[RED Hydrogen One Questions & Answers] killacam4207:
so initially when I purchased my red hydrogen one the audio wasn't anything no worthy, however it was moderately acceptable at that time. Nonetheless now that I've had this device for almost 3 years, the audio has gotten progressively quieter. Call volume is so low and quiet I can barely hear anyone I'm on the phone with. Audio playing through the stereo speakers on my phone it is quieter and almost any other phone that I know of. Ringtones and notification sounds are too quiet, I seem to have to keep my phone fairly close to me at all times or I end up missing phone calls. Not to mention the microphone levels and Gain is fairly awful on phone calls people are always telling me that they can't hear me, especially on speaker phone calls. Iliterally have to yell into the phone at point blank for them to hear me. Aux output for the most part and nearly every device that I've tried it on except for a few, and uncomfortably strong static filters through, as if there's some electric feedback or static feedback coming from the device or possibly the hardware that the audio is being processed through on the device...

These are my workarounds I have allowed me to continue to use this device this long...

For audio and music coming through the built-in speakers I use an app called boom, the app includes a smaller app which is really just as smart equalizer plug in / widget, with system wine equalization and loudness and also virtualization control.

When it comes to phone calls, and especially video calls, I'm simply forced to get as close as possible and often close my eyes just so I can attempt to understand and listen to what people are saying to me. I really can't express enough how annoying that could be, is quite a handicap technologically. It seems everyone and their cheap phones and devices nowadays play so loud and sound so much louder and clearer than this red hydrogen one could possibly compare to, especially considering how much this phone cost when it originally came out...

Now when it comes to AUX output, I am forced to use a hi-fi USB OTG adapted DAC

(dragonfly red), so I'm sure there are many cheaper more obtainable and more practical DAC options out there, even in line aux amplifiers, that utilize tiny capacitors and tiny little circuit boards to draw power from the weak audio output signal and amplify your audio in line without any other source of power...

In general the best option on this device seems to be Bluetooth output, yet even that seems to fall short when it compares the other devices and they're built in sound processing...

It's funny it just seems to be such a concern to me considering I came from an LG v30, which house possibly the best and highest quality sound and audio processing with built-in quad that hi-fi dedicated audio processors...

Yep, I gave up the world's best mobile phone audio quality device I've ever seen or read about with built-in hardware, I gave that phone up for the aesthetics, and unique functions of a 3D display, that hilariously I rarely ever desire to use or play with, honestly I agree rather bored of taking 3D photos and editing 3D pictures and video only for myself to be the only person that got to experience it got pretty boring, and truthfully every single game available in 3D on the device, it's quite lame and boring to someone like me, my 7 year old really enjoys it and I let her play some 3D games on my phone. But it really does run the battery down a lot faster than regular applications, so I don't even do that much anymore.

I'm pretty sure that I'm on the precipice of collecting and saving and or obtaining a newer and better cellular device to adopt as my daily driver, it's really only a matter of time before that happens. Currently I'm in a long drawn-out process to root and flash a custom ROM on a Motorola g stylus XT2043-4 that Is cracked but functional it happened to find in a vehicle that was purchased by the car lot my family used to own before we closed down at the beginning of this year.

Anything has got to be better than the sacrifice I'm making just to feel this highly engineered aluminum milled ergonomic 3D paperweight that I once desired and admired so much...

I guess unfortunate that I purchased this phone at a major discount considering the company had discontinued all development and future product releases, I honestly paid $185, and I just looked them up the other day and you can find red hydrogen one phones at around $58 on eBay if you look hard enough, some were even brand new never used....

Personally if I was going to buy another $100 phone that has no product support or updates, I'd buy another next bit Robin phone and root and flash custom ROM on again, now that phone was quite impressive when mounted especially for the price...

Thanks for reading my post, LOL I'm quite interested to hear literally anyone else's experience with this device, especially if they're anywhere close to similar to mine...

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