I bought a crappy earphone which was faulty and had the Stereo Channel all reversed. I could just put the it in the opposite ear, but that hurts like heck. I've been playing with the mixer_path.xml file and I've seen other people on other phones also editing it and it worked for them. But for me it didn't and that's why I'm here. Is there a specific line that I need to edit and also is there a mod or something that can do this? Thanks in advance, Kaze.
Wouldn't it be better to return the earphones and buy something else, especially if they're faulty?
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I've tried to find something in forum but with no luck.
After some weeks of use, my Kaisers started to have a bad audio quality with external speaker, even with ringtones.
I had the original Italian Rom but, also with Dutty's 06, it's the same.
Always distorted audio.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!
Have you been your device with the volume controls maxed out?
If so, it may be a bad sign. Kaiser's speaker is cheap, and maybe it tears out easily. From the moment I tried to listen to music with it, I could notice lots of cracks and buzz.
But it may be only a defective speaker of yours. Lowing the volume helps ?
ARGH!
mmm
maybe yes
but I've never used the device like an ipod
just only as a phone with the ringtones...
if the speaker is dead, where can I get one new?
:'(
thx in advance
Here's my first try in a quest to make the Diamond into an usable audio device. This will focus mainly on earphones, but if i get annoyed enough by it, there may be some hardware mods to the internal speaker (that is, if i actually decide to keep the phone).
I think we can all agree that the Diamond sounds like garbage. It's stupid loud but stupid thin. It's like listening to piezo tweeters. So, is it possible to change it? Well, there is hope. I want to share my results so far. This is for the supplied earphones but as soon as i have time i'm gonna hack a 3.5mm jack on the handsfree and test various other 'phones.
I threw the earphones on TrueRTA and was horrified of what i saw. But with some serious tweaking of the EQ, the graph started to look better. Anyway, jump right in and set your Audio Booster like this:
+6 +6 +2 0 +1 +2 -6 -6 -6 +3
This will take a fair chunk of loudness away, however i still find it plenty loud (and i like to listen loud, believe me). The distortion limit is 50-70% in Windows Media Player (depending on song) with the system volume at the middle bar. Now you can actually hear bass! Incredible. The next best thing you can do is get a pair of those foam buds that go over your earphones. This will make them couple tighter to your ears (basically that's why in-ear phones always have more bass, you can have the same effect with just those foam buds). Try it and you won't be disappointed.
Whoever has tried this, let me know if you like it. If you do, i'll post some before/after graphs too, so you can also see what you hear. Edit: I just noticed that the ROM i was using was volume modded. On stock settings distortion sets in at 70% media player volume with full system volume.
You can get 3.5mm adaptors on ebay for not much. I got one recently one with a microphone for about £3 I think. Then you don't need to modify you headset
I can't ebay since i don't have a card to put money on my paypal, besides, shipping costs to RO are quite expensive too. I found such an adapter locally, but for $15... i'd rather slice the headset thank you.
Heads up, good stuff coming.
Hey Dudes/Dev's
What i want:
I want to Create a Mod which us allow to use the Front Speaker+Side Speaker for Stereo Music
See Attached Pic...
I have tested the Loudness of the Front Speaker and i think the Volume Level is nearly the same to the Side Speaker!(?)
I want to let the Music play over the 2 Speakers like:
Front (Call-)Speaker=Left Audio Channel + Side (Loud-)Speaker=Right Channel=Stereo!?
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Steps:
-1. Find files which include the Speaker config. Maybe lib-so files?
-2. Find the right way to edit. Maybe i can compare the files between Tablet Z and Xperia Z to find the diffrence?
-#. Edit files to -> Playing Music-> 2 Speaker's active (2 Channels Left-Right),Call Option1-> 1 Speaker active,Call Option2-> 2 Speaker active
-3. Find a Way to make both Speaker's to the same Loudness Level
maybe more...
I really don't know what's needed for this so Please Help!
BR
Good idea
Another excellent idea, though sound when watching movies is allready pretty good, true stereo imaging would be a massive plus.
Good luck with this
Sent from my XZ C6603 - 4.2.2 HK. (UK Generic)
Thanks Guys!:fingers-crossed: only a thing of time
To bad that here is still no Dev. Section for things like that. This Thread will go fast to the last pages,and no one will see
BR:angel:
Sounds like a good idea but then again, earpiece is not nearly as powerful as the main speaker and can result in funny stereo audio lol FYI, the stereo speaker positions are a bit weird
In order to achieve in what you want, we need to route all audio playback to play on two channels which is the earpiece and speaker at the same time. We can either do this on a specific configuration file or kernel modifications. I am not sure how to do this as I haven't tried before but it's a start
It's too bad that Sony did not make two speakers positioned like the HTC one... Would of been epic...
Swiped from my Xperia Z (C6603)
you have amazing brain
good idea
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Sounds like a good idea but then again, earpiece is not nearly as powerful as the main speaker and can result in funny stereo audio lol FYI, the stereo speaker positions are a bit weird
In order to achieve in what you want, we need to route all audio playback to play on two channels which is the earpiece and speaker at the same time. We can either do this on a specific configuration file or kernel modifications. I am not sure how to do this as I haven't tried before but it's a start
It's too bad that Sony did not make two speakers positioned like the HTC one... Would of been epic...
Swiped from my Xperia Z (C6603)
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wow didnt see you Replied to this thread nice to hear from you...
It's really bad with the Speaker Position... sometimes my right hand mute the Speaker
but back to the idea... it's like you say,the Earpiece is not really Powerful (It's a really Clear Speaker,but no Bass) so you think it's not loud enough for stereo? Maybe we can use it to Support the other speaker (more Virtual Sound or such,i think you know whats good )
The Point is still to find out how we can use the second speaker :crying:
the only idea i have is to find the related files and watch the same files on a Stereo Speaker Tablet to see what we need to change...
when it works we have really found a General Mod for a lot of Devices with low Volume Speaker Devices.
B.R.
Miustone
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wow didnt see you Replied to this thread nice to hear from you...
It's really bad with the Speaker Position... sometimes my right hand mute the Speaker
but back to the idea... it's like you say,the Earpiece is not really Powerful (It's a really Clear Speaker,but no Bass) so you think it's not loud enough for stereo? Maybe we can use it to Support the other speaker (more Virtual Sound or such,i think you know whats good )
The Point is still to find out how we can use the second speaker :crying:
the only idea i have is to find the related files and watch the same files on a Stereo Speaker Tablet to see what we need to change...
when it works we have really found a General Mod for a lot of Devices with low Volume Speaker Devices.
B.R.
Miustone
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You won't find any related files which will route your speaker and earpiece together.
We need to re-route the audio playback with earpiece and speaker activated at the same time to make both speakers to sound like stereo. If you compare with Tablet Z, you will not find anything because the configurations for that is to route audio playback to both the speaker components and if we do that then it still won't work because we don't have that 2nd speaker.
If we can re-route the speakers into stereo, then we can manually increase the earpiece to make it sound as loud as the main speaker
This is just an idea remember, I don't actually know how we will do this
Any progress on this excellent idea?
Found mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/themes-apps/mod-stereomod-xz-v1-1-t2835995
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You won't find any related files which will route your speaker and earpiece together.
We need to re-route the audio playback with earpiece and speaker activated at the same time to make both speakers to sound like stereo. If you compare with Tablet Z, you will not find anything because the configurations for that is to route audio playback to both the speaker components and if we do that then it still won't work because we don't have that 2nd speaker.
If we can re-route the speakers into stereo, then we can manually increase the earpiece to make it sound as loud as the main speaker
This is just an idea remember, I don't actually know how we will do this
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Was just using My Mix 2 with this Method of Speaker usage and was remembering You and this Thread... It is so Popular right now, sad we don't have the Patent on it Mate :laugh: Loved to use Your work back in the Days <3
Just in Theory. If i would Create a Modern Smartphone... You would be the Man for the Audio Stuff. Giving 100% freedom in creativity and access to OEM exclusive Sources and Knowledge. I can Image that Device would be Mindbreaking...
I replaced the battery in my wife's phone and immediately afterwards I hear no audio from the earpiece. When I plugin headphones I can hear audio fine from the headphones, youtube pauses when I remove the headphones which indicates it does know that the headphones aren't plugged in and should be sending audio to the earpiece. Does anybody have any idea what connections might be the issue? I have taken the thing apart 4 times trying to find what connector might be misaligned with no luck thus far and really don't want to have to get another phone.
Same exact problem here...
Hi there archangelus2,
Have you ever found a fix to the problem? I also noticed that my loud speaker is now not as loud as it used to be... and by trial and error, I found out that squeezing the top right corner (looking at the screen) it gets a bit louder so I guess that some of the contacts aren't touching well or some other odd crap is going on. The phone is easy enough to open and take apart (if you know what you're doing and are very careful and gentle), but I did notice that given the complains that have been posted post-repair, it does not seem to be too reliable when putting it all back together. The earpiece going completely mute is complete nonsense for instance as there isn't all that much that could go "wrong" in those contacts and I wonder if something gets messed up at the software level after a replacement of hardware like the battery, is performed.
Any help and info will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers! and stay
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I replaced the battery in my wife's phone and immediately afterwards I hear no audio from the earpiece. When I plugin headphones I can hear audio fine from the headphones, youtube pauses when I remove the headphones which indicates it does know that the headphones aren't plugged in and should be sending audio to the earpiece. Does anybody have any idea what connections might be the issue? I have taken the thing apart 4 times trying to find what connector might be misaligned with no luck thus far and really don't want to have to get another phone.
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Is there anyway that you accidentally messed with the earpiece? There is a small rubber protector inside the phone on top of the earpiece, I suggest you check to make sure this is positioned properly on the speaker.
Best of luck,
Matt
Yes, I just got my earpiece fixed. I had a 16 GB AT&T model who's sound was terrific. Then i got greedy and went for a 32 GB latin american model (some telecom I forgot the name of) its earpiece sound was extremely low. I ordered 2 earpieces from ali express just in case they were to be changed. Yesterday I took it to a shop and the guy fixed the original earpiece by applying some tape around the earpiece to focus the sound out of one way and now its as good as new. $10 and am happy.
So yeah probably in your case I'd say he kinda misplaced the earpiece. You may get it checked.
I got my phone 2 days ago and this is the first time I used my AKG headphones and the right earbud got quieter and the bass was completely gone after 10 seconds of listening to music at a low volume. I tested the earbuds in my S6 and the issue was still here. I tested the S6 headphones in my S9 and it worked. It's clearly not a software issue but a hardware one. It looks like the right earbud has a big issue and to get a replacement I need to send my phone to Samsung :/ I simply don't want to. I want a new pair of AKG headphones. This is insane!
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Maybe this is your scenario. I know how it feels. This was me one week ago. The good news are that you can fix it The bad news are that the issue may happen again or my solution won't work for you. But let's hope for the best
Solution #1
What I did to get the right earbud volume back to normal (including the bass) was that I plugged the headphones in my S6 (it had the Surround Sound Mod which has a volume boost so I could play music at a higher volume than my S9) and then started playing music at max volume. I have listened to a powerful track (with a lot of bass) and then I blew air in the small hole from the affected earbud until it got back to normal. When I first heard of this fix I was like "How the hell is this going to work?! Maybe it's a stupid joke but let's try it anyway" and it worked. Maybe the bass is so powerful that the internal speakers' cones will get somehow stuck and no sound will come out. Blowing some air will fix the issue.
Solution #2(?)
Instead of blowing air you can use a strong magnet (I didn't test this). If it worked for you please let me know.
Solution #3(?)
Or try to suck the air from the big hole of the affected earbud. Again let me know if it worked.
Solution #4
Get a replacement.
Feel free to leave your thoughts here in this thread.