I'm the kind of person who likes to use my phone as a GPS. Google's free navigation used to be a selling point for the OS, but it currently has some issues. Prior to Android 2.3, there used to be separate volume levels for media and navigation. However, these got combined into media so you can no longer tweak your navigation volume independent of your music. The end result is that the only way to make navigation audible in the car is to have the stereo volume at a level that would cause the music volume to bother many people (I usually drive with two toddlers in my car).
But there's another thing that I noticed. Switching between bluetooth output to line output (the car's AUX input) has an effect on volume, but not one that makes sense. Music played through Google Music (and other media players, including PowerAMP) is louder over bluetooth. I have to have the volume at 2 bars in my Fusion on Bluetooth to match the music volume set at 4 bars on line out. But here's the weird thing, navigation volume is not effected. It sounds the same on both, meaning that it suddenly becomes audible on line out.
Android is doing something weird where it amplifies music over bluetooth, but not other sounds. Anyone have any ideas on how to alter this? As it stands, bluetooth is more convenient, but it makes turn-by-turn navigation more difficult.
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During music play, has anyone else noticed small amount of static when changing volume. This happens to me particularly when increasing the volume control. However, it is very inconsistent. When I say static, I mean there is a volume increase (or decrease) with some amount of "other" sound added in. This was not something I noticed with my ipod touch and was just curious if anyone else has this or it's a hardware or software issue.
Do you see when playing music through the speaker only, or with earphones as well?
Speaker is not clear enough to hear if there is any audible noise during volume increase or decrease. . . also hear it when using other music players such as cubed. Also, I was listening through my earphones to Avatar and even though the audio is very clear, when increasing and decreasing the volume I still hear what I guess is better described as a small pop instead of static. That might be a better description for the music noise as well.
Static, crackle, pop
I've been listening to audio books on my Vibrant lately and I've noticed this happening a lot. I've heard it through headphones and I have even heard popping / crackling on the speaker when it plays notification sounds.
Did this turn out to be a defect or is it an issue that everyone has occassionally but just ignores?
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Does this happen when using the on-screen volume control in the music app or only the rocker button?
Mine will actually crackle even when I'm not touching it.
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Yes mine too. It will sporadically "skip" in all music players whether I'm using headphones or not.
Vibrant vibrating nicely now,Kthx!
I have seen the reviews online also which mention the same issue, is this a froyo thing or a Dell issue, hope they solve it with an update. I am using volume booster from the market which gives me a little more dBs, but compared to my iphone & blackberry, the volume level still sucks
look's like Dell issue
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I also find that if I have the headphone jack plugged into the aux in my car, and I answer a call on bluetooth, when I come back to my music, the volume is even worse. I have to switch off blue tooth, then play my aux audio, and then re-enable bluetooth in order for the audio level to come back up to a listenable level. weird.........
Is there a volume control option for rooted devices that may fix this?
So I've been trying to figure out why it is that my Touch Pro 2 which I am just now getting into using as a music player (late bloomer I know) has such a LOW volume level with the 3.5mm headphones (using the mini-usb adapter that it CAME with). It seems that the volume level is only absurdly low on items played with HTC Music and Windows Media Player. Other apps I have tried, such as nanoGroove and ICYGroove seem to not have this volume level issue, meaning that it's loud like I want it to be without distorting to nonrecognition.
I've tried hacks and other apps that claim to make a big difference, such as Advanced Configuration's ability to turn on the HTC bass/treble/3D sound boost, which ends up with major distortion. And "Audio Booster" which does make some improvement on HTC Music but not nearly to the level that I hear music from nanoGroove and ICYGroove on.
So the question at this point I guess is, is there any way to get around this or safely and sanely amplify the volume level for music from mp3s? nanoGroove and ICYGroove are both kind of questionable because the sound data comes from an external source (the internet) so I have no idea if they run it through some level amplifier to begin with and that's why it sounds better, or if it's the program itself that is piping it through the sound system differently.
The only other alternative I can think of at this point would be to re-encode my mp3's with a higher volume level, but given my diverse music tastes and frequency of shifts from one artist/genre to another that would end up having to re-encode pretty much everything on a regular basis which I would really rather not have to do. Not to mention having "phone versions" of all my music..
If anyone can recommend something that would either clear this up so it made sense, or just replace the HTC Music/Windows music players in general with something that does not have this problem or an easy and sane workaround, that would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks!
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I am searching for an app that will permit independent volume control for apps. For example, I would like to be able to fine tune the output from a music player from a navigation app. What I am encountering is a low volume output from TuneIn Pro, and a quite loud output from Waze. I would like to balance those out, so that when I an listening to internet radio, then interrupted with directions from Waze, I'm not blasted out of the car.
Suggestions are most welcome. Thanks.
So I've been looking for a fix for this issue for some time now, with little luck
Back in the younger versions of Android, Media and System volumes were separate, and music was considered media, while navigation turn by turn was under the system.
Since (I believe) Jellybean, Maps and media have merged.
When I plug my phone into my car's stereo using the headphone jack to stream music, If I want to turn up the music volume, when a navigation prompt comes on, the music drops behind (which is fine), but I have to leap to the volume knob to twist it all the way down.
Are there any fixes to this? Xposed Modules, workarounds, apps? I'd even be ok routing my GPS to my bluetooth headset while it leaves the music untouched, but preferrably I'd just like to be able to find a solution that lets me alter the volume of the GPS, to independently reduce it.
This persists over all my devices, ROMs, etc.
Thanks in advance