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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!

Too loud volume...

My GalaxySII is very very loudly.
Anyone might be feeling this, (for example...music) the volume is too loud to hear.
Is there any solution for this?
Ofcourse,I have root permission.
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Just turn the Volume Down ! You are the only and first person to say Volume is Loud! However, while listening to Music at above 10 the Vol is loud indeed

Ah...
I made it's volume to "1",but still it loud.

Thats a good thing its loud for u! For me watching a movie with 15 volume up is also not loud enough. However apps. and music player got a good loudness. Its only when watching a video. Any idea why is that?

Harsha Raj said:
Thats a good thing its loud for u! For me watching a movie with 15 volume up is also not loud enough. However apps. and music player got a good loudness. Its only when watching a video. Any idea why is that?
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I listen to musics on "Power AMP" player.
I don't know whether it can play movies(such as mp4 file),but how do you use it?
The player can change volume with equalizer.
You may watch the movie with lower volume...a little

Volume loudness while playing videos sometimes appears lower simply due to the fact that the audio track of movies is often recorded at low level, to maintain a good reserve of dynamic for sound effects.

No don't mock this guy has a point. My S2 is extremely loud on volume 1. I wish I could turn it down more!
This happened recently as far as I know, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my custom rom and/or kernel (villian rom 3.0).
I also dropped the phone and cracked the screen if that could have affected it.
But seriously, too loud!

moruru1 said:
I listen to musics on "Power AMP" player.
I don't know whether it can play movies(such as mp4 file),but how do you use it?
The player can change volume with equalizer.
You may watch the movie with lower volume...a little
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Actually the music player, games and applications got good loudness in its volume. However the stock video player is not loud enough even when the volume is set to 15. Is this normal? Are u telling that the Power AMP may solve this?
JuniorGG said:
Volume loudness while playing videos sometimes appears lower simply due to the fact that the audio track of movies is often recorded at low level, to maintain a good reserve of dynamic for sound effects.
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hmm u got a good point there. Let me do some tests and get back later. Could u suggest on what means I should select the sample of videos? or u have any suggestions to try out? Thanx.

jamesyb0i said:
No don't mock this guy has a point. My S2 is extremely loud on volume 1. I wish I could turn it down more!
This happened recently as far as I know, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my custom rom and/or kernel (villian rom 3.0).
I also dropped the phone and cracked the screen if that could have affected it.
But seriously, too loud!
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Thanks for reply! I also think that.
In my S2, rom is default,but kernel was changed(in order to get rooted)
or there are some hardware problems ...

Harsha Raj said:
Actually the music player, games and applications got good loudness in its volume. However the stock video player is not loud enough even when the volume is set to 15. Is this normal? Are u telling that the Power AMP may solve this?
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Ohh,sorry...I misunderstood.
I wanted to say that Power AMP can the volume "higher" with equalizer, and you might solve your problem.
I can also make my S2's volume down,but it still has been loud

moruru1 said:
Ohh,sorry...I misunderstood.
I wanted to say that Power AMP can the volume "higher" with equalizer, and you might solve your problem.
I can also make my S2's volume down,but it still has been loud
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You can use the EQ on power amp, the first slider is the Gain Control, which can be used to lower the volume further
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Nexus 7 mutes itself and won't un-mute

My Nexus 7 keeps muting the speakers and I the only way I can get it out is to turn it off and on again.
When its muted itself (I don't even know how to mute it) the volume rocker display shows the speaker with a line across it (muted).
Sometimes the rocker won't change the the blue volume level bar and sometimes it will allow me to increase the volume level to maximum but the speaker stays in muted mode.
Anybody have any idea what is going on?

jeremyholton said:
My Nexus 7 keeps muting the speakers and I the only way I can get it out is to turn it off and on again.
When its muted itself (I don't even know how to mute it) the volume rocker display shows the speaker with a line across it (muted).
Sometimes the rocker won't change the the blue volume level bar and sometimes it will allow me to increase the volume level to maximum but the speaker stays in muted mode.
Anybody have any idea what is going on?
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I just got this too. I was playing with Tasker at the time, not sure if it's related.

maybe it is a rogue app
I had the same problem (Google brought me here). I was able to fix it by killing media related programs until the sound came back. In my case the culprit was Netflix. As soon as I killed Netflix, the sound came back and I was able to change the volume again. Hope this helps.

maven00 said:
I had the same problem (Google brought me here). I was able to fix it by killing media related programs until the sound came back. In my case the culprit was Netflix. As soon as I killed Netflix, the sound came back and I was able to change the volume again. Hope this helps.
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Thank you. I can confirm that Netflix does this.

I also can confirm and I have installed the apps called speaker boost and ear piece and adjusted them to a 100% and the mute problem has not happened since and also my volume has went way up now I can finally hear my music, movies and games my external speaker and ear phones are super loud GOD BLESS YOU GUYS
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maven00 said:
I had the same problem (Google brought me here). I was able to fix it by killing media related programs until the sound came back. In my case the culprit was Netflix. As soon as I killed Netflix, the sound came back and I was able to change the volume again. Hope this helps.
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Thank you! A quick google search brought me here, and yes Netflix was to blame!

Thrais said:
Thank you! A quick google search brought me here, and yes Netflix was to blame!
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I don't have netflix and it still mutes itself? any other ideas?

Does anyone know if it's a specific version of Netflix that causes this to happen? I wonder if it's something they know about and are working on.

MIGS849 said:
I don't have netflix and it still mutes itself? any other ideas?
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Hold down power until you get the power off menu. The last option is called silent mode and it mutes and unmutes the device. Hope that helps

how to "kill media-related programs" on nexus 7
maven00 said:
I had the same problem (Google brought me here). I was able to fix it by killing media related programs until the sound came back. In my case the culprit was Netflix. As soon as I killed Netflix, the sound came back and I was able to change the volume again. Hope this helps.
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Hi, could you please give instructions on how to "kill media-related programs" as you describe above on the Nexus 7? I would like to try your suggestion, as my Nexus 7 has no sound. I don't have Netflix installed. Thanks.

[Q] Volume automatically increase

hi, mine is XXUBMJ1, after 3 weeks of usage, the volume automatically increase sometimes, what could be the problem, is it a bug or hardware ? should upgrade the firmware ?

afiqsabri said:
hi, mine is XXUBMJ1, after 3 weeks of usage, the volume automatically increase sometimes, what could be the problem, is it a bug or hardware ? should upgrade the firmware ?
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anyone experience like this?

Do you have any apps installed that control the volume on their own?

MohJee said:
Do you have any apps installed that control the volume on their own?
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nop, just original

afiqsabri said:
nop, just original
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Then I have no idea, sorry. My other guess would be is that you're accidentally pressing the volume key in you pocket or something without realizing it. You could try factory resetting the phone. It can sometimes fox weird issued like yours.
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have u check the adaptive option under the settings->sound->adapt sound?
Could it be that the adaptive sound is processing at certain point of time trying to give you the best sound that its think of?

Yes, I have experienced this under the following conditions:
-Phone just purchased, unrooted, completely stock. Playing music with PowerAmp with and without the EQ/Tone/Limit features, also happened with stock music app. The effect nearly blew out my eardrums once, but it happened several times. Music would play and very suddenly there would be a violent increase in sound, almost as if an EQ crashed. Sound went back to normal after I pressed the volume rocker in either direction. I am not so sure that this has to do with Adaptive Sound because I remember experiencing the same problem before and after i configured it. Overall, incredibly annoying and dangerous for my ears.
-Phone rooted, Viper4Android installed as a user app. The same problem happens using PowerAmp, Xenoamp and stock music app, but the increase is not so violent (not sure why, yet). Marginally tolerable, but still very annoying.
I have not found a fix yet, but still keeping an eye open.
That being said, my phone has music playing almost all day every day so I probably encounter the problem more often than others. I use earbuds, headphones and my car stereo. There is a Droid-Life.com review that mentions the issue and credits it to the phone's audio jack: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/01/samsung-galaxy-note-3-review/
See the subsection for Audio Jack Issues. Here is an excerpt:
"Then, after a few minutes without touching anything while at full volume, the volume just explodes and you are left deafened by the surprise volume attack."
I would be interested to see if anyone reports the problem when playing music via the phone's speaker.

have u check the adaptive option under the settings->sound->adapt sound?
Could it be that the adaptive sound is processing at certain point of time trying to give you the best sound that its think of?

afiqsabri said:
hi, mine is XXUBMJ1, after 3 weeks of usage, the volume automatically increase sometimes, what could be the problem, is it a bug or hardware ? should upgrade the firmware ?
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[Update] Looks like this is not an isolated issue. My friend's wife also facing the same problem and she sent in to reflash the unit at Samsung Care Center and the problem just disappear. My friend told me factory reset doesn't help though.
I have exactly the same issue you have. Same XXUBMJ1 ans using the device for a month now. Unknown and just reported to Samsung and was asked to walk in to get advice.

Call/Media volume Please help..

Whenever I'm in a whatsapp call YouTube/Twitch and pretty much everything else sounds REALLY bad. The "in-call volume" also acts as the media volume, while the media volume does pretty much nothing.
I can hear voices in videos somewhat but any backgorund sound is pretty much blocked out. I'm using the headphones from the box, I've also tested 3 others headphones and still getting the same problem.
I don't think it's an hardware issue because audio is fine whenever I'm not in a call.
ANY HELP WOULD BE AMAZING.
Found somebody else with the same problem, https://forum.xda-developers.com/s1...nd-goes-problem-network-t3909419#post79690146

Anyone :/ ?

May not help, but there is an option to use the volume rockers only for media volume when you pull down the volume shade to access all the sliders. Is it checked?

OregonInfidel said:
May not help, but there is an option to use the volume rockers only for media volume when you pull down the volume shade to access all the sliders. Is it checked?
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Yup :/ I've tried pretty much everything ughhh.
I'm still waiting for this May update to see if that fixes the problem. But because of Wi-fi calling our updates take longer than others according to Three.

Just got a new s10+, yet I'm still dealing with the sound problem...
Could anybody please test the problem I'm having?
Get into a Skype/Discord/Whatsapp call, open YouTube then use the Vol key on the side of your phone, if you're able to lower or higher the YouTube video with the "In-call Vol" then could you please post here?