March 2009 unfixed :( <<<<SRS WOW>>>> For I900 (Freeze Prob unfixed! Project seems to meet the end)

[Guest KyleChen]

I knew lots of people try to make SRS WOW work on Omnia, and also i collected many version of " SRS WOW for Omnia i900" but none of them works on latest rom. well there are a few people said it works but keep on causing other problems like screen flashing.

I used SRS WOW for long time on my old HTC9100, and i had a happy life with it. After i get my new phone Omnia and update IA5 Rom from here i find out all versions of SRS WOW doesn't work including the "For Omnia Version" . This makes me very upset, and my upset usually lead to serious disasters..... i start to fix it.

after few minutes research i find out a funny thing, the omnia already build-in a sound affect filter called R2VS with main program called R2VS_ARM_WM6_PRO_Driver.dll and export the amended sound data to a standard wm driver called zylonite_wavedev2.dll. Also i find out all the "SRS WOW for Omnia" i collected from forums the registry parts of OldDLL which is the data export of SRS plugin were setted to " R2VS" which is also a sound affect filter. all these will lead to SRS WOW driver refusing to work.

SO i modify one of the .cab into the right registry setting , install it to my IA5 omnia i900, it works just great.

i uploaded the attachment, download&install&enjoy.

The program is safe to try because uninstallation is very complete.

It will disable the build-in R2VS 3D sound affect(only if you modified your registry to active it b4:)) of your i900, but give you the SRS WOW Sound affect which is times better.

I built this cab for myself, and it works perfect on latest IA5 rom, not sure the older rom have different sound drivers or not, so give some feedback.

if the feedbacks are good, help to spray this cab to other forums letting more ppl enjoy it cuz i am not a forum lover you can see this may be my only post.

WWE version

Made in China lol

....dont download, wait for further test.

find a screen wake up problem after idle.

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3 hrs time spent on files signiture things trying to find out a way to make the SRS WOW version 1.51 driver working on my baby i900

in order to solve the screen wake up problem.

although the 1.51 driver seems hate omnia for some reason.

Finally i make it! and i made a new .cab for the fixed drivers.

The cab is based on SRS WOW 1.21 but has 1.51 version drivers loaded behind, which has no conflict with IA5 system anymore.

ppl who down load my first version, please just uninstall it,reboot and reinstall this new one.

I collect more than 20 differents "SRSWOW" .cabs over internet and my one is the only working on Omnia, so far.

intr:

1, download the "Fixed" .cab and install. you better have IA5 rom or As NewAs Possible rom. i am not sure the very old roms have same sound driver and it is critical to this cab. but you can take a try, still go with good chance.

2, set your i900 into mouse mode- just in case if hardware confict happen to you, you will lost you control of buttons and touch screen( that is why it used to have waking up problem cuz all the buttons dont work) , but you still can use the mouse to uninstall this program (middle button always works), it is just a insurance, dont be scared B) lol

3, after installation, shut down the ppc,not reboot, i mean, long press the power or get out the battery or put it into water bla bla but dont just press the reset cuz it is not really reset the hardware of i900 but only reboot software system.

4, turn on the ppc, if you hear the samsung login sound, you nearly win.

turn on and off the screen about 10 times, if you have no trouble with them, you win, you will never have any problem ( I did over 100 times on my IA5 rom i900 and i am happy)

If on you rom you meet the screen refusing to turn on problem,just punch the reset, uninstall this software immediatly then do a shut down and turn on job (dont just press reset)then you'll be fine. the uninstall is checked by me, to be very complete and recover everything it did.

after you win goto settings-system tab, you'll see the WOW HD SETTING icon. click it, set up as whatever you like.

Best setting for this gloomy tone ppc is or close to:

80% 3D Effect

80% Center Effect

100% Focus Level

100% Definition Level

80% TruBass level

60Hz Speaker size

input and output use defaut.

The quality of music will rocket. b4 i never use i900 to listen mp3, but now it can be my EDC music player and i just copied hundreds of songs into it. the music sounds better than all my other pocket player.

Wish you good luck. :(

Plz read the introduction b4 you install.

And no matter you win or fail, plz leave the feed back to let others know.

If it works to most ppl, help me copy it to other forums cuz when i search online i knew massive i900 lovers are waiting for it. and i as a pc starter dont know much about other forums.

Frucking hell, it still not perfect refer to the reply and i am doing further modifications. i believe it is getting closer. i am a motor mechanic good at fixing things lol.

dont download if you can't accept that bug at moment.

Thank to all of you giving the feedbacks. im just start to research how to make a shell to the driver .dll to make it use different memory, with different priority or delay its loading. hope i can finally solve the problem.

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To all the friends who are waiting:

things comes to be serious now. last night i read dozens of technical pages and totally master the "WinCE device driver", i know how they are loaded, how they were written.

I rewrite the registry of the SRSWOW driver to give compatibility and set the power manage of this device to be always on( even ppc is sleep) , driver loaded well, but sleep to death problem still happen.

then i read other few dozens of technical pages to learn how to manage ppc device power, i thought the "sleep to death" problem only happen on i900 so it must be one of the OEM driver's conflict, Original wm6 devices should be all right. I manually manage all the samsung's devices power supplies, keep them "power always on" when i900 is sleeping. but same problem still happened.

so i add all the devices into the manage list, everything, including even the screen backlights, bluetooth, com ports, camera, usb port, flashlight bla bla, set all of them to be "always on" when ppc is sleep. what very interesting thing is, when i press the "Power button", the whole ppc will still work like nothing happen cuz all devices are kept to be power on.

Ok then i install the "SRSWOW" and press the power button. Unbelieveable i can see the ppc screen became dead in abt 1sec, even without real sleeping!! The screen and all other things are still power on but no response to touching and pressing.

so far i believe it is not the programs or drivers problem, combine with my earlier experience about "need to get out the battery to reset ppc, only reboot it wont restore" , i am pretty sure the srs wow hates i900's hardware,i mean one of the chips or devices on the phone's motherboard.

plus there is nearly no way to reverse engineer a driver,to say the project is dead. i feel so awful to quit, but like some cars you can only send them to wreckers.

nearly 15 hrs spent on all these things...and one day sick leave from work... ppl who insist to use WOW to listen music, just download the "fixed" attachment. you can install it and reboot before you listen, and uninstall after you finish. :P

15 hrs i reboot nearly 200 times, is there a world record thing?

To ferrari85, the conflict is getting to hardware and i dont think software(s2u2) can solve it. But during my earlier debug i did find out a thing : if i change the power management profile once (what the settings you changed on s2u2 can be a good case too), then before next time rebooting, the ppc can be safe to turn on/off many times.... it is something really weired. Another thing i find out is, i900 have strange power supply design: everytime the system try to change power status ,for example from unattended(no touching to the phone) into suspend(sleep), the ppc will shut down the power to all the device for like 0.1 second, then use the profile settings in registry to turn back on some of the devices to maintain the function of a sleeping ppc. This also is considered to be a possible reason of the problem, but like i said, it is a hardware.

SRS_WOW_Omnia_i900_only_By_Kyle.CAB

SRS_WOW_Omnia_i900_only_By_KyleChen_fixed.CAB

Edited March 6, 2009 by KyleChen

[Guest chivi]

....dont download, wait for longer test.

now find a screen wake up problem after idle.

Its working ,but my omnia was death 3 times so i uninstall aplication and its good now.

[Guest Tony Duan]

....dont download, wait for longer test.

now find a screen wake up problem after idle.

Await you can make it! :( I've tried the other SRS plugins and none of them work on my Omnia!

[Guest rith]

Still not work, after reboot no sound, run SRS no dll was loaded error msg. :(

Uninstall everything go back to normal

Edited March 5, 2009 by rith

[Guest BARBOSS]

It does not work and the second .cab!

The sound is not restored on DXIA5!

[Guest ntfcn]

KyleChen@ Mar 4 2009, 15:29

....dont download, wait for further test.

find a screen wake up problem after idle.

Never mind the rest i wrote, i saw what you wrote in the first post later. :P

Followed install instructions step by step. Seems sound working very well B) . If you press power button and allow screen light off you can turn screen on again but device wont wake up if screen goes off by itself because its idle :( , after soft reset everything seems ok though, but again when screen light goes off cuz its idle have to do soft reset to make it wake up again :D .

Btw using taril's latest IA5 custom rom atm.

Edited March 4, 2009 by ntfcn

[Guest gaurva3445]

Plz read the introduction b4 you install.

And no matter you win or fail, plz leave the feed back to let others know.

If it works to most ppl, help me copy it to other forums cuz when i search online i knew massive i900 lovers are waiting for it. and i as a pc starter dont know much about other forums.

here is what happened with me...

followed all the steps till the end

after the first reboot.. i heard the sound win 1 achieved!

then i switched off the screen and then pressed the centre button and the device wakes up.. win again B)

attempt to do the same for the second time leads to fail.. :(

tried the entire process from fresh install with same results

so.. i guess u have more work to do.. good luck~

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[Guest cobrica]

What is this anyway?

Tnx.

[Guest ntfcn]

Hehe seems you like fixing, good luck then, i hope you can make it work on omnia without any serious bugs.

Really appreciate what your doing now, its definitely a good program that must found on every omnia who likes listening music with their ppc's.

*Btw i found a trick to solve the freeze problem in idle screen off state.

It seems its all related with winmo default power manager driver and modified wow driver conflict at start up. (my opinion)

Ok sorry for the first tip i mentioned here seems it cause some problems, here what i found at last.

*WOW setting seems enabled by default at start up if user disables it after start up (preferably before omnia screen goes off :( ) and re enables it wont cause freeze somehow.

So any talented mortscript writer who can make a automated script which can disable and re enable the state of the SRS WOW setting at start up will solve this problem.

(I dont know how to deal with mortscript atm so don't ask me, even not sure it can be done with script. If wow setting has reg value for enable and disable state it can be done with it, that's what i thought but only thought B) )

Seems KyleChen already realized it, delaying its enable state at start up or doing disable and re enable process as i wrote here can solve the freeze problem.

Edited March 4, 2009 by ntfcn

[Guest frendi]

thanks..i will try...

[Guest alvaroesc]

Hi!!

I installed it and after did a soft reset (I didn´t shut down the device). It worked perfectly, included the 3D efects and there was no problem with screen

The problems with screen come when you shut down, then it doesn´t turn on.

Mi ROM is DHKL3

Edited March 4, 2009 by alvaroesc

[Guest maf107ezk0]

Doesn`t work for me - no samsung tune or any kind of music :( I`m using DXHK1

[Guest chokia]

Step 4: no login sound after boot so i didnt win.

My FW = DXAI5/BUIB1 WM6.5

[Guest Tony Duan]

Not sound after turning off and on on my DXIA2!

In the SRS WOW HD settings it says: There is no WOW HD driver loaded. The control panel will now exit.

I'll test it again with my friend Omnia,his rom is A5.

Hope you can fix it!

Come on dude I'm sure you can make it!

[Guest Tony Duan]

By the way, after idle screen off the screen freezed :(

[Guest komsa]

No sound on my Omnia DXIA5-QB06 , after uninstalling everything got back to normal.......hope you wil fix this for everyone......best regards :(

[Guest Tony Duan]

Appreciate your hard work anyway!And I hate that chip :(

[Guest ntfcn]

Thanks for all your efforts KyleChen for trying to to adapt srs wow for omnia, at least we know there seems to be a hardware conflict after all your experiments. Appreciate your all efforts here thanks again, but how sad that a great ppc with great customization options like omnia has a bad sound driver with lack of user customization options to improve quality, made people to search alternatives and try to adapt another ppcs applications to have better quality in listening music. May be there will be more options in later version omnias or later roms will have better sound options who knows. :(

[Guest rith]

poor KyleChen :(

[Guest biopc]

Hi, thanks a lot KyleChen! i followed your installation steps and its working without any problems. Tested with an old original XKHJ3 (dutch) rom .

I was some time looking for a working SRSWOW on my i900 with no success.

Sound quality is simply amazing!, it brings a whole new sound experience playing music or films.

Yet another reason to keep my Omnia longer :(

Edited March 6, 2009 by biopc

[Guest ferrari85]

I think i found something. First, i followed all the steps and installed the fixed cab files. Shut down and on and try the on off screen. First time, off and on, no probs. Second time off, but can't on. So i softset to try again.

This time, i disabled my s2u2 by running ilock, and proceeded to try the on off screen test again.

Guess wad, the bug disappears!!! I on off my screen lots of times, even try to let the screen shut down by itself and try to on it, no problems. So, i proceed to enable my s2u2 again. This time the screen bug came back.

So, conclusion; the screen bug was caused conflict with s2u2 (i think)

Edit: The bug disappears if i disable the "power save" option in s2u2.

Edited March 6, 2009 by ferrari85

[Guest spin_x]

do u mind let us know what version os s2u2 r u using on ur device?

[Guest Buzzzzer]

not unlike work on official i900PUHJ2. wm6.1 ver. 5.2.20270

But after install and turn off/on my ppc I uncheck and check "Enable" switch in WOW settings.

ps. Sorry for my English ))

[Guest alvaroesc]

Congratulation KyleChen, it worked with me!! So it is not a hardward problem. Now, I´ll tell the steps I did (I´ve DXIA2 ROM, translated and customized by Franlov);

1) BEFORE TO INSTALL THE CAB, I quit all "batery save options", in configuratión->sistem->batery

2) install de cab

3) Shut down the phone (no soft reset)

4) turn on

5) Restore the options changed in step 1

Thanks again KyleChen. It would be greate if it works on any ROM´s

Edited March 6, 2009 by alvaroesc

[Guest vosje505]

unfortunatly it didn't worked for me

dutch t-mobile

pda : i900xkhh4/athh5

phone: i900bohh2

Edited March 6, 2009 by vosje505