Samatva | # 1 | 2009-04-13, 18:42 | Report

I installed the LCARS complete theme package on my trusty, (formerly) stable N800 (v5.2008.43-7) - was not as impressed as many here are, so I set my theme back to "Echo" and uninstalled lcars - all the vaious components listed in "Show Installed Applications"

Now my audio is screwed up - garbled and unlistenable. You can hear the music, but is mostly drowned out by distortion and static. Media play is distorted, but FM radio is OK. I ran the Canola clean-up and reinstalled, no help. Most of the UI sounds are OK and back to originals, but the boot-up audio is still LCARS.

Anything else I can try or am I going to have to reflash??

TIA

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Last edited by Samatva; 2009-04-14 at 02:00. Reason: maybe I jumped to the wrong conclusion???

LABAUDIO | # 2 | 2009-04-13, 19:17 | Report

The best way is

-find the folder on you tablet where is the ''bad boot'' sound file (.wav)
-If you installed LCARS, the application installer rename your originals .wav to .wav.distrub files extensions

_so erase the ''boot.wav'' files
_and just rename the original ''boot.wav.ditrub to original exstension ''boot.wav

Cherr

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Last edited by LABAUDIO; 2009-04-13 at 19:25.

Samatva | # 3 | 2009-04-13, 19:37 | Report

LABAUDIO,

Thanks for the feedback. I had found another post that suggested the .distrib files, but they aren't where suggested: /usr/share/sounds

That would fix the wrong sounds at certain times, but I can't see how that would affect the garbled audio everywhere else - It's almost as though an internal "pre-amp" volume setting has been set to 300%, although the final output volume is not all that above normal - just sounds absolutely horrid...

It just seems that this should not have happened by installing a theme.. peraps a bit too much creativity on trying to turn it into a Star Terk PADD??

Probably will do me good to re-flash... maybe this time I'll take notes so I can remmeber how I got everything working so well to my liking!!

casper27 | # 4 | 2009-04-13, 19:54 | Report

Have you tried putting another "Downloadable" theme on just to see if that sorts anything out? Might reset a few things.

Samatva | # 5 | 2009-04-14, 01:58 | Report

Thanks for the suggestion Casper.

I have already installed and uninstalled (can't rememebr the exact order) the "meta" theme from the same folks that did the lcars theme and the NuvoPearl theme.

I may have jumped to the wrong conclusion, however. I'm beginning to think it was a hardware (setting?) issue - maybe connected or maybe not.

I had rebooted serveral times during troubleshooting, but had not completly powered it down and removed the battery.

Upon power back up, all seems to be back to working correctly... I may have even been wrong about boot-up sounds, it was so distorted that it *might* have been the correct sound - not sure I ever rebooted while lcars was installed, so... whatever.

It's working now. I apprecaite the support. Great communities like this add a lot to owning device like the N800...

ian_ryge | # 6 | 2009-04-14, 07:22 | Report

Glad to hear that sorted itself out. None of our packages should affect sound output in any unpredictable way; lcars-sounds just swaps .wav files using dpkg-divert, so the original sounds should come back on removal. Also note that you can remove the lcars-sounds package while keeping the themes, or install the themes individually (without the sounds package).