App: SoundControl - Make A780 louder!No flashing, gain table

[ageraldnaveen]

Here we go.. the next one..

I have tested this on my A780 but Im almost sure that it might work for E680(i) too. But I cant assure though.

snip from README

========== SoundControl v 1.0 - by Gerald Naveen A ==================================

what is it: SoundControl is a utility to control the sound (input and output) in your
A780 (or alike) mobile phones. The phone as such does not have any interface for the
user to configure the sound. Even the applications like realplayer dont allow to set
the volume above a limit, even though the phone supports higher volume. This application
will allow you to set full volume on both speaker and microphone.

Using SoundControl:
There is no specific instruction for the usage. The UI is pretty simple. Please be
aware that, when you set a volume using my app, it does not necessarily mean that the
volume will remain set for ever. When you open another application (using sound), there
is potentially chances for that application to reset the volume to the desired ones.
You can click "Refresh" from the menu incase you want to know the current sound settings.

I use this for increasing my headset volume, mic volume when I attend calls. It makes
an amazing difference!!! try it!

Enjoy!

WARNING: Do not increase the output volume greater than 75% when in speaker mode. I
think the A780 speaker is not able to handle such high volume. Increase at your own
risk. However, on headset, you can increase as much as you want, and you can feel a
wonderful difference in the volume which you would 've never achieved earlier.

keywords for aiding search: sound control louder speaker headset microphone gain table

credits: sandman for suggesting this idea (though this does not satisfy all he wanted).

[ageraldnaveen]

Thoughts considered already:

* I was trying to give support for bass, treble (sandman wanted something like this i guess). But based on my research on the kernel source, it is clear that, A780 mixer driver does not support to adjust bass, treble. So I cannot do that. Infact, they have changed a lot of standard enumerations, so that existing linux code does not work . The alternate might be from intercepting that applications output and modifying on the fly. I am not sure if thats possible with the existing framework, and its beyond my knowledge too

* I was thinking about having a thread in this app to reset the sound settings every now and then, so that once you set a volume/mic combination, you can be sure that all apps will use them. If not, as I have already said in my README, most of the apps, do reset the sound to what they want and are obviously lower than what you could get from my app. However, running a thread might be a very costly approach, bcoz we might be setting the sound params, repeatedly unnecessarily since they dont change very often unless you open some app for sound. I am still considering to give a check box in the next version of SoundControl app, to enable this option, when required. users can comment on the necessity of such a feature.

* The speaker is not seeming to make a significant difference. I guess that the speaker is not capable of handlng such high amplitude, and thats probably why they have made the volume lower (just a guess). So I cannot do something specific to make the speaker louder than this. The code is the same for speaker and headset. On the other hand, the change in the headset is amazzzzzing!! and mic too, when I attend calls, it makes a good difference (thou the mic is already set at 93% while in a phone call).

[ageraldnaveen]

someone, who has used gaintable can compare the differnce between changing the gain table, and using my app. I personally feel that my app is doing programmatically what 's being changed in gain table.

it will be great if somone can do that test. I 've not played with gain table.

[V.Razr.X]

Do you think this would also work on the a1200?

[ndpndnt16]

wow another one...agerald how about if you combine the bass boost with this application
a little bassboost on and off in there hehe..i think its neat so load them up hehe

[ageraldnaveen]

Do you think this would also work on the a1200?

I dont know. I was hoping about E680 bcoz the kernel source for E680 and A780 are almost the same, and the features i've used are common for both E680 and A780. I 've not seen A1200 kernel source.

[ndpndnt16]

ageral i tried it in my e680i and the screen seems to big...i can see my exit button in half image

[ageraldnaveen]

ageral i tried it in my e680i and the screen seems to big...i can see my exit button in half image

Oops. sorry may be the QT libraries are different. I never knew that. I was saying compatible from the underlying driver functionalities.

[ndpndnt16]

yeah but it worked good

[sandman]

Kudos Gerald...

Brilliant work....works like a charm...

@ndpndnt16, it perfectly fits the E680i screen....not big, no half images...

E680i users, you might have to restart your phone before this application works.

Screenshot using E680i: