Not sure where or what to search for on this issue but it's been killing me with my Nexus for the past few months.
Coming from a couple of HTC phones one thing I really liked about them, which might have been Sense feature, was the phone having two completely separate audio volumes one for when headphones were plugged in and another for when the phone was hooked up via Bluetooth.
My problem is I listen to music very low with headphones at work, then unplug them before getting into my truck, automatically hooking up to the Bluetooth to stream and the volume stays at the low headphone volume. To hear it over truck stereo I need to turn the phone BT volume all the way up. Fast forward to when I sit back down at work to listen to music, my headphone volume is back to the last BT volume or maxed out. Just a real annoyance and find it hard to believe this is the way Google designed it and has nothing in place when I'm having an off day and don't manually fix it before I listen to my headphones again and blast my eardrums like I did yesterday.
Is this how the Nexus should handle BT and Headphone volumes? Is there any kind of fix for this?
Thanks in advance
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I am pretty new to Android and still trying to get all the grips on I need. As of now, there is one thing that really bugs me badly.
I use the device for Sat-Nav driving a lot, I have a semipermanent installetion in my car from my previous smartphones. Basically just a power feed and a 3,5mm Jack that come out of the dash panel where the device holder is mounted. I recharge plug in for recharge as needed. The audio jack goes into the device, from there to a so-called Fastmute box behind the dash which is connected to the stereo head unit (the loudspeaker output cables running away from the head unit to be specific. The Speaker lines are interrupted by the box and just pass through whatever audio is being played back by the stereo. However, once there is current on the 3,5 audio jack (i.e. speech from the SatNav) the music immediately goes mute and you can hear the turn instructions in perfect quality through the car speakers. Once the signal fromthe satnav dies down stereo music comes back.
For my taste this beats most commercial, fixed systems.
Now, since I am on Android weird stuff happens.
On a first testrun shortly after I gut the Desire (which was o2 branded stock 2.1 at that point) I noticed that I do not get any announcements through the fastmute. Checked the jack, opened the dash to check internal wiring, retried a mp3 player. It's all good on that side. The accouncements come through the device speaker, hard to hear, easy to miss a turn etc. I do not why or how, but it seems that the audio routing takes a route different from other audio. This had me pretty much meh!
Well few days later, now with a ModaCo R8 custom ROM and Froyo I was hoping for good luck and gave it another whirl. Of course, no dice. When I plug in the jack of the supplied headset (which I assume doubles as a handsfree) I get the symbol for that in the upper symbol bar. When I exchange that headset jack with the regular 3,5mm jack the symbol looks different, but still vaguel like a set of speakers.
But now here comes the completion of the mindfaq... I had the SatNav volume at about medium (so barely hearble with driving ambient noise) when the phone went and I took the call through the Bluetooth Handsfree instaalled in my car and was distracted by the call (the car came euipped with the BT Handsfree from factory, so the stereo goes to "pause" and the conversation is routed into the vehicle speakers.. A few minutes into the call I suddenly hear a perfectly well understandable, clear turn instruction hopping into the phone conservation. I was extremely intrigued and was hoping that I discovered that CoPilot can route instructions either into A2DP or more likely emulate a "call event" that results in routing the audio into the according BT profile.
However, after that singularity I tried reproducing this for a god part of an hour, driving a route that forces many instructions from the SatNav, all the while calling my own answering machine fo have an connection established.
Sorry for the lengty explanation. Questions:
1 Has anyone ran into this before? What was your solution? Bear with it, switch SatNav software, avoid listening to music in oder to not miss any turn directions?
2. Is there a hack, hidden configuration that would enable me to _force_ this audio routint into the direction of the BT Handsfree, making it think it is an incoming call?
As a fellow co-pilot user I share your frustration.
You will probably find that it's nothing as technical as it not routing to bluetooth or whatever.
Co-pilot has a nasty habit of messing with it's own volume setting when a headset is plugged in. It tends to reduce itself down to zero without notification or cause. You would try to reset the volume, but firstly, it wont go more than a third of the way up, and secondly, it will simply jump back down to zero again on it's own.
They know about this issue and their response is not to use it with a headphone jack!
It is rather annoying!!
I have plugged my phone into my surround sound system using the headphone socket but the music out volume is very very quiet. Tried in the car also connecting it to the car stereo but again very quiet. Plugging my ipod in this way both times and the music is perfectly loud. Is this a bug or does anyone know a solution. I was going to buy a new car stereo so i can stream music to it via bluetooth. Will this also be ridiculously quiet??
I'm guessing that you've already tried turning the volume up?
tcuk31 said:
I have plugged my phone into my surround sound system using the headphone socket but the music out volume is very very quiet. Tried in the car also connecting it to the car stereo but again very quiet. Plugging my ipod in this way both times and the music is perfectly loud. Is this a bug or does anyone know a solution. I was going to buy a new car stereo so i can stream music to it via bluetooth. Will this also be ridiculously quiet??
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When i plug my DHD into my dolby 3.1 speakers, its that loud i can make my house shake lol
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Yes I have turned the volume right up.
Are you being serious that it's loud?? Is that because your using an unofficial rom?
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Yes I have turned the volume right up.
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I thought as much, I'm using CM7, but I have used the stock HTC ROM to listen to music on my HiFi. And there were no problems with the volume.
Are you using the same 3.5mm jack to connect your phone to your car & HiFi at home?
Yeah using the same 3.5mm jack on th phone but different lead each time. As I say with iPod it's fine. Through headphones the volume is fine and too loud when turned right up but it's when connecting to other audio equipment it's just so quiet and very poor quality.
That's odd, sadly short of a factory reset, which probably won't fix it anyway. I've no more ideas
tcuk31 said:
I have plugged my phone into my surround sound system using the headphone socket but the music out volume is very very quiet. Tried in the car also connecting it to the car stereo but again very quiet. Plugging my ipod in this way both times and the music is perfectly loud. Is this a bug or does anyone know a solution. I was going to buy a new car stereo so i can stream music to it via bluetooth. Will this also be ridiculously quiet??
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I also have the same problem, I've plugged mine into my car stereo and it does not go loud enough, I'm wondering if it could be a fault.
Maybe a problem with the latest firmware update that they pulled (2.2.1) as I didn't try it before then I'm not sure. Thanks for your replys so far. Any othe thoughts??
I use my Desire HD for music playback and when using headphones I have strange problems.
I have used 3 different pairs of headphones with this phone spread over about 10 ish months. Each pair have headphones have been standard stereo headphones with no mic or in-line controls. The issue I get is something when I plug the headphones in they are recognized in the notification bar as headphones with mic (signified by the little icon) and other times just plain headphones which they are.
If they are recognized as having a mic, randomly while listening the phone will pause the music and ring the last called person in my call history.
I have no idea why they do this but it only happens when they are recognized as having a mic (which I'm 100% sure they don't). To get round this I unplug and plug them back in until they are recognized as just stereo headphones. This works for an hour or so of music playback until it will randomly recognize them as having a mic again and start calling someone.
As you can imagine this is VERY annoying.
Does anyone know why this is and how I can fix it?
Thanks in Advance.
I think I had this problem before. But it occurs when I use the stock htc handsfree. I could hear static noise and my phone will start to call the last called person. I don't know how I solved it, but i guess it is related with my jack-in or the snd3254 dspmode configuration. I'm not sure though.
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drpsyko said:
I think I had this problem before. But it occurs when I use the stock htc handsfree. I could hear static noise and my phone will start to call the last called person. I don't know how I solved it, but i guess it is related with my jack-in or the snd3254 dspmode configuration. I'm not sure though.
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I have never used the stock headphone since they sound pretty awful.
I do hope someone has a way of fixing this.
Try "Headset Blocker" by Roadkill, free in the Market.
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Connect your phone to a stereo with a standard 3.5mm audio cable and set media volume to max. Play some music, eject the cable, plug it back in, resume playing music. For some reason the audio volume is automatically lowered. Increasing it back to max works just fine but you do get a notification saying "Loud music may harm your hearing if you listen to it for a long time" while you do that.
I only listen to music in my car using aux 3.5mm. I control volume using the headunit and this "feature" is annoying as heck.
Any way to disable the volume auto-lowering?
thats the way all of them work, also was the same on old galaxy s device. happens on ipad also.
i think the reason is they dont want you blowing your brains out when you plug your headphones in if you forgot to turn down the media volume before you unplugeed them
I've been in HTC world for past 5 years and never had a need for such feature... all I'm trying to figure out is how to disable this on my new sammy
I listen via the 3.5 port in my car and can confirm the original Epic 4G did NOT behave this way. (At least not when running stock--Voodoo drivers did do this by default but you could override them.)
It pisses me off too and the NS4G never did this when I had it. I can live with it but just annoying.
I solved it through tasker. Not elegant, but it works.
true, also a hack... solves one problem but creates another. when i DO use headphones i set volume low and taking 3.5mm out and back in resets volume to max. ouch
i wonder if there is a way in Tasker to simply re-set volume to whatever it was just before 3.5mm was inserted.
Yea, you can do this. Create a variable to hold the volume, update it whenever the media volume is changed. When headphones are plugged it, just set the volume based on the variable. Imo, this wouldn't help much though. If you insist on playing media at max volume through your car, you're still going to blow up your ears when you plug in headphones.
I'd recommend setting the volume offset on your stereo (slack on some radios, I think) to be ideal when the phone is at the reduced volume. This is what I do.
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I'd recommend setting the volume offset on your stereo (slack on some radios, I think) to be ideal when the phone is at the reduced volume. This is what I do.
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the issue at hand is a bit more complex. consider this scenario:
i'm in a car driving and someone calls me.
i pop out the 3.5mm and answer the call.
once done talking, i pop 3.5mm back in and resume music.
now the volume is NOT what it was since sgs2 lowered it automatically trying to "save" my hearing.
similar story happens when i get out of my car for few minutes and upon coming back in i constantly have to turn the volume back up.
changing the in-car headunit volume is not helping since my cell is not the only device used there. there is built-in radio, built-in cd player, other portable players, etc that i (and others) use. no need to tweak main system just because one of many devices is being an #!$le about media volume.
ugh, still looking for a right solution. i'll go ahead and try to mess with tasker but that will be just patching the problem, not solving it
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Connect your phone to a stereo with a standard 3.5mm audio cable and set media volume to max. Play some music, eject the cable, plug it back in, resume playing music. For some reason the audio volume is automatically lowered. Increasing it back to max works just fine but you do get a notification saying "Loud music may harm your hearing if you listen to it for a long time" while you do that.
I only listen to music in my car using aux 3.5mm. I control volume using the headunit and this "feature" is annoying as heck.
Any way to disable the volume auto-lowering?
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TRY THIS
Hi
Download and buy license from "SOUNDABOUT"
1. Enable it
Update the below
2. Call volume to EAR PIECE
3. Media to SPEAKER
everything will be ok...after many year it has worked for my HTC ONE E9PLUS
Robin
I have no bluetooth audio function in my car although I can make and receive phone calls via BT. I like to listen to podcasts in my car and use Podcast Addict to do this just using my S9 with the volume high. When I turn on my phone in the car and turn on Podcast Addict the media volume on my phone gets switched off and I have to turn BT off and on to get the sound back on. This is quite irritating but the even stranger thing is that sometimes I get in the car and the sound stays on fine and I just get to play the podcast straightaway. This will go on for a week or so and then it will go back to cutting off the sound for a couple of weeks and so on.
I'm sorry if I,ve not explained this very well - I'm not sure I understand what's happening myself!