[Q] Best results for A2DP and Diamond Tweak ? - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General

Hi, all,
I have searched everywhere but only found solutions for other units/phones. I am aware of the appaling sound quality produced by A2DP (stereo bluetooth) on our beloved Diamond... Actually, HTC is not responsibe per se, since it looks that MS Bluetooth stack is the source of the problem.
I am used to listening to my music in A2DP, but quite frankly, listenning to the music in my Jabra BT-8010 and the Diamond is too painful for me... These horrible high pitched noises in the background are absolutely appaling.
I would like to know if there was any solution to tweak the Diamond and get better results. I know that Diamond Tweak could be used to arrange things, but I don't know how to do it yet.
Otherwise, I'll use my wired headset provided with the phone, but that's a pain too for someone like me who has abandoned wires for bluetooth since so long !
Any help would be greatly appreciated !
Cheers from south of France!

I know this problem. I was actually fighting with it for week and i've managed to get very decent audio quality.
That's what i've done:
1. Using advanced config in Bluetooth: audiogateway - on and powersaving for it on as well; bitpool - very high.
2. Install SRS WOW (absolute must have for music quality). My settings for my headphones:
Mode: headphones; SRS 3D effect - 60%; Center effect - 30%; Focus Level - 20%; Definition Level - 20%; TruBass Level - 100%; TruBass speaker Size - 60Hz; Input and Output Gain - 2% each.
3. Install DiamondTweak 0.5 and in volume control set:
Audio Booster - enabled
100db Sound Limitation - disabled
(after every soft reset those values go back to normal and you need to set them again, small price for excellent sound, there is also script on forum that set those regs everytime phone boots)
3. Play music go to Audiobooster and set high values for bass and quite high for treble.
And music sounds really good.

Thanks !
I'll give a try (actually doing it right now, phone is rebooting).
Well, what can i say, the end result is just a tad better, but I still hear these high pitched noises... On rock music, it's still awful. Much better with wired headsets...
I'll try with SRS WOW.
Thanks again !

Remember ab soft reset after installing srs wow (there is special version for diamond somewhere on this forum). ANd switching back AudioBooster after softreset.
If you'll still have problem try editing Input and Output Gain in srs wow. And make sure you chose headphones mode (not speakers). hOPE YOU'LL ENJOY IT.

Exactly the same problem
Hello,
I have exactly the same problem - using Sony Ericsson MBS-100 loudspeaker.
I'm not a music freak and i dont expect HiFi quality,
but what I can heart are "horrible high pitched noises in the background"
and generally to MUCH treble - so much that my ears hurts after a while
Tryid this loudspeaker with OLD Sony Ercsson mobile - no more background noise, no more trebles..
So my stupid question
Teeps:
" 1. Using advanced config in Bluetooth: audiogateway - on and powersaving for it on as well; bitpool - very high."
I cant find "advanced config" in Bluetooth ?? Thank you for your answer..

Patrona said:
Hello,
I cant find "advanced config" in Bluetooth ?? Thank you for your answer..
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He means Advanced Config-tool option Bleutooth
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=418151

Thanks for answer.
I must say its a little bit better with SRS WOW
(best settings for me just WOW Bass),
but Im disapointed, that was not my vision (such a low quality A2DP)
when I bought my Diamond..
Maybe new ROM with new drivers could help?

haobe said:
You can change the bluetooth profile in Schap's Advanced Config. I've set bitpool to 70, max to 76 and min to 64. Now the sound quality is waaay better.
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Works superb!!!

mofolino said:
You can change the bluetooth profile in Schap's Advanced Config. I've set bitpool to 70, max to 76 and min to 64. Now the sound quality is waaay better.
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At these settings can I Bluetooht NOT start :-(
My settings, which is fine for me:
Bitpool at medium, min 20 max 70 works fine.
Audiogateway on. JoinStereo on
What really helps
Schap's Advanced Config - HTC Audio Booster: Trebble - LOW
Bass Medium. 3D off (but not tested).
That really(!!) works for me even without SRS WOW, almost no hight freq. noises.

Patrona said:
At these settings can I Bluetooht NOT start :-(
My settings, which is fine for me:
Bitpool at medium, min 20 max 70 works fine.
Audiogateway on. JoinStereo on
What really helps
Schap's Advanced Config - HTC Audio Booster: Trebble - LOW
Bass Medium. 3D off (but not tested).
That really(!!) works for me even without SRS WOW, almost no hight freq. noises.
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Thanks mate for your input.
Tried your settings, but I am still not lucky... Sound quality is about the same... I'm desperate... and very much afraid

SOme people on other forums tell me they have no issue with sound quality regarding the A2DP... I guess I'll have to try with another headet.

Related

Bluetooth headset volume

Is it possible to increase the volume when you are using an bluetooth headset or bluetooth handfree ???
I find mine is not high enough, i'm sure there is something to do about this .
Thanks for thr help
I think so
I had the same problem. I ran the tweaks that Chainfire put together. There is one in there from a Chinese site deals with the BT pool settings. I tried it and it works fine. Here is the link to the tweaks. Good luck!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333898&highlight=BT+Volume
I've done the BitPool tweak and I'm not sure it's made much of a difference.
The crackling interference has diminished but the low volume is still apparent.
I was only given the choice of High (Def/ADV) or Low BitPool by Kaiser Tweak. The Medium option is there but defaults to Low when selected.
I'll try it tommorow ...
But I thought about a reg patch or something like this ...

Audio Booster issue

Is the Audio booster issue fixed with the builds after build 35 ?
The issue is that my music plays without bass when using headphones or connected to my car audio system.
When turning off Audio booster, start playing music and then turn on Audio booster again, my bass returns.
This is really annoying to repeat these steps each time because I use the mp3 player functionality a lot.
sound issue
I think it's a general problem with the sound, once you go into screen saver, then stop the music, then go back to it, the sound levels have no base on it's quite annoying. The way to get around it, take the headphones out, turn on the device, reselect the music, put in the headphones and play.
I wonder what is causing the music to be so distorted. I'm on the latest wwe build
How did HTC manage to release such a buggy phone?
In the past all of my HTC devices have been great but this Diamond has me appalled.
It crashes, gets very slow suddenly for no reason, gets uncomfortable warm to hold, attracts fingerprints like crazy, has an unusable media player and now we have to do some stupid sequence of headphone unplugging and tickbox unticking every time we want to play some music!
This is the official relase, not some grey import with an unfinshed ROM...
Plleeeaaase someone work out how to get the old style Audio Manager working on the Diamond... Won't fix the bass problem, but at least I'll be able to access my music how I want to...
Same problem for on my phone, with rom 1.37
I though it was a headset issue, until I read this thread.
Veeery annoying bug
I've got it too noticed today. When the base went I thought the headset socket was at fault as if I moved the plug just slightly the audio would cut out completely.
However, I turned Audio Booster off, restarted and turned Audio Booster back on and all is well - even wiggling the cable so it's not a hardware fault there.
However as soon as I plugged into my PC by Disk Drive mode and went to listen to music after - it was back again.
Certain little things are really starting to rub the shine away but I do love the phone overall.
i'm sorry i have wrote this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=402845
but i think now is the same problem..
how can i delete new thread??
thanks
cj136uk said:
The way to get around it, take the headphones out, turn on the device, reselect the music, put in the headphones and play.
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I have this issue now for the first time and tried your fix. But still i have a lot of treble and the bass is gone.. Can you make a better step by step description?
Already found out:
How to create the bug:
- Play your music on your headphone
- Turn on Audio Booster
- Plug off your headphone and continue on your speaker
- Plug in your headphone again and your bass is gone.
How to fix?
- Stop your music
- Turn of audiobooster, and save the settings, not close! (so your headphone have to be connected)
- Start your music again and your bass is back!
- You cán use Audio Booster again now, but i won't!
[email protected] said:
I have this issue now for the first time and tried your fix. But still i have a lot of treble and the bass is gone.. Can you make a better step by step description?
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From the first post:
When turning off Audio booster, start playing music and then turn on Audio booster again, my bass returns.
Just download SRS Wow 1.21, it is miles better than Audio Booster, you dont get any of those problems and it will make the music sound better than it will on any other portable device... yes, it really is that good!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355913
Jin187 said:
Just download SRS Wow 1.21, it is miles better than Audio Booster, you dont get any of those problems and it will make the music sound better than it will on any other portable device... yes, it really is that good!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355913
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not working with my diamond
Me neither, I installed it but can't find how to launch the program, even with a soft reset and the registry modification
Edit: The program is in (settings) -> (system), but doesn't work: "There's no WOW HD driver loaded" and exits
Is there still no resolution for the Problem? This Bug makes the device almost unusable for me
bdormael said:
not working with my diamond
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Not working on my Diamond either, but I didn't try to edit the registry. Because I'm not able to edit it.... Tried PHMRegEdit.msi but I'm only able to read the registry on the phone, not able to edit. Any suggestions?
You could try CorePlayer. Full equalizer AND preamp....
Music sounds awesome. Really does.
But it doesnt fix the problem at hand. For example, when using the RCE100 headset, the FF/RW/PLAY etc only controls the built in HTC player, and not CorePlayer (or SRS WOW, etc)
It really really sux that HTC have not fixed this yet. I giess we are just waiting for the worldwide release of the diamond to complete (so that the whole world will get pissed off) and then HTC can concentrate on fixing the bloody device!!! I still love it though....
omg...
i thought the headset was crappy.. but i rmbed the first day.. when the sound quality was good and the next day it suddenly lost the bass..
so i tot i gave yer method a try..
switched off the audioboosetr after pausing the music
and walla..
its bassy and clear..
to think i paid a sum for his buggy phone... i love the diamond.. but probably the last phone from htc i ever gonna get...
Why does actually DISABLING the audiobooster help here? How screwed up can this probably rather simple piece of software be?
Geez I wish I had a stock HTC Diamond instead of my O2 so I could bug their customer support sufficiently with this issue.
Is there a way to get rid of the audio enhancing feature completely? After all it seems that earphone-audio is way better without it anyway?
Of course there is. By default the Audio Booster is switched off. It's a 3rd party app and not something that is actually built in to the HTC Player. Get a decent set of headphones and music will sound really good without it. The actual music playing abilities of the hardware (software aside) are really good and for someone who is a music junkie, I'm happy.
I am happy too. Juste have a look at the price of my headphone (westone UM2) and you'll understand that when I say HTC + AudioBooster + good headphone = best MP3 player sound quality i have never had (compared to sucky Apple's sound which is as the external speaker if i compared)!
flashmp3 said:
I am happy too. Juste have a look at the price of my headphone (westone UM2) and you'll understand that when I say HTC + AudioBooster + good headphone = best MP3 player sound quality i have never had (compared to sucky Apple's sound which is as the external speaker if i compared)!
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well, i have the UE11 pro and i wouldn't use the diamond as my mp3 player, it still doesn't sound decent to me, but i agree, much better then iphone anyway.
ok i did try the srs wow.... not working on my diamond... and after uninstalling.... not ableanymore to activate the audio booster of HTC... (clicking on the flag just do nothing)...frack !!!
only hard reset will do ?

MP3s too loud...

Hi guys, actually I haven't searched for this problem (doesnt work somehow :/)
so don't lynch me
I have one little problem with my xda diamond - it's too loud.
When I'm listening to music with the standard headset (haven't bought a 3,5mm adaptor yet) I'm always on the last bar and even sometimes that seems to loud (yeah, I have to admit, my ears are pretty sensitive - but that was never a problem with other mobiles). I'm afraid that if I buy that 3,5mm socket and use it with my standard headphones it will get even louder, because their output is very high....
I tried to reduce the volume in the options - I can reduce it to 2-3% which is optimal. But sometimes I get this horrible bug, that some songs are on 2-3% volum WAY louder than on 10 or 20%. Just imagine, you listen to a song and when it ends the next song just starts like "BAMBAMBAMBAM" and your ears are completly numb
Somebody knows how to fix this, or can recommend me a different player?
Would be very grateful
Cheers,
Kashik
Kashik said:
Hi guys, actually I haven't searched for this problem (doesnt work somehow :/)
so don't lynch me
I have one little problem with my xda diamond - it's too loud.
When I'm listening to music with the standard headset (haven't bought a 3,5mm adaptor yet) I'm always on the last bar and even sometimes that seems to loud (yeah, I have to admit, my ears are pretty sensitive - but that was never a problem with other mobiles). I'm afraid that if I buy that 3,5mm socket and use it with my standard headphones it will get even louder, because their output is very high....
I tried to reduce the volume in the options - I can reduce it to 2-3% which is optimal. But sometimes I get this horrible bug, that some songs are on 2-3% volum WAY louder than on 10 or 20%. Just imagine, you listen to a song and when it ends the next song just starts like "BAMBAMBAMBAM" and your ears are completly numb
Somebody knows how to fix this, or can recommend me a different player?
Would be very grateful
Cheers,
Kashik
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Mine is also the same when i have the original headset plugged in, i think the audio booster is set to very high or something, try changing the settings :]
Addictedd said:
Mine is also the same when i have the original headset plugged in, i think the audio booster is set to very high or something, try changing the settings :]
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its not even activated :/
other solutions?
Use mp3gain to adjust the volume of your tracks. This is done (losslessly and reversibly) by adjusting the gain settings encoded into the mp3.
I have all the tracks on my PC set to 92dB but I have increased that volume up to 95dB for the tracks on my Diamond
to make sure:
when you use the up and down volume keys, volume is changed 3 bars at a time (3 out of 15 bars). Have you noticed u can change the volume a bar at a time bij using the touch screen?
pwhooftman said:
to make sure:
when you use the up and down volume keys, volume is changed 3 bars at a time (3 out of 15 bars). Have you noticed u can change the volume a bar at a time bij using the touch screen?
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yeah, but on the first bar with some songs its still too loud.
Kashik said:
yeah, but on the first bar with some songs its still too loud.
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I´d like to have this problem I permanently looking for some tweak to make mp3s playback louder...n I think I´m not stone-deaf
NOT JUST YOU
the speakerphone on my diamand is poo!
liamhere said:
NOT JUST YOU
the speakerphone on my diamand is poo!
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Speakerphone volume seems like to be a joke or what
tommm said:
I´d like to have this problem I permanently looking for some tweak to make mp3s playback louder...n I think I´m not stone-deaf
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maybe its a specific problem with my diamond... anyways, maybe its because of the player - can you recommend me other players?
You haven't been very clear about which player you're actually using!
I assume it's the HTC audio manager in TF3D? You've adjusted the volume of the player (in Schaps Advanced Config or something) down to 2-3% and it's still too loud? Something wrong there.
Try the Windows Media player that should already be installed.
Have you tried downloading and using mp3gain as I suggested above? It sounds like part of your problem is mp3 tracks with wildly different levels.
Hi I don't know if you have tried this obvious sollution yet or not; however, I thought I should mention it anyway, just because I know that when people tend to get frustrated, sometimes the obvious just slips by us.
Remember you have two volume controls on your device when playing MP3's. Your Audio player volume and your main phone volume. Try reducing both until you reach the optimim output level. I know that this really does not solve the problem because really you should not have to do this, but it might work for now.
Kashik said:
maybe its a specific problem with my diamond... anyways, maybe its because of the player - can you recommend me other players?
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Like said above - wm player has its own volume control so try to reduce both
I just bought the bluetooth headset Jabra-3030, and the volume control on that headset acts as a audioplayer control, and not as general volume control (like HTC RC E100). So I can reduce the volume more and it's far better (because when I work I like a low low volume )
Davey101 said:
You haven't been very clear about which player you're actually using!
I assume it's the HTC audio manager in TF3D? You've adjusted the volume of the player (in Schaps Advanced Config or something) down to 2-3% and it's still too loud? Something wrong there.
Try the Windows Media player that should already be installed.
Have you tried downloading and using mp3gain as I suggested above? It sounds like part of your problem is mp3 tracks with wildly different levels.
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i'm using the TF3D integrated player. no i didnt try mp3gain yet. no at 2-3% it is perfectly fine - but sometimes the volume seems to explode, especially with some songs - i see the point there. where can i find the standard WM mp3player btw?
Start digging in Programs
I have the same problem - if I use TFL3D and the standart headset that comes with the device, music is WAY TOO LOUD, even when I bring the volume control to just one bar. Using another music player (even MP) works, but hey, there should be a solution to fix that in TFL3D as well!
s_life said:
I have the same problem - if I use TFL3D and the standart headset that comes with the device, music is WAY TOO LOUD, even when I bring the volume control to just one bar. Using another music player (even MP) works, but hey, there should be a solution to fix that in TFL3D as well!
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Hmm. I use the music player in TFL3d too. And yup, the volume was a little too loud at first..
Here's a fix :
Using a registry editor, I've changed the following key values:
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config\music_player_volumn --> 20 (default: 100)
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Information\volumn --> 20 (default: 100)
Music volume is now comfy, even at 3 to 4 bars
kcinc said:
Hmm. I use the music player in TFL3d too. And yup, the volume was a little too loud at first..
Here's a fix :
Using a registry editor, I've changed the following key values:
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config\music_player_volumn --> 20 (default: 100)
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Information\volumn --> 20 (default: 100)
Music volume is now comfy, even at 3 to 4 bars
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It works like a charm, thanx
This fix works brilliantly! Thanks!!!
Now I don't have to carry another mp3 player to the library

Tinny / no-bass sound on headset from audio player but fine with calls

Hi
I'm getting tinny sound (no bass) on audio applications through my headset, if I do a hard reset everything fine.
Restore my SPB clone (push mail, all my apps) tinny sound again.
Interestingly, calls via the headset are lovely and bassy but any audio application playing files sounds really tinny and quiet.
I suspect the new version of Schapps advanced config myself as it seems to have started around the time I installed it and made my first change of some of the settings.
QUESTION: What settings in Schapps advanced config or Diamond Tweaks might I have missed? Are there any registry keys that I can delete to restore all the sound to default?
Yours
Leon
"People of Judea, Wome is your fwiend"
Work Around
Here's a workaround sourced from here:
2) Audio volume/quality. The audio quality via the headphones doesnt seem to have much bass and is quite tinny. Ive tried changing the Audio Booster app and it has little effect. Is the quality of audio really that bad? I dont think it was that bad with the first Diamond Touch I recieved (but had to send back!)
I had this problem - spent a good hour trying to work out why!!! Make sure that you shut down Media Player if you have it open and navigiate to the Home Screen - then Start / Programs / Audio Booster (make sure the headphones are plugged in whilst you do this). When Audio Booster opens uncheck the box to switch it off and then come out of it.
Go back to Media Player or the Touch Flow player and start playing your track (you should already notice a difference in sound quality). Then from the Menu in Touch Flow, select Audio Booster and switch it back on - hey presto, quality sound!
Even after flashing with the new HTC ROM I still find this to be a problem, but knowing how to solve it, it's not too much of a bind...
http://www.modaco.com/content/diamond-diamond-modaco-com/271101/htc-diamond-touch-help/

Bluetooth headset sound quality adjustment?

I could have sworn I saw and changed a setting somewhere for bluetooth headset sound quality on my Diamond, I thought it was in Advanced Configuration Tool, and I thought the choices were like low, medium, or high; but the only thing I can find now is sample rate 44k or 48.1k. Did I imagine that? Where the hell is it? I am getting nowhere with searching in here.
They are still in Advanced Config.
Bluetooth|Minimum supported bitpool, Bluetooth|Maximum supported bitpool, Bluetooth|Bitpool
Thanks but I thought I had seen a simple low medium high setting?

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