic for a long period of time with my nexus 5. Got much worse when Multirom was released for it. I'm assuming it's only a matter of time before the Nexus 6P has it, or is there something that could potentially prevent this?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plisskenn:
BUMP! I was hoping to see this soon. Calling HSBADR!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boynamedstacy:
I'm waiting for this as well.

Sent from the nexus, the premium one
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Citizen_Snips:
[MENTION=3418703]Tasssadar[/MENTION]

It probably will be sooner or later. It was supported by the 5 & 6, so I'm sure he's probably working on it.

Patience. ????
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
All bets on it happing... when he is ready rock it! :)