Hey all!
Been a while since I posted, but I just got an LG Volt as a spare phone to use as a GPS/Speedometer/Music Player to mount on my motorcycle.
The one huge gripe I have is that the volume rocker controls the Alarm volume when I'm running Ulysses Speedometer Pro app for monitoring my speed on my street legal dirt bike. Even when I have music playing (installed some headphones inside my helmet, while the speedometer app is in the foreground the volume rocker controls the alarm volume instead of the media volume. I'm running a stock debloated ROM (android 4.4.2)which does have the expandable volume on-screen button, but when I'm riding my bike on the road and want to adjust the volume on the fly, it's really not safe and distracting for me to try to tap the button, then slide the slider up or down.
-I tried installing GravityBox with Xposed, and the "Force Media Volume Control" doesn't seem to work. I know I installed correctly because if I check the box for "Volume keys skip track", it works when I test it.
Is it just hit or miss with regards to all the features of gravitybox working? Does anyone know another workaround?
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Folks,
Please suggest me a music player for my international Galaxy S3 running stock everything, that supports long press volume button feature. Basically I am looking for a music player that will let me change tracks by long pressing volume up/down button.
The feature must work when the phone is in locked state and even otherwise.
Thanks.
CM9/10 has this feature. Settings > Sound > Volume rocker music control
Works with the universal API, so any music player that normally accepts inline controls will pick up the signal.
i have my other apps posted on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182431
And this is my little latest app, would like to share with you all:fingers-crossed:
C Volume Rocker:
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Details:
Take control of your device Volume Rocker with SCREEN OFF if there is Media Playing by:
__1)PRESS 1 TIME on Volume UP/DOWN to Skip Next/Previous song
__2)DOUBLE PRESS to Increase/Lower Volume
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This was exactly what i was searching for, but the vibration on triggering is a deal-breaker for me. If you can remove that i could use it. Also, it doesn't disable the long press volume control, and instead it thinks it's a lot of two-presses, hence it skips a lot of songs in one go.
I'm using a Galaxy S3, stock rom, with Android 4.1.2 and the stock music player.
It doesn't work with my brand new S4. I have 4.3 stock ROM using Power Amp
So i have an old pair of headphones from my s3. the play/pause button works fine with the M8, but the volume up/down buttons only skip tracks and not change the volume. i can skip tracks with double/triple pressing the play button. would really like to see something control the media volume with my headphone buttons.
im sure it is... but the xda post i found for it doesn't address what i posted about.
Abe21599 said:
So i have an old pair of headphones from my s3. the play/pause button works fine with the M8, but the volume up/down buttons only skip tracks and not change the volume. i can skip tracks with double/triple pressing the play button. would really like to see something control the media volume with my headphone buttons.
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I even purchased the oem headphones on HTC's site that says compatible with M8, still no dice. Hopefully there will be a fix soon.
i have the ones that came with the M8 and i noticed only one button. i just dont get why they need to go in their own direction and remove buttons instead of comply with the current accessories and just add the features. i run with my phone in an armband so a one button remote has limited usefulness.
I am in the exact same boat...When I work out the phone is an athletic armband so I don't really have access to it during my workout. I use these headphones: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005I2IVRO/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and I can play/pause by pressing the middle button once and skip tracks forward by double tapping the middle. However, the volume up and volume down buttons are do not function period. Very annoying and hoping there's an Xposed module or an app that can make them work.
pettigrew95 said:
I am in the exact same boat...When I work out the phone is an athletic armband so I don't really have access to it during my workout. I use these headphones: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005I2IVRO/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and I can play/pause by pressing the middle button once and skip tracks forward by double tapping the middle. However, the volume up and volume down buttons are do not function period. Very annoying and hoping there's an Xposed module or an app that can make them work.
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thats the functionality i have now with any headphones i use.
also FYI, you can go back a track by triple pressing
Hi all,
Quick question -
I upgraded to 5.0.1. yesterday, and now I can no longer use the volume rocker as a shortcut to switch between "no interrruptions (silent)" and ALL notifications. In other words I cannot use the volume rocker to adjust ring volume and or disable notifications for a period of hours.
The volume rocker only adjusts MEDIA volume now?
What is the quickest shortcut to adjust from ring volume and/or disable interruptions, without having to go into the settings, sound menu.
I'm sure there must be some shortcut.
thanks
Sorry. The shortcut is still there and works with volume rocker. I killed everything in my tasks view window, just dragged away about 20 different tasks. And now the volume rocker shows the options again.
It seems some app was holding the volume rocker as media volume only, even when the app was backgrounded.
When it happens again I'll remove the tasks one at a time to identify the app at fault.
mcgon1979 said:
Hi all,
Quick question -
What is the quickest shortcut to adjust from ring volume and/or disable interruptions, without having to go into the settings, sound menu.
I'm sure there must be some shortcut.
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I have a phone with very customized ROM (Flyme) and I'm trying to find a way to force volume buttons to control Ringtone/Notification volume instead of Media volume.
I know there is a way to perform this, thanks to an Xposed module, but my phone can't be rooted. Can it be done without root and without one of those many volume controlling apps that show a widget or a persistent notification with different profiles? I just need to press hardware buttons to control those volumes.
[If you ask me why I need this is because ROM devs are stupid (at least Flyme devs, but I know Oreo "benefits" from this great feature) and didn't think that Media volume should change only if some Media is playing. If no Media is playing, why someone would need to change Media volume? I thought these are smartphones, not dumbphones and I was expecting to do smart things, like detecting when Media is playing and changing the volume accordingly. I guess I was wrong...]
You can get noyze volume panel that works with accessibility controls, you can fins the app on github or google noyze volume panel (no root required), it has extended panel in options which makes sense for android as even pie has the worse volume controls than kitkat.
pbteja said:
You can get noyze volume panel that works with accessibility controls, you can fins the app on github or google noyze volume panel (no root required), it has extended panel in options which makes sense for android as even pie has the worse volume controls than kitkat.
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Thanks a lot, it works as needed!