Post by bl3nto on Nov 25, 2016 10:33:44 GMT
With the USB-C port on Apollo Lite, headphones are one of the first accessories that use it. Since there is no digital to analog conversion on the phone, each headphones come with their own DAC, meaning that sound quality through USB-C headphones should be the same on every phone you try them (of course, the phone has to have USB-C type connector 
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The headphone I've tested are: LeEco CLDA headphones
Here are my first and second impressions of these headphones:
TLDR: too buggy, still not worth buying them
So all in all, for now, until more stable ROMs arrive USB-C headphones are not worth the hassle, with good old 3.5mm headphone jack all works well (although, honestly, sound quality is not the best...)
)The headphone I've tested are: LeEco CLDA headphones
Here are my first and second impressions of these headphones:
TLDR: too buggy, still not worth buying them
Ok, headphones are here. Yaaaaay.
Sound quality is really, REALLY good, I must confess, one of the best headphones I've ever had, sound is superbly clear and pleasant to listen to. Headphones have a very good power output (you can increase the volume until you head explodes)
They're not too big or to small, fit nicely in-ear, but they're not gonna withstand heavy use, like fast running or any sports activity that requires headphones to be firmly seated in your ears. Casual walking, bike riding, even light jogging is gonna be fine, everything else and you're gonna need some way of securing them.
Downside is that they don't always work, sometimes they just stop working, in that situation I have to disconnect them from the phone, and reconnect them again. Same thing happens almost always if I'm listening to any radio app and then move that app in the background to open a new app (like Whatsapp) while listening to the music in the background. Youtube is extremely uncooperative with these headphones, even while Youtube is open, headphones just stop working in the middle of the video (sometimes it works fine for 15-20min through 3-4 different videos, sometimes it stops working halfway through the first video, after just 2-3 min).
All in all, very good sound quality, I'm not sorry that i bought them.
But sound output is still very buggy, which probably has nothing to do with the headphones, probable cause is never-ending shit-storm that comes from Apollo Lite's buggy software...
Sound quality is really, REALLY good, I must confess, one of the best headphones I've ever had, sound is superbly clear and pleasant to listen to. Headphones have a very good power output (you can increase the volume until you head explodes)
They're not too big or to small, fit nicely in-ear, but they're not gonna withstand heavy use, like fast running or any sports activity that requires headphones to be firmly seated in your ears. Casual walking, bike riding, even light jogging is gonna be fine, everything else and you're gonna need some way of securing them.
Downside is that they don't always work, sometimes they just stop working, in that situation I have to disconnect them from the phone, and reconnect them again. Same thing happens almost always if I'm listening to any radio app and then move that app in the background to open a new app (like Whatsapp) while listening to the music in the background. Youtube is extremely uncooperative with these headphones, even while Youtube is open, headphones just stop working in the middle of the video (sometimes it works fine for 15-20min through 3-4 different videos, sometimes it stops working halfway through the first video, after just 2-3 min).
All in all, very good sound quality, I'm not sorry that i bought them.
But sound output is still very buggy, which probably has nothing to do with the headphones, probable cause is never-ending shit-storm that comes from Apollo Lite's buggy software...
Update, i found that, so far, only MX Player can keep on playing in the background while I go through other apps (like browsing).
What seems to be the problem is that headphones stop when you switch to another app that has audio output.
So if I'm listening to my music through MX player, i can put MX Player in the background and go to homescreen, settings, or start my browser and headphones will work fine, the music will keep on playing.
But, as soon as i start an app like Youtube, or any other app for media streaming (online radio apps, or another music app on my phone and stuff like that), headphones will stop working, the song keeps going on in MX Player (i can see the progress bar as i pull down notifications but there is no sound on the headphones)
Solution is to unplug the headphones, plug them back in and audio is available again.
So it's definitely a software bug...that will probably never bi fixed so my recommendation for now is to avoid USB-C type headphones on Vernee Apollo Lite.
P.S.
Phone calls also don't work through these headphones, no matter what you do.
What seems to be the problem is that headphones stop when you switch to another app that has audio output.
So if I'm listening to my music through MX player, i can put MX Player in the background and go to homescreen, settings, or start my browser and headphones will work fine, the music will keep on playing.
But, as soon as i start an app like Youtube, or any other app for media streaming (online radio apps, or another music app on my phone and stuff like that), headphones will stop working, the song keeps going on in MX Player (i can see the progress bar as i pull down notifications but there is no sound on the headphones)
Solution is to unplug the headphones, plug them back in and audio is available again.
So it's definitely a software bug...that will probably never bi fixed so my recommendation for now is to avoid USB-C type headphones on Vernee Apollo Lite.
P.S.
Phone calls also don't work through these headphones, no matter what you do.
So all in all, for now, until more stable ROMs arrive USB-C headphones are not worth the hassle, with good old 3.5mm headphone jack all works well (although, honestly, sound quality is not the best...)
