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Independent Navigation (or all app) volume control?

The newest versions of Google Maps and Navigation have combined the Navigation volume with the Media Volume. I've read that by rolling back the version of the app to somewhere around 5.7 - 5.8, you can get your separate Nav and Media volume back, however I'd like to keep the latest version. Is there an app somewhere that allows for control of individual application volumes (similar to the newer versions of Windows' volume mixer)? I'd like to be able to separate the voice and media again.
Thanks,
Dan

Audio Control Lite
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matthew.rice.volume.master.lite
Or get the Pro version.
I use this app to keep the damned speaker phone volume being linked the call volume.

xdadevnube said:
Audio Control Lite
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matthew.rice.volume.master.lite
Or get the Pro version.
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Close but no cigar. This app only allows volume control of existing system functions like media, notifications, ringer, etc. Since the latest versions of Google Maps cram voice navigation and media (music, etc) into the same category, I can't control them independently.
A little back story:
I have a new motorcycle helmet with bluetooth capability. I need to be able to hear the navigation over my music. I'd turn music off and JUST have navigation, BUT... there is a delay between the navigation speaking and the bluetooth realizing it and switching back on from an idle/sleep mode, resulting in me missing directions.
What I want is for pandora to play sweet and soft tunes into my earholes while I'm riding, and for me to be able to crank the navigation volume WAY THE HELL UP so I can hear it. With the audio constantly playing through it I won't have the bluetooth wake-from-rest problem that I have using navigation alone.

pissinguoff247 said:
Close but no cigar. This app only allows volume control of existing system functions like media, notifications, ringer, etc. Since the latest versions of Google Maps cram voice navigation and media (music, etc) into the same category, I can't control them independently.
A little back story:
I have a new motorcycle helmet with bluetooth capability. I need to be able to hear the navigation over my music. I'd turn music off and JUST have navigation, BUT... there is a delay between the navigation speaking and the bluetooth realizing it and switching back on from an idle/sleep mode, resulting in me missing directions.
What I want is for pandora to play sweet and soft tunes into my earholes while I'm riding, and for me to be able to crank the navigation volume WAY THE HELL UP so I can hear it. With the audio constantly playing through it I won't have the bluetooth wake-from-rest problem that I have using navigation alone.
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It's been awhile, so I don't know if my memory serve me right. But there is a hidden menu for the audio settings for the Charge. If you do a search for the code, once you in, you can set the volume for navigation and media volume to balance out. There should be a threads in this forum for the recommended settings. Good luck.

buhohitr said:
But there is a hidden menu for the audio settings for the Charge
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The hidden menu option looks like it works (I can still do test mode, screen debugging, etc) but the dialer code for the audio menu no longer works (I'm on FP1, stock debloated).
Back to square one.
I'd rather have the app I'm looking for than try to hack the audio settings.

Well, I have finally found someone with EXACTLY similar problem!
I also ride a motorcycle and also listen to the music while riding and ALSO use Google Navigation!! Long ago there were good days when some version of GMaps/Navigation had a separate volume control but now it's gone.
It is impossible to hear anything with the music playing. I have tried several workarounds - one of them is to use PowerAmp and to force it to pause music every time any "other" sound plays. It didn't work. Or, well, technically it did, but the difference in volume levels between the music and navigation was so high, that I couldn't hear a thing.
I see a lot of people posting thingies like Super-Beats, Super-Duper-Beats, Super-Duper-Awesome-Beats, claiming that this is some sort of "audio driver" that is getting installed "on the system level" so that the sound is better/louder/deeper/crispier. I guess what we need is a similar solution, that would just add more "audio channels" - a separate one for Navigation, probably for smth else.
Is it at all doable?
Cheers'n'thanks!
PS: I am on Samsung Galaxy Nexus, JB AOKP b4

temka said:
Well, I have finally found someone with EXACTLY similar problem!
I also ride a motorcycle and also listen to the music while riding and ALSO use Google Navigation!! Long ago there were good days when some version of GMaps/Navigation had a separate volume control but now it's gone.
It is impossible to hear anything with the music playing. I have tried several workarounds - one of them is to use PowerAmp and to force it to pause music every time any "other" sound plays. It didn't work. Or, well, technically it did, but the difference in volume levels between the music and navigation was so high, that I couldn't hear a thing.
I see a lot of people posting thingies like Super-Beats, Super-Duper-Beats, Super-Duper-Awesome-Beats, claiming that this is some sort of "audio driver" that is getting installed "on the system level" so that the sound is better/louder/deeper/crispier. I guess what we need is a similar solution, that would just add more "audio channels" - a separate one for Navigation, probably for smth else.
Is it at all doable?
Cheers'n'thanks!
PS: I am on Samsung Galaxy Nexus, JB AOKP b4
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I have found that while I'm listening to my music via the Music Play app, the song volume mutes while making the notification sound (the music does not pause though).
see if that helps.

SOLVED control Google Music with headset? stock samsung headset?

Using the stock provided Samsung headset (volume up & down & single control button) has anyone found a hack or mod or app that gives you control of Google Music (next, skip, previous, pause, etc) it seems all it can control is volume (which us just the system volume) but no ability to control anything else.
Any insight?

Top button is volume. Bottom button if pressed once will pause music. If you do a quick double tap on the sides of this button will skip tracks forwards or backwards. Holding down this button will bring up voice search via google search/s-voice. Seems to be everything that works in google play music for me currently.

OEM headphones work the same with Google Music like any other app just like stated above. My Beats Mixr act the same also. Wish there was a previous track button though for either of them!
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Top button is volume. Bottom button if pressed once will pause music. If you do a quick double tap on the sides of this button will skip tracks forwards or backwards. Holding down this button will bring up voice search via google search/s-voice. Seems to be everything that works in google play music for me currently.
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OEM headphones work the same with Google Music like any other app just like stated above. My Beats Mixr act the same also. Wish there was a previous track button though for either of them!
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This does not work for me. The Samsung earphones, stock ones that came with the phone, do not control Google Music in any way.

Thats strange, your headphones might be broken. Mine are currently broken, they do absolutely nothing. Friend told me the resistor in the jack or the controller is probably blown. I checked with my friends set and his control my phone like my original headphones. Should've know something was up when one day i went to skip to the next track and it took a few tries to work, it just kept pausing. The next day none of my controls worked including holding the play button to activate voice controls
do you have access to any other headphones that work for android phones to try? Also have you disabled anything since I see you're rooted?

It is weird the phones don't work, I so rarely use them. Maybe 5 times total.
"have you disabled anything since I see you're rooted".. oh yeah, who hasn't the question is what item would interfere with that? I use 2 apps - App Quarantine and Autostarts to kill some apps from loading. Not sure which would/could even interfere with that. Especially when it (the phone) accepts the volume up and down buttons input.

I have a question, can you use the voice control feature with them plugged in?

Just composed a text message & used S Voice just fine. Is that what you meant?

I cannot control Winamp either even with the headset controls set to on in the settings. Related?

Sounds like app quarantine or autostart is disabling something to make the headphones work properly with your music controls. To make sure test your headphones with someone else's phone to make sure or disable both apps so everything is enabled to see if that works. And if it does then disable each one of your disabled apps one by one till you find the culprit and just leave that app enabled and disable all the others you wanted disabled.
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Actually, I doubt it is anything done in quarantine or autostart. Autostarts just stops apps from launching upon startup or other conditions, but the apps and services will startup when needed. Just stops them from starting up unneeded on a phone restart.
App quarantine, all I did was quarantine dumb useless apps like Facebook and VZW Navigator, KIndke, Google+, Guided Tours, Kies, Setup Wizard and crap like that. Again, not likely anything that can interfere the more I looked at what I had disabled.
Also, I downloaded and tried an app called "Headset Button Controller" and it, in fact, showed that the button presses are making it to the phone which shows the buttons on the headset are in fact working. BUT it would not control Google Music as it claims "no music app is running" which is total BS.
I wonder if this could have anything to do with the fact I am still on OS 4.0.4 and never went to 4.1.x. I would not see how or why as both Google Music and these headphones and that phone came out before 4.1. But maybe before 4.1 the headset never actually controlled Google Music either? Which I would find shocking.
Something is certainly up here.

My headphones controlled Google music from release day of phone, so as long as you kept the Music app up to date I wouldn't see an issue. The thing is you can't even control Winamp which makes me believe its more of a software issue. Have you tried enabling all your apps and uninstalling App Quarantine and Autostarts just to see if that works?

Solved: Autostarts had the ability to disable "media button" for an app and so within Google Music that was disabled and that controls headset clicks and controls. I enabled that function and presto... it now works.

[APP] SleepTimer - Simple, Beautiful, Powerful

I should have posted my app in here a long time ago. But I guess it is never too late to post it and hope for some good feedback on how to improve the app even further.
What does SleepTimer do:
It simply gives you a way of stopping your music after x minutes. Set it, and listen to music (or a video) in the evening without having to worry about the music running at 3am and waking you up from your sleep. SleepTimer lets you even do more like turning off wifi and/or mobile data after it turned off the music so you do not get interrupted by those annoying WhatsApp messages .
Scenarios
1. Turning off music after falling asleep
2. Turning off remote music like iTunes Remote, YouTube over ChromeCast, ... (needs some configuration)
3. Like fall asleep while talking with your love but hate high phone bills? Let SleepTimer stop the phone call (needs some configuration)
For most use cases SleepTimer just works. Open it up, set time, start. Done. And it even looks nice (at least I think so).
Only like 6% of the apps need some additional configuration to make them work.
More details (only for those who want to know/read more)
The app uses many different techniques to turn off the music. Audio controls, audio foreground, and even notifications since the newest version. Sadly there are some really bad music players out there that do not support any way of stopping their music except for opening the app and using the stop button in there. In such cases there is only the way of lowering the volume (which I hate ). I hope those developers get to work and implement a proper Music Player. Luckily most apps work though.
About notifications (new since October 2014)
This I am actually pretty proud about and took me a while to implement. And it gives us two new features.
1. Stop music using the notification
So if they have a pause/stop/close control in the notifcation, one can add a custom action in settings, select the app and click on the button in the notification that stops the music. SleepTimer will then use that button in the notification to stop the music. That allows more ways to stop an app and allows to stop apps like iTunes Remote, YouTube with ChromeCast, ...
2. Wait until the end of a track
If enabled, SleepTimer will not turn off the music immediately but wait until the track ends. This is done using the text content of the notification. As soon as the text in a notification changes SleepTimer knows that the track is changing and it will send a stop request immediately. (As well it ignores numbers like 3:12 which is obviously not track information but time information)
Shake extend
If enabled, you can extend the timer by shaking your phone. So you can set some quiet chime to run one minute before the timer runs out. If you can still hear it then just shake to phone to extend the timer.
Root
One can enable root in advanced settings to have even more options when the timer ends. For example turning off the phone or turning on airplane mode.
I hope you do like the app. If not, let me know why. If you have any recommendations or questions, please just ask. As well any ideas how to improve the app further are welcome.
Cheers,
Patrick

First.
Does it support all music & video players? Or only stock players?

exodius48 said:
First.
Does it support all music & video players? Or only stock players?
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It supports a lot of music and video players. Basically all of them that support the events of Android that good Audio Player apps should support according to Google Many players I tested (Stock, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, YouTube, ...) worked. And even if they don't work by default, try out adding a custom action in settings in on sleep actions.

Is is possible to turn off the device after x minutes?

Kuri93 said:
Is is possible to turn off the device after x minutes?
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Yes it is. But only if you have a rooted phone. If you do, then enable root in the advanced settings and then go into the On Sleep Actions settings where you will find the turn off phone option .

I think it would be great idea to add some notification with countdown(few seconds), before phone shutting down.

This is a really neat app! All the other sleep timers I tried didn't feature root options like airplane mode etc. Thanks a lot!
Just a little request: Could you add a screen off option as well? I mean sure, the device will turn off the display afterwards by itself, but I thought it might be useful.

Continuous sleep mode
Hi
I would like to know if the app can be configured so that if I fall asleep with earphones on and wake up and press the play/stop button on the earphones, theaudio I was listening to continues, but is automatically in sleep countdown mode without having to start Sleep Timer again.
This is the way the sleep mode in Smart Audiobooks works and it is very nice.
Thanks.

[Q] Volume changing while playing music

Does anyone else have this kind of problem? The volume while playing music is always changing, like one step up or down every 5 minutes give or take.
- I disabled all the sound and equalizer options from the settings to test if that was the cause but it didn't help.
- Rebooting the phone also didn't help.
- I use Spotify, didn't test any other app yet but I don't have this problem on my Nexus 5 using the same Spotify version.
- There is no way the volume keys were pressed accidentally because even when the phone just lies there, flat on the table, this happens.
- I am on the latest OTA.

Ha ha I thought I was crazy. Yes I do, it's not a drastic change in volume but I know exactly what you're talking about

Same problem here. ..

Did anyone find a solution to this problem? This is probably the most annoying bug I've ever experienced.
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I have the same issue on my edge

I had the same problem, it was due to the "Sound Alive+" option in the sound menu.
I found that it was incompatible with both Spotify and Google Play Music, changing the volume of the songs randomly. As soon as I disabled this, the volume glitch stopped.
However, I migrated across to the stock music app, as I love the Sound Alive option.

xxshabsxx said:
I had the same problem, it was due to the "Sound Alive+" option in the sound menu.
I found that it was incompatible with both Spotify and Google Play Music, changing the volume of the songs randomly. As soon as I disabled this, the volume glitch stopped.
However, I migrated across to the stock music app, as I love the Sound Alive option.
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That doesn't solve the problem for me, I disabled all the sound options (and still have them disabled) and even all the gestures and this still happens regularly...

Hey guys, same problem, I assume it's because of the equalizer voice/instrument equalizer wheel, for some reason it keeps adjusting music vs voice when I play music even if it's set up to normal... Let's hop samsung provides a way to fix this

I had the same issue initially as well using a bt speaker.
I have disabled sound Alive+. In addition, I have disabled the EQ of my speaker and in spotify. Doing so solved the issue for me...
Spotify informs you that using the Equalizer (software) it can affect sound level on some devices. So make sure that you do not have (extreme) equalizer settings in any of the affected software and hardware....
If you take all together, with a modern setup, the sound file is processed by: 1.) the playing software (with EQ) 2.) the streaming device (with EQ or sound improving software e.g. the samsung galaxy) 3.) the recieving (BT) device with software EQ (e.g. the UE Boom).
With my setup, I can turn of EQ at any stage and this solves the problem for me. If your BT speaker does not allow changes of its sound processing, this could be an issue...

Jorlin said:
I had the same issue initially as well using a bt speaker.
I have disabled sound Alive+. In addition, I have disabled the EQ of my speaker and in spotify. Doing so solved the issue for me...
Spotify informs you that using the Equalizer (software) it can affect sound level on some devices. So make sure that you do not have (extreme) equalizer settings in any of the affected software and hardware....
If you take all together, with a modern setup, the sound file is processed by: 1.) the playing software (with EQ) 2.) the streaming device (with EQ or sound improving software e.g. the samsung galaxy) 3.) the recieving (BT) device with software EQ (e.g. the UE Boom).
With my setup, I can turn of EQ at any stage and this solves the problem for me. If your BT speaker does not allow changes of its sound processing, this could be an issue...
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How can you disable the EQ settings of spotify? I can't find such option in my app settings.
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Hey guys, I found a fix, I uninstalled the app and installed the previous version (2.6.0.813) from the amazon app store and it's working fine, if the app store is not available you can easily find this version online.

Remix22 said:
Hey guys, I found a fix, I uninstalled the app and installed the previous version (2.6.0.813) from the amazon app store and it's working fine, if the app store is not available you can easily find this version online.
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Thanks for the hint, you can download the version from here: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/spotify-ltd/spotify/spotify-2-6-0-813-android-apk-download/
Didn't try the downgrade yet, but will do tomorrow and report back.
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TADA (found the solution, not tried yet though but looks promising)
https://community.spotify.com/t5/He...-Distorted-playback-sound-levels/td-p/1028205

Remix22 said:
TADA (found the solution, not tried yet though but looks promising)
https://community.spotify.com/t5/He...-Distorted-playback-sound-levels/td-p/1028205
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Not the solution, NuPlayer was already disabled on my phone.
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just tested it and volume is indeed still changing, downgrading again lol

Anyone still experiencing this issue, wait for the new spotify app update (2.8) or download the apk directly from here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/fo...oard-id/spotifyandroid/page/8/thread-id/43089
Scroll down a bit till you find the link. Fixed the issue for me!
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just got 5.1.1 (T mobile USA), back at it pretty bad on 3.0..0.1124 (I haven't used it in a while though so can't be sure that it wasn't happening in at least the 2 previous versions

Same problem
Only I don't use Spotify and it does this crap on any audio. Facebook, YouTube, audio files, Google play, milk music, video files...EVERYTHING.

Emeraldbull said:
Only I don't use Spotify and it does this crap on any audio. Facebook, YouTube, audio files, Google play, milk music, video files...EVERYTHING.
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Did you/anyone ever solve this? When I plug in earphones, the Google app starts automatically (and restarts each time I close it) and then the volume goes up and down automatically.

Mitch_R said:
Did you/anyone ever solve this? When I plug in earphones, the Google app starts automatically (and restarts each time I close it) and then the volume goes up and down automatically.
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Just last month my phone did a system update that took what felt like forever. Whatever was updated seemed to fix the issue. I haven't had any trouble since. Sorry. I know that doesn't really answer your question.

Things that should be but not exist

Hi may be I missed somewhere but there are things that I very much need but can't configure or find them
1) when music played, on lockscreen there should be buttons or widget to stop/pause the music. It's so inconvenient every time to unlock the phone, espessially if you use fingerprint
2) The phone paired with my car audio system and everything working except one thing - automatic pairing when I sit into the car... My SGS5 did it flawlessly but here I have to do it manually. Because of that I can't use smartunlock before do smth manually. And because fingerprint sensor is on the back side in the car with phone in the phoneholder you can't access easily it to unlock the phone.
How to solve this issues?

maxidrom said:
Hi may be I missed somewhere but there are things that I very much need but can't configure or find them
1) when music played, on lockscreen there should be buttons or widget to stop/pause the music. It's so inconvenient every time to unlock the phone, espessially if you use fingerprint
2) The phone paired with my car audio system and everything working except one thing - automatic pairing when I sit into the car... My SGS5 did it flawlessly but here I have to do it manually. Because of that I can't use smartunlock before do smth manually. And because fingerprint sensor is on the back side in the car with phone in the phoneholder you can't access easily it to unlock the phone.
How to solve this issues?
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1) have you enabled music notifications at the lock screen, in the phone manager app (notifications section)?
2) Your SGS5 might be with Lollipop and your H8 with MM which, in my opinion, is a bit more picky with BT devices.
Have you tried to wait for a while, with the radio on, to see if it pairs? I sometimes get my phone connected to my stereo without doing nothing (was previously setup though) but it's not quick.
And changing the BT settings to discoverable? Or adding a NFC tag in your car dashboard that forces your phone to connect?

Yes. I've enabled that but it works only for Huawei music app. Others can't show. But I prefer my app to listen music then embedded one. This works fine on my sgs with Samsung fw and also with CM
For the car...my sgs5 is on MM and work fine. If I choose in bt settings discoverable will this drain my battery?
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maxidrom said:
Yes. I've enabled that but it works only for Huawei music app. Others can't show. But I prefer my app to listen music then embedded one. This works fine on my sgs with Samsung fw and also with CM
For the car...my sgs5 is on MM and work fine. If I choose in bt settings discoverable will this drain my battery?
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No it won't drain. Have you tried the NFC way?