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Call Volume

Having come from the HD2 I was suprised to not be able to change the ring type on the DHD, for instance I always used to have my phone set to vibrate then ring with an increasing ring volume, yet with the DHD I dont seem to be able to do this..
Is there an app or something I am missing perhaps?

168 reads and no replys?
Am I missing something so obvious that everyone is just ignoring me or does nobody else actually use/want that feature?

Nope, you are not missing something.
It's not like the HD2.
I am unaware of any such application, but given the number of applications, there should be one!

I know its not the "same" as the HD2 but you would expect something simple like that to be possible surely..

Wow! Android doesn't have this option? I knew I should have stayed in WM 6.5...
Grumblings aside, I've found this post in a forum:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-tips-tricks/115984-vibrate-then-ring.html
Basicaly, they say to use an app called Ringriser and use an increasing volume together with "ring and vibrate at same time" or use "ring and vibrate" (with a custom ringer) and create a ringtone with some seconds of silence in the beginning.

Get an Admin to move this to development tread + see if some one picks it up
Id like to see a vibration setting where it can be altered - to buzz more or less also.
Ive missed a few calls due to the low speaker o/p and an alternating buzz (with tweaks) would be great

Some of the SMS notification apps in market offer the ability to change vibration modes etc, but I haven't seen any specifically for a phone call. If spotted will re post.

By the way jusk want to ask a question...
Can we change the speaker,dont understan about hardware but can we use an other produced or suitable speaker for dhd ?
Sent from my Desire HD

kufut said:
By the way jusk want to ask a question...
Can we change the speaker,dont understan about hardware but can we use an other produced or suitable speaker for dhd ?
Sent from my Desire HD
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i have a inspire 4g and i have no problems with the loudspeaker .. its loud enough!! is it just my device or i have super hearing capabilities...
as far as i have read.. only in call volume was a problem in inspire/desire hd which is fixed on all roms by increasing it to 20% more.. hope i am right on this .

jags_the1 said:
i have a inspire 4g and i have no problems with the loudspeaker .. its loud enough!! is it just my device or i have super hearing capabilities...
as far as i have read.. only in call volume was a problem in inspire/desire hd which is fixed on all roms by increasing it to 20% more.. hope i am right on this .
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Yeah, in call volume SUCKS!!!! Even on CM7.
Sent from my HTC Inspire running CM7 OC'd to 1.3Ghz..

[Q] Other fixes for rooted phones?

While rooting allows us to remove bloatware and get better backups, there are couple of other annoying things on the phone that might be fixable.
My first one is audio notification when you plug it into a computer. I know I plugged it in, I don't need to be told. The best that seem possible on a non-rooted phone is setting the default notification to something easily ignored, then resetting every other notification to something else individually.

Stupid Alarm Icon on Status Bar
how about a mod to get rid of the stupid Alarm Set notification Icon on the task bar. I had the phone forever before I finally figured out what it was. I do like the Motorola Alarm and Time app with the ringer that gets louder over time but hate the icon sitting there all the time cluttering up the bar.

i'm sure give it a few weeks and we'll start seeing some ROMs

TJK775 said:
i'm sure give it a few weeks and we'll start seeing some ROMs
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That's overkill on the order of using a saturn V for signal flare.
Especially given that the 3rd-party ROMs I've used (mostly cyanogen based) had bugs that the stock builds - including this one - don't.

Is there a mod to boost the phones ringer volume? My D1 was super loud, and capable of waking me up for work, but my D3 is so quiet, I sometimes don't hear it ringing.
sent from my ROOTED DROID3 from the XDA app

gravenimage said:
Is there a mod to boost the phones ringer volume? My D1 was super loud, and capable of waking me up for work, but my D3 is so quiet, I sometimes don't hear it ringing.
sent from my ROOTED DROID3 from the XDA app
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I'm curious about this as well. My previous android phone could double for a PA speaker but the D3 is a bit on the quiet side. The rom I had installed on my moment easily doubled the ringer volume...

DSP manager from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=795233
-smc

[Q] Custom kernel & incall volume

Hi, I was just curious, is it possible with custom kernel to get louder incall volume. On stock kernel the volume is pretty low, much lower than other phones. Tried it on official rom, and several custom roms. Always same results, I mean, I can hear the person I'm talking to but only in a quiet environment, the volume is on max setting of course. Didn't really want to play with kernel but if it could help with the issue I would take the chance.

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Hi, I was just curious, is it possible with custom kernel to get louder incall volume. On stock kernel the volume is pretty low, much lower than other phones. Tried it on official rom, and several custom roms. Always same results, I mean, I can hear the person I'm talking to but only in a quiet environment, the volume is on max setting of course. Didn't really want to play with kernel but if it could help with the issue I would take the chance.
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It's obvious that you have a damaged speaker.. Plug in earphones and see if it's still low..

u should clean Speaker hole(small in left) with pin then it will blow sound. . same problem was with me after clean or very small hole on left site of speaker section now i can hear well

Notification sound too quiet at first

Hi.
I have searched for this problem and haven't found anything useful. When I get a notification from let's say Facebook Messenger, it's either too quiet or doesn't produce a sound at all. After a couple messages get through one after another, it gets louder.
Is there a setting I'm missing?

I've noticed it too. Whats weird is that this happened to my Droid 3. Its annoying. A great example was my alarm this morning. I heard it really lite then it jumped to its correct volume setting. Every, please chime in if you've been noticing this!

Noticed this on alarm. I don't mind ascending volume but it's not ascending volume at all - more like very low and a crescendo to its normal volume.

This is new with Lollipop for me. It happens with all sound. I can even go to the volume settings, and the first time I 'preview' a sound it will do the same thing before it corrects itself (afterwards the previews will then work fine until I pause for a minute and try again.. then same problem).

Bumping this.. becoming a problem. Anyone have a fix or workaround?
In addition to above, I'm also noticing that I have my volume set to max.. but occasionally I'll find it somehow reset itself to "mid" levels.

I don't think this is something that can be turned off or on, most likely it's some kind of bug. Let's just hope it gets fixed soon, it's really annoying

The Motorola forms say it's a safely feature, preventing you from damaging your hearing if it goes off while it's next to you head. It should at least be an option.
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I found that if I use the volume rocker to change the volume it sometimes makes the volume turn off. Instead I go into settings/sound and change the volume from there

Same issue here. Samsungs have this exact same "feature" too, drove me nuts back when I owned one. When I create ringtones, I create them with the intent of getting the impact of the song or melody right in those first few seconds, and "increasing ring" completely ruins it. I installed this app for the Samsung back when it was on either ICS or KK, but sadly it doesn't seem to work with Lollipop. Maybe we can all bug the developer to make it work with Lollipop?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shumoapp.disableincreasingring&hl=en

I'm rooted, so if anyone knows where to go in the system files to change this, I'd be willing to try it.
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Elsydeon said:
Same issue here. Samsungs have this exact same "feature" too, drove me nuts back when I owned one.
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I don't think this is an escalating ringtone feature -- I think it's a bug. Possibly it's just really poorly implemented, but I've used escalating volume on ringtones with CM before and compared to that, the volume inconsistencies here are far too sudden and inconsistent. For example, sometimes half my notification is quite (or possibly completely silent?) and sometimes the entire sound comes out at the desired volume.
It also does it for tone it makes when you change the volume (i.e. the first time you click vol up/down, the tone it makes is way too quite, then you have to change the volume a couple of more times to get it play at the correct volume). Hopefully this isn't something they designed on purpose, b/c if it is then that's just a terrible user experience (why would I want the preview of how loud I'm making the volume to come out at the wrong volume?)

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I don't think this is an escalating ringtone feature -- I think it's a bug. Possibly it's just really poorly implemented, but I've used escalating volume on ringtones with CM before and compared to that, the volume inconsistencies here are far too sudden and inconsistent. For example, sometimes half my notification is quite (or possibly completely silent?) and sometimes the entire sound comes out at the desired volume.
It also does it for tone it makes when you change the volume (i.e. the first time you click vol up/down, the tone it makes is way too quite, then you have to change the volume a couple of more times to get it play at the correct volume). Hopefully this isn't something they designed on purpose, b/c if it is then that's just a terrible user experience (why would I want the preview of how loud I'm making the volume to come out at the wrong volume?)
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After using my Moto X for almost a week, I'm starting to see what you're saying, but I'm not sure Motorola would see it as a bug. I've noticed more than once my phone will be sitting right in front of me, and while the screen flashes on for a notification, no sound follows it, even though my notification volume is clearly up. If I go back in and try running manual tests, the notification sound works fine. It's possible that my notification tone (I picked Tejat) is just so short, that the 1-2 seconds it plays for is enough to get lost entirely as part of that initial volume ramp up.
Also have the same issue as you with the initial press of the volume control rocker as well...this issue also seems to extend to any menus that involve picking a sound file to play (like picking a ring tone). Any initial file played will always have its first few seconds lost, and then all sounds will play fine afterwards. If you exit the selection menu and go back in, same thing happens.
My guess is that the initial time an app plays a sound, the first few seconds get lost...following that, it'll play it ok. If you exit the app, it seems like this behavior is reset...which could be where it feels like the volume is inconsistent. But this overall behavior does seem like a permanent escalating ringtone "feature".

This is definitely a "feature" that's coded in the framework. There used to be an xposed module that would take care of this and turn it off. I think it's highly specialized to each individual ROM/device, but you guys that are rooted could try it and see if it makes a difference. I know I will once I get my device.

This is part of the system I think. Because when I get a message notification although is less than one second I can hear it perfectly loud and clear even with the phone "deep sleep", but when I get a call the ringtone always sounds very smooth and after one second goes louder. I think this should be an option and no a " must have"

I have the same problem with ringtones, notifications and in-app sounds, and it all started since I upgraded to Lollipop, so I don't think this is a feature, because it didn't happen on Kitkat. Also, when using Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger I noticed that the internal sounds of these apps are messed up, they sound very very quiet or they don't sound at all.
I think we should go to Motorola forums to let them know about this annoying bug.

krogan said:
I have the same problem with ringtones, notifications and in-app sounds, and it all started since I upgraded to Lollipop, so I don't think this is a feature, because it didn't happen on Kitkat. Also, when using Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger I noticed that the internal sounds of these apps are messed up, they sound very very quiet or they don't sound at all.
I think we should go to Motorola forums to let them know about this annoying bug.
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Agreed, this has to go up to software issue. I mainly bought the X over a Nexus 5 due to the front facing speakers, it is quite a shame that the one thing I was looking forward to has a flaw on it (at least with the lollipop update).

I've noticed this issue too ever since the Lollipop update. At first I thought I had done something wrong because I couldn't find anyone else reporting the problem, but a buddy of mine said he noticed it too. I don't see how this could possibly be an intended function, as most stock notification sounds are so short that they finish before the "crescendo" actually gets to a high enough volume. It also doesn't happen on a consistent basis. I can get one notification that is perfectly loud start to finish, and the next will start super quiet or be completely inaudible.
Does anybody know if there's a support thread for this with Motorola?

I just opened up a discussion on the Moto support forums for this issue. Hopefully something comes from it.

Workaround!!!
Settings --> Sound & notification --> Audio Effects --> Turn the Equalizer OFF for the speaker.
Worked for me!

FootySr said:
Workaround!!!
Settings --> Sound & notification --> Audio Effects --> Turn the Equalizer OFF for the speaker.
Worked for me!
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Not for me. ? Mine's been off for some time.

Disabling Asending/Increasing Ringtone

Let's try this again.
I've got the N6 and so far it's great but one of the things that I absolutely hate about it is the Ascending Ringtone "feature" that either Google or Motorola has put on this phone. I'm one of those wacky people that likes to actually hear my phone ring, or alarm tone, or text notification at the volume that I set manually, rather than have the phone start the tone whisper quiet and then go up in volume.
I've heard of a custom ROM or two that have removed this feature (or at least made it OPTIONAL) but in my own personal experience, custom ROMs have always been too buggy for my taste. I wasn't exactly planning on rooting this phone, but I may just have to do that for a custom ROM that turns the ascending ring feature off or removes it all together. Sorry for the ramble, but I suppose my question is this: Is there a Custom ROM out there that is essentially a stock ROM - with absolutely nothing changed except for this? Is changing this feature something that someone like myself could accomplish by compiling a ROM on his own? I have no experience with this, only experience with flashing downloaded custom ROMs.
I don't mind stock 5.0.1, I just want to get rid of that ringtone issue. I've tried the "Disable Increasing Ring" app, but it has not helped.
To be clear: just flashing a custom ROM or editing an mp3 to a different volume is NOT what I'm looking to do, as this 'feature' is affecting all sorts of notifications, and not just the ringtone.
Thanks for any help, or helpful suggestions.

I agree, I can't stand the decreased to increased volume when I get a call or notification.
The funny thing is that it doesn't happen all the time for me. I wonder if it's a bug with the phone hardware or possibly software.

On my Nexus 6, it only affects the ring (call) signals. The notification sounds aren't affected at all.
Still very annoying, since we can't make this choice ourselves. I'd hate to need to flash another
ROM, due solely to this crap! Too bad the "Disable Increasing Ring" app doesn't work on N6.
It worked flawlessly on my old Note II. I wish the dev would extend the functionality for us.

bump.

I've been looking for a fix for this for a while as well. This is, quite possibly, the worst "feature" Google ever added to their ROMs. It makes it sound like the phone is broken and it's beyond annoying.

Yeah I agree, this ''feature'' should have been optional just like the encryption should have been optional too....

Let's keep our fingers crossed that Google adresses
this crap within reasonable time. It's a pain in the b...

I thought I was the only one who thought this was ridiculous. You've already missed like 2-3 rings and wasted time left to answer the call, sometimes. I can't wait for more "official" custom ROMs.

bump.

Yes. This "feature" sucks. Hope it goes away or becomes optional.

I have the same issue and can't find any option to disable this.
Hope google will make this optional the increasing ringtone.
EDIT: Btw this "issue" is present on custom ROM's aswell i think.

I really hate it also...can someone please kill it
Just tried cyanogenmod 12 (nightly 20150126) and it's there also. In this case it is even worse because CM's built in increasing ringtone feature does not work very well maybe because of the default N6 behavior.

bump.

Wondering about this also.

I was researching this issue for couple days and I found just few custom roms that fix this issue.
1) MeanPop rom. It's a bit outdated (based on 5.1.0), but works like a charm and very near to the original stock (personally tested and as I understood all sounds are just starting playing with a delay)
2) Benzo rom (based on Euphoria rom). Haven't tried it, but people say all sounds work perfectly (it looks like its highly customized rom)
3) Euphoria rom (Personally tested - fast, stable, customizable). For some people it didn't work and I found suggestion to flash first franco kernel and then the rom. That's what I did and everything works perfectly like it should be.
Couldn't find any other roms or mods. Programs like "Disable Increasing Ring" don't work, but maybe it will with custom kernel - haven't tried.

I'm running latest Euphoria ROM with the increasing ringtone already disabled but still it plays the ascending ringtone for some reason. Anyways my simple fix was I used Nero Soundtrax and added a 2 second delay to the beginning of the mp3 file I used as my ringtone and it sounds perfect no more ascending ringtone.

I didn't notice this on the chroma rom, but after flashing stock 6.0.1, this issue appeared.
I don't think it is a hardware bug. For me, other notifications are fine. Ring and alarm are the two that are problematic.

It's super ****ty that it affects alarms. It's at least 7 seconds after a timer reaches 0 until I start hearing it beep. Wtf... I mean 7 seconds isn't a huge deal in anything that I'm timing but WHY make it affect alarms?

Maybe I'm missing the point here, particularly with the last two posts. I have 6.0.1 MMB29S from January 4th 2016, and it has separate volume controls for Alarms & Timers in clock settings - "Gradually increase volume" - both allowing a certain number of seconds for the increase, including zero seconds, which I would take to be "off", right...?
I haven't tested this yet, since it's an option I didn't notice until I looked just now, but have the last two posters seen and tried it?

i hate this feature too.
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