Am I the only one with a broken alarm clock? :) - Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I unfortunately put Dal's brilliant kernel-level volume control app on just a few hours before updating to n94 - but whichever it was, my daily alarm no longer actually makes any noise through the external speaker. I've tried temporarily uninstalling the Nook volume tweak app without success, and any other app trying to use the speaker (volume control itself, Music, Netflix) works fine...it's just alarms that are now silent. Anyone else run across this?
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Volume rocker in Youtube and email LED

Hi,
When using the youtube app the volume rocker acts as rewind/fast forward and doesnt change the volume. This is really annoying. Is there any way to change this as I dont want to go into a youtube video, assess the volume of the vid, come out of it and then set the handset volume accordingly.
Secondly, is there a way to enable the notification LED to blink when email is received to the handset? Looked in settings but the option to enable it is greyed out...
Seconded on the YouTube thing. What were they thinking? Any tips?
Indeed.... can't really tell you how much I didnt enjoy loading up a gaga video only to have my ears DESTROYED by beyonce's wailing as she was in the song too
I had the first problem for a while too, here's how I fixed it:
-Download, install and start AEButton
-Disable the volume rocker buttons
-Re-enable them
-AEButton will now tell you that it'll restart the device, let it do so
-Fixed
I don't have HD2 yet, but the HTC volume control should have a custom setting for the Youtube app in order for it to work properly. On other HTC devices, it's under HKLM\Software\HTC\VolumeOverlay\InhouseAPClass\YouTube and should be HKLM\Software\HTC\VolumeOverlay\InhouseEnable2ndUI\HTCYOUTUBE. Do you guys have these keys? If not, you can try to create them and value under them, ClassName=HTCYOUTUBE and Enable2ndOverlay=0 respectively. Also, you could try to go to HKLM\Software\HTC\VolumeOverlay\3rdPartyAPClass, create a key there (name it anything, could be YouTube), and ClassName=HTCYOUTUBE under it. The latter hack allows to have the youtube-style volume control in any application (I use it for CorePlayer, for example).
Hope this will work...
Sigh, just found out that when playing a song under the music tab - and you use the volume rocker, surprise surprise it doesnt actually control the volume at all! It controls the track listings.
Bah! This is a STUPID idea, a shame really!!
WHAT??? Volume rocker doesn't control volume during playback? And how are we supposed to do it?
Correct. Unless it's just mine, but I doubt it?
How to control volume you ask? Well that's simple.
You come OUT of the music application and then adjust the volume, and then go back INTO the application..... Logical.
That's a damn stupid design decision. Beside the inconvenience, music player doesn't need to have the same volume level as the rest of the phone! On my HD I have maximum volume for system/ringer, whereas my music player is set to like 20%. When I plug the headphones in and start it, it's set automatically to this level - otherwise I'd be deaf by now.
And does this happen both with the headset plugged in and without it? Again, on Touch HD you can adjust volume even when the device is turned off while music is playing.
So could anyone check the registry keys I mentioned earlier? Hopefully, it's just a missing setting...
Just read my post again on how to fix it, and no, it's not a design decision, it used to just control the volume for me, it only started controlling playback once I used the mediacontrols on the headset.
M-en-M said:
I had the first problem for a while too, here's how I fixed it:
-Download, install and start AEButton
-Disable the volume rocker buttons
-Re-enable them
-AEButton will now tell you that it'll restart the device, let it do so
-Fixed
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Volume Rocker
The Volume rocker works perfectly for me in both YouTube & Music player.
volume keys work for volume in both youtube and music for me..
is there anything you've installed that could interfere?
Hi Fards, great to see you in this thread. You were a valuable asset at ironing out bugs & probs when I was using Itjes Xperia ROM's. I'm sure you will be here too.
fards said:
volume keys work for volume in both youtube and music for me..
is there anything you've installed that could interfere?
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Now that just makes it a whole lot worse. I had nothing installed when I tested YouTube originally. Volume controls control cue/reverse. Does that mean unit defective?
weareborg said:
Now that just makes it a whole lot worse. I had nothing installed when I tested YouTube originally. Volume controls control cue/reverse. Does that mean unit defective?
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Maybe different rom?
Lack of attention to details and throughness so often causes user dissatisfaction.
Leechoonhwee said:
Maybe different rom?
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Possibly. Though its a stock rom sim-free unit. Even if its just a software bug or a rom issue, average Joe (or Josephine) shouldn't have to go hacking the registry, or what not, to fix it. Imagine trying to explain that convoluted series of (potentially disastrous) steps just to make your bloody volume button WORK...
Different roms should not justify this oddity.
simplymee said:
Hi is there a way to enable the notification LED to blink when email is received to the handset? Looked in settings but the option to enable it is greyed out...
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See entry 24 for solution here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
Indeed, it would appear it is a problem with the headset, damn bizarre.
This is what happened with me anyway...
Listened to music with the headset in and then the volume controls control the track playback, not the volume, whilst you are IN the application. As soon as you come out then yea that's fine it controls the volume again.
When you disconnect the headset, the settings don't seem to revert and once you go back into the music application, the volume rocker still controls the damn playback not the volume......
.... actually i don't know. From using my headset yesterday I've just tried adjusting volume in the music app now this morning and the volume rocker isnt doing ANYTHING when in the music application....
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Resetting seems to solve the problem, don't know when the problem will re-occur though. To be honest, I don't know how to alter registries and things like that!
oh this is ridiculous there HAS to be a way to fix this.. i dont ever want these to do anything OTHER than volume.
OR have a volume control on the inline
at the moment i have skip controls on the headphones AND skip controls on the side of the phone!

Force Alarms to External Speaker?

Hi I was wondering if there is anyway to force alarms to come out of the external speaker?
Quite often I'll be listening to stuff on earphones and take them out my ears to do something else and leave them connected to phones, also sometimes fall asleep listening to music and earphones fall out.
This is causing me to miss alarms and calls whilst using my phone.
Does anyone know of a way to force the alarms to always come out of the external speaker as well as, or instead of, the earphones?
bump for any ideas? tried google but not found anything.
I turned vibrate on to catch that. Also with the Alarm Clock Plus V2 (free) I can delay it for a period of time, was appbrain link here but apparently I can't be trusted

Experience with "Disable Autoplay" app

I've been experiencing the "bug" where I would plug in a set of headphones and the Music app would start playing, even with it previously closed. Sometimes I would get sound out of both the headphones and speakers (with terrible quality, BTW) and would have to unplug and plug in the headphones again.
So I searched and found a free app called Disable Autoplay. I installed it last night and when I got to work this morning and plugged in my headphones, PowerAMP started up and started playing music, badly. I figured out that there's an option within Poweramp itself to stop that behavior, but it still sounded like crap no matter what I did, even toggling media control off/on/off in the Disable Autoplay app. I even uninstalled the app, then rebooted, same issue.
Finally I had to toggle Dolby Digital off then back on in Settings in order to get good sounding audio back.
I haven't had the Music app, or nemoplayer (which sometimes exhibited the same behavior as Music) autostart at all this morning, which is good, and I've edited the options in Poweramp not to start (or resume) when headphones are inserted or removed.
Has anyone else used this app and had these types of issues? I'm wondering if I reinstall it if I'm going to get the crappy audio again and won't be able to toggle Dolby off/on again to get it back. I'm really wondering if I should bother reinstalling it, since Music isn't doing its autostart anymore anyway.
Well this is crap. Every time I reboot my Tab, I have to toggle Dolby off and on in order for audio to sound right. Time for a reset.
I suggest staying away from Disable Autoplay. It seems to have do bad things, at least to the Iconia.

audio being interrupted when unlocking screen

when any kind of audio is being played back, if I unlock or wake the screen the audio is interrupted/paused. This occurs when playing back audio through the phone's speaker, bluetooth, or headsets.
I have also noticed that it sometimes makes the same sound as when I start Google Now/Voice search, but not always. I have some programs like Media Button Router that are being impacted because their text to speech outputs are being silenced whenever they wake up the phone.
I have gone through and disabled app after app using titanium backup, but haven't found the culprit yet.
Screen lock sounds are disabled as well.
Even things like audio control of the alarm no longer work properly because the audio is being interrupted when the screen is woken up.
any ideas?
bump: any ideas? this is a really annoying issue.

viper audio breaks after notification sound, anyone else?

If I'm listening to audio or watching a video, and a notification comes in with sound turned on, once the notification sound finishes then my media volume gets much quieter than it was prior to the notification sounding.
I have to open viper, exit, and re-open for audio enhancement to kick back in. Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?
Swimguy14 said:
If I'm listening to audio or watching a video, and a notification comes in with sound turned on, once the notification sound finishes then my media volume gets much quieter than it was prior to the notification sounding.
I have to open viper, exit, and re-open for audio enhancement to kick back in. Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?
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I haven't experienced that, but there is a module to deal with this, notification_helper remover: https://zackptg5.com/android.php#nhr
I'm assuming you'll need to flash AML afterwards, if you have viper and NHR installed.
Happens to me too. But it will break any random time, not specificly after notification tone, and turns back on after a few seconds.
devilrulz4ever said:
Happens to me too. But it will break any random time, not specificly after notification tone, and turns back on after a few seconds.
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That is normal behavior at least that's how it used to work. After I flashed a custom kernel the sound gets quieter but instead of getting louder again after a couple seconds, it stays quieter until I exit and re-open viper
Did you install on system ( viper)?
If you have viper as user app you should fave issues...
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Try using "Lock Effect Mode" in V4A settings - this works for me
I received 2 SMS alerts while listening to music on earphones. The music volume temporarily dipped but then went back up and Viper kept working (it would have been obvious if it stopped working)
I'm on OOS 9.0.11, magisk 17.1, V4A FX 2.1 (2.5.0.5), USB policy patcher 1.0 and AML 1.9.2. Viper is installed as a user app with battery optimization off and the app locked in the recents screen.
Haven't noticed this specific behavior but yes, Viper randomly breaks and a reboot is required. It's happened for as long as I can remember. If anyone knows of a way to get it working again without rebooting, please respond. Switching it off and on in the app doesn't work. I'll keep an eye out for this notification issue as well.
xgerryx said:
Haven't noticed this specific behavior but yes, Viper randomly breaks and a reboot is required. It's happened for as long as I can remember. If anyone knows of a way to get it working again without rebooting, please respond. Switching it off and on in the app doesn't work. I'll keep an eye out for this notification issue as well.
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I've also never had this happen. After any reboot I have to open and exit, re-open Viper and toggle on and off, but I've never had it stop working randomly. Once after receiving a phone call while using earphones Viper stopped working, but I didn't have to reboot to get it to work again.
Perhaps there is something different about our setups.

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