I have a PX6 6/64 GB head unit and using wired Android Auto with the Z-link app. It works fine, except the Google Assistant / Maps voice has very high volume and distorted sound compared to music. Which makes it impossible to use Google Maps and Spotify at the same time, in Android Auto mode. I have the same problem running stock or HAL9K ROM. Is it possible to adjust the voice volume in any way?
Apple CarPlay works good and has much better volumes and sound quality.
Thanks for any help!
You haven't mentioned what steps you have taken to try to self resolve the problem, which usually ends up in a circular guessing game.
Have you considered lowering the system volume in factory settings?
marchnz said:
You haven't mentioned what steps you have taken to try to self resolve the problem, which usually ends up in a circular guessing game.
Have you considered lowering the system volume in factory settings?
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Thanks, well I have tried rebooting phone and head unit, regarding volume I only have one setting in my head unit, which seems to control everything.
After some more testing I have now realized that the problem is not really that the Google Assistant voice is too high. The problem is that when the voice starts it will lower the music but when the voice is finished it will not turn the music volume back to normal. So when I increase the music volume back to normal, next time the voice will be really high. Anybody else with this bug and a possible solution?
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Hi all, I have been having a problem with the voice guidance since the update to Maps 6.8.0. I am on Android 2.3.4 on the latest baseband. In the past, voice guidance was fine, even when playing music. When my music was playing, the song would lower, but not stop, and the navigation direction would clearly sound over the song, then the song would be back to normal volume. Now, when the direction guidance is supposed to turn on, the song lowers, but no voice guidance. I also get no voice guidance with music off. I get no guidance with and without the headphone jack plugged into my car system. I understand that navigation volume and media volume are now linked, but media volume is turned all the way up, and still no voice guidance.
When I go to check the Pico TTS settings, I click on Listen to an Example and get the sample voice and when I go to Google Translate, I also get a voice.
Anybody else have this problem or have an idea how to fix?
Thanks
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Hi all, I have been having a problem with the voice guidance since the update to Maps 6.8.0. I am on Android 2.3.4 on the latest baseband. In the past, voice guidance was fine, even when playing music. When my music was playing, the song would lower, but not stop, and the navigation direction would clearly sound over the song, then the song would be back to normal volume. Now, when the direction guidance is supposed to turn on, the song lowers, but no voice guidance. I also get no voice guidance with music off. I get no guidance with and without the headphone jack plugged into my car system. I understand that navigation volume and media volume are now linked, but media volume is turned all the way up, and still no voice guidance.
When I go to check the Pico TTS settings, I click on Listen to an Example and get the sample voice and when I go to Google Translate, I also get a voice.
Anybody else have this problem or have an idea how to fix?
Thanks
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Did you try reinstalling it.
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Yeah, either select install it in settings or just search it at play store.
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reinstall worked
thanks reinstalling worked, should have known, duh on me
johnnybraxton said:
thanks reinstalling worked, should have known, duh on me
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I had the same problem. Only it stops working again after a while.
Navigation for the G2x? Didnt no that was possible lol. 9 times outa 10 i need to use my garmin because the gps is so terrible on this thing. Which is sad because the G1 and mytouch slide i had before this could use navigation no problem, cant wait for a decent qwerty to come out again.
hi i have a xtrons PF75AA4A headunit. everythings works great in my audi a4 cabriolet with bose system. i have rooted the unit and installed viper4android so the audio is better than what is was before. The only issue i have with this unit is that the lowest volume "1" is set too high. i would say volume 1 is equal to like 8 or 10 on normal car systems. i cant seem to find an option to lower the volume. if i put the car in reverse than the audio levels go lower but this is cause of parking sensors. Its annoying when im driving and want some ambient music but the lowest volume is too loud.
any help would be appreciated.
the std sound out is fine to power a normal sound system, but the Bose system requires an UN-amplified sound input I have the xtrons in my Silverado with the Bose sound system once I got the AMP powered on I had FULL sound for lack of a better term, then proceeded to cut the speaker out(s) on the harness and added rca male/females to the sound in adapter from the back of the xtrons unit to get sound volume that works. It's been fine since.
quote from a guy on a truck forum
the stock head unit from GM that are Bose the output from the unit to the amp are NOT high level speaker outputs like your regular non-bose head units. instead they are low level rca signals
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in Joying in Factory Settings there is a way to adjust volume levels
**** i'm looking for a way to turn it up!
I see that this thread is for lowering the volume, but the fix would be the same if someone needs it to have higher volume by default.
When the HU first starts it always sets the volume to 14 or 15 i think......WHY??? i want it to stay as i left it before shutdown. I don`t think any of the android phones changes the volume when you do a reboot. There are some volume settings inside the "factory settings" menu, but when you change the settings it needs to reboot, and then the problem with no sound and no working buttons comes up, so there is no way to test it, as i have to do a factory reset to fix it.
No wonder there is no restart option by default...
I use my HU with the factory installed stereo "BOSE" with 3rd party AUX unit and i control the volume with my OEM stereo so i need the volume of the HU to be up to the max.
I hope someone finds a fix for this.
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I see that this thread is for lowering the volume, but the fix would be the same if someone needs it to have higher volume by default.
When the HU first starts it always sets the volume to 14 or 15 i think......WHY??? i want it to stay as i left it before shutdown. I don`t think any of the android phones changes the volume when you do a reboot. There are some volume settings inside the "factory settings" menu, but when you change the settings it needs to reboot, and then the problem with no sound and no working buttons comes up, so there is no way to test it, as i have to do a factory reset to fix it.
No wonder there is no restart option by default...
I use my HU with the factory installed stereo "BOSE" with 3rd party AUX unit and i control the volume with my OEM stereo so i need the volume of the HU to be up to the max.
I hope someone finds a fix for this.
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it sets it at 14-15 upon boot up to protect your ears.
yeah, i know this but still..... Maybe there is a way of achieving this. Now i remembered that there is as app on the market- "Liama" that you can use to do various settings changes when certain conditions are met. This might do the job.
Any way to keep the volume before the car was turned off. My head unit suddenly gets loud when the car is restarted
shezi2243 said:
Any way to keep the volume before the car was turned off. My head unit suddenly gets loud when the car is restarted
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Factory settings/other/boot default volume. Default is "no" which persists the volume from last use.
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Factory settings/other/boot default volume. Default is "no" which persists the volume from last use.
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Well my problem is intermittent. Lots of time my head unit would restart with the last set volume... other times it would go to 15
Options
I only have these options in my factory settings
shezi2243 said:
I only have these options in my factory settings
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Not an MTCD.
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Not an MTCD.
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Ok... but any idea how to go about the issue at hand?
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Ok... but any idea how to go about the issue at hand?
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How would you find out what you have and then ask those that have your unit?
Hey guys. I've recently started using Navmii on my MTCD device, its the only Navigation app that works well enough to be used as a daily driver (excuse the pun!). Anyway the issue I'm having is that if i have the radio or poweramp playing in the background, the Navigation Voice prompts are difficult to hear over the music. The easiest thing to to, obviously is to stop the media apps completely, however in the real world you would normaly want some music on in the background?
Ideally, the radio/poweramp volume would dip automatically when the Nav app starts a voice prompt, however in reality i know thats probably not possible. What I have managed to achieve so far is to set power amps voulme lower via its built in volume control, this way the Navigaton prompts are always louder, this works really well. However I cant see a way of doing this for the radio app, I am assuming that this is something to with the way the radio is managed via the MCU interface, and not directly via android.
Im wondering how other people manage this scenario, I cant be the only one?!
There is an option in the settings menu (GPS submenu) that lets you do precisely that.
it cant post a link but search youtube:
Android head unit 5.1.1 low GPS voice fix
i posted a fix for this issue
Hi,
I have an issue with my Samsung Galaxy S8+.
If I try to play music via bluetooth to my speakers, the volume is very very low. The settings are on max and media volume sync can't be enabled.
I tried playing music with my Samsung Galaxy S7Edge and the volume was completely normal and very loud with nothing changed on the speakers.
I also tried this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/low-bluetooth-volume-car-fix-t3595530 with no result.
My BT speakers: https://www.trust.com/en/product/19367-tytan-2-1-subwoofer-speaker-set-with-bluetooth-black
My S8+:
Android 8.0.0
Stock
Knox triggered: 0
Never did any manual flash. Always just updated it.
Are there common reasons for this or good fixes? Or is it just a software bug?
Thanks for your time!
-iCornflakes
It's oreo, they messed up the volume and everything audio on oreo, no fix right now I'm going to make a topic to see if it's possible to downgrade back to nougat.
Not just an Oreo thing. I've had the same issue with the Bluetooth in my car as well.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/low-bluetooth-volume-car-fix-t3595530
Look at that post. I tried the force close method and it helped.
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It's oreo, they messed up the volume and everything audio on oreo, no fix right now I'm going to make a topic to see if it's possible to downgrade back to nougat.
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Odd, absolutely nothing changed with my BT devices when I went to Oreo.
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Odd, absolutely nothing changed with my BT devices when I went to Oreo.
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it's amazing that you can't tell the difference at all, it's very noticeable, i am unable to hear anything when i receive calls in my headset either, this latest oreo update is broken.
found something online, it's something to do with media sync, try connecting the bluethooth device, then go to settings, bluethooth, 3 dots and select media sync, select on and make sure both phone and headphones volume is max and restart phone, anyone notice any difference? i'm testing it now.
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found something online, it's something to do with media sync, try connecting the bluethooth device, then go to settings, bluethooth, 3 dots and select media sync, select on and make sure both phone and headphones volume is max and restart phone, anyone notice any difference? i'm testing it now.
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Yea that was the first thing I have read about when I started searching for it. I wanted to try it, but it seems like my BT speakers are not compatible with it. It says that it isnt compatible when I try to activate it. Not sure if there is a workaround to make it working.
I don't think this is an Oreo specific problem. I've encountered this bug since marshmallow.
The only way I could get it to reset the volume back to max was when I used crdroid.
The volume would get set very low. I could open the global equaliser via Google music. And the volume would not change.
I would then access the global eq via another music player. Just make a tiny change to any parameters and boom. The volume is now set to the correct level again.
The moment I would use Google music to access the eq the volume would jump down again
My tablet is now on naosp and the volume issue has popped back up.
Doing the same procedure will reset the volume correctly.
It is rather annoying to have to do this.
I don't know what is causing the problem but it looks like the global eq ultimately effects the output volume disabled or enabled
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HUYI said:
it's amazing that you can't tell the difference at all, it's very noticeable, i am unable to hear anything when i receive calls in my headset either, this latest oreo update is broken.
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No difference at all with three different devices I connect to. I do have media sync disabled already. Hopefully you get it figured out.
I've done a test on my S8+ now.
I downloaded the latest firmware and flashed it with a complete reset of the phone.
The Firmware Details:
SM-G955F/DBT/G955FXXU1CRC7/G955FOXM1CRC7/G955FXXU1CRC7/G955FXXU1CRC7
Model: SM-G955F
Version: G955FXXU1CRC7/G955FOXM1CRC7/G955FXXU1CRC7/G955FXXU1CRC7
OS: Oreo(Android 8.0.0)
Filename: SM-G955F_1_20180316151927_r15v1y5ud4_fac.zip.enc4
Size: 3810088112 bytes
LogicValue: mkulwy4mhgusj3sn
After the flash of it the BT issue is gone. This was done yesterday (4/10/2018). I will report back if the BT issue returns OR in like 2 weeks+ if everything is still fine.
GL everyone
new firmware released by samsung, lets hope this fixes the issue :S, i checked the notes and it does say fix for bluethooth.
I don't think this is an Oreo specific problem. I've encountered this bug since marshmallow.
The only way I could get it to reset the volume back to max was when I used crdroid.
The volume would get set very low. I could open the global equaliser via Google music. And the volume would not change.
I would then access the global eq via another music player. Just make a tiny change to any parameters and boom. The volume is now set to the correct level again.
The moment I would use Google music to access the eq the volume would jump down again
My tablet is now on naosp and the volume issue has popped back up.
Doing the same procedure will reset the volume correctly.
It is rather annoying to have to do this.
I don't know what is causing the problem but it looks like the global eq ultimately effects the output volume disabled or enabled
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do you need root for that though and i never had this issue in nougat, this issue first happened in oreo.
And i have a universal eq setting on a separate app called precise volume which does the same thing.
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Yea that was the first thing I have read about when I started searching for it. I wanted to try it, but it seems like my BT speakers are not compatible with it. It says that it isnt compatible when I try to activate it. Not sure if there is a workaround to make it working.
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It dosn't work anyway, still the same, on a good note they have fixed the low volume for incoming calls on my headphones, just the music volume is still crap.
I think my only solution is another set of headphones that support LDAC but they are £300+ lol or to get a Microsoft music player, i have a laptop that even beats what the old volume was on nougat so maybe a Microsoft music player would be a good idea, gonna look around.
It was good while it lasted i guess.
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It dosn't work anyway, still the same, on a good note they have fixed the low volume for incoming calls on my headphones, just the music volume is still crap.
I think my only solution is another set of headphones that support LDAC but they are £300+ lol or to get a Microsoft music player, i have a laptop that even beats what the old volume was on nougat so maybe a Microsoft music player would be a good idea, gonna look around.
It was good while it lasted i guess.
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Damn rip. The other good note, new update fixed the issue for me.
HUYI said:
It dosn't work anyway, still the same, on a good note they have fixed the low volume for incoming calls on my headphones, just the music volume is still crap.
I think my only solution is another set of headphones that support LDAC but they are £300+ lol or to get a Microsoft music player, i have a laptop that even beats what the old volume was on nougat so maybe a Microsoft music player would be a good idea, gonna look around.
It was good while it lasted i guess.
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Damn rip. The other good note, new update fixed the issue for me.
EDIT: Sorry for double post, idk how this happened
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new firmware released by samsung, lets hope this fixes the issue :S, i checked the notes and it does say fix for bluethooth.
do you need root for that though and i never had this issue in nougat, this issue first happened in oreo.
And i have a universal eq setting on a separate app called precise volume which does the same thing.
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I wasn't rooted before but since then have rooted via magisk systemless root. I can still use pay and bank access etc...
I'm using viper4android now and have also disabled the system EQ.
I have just got connects2 for my car last weekend.
On the odd occasion the volume will drop when opening automate(the driving launcher) which is set to launch playmusic on Bluetooth connection.
But as soon as I swipe down the volume jumps back up.
taniwhatuu said:
I wasn't rooted before but since then have rooted via magisk systemless root. I can still use pay and bank access etc...
I'm using viper4android now and have also disabled the system EQ.
I have just got connects2 for my car last weekend.
On the odd occasion the volume will drop when opening automate(the driving launcher) which is set to launch playmusic on Bluetooth connection.
But as soon as I swipe down the volume jumps back up.
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So you think it's worth rooting and do you notice any difference in audio quality?
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So you think it's worth rooting and do you notice any difference in audio quality?
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Yeah for sure but be aware you might loose functionality on apps like banking and payments.
I use magisk to hide root so I can still use those functionalities.
Make sure you read into it first.
I've had a replacement connects2 module fitted today and all is going well.
Viper4android my EQ is absolutely amazing in comparison to other EQ and in my case the volume issue has been solved.
Actually it's really loud as I was used to the lower level.
Steps I took.
Unlock bootloader ( wiped my tablet)
Flash magisk
Install magisk manager
Added selinux module via magisk manager
Added viper4android via magisk manager
Disable global EQ
Set selinux to permissive
Install viper4android driver. Prompts when opening the app for the first time.
Reboot
And it's all good.
The bug with AutoMate seems to be tied to my maps speed prompting notification voice.
If it does revert to no EQ, I drag down from the top bar and it's back up again
I hope it works for you. Plus you now have a very awesome EQ as a bonus
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Try enabling Developer mode (press Build Number 8 times). Then turn on Disable absolute volume. This de-links the phone volume control from the headset's volume control. Now you should be able to increase volume on both independently.
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found something online, it's something to do with media sync, try connecting the bluethooth device, then go to settings, bluethooth, 3 dots and select media sync, select on and make sure both phone and headphones volume is max and restart phone, anyone notice any difference? i'm testing it now.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. I had two pair of bluetooth headphones. A Cheap pair with volume control and a fancy pair of JBL Frees with no volume control. I could NOT figure out why sometimes the volume was great when they connected and other times it was VERY LOW all the while the cheap pair sounded great when I turned them up. I was at wits end blaming JBL and Samsung when it was a setting for Bluetooth devices.
Thanks again Huyi. Very glad I found this post.
Hey
Recently brought a xtrons head unit
Seems to work fine but there is a strange issue
The volume on the radio is very loud and have to only have it at a quarter at most but in any other app (tried bt music and Spotify) the volume is very low and I have to have it at its highest to get anything usable out of it.
Can't see anything in the settings for it. Has anyone encountered anything like this?
Cheers
Try first and go to the factory settings. On the first page I mean you find the volume settings for radio, system, Bluetooth and something else. Take a look that every entry are close together.
In my case the voice for navigation was to noisy. I've set the system volume up and it was fine.