I'm convinced the Audio Effects does nothing. Doesn't matter if it's Speaker or Wired Stereo, I hear no difference in audio settings if I change them or turn them off and on again. I can't remember if they actually worked in 4.2x, but they sure don't seem to do anything in 4.4.
Can someone confirm that, in fact, you hear a difference?
640k said:
I'm convinced the Audio Effects does nothing. Doesn't matter if it's Speaker or Wired Stereo, I hear no difference in audio settings if I change them or turn them off and on again. I can't remember if they actually worked in 4.2x, but they sure don't seem to do anything in 4.4.
Can someone confirm that, in fact, you hear a difference?
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I hear a major difference. Audio quality goes way down if I turn on audio effects while using headphones. It's night and day. I have no idea why Motorola enabled them by default.
sethes302 said:
I hear a major difference. Audio quality goes way down if I turn on audio effects while using headphones. It's night and day. I have no idea why Motorola enabled them by default.
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it's just an app, right? i can't imagine my phone being defective because there's no difference in audio when switching the settings. i'm completely stock, so i don't know what the issue is.
i'll open an incident with moto if i have to, just wanted to get a consensus.
ok hold the phone... maybe it's just slacker. doing some more testing, but apparently the settings do nothing to slacker audio quality.
640k said:
I'm convinced the Audio Effects does nothing. Doesn't matter if it's Speaker or Wired Stereo, I hear no difference in audio settings if I change them or turn them off and on again. I can't remember if they actually worked in 4.2x, but they sure don't seem to do anything in 4.4.
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It works for me on stock 4.4 with Google Play music. I hear a pretty tangible difference on all settings. Maybe try turning the lower frequencies all the way down/up (on custom settings) then toggle and see if that makes a difference.
Thanks for mentioning this; I've turned it off. Always thought my music sounded a little off on my usual IEMs.
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ok hold the phone... maybe it's just slacker. doing some more testing, but apparently the settings do nothing to slacker audio quality.
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doesn't work for pandora either. DOES work for Google Play Music.
well, at least i know there's nothing wrong wtih my device.
640k said:
doesn't work for pandora either. DOES work for Google Play Music.
well, at least i know there's nothing wrong wtih my device.
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I've actually never gotten it to work with anything on mine. Play Music, Pandora, Podcast Addict, etc. all don't work. I think I've only gotten it to work with poweramp when I was testing it but I use poweramp's own DAC so that's the only app I don't need it for.
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Is there a way to disable the music player from starting up automatically when I plug a speaker/head phone into the 3.5mm plug? I don't know what the phone is doing, but I don't always want to play music when I plug in a speaker to the phone.
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im also having that issue and also the slightest movement of the headphone jack makes the music player constantly skip songs and its very annoying. We need to find a fix for this.
This also happen on bluetooth as well. When i get in the car and phone connects to radio the media player starts as well. Sucks, i haven't figured out how to stop this media player from auto starting.
? What, your guys music players starts automatically when you plug in the headphones?
Mine doesnt, and I wish it did. lol
Had this problem as well. Was more noticable when JIT was enabled on CM5.0b2. Haven't noticed it on 5.0b3 with JIT off, but that doesn't mean it's fixed... very annoying. As a work around (which might be why I'm no longer noticing it) I created a playlist with a single, short sound effect as the only 'song' in the playlist. I never use the default music player, or any player for music on my phone for that matter, so this was a pretty simple one-time work around. I remember when we had a very similar, if not the same problem, on Cyanogen's G1 rom, and I had used this same workaround.
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im also having that issue and also the slightest movement of the headphone jack makes the music player constantly skip songs and its very annoying. We need to find a fix for this.
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I've noticed the same thing on mine, too.
Omfg... I been having this same problem! I thought it was just me. LOL. Lets get this fixed pl!
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Had this problem as well. Was more noticable when JIT was enabled on CM5.0b2. Haven't noticed it on 5.0b3 with JIT off, but that doesn't mean it's fixed... very annoying. As a work around (which might be why I'm no longer noticing it) I created a playlist with a single, short sound effect as the only 'song' in the playlist. I never use the default music player, or any player for music on my phone for that matter, so this was a pretty simple one-time work around. I remember when we had a very similar, if not the same problem, on Cyanogen's G1 rom, and I had used this same workaround.
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Mine did this on the stock ROM. Now I'm on CM5B3+highmem, and haven't noticed it yet.
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Mine did this on the stock ROM. Now I'm on CM5B3+highmem, and haven't noticed it yet.
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I first noticed this problem on CM5B3. Happens any time I connect the phone to my speakers.
Weird, my Nexus doesn't do this. In fact I just added a feature (not released yet) to have it as an option! So, WTF?
I can't recall for sure, but I believe my phone did this when I had the stock rom on it. But since I started using Cyanogen's rom, I have yet to experience this.
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Weird, my Nexus doesn't do this. In fact I just added a feature (not released yet) to have it as an option! So, WTF?
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I wonder why some experience this and some don't. Did you try twisting the plug around once plugged in? Plug movement seems to trigger it for me, but once it starts I can't get it to stop until I just unplug the phone from the speakers.
Mine is completely random, and to make things worse, it's doing it to Pandora as well. I'll run through my '6 skips' an hour in mere minutes, and on accident. Very, very annoying... It happens not only randomly, but sometimes when I pick up the phone, or touch the 3.5mm jack in any way, but not 'every time' I touch it... it's incredibly odd... I really hope it's not a hardware fault
Ive actually been wishing for that option on my Droid lol. Lucky!
Are you guys using the stock headset? i think it only does it when you do. If you use others, it doesnt?
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Are you guys using the stock headset? i think it only does it when you do. If you use others, it doesnt?
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Not using a headset at all. Just a 3.5mm->3.5mm jack in my car
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Are you guys using the stock headset? i think it only does it when you do. If you use others, it doesnt?
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I found this issue when I tried to connect my phone to a Altec portable speaker.
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Not using a headset at all. Just a 3.5mm->3.5mm jack in my car
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Mine skips with a similar setup. Sometimes twisting the cable around in the jack helps. Still annoying.
I have seen this 'issue' reported on 3 other phones so far, the Tmobile Pulse (UK), Hero, G1, and now the Nexus One.
However the main thread i can think of was over at the MoDaCo forums, for the pulse.
http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile-pulse-pulse-modaco-com/301335/the-headphone-bug/
I have the same problem too. Gets real annoying when listing to an audiobook that's 10hrs long and it all of a sudden skips to the beginning. I think it has to do with how the headphone controls are implemented in hardware - shorting out the channels together or to ground - I lost my original headphones - and haven't wired up a pair to test. I think that "cheaper" headphone cables have less insulation between the channels which then shorts. I noticed this with a cheaper 1/8" to 1/8" adapter.. vs a sony gold plated one. (the channels were in separate insulation on the sony one). If there was only a way to turn off the headphone controls in the default media player, then it wouldn't happen... maybe i'll just remove it from the phone all together.
I'm running xron cm7 on my touchpad. I've noticed a few things about sounds that I wonder if it's just a fact of life or something that's fixable. 1-I can't seem to get sound to come from the headphone jack. If I plug something in, sound stops from the speakers but nothing comes out via the jack. 2-If I have an app that plays sounds even with the screen off, it gets this kind of high pitched squeal/feedback. This is happening with music apps and the AmbiSci sound apps. Are both of these facts of life on a touchpad running Android?
Do any ROMS currently allow the front facing camera to work?
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I'm running xron cm7 on my touchpad. I've noticed a few things about sounds that I wonder if it's just a fact of life or something that's fixable. 1-I can't seem to get sound to come from the headphone jack. If I plug something in, sound stops from the speakers but nothing comes out via the jack. 2-If I have an app that plays sounds even with the screen off, it gets this kind of high pitched squeal/feedback. This is happening with music apps and the AmbiSci sound apps. Are both of these facts of life on a touchpad running Android?
Do any ROMS currently allow the front facing camera to work?
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Camera still does not work.
To get sound on earphones, plug them in before starting the app you want to listen to. That works for me.
The distorted sounds have been reported by many, I guess I'm lucky, I don't have that problem.
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Camera still does not work.
To get sound on earphones, plug them in before starting the app you want to listen to. That works for me.
The distorted sounds have been reported by many, I guess I'm lucky, I don't have that problem.
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Thanks Chicle I'll try that out. Maybe it's a rom thing for the distorted sound. Which one are you using?
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Thanks Chicle I'll try that out. Maybe it's a rom thing for the distorted sound. Which one are you using?
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I'm using Cherry Kang, with kupdate kernel. Oc to 1.7 max and 384 min.
Sometimes I use the unofficial cyanogenmod nightlies, when cherry has not been updated for a while.
Unfortunately, the distorted sound has been reported on a bunch of different roms.
I use the nightlies, and before that Alpha2, and haven't had a problem with sound - I watch stuff with MXPlayer, listen to Spotify, and everything, with and without headphones, no problems at all. Currently on the 20120402 nightly, still working great for sound.
As for Camera, well, we gotta wait for HP to release the sources for it, unfortunately. It's not something that's fixable until then. If you need a camera, you gotta use WebOS.
Earphone trick worked great. The sound thing is odd. I didn't get the scratchy sounds when I would plug the headphones in, turn on the AmbiSci app, pull up a sound and then turn off the screen. If I do the same with just the speakers running though, scratchy sounds. Makes me think it could be more hardware related than software.
Well . . this is even weirder. I have the volume down a little low. If I raise up the volume, I hit a part where the squeal starts. That seems strange.
Updated to Lollipop yesterday. Of course I'm using Sony's official update and not CM12. So yeah I didn't bother to.watch any videos or listen to music because I updated my phone very late at night. But today, I realised the Audio seems broken. How is it broken? Well, I play a YouTube video at max volume. Seems fine but a little soft for being at max. As soon as I drag it down just a bit, it's like impossible to hear anything. When it reaches half volume, it feels like the minumum volume and the minimum volume feels like it's muted. Anyone have the same problem?
Tl;dr: Can't hear jack **** on near max volume
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Updated to Lollipop yesterday. Of course I'm using Sony's official update and not CM12. So yeah I didn't bother to.watch any videos or listen to music because I updated my phone very late at night. But today, I realised the Audio seems broken. How is it broken? Well, I play a YouTube video at max volume. Seems fine but a little soft for being at max. As soon as I drag it down just a bit, it's like impossible to hear anything. When it reaches half volume, it feels like the minumum volume and the minimum volume feels like it's muted. Anyone have the same problem?
Tl;dr: Can't hear jack **** on near max volume
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Can't say I have the same issue, all seems fine for me
Just tested it, definitely not on my phone, all good here.
AnrgKrshn said:
Can't say I have the same issue, all seems fine for me
Just tested it, definitely not on my phone, all good here.
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Seems like many people are facing the same issue based on a thread on the General section.
LeParkour012 said:
Seems like many people are facing the same issue based on a thread on the General section.
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Maybe try reflashing.
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Maybe try reflashing.
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I've reflashed multiple region ftfs. Still the same. Many people are having this problem. Maybe you just don't notice the low volume
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I've reflashed multiple region ftfs. Still the same. Many people are having this problem. Maybe you just don't notice the low volume
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Umm, nope, I can notice cause I consume a lot of media on my phone.
Weird thing is, bluetooth is weird. I use it in my car, and in KK, when I made a call, it'd change to the phone audio on its own. Now it stays on bluetooth audio until the call connects and then switches to the phone audio mode. This was the case even with AOSP 5.0 ROMs :/ it's weirdly inconvenient cause if I'm using the aux, I won't know if the call is about to be connected, cause I can't hear the ringtone on the call :|
I'm using locked rooted Kitkat,
updated via Sony PC Companion without wiping anything
after the updating to lollipop, it charges so slow, even when it's turned off
I used all the chargers here.
I'm planning to go back to kitkat without losing any app data.
I have no recovery and not rooted in lollipop. What can I do?
sound is definitely broken, because xloud is missing, clearaudio+ isnt working neither.
Hello guys,
I'm facing a problem that the audio is so weak or low using the headphones, I tried many headphones but nothing also I tried to fix the equalizer but nothing...
I don't know what to do with this problem however i tried these headphones with other mobile (iPhone 5s) the sound was really really cool.
Anyone is facing this problem?
Thanks in advance
No. Sometimes the sound gets made a lot quieter and you look at the screen and it's not saying anything, so you increase the volume and only then do you get a message about volume damaging your hearing you have to ok before actually increasing the sound.
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No. Sometimes the sound gets made a lot quieter and you look at the screen and it's not saying anything, so you increase the volume and only then do you get a message about volume damaging your hearing you have to ok before actually increasing the sound.
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I already did that and the sound level is full but still low in the headphones
There is effects settings for headphones turn it off and the sound will be good, but via inbuild speaker it will be weak then.
bohusk said:
There is effects settings for headphones turn it off and the sound will be good, but via inbuild speaker it will be weak then.
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I already did that too but none..
And the music quality is 320kpps so what??
For me it changed the sound when i switched to normal or power saving mode the sound thru headphones changed to good quality.
This is weird, I don't think I have such issues
Sakshat Shinde said:
This is weird, I don't think I have such issues
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If you always wear headphones at anyplace you will notice it for sure.
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If you always wear headphones at anyplace you will notice it for sure.
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I listen to music on this phone all the time (FLAC though, not mp3), no problem here.
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I listen to music on this phone all the time (FLAC though, not mp3), no problem here.
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Not all music are available in FLAC.
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Not all music are available in FLAC.
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All the music I listen to is in FLAC.
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If you always wear headphones at anyplace you will notice it for sure.
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I do still I didn't notice, the I feel like the voice is kinda low when I use Spotify, but it works perfect with Poweramp, though I use FLAC
Can anybody tell me why sound level and quality is so low? Can't listen to my favourite music because it sounds like crap. I'm using BT headphones.
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I do still I didn't notice, the I feel like the voice is kinda low when I use Spotify, but it works perfect with Poweramp, though I use FLAC
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Yes the same too on Spotify and Anghami and I'm a lazy ass to download each music on my list. It's kinda bkring.
Is there any solution to boost your the audio?
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Can anybody tell me why sound level and quality is so low? Can't listen to my favourite music because it sounds like crap. I'm using BT headphones.
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Have you used decent headphones? I know people often use Bluetooth headphones but they are terrible (the protocol lossily encodes audio so even if you started with FLAC that's not what you'd end up with in your ears)? I listen exclusively to FLAC via both decent Sennheiser headphones and cheap Philips earbuds and they both sound great to me (via Rocket Player). So you have a problem but I don't think it's your choice of phone.
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Have you used decent headphones? I know people often use Bluetooth headphones but they are terrible (the protocol lossily encodes audio so even if you started with FLAC that's not what you'd end up with in your ears)? I listen exclusively to FLAC via both decent Sennheiser headphones and cheap Philips earbuds and they both sound great to me (via Rocket Player). So you have a problem but I don't think it's your choice of phone.
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Ofc it is SBC but there is no problem with Redmi note 4. I checked it with iPhone 6 and still no problem. Then I tried old p9 lite and... same problem. So huawei/honor is still have problem with Bluetooth. (I remember old p8 lite and problems with WiFi speed while using bt speaker)
My phone had decreased the sound of the speakers and it is really so noticible and it just happened today. Is there any solution?
Weirdly, I noticed this as well. Temporarily I installed volume booster from play store but I noticed there's very little volume from top speaker
EagleEye92 said:
Weirdly, I noticed this as well. Temporarily I installed volume booster from play store but I noticed there's very little volume from top speaker
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Same here. And it is weird as the speaker still has good quality which means that it is not affected.
mine as well i just noticed it after latest update
Mine is not a new thing I've noticed.
It's not permanently low. It's like I'll watch a video and the usb c port speaker is decently loud with a full sound and then about 5 mins in it fades to quiet and tinny. The front firing speaker seems unaffected.
Playing the video from the beginning doesn't change anything so it doesn't seem app specific. This has happened since day 1 but I don't listed to much out loud these days
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Mine is not a new thing I've noticed.
It's not permanently low. It's like I'll watch a video and the usb c port speaker is decently loud with a full sound and then about 5 mins in it fades to quiet and tinny. The front firing speaker seems unaffected.
Playing the video from the beginning doesn't change anything so it doesn't seem app specific. This has happened since day 1 but I don't listed to much out loud these days
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Aha I see. That's bad. Hope a new update will fix it.
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Mine is not a new thing I've noticed.
It's not permanently low. It's like I'll watch a video and the usb c port speaker is decently loud with a full sound and then about 5 mins in it fades to quiet and tinny. The front firing speaker seems unaffected.
Playing the video from the beginning doesn't change anything so it doesn't seem app specific. This has happened since day 1 but I don't listed to much out loud these days
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Same problem for me. I'm on 9.1.0.316
I needed call recorder function so I downgraded to 9.1 via HiSuite installed apk upgraded to 10.0.0.180 and I havent had any speaker issues since. I did previously have speaker issues before I downgraded.
dwojr said:
I needed call recorder function so I downgraded to 9.1 via HiSuite installed apk upgraded to 10.0.0.180 and I havent had any speaker issues since. I did previously have speaker issues before I downgraded.
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Cool. I live in Morocco so I hope I can the 180 update soon. And hope it will fix it.
I'm having this issue too, it drives me bonkers
Any solutions yet? Or just need to downgrade EMUI?
Hamza Makhchoune said:
My phone had decreased the sound of the speakers and it is really so noticible and it just happened today. Is there any solution?
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This change in volume is caused by Dolby Atmos. Whenever this happens when you're watching a video, you should try going to the dolby atmos settings, switching to a different mode (and then back if you want), and play the video again. The software automatically EQ's based on what you're listening to in a really dumb way, and the method I just described will let it forget and reset for a little while. I'm currently looking at a method to remove Dolby Atmos entirely in favor for an actually decent EQ.
Edit after 45 minutes:
I've removed Dolby! I crossed my fingers and removed it via adb.
The command I used in ADB was:
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pm uninstall -k --user 0 'com.huawei.imedia.dolby'
I had a little switch in my notification drawer which immediately was gone. In the settings there is no sight of the software either, and my phone speaker finally sounds fine! I hope this will work for you all too.
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This change in volume is caused by Dolby Atmos. Whenever this happens when you're watching a video, you should try going to the dolby atmos settings, switching to a different mode (and then back if you want), and play the video again. The software automatically EQ's based on what you're listening to in a really dumb way, and the method I just described will let it forget and reset for a little while. I'm currently looking at a method to remove Dolby Atmos entirely in favor for an actually decent EQ.
Edit after 45 minutes:
I've removed Dolby! I crossed my fingers and removed it via adb.
The command I used in ADB was:
I had a little switch in my notification drawer which immediately was gone. In the settings there is no sight of the software either, and my phone speaker finally sounds fine! I hope this will work for you all too.
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It really worked? lol, gonna try later too, btw, do you know how to install it back? Just to make sure nothing goes wrong in our future EMUI11 and HarmonyOS update.
JeffersonCaf said:
It really worked? lol, gonna try later too, btw, do you know how to install it back? Just to make sure nothing goes wrong in our future EMUI11 and HarmonyOS update.
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Yep, it works. The only thing that alters the audio now is if you plug your phone in, but that's not too bothering for me personally. You could try disabling it too, once you're shelled into your phone just type "pm help" and there should be a long list of commands you can apply.
Thanks for the tip! I bought a second hand cellphone, and I thought it was defective. I used the debloat software for huawei phones, and now it sounds how it should be. I just had to install an eq from playstore to use when using earbuds, because I felt it was sounding different. Now everything´s fine!!!
Seems it has re-activated itself on my phone, switch is still gone. I'll do a reset this afternoon to check the sound difference, but this fix seemed to be temporary for some reason...
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Seems it has re-activated itself on my phone, switch is still gone. I'll do a reset this afternoon to check the sound difference, but this fix seemed to be temporary for some reason...
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Yeah, read about it on a debloat post on P30 Pro forum, system apps aren't full removed through adb, it just disables for the current user (wich is user0/ default main user), without it, the uninstall command won't work, to remove completely it needs root acess, wich unfortunately we can't get, but I'm not sure if they are allowed to reinstall itself, unless a factory reset is made.
Edit: Guess what, uninstalling Dolby Atmos seems to dont fix the issue at all, but Dolby is still gone, maybe it has something to do with the system keeping some of its data in the storage, or this issue has something to do with some other system service. I'm installing dolby again and try to look for something else, seems to have nothing to do with dolby, since when using dolby with earphones it don't do that.
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This change in volume is caused by Dolby Atmos. Whenever this happens when you're watching a video, you should try going to the dolby atmos settings, switching to a different mode
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Yes this seems to have worked as a quick fix, thank you!
Will attempt to disable it completely later