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[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boer nelis:
hey guys,

I am a happy owner of the new HTC DHD (about 5 days now and never had problems like the sensor) and I love to listen to music on my phone, but when you listen you (kinda must) choose between SRS and Dolby mobile. I don't know what tecnical is better but (on the standard htc earphones) I like the SRS more (it's has more bass in my oppinion) but I was wondering what you guys think of it.

greetz, niels

(keep up the good work on developing!!)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lynxboy:
Not using the bundled headphones but SRS is definitely my preference!!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZtechfreak:
If it sounds better with either of those on than just stock with no EQ, its sound quality must be truly terrible, and I'll await the GSMarena review with interest for objective measures.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lynxboy:
I have to be honest and say that I was surprised at how poor the 'stock' sound quality was considering the marketing spiel regarding the Dolby/SRS enhancements. My cynical mind led me to the thought they purposely left the standard sound so unrefined as to make you laud the qualities of the Dolby/SRS enhancements!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamieeeee:
i never used the stock earbuds but i can say for sure that with dolby mobile my music (hardstyle) sounds a lot better, i have really great bass!!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
Are the headphones that come with it better than iphone/ipod headphones?

I'm don't want to walk around in public with my Sennheiser HD555s
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lynxboy:
I may have overstated the lack of quality of the enhancement free playback setting, tried it out a little longer today and it's not that bad. Guess listening to the enhanced sound constantly made it seem that way!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazzuli:
**Mod edit - insulting content removed***The sound quality with SRS on is EXCELLENT, the other modes are quite rubbish. I'm using Sennheiser HD 555's with a Auzentech Forte 7.1 soundcard with a very good headphone amplifier and the quality on DHD with SRS on is comparable to the computer, even when playing FLAC files.

E: Only with max volume the DHD clearly lacks the required power output to run the Sennheisers, but at that level you're seriously risking your ability to hear so it is quite sufficient in overall.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] appelflap:
Ahum... I use the Shure SE 500 series - in my opinion the best earphone on the market today - but I have to say that SRS Wow HD (like Dolby) on the DHD is not an option for me. Although I like the surround effect, the bass is way (and I mean way) to loud. Pitty that there's not an option to change the bass setting (like there was/is on the good old WinMo devices).

I think SRS and Dolby really aren't an option for head- or earphones with a pronounced bass. HTC should look into this. The SRS/Dolby option on their WP 7 devices has the same problem btw.

For me the only option is the EQ ...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mazzuli:
Yeah the DHD could use an EQ while SRS is enabled, but that doesn't change the fact that with my HD 555's the quality is excellent. The HD 555's have a very neutral sound so I think they are quite good for comparing amplifiers. Maybe SRS on the DHD originally outputs way more bass than it should, but on my headphones it sounds perfect, possibly because not enough power is output from the phone to make that over loud bass. I mean surely a fine headset requires way more power to run than two earplugs.

If HTC adds an EQ while SRS is enabled it will be perfect, but even if I don't it's still perfect for _me_.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshoon:
I got SRS on, it has the most bass in my opinion, I use the Apple earphones for it.

I mostly listen Hardstyle, euro/harddance, and music like coldplay on my DHD, and SRS is definitely the best! my earphones even vibrate of the bass lol :P
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZtechfreak:
Wow, you're really aggressive and rude. You might want to check that attitude if you plan on being a member of the community here for any length of time.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazultra2000:
I prefer the SRS over the Dolby Mobile, but I don't really like either that much.

The Dolby does some really weird things that make music sound completely different and artificial. It does wonders for bass, but at the risk of completely distorting the rest of the sound (particularly vocals).

SRS is a good "enhancer" of sound, but again it alters the music in a way I'm not really comfortable with.

Much prefer the Equaliser at this point.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tapori_UK:
Really like the Dolby Mobile because at the moment there are no seperate enhancements that match the atmospheric enhancements this gives when watching films or music Gives it depth IMO)

Still waiting for an Android Dev to attempt to transfer over Sony's "MegaBass" or "Clear Bass" enhancements.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruchern:
my friend says SRS for music, Dolby for videos.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupremeBeaver:
i tried both, and honestly they give unrealistic sound imo. i keep them off.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hamdir:
SRS is best for music
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamstar:
Umm where can I find these settings? Looked all over my phone, sorry for been noob!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cattleprod:
power amp is the way forward :P
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
Maybe you can help me out here?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867053
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aamir.Badat:
I would say SRS option with Dre Beats the option is best tried Dolby that is only good for movies which are MP3 audio encoded and .avi.

SRS for Music

Dolby for Movies

:D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
Can someone tell me why in PowerAmp there is a 'Folders' button and 'Library' button.

I'm pretty confused by the interface and the app itself and how to use the folders/library and which is for what and how it should be used.

All my songs I put on the phone appear in the 'Folders' menu, but none of those songs appear in the 'Library' which really seems to be more of a sensible place for them to appear because the Library has all songs, artists, playlists etc and seems to be the normal area for the app to store its music.

I have no idea how to get the music in there which is where I want it.

When I am playing a song it shows the artist and title and below it a folder path location? But why? It's like a path of where it is on the phone's SD card and the path of where it was on the computer. I don't need this information in the player view.

Also, I have to have my volume on max to hear anything decently despite being told PowerAmp helps the issue of the low media volume with the default audio player. (Sennheiser CX870s). Anyone know why/how to get the volume working more 'normally'?

Any tips are appreciated.

Any other good music player app suggestions are appreciated.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cattleprod:
Main different between them, folders is what you have selected and will only show what you have chosen. library on other hand, is the android system scanning for all music files and then placing were it wants or see best to go. Not sure why its not showing any music files in your library doh but you can go into setting > folders > rescan all so others options there to make the app work for you. stock rubbish compared to poweramp :) well that's my opinion

Swyped from a misguided desire HD using telepathy
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elemental_Fire:
I believe it's time to submit my thoughts on this matter? :D

Personally, I use Sony's MDREX5s SP in ear headphones. They're quite nice and reproduce highs and mids excellently, although lacking a little in the bass department. This is how both effects manipulate/affect the music reproduction:

Dolby Mobile seems to increase bass dramatically whilst shifting the audio and reproducing it in a more 3D-"WIDE" Stereo way, therefore making the music sound like it's far away but bassy...Vocals sounds like the singer is locked in a tight room and is singing for his life!

SRS WOW HD on the other hand enhances the highs and mids, whilst applying the bass of the Dolby Mobile, although not as MUCH bass. Therefore, you can hear everything a lot clearer in the music...vocals sound like the singer is singing in a studio. However, this can have certain undesired effects (in my case)...resulting in the music sounding "noisy" or having slight hiss/too much highs in certain songs.

Using Presets beneath the SRS in the audio effects menu removes both of the above effects, but seems to balance the music out more. RnB seems to be my cup of tea for most types of music :)

Oh, and standard audio (without any effects) is brilliant, but once you use SRS WOW HD the standard audio never seems quite the same again..as if it were lifeless, or in my friend's choice of words "Fu**ing ****!" XD :p
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rosswaa:
555's FTW!!!!:D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tapori_UK:
Elemental_Fire - Spot on, esp. R&B!

Is the music player and the dolby enhancements still available in a custom Mod? Want to flash but don't want to lose these class enhancements.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irteza_h:
i am sticking with the DSP manager for DHD..great sound and gives you the functionality for setting up the equalizer the way you want it...i know many music apps give u an equalizer but i like the default music app and plus dsp manager works on the hardware level so no extra load on the processor there....
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elemental_Fire:
@my friend, flashing Android Revolution HD is a good option...it's what I did :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bomster:
Both SRS and Dolby sound dreadful with my Senn HD 595's, too much bass and too tiny respectively.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
So what do you use then?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamteja:
Hi, I'm new to this forum and HTC DHD. I have some questions about SRS etc.

1. The first day after I got the phone I googled for the best audio and video players for android and downloaded Power Amp for audio and VPlayer for Video. Are these really the best choices?

2. I was actually looking forward to SRS/ Dobly enhancements but didn't know if they were working on the above apps. After some searching I understood that the stock players have the options to turn these settings on/ off.

So, does this mean I cannot use those enhancements on any other player (PAmp, Vpl) ?

Or in other words are the SRS/Dobly features of the DHD hardware aspects that activate only when we use those features on the stock players? Or does the DHD simply have better equalizer friendly hardware and we don't need SRS to harness that extra feature? For ex, sound on the Power Amp app is pretty good and I couldn't find what's extra in stock music player + SRS.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noobdeagle:
It's software but requires a licence hence its just in the HTC programs
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shamstar:
I've just noticed something interesting... had the Music app playing with Dolby sound on, opened Mortplayer and started playing, to my surprise it was also in Dolby, so of course I turn the Music app off and Mort keeps playing with the enhanced sound - nice! The Dolby enhancement remains active even after pause/next track.

Wonder if the effect works with other players.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gwadaboy:
Doesnt work with PowerAmp
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkoljo:
I am using SRS, sounds awesome with Klipsch Image S4 earplugs :p Great decision of HTC to implement the feature.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aamir.Badat:
Do the buttons on the S4's work with the dhd
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tapori_UK:
SHamster - Interesting.. will give it a try.

TBH - The HTC player is fine for me as I like the SRS/Dolby enhancements.

With the sound issue, One of the modded roms solved it and increased the vol.

I can confirm that LeeDroid:1.2/1.3 both have the stock HTC player so would encourage people to try that.

- Lets hope the next gingerbread update enhances the Original HTC player.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DN41:
i got my hd2 swapped and am now a happy owner of a DHD ;)

i tested the sound via AUX in a Mini One.

My opinion: Dolby Mobile is better than nothing, but SRS is my fav ;)

DN41
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eozen81:
One of my disappointmens od Desire HD is this audio quality. I already mentioned this before but just to make a comment here, In my opinion and due to my pleasures stock player with SRS is the best solution for this device nevertheless compared to Iphone, sound quality is rather bad. :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruchern:
I'm on Dolby on Desire HD.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
I've officially given up on listening to music on my Desire HD. The sound quality and even more the sound volume sucks. I bought a nice pair of Sennheiser buds for it too.....
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruchern:
Are you on loudspeaker or headphones? I think headphones are fine.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
Headphones. It's a real shame really
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupremeBeaver:
really? i thought the sound quality through headphones is great. Although i would have liked it louder.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
Are you using the default player? With or without SRS? Or are you using a non stock app such as poweramp?

All three for me have poor volume and SRS has way too much bass.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupremeBeaver:
i use Poweramp with the preamp setting all the way up, everything else stock. Gives higher volume but i would prefer louder still. I dont use none of that Dolby or SRS because it distorts sound too much. In general quality is great imo.. but then again i dont really have high standards so maybe the quality is bad and i dont know :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maurei:
I already gave up my speakers a long time ago (not that I'm having this phone for a long time :P).

My speakers are in-ears, Sennheiser CX300II, love them.

I prefer SRS to Dolby, because it fits better to my genre (hardstyle). They both boost up bass a lot, making my ears already sensetive in an quiet room at 30% of the volume.

SRS enhances the melody the better than dolby so I prefer SRS (also, the bass is a little bit more mild with this one)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
So you turn the equalizer on and move the preamp bar all the way up? I will try that shortly.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupremeBeaver:
would like to hear your reaction to it.. maybe this will somewhat change your mind on the dhd :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mesut19:
I have a question. If you have Dolby or SRS all the time, doesn't it effect the sound quality, well I mean. Doesn't it 'brick/break/ the sound because it isn't the standard sound output? So after a while wouldn't you just hear some zooming or something?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rodomar705:
Same opinion from me!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogueblade:
Well I did about an hour of testing using old ipod headphones and my Sennheiser CX870s.

I put the stock music player widget on the same screen as the PowerAmp widget so I could play one song on them both and pause the player on one and start the other to compare music quality and volume between both players with both headphones. I did this over and over with classical, techno and rock music. that

I don't feel like typing an essay but I can confidently conclude that no combination of EQ in either player or SRS etc gives the music on my HD enough volume.

I can also confidently conclude that music does sound better on the stock Desire HD music player with SRS than PowerAmp. No combination of EQ or preamp settings in PowerAmp sounded better than the stock player with SRS. At the same time though, the difference is not that great.

This is of course all my opinion with my ears and my cx870's.

One problem I've had with the cx870's is that they sound way to bassy with stock player SRS and PowerAmp with the EQ, but that is probably headphone related so not relevant to this.

TO answer SupremeBeaver; I found that while jacking up the preamp in PowerAmp did help the volume, it also distorted it and somewhat ruined the clarity of the music. Plus the volume output was still not much better than the stock player with SRS.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlightlyJack:
SRS to me sounds trebley, and Dolby makes the sound quieter and possibly more bassy? This is on stock headphones. I found the best setting was clean audio, or bass boost on the EQ.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aamir.Badat:
Tried the standard r&b equalizer its good but bass is to low for me :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yellowchilli:
yer poweramp is the best :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erwinnaus:
what earplugs are good ?

I have the DHD for 2 months now and loving it. I have however one problem. If i use my former sony-ericsson iunner earplugs the sound is awefull like standing in a church on acid. The sound with the standard enclosed ear-plugs (the ones that just won't stick) is pretty good but the plugs itsself just keep falling out.

So i'm looking for inner-ear plugs and need some assurance that the sound is at the least as good as the stock plugs.

Any suggestions ?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silegeek:
The Folder option is merely to access playlists, at least that's what I use it for.

I have Sennheiser CX200 earphones, and even with the stock media player, they kick ass. Stock headphones are always crap.

I use PowerAmp with SRS enabled (which is annoying, because some really cool roms miss out the SRS functionality, which has made me revert to a different ROM).

In the EQ of power amp theres a volume level that adds loudness, i use this, and I also turn off the "tone" setting. if you adjust the EQ to your own prefference, you dont need it.

I quite like my bass, and I find that those earphones, combined with SRS actually emulate a near hi-fi sound including the loudness. Is strange though at times, where im used to feeling the vibrations from low bass notes, you hear them in the earphones but you feel nothing XD
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reckless_sk8r:
SRS for my headphones/aux in the car.

Dolby for when I'm listening to music straight out of the phone's internal speaker. :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirRipo:
So I'm getting multiple notifications for my Hotmail account. Basically, I'll get an email, read/delete it, then it shows back up in my inbox 20-30 minutes later (sometimes up to an hour), complete with a new notification. Also, possibly related, but it also doesn't really delete the emails from the account, so when I access the account on a computer, I have a ton of "unread" emails. Any way to get rid of the notifications and actually delete the messages from the account?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirRipo:
Anyone/anything?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laie1472:
What rom are u using ???

Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirRipo:
CM6.1 currently, but it did the same thing when I was running DC 2.09.1, and when I moved to CM6. I don't remember if it did it when I was using the stock ROM, that was a long time ago.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] il Duce:
yeah i have this too with live acct, same as hotmail. i read somewhere that hotmail/live don't have the same permissions as yahoo/gmail, and there is not a fix. i did get a little better results after deleting the acct and reinstalling it after i switched to 6.1.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranger61878:
I don't think they will delete off the hotmail server will they. I don't use hotmail personally, but my wife has issues with hers on an iPod Touch. We figured it out, and it was something in the settings online. I tried to get to to just switch to gmail exclusively, but nada as of yet. closest I have come is talking her into an Android when she is eligible for an upgrade from Sprint in Feb :D

Check your hotmail settings on the web possibly?
[Droid 2 General] MultiMatt:
A friend just got a Droid 2 and she is having fits trying to get her default Google account to sync calendar & contacts.

Contacts is showing in the Account Sync settings & is selected, but Calendar does not appear at all.

I was going to remove the account & re-do the setup, but it would require a hard reset & she doesn't want me to do that!

I know that Verizon transferred info to her Droid 2 and wonder if its the culprit.

Suggestions?

Matt

Sent from my HTC EVO via the XDA app
[Droid 2 General] zibrah3ed:
Check settings -> battery manager -> Battery mode, and select performance mode. Could be battery manager not allowing data transfer.

Settings -> Applications -> All -> Gmail -> clear data. If the above doesn't work.

This has happened to me and those are the things I did to fix my own problems.
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
Make sure Gmail is downloaded I was reactivating my phone after updating Fission once and the market wasn't finished downloading and Gmail didn't show up in the sync menu at all like you described. After it was installed I just went back in and selected sync (because it was in there then).
[XPERIA X10 General] junexyz:
http://www.bored.com/makecountdowns/show.php?id=224683
[XPERIA X10 General] TimMun:
Incorrect, haha :p

Rollout will begin on sunday evening, not at midnight :D hihi

(omg, i am a pain in the ass, sorry for that! xD)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironlood:
I have the samsung vibrant and recently downloaded pda net so I can tether my phone. then this morning I wake to a discouraging text message that says my data has been slowed for the billing cycle. definitely a problem for me. because according to my contract I have unlimited 3g data not capped 3g. is there any way around this.

Sent from my futuristic phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tribalb:
Yea I got that too but I still got 3g connection
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Wrong, the contract says unlimited data. It doesn't specify a speed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironlood:
And being that that contract actually says unlimited I should the able to call them and have them give me back my full speed

Sent from my futuristic phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoTi_96:
u dont get it right?

unlimited data doesnt mean unlimited full speed
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxjabberwockxx:
I don't think they're capping your data. They're capping your speed, slowing down your data connection. So when they say unlimited data, it still is unlimited data. I'm no longer a T-Mo customer, but from what I remember, they don't guarantee speeds.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] followinginsanity:
Just so it is clear. Read your T&C for more details.

T-MobileUSA recently started enforcing data

throttling

. This is different from a data

cap

. Specifically, if you use more than 5gb of data in your billing cycle, T-mo may throttle your speed down to a slower speed. This is to discourage people from tethering their phones to their computers for internet, and push the use of their usb data rockets.

A simple google search for "tmobile data throttling" will provide you with even more information.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tribalb:
Yea thats right. After hitting the 5gb data usage you get that txt msg and supposedly they will throttle to a lower speed. But like I mentioned before. They didnt do that to me. So OP. Check first before you want to complain. And yes its unlimited data. Just be glad tmo doesnt charge us more for hitting past 5gb. Other carriers throttle past 2gb. I know before our cap was 10gb.