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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.
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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.
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.
Just wrote a very simple app called BT GNow, which activates Google Now rather than the default Android Voice Dialer when you hit the hands-free button on your Bluetooth headset. Surprisingly, I can't seem to find another app that accomplishes this simple function. Bluetooth Launch does this to an extent, but the UI is difficult, it requires some configuration, it seems to me to cause wakelock problems, and the instance of Google Now that it starts takes off where Google Now left off (so you are often brought to an old search rather than an opportunity to speak a new voice command).
BT GNow keeps only a limited wakelock, requires no configuration (other than configuring Google Now to accept input from your Bluetooth device and possibly disabling the native Voice Dialer), and starts a fresh instance of Google Now each time.
Here's the Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vibaroo.btnow
And the (minimal) website that describes the setup: https://sites.google.com/site/btgoognow/home
Great will try tomorrow
I will try now, great APP man:good:
Fail, my bluetooth now is not working, i tried, factory reset, re-flash system but not working more
Wow, great app. Makes my bluetooth headset and Google Now work as I always expected it would have to begin with.
I noticed that there was a problem with the screen locking and not responding to touches if lockscreen security is enabled and Google Now is interrupted. Solved this problem with the latest version and also improved wakelock control by sticking an icon in the corner of the screen. The icon disappears when the screen is turned off, and the phone is kept awake only as long as the icon is present.
Got rid of the icon that people seemed to dislike (made it invisible).
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Some have reported problems with BT GNow not effectively bypassing the lockscreen. To address this, I've added an option that requires you to say "OK Google" after pressing your handsfree button; this in effect lets Google Now handle the lockscreen itself. You can activate this option by clicking on the app in the launcher and choosing the "OK Google" option.
Note that if you choose this option, you have to make sure that "OK Google" detection is set to work "From any screen": Google Now > Settings > Voice > 'OK Google' Detection > From any screen (checked or set to "on").
Is there a way to use this with non-BT headphones? I have the 3 button control on my headphones and would love to be able to use this app to bypass the voice dialer.
Dzinic said:
Is there a way to use this with non-BT headphones? I have the 3 button control on my headphones and would love to be able to use this app to bypass the voice dialer.
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I'm not sure. Embarrassing to admit that I don't have a wired headset to try it with. At least one user has reported that it does work with wired headsets, though. Have you tried it?
NYZack said:
I'm not sure. Embarrassing to admit that I don't have a wired headset to try it with. At least one user has reported that it does work with wired headsets, though. Have you tried it?
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I tried using both of the options but both seem to lead to the voice dialer unfortunately.
Dzinic said:
I tried using both of the options but both seem to lead to the voice dialer unfortunately.
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Did you try disabling the voice dialer (as in the instructions)?
NYZack said:
Did you try disabling the voice dialer (as in the instructions)?
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I did follow the instructions up to the Voice Dialer point due to not being able to find the Voice Dialer app in the "All" section. I don't know whether I'm blind or lollipop merged it into another application.
Dzinic said:
I did follow the instructions up to the Voice Dialer point due to not being able to find the Voice Dialer app in the "All" section. I don't know whether I'm blind or lollipop merged it into another application.
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Hmm. You're right. Since upgrading to Lollipop I don't see it on my phone either. I'll see if I can get a hold of a wired headset to try to troubleshoot it.
You should go Bluetooth!
NYZack said:
Hmm. You're right. Since upgrading to Lollipop I don't see it on my phone either. I'll see if I can get a hold of a wired headset to try to troubleshoot it.
You should go Bluetooth!
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Don't go out and get one just to fix my problem! I just don't use my phone for music enough to justify investing in a bluetooth, haha. Thanks for looking into it.
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Thanks!
Amazing! I'm currently using your app to simulate the MotoX experience on a Nexus 5 (pressing just the button on a Moto Hint to query the Nexus 5). I'm still having a problem with the sound from the headset seeminly not being routed through to the phone after I say "Ok Google" (even though I've got the option enabled within Google Now's settings), but I'll keep working at it.
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Amazing! I'm currently using your app to simulate the MotoX experience on a Nexus 5 (pressing just the button on a Moto Hint to query the Nexus 5). I'm still having a problem with the sound from the headset seeminly not being routed through to the phone after I say "Ok Google" (even though I've got the option enabled within Google Now's settings), but I'll keep working at it.
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I've noticed that problem if you have more than one bluetooth device connected at once - for instance, if your phone is connected to your car's bluetooth or a stereo headset while connected to your Moto Hint. I'm considering options to try to fix this. In the meantime, perhaps it's better not to use the "OK Google" option and just launch directly from the bluetooth button?
My friend has same thing on his iPhone. I can now use google now with handsfree, when i driving my car. Thanks! The Coolest app on my week!
Wishlist ....
Given the code you have already written here is a little wish from me ... could you implement that the HFP bluetooth headsets just do not launch any application - just volume up and down.
xperia Z, TWIINS bluetooth headset for motorcylce, mono Bluetooth to route Navi output to headset - whenever I press volume down I get the stupid voicedialer or -if disabled- a black screen. I do not want to make any phoncalls on a fast bike!
Thanks in advance.
DrT_Music
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
In Settings > Apps > Choose default apps I have replaced Bixby with Assistant as my default digital assistant app but this obviously does not concern earphone shortcuts (triple taps or long presses) which still invoke Bixby. I have also changed the setting for "press and hold Home key" from Bixby to Assistant but this doesn't help either. What other settings needs to be changed in order to activate Assistant via earphone taps?
retry it....go to bixby, clear default, then go to wearable app....touch controls>touch and hold>make either left or right ear "voice command"
Livin Vibz said:
retry it....go to bixby, clear default, then go to wearable app....touch controls>touch and hold>make either left or right ear "voice command"
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I dont have Galaxy buds but ordinary buds. No software to configure them (I guess)
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Yea if you have no way to configure your earphone settings you probably won't be able to get it done. (Not sure though)
Here is your answer. Confirmed works. ~2mins in.
Livin Vibz said:
retry it....go to bixby, clear default, then go to wearable app....touch controls>touch and hold>make either left or right ear "voice command" penalty kick online
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It's worked for me.