I've been happily sideloading apps on my rooted Fire for a few days now and didn't realized it but at some point my notification sounds became muted. The speaker icon is on the top right, showing muted but all music and video plays with no issue. If I go to the volume control, it shows all the way up. If I go to notifications, it shows all the way off. I turn it up, click on different notification sounds as if I'm going to choose it and nothing. Icon is still muted on the status bar.
I went to the directory that holds all of those sounds and I can play them just fine if I click on them. Something is just squirrely with notifications and I have no idea what to do.
Any help?
And no, no clue what I did because I've installed and poked at so much in the past few days it could be anything, I just need a place to troubleshoot. Maybe some file that shows the settings that can be checked/edited/etc.
Thanks!
I did the same thing by installing Widgetlocker, one of the options in there was either ringer notifications or toggle interactions.
I had tried all manners to restore the sound of the notifications but once i changed it back in widgetlocker then all was good in the world.
I have the same problem. I have an icon on the status bar indicating that sounds are off - but I can't find a way to switch them on. The volume is fine - it's just the icon (the speaker with a little "x" next to it) that won't go away.
rhsauer: Do your notification sounds work though?
no - the notification sounds don't work. The volume on the device is fine for watching movies, etc, however.
So I wound up uninstalling everything, resetting to factory defaults via the normal menu, re-rooting and starting over and all sounds are back. I have no idea what the difference is.
Get Volume Control from market and there you can set volumes of everything possible even stuff that is not accessible otherwise.
That solved my problem! Thanks.
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So my phone has all of a sudden decided to start reading any text message I receive out loud. I didn't change anything, and I checked the Accessibility settings, and the setting is still off. What can I do? I'm on the OTA Gingerbread, rooted.
Someone on the EVO forums had a similar issue, but they solved it by disabling the TTS with Titanium, which I don't really want to do. Any suggestions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1368836
Awesome. Apparently the TTS is controlled by the media volume, and every time I get an incoming text, it turns that volume all the way up. So I'll be listening to music at half volume or whatever, then suddenly get punched in the ear because ESPN thinks I need to know what Lebron James is saying on twitter.
So suddenly I noticed I wasn't hearing anything when I would get a text. So I pressed volume up. It was max. Went into settings all volumes max. Tried switching ringtone, no sample. Tried alert and alarms, same thing.
It's happened a few times now. So I started back tracking and removing most recently installed apps. When I got to Vonage. Everything worked as normal. So I reinstalled Vonage and checked it's settings to see if there was anything conflicting or interfering. I unchecked notifications. And since it has been just fine. But again today it's done it.
Removing Vonage returns sounds / volume back to my settings.
Anyone else experience or notice this issue? How can I fix it, other than permanently removing Vonage?
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I've got the exact same issue. Uninstalled Vonage and my notifications immediately started working again. Thanks for identifying the issue! Have you made any progress in finding a solution that allows you to keep utilizing Vonage?
So I'm noticing my phone will continually change my sound profile when I open various apps.
Example... If my sound is on and I go into phone settings, the phone turns sound to mute. Leave settings and it goes back to what it was.
Right now, phone was on vibrate. Opened tapatalk, sound is on. Wtf.
It's been awhile since I've owned a Samsung.. Am I missing some type of setting?
Think I may have figured it out. I have an app installed to silence the shutter. I turned it off and it seems like my sound profiles now stick.
I've had my Mi A1 for over a year now and have almost always had it on vibrate, so all calls/notifications cause the phone to vibrate, but any media that gets played will be at the volume set for media.
Over the past couple of weeks though, notifications (not sure about calls, don't get many of them) will play the notification sound at the volume set for media. I can only get them to shut off if I mute the media volume. I've tried changing the volume for both media and ringing, and restarting the device, but to no avail. I either have to leave it muted and miss notifications, or leave it unmuted and get a jumpscare each time (it also plays notifications when I'm on a call, and you can imagine the jumpscare I get with my phone at my ear and a sudden loud notification).
I recently started using Bose QC35 ii headphones through Bluetooth with my phone, but I don't think that has anything to do with it because it was working fine with them before.
I've searched Google for this kind of issue but couldn't find anything other than standard instructions on adjusting the volume. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this (without doing a full reset of the phone, hopefully)?
EDIT: this is a stock ROM, I've never flashed anything new on it
freddo63 said:
I've had my Mi A1 for over a year now and have almost always had it on vibrate, so all calls/notifications cause the phone to vibrate, but any media that gets played will be at the volume set for media.
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So I solved this by going into Settings > Accessibility > Vibration and turning Ring & notification vibration off, restarting, and then on again. I was able to use the Pushy app to send test notifications so that I didn't have to wait for a friend to send me a message or something of the sort. My vibration mode now works as intended (not sure about calls, I don't know how I can test those without having a friend call me), and loud notifications according to the volume set for the ringer.
So as it turns out, today I once again got sound notifications, despite having set my phone to vibrate only. What could be resetting the sound profile like this (note that the ringer volume is still at zero) that the notifications play sound at the media volume? Anyone have any idea on this?
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So as it turns out, today I once again got sound notifications, despite having set my phone to vibrate only. What could be resetting the sound profile like this (note that the ringer volume is still at zero) that the notifications play sound at the media volume? Anyone have any idea on this?
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Why not just set them individually, it won't take long, when I first got my A1 I did just this.
Each time I got a notification I just pulled down and pressed the notification and customised it, most I turned off, the rest I either set to vibrate, a custom sound or left as it was.
Calls are easy to take care of, set ring volume to zero and it only vibrates.
For me:
I want a sound when I get a SMS.
I want a custom sound when I get a call.
I want no notification of gmail, (it would be going off constantly)
I only want Vibrate from WhatsApp messages.
Can't think of others but I think everything else is silenced.
If that is no good try "Volume butler" which will add a seperate volume control for notifications, not used it myself but it should do the trick: https://www.guidingtech.com/separate-ringtone-notification-volume-android/
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Why not just set them individually, it won't take long, when I first got my A1 I did just this.
Each time I got a notification I just pulled down and pressed the notification and customised it, most I turned off, the rest I either set to vibrate, a custom sound or left as it was.
Calls are easy to take care of, set ring volume to zero and it only vibrates.
If that is no good try "Volume butler" which will add a seperate volume control for notifications, not used it myself but it should do the trick: https://www.guidingtech.com/separate-ringtone-notification-volume-android/
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The only downside of doing them individually is that I can't turn them all back on with one setting, as on some infrequent occasions I do want to hear them because I be expecting a message and not necessarily feel the phone in my pocket. and it seems I have to wait for the actual notification to come up? (can't seem to find the setting under the standard notifications settings menu).
I'll have a look at Volume butler, but it sure is disappointing that this would break when it was a nice feature to use.
This seems to be a general Android bug with some bluetooth devices: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...s-with-duplicate-alerts-and-ignored-settings/
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This seems to be a general Android bug with some bluetooth devices: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...s-with-duplicate-alerts-and-ignored-settings/
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Wow, thank you so much! I now at least know it isn't a unique issue for me, and have an idea of what causes it.
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Wow, thank you so much! I now at least know it isn't a unique issue for me, and have an idea of what causes it.
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You're welcome, and seems that possibly if you unpair your BT device and reboot, you could get your notifications back to normal, but then you don't have your headset available...
Since the issue started outside of a system update, there is a chance it was introduced by a Google App or Play Services update, in which case hopefully Google will fix it soon since it's affecting a lot the Pixel phones.
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You're welcome, and seems that possibly if you unpair your BT device and reboot, you could get your notifications back to normal, but then you don't have your headset available...
Since the issue started outside of a system update, there is a chance it was introduced by a Google App or Play Services update, in which case hopefully Google will fix it soon since it's affecting a lot the Pixel phones.
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Ah, I forgot to mention that I have a workaround for this that I came across in one of the dicussions somewhere. Inside Settings > Google > Search, Assistant & Voice > Notifications I can turn off notifications for Google completely. I've also turned off Google Assistant under Settings > Google > Search, Assistant & Voice > Google Assistant. I don't remember which of those actually resulted in the behavior not returning, but I'm pretty sure I don't need either, so I'm OK with it for now. (actually, do Google Security notifications come under the Google app or some other one?)
PS: reboot is actually not necessary, it seems force stopping Google Assistant or Google resets the notification settings (but yes, I want my headset hahaha).
Seems it's been fixed by Google: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...s-with-duplicate-alerts-and-ignored-settings/
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Seems it's been fixed by Google: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...s-with-duplicate-alerts-and-ignored-settings/
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Thanks! I will "just sit tightly" (as it says on the update) :laugh: as I wait for the update.