This bug has been around since the TP. No idea why it has migrated operating systems..
Anyhow, try this. Set your notification volume to max. Wait a few seconds, and go into your notification tones and play one. Immediately after it has finished, play it again. Notice the first time it played, the volume was substantially quieter. The second time it played, it actually used max volume as per your setting.
This greatly effects notifications with just a few bytes of sound and not an ongoing ringtone. An ongoing ringtone will begin quieter than full, and then pick up to full volume or whatever you have in your settings but the first few sound bytes will always be quiet.
If you have notifications set for text or email, you will never hear your notifications at full volume unless it`s an ongoing ringtone (and who the hell wants that!).
I cant believe this hasn't been addressed yet. I have already tested this with three stock DHDs (but none with any custom roms.)
After my meeting with the regional HTC rep this week I will load a custom ROM onto my DHD and test further.
Feel free to post your findings! Would like to know if this issue is present in custom roms as well.
EDIT: Initial problem (/w TP2) discovered here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-touch-pro-2/80017-speaker-volume-quiet-then-loud.html
I have just tried what your talking about.
but it doesnt seem to happen on my phone..
My phone was set to silent, then uped it to max,
went to my sound settings - notifications, selected the one i usually use,
sounded normal..
tapped it 4 more times.. no difference.
I think I know what you mean, at the home screen if you use the volume rockers and kee increasing, I can hear the volume getting louder as I press even when the volume on screen bar is at max.
I found that even at max it was still too quiet. I got my tones into SoundForge and increased the volume by like 50% and its nice and loud now
SiqMawsh said:
I think I know what you mean, at the home screen if you use the volume rockers and kee increasing, I can hear the volume getting louder as I press even when the volume on screen bar is at max.
I found that even at max it was still too quiet. I got my tones into SoundForge and increased the volume by like 50% and its nice and loud now
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That's definitely something to consider.. good idea, I need to try that!... We're you able to do this with notification tones or just ring tones?
Just to note if you keep pressing the notifications you won't hear a difference, its the very FIRST sound that comes from the speaker will be quiet after a short rest of a few seconds.
Turn off the screen as well.. wait a couple of seconds, turn it back on, play a sound and then play it again and you'll notice that the second time it plays is a lot more audible (playing at max volume).
I just increased the volume on a ringtone(mp3) I want and put it on the sd card, and selected it as my ringtone. I did the same with a tone I wanted as my sms, but saved it in the notifications folder. I've only done it with my ringer and sms tone so far. Temporary fix but if I'm trimming my tones on my pc I can increase the volume as well, hopefully I don't have to keep doing it for long. I haven't tried the roms with volume fixes yet.
Using Revolution 4.0 and seems to be working fine.
Just wanted to post back. After rooting and roming the issue definitely has not ceased. I've learned to cope and will eventually make some tones that have amped volumes with some PC apps.
Still annoying though.. tested on 9 DHDs so far. Not one didnt have the issue. Ugh.
I have noticed that when I get an incoming call the ringing volume starts off low and then after the 1st or 2nd ring it jumps up to full volume (or the volume I have set it to). It's like as if the ringing volume has been set to ascending.
I have tried it with different ringtones but it's always the same result.
It is a little annoying and I'm not sure if its a bug or not as I can't seem to find anything in the settings to adjust this.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, were you able to correct or change it?
Thanks.
I do not have this problem.
But i use one of the preinstalled ringtones.
Maybe it has something to do with it.
But i looked in the settings and did not find any options regarding the increasing volume (know that option from my old w850i sony ericsson)
I have tried it with the preinstalled ringtones as well but I still get the same problem.
Yeah my old nokia's used to have an option for ascending ringtone but I can't find anything like that. Might have to do a factory reset and see if that fixes anything.
You know what?
I've got the same problem.
had a ringtone that got kinds louder in the first 2 seconds so i did not hear that the volume was increasing.(had pegasus)
But with another ringtone i can hear that increasing volume too.
weird :S
Same here.
Sent from galaxy S 2 using xda app
Same here. With built in or with my own mp3 ringtones.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
Yes I have same prob 2...doesn't bother me 2 much, but wud be nice to have it start ringing in full volume.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
Have any of you lot downloaded additional ringtones from 3rd party apps like zedge?
I'm wondering they could've caused it, cos it definitely seems like a software issue as oppose to a hardware issue.
I'm going to do a factory reset on my phone and wipe it completely and see what happens.
I posted this a while back, but the Mods kept moving it to Q&A. We need the phone.apk modified so the increasing ringer effect is removed. This is stock behavior with all Samsung phones, including the SGS.
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I posted this a while back, but the Mods kept moving it to Q&A. We need the phone.apk modified so the increasing ringer effect is removed. This is stock behavior with all Samsung phones, including the SGS.
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So are you saying that this is normal behaviour? and that everyone's SGS2 will have this issue?
I just did a full wipe and factory reset and it didn't resolve anything
My S2 act the same, i've uploaded the song from kies.
It's a bit annoying.
Okay I think that cmd512 was right, it seems to be a feature of samsung phones, one which apparently we can't change without rooting the device. Looks like I wiped my phone for no reason, great!!
Here's some other links I've found regarding this issue on the original SGS...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=759537
http://www.samsunggalaxysforum.com/samsung-galaxy-s-how-to/increasing-ringtone-problem/
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/125710-help-samsung-galaxy-doesent-ring-right.html
http://samsunggalaxysforums.com/showthread.php/2205-Galaxy-S-Turn-off-increasing-volume-when-ringing
Can other users just confirm if their device acts in the same way or not? Thanks.
I noticed this my 1st call or so (3 weeks ago). I assume this is done by Samsung purposely to give users a chance to silence the ringer before it disturbs something/someone (meeting, conference, library, etc.)
If you check motion in Settings, you will see that there is an option to articles silence sounds by turning the phone over. I assume the ringer starts low, then increases to allow the users time to silence the phone before reaching max volume.
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I noticed this my 1st call or so (3 weeks ago). I assume this is done by Samsung purposely to give users a chance to silence the ringer before it disturbs something/someone (meeting, conference, library, etc.)
If you check motion in Settings, you will see that there is an option to articles silence sounds by turning the phone over. I assume the ringer starts low, then increases to allow the users time to silence the phone before reaching max volume.
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Yeah I thought it might be something like that too but you'd think samsung would at least put an option in the settings to let the user choose if they wanted it or not ... or even put a note about it somewhere so people like me wouldn't think its a problem with their phone and format their device for no reason lol
This is absolutely normal, was the same on the SGS. The only way is to decompile phone.apk and change one of the settings. If you search "non-increasing ringer phone.apk" for the SGS, you will see tons of posts with this file. Once you push the new phone.apk over, it will get rid of the increasing ringer effect.
Unfortunately, when I tried to decompile phone.apk, I got errors. If I can get a deodexed version of phone.apk from KE7, I can modify it accordingly.
'Feature'
Confirmed - It is standard stock behavior and I hate it.. lol.
Coming from the captivate where I ran i900 modded roms they would have ascending ringers until some dev modded it to not..
having the same problem here
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there's a mod in dev section, check it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108398
Disable Increasing Ring is the best app that can fix Ringer Volume starts off low issue
I have been having volume issues that I haven't seen anyone post about. Alarms I have seen and I'm having the same issue. Not with the alarm app crashing but with the volume itself. The alarm goes off but no volume. Same with phone ring tone and message ringtone. I have missed calls and messages because when the arrive I don't hear them. Everything works like it should just no volume when the volume is set to high. I do have a volume mod installed to make it louder but I had the same issue prior to installing the mod. I'm currently running CromCleanrom but also had the issue with Alliance. If anyone knows a fix it would be greatly appreciated.
The Moto Z force seems to have a FORCED feature that makes the ringtone silent on the first two rings then gets louder.... also when switching to speakerphone its quiet then gets louder same way.
I hate this Anyone know how to stop this. Whats the freaking point. I tried an app but it only worked on the RINGER not the speakerphone. Also it had to run all the time in the notification bar.... Worthless.
Disable Increasing Ringtone should fix this for you
sadly it doesnt work , it works for runger but app must run in notification bar ALWAYS. Also it doesn't fix ascending speakerphone.
I have a while to return it. This is the most annoying thing, dont know what moto was thinking.
Hi guys. I used to have a problem with my LG V10 volume rising from vibrate when at work. I would set it to vibrate in the morning and then randomly around midday, the ringtone would kick back on just to the lowest level. I thought it was an issue with the phone that I had so when I moved to the Note 7, I was looking forward to no longer having to worry about it.
Now my Note 7 is doing the same thing. I lower it to vibrate, and then randomly it pops back up. Now I'm wondering if there is something in Android I need to disable to keep this from happening. It went off today in a meeting with one of my VP's - not a good thing. I need to get to the bottom of this. Please let me know your thoughts!
Thanks!
So I just did a little testing, and when the ringtone is set to vibrate and I get a call and it starts to vibe, if I press any buttons to stop the vibration, it will raise the volume one notch. This seems crazy to me, is anyone else getting this? Tested several times and getting the same thing each time.