With my Galaxy S4 I used Sound profiles for volume, connection, etc. to change automatically at home, office, night. But now I think these apps and have problems with Android 4.4.4. to set the volume level and other settings. Someone could suggest me an app for the sound and connection management (to use also with Tasker). Many thanks.
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Only reason i didn't put this in the themes apps section is that it could be a mod as well. What i'm looking for or hoping to have either an app or option in tsm settings for example to set the controls for bluetooth devices.
I currently use a a2dp headset for listening to music, podcast ect. On the bluetooth device there are play, pause, forward, back controls as common on most. My issue is setting which app is to be associated with those controls. Of course some apps have this as a setting to enable this or not. However some do not and sometimes an app gets control that you did not wish.
The most convenient solution seems to me would be to have a menu or app independent of said music/podcast apps that a user to point the controls to the app of choice. This would eliminate the need to go through the settings in each app as well as help with those apps that have no setting for this.
Now seeing how this seems like it would be a fairly common request i would imagine there is already a solution for this. However i have yet to find it.
Would appreciate any assistance
Thanks
Dang, am I the only one with this headache?
Hey together. I'm a noob *duck* - but I did quite some search on google and on these forums before posting, and I'm not a very stupid noob.
Today I got the situation that no audio is audible any longer from my browser, games, audio apps, or from an audio player (all of them previously worked). This is the case for headphone and also the built in speaker. The problem occurred very likely after using skype. I also still have audio in phone calls and also I still have sound for ringtones and other alarms. Handset functioms all still work fine.
The first obvious thing I did was checking volume settings in the android settings. There I moved all sliders - the one responsible for regular audio did not give me any feedback. If I use the volume buttons on the phone while I'm on my home screen I get audible feedback - but that doesn't influence my problem.
Funnily the sound in skype still works. More funnily: during skype calls the audio from my browser or the audio player is also audible (I tried this just out of couriousity as I suspected Skype to be the cause of my problem. Et voila - I got sound from a TV News page and also from the Walkman app while the call on skype was still running. As soon as the call in Skype ended the audio from browser and adio player got muted again.
I also tried to kill skype during a call in order to kill it before it can again mute the audio - No luck. as soon as the skype app is killed also the audio from audio player and Browser vanishes.
I also tried some audio apps - all have the same issue of having no sound.
I then tried different apps which control volumes - without any luck. So at the moment I don't have audio, except during skype calls.
I guess that skype has either access to some hardware settings which aren't used usually (I hated skype for things like this as long as it had existed) - or I'm missing something very obvious. Or something else. Does anybody of the developers here know about linux settings I could modify? (is there something like alsamixer which is only possible to access via jni or similar?)
// Edit:
Just found out that toggling airplane mode ON I have sound for media (audio player, browser). (but also lose the ability to use my cellphone and network). As soon as I switch back to airplainmode OFF also audio is muted again. And for sure - I also tried rebooting in different states of my phone quite often without any difference.
// Edit 2:
looks like I found a workaround but no permanent solution - I installed an app SoundAbout (free app) recommended for similar problems in an other thread: 89996-galaxy-s3-media-volume-stuck-mute.html (I have now put output permanently to "headphones" for media sounds. However as soon as this setting is reset to the default (let app decide) it is muted again when airplane mod is set to off - looks like an other app resets it? (could not find any app obviously doing this though as I stopped the usual suspects)
I still suspect Skype as the original reason for this problem as I just recently had it updated when the problem appeard and it also messes with this kind of stuff during usage (and I don't really use other apps dealing with audio except of browser, music player which weren't updated for a long time).
Maybe also of concern:
It's an sony xperia p, running Android 4.0.3 and it is currently rooted.
Hi,
I am using the Samsung Galaxy S2 from last 2 years and I faced minor issues which were manageable. However, I have come an issue with call volume being too low which is troubling a lot. (Android Version 4.1.2)
When I am using my earphones during an ongoing call, I have observed if I chat on whatsapp simultaneously, the incoming message tone reduces the in-call volume. For this, I would quickly unplug the earphone from the mobile and plug it back and the in-call volume becomes normal.
What happened recently, I was on a call without earphones and I had to reply to a message on whatsapp, so I opened whatsapp and the incoming message tone on whatsapp reduced the volume on my phone.
I could unplug the earphone, but not sure how do I get the in-call volume to normal ?
Does anyone have a solution to this ?
I read on various forums, about setting the volume by accessing *#197328640# and option 5 for audio, but when I select option 5, it stays on the same page.
Hoping to get some interesting answers.
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There is an Android API called AudioManager which allows applications to specify how their audio will behave on the device. It also tells OTHER APPS how their audio should behave while this app is running. It sounds like you're having a 'ducking' issue. This is when an app you run tells all the other apps that there audio should go below (quieter than) the app that's running. Apps are supposed to undo these changes when you leave them but sometimes (as you've found) that doesn't happen and audio routing (earpiece, speakerphone, volume) can start to act strange. On Samsung devices a power OFF / power ON cycle will resolve the issue, and there are probably apps in the app store that would let you modify the AUDIO MANAGER MODES.
I have a rooted galaxy s5 with 5.1.1 stock rom loaded (pre rooted)
I will just make one thread with these questions I cant find answers to
1) media volume limiter is something new in 5.1.1 and annoying as sht.
it resets every time and now my Bluetooth source is much qieter than rest of the sources (indash)
is there a hack to disable the volume limit? I searched all the menus couldn't find it
2) Bluetooth connects both phone and music and I have to manualy disable the phone part every time which is again stupid
I don't want to select to take calls on cellphone everytime when using Pandora. but theres again no permanent option to save the selection
3) is there an app that can automate things like turning on Pandora when Bluetooth is connected? so I don't have to again manually turn it on and off every time.
It would b nice to have Pandora turn on when Bluetooth is connected and turn off when its disconnected
Hi everyone, as stupid as it sounds, after many years of using android I just noticed that using equalizers ( and i've tried many of them ) causes the volume to drop. I have discovered that this is standard behaviour since android lowers everything by -6dB to avoid clipping when setting frequencies to +6dB.
Since my phone can't really drive my headphones much, is there a way to bypass this behaviour without using apps or rooting the phone?
Note that the maximum Volume is limited by the hardware. So the only way to have equalizing at maximum Volume is to lower the overall volume. You may be able to work around this by using an audio player that ships its own audio library or has an amplification function. Maybe BlackPlayer works. Note that this will only change the behavior of the music player and that you may experience clipping.
If you want to do changes for all apps there is no way around a custom kernel (or rooting at least) that I am aware of.
The thing is that the stock presets inclued for example in my JBL Headphones app work fine, but as soon as i try to modify one of them the volume drops. This is true for other equalizers too, for example the stock samsung one. It has something to do with how the personalization is handled i guess.
I am currently using a rooted phone with MyAndroidTools to check inside the databases to see if i can find something to tweak but no luck so far.