Android custom sound Part II : Advance Volume Control

Volume Control in Elixir. source: Google play

Android Gingerbread has volume control for ringtone, media, alarm, system volume, and notification. In older version of android we have fewer volume control. My previous galaxy 5 (2.1) has volume control for ringtone, media and notification only. Here we will control the rest sound volume using Elixir app. (or maybe you want to try Elixir 2)

Elixir support android 1.6 and up. Using this app we can control 7 sounds volume easily, such as:

1. Alarm

2. DTMF tones 

     -> sounds used for touch tone dialing

3. Music 

     -> also known as Media volume for music and games

4. Notification 

     -> for sms and other system notification

5. Phone Ring 

     -> for incoming call ring

6. System 

     -> other sound we don't know exactly :P

7. Voice Call 

     -> caller voice volume, which can only be adjusted when using phone call

How To Do it

1. just install the app

2. open it

3. scroll down -> sound, click the detail > and slide the volume bar as you wish

install iATKOS L2 on VirtualBox Windows 7 & Ubuntu Quantal

Greetings! i just tried to install iATKOS L2 on VirtualBox. OK Here we go. 

Requirement

- iATKOS L2 installation image

- Oracle VirtualBox [download]

Tested on

Oracle VirtualBox 4.1; Windows 7 64bit; 

Oracle VirtualBox 4.2; Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit;

Oracle VirtualBox 4.3; Linux Mint 13 64 bit;

Intel I3; 8GB RAM

Installation Steps

1. Restart your PC and enter BIOS mode by pressing key to enter setup (may differ for each computer. Lenovo use F2 key)

2. Enable Intel Virtualization Technology (Needed for multi virtual CPU and acceleration using VT-x/AMD-x)

3. After reboot, create new Guest OS on VirtualBox and choose MAC OS X server

4. Allocate RAM (min 1024 MB)

5. Skip Virtual Hard Disk for now by unchecking Start-up disk. Just ignore the warning

6. Tune up other settings

     - System

        * Motherboard

            # check enable : IO APIC;

            # uncheck enable : EFI;

        * Processor

            # allocate 1 or more virtual CPU depend on physical processor capability

            # check enable : PAE/NX

        * Acceleration

            # check enable : VT-x/AMD-x; nested paging

    - Display

        * allocate video memory 128 MB

        * check enable 3D acceleration

    - Storage

        * IDE Controller (type ICH6)

            # IDE Primary Master

                + add new HardDisk

                + choose vdi format or choose vmdk format(compatible with VMware)

                + allocate space min 15 GB and create

            # IDE Secondary Master

                + click Empty Disk

                + choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file

                + load iATKOS L2 image

- Let the rest as it is

        * in my case, i disable sound because of some reason

7. Start the guest OS

8. Choose installation language

9. Open Disk Utility

10. Create a Clear Partition. Use Erase (Format)

11. Continue the installation

12. Install it to our previous partition

13. Wait for a few minute until installation done (i missed the done page -_- oh well)

14. when you see this page (result of shutdown or restarting the virtual iATKOS) just Reset the VirtualBox. don't forget to UNMOUNT the installation image.

15. if the installation disc still remain in the CD/DVD storage we need to press F8 to enter boot option before the time bar runs out. and then choose the formated partition using arrow key and enter/return.

 

16. Finishing installation. we can skip some page but make sure to make one computer account and password for log in

   

17. After log in, you maybe asked for keyboard configuration. Just follow the step to press the key beside the Shift key

 

18. Launch System Preferences and click Boot Loader (bottom most cameleon)

 

19. choose startup disk or default boot partition with clicking it and check it in boot setup

20. you can also set the boot timeout.  in case you don't want iATKOS to wait for bootable media and immediately boot to your primary drive, set it to 1 sec. 

 














21. Shutdown. Unmount the installation image and reset VirtualBox

 

22. It's all done! the rest is up to you

 

Other Issues

works!

- NAT connection

- CD/DVD load*

- USB*

* try to load device from VirtualBox devices menu. CD/DVD device can be set from OS storage settings

untested**

- shared host folder (read [3])

- audio

**check the references for more info 

References

[1] Sysprob

[2] Youtube 
[3] Takwing

done for learning purpose only. Try it at your own risk :P