Ringtones that used to continually repeat seem to have been stopped from doing so in this 5.1 update. It's a problem because I rely on a battery level alarm which I am now missing due to the ringtone only ringing once when I'm not in the general vicinity. I spoke to the developer who is aware of this issue but as of yesterday he didn't have a solution. The update has been pushed to my Nvidia Shield tablet but currently isn't available on my Samsung Note 4 which will obviously develop the same issue using the same battery indicater app.
Just you wondering if anyone else relies on a continually repeating alarm function and how you are getting around this issue?
OK looks like its a google battery life saving feature so its here to stay. Ive uploaded .ogg songs to use as ringtones so you get the length of the song at least to get around the shorter none repeating rtones.
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I use the countdown timer built in to the SGS2 stock rom quite a bit. It has always played the selected sound whenever I've used it, but today the sound stopped working when the timer reached 00h 00m 00s.
I can select the alert sound from the menu and it will play the test sound when selected, but when used on the actual timer it's silent no matter which sound I select.
I'm on Orange UK with stock rom kernel build XWKF3, baseband version XXKE7...only just flashed via the official Kies update in the past week.
Apart from that (and the Social Hub force close problem) everything else works fine.
Anyone got any ideas about how I can get the sound back on my timer?
UPDATE: After a bit more digging, the problem seems to be 'system sound'. If I go to Menu/Settings/Sound/Volume I get the 4 default sliders for Incoming Call, Media, System and Notification volumes. Adjusting the Call, Media or Notification volumes via their own sliders results in a preview of the volume. However, when adjusting the System volume I get no sound whatsoever.
Again, as far as I can tell, all other sounds (including Alarm) appear to work fine.
UPDATE 2: The problem seems to be solely related to the timer. After more testing, all other sounds appear to work...Keypad tones, Alarm, Music, Game sounds, Video sounds...everything execept the timer alert sound...it's driving me mad!
Any suggestions on how to fix?
Thanks again,
Rich
Anyone?
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having the same problem; have you found a solution?
i'm rooted and have disabled camera sound as described here (method 1); but it seems to be unrelated..
I have the same problem too.. It is driving me crazy for searching this solution. Looks like not a lot of people have this problem.
I need the timer sound !! Grr...
kn0cker said:
having the same problem; have you found a solution?
i'm rooted and have disabled camera sound as described here (method 1); but it seems to be unrelated..
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Kn0cker or simonskling....
Did you ever find a solution? My timer is still silent even after a further firmware update the problem remains the same as my original post, so I'm still searching for a solution. But as you say Simon, it doesn't look like many people have this problem. Either that or they do have the same problem but just don't use the timer.
I'm tearing out what little hair I have!!
Just downloaded 'Volume Ace Free' from Android Market for reasons entirely unrelated to the timer sound problem I was still having. Decided to test a few 'sound' apps after playing about with Volume Ace...and guess what? My timer sound is working again...lol.
Don't ask me what setting I changed though (but I suspect it's something to do with Systems sounds).
Hope this helps anyone else who has been suffering with the same problem.
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I am having the same problem and its driving me crazy?
Any luck?
LE: I also installed "Volume Ace Free" and noticed that the Alarm volume was set to 0. After I changed there, the timer sound appeared. Crazy!!!!
I'm wondering who else has encountered this and if a fix, other than disabling the always lisening mode, has been found.
I've noticed this on my LG G2, my wifes previous Galaxy S3, her current Galaxy Avant and even on my son's ZTE Maxx. It seems that when the always listening feature and listen from any screen option is enabled for OK Google that the enabled microphone is causing two specific issues.
1) In the camera app it will not record video. You get an error that you cannot record while another device is using the microphone.
2) When the phone is plugged in for charging, any alarm set will automatically snooze and never sound. Similarly the alarm thinks you are in phone call due to the enabled mic and prevents the alarm from sounding to interfere with the call. As soon as you unplug the phone from the charger the alarm sounds again.
I've been able to duplicate this on other brands of phones running Android 4.4.2, 4.4.4 and 5.01.
I'd really love to see a fix for this as the OK Google is pretty awesome to use in the car or work. Nice to just say OK Google, play whaterver music or OKGoogle, send a text to wife without having to hit any buttons or fool with the cars slow and faulty infotainment systems.
OK so I have a Galaxy S6 Edge on AT&T running 5.1.1. and ive had this problem since I believe the S5, heres an example, Im playing music through the google play music app and (it happens so much!) suddenly the EQ shuts off and the music goes flat and sounds awful so I have to restart the music or use a task killer that for some reason turn it back on, I don't know if this is an app, os, or Samsung problem but it happens much to often. I know I cant be the only one with this problem, since its happened to me with multiple phones and multiple OS versions, please someone help me out, maybe a way to set a persistent notification for the EQ (stock Samsung EQ, have UHQ on and bass and treble boost on)? Ive found maybe one post on this but for the S4, if this is an issue that I have just never heard before but has been known by the community, could you please give me some info? Thanks everyone
I'm on Android 9 and I've been trying to use the Youtube app to listen to music as I run deliveries for my business. I'm active on social media in between deliveries so I get frequent notifications, but getting notifications while I'm on the road listening to music is frustrating because the notifications lower my music volume for a second or two and completely throw off my groove! I understand WHY it does this, because as a communication device my phone's intent is to keep me updated on people messaging me, but I'd rather it just play the notification sound WITH the audio instead of trying to MAKE DAMN SURE I heard it.
I don't want to simply turn on Do Not Disturb mode or lower my notification volume as I still want to be able to receive notifications, especially phone calls if my boss rings me, I just want the music to keep playing as I get them.
I've looked through Android's and Youtube's app settings and been unable to find a solid solution to disabling the audio ducking effect, and browsed tons of other forums before coming back here to XDA since I remember having great success with you guys on another much older issue.
I came across an app called Don't Pause! during my searches which apparently solved the audio ducking issue for a lot of people flat-out, but it is no longer on the Play Store and I found an untrustworthy APK download of it that I didn't want to bother with. It's probably too old for Android 9 anyway.
TL;DR Can I get some straight-up solution to disabling the audio ducking effect (either completely, through Android, or locally for just Youtube at least) or an app similar in simple function to the old Don't Pause! app?
Don't Pause ( by XDA-member tpierce89 ) is available here.
jwoegerbauer said:
Don't Pause ( by XDA-member tpierce89 ) is available here.
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God bless you this is the absolute best solution I could have hoped for. I knew coming here was a great idea. Gonna go one up tpierce's post too!
That app unfortunately doesn't fix the problem with audio ducking. I'm searching for a solution that really disables audio ducking, so that my music doesn't get lowered with every notification and every voice or music feedback of other apps (workout apps etc.).
Any ideas how to really disable audio ducking?
I just want to hear any notification and other audio feedback when I'm listening to music without my music volume getting lowered.
Hi,
Whenever my phone connects to my car's bluetooth, it will automatically start playing the last media I played. The problem, is that I will go DAYS without ever using media on my phone so I will resume a podcast from last week despite the fact that the podcast app is closed. I notice that even when I force stop the app, I can go into the Menu, go to Media, and still see it sitting there with no way to close it. Also, if I pause the media...after a while my car will disconnect from the bluetooth and then reconnect...which then resumes the media again. Oh, and if I get a notification about something like an email...you guessed it, the media will resume again. This is beyond frustrating because I often like to go on quiet car rides...and again this happens even when I force close the app (podcast, spotify, whatever).
This was also an issue with my S10, but not my Pixels. This has to be a OneUI or Galaxy specific issue. I have seen mentions of this bt/media issue in other boards when searching but the only thing I have seen to semi fix the problem is by setting up Tasker.
I'm wondering if anyone else has this issue and has resolved it. I am also wondering if there is a way to switch to a vanilla android os ROM so I don't have to use OneUI anymore. To clarify, I have been using Nova, but that doesn't change how the phone handles media.
Thank you for your help.