Is there a way to remove the shutter sound the camera makes when taking photos or video regardless of the rom? Can I just use root explorer and find the audio files and delete them? If this is possible, where are the audio files and what are their names?
There was a modified camera.apk posted, but it didn't work with latest firmware so I didn't really used it.
Most of the camera sounds are files located at /system/media/audio/ui.
However, the shutter sound in embedded in the camera.apk itself. Maybe it can be done using and apk editor, but I'm no programmer, so I have no clue to get it working.
Please follow the steps to disable it!
1. Please make sure the Galaxy Note is rooted.
2. Use root explorer(or any other similar apps like it).
3. Start the Root Explorer and browse the file “/system/media/audio/ui”
4. Click on the “Mount Button” in Root Explorer.
5. Rename “Shutter_01.ogg” to “Shutter_01.ogg.off” or Shutter_01.ogg.backup
6. Say goodbye to the camera shutter sound
keep device in silent mode..
ranjan.alva: Camera still use sound in silent mode.
I did the same thing like "neworder76" and this works!
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ranjan.alva: Camera still use sound in silent mode.
I did the same thing like "neworder76" and this works!
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That not true. Mine keep silent if i set to silent or vibrate mode
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ranjan.alva: Camera still use sound in silent mode.
I did the same thing like "neworder76" and this works!
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Which Firmware u using?? i think you need to update your device to new Firmware.
This may be a later answer but here:
The camera shutter sound's volume is controlled by the MEDIA VOLUME.
The reason why it still goes off when you set the phone to silent mode is that Silent Mode only sets Notification and Ringer volume to 0, not media volume.
You'll have to adjust media volume in the settings yourself, as it stays up even in silent mode. If you're unsure, media volume is the volume for games or apps.
It's illegal to silence the camera shutter sound in some countries. Be wary of this.
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It's illegal to silence the camera shutter sound in some countries. Be wary of this.
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LOL.
I know one: Japan! Can't silence the cameras on DSIs or 3DSs. =)) Never occurred to me that the people in this thread could be attempting that for `illegal` reasons.
Just so I can get out of any potential legal mess, I just discovered this while messing with my phone. I was actually looking for the sound.
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It's illegal to silence the camera shutter sound in some countries. Be wary of this.
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That's so weird; none of the cameras I've owned have made any sound (they've been practically silent), but every phone I've owned has had a loud, artificial camera shutter sound. Do other countries require normally quiet cameras to add an artificial sound when taking pics?
maxh said:
That's so weird; none of the cameras I've owned have made any sound (they've been practically silent), but every phone I've owned has had a loud, artificial camera shutter sound. Do other countries require normally quiet cameras to add an artificial sound when taking pics?
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It has to do something with preventing stalking and secretly taking photos.
All I have to do is turn the Volume down to nothing before I launch the camera app... I haven't done anything to mod it either, it's pretty much stock.
no camera artificial shutter sounds for me if the phone is on silent, and i am on an unrooted phone on 2.3.6. and no need for me to turn the media volume down. am i the only one?
Kind of reminds me back during "the space race"....NASA was all proud of itself
after spending (probably) millions of dollars to develop an ink pen that would write in zero gravity. Reporters asked a (then) Soviet (don't remember if it was an engineer or who) what they thought of this brilliant achievement by the Americans to develop an INK pen that works in zero gravity. The Soviet just shrugged and said...so, we just use pencil.
Same here...a somewhat simple idea of silencing the camera sound doesn't need to have a hack for the software, just turn down the speaker before launching the camera....BRILLIANT!
Confirmed. No camera sound with media volume 0. I'm using rooted stock ROM 2.3.6 KL3.
Thanks muchly for the tip!!!
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Apple should be sued into oblivion then...switching the silent makes the camera silent worldwide.
Who cares anyway? If you are a creep trying to snap a shot of some chick's ass you will get caught eventually. Wish you luck with that.
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Apple should be sued into oblivion then...switching the silent makes the camera silent worldwide.
Who cares anyway? If you are a creep trying to snap a shot of some chick's ass you will get caught eventually. Wish you luck with that.
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haha, its kind of hard to take sneaky photo's of people with a phone that has a screen like "Franks 2000' TV " ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glFVXpz_abQ
anakin1979 said:
no camera artificial shutter sounds for me if the phone is on silent, and i am on an unrooted phone on 2.3.6. and no need for me to turn the media volume down. am i the only one?
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Works similarly for me too.
p51d007 said:
Kind of reminds me back during "the space race"....NASA was all proud of itself
after spending (probably) millions of dollars to develop an ink pen that would write in zero gravity. Reporters asked a (then) Soviet (don't remember if it was an engineer or who) what they thought of this brilliant achievement by the Americans to develop an INK pen that works in zero gravity. The Soviet just shrugged and said...so, we just use pencil.
Same here...a somewhat simple idea of silencing the camera sound doesn't need to have a hack for the software, just turn down the speaker before launching the camera....BRILLIANT!
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i also on KL7, but it wont work for me. Any suggestion?
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I just bought my HD7 and the speaker is very low and i have it on level 30.
Is there any way of making it more loud??
Please for all the help that i can get.
Hi that is an issue with the HD7 and we are hoping MS will fix the issue with the future updates
You might have also noticed the camera is rubbish for long distance shots as well
and that you cant add a custom ringtone.
so stay put and hope they update our software quickly
avensakias said:
I just bought my HD7 and the speaker is very low and i have it on level 30.
Is there any way of making it more loud??
Please for all the help that i can get.
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The phone is bull****. Its a hardware limitation i guess. The camera sucks too..
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The phone is bull****. Its a hardware limitation i guess. The camera sucks too..
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so.....many.......replies.....must.....contain.....self....
To the original poster, what Hardware Revision is your phone? Mine is version 0002 and I find the speaker to be quite loud for ringing, notifications, and music. For Netflix, the volume is very low.
To the other posters... if your only contribution to this forum is stuff like "this phone is rubbish," please leave.
same with mine ringtones alerts and music sound is very low but playing games like bejewelled and metro blocks in game sounds and music is very very loud I have to turn it down.
Same issue here. One way around it is to use Chevron ringtone installer to get your own tunes onto the phone (works for alarms and alerts) but before you do use Audacity t increase the sound on the tune before converting to the correct format for the phone. I have done this and now my ringtone,alarms and alerts are plenty loud enough for noisy environments.
i used all the above.
To be exact on the games only the sound is loud..
The ringing of all the sounds that i tested is too low..
i cant ever hear it when its in my pocket and it rings..!!
I hope the ota update that is on its way, should fix the registry key that does all that.
lets hope , it is very low
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Patience my friend...these idiots just speak out of ignorance...
I also hate the low ringtone volume. How can it be that games are smashing your ears while music don´t??? Please someone help.
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I also hate the low ringtone volume. How can it be that games are smashing your ears while music don´t??? Please someone help.
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i think this is a software bug of Microsoft .
I hope they will repair this absurd bug on the future upgrade , because at this moment is impossible to hear the sms tone and call tone
Why haven't you guys installed the HTC Sound Enhancer? Works awesome for me very load!
DJ Lu said:
Why haven't you guys installed the HTC Sound Enhancer? Works awesome for me very load!
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Actually the volume is the same,l do not know what set up are You using but l test all 3 preset and volume is same. But still for all others if you have on your hd7 installed custom ringtones you can make this ringtones (edit the ringtone) in some app for editing music,and play with equalizers so you can have louder tones. Still my opinion is that hd7 has some software limitations-volume simple must be louder-common how can we hear phone in pockets or handy bags. New Nokia phones are much much loader so...HTC do SOMETHING!
also the speaker volume is maximum 10 in Hd7 is this the same for all the devices?
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Actually the volume is the same,l do not know what set up are You using but l test all 3 preset and volume is same. But still for all others if you have on your hd7 installed custom ringtones you can make this ringtones (edit the ringtone) in some app for editing music,and play with equalizers so you can have louder tones. Still my opinion is that hd7 has some software limitations-volume simple must be louder-common how can we hear phone in pockets or handy bags. New Nokia phones are much much loader so...HTC do SOMETHING!
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I have already installed even the rom 1.60.401.01 since my phone had 1.23.401.01 when i bought it, i made the update to the build 7008 via zune but nothing changed.
I installed also HTC Sound Enhancer but the increase was about 2% louder than before enabling the Dolby option since SRS did nothing at all.
I hope that Microsoft & HTC with solve that problem on the upcoming NoDo Update..
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also the speaker volume is maximum 10 in Hd7 is this the same for all the devices?
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That's In-Call volume mate. See HERE
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Patience my friend...these idiots just speak out of ignorance...
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Just put your phone inside your pocket and walk on the street at some big cities like LA, or San Francisco, i bet nothing could warn you about the phone except the vibration of the phone itself.
The sound from outside world are so many and come to your ear the same time, how could you expect to hear your favorite ringtone from your god **** phone inside your pocket? Bring the external speaker and stick it on your ears, you will hear it!
I don't know about you guys phone, i can hear my ringtone from my HD7 while i am talking to friend at the hall.
When i used a TPU material case (harder than silicon but more flexible than hard plastic case) seems to absorb sound leakage from phone build (HD7 has 'flimsy' batter case). Immediately after installing, sounds like ringtones ard keyboard tapping sounds have improved noticeably. Hopefully this gives u a temp fix...
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When i used a TPU material case (harder than silicon but more flexible than hard plastic case) seems to absorb sound leakage from phone build (HD7 has 'flimsy' batter case). Immediately after installing, sounds like ringtones ard keyboard tapping sounds have improved noticeably. Hopefully this gives u a temp fix...
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my case seems to make it a lil louder also
I have read some other sources saying that there is no way to turn off the shutter sound when taking pic with my Note (i am not going to root my baby). Can anybody confirm or advise a solution. Thx!
Turn off shutter sound
happyuser said:
I have read some other sources saying that there is no way to turn off the shutter sound when taking pic with my Note (i am not going to root my baby). Can anybody confirm or advise a solution. Thx!
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AFAIK you can only do it by rooting (and why wouldn't you want to?), and delete /system/media/audio/ui/Shutter_01.ogg or add in a quieter, less obnoxious sound.
I am running LB1 PowerTweaked, which thankfully has a quieter AutoFocus sound, because that is the one Camera sound that is not in the /system/media/audio/ui directory. I renamed Shutter_01.ogg to Shutter_01.ogg.bak, and did the same to Cam_Start.ogg and Cam_Stop.ogg. Blissful quiet!
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thanks! it seems that the only way is to root....
sorry for positing in the wrong forum.
The manual workaround method for the odd shots you need stealth for would be to switch the Note to silent mode before using the camera.
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In my case, the shutter sound still exist even i switch my phone to silent mode.....
happyuser said:
In my case, the shutter sound still exist even i switch my phone to silent mode.....
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That's a shame
There might be differences in firmware versions as although I do have root access, I'm using stock LB1 firmware released for Germany (one of the latest official firmwares). Turning my sound mode to silent completely switches off all the camera sounds, even the autofocus sound.
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That's a shame
There might be differences in firmware versions as although I do have root access, I'm using stock LB1 firmware released for Germany (one of the latest official firmwares). Turning my sound mode to silent completely switches off all the camera sounds, even the autofocus sound.
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Ditto.
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I'm sure you heard about those click sounds when you shake your device which could be the autofocus.
But I don't think this is normal, is it:
(It is a 10sec Video recorded WITH my N4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG8sesskCYA&feature
/e How the hell does the youtube tag work?
those quiet *click*s you hear everytime it "swaps over" (don't know how to say it) - that comes from inside the phone.
Anyone else have the same "problem"? :/
rest0ck
Yeah, it's the processor fans
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LOL theres no fan in your phone!
i believe those clicks would be your accelerometer.
I was watching a video earlier today (posted somewhere on the forum), and I believe it's the little piston thingy you push with the SIM ejection tool moving around. If you eject your SIM and stuff the section a little, you'll notice the rattle go away. Also, if you hold that side of the phone firmly, you should notice the rattling noise lowers.
I don't let it bother me though. I don't intend on rapidly moving my phone or shaking it a lot.
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LOL theres no fan in your phone!
i believe those clicks would be your accelerometer.
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Accelerometers now work by measuring the movements of atoms. The chip doesn't produce any audible vibrations unless it falls of the PCB.
Could be a component from the vibrator, I heard they used a linear type in this phone as opposed to the common rotation style.
Its either the sim or your loose volume rockers (they rattle too..haha).
Thanks for your answers.
I just put out my sim card and it is a little bit loose inside the holder but that doesn't produce those sounds. Also it is not the volume rocker or the on off button ..
And this is no "rapidly moving" like you see in the video .. its pretty slightly.
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It's the volume buttons sliding. Notice that when the Nexus 4 is in a case it doesn't make those noises?
Why do I get the feeling a lot of people are actually trying their absolute hardest to find any fault with their devices? Just use the damn thing and stop whining about it. First we get people asking if they should RMA rev.10s just because they're rev.10s and now this. This site should be renamed XDA Whingers...
There s something moving inside my N4...
Sorry cannot stop picturing the Alien movie in my mind
I can hold the volume rocker while moving my phone and the sounds still appear.
@Azurael: I just want to make sure if my device is damaged or not. If you don't care, just ..dont post in here. Thanks.
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Why do I get the feeling a lot of people are actually trying their absolute hardest to find any fault with their devices? Just use the damn thing and stop whining about it. First we get people asking if they should RMA rev.10s just because they're rev.10s and now this. This site should be renamed XDA Whingers...
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He just wanted to know what it is, he never said that he wants to RMA it or something like that.
Whining about something isn't the same as trying to find out what it is.
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I'm sure you heard about those click sounds when you shake your device which could be the autofocus.
But I don't think this is normal, is it:
(It is a 10sec Video recorded WITH my N4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG8sesskCYA&feature
/e How the hell does the youtube tag work?
those quiet *click*s you hear everytime it "swaps over" (don't know how to say it) - that comes from inside the phone.
Anyone else have the same "problem"? :/
rest0ck
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It's the little thing you have to push in order to eject the SIM card. I actually ripped my phone open to get to the source of the problem.
It's not easy to tell but it seems like the direction (where the sound comes from) could really be the SIM Card .. so it's normal that those sounds even appear when the sim card holder isn't even in the phone?
I have this problem and this bothers me a lot. It seems that the noise comes from the processor or camera area. Does someone has fixed it.
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The fix is very simple. Just attach a small peace of tape on the left side of sim card holder. The noise will disapear.
I have it too.
I hear the same 'click' sound from my phone too. And it seems it comes from the 'camera' area.
I can reproduce the 'click' sound without even moving the phone. What I do is:
Go to the 'camera' (Stock)
Turn on 'flash' from settings
Click a picture
Swipe from right to open that image and click the image to center it.
The 'click' sound will be produced. Sometimes there are two 'click' sounds and my phone reboots.
Don't know why this happens but it bugs me quite a bit.
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I hear the same 'click' sound from my phone too. And it seems it comes from the 'camera' area.
I can reproduce the 'click' sound without even moving the phone. What I do is:
Go to the 'camera' (Stock)
Turn on 'flash' from settings
Click a picture
Swipe from right to open that image and click the image to center it.
The 'click' sound will be produced. Sometimes there are two 'click' sounds and my phone reboots.
Don't know why this happens but it bugs me quite a bit.
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I thought I was the only with this problem. Its good to know I'm not the only with this issue. I think its has to do with the camera, I hate when it reboots.
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It's the auto-focus camera lens. All auto-focus cameras on phones do it.
Does anyone know how to turn off the increasing volume for the ringtone, i just want it full at first ring
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Does anyone know how to turn off the increasing volume for the ringtone, i just want it full at first ring
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Im curious about this too. I've noticed that it "increases" with everything though; notifications, alarms and even playing youtube videos. I wonder if this is a bug to be fixed at some point.
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Im curious about this too. I've noticed that it "increases" with everything though; notifications, alarms and even playing youtube videos. I wonder if this is a bug to be fixed at some point.
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I don't think it's a bug. It is standard behavior on Moto phones. Although it annoys me too.
wvcadle said:
I don't think it's a bug. It is standard behavior on Moto phones. Although it annoys me too.
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Really? Granted, I havent had a Moto phone since the original Atrix but I dont remember it happening on that. I dont necessarily care that it increases on ringtones or alarms, its mostly for maybe a half second. The problem is notification tones that are about half a second long that i dont hear.
I love this feature, I hate sudden loud ringtone.
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I love this feature, I hate sudden loud ringtone.
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I agree, I kinda like this feature too. Just some food for thought guys - the speakers on this phone are pretty powerful. The gradual escalating volume might be a measure to ensure that the speakers don't blow out.
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I too want first ring to be at the setting I choose, not gradual.
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I agree, I kinda like this feature too. Just some food for thought guys - the speakers on this phone are pretty powerful. The gradual escalating volume might be a measure to ensure that the speakers don't blow out.
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If saving the speakers from blowing might be reason this is done, then why isn't it applied to alarms, youtube etc?
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If saving the speakers from blowing might be reason this is done, then why isn't it applied to alarms, youtube etc?
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I'm not sure, that's a pretty good question. I might be wrong, but maybe Google assumed that 1) YouTube videos are watched at a user-defined volume anyway, so why mess with it, and 2) there are apps that have volume escalation for alarms, and we'll install them if we want them.
Honestly, I have no idea. All I know it's that 1) there are many times when my ring tone volume was all the way up, and an incoming call would be a shock to me, when it started blaring, and 2) my girlfriend is loud as hell, so it's nice to have my phone controlling the initial volume of her voice, lol.
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Considering just about every app that has sound doesn't do this I doubt its to prevent anything.
Most phone besides moto have ascending ringtones etc. I'm sure there will be a way to get rid of it eventually
When the ringtone/alarm/notification starts, does anyone else have a brief, less than half second, slightly louder tone play? It almost sounds like a pop before my ringer starts to fade in, but you can hear it's the beginning of the tone, just slightly louder then it goes quiet, and fades in
Edit: just did a little testing, it doesn't always happen, it seems like I could force it if I opened a game (clash of clans) for a couple seconds, then stopped and locked the phone.. then when the ringer starts it does the brief less than half second at a med-low volume, then goes to low and starts ramping up. The next call the ringer behaves normally, starts at low and ramps up.
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When the ringtone/alarm/notification starts, does anyone else have a brief, less than half second, slightly louder tone play? It almost sounds like a pop before my ringer starts to fade in, but you can hear it's the beginning of the tone, just slightly louder then it goes quiet, and fades in
Edit: just did a little testing, it doesn't always happen, it seems like I could force it if I opened a game (clash of clans) for a couple seconds, then stopped and locked the phone.. then when the ringer starts it does the brief less than half second at a med-low volume, then goes to low and starts ramping up. The next call the ringer behaves normally, starts at low and ramps up.
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yes, i get that sometimes.
ok cool, just got the phone last Wed, and with some of the quality issues that have been popping up, I'm trying to rule out any defects before it's too late lol.. great phone so far, just a few weird quirks like this, hopefully they'll get them ironed out in a timely manner.
I don't mind it on my call ringtone, but it is really annoying with my facebook messenger or my text messages. It also doesn't help that if the notifications aren't full volume then I can't hear anything; because the front facing speakers are always up against my leg in my pocket.
Any word on a work around for this yet?
There is an app in the Play store called "disable increasing ring" and it works great
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There is an app in the Play store called "disable increasing ring" and it works great
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Tried it, not working on my Rooted, unlocked Nexus 6
Any devlopments? I cant stand this "feature" (mainly for alarms).
bump again. Would love to get rid of it. It even does a gradual volume increase when switching from handset to speakerphone on a call. And that's just silly.
Still no solution to this miserable "feature"? Drives me nuts.....
I just picked up a couple brand new Nexus 6 on a sweet deal (not the 6P, just the 6). My wife and I both use one now. We both noticed that when the earpiece volume is set to the lowest, someone near us can still hear the conversation. So, if my wife is talking to someone on her phone via the earpiece, I can hear that person talking when I am probably 3-5 feet away. Not at a speaker phone level, but clear enough to hear the entire conversation. Me, coming from a Nexus 5 and my wife coming from a Moto X, we didn't have this problem before.
Is there any way we can adjust it to not allow for this to happen anymore? What can one do when the lowest volume setting is still just a little too loud? We'd just like a little more privacy when using the phone during a call.
Thanks!
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. . . noticed that when the earpiece volume is set to the lowest, someone near us can still hear the conversation.
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Try the app 'Volume Control plus' from FirestormApps
NLBeev said:
Try the app 'Volume Control plus' from FirestormApps
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Thanks, I'll look into that, but was really hoping there was something that can be done without needing a 3rd party. I know older phones/OS would have some sort of enhanced privacy setting, which I can no longer find. I don't even know if that setting is what I think it is, but it just seems like there has to be some other way? Even the phone's lowest volume for ringtone is much louder than then Nexus 5's. I realize they are different phones with different manufacturers/hardware, but I guess I figured volume levels were the same or at least close.