i use mixzing premium for my music player, as i like the way it randomly selects music which you might like. but thats not what this is about.

when i first got my shiny new android phone i was all happy about it, did a lot of things that i was pleasantly susprised to find out that it could do, and much better than anything else i had used before.

but..

the sound quality when played out through headphones or through a stereo is awful. like $29 chinese mp3 player awful. i happened upon something tonight which seemed to clean it up a heap though..

i was listening to the deftones through my stereo, and it seemed heaps better than normal. i didnt think much of it because i had not previously listened to it through this stereo anyway, and just assumed it was the stereo that was helping. i had to stop playback  to watch something on the tv, and when i hit play again, it was back to its normal, incredibly distorted, and extremely quiet, self. 'hmmm....' i thought.

i paused/played it again, rebooted phone, nothing seemed to get it back to the (good)way it was before. but then i had a brainwave. i remembered that, when i started playing the song the first time, it was playing out through the phones [sarcasm]superb[/sarcasm] internal speaker, and i just plugged in the stereo input and it had come through way clearer. so i tried that again, and VOILA!!! clear sound again.

so thats the trick. let it start playing through the internal inbuilt speaker before plugging it into your stereo. i have no idea why, but this worked for me and it is just as good as, if not better than my old nokia n78, which i used to use for sound output in my car, home stereo, headphnes, everything. once its playing, it seems to keep up the good quality until it is stopped completely.

just in case this has something to do with my phone, and the way its set up, i will post my phones set up:

huawei 8120 (vodafone 845)

Running the celestial teapot rls4d, overclocked to 729mhz using overclock!widget

mixzing premium/paid version - no equaliser.

'panasonic sa-ak520 home stereo (i know, not the best)

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