yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swampat:
Is there any custom roms being made for the zte z797c or is anyone working on one.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ssojyeti2:
Sup people. This guide is adapted from this one

First and foremost, I'd recommend that anyone who uses magisk installs this module

1. Freeze any other audioFX, musixFX, dolby service etc using titanium backup

2. Rename /system/ect/audio_policy.conf to audio_policy.conf.bak

3. Install Selinux permissive script thru magisk

4. Install busybox thru magisk or play store

5. Install v4a thru magisk repo or here. (IF not installed thru magisk, you must install it as a system app. Do this by moving it to /system/app and setting permissions to rw-r--r--)

6. Reboot

Profit
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Wahoux:
ARISE Magnum Opus works fine. No need to do all this stuff
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zaxias:
Bro, Arise Magnum Opus is an app?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Themes, Apps, and Mods] bleached45:
Does it actually process though? That's been my big issue is viper says it is supported but never processing. Been that way ever since like Android 6 for me. Hit or miss processing. (never worked over a USB DAC). Does it process through the headphones with the dongle?

Edit: I installed the Arise Magnum Opus version of Viper.

It's a bit complicated. More than the standard flash a zip and have it work. But I got it working now. And processing through the DAC. My issue was it not processing GPM streams. Arise has a toggle for deep buffer for streaming that had to be turned off.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TimboC2000:
One of the disappointing trends for me with new phones is the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jacks. However, given the popularity of wireless headphones and the large market share of Apple devices I expect the trend to continue and headphone jacks to be found on fewer and fewer phones in the future.

I imagine that I'm in the minority of users who use neither streaming services or Bluetooth headphones. My music is usually high bit rate FLAC, ACC or MP3 depending on when I ripped it. My initial listening on the included 3.5mm DAC was not promising. A lack of dynamic range and low volume even on efficient in ear monitors (IEMs) made me think about finding a replacement.

The problem is there aren't at lot of options for small passive DACs. And my bet is that most of the current phones with no 3.5mm jack use the same chipset that Essential uses - the Conexant CX20985 for their headphone adapters. (For more info - see the AnandTech article - Conexant Introduces USB-C Digital Audio Compliant Chips.)

So that lead me to see if perhaps there was something that could be done in software. Based on my limited research it would appear that Android above version 5.0 has a built in USB to DAC driver. It also appears that this is what Essential uses to access the USB adapter. However, this driver is quite limited. Consistent with what I heard, the driver resamples everything to 16-bit 48kHz and limits the dynamic range. (For more info see extreamsd.com and their USB audio driver page.)

Good news! There are several music player applications on GooglePlay that are capable of natively recognizing the Essential DAC over USB. The difference in sound quality, volume and dynamic range is like night and day. The most polished one I've used is the paid application Onkyo HF Player. However, the free application HibyMusic also works, but has few rough edges. The Onkyo application sounds good enough for me to make finding a better DAC no longer necessary.

One WARNING on both programs and the Essential DAC - when the DAC is recognized by the programs they frequently turn the initial volume level to 100%. If you do this while you've started music playing and have the headphones on you will be in for a very rude surprise. Trust me I learned this the hard way - plug everything in with no music playing and be sure to lower the volume first.

Update from comments - Apps that support the Essential DAC directly:

1. Onkyo HF Player

2. HibyMusic

3. USB Audio Player Pro

4. Neutron Music Player
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] widezu69:
USB Audio Player Pro has a custom driver that supports bit-perfect on android. I use it with external DACs such as the Meridian Explorer 2 (MQA works perfectly) and the AudioQuest Dragonfly Red - hardware volume control works.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] chiadrum:
Thanks for this, I was searching just today for something that would be compatible with the USB-C output and I didn't want to waste money on anything that won't work on the Essential. And I have an Onkyo receiver for my living room to boot. I wonder how the Iron Maiden flavored version of the app works? I am a Maiden fan as well. Maybe I'll try that version and report back on this thread.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TimboC2000:
A quick update. For $9.00 I figured I’d give the Google Pixel DAC a try. It only samples at 48kHz. It also provides no identifying information as to manufacturer. So it works, but the Essential DAC is superior.

For a small compact passive DAC the new Razer Phone DAC at $20 would be the one to try. It is 24bit and THX certified, but as yet untested on the Essential Phone. So it may only work on the Razer.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
How do you know if the app has native support?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TimboC2000:
The Onkyo program will identify the DAC and tell you the sampling modes. Both programs bring up a dialog box noting a USB device when it is plugged in.

But you have to rely on the program author and description to see if they support DACs natively.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] oken735:
Personally I have been using Neutron Music Player on the Play Store, and it has been working great.

I picked it up years ago on sale and downloaded it on my PH-1 to see if it added a setting to support USB DACs, and it turns out it did :)

However, it did not use the external DAC by default, you have to enable it in the settings. The setting was specifically under Audio Hardware, as 'Direct USB Driver' to allow direct access to the USB device. I am on Nougat and after closing and reopening the app, the background hiss/static I could hear while using the default output is now gone and my Essential USB-C DAC has been working great.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] chiadrum:
And this has a trial version, perfect. I will give it a try. After I get some files on my PH-1. Had to order a cable to connect to my PC since Essential doesn't include one! I am guessing that none of these apps work with Tidal,Spotify,Pandora etc?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Yes a "regular" USB to USB C. Monotone had it on sale this week.

Out you can use software like synching.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] oken735:
You can use a UPnP source, or ftp/webdav, but yea, no option to use any of those natively, without downloading the songs to local storage as far as I know
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] viperc:
Initially was very disappointed with the supplied dac. I can hear static n audio breaking up. Then i realised that the issue only appear when I'm on low volume with equalizer turned on. Bumping up the volume fixed the static n breaking up issue. So my current setup is supplied dac + portable amp. The amp is to control the volume as connecting directly to the dac is too loud for my preference. It is the best sounding setup i have thus far. Sounds better than pairing my old mp3 player with the same amp. I'm using poweramp to play my songs.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mvadu:
I am using Neutron Trial version (which is a full version limited to 5 days) and I don't see much of a difference between its direct USB driver vs generic driver. Could you please check in the settings Audio Hardware, what is the bitrate listed? For me when I enable "Direct USB Driver" its fixing the bitrate to 48kHz, is it the same for you as well?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] cgprats:
Has anyone tried the Essential DAC with PowerAMP? I know it supports USB DACS pretty well.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] oken735:
The direct USB driver, to my knowledge, is the setting that enables direct DAC driver. The generic driver is a setting that says to use a less specific version of the direct DAC driver that should work with more USB DACs. Each of these settings have submenus that you can play with that should allow you to change the format, frequency, mode, and other settings you might want.

When I have both direct USB driver and generic driver selected, my driver shows up as conexant USB audio, and my bits show up as 32, and frequency 44100. I haven't tryied to tweak the bitrate/frequency as I am happy with the sound from the stock settings with some small EQing for my headphones.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] qnc:
I used PowerAmp for a while sound was OK, but it did not appear to be loud enough some times. also tweaking the settings, EQ, etc. seem to make it worse for me.

I had paid for Power amp back with my nexus 4 and loved the app, but it just does not sound right for me know.

Also I'm definitely not an audiophile just want to hear my music.

I have been testing Vinyl Music Player and it seems to sound better to me. This is from the Fdroid repository.

Free, No adds and no extra permissions, but no extra settings also.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mvadu:
Makes sense.. Have you been able to use the headset to receive to calls while you are listening to music? I can't hear the incoming calls, and if I make a call, it goes to device speaker. Both cases it stops the music though.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] oken735:
I think it depends on the Rom you are running. When I was on nougat, receiving phone calls while music was playing was a crapshoot.

On Lineage OS, the few times I have received or made a call with the headphones plugged in, it worked fine, I could hear them and it came through the headphones, and it even switched to earpiece when I unplugged the adapter. :good:

I'm not sure how it is on the current official Oreo 8.1 release as I haven't used it for enough time where I would have ran into a situation where I was making or taking a call with headphones in.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TimboC2000:
When I wrote this originally I tried the paid version of PowerAMP and its beta version. Neither was able to natively recognize the Essential DAC. I'd used PowerAMP for years.

I haven't bothered to try it since I switched to Onkyo HF
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rockhevy1000:
Maybe you want to add BlackPlayer EX to the list. I proved with the Onkyo HF Player, HibyMusic and USB Audio Player Pro and I can hardly find any significant difference.

Also I tried with the LeEco LeMax 2 headphones (the only one with usb- c port I have) and the ubs-c to 3.5mm adapter. The LeEco headphone are way much better. Better bass, better clarity, greater sharpness. Even at louder music. So, if you want to recomend a cheap but great usb-c headphones, the LeEco option is wonderful.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] roustabout:
So glad I found this thread. we just got two essentials in the house and I am interested in some of the add-ons but really just wanted the USB to mini adapter to work a bit better.

I'd forgotten about USB audio pro, which I bought some time back for a tablet and outboard DAC.

works great with the usb-c to mini, and it lets you browse Tidal and, iirc, upnp libraries.

For those interested, just now essential is offering 3 months of Tidal for free.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] caferacer73:
I tried the Onkyo app last night and the volume maxed out and was not adjustable. No way I was going to put my earbuds in!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] jionny:
I too used Poweramp got the longest. I was almost at the point of returning the phone until I stumbled across a comment about USB audio player pro, wow I am extremely impressed it had to be at the very least 10x louder than results I was getting with poweramp. This app is definitely worth the 8 dollars I didn't for it
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] lynnux:
For those using USB Audio Player Pro (UAPP) what settings are you using to enable best quality sound? Bit perfect mode on? HiRes Direct Driver (vs. Original Android Driver)?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aaa2k2:
That is so cool that onkyo and hiby have free versions to try out. downloaded uapp for my v20 holy moly alot different from poweramp, not better just different sound signature.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Dazmatic:
I've picked up a Nexus 7 cheap because it was stuck on the Google logo, apparently it wanted to do an update and it seems it wasn't successful and is now stuck at the Google screen

I got it to try and attempt to repair it but don't seem to be having much luck with it.

When I try flashing factory images using the flash-all.bat file I get

c:\adb>flash-all.bat
sending 'bootloader' (3915 KB)...
FAILED (remote: Bootloader is locked.)
finished. total time: -0.000s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.016s]
finished. total time: 0.020s
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
archive does not contain 'system.sig'
archive does not contain 'vendor.img'
Creating filesystem with parameters:
Size: 28521246720
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8176
Inode size: 256
Journal blocks: 32768
Label:
Blocks: 6963195
Block groups: 213
Reserved block group size: 1024
Created filesystem with 11/1741488 inodes and 153337/6963195 blocks
Creating filesystem with parameters:
Size: 587202560
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 7168
Inode size: 256
Journal blocks: 2240
Label:
Blocks: 143360
Block groups: 5
Reserved block group size: 39
Created filesystem with 11/35840 inodes and 4616/143360 blocks
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...: FLO-04.04
Baseband Version.....: none
Serial Number........: 07be4417
--------------------------------------------
checking product...
OKAY [ 0.003s]
checking version-bootloader...
FAILED

Device version-bootloader is 'FLO-04.04'.
Update requires 'FLO-04.08'.

finished. total time: 0.039s
Press any key to exit...

#

Trying to unlock the bootloader I get

PS C:\adb> fastboot oem unlock
...
(bootloader) Unlocking bootloader...
(bootloader) erasing userdata...

And it just sits there for ages and doesn't do anything.

I'm a bit stumped as to what more I can do?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] fr4nk1yn:
Did you check the SHA-256 checksum?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Dazmatic:
No, not directly but I know when wugfresh downloads an image it does a hash check so I'm pretty sure the files are fine.

It is by the looks of it having troubles handling the erase commands so I'm guessing it's a problem with the emmc.

I've tried 2 different computers with different usb ports also.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] mikaole:
Try sideload ota from recovery if this is working
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Dazmatic:
I'd love to but I can't boot to recovery, just sits there doing nothing.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] lchen5:
I just purchased an essential phone from local craiglist, almost new condition for about $350.

It is not Sprint variant version.

I have Samsung Note5, I like it except its battery life. Samsung seems to be having

issue with its version Android, plus old generation CPU is not really power efficient.

I heard a lot of good story about the SD 835 CPU in terms of performance and power

efficient. These days even Samsung S8 has quite good battery life. without issue to last

a whole day for heavy use. Since PH-1 uses SD835, for the price I just want to give it a

try.

I know the essential phone has poor quality camera picture, and did compare the photo quality

from both N5 and PH-1. N5 seems to have better low light photo quality even though it is a

2 year old phone.

I start visiting here, and found the post about Google camera port, but I am confused

with the versions. My question which version is relative more stable and has more

features.

I saw the following versions, which one is the best in terms photo quality, stability, and features ?

GCam_4.4.012.156195200_MI5S_MIUI_Android_7.0_PIXEL_II_XL_v.1.1

MGC_5.1.016_7.0+C2API_v.1.3_OP5

MGCB_7.0H_C2API_Mid_v.3.8b_AllinOne_Full_Manual_XDA_Developers
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ConradP:
As I am experiencing problem with my camera on my LG I have to star this tread.

Maybe someone can help me solve my problem.

So last week I have installed the new ROM H-ROM V30 - I was coming from Freedom Rom 7.5.

So my problems with camera started. It is always crashing after launch.

I tried to go back to Freedom and it still no change.

Now someone in the Freedom 7.5 thread advised to go back to stock Nougat - camera bloobs etc.

So I did a clean install and it worked...

For like sometime.

I was thinking I will try again maybe the optional update did it from [ROM][H815] H-ROM G4 NOUGAT [v29a].

So I did only clean 1.0 and app is crushing.

I beg you help me.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptorddd:
did you tried KDZ? using refurbished option. i mean MM last KDZ. if it persist then could be camera .
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ConradP:
I am like 99% sure now that this is a hardware failure. I have flash clean Nougat v29a - the 2GB file.

And nothing yesterday. Then in the morning the camera worked again. Now it doesn't work again.

I will replace the cam and see. Or maybe check maybe the connection is loose:)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptorddd:
mm still a kdz would be best i beleive and refurbished..

maybe a faulty camera or like you say a loose connection. hope its the connection.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ConradP:
I do not know what was it, but after flashing the 2GB clean V29a the camera is working fine. So it was fault of software.

Still, now I am afraid of flashing any type of custom ROMS - G4 without a camera i useless for me:(
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] alex217c:
I noticed a rattling noise when the vibration is set to strong setting. Medium and light setting seems to be fine but only happens on strong setting. Does anyones 5T does this too?
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] michi491:
Nothing here... Only saturation whith earpiece when in call volume is at max setting
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] imatts:
"Strong"

Damn, the motor in my 5T is weak af.

Its nothing compared to my 3T at least.. This thing feels like a baby bee is stuck in here.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] lyall29:
You may have a defective device. My 5T's vibration is very strong. I had 2 different 3Ts and a 3 and not one had a decent vibration motor. My 5T's vibration is also a lot stronger than the Pixel 2 XL that I had.
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Bushido43:
Characteristics:

Installation:

-Boot into TWRP

-Wipe Data, cache, dalvik, system

-Flash Rom

-Flash Gapps (Up to you)

Downloads:

-Rom

-Gapps

Kernel Source:

Source

XDA:DevDB Information

[ROM][UNOFFICIAL][7.1.2] LEGEND ROM V19.0 [Capricorn], ROM for the Xiaomi Mi 5s

Contributors

Bushido43

Source Code: http://forum.one-teams.com/index.php

ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.x

ROM Firmware Required: Legend Updated Available For Capricorn

Version Information

Status: Stable

Stable Release Date: 2017-11-26

Created 2017-11-26

Last Updated 2017-11-26
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] boki2911:
Thank,thanks

Can you upgrade coltos to 8.0 oreo?

Послато са MI 5s
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Bushido43:
I do not go to oreo because of some reasons

It will come at the appropriate time :)

I'm bad english,sorry
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kecodoc:
Hi [MENTION=8494158]Bushido43[/MENTION]

Thank you for support mi 5s

You rom battery life ?

And stable no bug ?
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Bushido43:
No bugs, Battery life is good enough
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] kecodoc:
thank you :)
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] ssunjoo:
I love this rom and everything is perfect.

But bank app doesn't work. It says 'Arbitrarily modified OS'.

Uninstalled magisk and not rooted.

After edit userdebug->user ,test-keys->release-keys in build.prop, same result.
[Xiaomi Mi 5s ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] Bushido43:
You can use magisk hide (Magisk in the app)
[Moto Z2 Force  Questions & Answers] TacoSeeker:
So a family member decided it would be a good idea to try and OTA update while I had allowed her to use my phone for the projector for Netflix. I found out when I tried to update xposed + gravitybox from within the xposed app and got errors. I asked what happened with the phone, she said she tried to update it but failed, a notification appeared giving info about enhanced video calling or something along those lines. Now when I go into TWRP to try and flash the xposed update, I get errors saying /system cannot be mounted. The phone otherwise still functions fine. It boots and operates, I still have SuperSU, mods work and the like, but I can no longer make changes to /system and xposed doesn't function as a result. Would I be able to to retrieve and reflash /system from a stock rom and be back to normal, or am I cucked and need to reflash my entire phone?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sanjay1951:
Dpdurst is graciously hosting all ROMS for the 4700. The link is: http://wm6.winmobile.us/hpmain.htm

This is finest and most complete collection of 4700 ROMs. For those interested in my SL61V3_lite ROM, the link is:

http://rapidshare.com/files/102132189/SL61V3_lite.zip

My best wishes to all who continue development for the 4700.

Regards,

Sanjay
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Chemong:
Thanks for the effort

I tried the untouched pdaviet version but had a couple issues with it, but will try your modified version.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MannyMania:
Keyboard is back to looking presentable!!! Thanks algasystems. Hey sanjay I still have the Windows Mobile Lawn boot screen though... It looks the same as the pdaviet rom I think... I'm not gonna reflash back to check but i'm pretty sure.

I guess it's a good thing you started this thread... the vulcan was probably going to loose it any day now.

I'm using the 4700 rom editor for mods, what are you using.

Thanks for saving me the work of cleaning up the rom!!!

Later..
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sanjay1951:
Chemong: I wish you good luck, but don't believe you will find my variation fixes any issues such as battery problems. This is just a cleaner version of the same rom.

MannyMania: Interesting that you are still seeing the lawn. Here's the boot screen I now see. Oh well, at least the keyboard is fixed. I don't intend to do anymore to this since it now is good enough until Kozhura returns but hopefully others will take this and improve it.

I've used Vivi's kitchen in the past, but for simple changes such as these, I just use mamaich's tools directly. I credited Chamine in earlier posts for the boot splash change tips.

Hope this works for you.

Regards.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Braggus:
Just flashed to HX4700 PDAVIET wm6.1 and the keyboard looks familiar to me, thanx.

Ciao
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MaffooClock:
Just a note:

The first time I tried the PDAViet version, I saw the rather undesireable bootsplash. I tried re-flashing the previous WM6.0, which did not un-do the bootsplash.

I found that the only way to get the original blue and white HP bootsplash is to re-flash your device with the official WM5 upgrade. If you don't have the WM5 upgrade, I bet any of the WM2003 ROM update patches will yield the same results (just visit HP's website and search for your device to visit the downloads).

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=420535&taskId=135&prodTypeId=215348&prodSeriesId=420534&submit.y=0&submit.x=0&lang=en&cc=us

(This only applies if you want to revert back to WM6.0.)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MaffooClock:
Nice job, Sanjay! I ony had PDAVIet's version installed for a few minutes before I promptly removed it. You have solved every issue I had with their version.