Low notification volume - Moto Z Force Questions & Answers

This device has a bug. Volumes for notifications are always low.
This happened with the latest update .
I found a workaround that has been working for me.
Run the device help app and test the speaker. Even if you can hear the sound, press no and run it again. After that notifications should be full volume and you'll be able to actually hear it.
Waiting for the Nougat update or any kind of update from moto to fix this issue.
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I will have to try that... I was looking for the notification volume bar (like my Samsung devices) and didn't see it. Was wondering how to increase the volume without cranking up the others.

Droidgreg30 said:
I will have to try that... I was looking for the notification volume bar (like my Samsung devices) and didn't see it. Was wondering how to increase the volume without cranking up the others.
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On this device you cannot unlink the ring tone and the notification tone like on Samsung.

The unlinked notification and ringer is not stock-android. Nexus can't do it either.
I have seen other reports of this on other phones and never been able to duplicate it. I have read of a few people removing Facebook apps, and rebooting and the low volume notifications work again.

Changing this post because I did not realize mine did it until it stopped

LeeMullinsII said:
I have never had this issue, and the last poster mentioned removing facebook, the only social media app I have is Instagram which I hardly ever use so it may be related to social media, I have read other reports of twitter causing similar problems.
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I have never used FaceBook. The notifications an ringtones are messed up on mine. It seems to be connected to the escalating volume. Ringtones last long enough to get escalated very loudly. The brief chirp of a notification however, just does not have time to get escalated.

What about using the default sounds? I have never changed my notification or ringtone sound

LeeMullinsII said:
What about using the default sounds? I have never changed my notification or ringtone sound
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Device help > fix > hardware test> speakers > run test. This worked for me.
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I would like to point out that this was an issue on stock, not after any of the update like OP states. I haven't taken any updates and had this same low ringtone issue.
Not only did the "test speaker" help with the low volume issue, but it also eliminated the "speaker pop" bug after you've connected to a BT device.

This has stopped for me. The past few days not escalating ring and loud notifications. Im trying to figure out what I did, but I cant make it happen again to figure out what triggered it to stop

LeeMullinsII said:
This has stopped for me. The past few days not escalating ring and loud notifications. Im trying to figure out what I did, but I cant make it happen again to figure out what triggered it to stop
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Please let us know if you do figure it out... mine does this as well and it is annoying. My wife's does it and you would swear it was end of world...

Can someone try installing CameraFi from the play store and see if it solves the problem?
I know it sounds dumb but that is the only thing I can place that I have changed. I bought an endoscope and installed that, I tried uninstalling but it did not revert back
Also does anyone know if we can export a list of every setting and app we have so I can try to figure it out

I'm not so sure the speaker test worked for me. Whenever I go and change a tone, the first one is always so low, then then next time I press the same time it is louder.
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LeeMullinsII said:
Can someone try installing CameraFi from the play store and see if it solves the problem?
I know it sounds dumb but that is the only thing I can place that I have changed. I bought an endoscope and installed that, I tried uninstalling but it did not revert back
Also does anyone know if we can export a list of every setting and app we have so I can try to figure it out
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I tried. Did nothing for me. I went to messenger/settings/notifications/ and the first time is always low then the second time I select one, it is louder. So same spot as before.

I wish I knew what I did to stop it, I didnt realize it was happening to me until it stopped. I knew I had escalating ring,which is also now gone. Now that my notifications are about 10 times louder I want to try to help everyone else but Im completely at a loss as to why it changed.

When I test by changing the sound with the speaker mod attached, the notifications act the right way. Both first and second selection are loud. Without the mod, the first is low and second selection is loud. So something is wrong with the handoff for earpiece volume/speaker volume.

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This is a list of my apps, I did not change any settings so my best guess is it has to be an app doing it...maybe one of them updated and changed something if you want to try installing them.

some user posed they downloaded Music app on play store and if it is just open in the background notification is loud>!

I always close all my apps, I just am not sure what else to look at to diagnose it.

varun.gid said:
some user posed they downloaded Music app on play store and if it is just open in the background notification is loud>!
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That is something like what I am saying above... The handoff between headset (call) volume and speaker (music) volume is broken/confused.

fix is on its way soon https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z-Force/Quiet-notifications-moto-z/m-p/3514410#M2795

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Hey guys!
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Sad to see no replies..
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Thanks 4 sharing
I quess mine is:
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I don't use many apps so here are some:
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Master619 said:
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_ NFS Shift (mostly for the graphics, didn't find the gameplay anything special)
_ Gameboid (GBA lover :X)
_ Fish food (creative and addictive)
I don't use many apps so here are some:
_ Smartbar (feature-packed with task manager/killer, quick settings,...)
_ Circular battery widget
_ Astro (believe me I prefer the default OI File browser. I just use Astro for sending file via Bluetooth now)
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I use both OI and Astro, whatever comes to my mind.. For sending with BT, I use BT file transfer..
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cigraphics said:
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I too was going to include the market lol... Nice list!
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sujal said:
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11. Beautiful widgets,
12. Bluetooth File Transfer,
13. Lyrics App: finds lyrics for the currently playing song very accurately, support for even bollywood songs!,
14. Yahoo Mail,
15. Ringdroid: one of my top favorites,
16. Root Explorer: rooted? Get this NOW!,
17. Shazam,
18. ShootMe: Gets a screenshot, root needed,
19. Shopsavvy,
20. Talking Tom: My most favorite.,
21. Winamp: never used default music player after this!,
22. Tapatalk: using it as I write, great app if the desired website supports it,
23. Zedge: downloaded it just today and I love it! Huge and amazing collection of wallpapers and ringtones for your android phone,
24. Titanium backup,
25. Dolphin Browser Mini,
26. Skyfire (just for videos though)
27. Swype: saved me a lot of time!,
28. Paper Toss.
so that's my list for you, please post yours soon so that others can try it!
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My favourites are ...
GAME
Air control lite
Gangwars
Raging thunder 2
Paper toss
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Droid odissey
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Memory booster
Opera mini
App 2 sd
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Audiogalaxy
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try it once.
Master619 said:
Here are some games:
_ Angry birds
_ Crystallight defense (I find it better than most other tower defense, even robo defense)
_ NFS Shift (mostly for the graphics, didn't find the gameplay anything special)
_ Gameboid (GBA lover :X)
_ Fish food (creative and addictive)
I don't use many apps so here are some:
_ Smartbar (feature-packed with task manager/killer, quick settings,...)
_ Circular battery widget
_ Astro (believe me I prefer the default OI File browser. I just use Astro for sending file via Bluetooth now)
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How does Gameboid work on the P500? Are RPG's playable with the touchscreen-full CPU load bug? (continuous walking=continuous screen touch on D-pad).
SemperEgo said:
How does Gameboid work on the P500? Are RPG's playable with the touchscreen-full CPU load bug? (continuous walking=continuous screen touch on D-pad).
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Gameboid has been working great for me for about a week. No crash seen. I played pokemon sapphiere and fire red on it and they were running fine. Maybe there were a slight lag when continuous touching the screen to move the character but that didn't affect the gameplay. The games were running smoothly.
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Hello XDA, I'm having a bit of a problem with my audio.
I spend a lot of my day in a Google Hangout with long time friends of mine too far away to see in person. Windows 8 lets me do this perfectly fine besides when I want to listen to music simultaneously. I know in Windows 7 it did this as well, where when Hangouts was open it would lower volume to my music apps. I could fix this by just going into the control panel and disable the volume reduction of 80% and be done with it. But this doesn't work with Metro apps. If I'm playing audio through Slacker, as soon as the app goes into the background is reduces the audio by 80%.
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Hello XDA, I'm having a bit of a problem with my audio.
I spend a lot of my day in a Google Hangout with long time friends of mine too far away to see in person. Windows 8 lets me do this perfectly fine besides when I want to listen to music simultaneously. I know in Windows 7 it did this as well, where when Hangouts was open it would lower volume to my music apps. I could fix this by just going into the control panel and disable the volume reduction of 80% and be done with it. But this doesn't work with Metro apps. If I'm playing audio through Slacker, as soon as the app goes into the background is reduces the audio by 80%.
Anyone know how I could fix this? I assume it's just a bug where the control panel on the desktop interface doesn't interfere with metro volume control, but the apps do.
Anything is appreciated.
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i already question that to the support of Microsoft.. not answered yet.. but i think in maybe an update will come the volumen control to the metro apps.
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ok, so i recently just got my new moto x and its perfect besides these 2 problems im having with the quick capture feature and playing music from touchless control.
The first is playing music i would tell google now to play a song e.x" ok google now. play tunnel vision" it would pull the command up and tell me" playing tunnel vision by JT" then it loads it to google play music app but instead of playing the song it just does a search in the app and not play it. its really a hit or miss with this feature as i got it to work for about 10mins but then the problem reemerged. Through some searching i found that the touchless control problem is a bug apparently. any verifcation on this would help alot.
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I can't get the music to start right either. The first time I tried it asked which app to use. I selected PowerAmp. Now it starts PowerAmp but doesn't start the song.
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Once I figured out that you flick it side to side (turn the device to face left/right quickly) instead of rotating, it works every time.
About the TC problem I've already selected Google play music to play the songs but it doesn't play the songs just uses the search in the music player. Its weird cuz it worked for a while but then just stopped
And I'll try motion u suggested hope it works and thanks
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dudeman18 said:
About the TC problem I've already selected Google play music to play the songs but it doesn't play the songs just uses the search in the music player. Its weird cuz it worked for a while but then just stopped
And I'll try motion u suggested hope it works and thanks
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Could also try going to the Google Search or Google Play Music app settings and click the "clear defaults" button.
The motion you told me does seem to work better now thanks!
Clearing defaults isn't available for me to press saying I don't have any set
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