I've noticed that whenever I plug in my stereo's aux cable to the headphone jack, the Media volume drops immediately to around 3/4 of max, and I have to manually turn it up every time. Is there a setting I can change to disable this, or am I going to have to flash a rom?
Sounds like a feature you would want to keep. Prevent accidental damage to your speakers. I usually control the volume of my stereo through my phone. So 3/4 is about where I keep the volume. But that's me.
There are apps in the market that can 'lock' your volume from being changed like volume control +. Here's a link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cb.volumePlus&hl=en
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I'm the exact opposite - I leave my phone on max volume and control it with my head unit - it automatically ramps volume up from Zero to the last setting when it turns on.
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at that app.
Btw, at 3/4 volume on the phone, I'd have to crank the head unit near to max, or crank the gains on my amp, and I'd prefer to do neither.
raduque said:
I'm the exact opposite - I leave my phone on max volume and control it with my head unit - it automatically ramps volume up from Zero to the last setting when it turns on.
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at that app.
Btw, at 3/4 volume on the phone, I'd have to crank the head unit near to max, or crank the gains on my amp, and I'd prefer to do neither.
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I use my phone the same way you do... Mine says at 100% all the time. I am using UnNamed 1.31
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raduque said:
I'm the exact opposite - I leave my phone on max volume and control it with my head unit - it automatically ramps volume up from Zero to the last setting when it turns on.
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at that app.
Btw, at 3/4 volume on the phone, I'd have to crank the head unit near to max, or crank the gains on my amp, and I'd prefer to do neither.
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Totally understand your choice then.
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Up until now I'd always been puzzled by people saying how quiet they found the headphone output of the SGSII and they they wished it was a more normal volume level. Mine had always been plenty loud enough to drown out my Metro ride to work in the morning, even dropped down a notch or two. Yesterday I discovered a possible reason to fit both findings.
I'd been messing with my phone before heading out to work, put in the headphones, sparked up some music and.....quiet. The max volume I could crank out of it with the headphones in must have been about 60% of the normal. Whatever I did, wherever I went in the phone to alter settings and whatever values were showing made no change to push it back up again.
Today I turned the phone on, unlocked it, dropped the headphones in and played the same album and it was the usual 'loud' volume again.
This convinces me that there is a set sequence of actions that causes one quieter volume level to be set as headphone maximum and another that allows a more decent top end. Both findings on volume to this point by others seem to be right.
I'm trying to reproduce the steps (nothing outlandish) which led to my temporary trip to ear-protecting quiet land but have been unable to so far. I'm putting headphones in before and after pushing the volume to max, trying this before or after going into the music app and/or starting the music playing but obviously there are quite a few permutations - all of which are quite normal usage and liable to be done by many people.
I'm posting this so anybody else can also have a mess around and maybe find it before me, helping a few others in the process.
Did you ever find the solution to this?
In addition to the first post I think it is remarkable that you can get different levels of audio output by using different headphones or speakers. Sure all the models available differ a bit but never had such a difference.
settings->sound->volume: 4 sliders there. I once read that sometimes "media" and "incoming call" get mixed up. I sometimes have a really hard time to hear people on the phone using headphones.
I noticed when I plug in my headphones in my car (to ye old cassette adapter), the volume goes down to around 60% or so. Raise it up to 100%, unplug & plug the headphones back in & it lowers again.
Anyone know if there is a setting somewhere I'm not aware of?
Just a guess..but that's probably a feature to save your eardrums.
studacris said:
Just a guess..but that's probably a feature to save your eardrums.
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pretty sure this is right
Darn you 'features' for causing me extra steps!!
This annoys me too. I need the volume at 100% for it to sound decent in my car. And where I dock it, the volume keys are face down so it's a hassle to do.
I smiled the first time I saw the "listening at high volumes can damage your hearing" warning that appears when raising the volume to 90-100%.
johnus said:
This annoys me too. I need the volume at 100% for it to sound decent in my car. And where I dock it, the volume keys are face down so it's a hassle to do.
I smiled the first time I saw the "listening at high volumes can damage your hearing" warning that appears when raising the volume to 90-100%.
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Same here....
Power amp has a feature to resume volume level when headphones are plugged back in
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Nevermind I guess it doesn't
Nobody has figured out how to disable this yet?
When I plugin external speakers, the volume automatically lowers itself down. I raise it up to 15... it lowers it back down to 10 automatically with a pop-up about listening to music too loud. Wtf.
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I think jkay volume lock does that
Hi,
I have just switched from an iPhone 4 to SGSIII. When going to sleep I like to listen to tune in radio. The only problem I am finding is that on the lowest volume notch using the volume keys is still too loud for me.
Is there anyway to lower this further?
I totally second this.. I am coming from an age old HTC G1, and i loved how i could have it SO quiet, that i could hold the phone up to my ear at night (the speaker phone side, not the talking side) and hear it just fine but a person laying next to me in bed couldn't tell i was listening to anything.. but with the Gs3 its so loud even at the lowest setting possible that at 4-5 feet away you can hear it.
Not to mention the text alert sound is too loud when I have it at the lowest setting.. On the G1 i could turn it down to the lowest setting and it was quiet enough that if you listened for it you could hear it in a quiet room, but if you weren't listening for it you'd miss it. wish the Gs3 had a little finer tuning on the quieter end
I do that too a lot and the only solution I found so far (sgs2) is to use apps like PlayerPro/PowerAmp for mp3s and XiiaLive for internet radios because they have internal volume control on top of androids one. Gets the volume so low that even at night with in-ear-canal headphones I can barely hear the audio. Not that I do that but still, it's nice to have control of the volume so much.
frifox said:
I do that too a lot and the only solution I found so far (sgs2) is to use apps like PlayerPro/PowerAmp for mp3s and XiiaLive for internet radios because they have internal volume control on top of androids one. Gets the volume so low that even at night with in-ear-canal headphones I can barely hear the audio. Not that I do that but still, it's nice to have control of the volume so much.
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Poweramp is the only solution I have found but I really like Tunein and that does not have any control. There must be a simple system wide solution. My device is rooted so are there any options?
harveyd said:
Poweramp is the only solution I have found but I really like Tunein and that does not have any control. There must be a simple system wide solution. My device is rooted so are there any options?
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I'm resurrecting this old thread. I too would love to be able to turn down the volume to as low of a setting as I want. I don't understand why the phone manufacturers don't simply provide that capability!
There is another post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565559 on a technique for the HTC One. I haven't tried it on the S4 yet.
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I'm resurrecting this old thread. I too would love to be able to turn down the volume to as low of a setting as I want. I don't understand why the phone manufacturers don't simply provide that capability!
There is another post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565559 on a technique for the HTC One. I haven't tried it on the S4 yet.
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Please use search >>>> default _gain sound mod by Meltus
Probably in Themes and Apps
Yesterday the speaker was working extremely well. Even had to turn down the volume to the middle. Today, there is very little volume even when set to the highest and the tone is very scratchy. All was well yesterday and usable yet to day it is not even loud enough to hear. I made no other adjustment yesterday except for turning on the speaker which turned out to be great and what I was looking for since at my age, I find it hard to read the messages.
What is the fix or what adjustments do I make to get this back on track?
HELP!
Later today, the ZW2 volume and speaker came back to normal.
Anyone know why this happened and in the future when the issue repeats, it can then be solved.
You can change volume of speaker by press volume up and down on your phone when you are talking with someone by speaker of zenwatch 2.
Thanks for the reply but what is going on is that the Sound changes as described in my original post without adjusting the phone volume.
In the last two days it has been great and clear with a change to crackly and soft to only return again back to great and again today back to bad.
Do I have a defect in my ZW2, is it with the recent update, or is it a settings that can be adjusted.
Love the read out for the phone and want it to stay in the "Great" mode
manhktqd said:
You can change volume of speaker by press volume up and down on your phone when you are talking with someone by speaker of zenwatch 2.
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This does not work for music. Any thoughts on that?
What is strange is that sometimes the sound is fine other times it can hardly be heard. I check phone volume and also OK Google to increase volume to max which it shows but the speaker does not respond to these outside adjustments
My favorite thing about the V30 is the quad dac because when enabled it gives you volume control in 1% increments. My hearing is sensitive, i will normally listen to music at a volume of 5 or less.
However, after the Oreo update, volume of 1 is too load. I have the quad dac enabled, and have the gain set to -6db (minimum) on both channels. I have tried different "filters" and sounds presets. Didn't help. I have tried disabling the quad dac, this only makes it go loader because now it adjusts in 5% increments.
Has anyone else noticed this change? If no one else had noticed this I will try a factory reset. If that doesn't work, i can go back to using an inline volume slide adjustment to reduce volume.
Thanks!
PS: I know most people will probably be happy about the volume increase and it was probably done for this reason. I understand I am likely an outlier on preferred volume levels.
Just an updated.
This was a fluke. I restarted my phone and the volume levels returned to what they were before instead of being elevated.
urushiol said:
Just an updated.
This was a fluke. I restarted my phone and the volume levels returned to what they were before instead of being elevated.
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Made a post and solved it yourself! Reminds me of the football play where the quarterback threw the ball to himself and got a touchdown.
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