I am creating a Tasker profile that will automatically raise and lower my media volume depending on my vehicle speed. I have a general game plan, but before I put it all together I wanted to make sure the individual parts work correctly.
My issue is that I can change the Bluetooth media volume slider manually via buttons or via Tasker, but there is no effect on my car stereo's output. It is always at a reasonable listening volume, never getting quiter, even when all the way down. I am running the latest version of stock Android 6.0.1 on a Nexus 5. I have read that there was some new Bluetooth volume linking being done on Android 6.0.1, but from what I read I didn't get the impression that this was the proper effect. Does anyone have any insight into how Bluetooth volume should work between my phone and car radio?
Thanks for any help!
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I've been snooping around here for awhile and I have somewhat of a unique situation.
I ride a motorcycle, with an Autocom system installed. It's hooked up to the phone through the headset jack.
I use it to listen to music as well as to take phone calls on the go, so I'm looking for some sort of remote, prefereably wireless (bt i guess). Something that i can change tracks or accept a call with without taking more than a quick button flip.
My first idea was a 2.5mm lead with the same button as the headset, but that won't allow for music control, which is cool.
Right now I just select my tracks and put the phone on auto answer, but I bet I can do better.
I was looking in that autocom system for my bike. That was actually what stopped me from getting it. Almost all bluetooth hands-free devices have a control button, but theirs does not.
How does the speed sensitive volume work? That was what I was really interested in.
I got the Optimus V at the recent Cyber Monday deal at Virgin Mobile - for one major purpose - to use it as an mp3 player for my car. I have not activated the phone, do not plan to, have wifi on it only.
The built-in speaker on it is pretty loud, so I am surprised that the headphone volume is very low. I have to turn my car volume all the way up to max to hear anything (driving highway).
I wonder if LG turned the volume low to prevent people from killing their ear-drums. Is there any solution out there without having to activate the phone and install alternate rom on it? I have turned the volume in settings all the way high, and I have Pandora, and I have set the audio setting to high on Pandora preferences.
Pls. let me know if my objective cannot be achieved without rooting and installing a custom ROM, I would prefer not to activate this phone.
Thanks for any help.
Shameless bump...I have Volume Control+ which does not help at all.
you hear low sound in headphone ?
what are you connecting it to?
Yes, I have a low volume on the headphone too. I connect it to the aux port on the car radio using a regular Stereo Jack. My Car radio is a Pioneer system, which has great sound with other mp3 players.
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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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
I have a USB DAC that I have paired with Android devices running 4.x in the past (working because the vendor went to the trouble of adding USB DAC support to their JB or KK ROM) . The DAC has no digitally-controllable volume, and in fact I want to control the volume solely using its analog knob. My pre-Lollipop devices honored this and would output to the DAC bit-perfectly.
When I try to use this DAC with an Android release that officially supports USB DACs (Lollipop and newer), however, it appears that Android introduces a software or digital volume control into the mix. This is supremely annoying since it means that there are now two volume controls (the one on the DAC and the one in software) that I have to fiddle with.
There has got to be a way to disable the software mixer in Android 5.0+ when using an external DAC. Does anyone have any idea how this might be done? Assume root access is no problem.
Thanks!
-- Nathan
I would even accept an answer that simply caused the media volume control to automatically get set to "max" when the USB audio was plugged in. As things sit, half the time I plug my USB audio device in, media volume gets set to 50%, which is where the majority of my annoyance comes from on this issue.
-- Nathan
I seem to talk to myself a lot around here...
I managed to find at least a passable fix for this problem. The free & open source app "A2DP Volume". It actually *doesn't* support USB audio DAC attachments as an event (at least currently; I suspect it wouldn't be that hard to add support and perhaps I will pursue that at a later date), but it *does* support "Power Connection" as an event to key off of, and it so happens that in my particular application, my DAC is being powered not by the phone but by a different source (powered hub) which also sends power back to the phone; thus, when I'm using the DAC, the phone is also receiving a charge.
The only minor downside is that there is no way to distinguish the connection to the DAC + power from just power alone, so when I plug the phone into any charging source, A2DP Volume sets the "media volume" to max. However, that's a small price to pay, and honestly I don't really care.
I still don't like that the media volume can be turned down while the DAC is plugged in by bumping the physical volume rocker after it has been set to max (was never a problem with Jellybean or Kitkat), but it will definitely do for now and is *worlds* better than having to mess with the media volume right at the outset.
Hope this helps someone else,
-- Nathan