[Android Software Development] ephexxis:
from what I've been reading lately some of the more popular fiios don't actually play that well with Android digital audio though this may improve in android N

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1. lose xposed.

2. i would not be lazy and manually wipe system (and cache if you want but if you're going to wipe it, that needs to happen here)

3. dirty flash your rom and gapps and whatever else (supersu)

4. do not ever wipe cache after step 3, particularly when installing supersu but frankly there's no reason to ever do so

5. boot into your dank memes and install drivers etc. reboot and you should be straight

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uh, understatement of the century bruv. voodoo sound? that was deprecated back when i was trying to figure out how to improve my galaxy s2. points for being hilarious though.

while i would be reticent to claim any particular mod package available as the "go to mod" because audio is so subjective and I'm not THAT hubristic. however, if you're looking for an active project in live development (with no signs of investing in the bigbrake upgrade that our current velocity dictates we need should we have any interest in not driving this GTR right into a cliff wall and burning alive inside) and with a premium placed on compatibility as well as being on the bleeding edge of the technologies available to us, I'd challenge anyone to find a project that better fits that bill than the work being done at ARISE

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if you care at all about your end result you will not base your phone purchase on the onboard DAC, since you could integrate a 300 dollar DAC to the phone and it would still be crippled by being inexorably bound to the myriad other electronics on the phone, in particular the several radios within such close proximity, and just pick up an external. doesn't need to be expensive either, and you'll get a solid headphone amp as well which will let you drive most consumer hardware until you get up into the 600+ohm impedence range which is like, why

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granted i have a zenfone 2 which uses an Intel SOC and therefor can take advantage of both the x86 optimized viper driver {by far the best power:quality ratio) and the x86 optimizations in neutron (similarly the best performing and power efficient version you can get of neutron) and i have precisely 0 additonal power consumption relating to any of these tools. powerful intel.

i expect the drain can't be that bad these days though. and if it is you can always tune your kernel for excellent results or just flip on airplane mode if you get low. also if you can find a viper config you like that doesn't use convolution that would save you a fair bit of draw.

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my rom also comes with 2.4 preinstalled. i just manually remove/replace the apk in twrp with my 2.3 and my x86 drivers, from the file manager before first boot and make sure to delete all app data as well