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[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rafalense:
Cool, let's check it

I'm also really interested in Mic Volume Level. Maybe it could finally fix the distorted audio when recording videos :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Hmm probably if you lower the mic volume it could do so, but the "distance" would decrease...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] insty:
Strange... I am getting "Activity AudioBoost (in process AudioBoost) is not responding."

Force Close - Wait.

Doesn't change from that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Could you please be more precise? Is the market vers or this one? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Have you tried rebooting? Is your phone rooted and does the app have root privileges always enabled?

Please check these...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] insty:
- Free version, 1.2

- Tried uninstalling and reinstalling

- Tried rebooting

- Rooted, using SamSet and SU 2.3.4

- When app starts it says it's been granted root privileges.

Still not working :<

0.2 worked fine though.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
I just tried testing it this way:

- Uninstalled my developing version

- Rebooted phone

- Installed AudioBoostFree-1.2.apk (via "my files" app on the phone)

- Opens just fine, it asks root privileges (hit remember and allow)

- Tested it a while, with music on and off, switching between homescreen and various apps, turning on music again, then enabling/disabling audioboost, then enabling again, switching app, turning off cable for 30 seconds...

It seems that all is working fine...

So I really don't know what to say to you, if not try repeating this another time like I did and post back...

Maybe we should wait some other feedback on this one! Is anyone experiencing the same issues as @insty ? If so, could you please tell firmware vers, mods, etc. I need to get more details to work on this one, because I'm unable to recreate the problem right now, as it's working on my device! Sorry! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] insty:
Strange...

Installed 0.2, erased alsa, uninstalled and installed 1.2.

promoted me to install alsa on startup, agreed, app hung, killed it after 10 mins, tried to launch again and is now not working like before... Mmm!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
No, that's the problem! You shouldn't have killed it! It may take some time to go through the installing process! If the phone had just been rebooted it should be very fast with a good connection. Also check that:

1. You have a working internet connection

2. Your phone internal memory (/sdcard) is not used by anything else, such as the phone being attached to a computer sharing files, etc. check that you can see your internal memory from"my files". It must work! ;)

If you see a "alsatemp"folder in your memory before installing the app delete that folder (that is probably because you killed it in the process...)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rafalense:
No problem at all installing

But I did some tests recording videos with default volume (192) and compared with others recorded with low volume (15, 10, 5), I don't really notice changes

I will try to do a few more tests at home later
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Ok, thank you for trying that! Also there is a slight possibility that the function may require a refresh to work properly as the headphones. Don't know how the kernel reacts in this case. If that's required, I will surely implement it! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rafalense:
Just curious,

if I want to test my own, should I set both parameters 'Capture' and 'MIC Path'?

For example:

alsa_mixer set 'MIC Path' 1 (Hands Free Mic)

alsa_mixer set 'Capture' XXX (0 - 239)

'Codec Status' or 'Codec Tuning' have to be set as well?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
I just use the set capture! However if you try different combinations let me know the results! Unfortunately I'm using my time now to improve the app overall...better alsa management and tweaking will arrive after that! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] gjarnling:
cheers for keeping it up mate! would love to buy the app but can't find it on the Market and no link to it from within the free app :eek: surely the ppl who make my hearing worse by the day must be payed! :D

much love, keep 'em coming!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ivanchin99:
Just curious, what's the difference between audioboost and mixget? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rafalense:
EUREKAAAAAAAA!!

Setting 'Capture Volume' during a video recording, gain varies. Here an example in adb:

# alsa_amixer cset numid=4 50

alsa_amixer cset numid=4 50

numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'

; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=1,min=0,max=239,step=0

: values=50

| dBlinear-min=-71.62dB,max=71.62dB

So, by default is set to 192, around 42dB (0_0)

More impressions to come...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
If you look the first post, there is now qr code for my app! Thank you very much! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Yes, that is the default, the app already showed that value! ;) The interesting thing is to understand if the refreshing is needed, if you put the value say to 130, is it changing after some time for no apparent reason? If that's the case, I will add refresh option! ;)

However I was thinking about implementing refresh option *global* like in the settings and querying headphones, speaker and mic (if they are enabled)...cpu time will be almost the same and everything should be smoother... ;)

Will post update soon! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
the process querying and refreshing is not a big issue for speaker/headphones but may be for mic.. ie if you are recording a video and it resets you may have a sec. or two depening on your refresh of loud distorted sound in the middle of the recording.. more research is needed to see if it is randomly changing back every so often or only maybe when you open video recorder etc. etc. to get a correct solution.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Yes,you're right about that, I didn't think it through! :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
it is still better than nothing because right now you cannot record squat at concerts without distortion.. so i would still implement a refersh for now. but put some kinda disclaimer that we are researching a better more permanent solution.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] kingskidd268:
I like it. It works well on tmo Samsung Vibrant. Great job from this point of the post I am following to stay updated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Well thank you very much for that information! I will update market description! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rafalense:
First conclusion:

Everytime you press record button on camera, capture value is set to 192

If you change it after start recording, it stays till you press again record button (pause and then record, or stop and record a new video)

So, one idea could be find how to set the default value, not always 192 but to the one we require
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
how about looking into hooking into a notification ... look at autostarts i believe you could register for the begin recording notification and have your app possibly called and change then instead of polling...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tommy96814:
is there a safety level for this? like not going pass 100 so the speakers dont blow up lol ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Of course there is! Try writing 80 in the volume field... :P

Anyway, even without it, speakers wouldn't blow up, it simply wouldn't work...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dagrim1:
How do you change the value and keep recording? Every time I go out of the camera recording stops? Or are you meaning through alsa directly...

Anyway, confirming that changing the mic value doesn't help for now (as mentioned before), after recording the volumes are the same...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
That seems possible...will try this one! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ace518:
I have the 1.2 from the forum installed. I'm on JM6 on a captivate. I installed fine, opened it and it asks for root privileges. But I just get a blacks screen. Am I doing something wrong? i'm not seeing any options at all? BTW... thank you for all the good work on this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rafalense:
It's true that everytime you try to switch between apps, Camera stops recording

Just wait carlocb to update his app, adding refresh option to work with mic as well.

carlocb, would be good to set refresh below 1sec (0.5 or 0.25), at least for testing purposes

Don't know how the app is implemented, but imagine a function checking capture value, and when its value is modified, set back to desired one. Could be a better implementation of the refresh :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
That is already how things work! ;)

However I can try to use even a lower value...

Today I need to change some things in the code to implement global refresh and a better overall speed of the app! I will also fix the exit problem for real (figured it out :P)...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Hmm...well, usual questions:

- did you have alsa already installed / did it ask to install it?

- did you try uninstalling - rebooting - reinstalling

- also make sure that you have a working internet connection and that the internal memory (/sdcard) is mounted on the phone and not attached to a computer or something! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dagrim1:
Good news! Any idea on when we can expect this new version?

(Not meaning to rush or push, just wondering and can't wait to see an improvement in the cam sound recording functionality... :) )
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
update should arrive this evening, if everything goes according to plan! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Just a little request guys (the one who bought it):

Can you please rate my application on the market? Maybe post a short comment...should take a minute but you would make me very happy! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] insty:
OK, so I erased Alsa once again, attached to my working WIFI and went through the same process again. Now it's been sitting there for 20mins after asking to install Alsa and hasn't done anything since then except for hanging on the black screen with AudioBoost up the top.

Can't see any alsatemp either and can access My Files fine.

Any other ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] THMRK:
Any idea if the EQ problem is fixed, anyone?!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Hmm...well...no :P

It seems fine with 99.9% of devices, even vibrant and captivate! I think it might be a problem with your device at this point! You should probably try flashing with last firmware and reroot...sorry, no other ideas! :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ace518:
Just tried uninstall reboot reinstall... How can I remove alsa if its there?

Sent from my I9000 (don't tell it that it's really a captivate)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Under settings there is an option to remove it, otherwise with astro you should remove /system/bin/alsa_amixer /system/bin/alsa_aplay /system/bin/alsa_ctl /system/lib/libasound.so ;)

Just a little update: I wanted to release new upgrade, but I ran into some troubles. The code was getting a little dirty and I spent a lot of time cleaning it up for future easiness of developing. Hope to release tomorrow! ;) However, now exit issue has been completely (and cleanly) solve and the app is more fluid. I am addressing now a more efficient way of managing the alsa installation, for the few people who had problems with it. Will then add the "global" refresh option for testing with mic. Then I will post the new update!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dagrim1:
Good news, can't wait for trying the mic fix :)

Keep up the good work!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DrunKenG:
Will this fix the mic distortion found in this thread?

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=721069

I tried it on 5% mic in this footage but not sure if it worked cause i got some distortion

youtube.com/watch?v=-bGX3Ank5hk
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] chookmeister69:
It obviously didn't work. The distortion is massive!! :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dagrim1:
The first versions didn't set mic level, resets when pressing record to default level. The new version he's working on SHOULD fix this. We'll just have to wait what it does to the distortion.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
OK GUYS, NEW UPDATE IS UP (here and on the market)! ;)

Details in first post as always!

Please post feedback on this!

...AND PLEASE RATE/COMMENT THE MARKET VERSION! :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
Thanks... I would add comments if I knew how. No option. That I cam find in phone market app.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dagrim1:
And now mic adjustment seems to work, playing around with the different setting but its surely noticable! Cheers!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] rafalense:
Carlo, perfetto!! ;)

I did some tests at home and the refresh now works just fine. Also exit option

Camera sets automatically Capture value to 192, but your app set it back again after refresh time, and stays during all the recording, yeah!

Tomorrow I will be all day in a festival here in Amsterdam, so, the perfect environment for mic testing, when ambient sound is so high. Let's see how it goes!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Well we'll see if that works...I'm curious about kernel beauvoir! :P

I will try to listen to the camera notification after this, if there exist such thing! ;)

However next update will have status bar notification and hopefully a widget (with good graphic), so it will arrive after that! And that may require some time, because I need to see a friend who works as a graphic...

I am on vacation now (been working since I got here), so probably next week... ;)

By the way...big thanks for the good rate I got! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DrunKenG:
Let us know how it goes... also what mic setting you used...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DanielBoeVen:
I got a weird problem.. My Galaxy S is rooted but when I try to download the file in the first page it says the program is not supported on this phone and then it fails.. The problem is though that the program is made specific for this phone!..

Anyone else have this problem?..

Btw: Running Eclair and rooted, can't remember the version but it's the one you get from the"one click lag fix" on appbrain.. :)

Please help! I LOVE the Galaxy, but for it to get a perfect score for me the sound when recording needs to be fixed! Then it would be the best phone I've had! (And that's quite an accomplishment, since I normally change phone very often, and have had almost any kind, )
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] mdkboom:
The app opens up, requires root permissions and then just shows a black screen.

When I first installed the app it tried to install alsa and forced close at 80%. After that, it never attempted to do so again.. I installed alsa through mixget and nothing.. Uninstalled alsa, uninstalled audioboost and repeated the whole process.. Black screen is still there.. I don't know what to do and I just don't want to update my firmware before samsung launches a stable froyo.. Running JF3.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] stepping:
@ carlocb

Thanks for this great app!

Just installed the newest Version and everything is working fine.

Now my "Mobi Wavemaster" is nearly too loud. When i hear Online-Radio, the Bass themes to be to much.

Do you think, that this fix

"Headphones sound quality fix and improvements for Galaxy S" h t t p :// xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=735918&highlight=audio

can change this? And do you can implement this in your app?

Thanks again for your great work. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Try to navigate your filesystem with astro filemanager. Look for files:

/system/bin/alsa_amixer

/system/bin/alsa_aplay

/system/bin/alsa_ctl

/system/lib/libasound.so

and DELETE them! Then reinstall AudioBoost and everything should be working fine...

I experienced the problem you have outlined (during testing) due to a corrupted installation of alsa (because of bad internet connection), and I solved it this way...

Hope this helps! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] mdkboom:
Thanks for the help but as I said before, I already reinstalled alsa using that method. The thing is the app didn't prompt to reinstall alsa so I had to do it through mixget..

Could it have something to do with JF3 being lowder than JM firmares? As a matter of fact I did not tesy any audio improvement. I only need my videos with a good quality sound
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] uberberben:
I've just tested mic settings. They are not working the way they should. Sound has lower volume, but it's still enormously disorted. I wonder if it's not hardware related. Below is video i made couple of minutes ago. At the beginning you can here louder volume - it's because settings are changed 2 seconds after start of the recording. I was turning up the volume in speakers, at the end of clip it was really loud but earlier it wasn't that noisy. Distance between phone and speakers ~20cm. Mic setting in app was lowered to 100 during this recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV84kLxGX6Y

Second test was performed using voice recorder app (HiFiCorder Lite). It's recording in full 44,1kHz so quality is better than in video recorder. But situation is the same.

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/24021755/2010082915_39_33.mp3

After these tests i think it's microphone related problem and theres nothing we can do about it. But i may be wrong, please someone prove me wrong, please! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
UPDATE:

Published free version (with ads :D) on the market! The app is called AudioBoostFree (qr code on first post).

Please download at least that version and click on those ads! :D

Thanks! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
This is interesting...will look if there are other settings to tweak to make it better... ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] clubtech:
This is not working.

I delete the files and re-install AudioBoost and it is still getting stuck at 64% and the software freez until it simply FC.

I have tried doing this at least 4 times now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Hmm....that is really weird! After 64% it needs to download another file, nothing more. It is however the biggest file...so...do you have a good/speedy internet connection? The only reason I can think of why it could freeze at that point would be if the internet connection was somehow stopped....or sdcard completely full (like without 1mb space)... O_o

You should send me a logcat screen with the exception raised...do you know how to do that? Else I will try to explain it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Relikk356:
This works great, using it with a vibrant.

I apologize if someone already brought this up but is there anyway you could add a tab for Bluetooth headphone devices? This doesn't seem to increase the volume for them.

Thanks,
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vijaykanth:
Lol... same problem as clubtech! I do have a good Internet connection. :)

Stuck at 64%... I tried deleting the files in the system folder (using Astro/AndExplorer and many others!) to start afresh but to no avail... It keeps on saying "Error deleting file..."

I really want to get this working!!! :(

EDIT: Deleted the old files! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Ok, so...after you deleted the files, were you able to repeat the procedure? Did it work this time? :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vijaykanth:
Yeah, it worked! :)

But now it's like this... It's low volume, a sudden burst of high volume, low volume again and another burst of high volume! I think it gives a burst of high volume after every refresh rate... Lol!

PS: I am using the JM5 firmware, dunno if it will help...

Also the volume fix from 56 to 62 works perfectly when I manually increase it using a terminal on the phone i.e. using this command on terminal

$ su
# alsa_amixer set 'Playback Headset' 62
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] carlocb:
Hmm...firmware version is the same as mine! And the command you are using is also the same the software gives, so it shouldn't really have that behavior! What version of audioboost are you using? Did you try rebooting the phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vijaykanth:
Am on the latest version, I guess 1.3. I dunno man, it started working normally now! I didn't even restart the phone... I just got up today in the morning and was like woohoo, it's working! :D

Really great app man! Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vapotrini:
This app isn't showing up in the market for me?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vijaykanth:
Download Barcode Scanner, and scan the QR Code in page 1 of this thread! :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] touchhdizzel:
Hi,

i am just sending back my Desire and need to figure out which of my sd cards was the one which was shipped with it.

I think it was a Sandisk 4GB but i have a couple of different ones.

Can someone pls post what it says exactly on the card so i can send the right one.

Cheers

dizzel
[Captivate General] novaIS350:
I just read a piece on Boy Genius Report in regards to the differences between the Captivate/Vibrant and the Epic. The blogger states the following

"Samsung’s TouchWiz UI doesn’t feel as mature as Sense. This seems blatantly obvious in the Captivate and Vibrant but is much less noticeable in the EPIC 4G. The device feels much faster than the Captivate or Vibrant and having social network integration, power controls, and a host of widgets actually becomes more useful instead of an annoyance."

He then proceeds to make presumptions about the ROM in the captivate/Vibrant being SD cards and the ROM inside the Epic being a much Faster NAND variant.

"We’re assuming the phone uses NAND Flash as the internal memory medium. On the Captivate if you navigate to Settings >SD Card and phones storage you see “External SD Card” and “Internal SD Card” listed. On the EPIC you see “External SD Card” and “Internal Phone storage.” We’ve reached out to Sprint for clarification and will update this article if they respond with a definitive answer."

I know the Epic isn't out yet, but does anyone have some better insight into this?

Original piece is here

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/08/18/your-epic-4g-questions-answered/
[Captivate General] hennethannun:
I believe that the Epic 4G does not have as much internal storage space as the captivate (or vibrant). Standard Galaxy S phones have 16 GB of internal storage, of which about 2GB is reserved for apps and the OS. I think the Galaxy S Pro (Epic 4G) has substantially less. I believe that either the engadget or gizmodo review listed the phone as having on 400MB available for app storage, suggesting less than 1GB of internal storage for OS and apps. To compensate, the Epic is sold with a 16GB micro-sd card.

I'm afraid I don't know anything about the read/write speeds for the internal storage on both devices, or if the two phones have different types of memory. But my captivate lists 3 different types of memory in it's "SD card and phone storage menu": SD, internal SD and internal phone storage. It sounds like the Epic just don't have any 'internal sd' storage capacity at all, so it only shows 'SD' and 'internal phone storage.'
[Captivate General] novaIS350:
You are correct about the internal storage on the Epic. Thanks for pointing out that there is indeed a third storage type on the captivate, I've never scrolled past the internal SD part of the menu.

This leads me to believe that BGR really has no clue of what theyre talking about.
[Captivate General] PUTALE:
I read somewhere that despite the 16gb storage in teh captive, there is only about 13gb left from the stock rom, is that correct?

a quick question, I thought if the phone comes with 16gb, you can use all of the 16 gb for apps and such, am I mistaken with this? I was under the impression that the whole 16gb is available for everything but you can also add more via SD.