Hi guys,
I have a Galaxy S2 I9100. It was on stock ROM (ICS 4.0.3) until yesterday, then I flashed Slim Bean 3.1. So far everything works mostly as expected on Slim Bean, but there is one major annoyance:
After every reboot (or when I just toggle between Silent and Normal), the volume is maxed on everything (system, ringer, notifications, etc). The volume sliders are all still where they're supposed to be, but the actual volume is loud as hell. The only way to fix it is to drag each volume slider down one notch and then back up one notch - then the volumes are at the proper levels again. I don't mind doing this after every reboot, but after switching the phone from Silent back to Normal? I do that ALOT :-/
Any ideas? I've googled extensively to find the issue, but no luck.
Btw, I also tried Volume+ and Volume Locker apps to see if that helps, but it doesn't (I guess because they keep the sliders from moving, but the sliders aren't moving anyway, the volume just increases "behind the scenes").
aktorsyl said:
Btw, I also tried Volume+ and Volume Locker apps to see if that helps, but it doesn't (I guess because they keep the sliders from moving, but the sliders aren't moving anyway, the volume just increases "behind the scenes").
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Try flashing some other kernel like siyah kernel
pasanjay said:
Try flashing some other kernel like siyah kernel
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Thanks, I'll try that. Just to recap, you flash a kernel AFTER flashing a ROM, right? So you don't lose any data or anything, you just clear the cache and then install the zip from sdcard (within CWM)? Also, do you clear the Dalvik cache when installing a kernel?
I flashed the latest Siyah Kernel successfully - it made no change to the weird volume behaviour, however :/
For reference, 2 screenshots:
UPDATE: Another thought just hit me - that maybe the DSPManager is amplifying the notification sound intermittently. I checked though, and can't find anything wrong there either.
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My I9100 is running the stock 4.0.3 ICS update that was installed via Kies. Everything I've read says that ICS links the ringer and notification volumes, but this has not been my experience.
My volume rocker only changes the ringer volume. I verified this by installing Persist Volume Control and watching as only the ringer volume changes.
Does anyone know what's wrong? This behavior seems different from everyone elses'.
Thanks!
Everything I've read says that ICS links the ringer and notification volumes, but this has not been my experience.
Evidence please .
jje
JJEgan said:
Everything I've read says that ICS links the ringer and notification volumes, but this has not been my experience.
Evidence please .
jje
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Here are a few sources:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23117
http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?19241-Unlink-Ringer-and-Notification-volumes
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...k-ringer-notification-volume-please-help.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1507000
huskyfan23 said:
My I9100 is running the stock 4.0.3 ICS update that was installed via Kies. Everything I've read says that ICS links the ringer and notification volumes, but this has not been my experience.
My volume rocker only changes the ringer volume. I verified this by installing Persist Volume Control and watching as only the ringer volume changes.
Does anyone know what's wrong? This behavior seems different from everyone elses'.
Thanks!
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As I always want to control the volume levels of each media type separately, I am happy that the ringer and notification volume level are not linked.
But I am using Elixir Widget app from the Play store to change the volume levels and save my volume profile(s).
Usually, I do not change the volume level by the volume key.
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huskyfan23 said:
Here are a few sources:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23117
http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?19241-Unlink-Ringer-and-Notification-volumes
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...k-ringer-notification-volume-please-help.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1507000
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None are for Samsung Galaxy SGS2 ICS .
jje
atifsh said:
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JJEgan said:
None are for Samsung Galaxy SGS2 ICS .
jje
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Does it matter? Is this not core functionality that should be found in all flavors of ICS? No matter how bastardized by the OEM?
Either way, in the Google link one person does mention their SGS2.
Is my research wrong and are these indeed not supposed to be linked?
So... nobody knows?
huskyfan23 said:
....My volume rocker only changes the ringer volume. I verified this by installing Persist Volume Control and watching as only the ringer volume changes...
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exactly the same problem. They're obviously supposed to be linked because every single google result except this one is ICS users trying to separate the link complaining they want that feature back
Attached a screenie of my offical O2 kies-updated ICS 4.0.3 volume screen, showing they're not linked...
constantly missing texts because i just use the volume rocker to turn up my phone forgetting it doesnt turn up notifications like Gingerbread used to
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exactly the same problem. They're obviously supposed to be linked because every single google result except this one is ICS users trying to separate the link complaining they want that feature back
Attached a screenie of my offical O2 kies-updated ICS 4.0.3 volume screen, showing they're not linked...
constantly missing texts because i just use the volume rocker to turn up my phone forgetting it doesnt turn up notifications like Gingerbread used to
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Glad I'm not alone... but maybe us 2 are?
GB I have the option to link or keep separate.
I personally prefer separate control over these settings.
Why would you wish to permanently link them?
Could you not simply just set these values where you wish them individually and be satisfied?
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How hard is it to turn one or both up or down. Custom settings are what makes a phone individual.Personally i like the idea they are not linked. My ringer can be turn full on or off and my notifications to just a whisper...Perfect.
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jebuchanan said:
GB I have the option to link or keep separate.
I personally prefer separate control over these settings.
Why would you wish to permanently link them?
Could you not simply just set these values where you wish them individually and be satisfied?
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If I want my ringer to be quiet, I want my notifications to also be quiet. I should be able to do this via the volume rocker, like I can on my One X, and used to be able to do prior to my I9100's ICS update.
bored_stupid said:
How hard is it to turn one or both up or down. Custom settings are what makes a phone individual.Personally i like the idea they are not linked. My ringer can be turn full on or off and my notifications to just a whisper...Perfect.
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It's quite a nuisance if I want them to be adjusted concurrently.
I've read that ICS is supposed to force (or give the option of) linking, which is the point of my thread. Is this only the case for every phone except the I9100?
nice thanks so much
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How hard is it to turn one or both up or down. Custom settings are what makes a phone individual.
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Its not a custom setting, this is supposed to be stock ICS, i certainly wouldnt have chose to have this crap feature.
It now takes 4 presses to get to the menu every time you wander into a quiet situation, and then another 4 when you leave it (not including actually moving the volume sliders).
I personally find that very annoying when there's a volume control on the side of my phone.
Use CM9. Has ability to link ringtone & notification volumes.
Is there a way to implement this on stock Samsung ICS (Touchwiz)? Tried quick settings but the option is greyed out.
Thanks
JJEgan said:
Everything I've read says that ICS links the ringer and notification volumes, but this has not been my experience.
Evidence please .
jje
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I've had this issue too. Thought the volume buttons should control both ringer and notifications but they didnt. Im running Caulkin's ICS rom too so that may have something to do with it. Regardless, after MUCH searching and downloading of apps that I thought would do this but they didn't, I finally found an app that did this for me! Quick Settings by Halfbit - note that there are two apps by different developers called the same thing. I didn't try the other one but this one worked.
Strange though, the selection to link the notification and ringer volumes is checked, but grayed out. So guess you have to uninstall the app to change this configuration..
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Glad I'm not alone... but maybe us 2 are?
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Apparently not. Stock/ota ics for droid4 also removes the checkbox to allow you to link the volumes if you want to. I want to link them as well so when i turn it down at a meeting, i don't get blown out of my chair when i get a text.
Setting everything once and forgetting it doesn't work for a lot of people. For me, i need it quiet at work, then loud while not at work so i can hear ringer/sms sounds over road noise/music while driving, or if i leave my phone upstairs at home. I use moto's smart actions to handle the volume changing automatically (think of it as a gimped version of tasker) but now that ringtone and notification vol are no longer linkable, and smart actions can't control notification volume, i consider it to be broken. It turns down ringer vol just fine, but notifications are still crazy loud. Very annoying. Can't wait for cm9 (or even 10) for the droid4!
By default I leave my phone on silent but with vibrate on. However there are times, for example during school when I put my phone of the desk, where I need the vibration to not happen either.
This is my first smartphone -- my last phone, the wonderful LG Xenon, could do this easily.. It started at volume 7/7 and as I hit the side volume button, it went down to 6, 5, etc, to 1, to Silent + vibrate, to Silent w/o vibrate. On my Samsung Galaxy 2 I have to go in the settings to change the vibrate? Seems a little harsh..
Does anyone know of a way to change it to work as mentioned above? Is there a plug-in (not an actual app please) to make it as simple as that?
Thanks
I use CM9 and I have added the sound icon to my power widget bar (the shortcuts you see once you pull the notification bar). In settings I can choose how I want the sound button to cycle through different options - so you can set it to whatever you want including silence and vibrate only etc.)
We really need to know what ROM you're using. On AOKP it works just like you said, the buttons on the side work like this: High volume -> Low volume -> Vibrate -> Silent
It sounds like you may be running Stock (Factory) ROM. I haven't used that in forever but if that's what you're on, I would highly recommend moving to one of the wonderful ICS roms here in the forums.
I don't use vibrate mode, either silent or normal ringing.
I haven't rooted my phone yet. It seems like a lot of work/learning for too little of a payoff (not saying it doesnt open up a lot of features, just not a whole lot that I'D use). So i guess I'm running the stock/factory ROM, but I'm using GO Launcher
This works via the volume rocker in aokp. Hold volume - until its on vibrate. Press volume - again to turn off vibrate.
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IconRunner said:
We really need to know what ROM you're using. On AOKP it works just like you said, the buttons on the side work like this: High volume -> Low volume -> Vibrate -> Silent.
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On my stock 2.3.4 w/Entropy's DD kernel, it's High volume -> Low Volume -> Vibrate. No silent mode with the buttons.
I put mine on vibrate when it's in my pocket.
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knownunknown said:
This works via the volume rocker in aokp. Hold volume - until its on vibrate. Press volume - again to turn off vibrate.
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Just tried this but it didnt work :/
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Just tried this but it didnt work :/
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That would be because he said it works via the volume rocker in AOKP ROM. Thats Android Open Kang Project. A ROM here in the development forums. Not stock. I'm not sure if there is an app to do what u want. But in either case, I highly suggest u root your phone (its very easy now adayz) and flash a custom ROM. I would suggest AOKP of course. The benefits far outweigh the risk my friend. Good luck and happy flashing.
"Sent from my SGS2 running AOKP. Open source or GTFO."
ScelestusAnimus said:
Just tried this but it didnt work :/
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Since you're using go launcher try checking out the Go Switch Widget. I know you said you'd prefer not to use any extra apps but its really a plugin for the launcher you already use. It has a button option for turning on the sound as well as a separate vibrate button. Its also customizable so you can choose just the vibrate button so the widget would be small and not take up much of your screen space.
Hope that's helps
With Stock ROM, in Settings/Sound/Vibration/ select"Only when not in silent mode". Will not vibrate when Silent selected with rocker. Not option for silent+vibrate in addition to silent only.
bacon_n_icecream said:
Since you're using go launcher try checking out the Go Switch Widget. I know you said you'd prefer not to use any extra apps but its really a plugin for the launcher you already use. It has a button option for turning on the sound as well as a separate vibrate button. Its also customizable so you can choose just the vibrate button so the widget would be small and not take up much of your screen space.
Hope that's helps
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Ah!! Ive been using this widget already for individual brightness and battery widgets. In fact i even had a missing space in the row of 4 (I also have the flashlight widget), so this fits perfectly. Thanks so much
Problem solved!
So I'm currently on RR 2.6.1 with siyah 3.4.1 and pretty much everything works perfectly. There is this one problem I have though. If I'm listening to music and get a notification, the notification plays just fine, but after it has finished playing, the music is very quiet. It will also stay this way until I change the volume via the hard buttons, and actually jumps instantly back to what it was before the notification.
I was also unable to find a solution by search, supposedly I just couldn't come up with the correct search terms. So, anyone got any ideas on how to fix this?
+1 i have the exact same rom and kernel and i hate when that happens, also i would love if someone told me how to lower the timeout for the volume notification, like, when you change volume and you are seeing a vid on youtube, the volume pop-up takes a while to dissapear and i dont like that
Yes, I've been looking for the same answer but nothing so far. I've got the same problem that after another apps notification the music volume stays down. I'm running the Slim ICS 4.2 with Siyah 3.0.15. I tried to "unlink" the volumes in the volume option but didn't work.
Help us!
I think it's CM9 issue and since AOKP and Slim Roms are based on it, then you guys will have the same issues.
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem or if any dev may know a solution.
A few days ago, I flashed the Stock with Goodies v1.75 ROM, which comes with the mod that allows you to skip tracks with the volume rocker. However, when I tried to use it with the stock Music app, a long-press of the volume rocker did nothing at all. When I turned the screen on, the lock screen controls were also non-functional. The "buttons" would respond to presses, but would do nothing at all. Short-presses for the volume rocker work as expected (raising/lowering the volume).
Thinking the ROM just wasn't jiving with my phone, I decided to flash Rejuvinated Stock v2.15 last night. Upon first testing, the volume rocker worked as it should, and the lock screen controls worked fine. However, when I used it this morning, both stopped working again. It is just as before--long-press of the rocker does nothing, lock screen app controls respond to touch but don't actually do anything.
It's becoming frustrating to have to unlock the screen to change tracks all the time, so I'd REALLY appreciate some help here. I considered flashing the Universal Menu Button Remap/Volume Rocker mod, but I do not want the menu button remap. Is there a flashable .zip for just the rocker mod somewhere?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Just tried a reboot and clearing the app's data, to no avail.
I'll use this as a guide to diagnosing/fixing the problem later on this evening, if I can't find a solution before then.
I've ran the stock with goodies rom with the volume skip mod before with no problems. I ran it for a couple of days and had absolutely no problems skipping tracks while jogging, very convenient. Maybe a bad download? Try to redownload and reflash. I'm S off via panda running TWRP 2.2.1. Good luck.
I had the same exact problem with the same exact Stock with Goodies v1.75 ROM. I tried everything short of a factory reset. Turns out what I did to fix it was do a factory reset with full wipes and reinstall the Rom. I backup'd up all my apps with TB and made sure to clear Google wallet before flashing the Stock with Goodies v1.75 ROM. Works flawlessly now with any music app.
Hope this helps.
Wasn't a bad download - MD5 matched.
I suppose I'll wipe and re-install tonight. I'll post back with results. Hopefully it solves the problem permanently. Not sure what caused it in the first place, though. :/
Thanks for the replies!
Reflashing (Rejuvinated Stock) worked... we'll see if the problem returns.
Edit: Still working fine. And still completely baffled as to why it wasn't working right the first time.
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT SINCE THE PHONE CAME OUT, EVER SINCE I ROOTED IT, THE SYSTEM VOLUME, THE MEDIA VOLUME, AND ESPECIALLY THE VOICE CALL VOLUME CHANGE ON THEIR OWN!
the voice call volume is just set to full blast every time i make or receive a phone call, no matter how many times i set it lower
the system volume changes randomly, along with the media, which isn't THAT big of a deal, but still, wtf?
i've been through two different phones, restarted, cleared caches, switched roms, downloaded audio managers, removed audio managers, I CAN'T FIGURE THIS **** OUT, SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE!
What rom are you on currently? Does it have the quick settings in the status bar?
Every rom I've been on with the quick settings had the volume setting in there. I would occasionally use that to set the volume, and didn't initially realize that if you tap the icon for the volume it changed the volume type. I kept accidentally only changing media volume instead of ringer volume for instance, bc I saw it say "Ringer" once and didn't bother actually reading how it was labeled after that.
So before I realized it, I would have been describing the same issue you described, although yours sounds more serious.
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What rom are you on currently? Does it have the quick settings in the status bar?
Every rom I've been on with the quick settings had the volume setting in there. I would occasionally use that to set the volume, and didn't initially realize that if you tap the icon for the volume it changed the volume type. I kept accidentally only changing media volume instead of ringer volume for instance, bc I saw it say "Ringer" once and didn't bother actually reading how it was labeled after that.
So before I realized it, I would have been describing the same issue you described, although yours sounds more serious.
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right now i have the Viper4g rom, i had the charmeleon rom before that, and the regular viper rom before that, and stock rooted before that, ever since i rooted it it's been doing this no matter how many times i restarted and wiped the phone, even after i got a new phone
Same route I've taken, except now on flex's stock w/ goodies. All have that same volume shortcut in the status bar quick settings, which was initially causing my problems, only bc I didn't realize what I was doing.
Try flex's Rom, or mean Rom. The viper, charmeleon, venom are all pretty closely related, maybe it's something that's carried over?
Do you do cache and system wipes each time?
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Same route I've taken, except now on flex's stock w/ goodies. All have that same volume shortcut in the status bar quick settings, which was initially causing my problems, only bc I didn't realize what I was doing.
Try flex's Rom, or mean Rom. The viper, charmeleon, venom are all pretty closely related, maybe it's something that's carried over?
Do you do cache and system wipes each time?
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i do full wipes, cahes, system, everything, and this has been since stock rooted