build 40 is out .. gonna dirty it babbeee

Not really depends on bitrate but the sampling level or the sensitivity of the mic etc. BITRATE just indicates that how many bit is required for each 'second' of audio. Each bit represents an audio level. If it's high quality enough, it has more audio levels, so called sample size if you studied communications or audio related courses. Higher bitrate doesn't mean higher audio level. It just barely means you get more resolution, crisper sound, more original-alike sound, better reproduction of sound as it gives much more details and allows you to reproduce the sound more similar to an analog signal(of course it'll never be as refined as analog). I can produce an audio file, I don't need much details in it, just single pitch and make it loud by amplifying it by few dB yet still low bitrate. It'll be loud but it won't sound good. Maybe you're right but this is what I know based on my knowledge. I just never will relate 'loudness' to 'bitrate'.

Refer:
http://forums.ilounge.com/ipod-monochrome/...her-volume.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...06103448AA0osWn
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=221214

Erm... Seriously, it's harder than any other phone. Even our Topic Starter agreed on that. Refer few posts above. I buy a phone that does what I want it to do, not what it wants me to do, so called 'user-friendly'. If you know what I mean. I mentioned casing because my casing is taking up the bezel area on the side leaving 1mm bezel area from the screen. Due to this, it's very hard to drag all the way to the edge. Maybe your hand is small and slim and whatsoever but my hand is huge. Only Galaxy note is the phone I can't hide with my hand. 

This has nothing to do with skill level. It's design problem, coding problem, programming problem, casing problem. By the way, do we really need skill for this? Do you need to go through colleges to learn the skill for this?  I've used other phones and many of my friend's phones. I can really say that it's harder to get from one screen to another on nexus. There should be an area where when you dragged something into that area, it'll highlight the edge indicating that it will be moved to the next page but the so called 'area' for this phone is really too small IMO.

whatever bit rate whatever hardware or software.. quality of the audio starts from the source... but even though you have all that.. playing it all on your phone connecting it to a conrad johnson would be a bit of a laugh aint it.. so just a phone dont expect hi fi from it..
my favourite headphone is a sennheiser hd25 when connected to nexus running poweramp.. i expect and received bliss...

just dragged it to the side and slant it a little bit higher.. takes some getting used to..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...trol.free&hl=en

For stock user. Quite useful, max 7 toggle buttons. Can be widget on homescreen and also in notification area.

iwanagp: download poweramp and volume+ you will notice the difference.. nexus is like this.. they give you the minimum bare and leave it to you to tweak it... but the potential is big..

how come build 40 still says build 39...weird!!

I got volume+. I tested poweramp. My ear is not trained enough to notice the difference between it and Google music sound quality  Tested with real bassy song or it's all bass song (bassotronics), seriously with my noob earphone and noob ears, I can't really see how poweramp does better on low frequency(mentioned by one or two forumers in past few pages) both software gives me almost identical output. I've not tweaked headset settings on Volume+, no equaliser or anything.  Only one feature in poweramp that I need. Slide across the album art to change song like Samsung Stock Music player. Not a big deal though 

Conclusion: PowerAMP Uninstalled 
I guess they implemented the coding into the ROM.

I am wondering... Will those 'Boost' kill our speaker? Samsung really gave it a low power speaker or is actually a high power speaker but get limited by Google/Samsung through stock rom?

I' m also going to go dirty from 38 to 40. Since JB is coming soon, better wait for it to do full wipe

Isn't 4.0.4 fixed the low volume?

the audio chipset on the gnex is not so bad actually,
never seen a gnexer hookup a DAC to the OTG cable yet tho..

I'm on 4.0.4. Got fixed? Before this even lower volume??????? Can't imagine how low is it in 4.0.2 

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Added on June 25, 2012, 1:03 am

"Just got a chance to do a comparison between my S2 and the Galaxy Nexus.

Nexus is clearer overall.  Better instrument seperation and detail because of it.
Nexus is punchier not as dull.
Soundstage isn't wider or bigger quite similar in that regard.
Bass amount is similar, just more focused and detailed on the Nexus.
Lower noise floor on the Nexus as well.  No noise carried through the head phones from using the screen."

Quoted from head-fi.org 

First time I bought a pretty high end android smartphone. Bought it for RM 1408. 1380 for the phone and 28 for the screen protector. Is it worth it? Should've nego a bit, but forgot to.

haven't tried, still charging because out whole day =O

do it!
u'll love the new weather

dats weird, mine works

can consider reinstall BusyBox.

I never feel a problem with the earphone volume, it's always the loudspeaker only. So I'm referring to loudspeaker volume.

Hey guys where to buy GNEX battery with NFC?

IwanAGP, did you upgraded from Galaxy W??

May i ask what soft pouch do u guys use on ur gnex?
I am still using the multipurpose pouch i got from tesco when gnex was first released and there weren't any in the market... i think i need to get a proper 1...