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Prevent audio push through speaker during notifications?

I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. If you recieve any notifications When listening to any audio through headphones (or through the mini usb port), the device pushes the notification sound through the speaker. This is fine when having a ringer enabled because I'd obviously want to hear the ring. What I dislike though, is when I have notfications (rings, text messages, etc.) on silent or vibrate, it pushes the audio that I'm listening to through the speaker still. I've always disliked this in WM. My PPC6700 did the same thing, but now I'd really like to know if there's a way to change this.
Now that I have an 8GB SD card, my Titan has started to become my primary mp3 player. I do FOH sound at a local club, and when playing music between bands, it's really annoying to have the music suddenlly cut out because a phone call is coming in. Likewise when I'm quietly watching MobiTV with my headphones on at work, and suddenly, Survivorman is blaring through the speaker because a call is coming in...You get the point. The ringer is off, but the phone still trys to let a ring through the speaker anyway, and since no ring is selected, it pushes any audio being played through.
I realize that this relatively simple problem probably does not have a simple solution as this is probably buried deep in the architecture of how WM handles audio gateways...that almost sounded like I knew what I was talking about; I can assure you that I do not . This is where you guys come in. I'm willing to test any ideas you guys have got. I don't care if it f&#*s up my phone...a hard reset isn't going to ruin my day. I'd just like a solution for this.
Ideas??
Thanks for your help and for this forum!..it has saved my phone more then a few times already.

Me too having the same problem. I listen to music via my bluetooth mono headset and these notifications (whcih I get plenty) disconnect the bluetooth audio gateway, forcing me to reach out to my phone and enabling the audio gateway again.

Yeah, I hate that too! I have the i760, one other thing on this phone I dislike is that the volume must be on to hear audio through my headphones. But there I am in a store listening to some rock at a loud volume, and there it is playing for the entire f'n store to hear when I get a call, thanks PPC!

Possible Solution!!!!
Might I recommend a Profiler. Like PPCProfiler. Just Google it.
What you could do is create a profile called music or what ever you want to name it. Then you could set up that profile to turn ringers on with the volume level you like and with or without vibration and select silent or vibrate only for the notifications. You could really but together any combination. I believe with PPCProfile you can even make a profile as a Headset Mode. So it will auto detect the headset and switch without having to do anything else.
Cheers.
Curious G.

Thanks for the reply, but a profiler isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I've had them before in previous roms. The problem isn't that it's an inconvienence to switch to silent or vibrate. It's that when things are silenced or on vibrate, any background audio is pushed through the speaker while the notification is going off. Meanwhile that audio that I want to be played cuts out of the path that I want it going through (ie. headphones).
Thanks tho...I'm open to any ideas.

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.

Ring tones wont play through bluetooth but everything else will

I have an interesting issue:
If I have my Blue Tooth headset on and connected, I can listen to music through it , I can hear notifications for text, email, etc and youtube audio plays through it just fine, but whenever I get a call, it doesn't matter if it is a stock ring tone or a music/mp3 tone it will always play through the phone's external speakers instead.
Is there a setting , tweak or app to change this so the tone will play through the headset only or both?

I have the same issue but mine is through the headphone jack when using as a line out/aux to my car stereo. Music, video, navigation etc. plays fine. But ringtones ALWAYS switch to external phone speaker.
A big annoyance.

Glad I am not the only one. Thanks for replying. Not sure what the deal is, hopefully someone will chime in and confirm if it is a hardware or software issue. I have never had a phone that wouldn't play the ringtone through bluetooth before.
carlz28 said:
I have the same issue but mine is through the headphone jack when using as a line out/aux to my car stereo. Music, video, navigation etc. plays fine. But ringtones ALWAYS switch to external phone speaker.
A big annoyance.
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Not to revive a dead topic , but it just occurred to me that if I don't want to hear the ringer play through the phone then I need to silence it when I have my bluetooth connected. I just set up 2 Automatelt rules;
Bluetooth Connected / Ringer Off -
On device connection > Set ringer to Silent/Vibrate
Bluetooth Disconnected / Ringer On -
On device disconnection > Set Ringer to On/Vibrate
I am going to give this a shot and see if it works. I am betting that I still hear the musical crescendo in my headset while the phone is on silent.

Same
I have been having this same issue.

d3db1t said:
Not to revive a dead topic , but it just occurred to me that if I don't want to hear the ringer play through the phone then I need to silence it when I have my bluetooth connected. I just set up 2 Automatelt rules;
Bluetooth Connected / Ringer Off -
On device connection > Set ringer to Silent/Vibrate
Bluetooth Disconnected / Ringer On -
On device disconnection > Set Ringer to On/Vibrate
I am going to give this a shot and see if it works. I am betting that I still hear the musical crescendo in my headset while the phone is on silent.
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I'm having this issue as well. Where is this setting at for these rules?
Also a guy I work with has a RAZR maxx with the stock unrooted 4.3 room and his does the same thing. So I think it's a software issue.

Macguyver said:
I'm having this issue as well. Where is this setting at for these rules?
Also a guy I work with has a RAZR maxx with the stock unrooted 4.3 room and his does the same thing. So I think it's a software issue.
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The rules you speak of are Automatelt (its like tasker / llama ) rules , you can get Automatelt in the appstore, the free version is all I have needed so far.

Not getting notification sounds through speaker when BT headphones connected, why?

I just got this phone and I'm not sure if I changed some setting or it's the way it is, but I'm not getting notification sounds through speaker if bluetooth headphones are connected.
It wouldn't be too bad if my headphones (Sony SBH24) would not have that stupid slow gradual volume increase after silence, so short sound notifications (such as Hangouts text message) just doesn't play as the volume too low at the beginning.
Also, I'm not always have them in my ears.
Is this a "feature" or a setting somewhere?
Thank you.

I dont get notifications through BT in my car or android Auto. I broke my screen and switched back to my s8+ while waiting on replacement and notifications worked in my car. Nothing with my replacement s10+ either.

But do you get notifications through phone's speaker in your car?

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But do you get notifications through phone's speaker in your car?
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no

So, nobody is bothered by this?

Seems it's not S10 alone issue, it's Android 9 issue?
http://chng.it/gRmdJGcLW8

Notification sound plays while phone muted.

So basically my OP5 plays notification sounds even though it is on muted and on DnD. The alert slider is in muted position. Apparently Android treats my notifications as media sounds and plays them unless media sounds are muted. This problem started on its own, I did not change anything in the settings. It annoys the **** out of me so I would be grateful if anyone could help.

grysiu said:
So basically my OP5 plays notification sounds even though it is on muted and on DnD. The alert slider is in muted position. Apparently Android treats my notifications as media sounds and plays them unless media sounds are muted. This problem started on its own, I did not change anything in the settings. It annoys the **** out of me so I would be grateful if anyone could help.
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Same here, I've tried also to wipe the cache from recovery, reboot, set/unset the ringtone, etc. but the problem is still there.
It seems also OnePlus 6 does the same: forums.oneplus.com/threads/double-notification-sound-notification-sound-while-on-vibrate-and-dnd.1051359/