[Q] My headphone output suddenly and strangely weakened by half - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was playing yesterday geometry dash with my headphones (because the music is so good!) on my Samsung galaxy s3 mini value edition (i8200) and suddenly, without any interaction, the music weakened by half - but the output, so when I press vol+, hasn't changed.
Therefore when my volume is maximum, I can scarcely hear the music. That's the first time. What I tried:
* rebooting. Didn't change anything
* removing almost all xposed module.
* changing volume steps from 15 to 30 in gravitybox
I have rooted the device and my superuser app are Kinguser and SuperUser. Help me please

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[Q] Loudspeaker shuts off when too loud (Samsung Galaxy Note n7000)

Hi guys!
Few weeks ago my loudspeaker started to fail.
It happens when the sound gets too loud (usually more than 75% of the volume bar).
I can hear a brief click sound and then silence.
When this happens I have to stop the sound, usually by leaving the running app and turning the volume down. When I hit the volume threshold it happens again.
I tried resetting the phone, flashed other roms but the problem persisted (I am on Dirty Unicorns V6 from 02/02/2014).
Then suddenly, after few days speaker started working fine again, full volume bar and music buzzing. But after few days of happiness the speaker started shutting itself off again.
If I want to listen to anything loud I have to use and external speaker, both mini jack and bluetooth work fine on full volume bar.
Where is the problem.
Could that be a hardware issue?
Please help.

[Q] One volume bar for all apps - can this be made?

I am filled with red hot rage whenever I switch apps which use sound (music player, video player, game) and the volume is different. For example, I was listening to music on max volume with my headphones on this morning while walking to work. At work right now I'm testing apps with the volume all the way down so I don't bug my colleagues, but in one of the tests I needed sound. So I plug in my headphones, the music player kicks in and it's played at max volume. I have the music player set to autostart when I plug in headphones for other reasons, but why doesn't it take on the volume I've just set? Why does it need it' own volume setting?
Is it possible to have a module which just uses one volume setting for all apps? You lower the volume to 50% in MX player, it stays on 50% in Poweramp, Trials, Elevate or any other app.
AFAIK, this is not a standard Android behavior. Looks like your player app is trying to remember the last volume
setting it was playing with to later use it when it starts again. Try taking it up with the app developer.
If that's the case, there should at least be an option within app for such behavior.
It's been my experience that if you have the volume ALL the way down (vibrate), plugging in the headphones will turn the volume up. If you just have your volume low but not all the way down, plugging in the headphones won't change the volume. That's just anecdotal, though, so maybe I'm wrong. Is that consistent with what you're experiencing?

Have we figured out how to eliminate volume warning yet?

Not only the volume warning but I'd also like to figure out how to have my all of my bluetooth devices not go down in volume when I'm playing music just to make the stupid notification sound or text sound or charger plug in sound. Like every time I plug in the charger it seems like a 4 second pause in music just to make the stupid noise.
Same here
I can live with the volume warning -- it's the reduced volume via bluetooth and plugin headsets that's driving me crazy. Galaxy S6, and I could swear it was working okay for a while, then the volume just dropped off via bluetooth. Plugged in my favorite headset and same problem. Maybe I'm wrong about that part: my old LG 41C delivers several times the volume, and this is totally unacceptable. Anybody know a fix?

[Automate] Alarms on speakers with headphones plugged in - with SoundAbout

Hi everyone,
I recently installed a new Marshmallow-based ROM, replacing a Lollipop-based one, and for some reason, alarms would now play through headphones if some are plugged in instead of forcing sound to speakers. Which can be annoying if you are used to falling asleep listening to music through headphones: those earplugs make it a nasty habit to fall off overnight...
So, I did some research and stumbled upon this post by @pzayx: How to get alarms/notifications in speaker if headphones plugged in.
I did something quite similar using the app Automate instead of Tasker. Automate has the particularity to use flowcharts for automating tasks.
You can find it here: Automate for Android - Alarm on speaker with headphones plugged in
Basically, this "flow" allows morning alarms to be played on speaker when headphones are plugged in.
This is done with the app SoundAbout, which allows rerouting audio flows.
At 6:30 AM (check wake time and time zone!):
1. Starts SoundAbout if headphones are plugged, so that media audio is rerouted to speaker
2. Kills SoundAbout (and its services) when headphones get unplugged, so that audio routing gets back to normal
Pre-requisites:
- Phone must be ROOTED (for Automate to be able to kill background apps and services)
- Install the SoundAbout app
- DO NOT grant notification access to the SA Notification Listener service, as it prevents the app and its services to be properly killed
- IMPORTANT: in SoundAbout, under "Media audio", check "Speaker"
So far so good, my alarms went off on speakers every morning ^^
Feel free to give it a feedback!
PS: I hope this post isn't off-topic, as it uses Automate instead of Tasker. But, eh, it's automation too

volume steps to big / media volume sync off?

I have a sony z3c with a broken microphone. So I thought, I can use this great phone as an music-, podcast- and audiobook-player. Just ike the Sony NW A100.
But when I connect a bluetooth speaker or headphone to that device there are only 15 steps to increase or decrease the volume. And the lowest volume possible is way to loud to listen podcast late at night on my JBL go 1 or 2. Also the volumechange between two steps is to heavy.
Normaly I use my Samsung Galaxy S8 to play audiofiles. There are also only 15 Steps to change the volume. But I can change “media volume sync” in the bluetooth advanced settings to change the volume of the smartphone and the speaker separately, which fixed my problem. On some sony smartphones in the developer options you can toggle "Disable absolut volume", but on my z3c this option is nowhere to be found.
But that’s not possible on the z3c. I tried apps like “Precise Volume“, some tweaks in the Xposed framework and ViPER4Android. Even some custom rom. But nothing worked.
With some tweaks or ViPER4 Android I could get the volume lower (by reduce the output gain or lover all frequencies in the EQ). But then, when I change the volume, sometimes 2 or 3 steps remain on the same volume.
Does any of you have any Idea how to help my with my problem? It’s been two month now, that I tried everything to fix it, but till today, I don’t found any solution...
idk exactly, but maybe you can take this a hint for furter research on that topic:
https://github.com/LineageOS/androi...0d4157fc49face3baf479bde4e187cba5d?diff=split

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