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Volume level in Xperia J with latest Android

Hi,
I bought a Sony Xperia J for my wife, all is fine, but it's pretty annoying to have no separate control
for the volume between call tone and message tone.
The ring tone is fine, but the message tone has the same volume and it's pretty loud.
Is there a way to separate the volume control for both somehow?
Thanks in advance

bimbobo said:
Hi,
I bought a Sony Xperia J for my wife, all is fine, but it's pretty annoying to have no separate control
for the volume between call tone and message tone.
The ring tone is fine, but the message tone has the same volume and it's pretty loud.
Is there a way to separate the volume control for both somehow?
Thanks in advance
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Go to settings/sound/ volumes there should be a checked box (link notifacation & ring tone) uncheck it.

gavster26 said:
Go to settings/sound/ volumes there should be a checked box (link notifacation & ring tone) uncheck it.
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Thanks for answering
If I do that, I have no longer control for the volume at all...
Maybe the android versions are different.

..just for info, the version of Android is 4.0.4..
The setings do not allow to separate the 2 volumes level.. that's a bad design.

apk?
bimbobo said:
..just for info, the version of Android is 4.0.4..
The setings do not allow to separate the 2 volumes level.. that's a bad design.
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Profile Management

Well, I tried 3 "apps to control volume", none of then worked, even if they had
1 option for ring tone, and 1 option for notifications/message".
It seems that Android, does not allow any app to separate the 2 sounds.
As soon as I changed the "notifications/message" volume, the ring tone for calls
changed too.
I will try "profile management" apps, but I doubt it will help.

The profile manager app did not help either.
Still ring tone and message tone at same level.. same for Gmail, FB and all other apps tone... for incoming messages

U need to use cm10 to tweak ur profile.
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[Q] Android 5.0 Whatsapp issue

Hi guys,
I flashed the factory image today and am quite pleased with it up to now, but there are 2 issues that really annoy me:
1. When sending messages in whatsapp, I don't get that pop sound it used to make.. it just sends the message and I can hear a very short strange and faint sound. other than that all regular notification are fine.
2. I'm sure this has been discussed thoroughly but what's the deal with removing silent\vibrate from the power menu options? I can't really remember how it used to be in the clean android 4.x since I was using xposed with gravityBox and I set the volume to control notifications+system sounds. aaaaaanyway, there is now way now to put the phone on silent COMPLETELY without going into settings>sounds and lowering the media volume separately.. sucks..

1: Complain to the app dev to update the app
2: Complain to Google
Next!

1. Same here. I guess the "pop" sound file has a format which worked fine on KitKat and now doesn't in Lollipop. => WhatsApp needs an update.
2. The notification system in Lollipop was profounld changed in comparison to KitKat. KitKat had sound, sound+vib, vib, none. Now, Lollipop distinguishes wheather you want all, some or no notification sounds. If you don't want any vibration, select "none" in the popup after pressing the volume rocker of the Nexus. You will receive everything, but you will not be bothered by any sound (also no vibration). If you just want some "importand" notifications with their sounds or vibration, selsect it in the same popup! What exactly is important and which calls you will receive is configured in the menu.
In short:
No vib, no sound: "None"
Vib only: "All" with decreased Volume down to vibration

BAZZI_US said:
1. Same here. I guess the "pop" sound file has a format which worked fine on KitKat and now doesn't in Lollipop. => WhatsApp needs an update.
2. The notification system in Lollipop was profounld changed in comparison to KitKat. KitKat had sound, sound+vib, vib, none. Now, Lollipop distinguishes wheather you want all, some or no notification sounds. If you don't want any vibration, select "none" in the popup after pressing the volume rocker of the Nexus. You will receive everything, but you will not be bothered by any sound (also no vibration). If you just want some "importand" notifications with their sounds or vibration, selsect it in the same popup! What exactly is important and which calls you will receive is configured in the menu.
In short:
No vib, no sound: "None"
Vib only: "All" with decreased Volume down to vibration
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Thanks for the reply mate, but you are quite wrong regarding the sound profiles, if you choose "none", media volume is not affected. I'll give you a scenario, say I'm in my room, and in the next room my baby boy is sleeping, I choose "none", then I go to watch a YouTube video, the video will have normal volume, my boy will wake up and my wife will beat me with whatever is the closest blunt object. While before, I had the option to silence media volume manually by pressing the volume rocker (or all together using xposed but that's not the case here), now in order to silence media volume you need to go into settings>sounds and mute it. What I'm saying is that "none" is not really complete silence, as it should be.

Audio notification when in a call!?!?!?

I am on a company call as we are patching servers and every time we bounce a server I get a bunch of text notifications which is expected. The only issue is I am wearing headphones for the call on my honor 8 and I hear the notification sound in the headphones. Super annoying! Any way to turn this off??? Thanks in Advance.

kevev said:
I am on a company call as we are patching servers and every time we bounce a server I get a bunch of text notifications which is expected. The only issue is I am wearing headphones for the call on my honor 8 and I hear the notification sound in the headphones. Super annoying! Any way to turn this off??? Thanks in Advance.
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I don't think Emui has a automatic option. But you can always set notifications to silent or vibrate only.
I suppose there would be an app that changes the sound profile according to phone activity, but never looked for it.

zinko_pt said:
I don't think Emui has a automatic option. But you can always set notifications to silent or vibrate only.
I suppose there would be an app that changes the sound profile according to phone activity, but never looked for it.
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Dude I love your avatar!

kevev said:
Dude I love your avatar!
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Thanks, old school stuff ?

I just noticed the loud notification sound while playing music and warching youtube videos. Super annoying! Any way to fix this? How do we report issue to Huawei?
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kevev said:
I just noticed the loud notification sound while playing music and warching youtube videos. Super annoying! Any way to fix this? How do we report issue to Huawei?
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Can you turn off or silent those certain app notifications?

Tmobilefan906 said:
Can you turn off or silent those certain app notifications?
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Unless using a specific app for that (with root?), no.

Well that sucks. I require audio notification. But it is way too loud in headphones. This is a deal breaker for me. Contemplating returning device to store...
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I found a workaround for those who don't like audio notifications from SMS/MMS messagese in headphone while listening to music or watching videos. Install Google Messenger and use it instead. It seems that the Messaging app in EMUI is the issue. It's also weird that there is no option in the app to disable the "beep beep" sound that only happens when headphones are plugged in. Don't forget to set notification sound in Messaging to "None" and disable "Vibrate" or you may have notification from both apps.

OK now this is getting rediculous!! When on a call the person on the other end of the call can hear my calendar and text notifications. It sounds like incoming call "beep beep". This needs to be fixed as it is very unprofessional when on a business call. Please fix this Huawei!!!!

kevev said:
OK now this is getting rediculous!! When on a call the person on the other end of the call can hear my calendar and text notifications. It sounds like incoming call "beep beep". This needs to be fixed as it is very unprofessional when on a business call. Please fix this Huawei!!!!
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Yes, I get that too. The only way is to silent notifications and vibration.
People are talking to me and ask "what was that?", should have a option to disable it.
Also I haven't found any sound manager in Google play store. Probably only xPosed.

zinko_pt said:
Yes, I get that too. The only way is to silent notifications and vibration.
People are talking to me and ask "what was that?", should have a option to disable it.
Also I haven't found any sound manager in Google play store. Probably only xPosed.
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Could you try set up a ifttt script or something?
I've never done it personally, but I've seen others use it for problems, so maybe?

This seems like a bug asit does not always happen.

kevev said:
OK now this is getting rediculous!! When on a call the person on the other end of the call can hear my calendar and text notifications. It sounds like incoming call "beep beep". This needs to be fixed as it is very unprofessional when on a business call. Please fix this Huawei!!!!
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I'm experiencing this too, anyone has a solution for this annoying behaviour ?
I've written on honor 8 support forum, and they suggest to send my phone to an assistant center, but i think it is a software bug.

I can't really test this right now, but it looks like there is a way to fix it in settings. Under the Do Not Disturb section you can add a rule for an event and one of the options besides calendar events just states "Phone". That ought to squelch the problem.

For me I installed Volume Control + from GPS.
There is a free version but I did not test it on my Honor 8. Still the Volume Control + has controls to separate the Ring tone and Notifications volume so the work independently of each other.
To date this is the only option which works for me without Rooting my device..
Best of all you can manage your volume level for calls to system...
Now I can use the earbuds or phone without getting deaf while on a call or listening to music when a notification comes in...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=netroken.android.persistalternate

nothing yet? it's very annoying, I see a features about it, on android 7.1 but we haven't yet
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I can't really test this right now, but it looks like there is a way to fix it in settings. Under the Do Not Disturb section you can add a rule for an event and one of the options besides calendar events just states "Phone". That ought to squelch the problem.
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there is the event "call" but doesn't work like you intended
Would be awesome have a solution about it

auroide said:
there is the event "call" but doesn't work like you intended
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Huh, mine definitely says Phone and it worked when I tried. I only tested on an outgoing call with my Bluetooth headphones, though. Hope you can find a way that works for you.

Extinguished said:
Huh, mine definitely says Phone and it worked when I tried. I only tested on an outgoing call with my Bluetooth headphones, though. Hope you can find a way that works for you.
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My phone on this setting have only "phone"

auroide said:
My phone on this setting have only "phone"
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Same here

Low notifications volume

Hello guys, I have my Nokia 7 Plus since yesterday, and the first problem occurred.
When the phone rings it is so loud, but when I receive notifications of any kind (Viber, Whatsapp, SMS) it is so low, almost impossible to hear on the street (even on the max ring volume).
I know there is no way to separate the volume of ring and notifications on the official 8.1.0, but can you recommend some workaround for this at the moment?
Thanks

I noticed this too.

if you put on the volume down or up there is a pop-up on the screen.
On the right side is a arrow.
click on the arrow en the pop-up fold out.
Now you can change the ring volume and the notifications volume.

If I press the volume hardware buttons and then tap the arow down to drop the sliders menu I only get 3 sliders; Media, Phone and Alarm.
This is verry annoying, I allways miss my texts and whatapps.
I contacted Nokia customer care, there they tell you to reset data and cache of messages, whatsapp and the settings app, then do a softreset on your phone. DON'T do this.
It only results in having to set every ringtone and notification sound back to your preferences and the problem still remains.
Anybody with a solution?
Maybe in the Android 9 Pie update?
Btw, still running Android 8.1 in Belgium.

I have tried Pie but the problem remains. Even on max volume Viber and SMS sound is so quiet.
What I have done is I have downloaded louder ringtones from Zedge and now I use them.
I don't understand why this problem is present, even more because our Nokia has such a loud sound...

Notification sounds not working.

I have 2 apps installed, WhatsApp and Ring Doorbell that are not giving me sound notifications. For me the volume on this device is not very loud. I work in a noisy environment and need loud volume. My last phone (Note 5) I did that sound mod changing the volume xml file and used very loud notification sounds (mp3) and it was perfect. So I took those sound files from the Note and put them into the Mi 10 Ultra in Ringtones folder and set them. Since then I get no sound notifications.
I did some digging and found an app 'Hidden Settings for MIUI' and set it to 'play sounds', but that didn't fix the issue either. I'm completely new to MIUI and am all out of ideas. Its strange, but when I open the phone, the WhatsApp notification sound beeps to let me know I have a message, but I have to open the phone, if its sitting in my pocket I get no notification. Ring Doorbell is not working at all as far as notifications go. Nothing. If someone who knows MIUI could give me some help it would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: shouldn't have wasted my time

That's it for me. SIM out and back to my Note 5. Great phone but the software is atrocious, if I had of known the nightmare this would be I wouldn't have bought this phone. So now it goes back into its box where it will stay, 6 months 1 year I don't care, until there is an alternative to using this absolute mess that MIUI is. A real shame, but something as simple as a couple of apps really is the deal breaker for me. Maybe I'll sell it? Global ROM? Who knows ....but for now its a useless device that can't even run a couple of apps? That is as bad as it gets. Its privacy settings are the worst I have ever seen. Disguised as 'protecting you' but in reality its the other way around. If I wanted to be locked out and locked in and locked down I would have bought an Apple iPhone. Xiaomi makes good phones, but their MIUI software is the worst I have ever seen. I would not recommend anyone buy this device.

I actually was facing this problem and found out a fix. You just have to turn vibration on. For some reason some apps don't make a sound if it doesn't have vibration on for notifications.

Burginthorn said:
I have 2 apps installed, WhatsApp and Ring Doorbell that are not giving me sound notifications. For me the volume on this device is not very loud. I work in a noisy environment and need loud volume. My last phone (Note 5) I did that sound mod changing the volume xml file and used very loud notification sounds (mp3) and it was perfect. So I took those sound files from the Note and put them into the Mi 10 Ultra in Ringtones folder and set them. Since then I get no sound notifications.
I did some digging and found an app 'Hidden Settings for MIUI' and set it to 'play sounds', but that didn't fix the issue either. I'm completely new to MIUI and am all out of ideas. Its strange, but when I open the phone, the WhatsApp notification sound beeps to let me know I have a message, but I have to open the phone, if its sitting in my pocket I get no notification. Ring Doorbell is not working at all as far as notifications go. Nothing. If someone who knows MIUI could give me some help it would be greatly appreciated.
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I have Ring doorbell and Whatsapp working (sort of) as sometimes they are delayed.
I had to change settings/notifications/ring and set rules for notification as important and also make sure all notification settings are on
Then fo to settings/apps/manage apps/ring and make sure Autostart is on and set permissions to make sure the bottom 4 are set to green ticked. Then make sure restrict data usage set to WLAN and Mobile data and then set Battery Saver to No restrictions.
Hopefully it will work after that. Do similar things to other apps that may not be making notifications correctly.
PS I'm using China ROM

So I had this issue and figured out a sure way to get sound notifications working.
You just have to turn vibration on in the subtype of notification for said specific app. If you don't want vibration on all notifications for that specific app turn it off otherwise.

Here is the thing that helped me with the same notification issue! Just google "xiaomi mi 10 ultra notifications" and in the top 5 links you'll probably find an article from:
theunpopulartraveller. It explains the settings, and they need to be accessed by pressing and holding the app icon ^ app info.
Don't give up, try and you'll get the sounds from needed apps back. And ye, actually now I find the way Xiaomi did it much more convenient: I just turned on notifications for 2 apps, and all the rest are silent, while previously I had to turn off all the rest of the apps (much more than 2, definitely) not to get disturbed by all the bull****.