51 replies to this topic

[dakok]

Blobs folder?

[mack_]

you only need the system.img and the boot.img

[bladebuddy]

raverrr, on 20 February 2013 - 09:02 PM, said:

Nope. should be <300mb including crap.

Make sure he is not uploading it with all his apps added if making a nandroid.

[bladebuddy]

bladebuddy, on 20 February 2013 - 09:12 PM, said:

Make sure he is not uploading it with all his apps added if making a nandroid.

Sorry answered above.

[yaqh]

interesting update.would like to test.

[matrakio]

1 gb of that 1,6 gb backup is of the file .android_secure.img

jsevi83, on 20 February 2013 - 09:01 PM, said:

Upload only system.img and boot.img inside a zip.

I'm uploading system.img and boot.img inside a zip to dropbox
aprox ~245 mb

[kieranswhite]

That sounds about right to me

[mack_]

matrakio, on 20 February 2013 - 09:28 PM, said:

1 gb of that 1,6 gb backup is of the file .android_secure.img



I'm uploading system.img and boot.img inside a zip to dropbox
aprox ~245 mb

Yh that's about right...
How fast is your upload speed btw?

[JackRackham]

hi matrakio... before sending off the phone to warranty, were you on ICS? how would you describe the volume of ringtones and alarms on this B960?

[matrakio]

mack_, on 20 February 2013 - 10:10 PM, said:

Yh that's about right...
How fast is your upload speed btw?

sry guys but this is going to be long,
slow upload speeds.. and my internet connection today is getting random drops.

[matrakio]

JackRackham, on 20 February 2013 - 10:53 PM, said:

hi matrakio... before sending off the phone to warranty, were you on ICS? how would you describe the volume of ringtones and alarms on this B960?

yes, I were with b936, good and loud enough just like b936.

[matrakio]

here it is

https://www.dropbox....fonePT.b960.zip

[mack_]

Made a repack...uploading now

[Cyda]

mack_, on 21 February 2013 - 02:28 AM, said:

Made a repack...uploading now

Nice one, saves me the hassle. I hope you've actually tested this one though... Remember the last one?

[mack_]

Cyda, on 21 February 2013 - 08:24 AM, said:

Nice one, saves me the hassle. I hope you've actually tested this one though... Remember the last one?

i remember the last one..updater script checked and i flashed it on my phone before uploading...

[JackRackham]

matrakio, on 20 February 2013 - 11:12 PM, said:

yes, I were with b936, good and loud enough just like b936.

Well, thanks a lot for the info, let's hope a clean stock update.app shows up somehow!
I'm downloading the repack because I wanna checkout some stuff, maybe we can apply a patch to actual B952... I'll keep you guys informed on any progress!
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JackRackham

[JackRackham]

Looking for something, I found something else...

I usually hook up my phones to my car stereo line in to use it as a media player or with turn-by-turn navigation. With my G300 I have a problem: the output seems to have a very strong echo.
I managed to solve the problem disabling the DTS feature in the Audio section.

Looking in the B952 build.prop file I noticed these strings:

ro.config.hw_dts=true
ro.config.hw_dtsmode=true
ro.config.hw_music_dts=false

I played with different true/false combinations... with everything set to false I noticed a little increase in ringtones volume, but that might be placebo effect...

Then I looked into the B960 build.prop file, and I noticed that those strings are not even there, so Vodafone and/or Huawei decided that are not useful!

Result: commenting or deleting those 3 strings on B952 actually disable the DTS option in the Audio section, permanently solving the "echo" problem for me

Anyone wants to experiment with that and confirm/deny the increase in volume? But warning, as I said, I might be wrong!

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JackRackham

[JackRackham]

Ok guys, I think I got some working results to show off!

If different builds behave differently about ringtones volumes, the issue must be software related.

So I downloaded CWM repacks of B936 (reported to have loud ringtones), B952 Vodafone and B960 Vodafone (also reported to have loud ringtones)

I went looking into the build.prop files and compared them with my B952 General Version and I found out that my version has some missing strings. The one that caught my attention was:

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ro.config.ringtone_vol_adjust=true

I added this string to my build.prop file and changed "true" to "false" (without quotes!), did a reboot and that's it, louder volumes!!!

This time the difference is more evident just by using your ears, but I did some recording tests (nothing too scientific, but still gave evidence!)

The test was made by recording the same ringtones / alarms / notifications sounds with both true and false options, with the phone speaker placed 5 cm from a microphone using Audacity. In every screenshot you will find both Waveform and Spectrogram views.

The volume gain seems more evident when using a ringtone, but something also happens to alarms and notifications.

Please, try this one and let me what you think about it!

These are my results:

RINGTONE



NOTIFICATION



ALARM



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JackRackham

[Combat Gerbil]

Certainly seems to work for me... running stock ICSB960...   Nice find..

Edited by Combat Gerbil, 22 February 2013 - 05:18 PM.

[unaszplodrmann]

Nice one, Jack

Just had a look at B960 in comparison to B952; there are changes to audio libs and the libbcc JIT library, and the kernel is also different. aapt reckons all the APK versions are the same.