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[Desire HD General] who knows:
i was watching tv, and the phone was around 5/6 meters away and i didnt have vibration on.. to be honest i couldnt believe it myself i even rang the phone to see if any music was playing lol
[Desire HD General] gcd:
so how is in-call volume? is it just external sound or in-call volume sucks too?
[Desire HD General] 007K:
That extremely inaccurate, the speaker, if configured properly is very very good. I an audiophile, I love sound quality, I've experienced many devices. The Desire Hd stands out by far for the smartphone category. N97? Come on. I be owned one of these they were decent..
[Desire HD General] YumYumHD:
So that would mean that all of us have faulty speakers.

Someone else also said his speakers were great, so I guess a few people got decent ones.
[Desire HD General] suhas_sm:
Can we use SE Live View with this ? Does it have better speakers than this ? A option for not missing the calls ??

P.S- I m yet to buy DHD :(
[Desire HD General] hansvk:
Are you sure you are talking about de DHD? And how did you configure it properly, besides changing volume settings?
[Desire HD General] daniel81k:
I don't know how he configured his DHD properly, but i think on DHD there're much more options to optimize sound quality than changing volume. I think abound de-/activate SRS and/or dolby mobile and there should be also an equalizer be integrated.

Think about that you shouln'd compare the quality of sound with any other devices than other smartphones or mobiles.
[Desire HD General] Spybreaka:
I've registered just to post a comment on the speaker quality. It's terrible. I'm not talking about headphones or the internal speaker. Specifically the loudspeaker. It's tinny, clips at higher volumes, and is worse than phones I had more than 5 years ago. I'm seriously considering sending the phone back on this basis.
[Desire HD General] mnd_bg:
Yep they are crap. I can't believe they've put something like this in one of the most expensive devices on the market.

Yesterday I was watching an episode of Family Guy and the quality of the sound was terrible. I thought it could be because of the codecs I used to convert the vid. I tried few mp3s (256bit) still crap. The louder I've put the volume the lower the quality went. Very very disappointing.

Still though... I love the phone and wouldn't change it for anything else. I wasn't expecting to get All-in-one device.
[Desire HD General] Spybreaka:
I actually wonder if a speaker mod is possible? Would probably void the warranty though..

I do love the phone in just about all other other respects, except for the battery life.
[Desire HD General] streamg:
one question,

could the speaker be replaced with one of HTC HD2, i have HD2 phone and his speaker is very loud
[Desire HD General] who knows:
there like £5 on ebay hopefully they have the same housing
[Desire HD General] streamg:
i hope so,

i would appreciate if someone could take off the back housing off DHD to see if the speaker of HD2 would fit in
[Desire HD General] YumYumHD:
If someone tries to open it, please make sure to make a video of it so we can all see how it disassembles and how the hardware looks on the inside.

If you really want to be generous, make a complete disassembly video. :D

Thanks in advance!
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
Lol, look how we come here, we all gave lots of money to a device which now we tend to change it's speakers ourselves manually :D
[Desire HD General] nmyseteroious:
I don't think it is possible to open the aluminum body at all since it is supposed to be a unibody. The only way I can think of is that you have to yank the screen off, then you will be play with the hardware inside. I doubt many people will want to yank the screen off though.
[Desire HD General] streamg:
i will try to open my dhd when a buy in a week or two
[Desire HD General] nmyseteroious:
Just in case you really want to yank the Desire HD open, I suggest you look at the disassembly for Htc Legend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LjqQ9tljGU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-0Lg32BQGs&feature=related

Apparently if the desire hd is similar, you don't have to take the screen out. (High risk of breaking the digitizer)
[Desire HD General] deli_gt:
the speaker was one of the main reason I changed to Galaxy S.

I just don't want to lose phone calls anymore because of HTC ****UPS.

Surely HTC could have fit better speaker inside, but no. Last HTC phone for me.

Also the battery, damn it sucks compared to Galaxy S.

As me if you feel left behind because you bought DHD just return that piece of **** and get Galaxy S.
[Desire HD General] SkzBR:
So, the phone is a **** because this? Ok, and the LED-Flash on your Galaxy S...? Ops, it didn't even exists!

But yes, it' will be very annoying for me, that put the phone on my bedroom and go to TV watch films... :S
[Desire HD General] Hakimy:
can someone explain this to me? in gsmarena they made a loud speaker test and the DHD was rated higher than iphone4 and galaxy s yet I see people complaining! am I missing something here? :S

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-review-534p4.php
[Desire HD General] ErMeglio:
I think that's the test for the audio of the calls (ie front speaker), the test for the external rear speaker is here http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-review-534p5.php and says the same as we do :(
[Desire HD General] onesolo:
I think my device is fine...

In max ringer volume, the volume is more than loud...

So, if I lower the ringer volume two steps back it's a normal ringer volume... perfect for me

But I admit that if the ringer volume is at the middle then it's a little weak...
[Desire HD General] vimto25:
Mine seems ok but I just come from iPhone 3gs. Seems loud enough, I do think its a bit tinny but I can live with it till HTC bring somet else that I like or next new iPhone (probably be another year).
[Desire HD General] krifos:
I wonder if it could be a software-related bug somehow...

My speakers were very nice yesterday, loud and clear, and higher, better quality than my old HTC Magic. I had just downloaded Solo (guitar-app) and played it - if I set the master and guitar-volume to max, it was actually TOO loud in my opinion, so I had to lower it a bit.

I don't know what happened after that - cause today when I got to work and was going to show a buddy of mine the guitar app - the sound was VERY low. According to settings, everything should be at max.

This is my log of what I did between the perfectly good speakers and way too low:

*) Closed the Solo App @ 11 PM <--- High, "normal" sound

*) Enabled Gentle Alarm @ 11 PM

*) Woke up by Gentle Alarm @ 7 AM

*) Enabled FM Radio @ 8 AM

*) Started Solo App @ 9 AM <--- Low sound

Again, I've checked all sound-settings that I know of... :S
[Desire HD General] krifos:
Weird... I went in to the old music player, settings, enabled dolby, then sound boosted to "normal" / high levels... Setting it back to none and it still works as it should.

I'm happy :)
[Desire HD General] skobus:
@Krifos I read earlier somewhere that using the FM-radio might have an influence. You may try to set the FM-radio volume to max just before closing the FM app (removing the headset). Maybe that will restore the full speaker volume.
[Desire HD General] Blaiz:
Rediculous

I just got my DHD and I am devastated completely and utterly destroyed by this phones speaker. I don’t care about sound quality all I care about is not missing calls, I can't miss calls its absolutely imperative in my business. I have taken parts in rants all over the internet of earlier HTC phone speakers quality. The fact is I love android and am quite a gadget/phone freak and when i get used to having a phone like the nexus or the Desire there is really noting that compares.

After all i have been through to try and work around this issue with my other dozens of HTC phones, I just assumes this was it, this was the one, how could our cries go unanswered its got to be a bad dream i will wake up from to tomorrow. This is my last phone by HTC period(unless google gives them the Nexus 2 contract and then I’m going to wait until I am positive the speaker will be loud enough) and I very likely will try and return this one.

I have a couple of old HD2s lying around i would be very interested in finding out if i could switch that speaker, It wasn’t great but it was acceptable. For now i carry my Nexus along with my DHD and believe it or not an old nokia 6234 with a dup sim card. so when i here the thunder of that over 5 year old phone i grab my nexus and answer. Carrying around three phones seems a bit much especially one that only for ringing.

Is there anyone we can send our appeals to, this is truly ridiculous HTC, it makes no "Sense" what so ever. Can we get a petition started or call a boycott until we have at least a reasonable response/apology/recall;)

Completely disgusted,

X- HTC fan
[Desire HD General] berek9999:
If you've got rid of your DHD then why are you still looking in these forums. Just so you can tell us all how "****" it is?

Run along little troll.
[Desire HD General] krifos:
The "enable & disable dolby"-trick worked for me - my speakers work properly now :)
[Desire HD General] Eddie1506:
A little side note, to have a few laughs :)

I was a a little bored with everything so I was reading HTC safety and regulatory guide that came with the phone.

Came accross this paragraph:

Had a good chuckle out of this one :D
[Desire HD General] Stormingsoul:
Strange thing is, when you compare Navigation programs like copilot with the standard navigation on the DHD, there is a huge difference in sound levels aswell..

My guess it is software related? :confused:
[Desire HD General] ergoforcen:
Im having problem hearing anything from back speaker . web-tv ,u-tube or anything from media files can only be heard if u bring headfones whith you. After calling and mailinh HTC support ,they denies anything wrong whith ste speaker ,they also clame never read or heard anything bad of the speaker ,and ask if I been pressing upp on the wolymecontroll after I have carfully expleaned the problem . So in my book I understand the HTC will do nothing to fix the speakerproblem ,it dont exist .And if u dont buy it u have to get another fone
[Desire HD General] krifos:
Have you tried go into the default music player, and enable & disable Dolby? It worked for me.
[Desire HD General] flyingkite9:
now i am using nokia 6300 and content with the speaker.

has anyone compared the DHD's speaker to 6300?

hope it reach the level then i will be happy to buy one.
[Desire HD General] ergoforcen:
After a few calls and mail to HTC ,talking of the problem whith low speaker sound from back speaker ,they mostley answerd "I'ts nothing wrong whith the speaker wolume"I made a new today, I this time gave them time to realy look into the future.And after a time I got a reply by mail from Samira at HTC sweden -"HTC is NOT going to do any fix/uppdate of the wolume on the HTC DHD".

................
[Desire HD General] targett:
I have found this too! So annoying to not even hear a call/sms when its in your own pocket etc...

Come one HTC - sort it out!!!
[Desire HD General] targett:
Fixed (I think!)

Hey all, I just played around in the HTC music player with the sound enhancer button which allows you to choose from:

1. No effects

2. Dolby Mobile

3. SRS enhancements

I noticed that I had the low volume problems when I had the Dolby Mobile selected. When I selected one of the other two it the volume was suddenly fine again. And now even if i try it on the Dolby Mobile setting it's fine still..

Must be a software glitch???
[Desire HD General] rogueblade:
My volume with all three settings is poor. I have my media volume on max and the volume is very mediocre. Is there an App that lets me control my volume so this apparent bug doesn't occur? Any fixes?
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
Am I right in thinking this is only available with headphones plugged in?
[Desire HD General] bobomobile:
I downloaded the iPhone's 'Old Phone' ringtone from a website and loaded it into my SD card and it seems as loud as the iPhone speakers when I play them side by side, although I tried doing the same with sms and alarm tones and they seemed louder on the iPhone.
[Desire HD General] rogueblade:
I don't understand how to get the volume working normally:

With the normal Sense player my volume has to be at Max to get any decent volume and thats with 'normal mode', 'SRS' and 'Dolby'

So I downloaded PowerAmp after hearing it should/may fix the volume issues; no dice. I still need my media volume at Max to get any decent sound.

(Sennheiser CX 870's)
[Desire HD General] targett:
I used the HTC music widget with no headphones.
[Desire HD General] bigdish:
I have had several exchanges with HTC support regarding the external loudspeaker low volume.

Using Audacity on the pc I increased the volumes of my custom ringtones and SMS announcements and they are now VERY loud.

Leads me to think that the standard volume levels are set to meet some health and safety criteria. I know in win6 there was a tweak to adjust this.

Poweramp for music helps a bit.

My main gripe is volume for YouTube and Navigation again through the external speaker and asked if anything could be done.

I received this final reply from HTC

"As we do not create the application on the Android market I cannot recommend any, as to an update about the devices volume I do believe that HTC are considering an update to enhance this but as of yet I have not had any release dates confirmed."

r

Andrew
[Desire HD General] Leechoonhwee:
http://androidaudiohacks.com/home/
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
Have you tried this app hack? Has anyone for that matter? Wondering if it suffers the same battery drain dsp does...

Interesting that HTC are considering an update for the audio, much needed I have to say.
[Desire HD General] rogueblade:
I'm still searching/hoping for some simple solution to make my volume just be normal when wearing headphones. Stock music player or PowerAmp; I still need max volume to get just an average volume.
[Desire HD General] bigdish:
Unfortunately this does not work on the Desire HD.

Has anyone tried CoPilot Navigation ?

The upgraded HTC Navigation works well but the speed cam and direction alerts are way too low. Only purchased a months subscription so looking for an alternative.

r

Andrew
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
I suspect that no matter what software you choose, this will be an issue with the dhd, its just down to the poor sound quality.
[Desire HD General] sromer:
The phone is designed to be screen down when you use it to listen to music without headphones.

Try doing that and comparing it to the Nokia
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
And for playing videos - I think there's a flaw in that 'solution'.

Incidentally, the Nokia still blows the DHD out of the water on sound even upside down!
[Desire HD General] Takkie1970:
complaints about speaker, have they been passed on to HTC customerservice?

I noticed too that the sound of the speaker is not as good as it should be. I filed a complaint bij phone to customerservice of HTC (The dutch branch) The spokesman (woman) who called back, told me she would escalate my problem as an official complaint. But having said that she mentioned that he had not encountered this issue before as a complaint.

Has any of you called HTC to complain about this? As I can imagine that HTC is not likely to solve a problem mentioned by only one customer.If this is a genuine problem ( I personally think it is) more people should complain, complain to HTC customerservice. www.htc.com find support, customerservice and call them. In Holland it was a number that charged only local costs. That's fair I think.
[Desire HD General] sromer:
Lol, true....

I meant with music like shown in the video.

I still reckon my desire HD beats the speaker my last phone (a Samsung omnia)
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
Hey guys,

Any one tried the apps "Louder Volume Hack v4.0 or 4.1 beta" on Desire HD? Any results comments?
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
funnily enough, i own a DHD and my sister owns a Samsung Omnia. Sadly, her speakers is way better than mine. We compared some songs, the Omnia firstly gets much higher volumes and some more bass. In other words bass heavy songs sounded much better on her phone than mine. Not that i listen to that type of music through the tiny loud speaker, but just for comparison.
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
I am not so into music quality with external speaker but loudness is not enough that's why I am asking above about "Louder Volume Hack" because especially in the cars using a navigator the speaker loudness is making crazy.
[Desire HD General] RyDeRgr:
Hello guys. I'm new into the forum.

I really like the Desire HD. I'm thinking about exchanging my iPhone4 with the DHD.

About the speaker ... compared with the iPhone ... is it really bad?

I had also the iPhone 2G. His speaker (who rings) and the earpiece were THE WORST I've ever heard.... I don't want to get back to these...

Thanks a lot guys.
[Desire HD General] hamdir:
can someone else confirm audio seems much louder after the last update, I'm being forced to lower volume

very enjoyable now
[Desire HD General] sengork:
I had to up the in-call volume from 80 to 100 via 3rd party app, else I could not hear phone calls whilst on the street. Max factory volume was 80, probably to conserve battery usage...
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
What app did you use?
[Desire HD General] bobbyphoenix:
+1 I'd like to know too! Please
[Desire HD General] sengork:
I used Volume Master Free although there are alternatives.

Can verify the results via Elixir before and after adjusting the settings.
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
the same settings from that Volume Master app can be accessed in under the sound settings of the phone..
[Desire HD General] sengork:
As far as I can see not for the voice call volume, unless you push the Up volume button to the max during the call. This for me seemed to go only up to 80% without adjustments via this this app.

There is another app on Market which claims to unlock volume limits called Volume Unlock. Haven't tried it...

Edit: maybe volume increase had something to do with the OTA update.
[Desire HD General] hamdir:
audio was vastly improved in the ota, its already confirmed by various sources

been enjoying music a lot with srs with headphones, loud speaker even

I connect it to my car primitively using the headphones jack :D and just waw with srs on
[Desire HD General] gerasimov:
Problems with the speaker.

Hi,

I have just lost the external speaker. I was unable to install the OTA update because I had deleted one of the original applications. The phone was nor rooted. I was just using the temporary visionary root.

So I have just flashed the 1.72 standard rom. So ... now the external speaker is not working at all. No ringing. No music ... no beeps ... nothing.

Any ideas?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
This is a theme I put together based off of xvenom89's NuBlu theme found here:

http://forums.miui-dev.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=47

I made this theme to suit my needs and I know a few people used it on the 1.29 build so I figured I would post it up here.

All credit goes to xvenom89 and his work creating the framework mods (especially the .9.png's :), and for doing all of the hard work).

Additions to NuBlu:

Changed battery and GPS icons to match the rest of the colors

Modified the lockscreen slider to blue while charging

Restored the original MIUI grey semi-transparent pop-up menus

Added CM blue Nexus live wallpaper

Added a few of my favorite wallpapers and lockscreen wallpapers to the default MIUI selection menu

Modified the original MIUI(1.29) style icons to blue

Added folding animations (Personally I like set the Window and Transition animation setting to fast in Spare Parts)

On with the Pics:

Instructions:

Just flash over the top of bcnice20's MIUI test 5 rom located here:

http://forums.miui-dev.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=17

I wiped cache and dalvic, but didn't need to wipe data. Your mileage may vary.

Also, I recommend booting into the Rom first, then flashing the theme.

Download:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14484695/XmellyX-nicenblue_v2.zip

Let me know what you think, constructive feedback is always welcome.

P.S. I've gotten reports on here and on the miui-dev forum that this theme will flash correctly on both the nexus1 and incredible miui builds. You're mileage may vary: nandroid first!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
reserved 10char
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mikem717:
title says miui 0.11.5 but the post mentions 10.29 and test 5....

so i have to ask to be certain, can i flash this on top of 11.5 and everything will work?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
Yup. I've successfully flashed over the 11.5 rom by bcnice. It worked on both his test 3 and test 5 versions.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] 2k10MBC300SPT:
can we get some luv like this for the moto droid's miui 6.4? this theme is sik:)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Da Baron:
This is really a great theme to compliment the MIUI ROM. I'm using RoDrIgUeZsTLe MIUI and it works fine with it on my N1. The screen transitions in certain apps is so cool and gives the ROM a slick feel.

Great work!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
Much appreciated. The theme might flash over builds for other phones ie. Incredible, N1, but I worked from xvenom89's evo theme as a base. The frameworks for other rom's might be similar.

Good luck flashing and post if it works on any other builds.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
Post a link to the dl and I can try and port it over.

Or you could just flash and pray :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] carloscsnva:
Great job bro! This is exactly what I was looking for!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] groovdafied:
What's the 3x3 screen grid? Verycool.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
Its the way you manage your homescreens in miui.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] aalopez10:
you think this works for the (NEW) Miui rom stable 11.5, its not the test 3 or 5 version.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
It should work with the newest stable (11.5). I didn't notice any framework changes and I flashed it fine.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] PhantomApollyon:
So, what would it take to get this running with Calkulin's EViO 2 ROM v1.5.1 ? Its a great looking theme and I'd love to have this running on this ROM if possible, just can't seem to find any descent blue themes for sense roms.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
I haven't worked on any sense based themes in a while, but most of things like the menu styles and launcher are unique to MIUI roms and would be nearly impossible to port over to sense without the source and a serious amount of development investment.

Interm of blue themes for sense, I normally take my rom as a base and cut and paste in framework mod's from different themes like the galaxy and others to make a hybrid. It's a lot of work but if I ever go back to sense I will release some blue themes for the community.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] dadoc04:
great job on this
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Fiireball32:
Hey open great work on the theme ... could you get this to work with miui 11.12 ?

Sent from my MIUI Evo 4G
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xmellyx:
I will work on it this coming week. Thank you for the compliment.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] dadoc04:
nvm..... i must be tired
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
Are you guys planning to make kernal that runs from 1.6ghz to 2.0 ghz?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolbho3000:
I managed to get 1.7GHz going but due to reasons of sanity/safety I will not personally be releasing a kernel that is capable of that. Another dev can use my source and easily modify it for those speeds.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
Well hopefully one of u developer backup a file for us because i want to run faster then 1.4ghz.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sv3nt3k:
I've been able to reach 1.4 GHz but is unstable for me. 1 GHz is fine and I think there's not much gain/benefit from it getting any faster. We'll end up comparing how things boot/run in miliseconds and then complain about it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] add119:
I guess but i want the speed so i can trash talk to iphone users some more.