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System-wide audio effects processor that brings ViPER4Android sound to non-rooted phones using the JamesDSP engine. Includes ViPER classics like Bass, Clarity, Field Surround and Tube Simulator, plus a reorderable DSP chain, parametric EQ, studio-grade delay/echo, and 446 bundled DDC profiles. Version 2.8.2 fixes idle battery drain, parametric EQ band removal, and several UI rendering issues.
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About this app
RootlessViPER4Android (RootlessJamesDSP — ViPER4Android Edition) is a system-wide Android equalizer and audio effects app that brings the beloved ViPER4Android (V4A) sound experience to non-rooted phones. It combines the powerful open-source JamesDSP engine with native re-implementations of ViPER's classic effects — Dynamic System, ViPER Bass, ViPER Clarity, Spectrum Extension, Field Surround, Tube Simulator (6N1J) and many more — all running without root, without Magisk, and without custom ROMs.
Beyond the ViPER suite, it adds a fully reorderable DSP chain, so you decide the order every effect runs in, with the output limiter always kept last. An interactive parametric equalizer lets you drag bands directly on the response curve, add or remove them with a long press, and fine-tune frequency, Q and gain on rotary controls with full undo. A studio-grade echo/delay offers mono, stereo and ping-pong modes with a filtered feedback path, sample-rate and bit-depth crushing, tape-style modulation, diffusion and feedback distortion — all laid out on a knob panel that reflows to fit any screen. Up to four Liveprog (EEL2) scripts can be chained together and picked in one multi-select pass, and 446 official ViPER DDC profiles are bundled and ready to load.
The interface is yours to arrange: reorder, hide and group the effect cards, search across every effect, and save the whole setup — including your layout and chain order — into portable presets. Effect cards load as you scroll so the app opens instantly, and large effect buffers are allocated only while an effect is switched on, keeping memory use modest even with many apps playing audio.
What's new
Fixed Idle battery drain — processing kept running through silence whenever an app sat paused holding its audio session. It now stands down after 20 seconds of quiet and resumes instantly on the first sound. Parametric EQ — Remove now works on the band you have selected (it was the other way around), and adjusting Q right after dragging a handle no longer snaps the band back. Effect card icons — some icons, including Reverberation, could render blank. Various fixes to layout groups, the delay panel and the output limiter's unused controls.
About this version
- Version
- 2.8.2 (71)
- Size
- 31.6 MB
- Requires Android
- 10
- Target SDK
- 29
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 124
- Updated
- Aug 23, 2026
- Package
- me.timschneeberger.rootlessjamesdsp.v4a
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