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[Q] Samsung sound issues

Whenever I'm in the gym on the treadmill, cross trainer or bike and have my music on, earphones attached, the sound disappears. It reduces to zero and as much as i try to increase the volume it just slips back to zero.

Are you using "adapt sound"? Try disabling it.

vicky517 said:
How increase the sound maximum?
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I haven't been able to find anything that makes a real difference.Boost Volume does make a change (if you turn all the equalizer bars all the way up), but not enough for me to easily understand Maps driving instructions in the car.
If you find anything other than an external amp that works, please share.

440bro said:
Are you using "adapt sound"? Try disabling it.
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It isn't enabled

Crazy, useless Bluetooth on new device?

I just got a 128 GB OnePlus 3T a few days ago to replace a dead Nexus 6P. So far I'm very happy with the phone (performance, screen, etc, camera is almost as good, blah blah) except one thing.
My bluetooth is completely nuts. Sometimes I will turn it on via Settings or Quick Settings and it will not turn on at all (the slider moves to the right but stays greyed out, then moves back to the left). Other times I am "luckier" and it switches on and begins scanning, and I can see devices in the area. I pair to a speaker dock via NFC or my wireless headphones via tapping on them and the connection is established, you can hear the speakers go "hey something connected".
So that's all fine. But then you start playing music. About 40-60 seconds in it will skip, crackle, or pause the music entirely. Sometimes the device makes its disconnect noise immediately followed by its reconnect noise. At this point pressing 'play' again starts the cycle over again, usually, or sometimes it will just refuse to "talk to" anything any more until you reboot the phone.
The phone came with OOS 3.5.4 out of the box and immediately got an OTA to 4.1.1. I was suspect about the upgrade procedure and sighed and did a full reset and re-flashed the full 4.1.1 image using adb sideload, logged back in, did the barest of minimum updates to the Google apps to make it stop complaining, and then tried music again. More skipping and pausing. My headphones have a volume up/down key on them, pressing that pretty much immediately results in a disconnect.
It's like the AVRCP (command) bluetooth protocol is "fighting" the A2DP audio stream protocol? It doesn't make any sense. This would also explain why my car audio has NEVER worked, because my head unit uses AVRCP to read track names and my headphones and speaker dock don't have any sort of screen to speak of.
I want to love this phone and don't want to pay double for a similar Pixel, but I might just have to return it if it's effectively useless at one of the main things I have a phone for! :crying:

Hmmm...My Bluetooth connection never have that issues. I used Bluetooth headphones and my car head unit. Running oos 4.1.1 as well.

Try dirty flashing your ROM, there might be something wrong with the drivers. Bluetooth commands (volume, pause, voice assistant, skip, etc.) work find on my headset, I don't believe its a compatibility issue.
If that fails, it might be a hardware defect?

I don't have problems with Bluetooth im using sony wireless earphones everyday. Try reformat the phone

Hi!
Android Nougat has heavy issues regarding bluetooth connectivity. If you Google it you will see...
I have the very same Problems like you with my car radio...
This must be finally adressed by Google.

Assassin1985 said:
Hi!
Android Nougat has heavy issues regarding bluetooth connectivity. If you Google it you will see...
I have the very same Problems like you with my car radio...
This must be finally adressed by Google.
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Huh? Must be an compatability issue between the BT device and your phone. I have 6 active BT devices I use all the time with this phone and my tablet. Car stereo, fitnessband, speakers and inear plugs.
Only issue I sometimes face is the 'stuck in connecting to last used device' where BT needs to be turned off and on again. Wouldn't call it a heavy issue.

bluetooth perfect here. better than my lg g3 that i had previous.

So, more info. If 2.4 GHz WiFi is active in ANY WAY, the bluetooth goes nuts. AVRCP (bidirectional commands) make it worse. Putting the phone in airplane mode to disable the "ambient" wifi location scanning and such, then turning bluetooth on manually and playing some downloaded music, seems to work fine. Switch the WiFi on though (even though my access point is 5 GHz), bam down the toilet. Ugh.
I did a complete reset and flashed OOS 4.1.1 from adb, no improvement. I'm trying the Open Beta 4 right now but I doubt it will be any better.

Did you turn off the scanning feature?

Happens to me like once every 3 days. I usually reboot by then

evilspoons said:
I just got a 128 GB OnePlus 3T a few days ago to replace a dead Nexus 6P. So far I'm very happy with the phone (performance, screen, etc, camera is almost as good, blah blah) except one thing.
My bluetooth is completely nuts. Sometimes I will turn it on via Settings or Quick Settings and it will not turn on at all (the slider moves to the right but stays greyed out, then moves back to the left). Other times I am "luckier" and it switches on and begins scanning, and I can see devices in the area. I pair to a speaker dock via NFC or my wireless headphones via tapping on them and the connection is established, you can hear the speakers go "hey something connected".
So that's all fine. But then you start playing music. About 40-60 seconds in it will skip, crackle, or pause the music entirely. Sometimes the device makes its disconnect noise immediately followed by its reconnect noise. At this point pressing 'play' again starts the cycle over again, usually, or sometimes it will just refuse to "talk to" anything any more until you reboot the phone.
The phone came with OOS 3.5.4 out of the box and immediately got an OTA to 4.1.1. I was suspect about the upgrade procedure and sighed and did a full reset and re-flashed the full 4.1.1 image using adb sideload, logged back in, did the barest of minimum updates to the Google apps to make it stop complaining, and then tried music again. More skipping and pausing. My headphones have a volume up/down key on them, pressing that pretty much immediately results in a disconnect.
It's like the AVRCP (command) bluetooth protocol is "fighting" the A2DP audio stream protocol? It doesn't make any sense. This would also explain why my car audio has NEVER worked, because my head unit uses AVRCP to read track names and my headphones and speaker dock don't have any sort of screen to speak of.
I want to love this phone and don't want to pay double for a similar Pixel, but I might just have to return it if it's effectively useless at one of the main things I have a phone for! :crying:
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Hi, I have the exact same phone and been having stuttering performance with Bluetooth and Sony MDR-X330BT and worked fine with the 1+ 3. I decided to tell the phone to forget the headphones and start afresh; big mistake headphones kept refusing to pair. I noticed they have the NFC symbol on one of the earpads so I enabled NFC and used app I had downloaded a while back, 'Tap-and-Pair' that did not work either. I did a search today and found a great app that worked - 'NFC Easy Connect' from the Play Store. Now all I need is stable connection from car system which appeared to be tied in with length of screen life before going to sleep but think it may be faulty Twingo as been on the car forum and found others with similar issues but different smartphone to the 1+ 3T. Hope this helps.

Heads up to Bluetooth audio volume decrease after first few seconds of song

Found a solution to something that was driving me crazy so I thought it may be helpful to share.
If you use bluetooth headphones/speakers like me and a song starts loud and clear but volume decreases after first few seconds you need to reattach the dongle with regular wired earphones and turn the "Enable Audio Tuner" option off.
When I first got the phone I tried regular earphones with the dongle and played around with the equalizer under "Audio Tuner". But I left that option ON before I took the earphones off. When you use bluetooth that option is greyed out so you cannot toggle. After trying a bunch of earphones and reading articles and trying to find hidden audio settings thinking "audio normalization" may be the culprit, I saw that even though greyed out, the slider was left on ON and I couldnt turn it on because I was on bluetooth.
So if it saves you several hours I'm happy to serve. Just keep it OFF if you are using bluetooth... :good:

crusht said:
Found a solution to something that was driving me crazy so I thought it may be helpful to share.
If you use bluetooth headphones/speakers like me and a song starts loud and clear but volume decreases after first few seconds you need to reattach the dongle with regular wired earphones and turn the "Enable Audio Tuner" option off.
When I first got the phone I tried regular earphones with the dongle and played around with the equalizer under "Audio Tuner". But I left that option ON before I took the earphones off. When you use bluetooth that option is greyed out so you cannot toggle. After trying a bunch of earphones and reading articles and trying to find hidden audio settings thinking "audio normalization" may be the culprit, I saw that even though greyed out, the slider was left on ON and I couldnt turn it on because I was on bluetooth.
So if it saves you several hours I'm happy to serve. Just keep it OFF if you are using bluetooth... :good:
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You know what's odd, tho (coming from a mate 10 pro where that type of setting was COMPLETELY off limits if not wired): i could use it whether wired or wirelessly, but little did i know Ms. Update would along come and with her the fun gone.

It is now (9.0.11) possible to toggle the Audio Tuner while on bluetooth, however i made a suggestion to take out dynamic normalization (the thing that is lowering the volume when the song gets loud) from the Audio Tuner and make it toggleable separately.
You can like this thread so it maybe will be spotted by OnePlus team.

RiDEN_1 said:
It is now (9.0.11) possible to toggle the Audio Tuner while on bluetooth, however i made a suggestion to take out dynamic normalization (the thing that is lowering the volume when the song gets loud) from the Audio Tuner and make it toggleable separately.
You can like this thread so it maybe will be spotted by OnePlus team.
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It's just fine on mine ,,,,,work good,,

media volume limiter and fingerprint unlock issues

The two issues I have run into are minor, but still annoying when it happens. I drive for a living and have my phone hooked to the truck radio with an aux cord. I have the volume on the phone all of the way up and the volume on the radio just up a little bit. I do this because there is static or distortion if I have it opposite of what I described. The first issue being that the media volume limiter will randomly activate even though it is turned off. I will be listening to music or an audio book and usually about 4-5 hours into my night the media volume limiter will activate for no apparent reason. This only happens when I listen to media for long periods of time. For example when listening to a 90 minute podcast at home it has never happened. Only when driving and listening for very long periods of time. Any ideas what causes this and what can I do to fix it.
The second issue I have is sometimes when my phone locks it will not allow me to unlock with my fingerprint and I must use my pin. When I try to use my fingerprint, it says to enter the pin to unlock. Happens about once a night. Any ideas on this one?
Also. It should be noted that I have the U1 model and I just downloaded the latest security patch last night.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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The second issue I have is sometimes when my phone locks it will not allow me to unlock with my fingerprint and I must use my pin. When I try to use my fingerprint, it says to enter the pin to unlock. Happens about once a night. Any ideas on this one?
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It requests a PIN sometimes as a security measure. If you unlock/lock your phone in a way that seems suspicious it locks it with a PIN. I find it normally triggers if I pick up and put down the phone multiple times in short succession. Maybe try turning off Secure Start. You can also disable the extra OK button press to have it accept your PIN instead of needing that extra step.
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- The phone likely assumes your output is a pair of headphones, and reduces volume as a safety feature when listening to media for long periods of time at max volume (that's what I'm assuming), since it damages your ears if you're outputting to a pair of headphones
- Many devices will require you to input your password/PIN/pattern every 24 hours for security.

sacnotsack said:
The two issues I have run into are minor, but still annoying when it happens. I drive for a living and have my phone hooked to the truck radio with an aux cord. I have the volume on the phone all of the way up and the volume on the radio just up a little bit. I do this because there is static or distortion if I have it opposite of what I described. The first issue being that the media volume limiter will randomly activate even though it is turned off. I will be listening to music or an audio book and usually about 4-5 hours into my night the media volume limiter will activate for no apparent reason. This only happens when I listen to media for long periods of time. For example when listening to a 90 minute podcast at home it has never happened. Only when driving and listening for very long periods of time. Any ideas what causes this and what can I do to fix it.
The second issue I have is sometimes when my phone locks it will not allow me to unlock with my fingerprint and I must use my pin. When I try to use my fingerprint, it says to enter the pin to unlock. Happens about once a night. Any ideas on this one?
Also. It should be noted that I have the U1 model and I just downloaded the latest security patch last night.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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you have ground issues. your aux cables might be too long or interference from other components is 'bleading' in the analog signal. either try to buy better quality or try a blue tooth dongle.
i know im not suggesting any fixes for the vol flux or unlock issues but just thought you should know.
having the phone set to max vol is mabe affecting the DAC on the phone in some bad way.
now back to the bluetooth suggestion, if you activate smart lock and add that dingle to the trusted device list, when ever your phone is connected to it, it won't lock itself. there is also a secure lock option where if the power button is pressed phone will also lock it self alongside closing the screen. be sure that is not active.

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you have ground issues. your aux cables might be too long or interference from other components is 'bleading' in the analog signal. either try to buy better quality or try a blue tooth dongle.
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good info here. Probably because it's a three year old aux cord I bought for a few bucks at a gas station.
bober10113 said:
i know im not suggesting any fixes for the vol flux or unlock issues but just thought you should know.
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bober10113 said:
having the phone set to max vol is mabe affecting the DAC on the phone in some bad way.
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good to know.
bober10113 said:
back to the bluetooth suggestion, if you activate smart lock and add that dingle to the trusted device list, when ever your phone is connected to it, it won't lock itself. there is also a secure lock option where if the power button is pressed phone will also lock it self alongside closing the screen. be sure that is not active.
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yeah I made sure that secure lock setting with power button was not active.

Thank you all for the responses. Lots of great info. Going to start off by getting a better quality aux cord and drop the phone volume a little and see if that helps.

Youtube Music suddenly runs without any interaction

Hello everybody,
First of all : Happy new year !
I own a Pixel 4 XL running a stock ROM with the bootloader still locked (I actually don't flash my phones anymore since I'm a team Pixel member haha). I use Android Auto very often because of my job.
Here is my problem : Since the december update (I guess) when I disconnect my phone from my car (using the cable & bluetooth), and put my phone in my pocket, the song from the last music suddenly runs very loud (max volume) even if I manually stop the music player beforehand. I tried a lot of things to stop this problem that seems very random : I cleared the YT Music cache, I disabled motion sense gestures, I even did a factory reset but the problem is still here.
I have to think every time I get out of my car to low the volume before this bug comes out..
Have you encountered that problem ? Do you guys have any idea that could help me ?
Thanks in advance !

Nobody can help me ?

I don't know, what does team Pixel say?
I don't think there is a solution and you aren't alone. I don't use YT for audio, but all music apps have the same pain in the ass behavior because they don't close automatically and most often you have to use "recents" to kill them off. This is the same with Spotify and Pandora. I find myself having to close AA itself sometimes because it stays open long after I've left the car. Sometimes 20 minutes later I look down and notice it is still running. If it can start up automatically when BT connects, or even when "hearing" driving noises like the engine, the reverse should be true. You turn the car off, unplug, exit the vehicle WHY does it continue running? Not one of the top 3 music apps will kill itself.

Thanks for answering !
I actually didn't know anyone else would have the same problem so this is reassuring me hah
Yes that is so annoying having your phone waking up with music with the volume toaximum whereas 10 minutes ago you thought you did everything to shut it up

I think I've had this happen literally once and I do use YouTube Music. Have never had it replicated. Is it still happening with the happened with the January update?

EeZeEpEe said:
I think I've had this happen literally once and I do use YouTube Music. Have never had it replicated. Is it still happening with the happened with the January update?
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Unfortunately, yes it still happens despite the last update. The only thing that seems help me avoiding the problem is when I manually stop the music in my car before unplugging the phone. Then, for safety I put the media volume to the minimum so if the music starts again in my pocket, I won't hear it.

!J2B! said:
Unfortunately, yes it still happens despite the last update. The only thing that seems help me avoiding the problem is when I manually stop the music in my car before unplugging the phone. Then, for safety I put the media volume to the minimum so if the music starts again in my pocket, I won't hear it.
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Interesting, so you're connected via Bluetooth to your car, turn off the ignition, and it'll still be playing? At that point, that's when my YouTube Music pauses.

EeZeEpEe said:
Interesting, so you're connected via Bluetooth to your car, turn off the ignition, and it'll still be playing? At that point, that's when my YouTube Music pauses.
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Actually no. I plug my P4XL to my car through USB then it connects via Bluetooth and Android Auto runs on my car's screen. Everything work fine. When I'm arrived, I unplug my phone, turn of the ignition and the sound normally stops and YTM pauses. But something like 10 minutes later, when I'm far from the car, the last song I was playing in the car restart through the phone with absolutely no interaction on it.

!J2B! said:
Actually no. I plug my P4XL to my car through USB then it connects via Bluetooth and Android Auto runs on my car's screen. Everything work fine. When I'm arrived, I unplug my phone, turn of the ignition and the sound normally stops and YTM pauses. But something like 10 minutes later, when I'm far from the car, the last song I was playing in the car restart through the phone with absolutely no interaction on it.
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Ah okay. Thanks for the clarification. Yeah I use Android Auto just on my phone.

!J2B! said:
Thanks for answering !
I actually didn't know anyone else would have the same problem so this is reassuring me hah
Yes that is so annoying having your phone waking up with music with the volume toaximum whereas 10 minutes ago you thought you did everything to shut it up
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I have a similar problem. I drive a lot throughout the day and Stream SiriusXM on my Phone through the BT on my work van. Very often, I get out and within an unspecified period of time, Sirius will start playing, full volume for no reason. It's as annoying as the Google Assistant suddenly responding to something I said without me using the OK Google prompt.
The fix is to close Sirius and swipe away the player controls in the status bar dropdown

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I have a similar problem. I drive a lot throughout the day and Stream SiriusXM on my Phone through the BT on my work van. Very often, I get out and within an unspecified period of time, Sirius will start playing, full volume for no reason. It's as annoying as the Google Assistant suddenly responding to something I said without me using the OK Google prompt.
The fix is to close Sirius and swipe away the player controls in the status bar dropdown
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Thanks for your feedback ! I don't have the Google Assistant problem you have but the exact same problem for the media. So it's not due to YT Music or Sirius. It's an overall media problem.
Unfortunately, I can't close the app because when I unplug the phone, YouTube Music isn't even open. And swiping right the player controls doesn't seem to work.
The only thing that seems to work is to stop the stream through Android Auto before turning off the engine and unplugging. But I have to think every time I leave my car

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Thanks for your feedback ! I don't have the Google Assistant problem you have but the exact same problem for the media. So it's not due to YT Music or Sirius. It's an overall media problem.
Unfortunately, I can't close the app because when I unplug the phone, YouTube Music isn't even open. And swiping right the player controls doesn't seem to work.
The only thing that seems to work is to stop the stream through Android Auto before turning off the engine and unplugging. But I have to think every time I leave my car
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I haven't tried stopping it before I turn off the van, but that's an idea. I think when I turn off the engine, it pauses the stream on the device, sure, but what causes it to just start playing again??
TBH, that and the random dead spots around the edges of my phone since Android 11, I'm getting a little aggravated.

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I haven't tried stopping it before I turn off the van, but that's an idea. I think when I turn off the engine, it pauses the stream on the device, sure, but what causes it to just start playing again??
TBH, that and the random dead spots around the edges of my phone since Android 11, I'm getting a little aggravated.
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I absolutely don't know what causes it to start the music again. But closing it before turning off the engine and then force closing the streaming app does help. That way, the phone has nothing to turn back on
Regarding the dead spots since the update I don't have this problem... Yet. But yeah, Android 11 is one of the worst major update the past few years. Hope they will fix these problems soon.

IsaacDavidson said:
Have you tried to write them in customer support? I think that it is a system bug
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Yes I already tried but the support didn't even seem to understand the real problem. We were speaking in my native language though. Seems like french support sucks