So, I just opened Dolby Atmos while my N7 music player was going, then I got the "Unfortunatly, Dolby has stopped". I've cleared all the data and cashe, restarted the phone and I get the same error.
I just spent over 2 hours downloading all my apps and setting it up, now I think the only option I have is to do a factory reset :crying:
Anyone have any tips on how to get it working again? It sounds really thin and lifeless without Dolby on.
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I just factory reset my phone, gonna start over.....ugh
tele_jas said:
So, I just opened Dolby Atmos while my N7 music player was going, then I got the "Unfortunatly, Dolby has stopped". I've cleared all the data and cashe, restarted the phone and I get the same error.
I just spent over 2 hours downloading all my apps and setting it up, now I think the only option I have is to do a factory reset :crying:
Anyone have any tips on how to get it working again? It sounds really thin and lifeless without Dolby on.
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I just factory reset my phone, gonna start over.....ugh
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Oh yeah. Dolby Atmos and certain music player apps can't be used at the same time.
Go to Settings > Application Manager/Apps > All > Dolby, and force stop. Then wait and when it becomes available clear data. Restart the phone and see if Dolby will load then
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Go to Settings > Application Manager/Apps > All > Dolby, and force stop. Then wait and when it becomes available clear data. Restart the phone and see if Dolby will load then
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Tried that, didn't work... Only fix was uninstalling n7 music player, then doing that with Dolby.
So there seems to be a compatibility problem with n7. Poweramp locked it up, but didn't fc it.
Shuttle +, stock, and Google music all work fine
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For what it's worth..
I tried replicating the issue so I could give the steps on how to get it working again.....So I downloaded n7 player again, started playing music and then went to Dolby and turned it on. I got the "force close" and went through my steps of removing n7, then going to the Dolby app (in settings) and doing a force stop, clearing the data and cashe - then rebooted and tried opening Dolby again, it did NOT open! I messed around with it for about 30 minutes and even went into the stock recovery and tried wiping the cashe (I think that was what I did). It reset all my apps and data, but didin't delete anything - Dolby still didn't open, so I had to perform a 2nd factory reset!
Luckily, I did find the backup data and backup apps in the settings, which took my setup down to about 25 minutes vs 1.5 hours.
***(NOTE TO SELF) - Don't install n7 music player, again!
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For what it's worth..
I tried replicating the issue so I could give the steps on how to get it working again.....So I downloaded n7 player again, started playing music and then went to Dolby and turned it on. I got the "force close" and went through my steps of removing n7, then going to the Dolby app (in settings) and doing a force stop, clearing the data and cashe - then rebooted and tried opening Dolby again, it did NOT open! I messed around with it for about 30 minutes and even went into the stock recovery and tried wiping the cashe (I think that was what I did). It reset all my apps and data, but didin't delete anything - Dolby still didn't open, so I had to perform a 2nd factory reset!
Luckily, I did find the backup data and backup apps in the settings, which took my setup down to about 25 minutes vs 1.5 hours.
***(NOTE TO SELF) - Don't install n7 music player, again!
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Yeah, Dolby isn't compatible with every music app. I turn it off while listening to power amp as it locks up. But with YouTube or Google play music, I turn it on. Good things there's a quick toggle
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osmosizzz said:
Yeah, Dolby isn't compatible with every music app. I turn it off while listening to power amp as it locks up. But with YouTube or Google play music, I turn it on. Good things there's a quick toggle
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I would forget to toggle and would jack it all up again.. Already performed 2 resets last night, not ready for a 3rd until the bootloader gets unlocked and I flash a custom ROM :highfive: ! So I'll just stick to compatible music apps. ....I like Shuttle+, just not as much as n7 or PowerAmp
Does anyone know if Dolby Atmos has any problem with VLC player?
celticchrys said:
Does anyone know if Dolby Atmos has any problem with VLC player?
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Just tried it, works fine with VLC!
Dolby Atmos works with Neutron.
What about PlayerPro?
Spotify also works
I think the said apps must be updated by their devs or is it something related to Dolby itself?
If some brave soul with the phone is willing, I'd say re-test power amp.
Right after installing it, without playing any music, go to audio > advanced tweaks, and disable both direct volume control and Bluetooth Direct Volume Control. Just a guess, but similar to how ViperAudio functions, disabling those should make power amp play nice. Not sure about n7 thou, never used it.
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If some brave soul with the phone is willing, I'd say re-test power amp.
Right after installing it, without playing any music, go to audio > advanced tweaks, and disable both direct volume control and Bluetooth Direct Volume Control. Just a guess, but similar to how ViperAudio functions, disabling those should make power amp play nice. Not sure about n7 thou, never used it.
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Lol......I'm not brave enough! My phone has been running flawless now since Friday, but Thursday I had to do 2 factory resets... Not ready to "test" and have to do a 3rd just yet.
Maybe later this week, or weekend? I really miss n7, but I kind of forgot how nice (and simple) Shuttle+ is
Dolby Atmos works with Poweramp Alpha Build 703.
Just an update.... Dolbly Atmos no longer FC's on the B27 build while using n7, it just doesn't turn on at all when n7 is installed. The stock EQ works on n7, but you lose the system wide EQ of Dolby Atmos.
I wish there was a way to completely disable the EQ inside n7 player and just use Dolby Atmos. It shows "off", but somewhere in it's code it has something that Dolby Atmos recognizes and won't turn on until it's completely uninstalled.
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Just an update.... Dolbly Atmos no longer FC's on the B27 build while using n7, it just doesn't turn on at all when n7 is installed. The stock EQ works on n7, but you lose the system wide EQ of Dolby Atmos.
I wish there was a way to completely disable the EQ inside n7 player and just use Dolby Atmos. It shows "off", but somewhere in it's code it has something that Dolby Atmos recognizes and won't turn on until it's completely uninstalled.
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n7 Player October 19th release - UPDATE
Now, Dolby Atmost disables when the player is on and as long as it's in the recent apps list.... If you close the player, clear it out of the recent apps and make sure it's swiped out of the notification bar, then Dolby will work.
I tried turning off the n7 graphic EQ and other EQ's.......Dolby still didn't work. I then found a setting under "other" (still in the EQ menu) that had the Dolby options (Music, Movie, Talk, ect...)... When I set it to "Music", it sounded really good, but when I tried to open Dolby Atmos to adjust it, Dolby Atmos crashed....So I don't think it's the same "Dolby" and may be the reason behind all the conflicts. I had to uninstall n7 completely to get Dolby Atmos to work again.
Getting frustrated with this... I like Shuttle+ and I also found Rocket Player for $3.99 in the Amazon app store.....But I miss my n7 Player.
Foobar also works very well. I'm using it along with VLC, Spotify and Youtube for my media needs, and every app works with dolby.
disable 10 band eq in n7 it will work
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I've been experiencing the "bug" where I would plug in a set of headphones and the Music app would start playing, even with it previously closed. Sometimes I would get sound out of both the headphones and speakers (with terrible quality, BTW) and would have to unplug and plug in the headphones again.
So I searched and found a free app called Disable Autoplay. I installed it last night and when I got to work this morning and plugged in my headphones, PowerAMP started up and started playing music, badly. I figured out that there's an option within Poweramp itself to stop that behavior, but it still sounded like crap no matter what I did, even toggling media control off/on/off in the Disable Autoplay app. I even uninstalled the app, then rebooted, same issue.
Finally I had to toggle Dolby Digital off then back on in Settings in order to get good sounding audio back.
I haven't had the Music app, or nemoplayer (which sometimes exhibited the same behavior as Music) autostart at all this morning, which is good, and I've edited the options in Poweramp not to start (or resume) when headphones are inserted or removed.
Has anyone else used this app and had these types of issues? I'm wondering if I reinstall it if I'm going to get the crappy audio again and won't be able to toggle Dolby off/on again to get it back. I'm really wondering if I should bother reinstalling it, since Music isn't doing its autostart anymore anyway.
Well this is crap. Every time I reboot my Tab, I have to toggle Dolby off and on in order for audio to sound right. Time for a reset.
I suggest staying away from Disable Autoplay. It seems to have do bad things, at least to the Iconia.
Trying to achieve maximum audio quality from the axon 7 and was wondering what setup you guys are using?
Has anyone successfully flashed Viper4android?
What streaming services would be best to take advantage of the Built in Dac?
How do we know if the DAC is working? 0_o
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So after failing on the first try I restored using the twrp backup and gave it another shot and success!
what you'll need:
1. Root and backup before doing anything (duh)
2. Then install Busy Box. Open Busy Box app and hit install on the bottom left. after it shows a successful install DON'T reboot.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox&hl=en
3. Install SElinuxModeChanger. Open SElinuxModeChanger and hit Permissive option
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=12506
4. Now install Viper4Android apk .Open Viper and you'll be prompted to install a4v driver. Click Yes and after it will say to reboot but DON'T reboot.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ar5men9o5ar7inb/ViPER4Android_FX_v2401_A4.x-A6.x.apk
5. Open Dobly and make sure its off.
6.NOW reboot and your all set.
Everything is working nicely together Dobly and viper works just like it should.
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Trying to achieve maximum audio quality output from the axon 7 and was wondering what setup you guys are using?
Has anyone successfully flashed Viper4android?
What streaming services would be best to take advantage of the Built in Dac?
How do we know if the DAC is working? 0_o
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I just got it working after reading your post. I installed it by installing busybox(I believe this is needed, but not completely sure), then setting selinux to permissive, and then installing V4A 2.4.0.1.
I can't recommend any streaming services as I only listen to music locally on my device, but I will say it sounds MUCH better than Dolby Atmos when it's properly configured. I would recommend just turning off Dolby Atmos when listening to headphones. If you're listening to the loudspeakers V4A doesn't do too much so I would leave Dolby Atmos enabled in that case.
If you want to know if V4A is working, hit the menu button in the top right corner of the screen and tap on driver status. It should say the status is normal. If driver status says abnormal then it didn't install correctly.
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I just got it working after reading your post. I installed it by installing busybox(I believe this is needed, but not completely sure), then setting selinux to permissive, and then installing V4A 2.4.0.1.
I can't recommend any streaming services as I only listen to music locally on my device, but I will say it sounds MUCH better than Dolby Atmos when it's properly configured. I would recommend just turning off Dolby Atmos when listening to headphones. If you're listening to the loudspeakers V4A doesn't do too much so I would leave Dolby Atmos enabled in that case.
If you want to know if V4A is working, hit the menu button in the top right corner of the screen and tap on driver status. It should say the status is normal. If driver status says abnormal then it didn't install correctly.
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Installed V4A the same way you did and its working great. Only problem I'm having now is that my dolby keeps crashing when opening the app.
Is your Dolby working ok with Viper?
If so, are you able to upload a back up of your Dolby app and Dolby Service file? Mine must of got corrupted when installing Viper.
Xshooter726 said:
Installed V4A the same way you did and its working great. Only problem I'm having now is that my dolby keeps crashing when opening the app.
Is your Dolby working ok with Viper?
If so, are you able to upload a back up of your Dolby app and Dolby Service file? Mine must of got corrupted when installing Viper.
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Mine is working fine. I was actually surprised it worked so flawlessly. Have you tried uninstalling it to see if Dolby started working again? Do you think having Dolby enabled/disabled when installing the V4A driver would have an effect? I can't remember if mine was on or not. I'm just trying to think of differences that could have happened between our installs.
I wouldn't mind uploading the Dolby app and Service file, but I'm not quite sure how. Do you just want the two Dolby backups from a Titanium Backup or do you need something more?
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Mine is working fine. I was actually surprised it worked so flawlessly. Have you tried uninstalling it to see if Dolby started working again? Do you think having Dolby enabled/disabled when installing the V4A driver would have an effect? I can't remember if mine was on or not. I'm just trying to think of differences that could have happened between our installs.
I wouldn't mind uploading the Dolby app and Service file, but I'm not quite sure how. Do you just want the two Dolby backups from a Titanium Backup or do you need something more?
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Yeah, not really sure what went wrong. Think you could be right about having it enabled when flashing Viper. I've been going at it for hours trying to get it working again lol. I've tried installing other versions of Dolby, Uninstalling Viper and wiping catch but still nothing.
If you could upload your titanium back up that would be great. It might be a unique version of Dolby that comes with our Axon's.
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Yeah, not really sure what went wrong. Think you could be right about having it enabled when flashing Viper. I've been going at it for hours trying to get it working again lol. I've tried installing other versions of Dolby, Uninstalling Viper and wiping catch but still nothing.
If you could upload your titanium back up that would be great. It might be a unique version of Dolby that comes with our Axon's.
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Sorry, it's going to be a bit longer. I don't have enough posts yet to link anything lol. I will when I can though.
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Sorry, it's going to be a bit longer. I don't have enough posts yet to link anything lol. I will when I can though.
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lol No problem man. Thanks for trying to help me out any ways. Its really not a big deal not having dolby when you have viper installed. Been messing with some Viper settings and the difference in audio is Huge.
Dolby also force closes for me after installing V4A. Kind of disappointing, as I really found the surround sound effect to be quite nice. I'll just go back to using Dolby for now.
dennis96411 said:
Dolby also force closes for me after installing V4A. Kind of disappointing, as I really found the surround sound effect to be quite nice. I'll just go back to using Dolby for now.
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Updated the OP with steps on how I got it working.
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Updated the OP with steps on how I got it working.
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Working fine now. Thanks!
Okay, slight problem. The HiFi toggle now has no effect in any player, even the stock one. So now I'm stuck using the Snapdragon DAC.
Can you please try to install arise sound mod 3.3 and report back if the sound is now utter perfection
Arise 3.3 working perfectly here.
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Arise 3.3 working perfectly here.
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Does it further improve the sound to a noticeable amount and can you still use Dolby & the hifi dac option.
Thank you for your reply btw
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Does it further improve the sound to a noticeable amount and can you still use Dolby & the hifi dac option.
Thank you for your reply btw
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For me it does improve the sound noticeably. Dolby doesn't work and haven't tried the hi-fi option. From what I've gathered Dolby only works on stock music and Poweramp. Arise 3.3 works everywhere.
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So, I installed arise numbers 3.5 and viper works fine (viper driver says processing: yes), but Dolby crashes every time I try to open it. Is dolby still required after viper is installed?
Has anyone tried VLC player yet? I tried it and it seems to work just fine with the Hi-Fi option and Dolby Atmos.
It has also great functionality: plays music (stereo/5.1) and video, supports subtitles, etc.
EDIT: ah, and I didn't root. Just installed the app. I can fiddle with Dolby settings while music is playing; video pauses when I open the settings while playing, but resumes after I close.
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So, I installed arise numbers 3.5 and viper works fine (viper driver says processing: yes), but Dolby crashes every time I try to open it. Is dolby still required after viper is installed?
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no, when you have properly set up viper, the dolby app is useless anyway
I'm tired of not being able to use the music player I've used the past couple years, plus Dolby Atmos turns on and off randomly each time I start my music player, or plug in my earbuds - sometimes from song to song....So I'm ready to bite the bullet and instal V4A or maybe even Arise 3.5?
When I do that, I understand that Dolby Atmos won't work.....But would it hurt anything if I uninstall it, or disable it, using TitaniumBackup?
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I'm tired of not being able to use the music player I've used the past couple years, plus Dolby Atmos turns on and off randomly each time I start my music player, or plug in my earbuds - sometimes from song to song....So I'm ready to bite the bullet and instal V4A or maybe even Arise 3.5?
When I do that, I understand that Dolby Atmos won't work.....But would it hurt anything if I uninstall it, or disable it, using TitaniumBackup?
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I've got Dolby and V4A both working just fine. The problem with Dolby seems to happen when A4V is flashed when Dolby is active. You could try turning Dolby off and freezing it. Would also be a good idea to back up the 2 Dolby files in TitaniumBackup.
Is the Dolby Atmos "EQ" a little too wonky/too sensitive to adjust for anyone else?
Does anyone else think that the EQ is too "wonky" when adjusting, or is it just me?......For example, I get it set *almost* how I want it - about half a song later I'll go in and try to just add a touch more top end (last fader on right)...But as soon as I touch the fader, all the other faders seem to reset to default, or just change to a new random position? So, now I have to start all over. I know I've got like 5 seconds to make changes before they're saved, but most times it takes me a couple songs to dial in the EQ.
Am I missing something, or just not understand how to use it? I'm the sound man in my band and we have four 31 band EQ's in our rack that don't give me this much trouble, Lol.
Does your axon remember the custom preset? Mine keeps going back to music after regular intervals...
@tele_jas yes. And it's not just this Dolby, I feel on the few Dolby ports I've used on my previous phone HTC m8 it's been the same. I have used viper4android or Poweramp if I want to adjust e q.
I usually set the e q to flat or open and use the options I just mentioned. For me I'm just having Dolby on for the sound leveler and the surround enhancement libs
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Does your axon remember the custom preset? Mine keeps going back to music after regular intervals...
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No, mine always seems to go back to "Music" randomly.... It also doesn't seem to save any adjustments to "Music" after a while? I'll go in and check it, and it's all reset to default.... And this is just randomly? Sometimes headphones cause this, sometimes a reboot causes this, sometimes I'll hear it switch from one song to the next.
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@tele_jas yes. And it's not just this Dolby, I feel on the few Dolby ports I've used on my previous phone HTC m8 it's been the same. I have used viper4android or Poweramp if I want to adjust e q.
I usually set the e q to flat or open and use the options I just mentioned. For me I'm just having Dolby on for the sound leveler and the surround enhancement libs
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Yeah, I've tried several Dolby ports on my past phones.... Never liked any of them either. Yes, I love the way Dolby makes my phone sound, but it's a pain in the rear to keep having to set it up all the time.
I've tried a few audio mods, I may look back into them again. I don't have a $150 pair of earbuds, or a fancy car stereo....I honestly can't tell much difference in the hi-fi audio, as long as it sounds good through the speakers and what I have to work with, I'm good. But I've also had issues with V4A when I tried it on this phone too... It turns off randomly and will sometimes take a second or two to kick in when I start a song, so there is a noticeable volume difference once the FX processing starts. That's why I went back to Dolby Atmos.
I was going to start a thread about this until I saw this,
It is the same for me, It has been bugging me since day one and I really despise it. I love to listen to my music on a higher bass, so when I use the slider and slide up, it goes back down to 50% which really annoys me!, I can slide up and hold on it but I am not willing to Hold my finger on the screen while I listen to music, this seriously needs to be fixed, just makes me wonder is it a mistake from Dolby or are we missing something here?
If you slide up and hold on the screen then lock it, surprisingly it stays there, after locking the screen or clearing the Dolby settings from the RAM, it goes back to normal.
First ZTE Phone, have it for 5 months, not impressed.
wondered this myself how does it work. The slider just goes back down again
Here's the only problem I have with my new Axon 7:
I'm listening to Beyondpod, and I switch Dolby Atmos on and set it to Voice (I usually have it off because Poweramp sounds better with it's own DVC).
I pause Beyondpod, press play again and Atmos immediately switches to Music mode. Every. Single. Time. Every time I press pause then play, BAM straight to Music mode. What kind of bug is this?
This has happened to me with Podcast Addict, but not whenever I pause. I think it's how the Dolby Atom app is programmed. Certain apps or types of apps seem to trigger certain modes.
Yep, same random issue... Seems better since B29 (USA model), but every so often it'll reset.
I'm rooted and tried a few different "sound mods" that disabled Dolby Atmos.... I liked them, but there must be something with the A7 audio chip that throws other mods off. V4a kept losing volume and resetting to flat (even though the faders showed my settings. A few others made it distort and sound bad. So, I restored my back up and am sticking with DA for now.
Forgot to say I'm stock, B29 A2017U.
Glad it's not just me. Hopefully a patch will sort it out. I really miss Viper, but if you're having problems with it too then I'm in no rush to root to get it back!
I also have this issue... each time a new song/video is played whatever the app used, dolby resets to music preset. It seems to be another glitch of MiFavor/dolby integration. I have also posted in this thread: https: //community.zteusa.com/thread/13346 to no avail. Some moderator advised to clear all the app data, didn't work for me. So it makes dolby quite useless as for me, and the sound output of the G model isn't really its trump card to begin with. I 'm on the B05 build by the way.
oops posted on wrong board somehow
Can someone move to galaxy s5e?
Recently on my husband's tab the audio has been out of sync from video.
Specially on YouTube the audio is in FRONT of the video which is weird.
It's all stock firmware etc. Latest updates. Running build ending in AESB
One UI version 1.1
Android 9
Rebooting fixes for a little bit but then it just comes back
Have cleared cache etc
Any ideas?
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oops posted on wrong board somehow
Can someone move to galaxy s5e?
Recently on my husband's tab the audio has been out of sync from video.
Specially on YouTube the audio is in FRONT of the video which is weird.
It's all stock firmware etc. Latest updates. Running build ending in AESB
One UI version 1.1
Android 9
Rebooting fixes for a little bit but then it just comes back
Have cleared cache etc
Any ideas?
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same here. WIFI version of tablet. after reboot jus until tablet goes to sleep all is ok. after wake up, video and audio is out of sync... any ideas how to fix this ?
Uninstall YouTube completely from Playstore?
Or to test audio video stack: find an audio Bluetooth device, connect it with the tablet. Is the audio and video still out of sync? Even over Bluetooth?
Since there are several audio routes in Android, temporarily using and testing might give information.
I don't have it with either normal speakers or Bluetooth.
Happened to me before. Disappeared after reboot.
It happened on mine when using HD HomeRun
Reboot helps somewhat
I am not sure if Dolby Atmos options for better sound is involved. However since Android audio stack is difficult to understand, I would like you to ask:
What happens if you turn on/off Dolby Atmos in Sound Advanced options?
Here how I discovered there is a bug in using Dolby Atmos for me too. Others reported this bug also.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3847815