So I only noticed just now the Nexus 5 did not come with any earbuds. I have been using some cheap Skullcandy earbuds for music and they are decent enough to block out transit noise and play music at a moderate volume. However when I try making a phone call, at the lowest volume the sound is just ridiculously loud. It is painful for me to attempt to listen to more then 10-15 seconds of call audio wearing these. I also tried with my Galaxy Nexus earbuds, and it's the same story.
Has anyone found a pair of earbuds with mic that delivers gentle, quiet call audio at the lowest call volume of the Nexus 5 on stock ROM? Failing that, is there anything I can do to decrease the headset call volume further than the volume control will allow?
Bump, anyone else experiencing this? It shouldn't be deafening to make a phone call with earbuds...
OK I'm going to bump this again. It got WAY worse on 4.4.1. While I appreciate the volume boost for the phone's speaker, the earbud volume situation is out of control. The lowest volume setting on music, in a quiet room, is the loudest I can tolerate on earbuds - no option of turning it down lower. The lowest volume setting on phone calls is earth-shattering on earbuds - completely unusable for conversations unless I want to go deaf.
Is there ANY way I can force call volume down further on the headphone jack? Hacks, kernels, Xposed modules? I really don't want to be locked out of being able to make calls with earbuds.
All perfect with 4.4.1, skullcandy have a very bad quality earbuds, better buy sennheiser.
jlmcr87 said:
All perfect with 4.4.1, skullcandy have a very bad quality earbuds, better buy sennheiser.
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The sound quality is great, it's just too damn loud. Same with the earbuds that came with my Galaxy Nexus.
The call volume is ridiculously out of proportion with music volume. That is not the fault of the earbuds. The OS should not be pushing out call volume significantly louder than the music volume at a comparable setting.
OK, so a friendly individual in the Franco thread directed me to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532788
I simply used the same instructions for the mod but reduced the number rather than increase it. For call volume, the value that I changed was under path name "voice-headphones". The original setting was 20 and 20 for HPHL and HPHR volume. I turned them down to 05. I thought I heard a reduction from 20 to 10 but did not hear any further reduction from 10 to 05. Then I also tried reducing the RX1 and RX2 digital volume. I tried taking them from 84 down to 64 which was maybe a bit low, so I settled on 70. At that setting, the loudest IVR systems I've reached on the phone are just right at the lowest call volume setting, and I still have room to raise the volume in noisier environments.
I'm on cm11s with boeffla kernel and stereo phone mod. I noticed that when i put volume of the sound on the max i hear the speaker that make a loud horrible crackling noise sound. Is there a way to set the "max" 15th step to the 12th step? I mean low the volume in genaral, not the steps mod
Why would you want to do that? You can always just set it to the 12th step. I think it would be a bad idea if you want to connect your phone to speakers.
Hi,
I want to decrease upper speaker ringing sound, or redirecting entire sound to upper speaker (something like stereo to mono) because my bottom speaker disconnected and ringing and in-call loudspeaker isn't working.
Can anyone help me to do that?
Note that i already tested Don'tBelieve and it was too loud and annoying even in lowest volume, and some other sound mods but they weren't loud enough
(if anyone could help me to reduce Don'tBelieve's sound, i will be thankful)
I have a rooted phone running latest MM (D6633)
Hey all,
I work in a emergency response group and my Pixel 2 ring is very quite for the loud enviroments that I am in. Is there a file I can edit or some mod I can do to increase my phone's ring volume?
Pixel 2 max ringer volume is garbage.
Hi all , i have problem with my pixel 2 (android p ) no root so when headphones plugged and i'm receiving a call , the sound become very loud in my ears , so i have each time to reduce phone ringtone volume when using heaphone (it's the same volume control with both speaker and headphones on pixels phones).
Is there any way to control volume on headphones only? (like activate an user profile when heaphones plugged or , a setting for heaphones? )
I had samsung s8 and iphone 7 before , and never had this issue before , every time i get an incoming call the phone automatically reduce ringtone volume through heaphones (s8,iphone 7).
Thanks and sorry for my English