So, as you all know, our Moto X has a pretty damn loud speaker.
I, however, am having a problem with mine. For example, I'll start up Pandora on max volume, and the music will be really loud, but shortly after starting playing, the volume will decrease, HOWEVER, the phone will still display max volume. This happens almost every time I use the speaker, whether it be for calls or music.
Is anyone else having this issue? I NEED a loud speaker that works. HTC One Play Edition is calling me...
Perhaps mine is defective.
*Oh, and my volume just increased and then decreased while on my desk, and I didn't even touch it.
Disregard. Turn out the phone is defective.
It literally just took a hot steamy $hit on me, and Motorola customer support confirmed it defective.
Unlocked Verizon Moto X 4.4.4. Just updated this morning and now after getting everything set up I'm trying to play a podcast and bluetooth volume levels are ridiculously low, even after maxing out the volume. Anyone else experience this? Anyone know of any fixes? Tried searching the general, q&a, and apps sections of the moto x forums and got nada and this wasnt an issue for me prior to the OTA update.
I have this problem on my bt headset I use for calls but not my bt headphones I use for music (the Moto s11 flex hd)
Been that way since launch for me though.
the headphone volume is definitely low imo. 4.4.4 was supposed to address that, as i remember seeing that in the changelog. however a quick google found this for the N5:
http://nexus5.wonderhowto.com/how-to/boost-headset-speaker-volumes-your-nexus-5-0154441/
I wonder if something similar can be accomplished for the X.
i constantly have to increase the volume past the "safe warning" message and i don't think it's entirely THAT loud.
Same problem
ballisticn8 said:
Unlocked Verizon Moto X 4.4.4. Just updated this morning and now after getting everything set up I'm trying to play a podcast and bluetooth volume levels are ridiculously low, even after maxing out the volume. Anyone else experience this? Anyone know of any fixes? Tried searching the general, q&a, and apps sections of the moto x forums and got nada and this wasnt an issue for me prior to the OTA update.
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I received 4.4.4 for my moto x today on Verizon. I got into my car and it automatically connected playing All Access. The volume was substantially low. Bringing the volume up to the level where I get the warning still produced a very low volume.
If I accept the warning and crank up the volume, it seems like the audio is louder yet piercing as if the amplification isn't as powerful as it was before the update.
Anyhow, the Bluetooth volume is definitely an issue for me post 4.4.4 update. You can mess with many things on my phone but please don't fudge up my audio!
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I received 4.4.4 for my moto x today on Verizon. I got into my car and it automatically connected playing All Access. The volume was substantially low. Bringing the volume up to the level where I get the warning still produced a very low volume.
If I accept the warning and crank up the volume, it seems like the audio is louder yet piercing as if the amplification isn't as powerful as it was before the update.
Anyhow, the Bluetooth volume is definitely an issue for me post 4.4.4 update. You can mess with many things on my phone but please don't fudge up my audio!
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sometimes its directly related to the BT device streaming the audio. i know that previous DROID models had issues with streaming at full volume over BT. often times people would back it down one notch to get consistent volume levels.
640k said:
sometimes its directly related to the BT device streaming the audio. i know that previous DROID models had issues with streaming at full volume over BT. often times people would back it down one notch to get consistent volume levels.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I have adjusted the volume on my moto x between the warning point and the max volume. There really is not much of a sweet spot.
In all scenarios here, My car stereo volume is constantly where it was before the 4.4.4 update.
1) I keep the moto x at the max volume BEFORE the warning. At this point, the output is significantly lower than it was.
2) I find a sweet spot near the maximum volume AFTER the warning. The audio definitely gets louder, but sounds as if I am driving the moto x amp too hard and the sound quality suffers.
I hope this makes sense.
I'm curious to know what happened to the BT driver with this update.
Viper4android?
dobbs3x said:
Viper4android?
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Unfortunately, I'm not rooted. If a hard reset is needed though, I may have to go that route.
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Unfortunately, I'm not rooted. If a hard reset is needed though, I may have to go that route.
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Then root it, if you can. Hard reset will do two things only, waste your time and give you some false hope in the process, that's all.
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Then root it, if you can. Hard reset will do two things only, waste your time and give you some false hope in the process, that's all.
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Will do. I'm really curious to know if this is isolated though.
Its hard to quantify. Unless you get a decibel meter and take a reading there is really no way for us to make a good comparison as every has different hearing abilities and different tolerances.
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Its hard to quantify. Unless you get a decibel meter and take a reading there is really no way for us to make a good comparison as every has different hearing abilities and different tolerances.
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There's really no way I can A-B this since I can't roll back to the previous version. I wish I could.
Trust me when I say that there is nothing subtle about the difference in volume here. It's night/day.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I have adjusted the volume on my moto x between the warning point and the max volume. There really is not much of a sweet spot.
In all scenarios here, My car stereo volume is constantly where it was before the 4.4.4 update.
1) I keep the moto x at the max volume BEFORE the warning. At this point, the output is significantly lower than it was.
2) I find a sweet spot near the maximum volume AFTER the warning. The audio definitely gets louder, but sounds as if I am driving the moto x amp too hard and the sound quality suffers.
I hope this makes sense.
I'm curious to know what happened to the BT driver with this update.
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BT audio has "nothing" to do with the audio amp within the moto x. it's ENTIRELY up to your BT device to decide how to handle the audio. BT is not analog and there's no volume setting for digital data. it's all programmatic.
Here is what happened to me:
I was sitting at my desk at work listening to a Joe Rogan podcast over bluetooth, three clicks down from full volume using a jawbone era on stock vzw 4.4.2 software, rooted, unlocked, only mods used were gravity box and mototether. VZW ota file downloaded so I paused my podcast, booted into fastboot, flashed stock recovery, applied ota update. Rebooted back into fastboot, flashed twrp recovery, rebooted back into device. Restarted podcast, bluetooth volume was so noticeably quieter that even turning volume up to max seemed quieter than three clicks down prior to 4.4.4 update.
Obviously I didnt sit down and take decibel readings to justify and measure the difference but my jawbone era with media on max bluetooth volume hurt my ear, I always had to turn the volume down. Now max volume is not enough in some louder environments. This only seems to effect media though, not phone calls...
My bluetooth volume was perfect before upgrading to 4.4.4 today. Now even in max is extremely low.
Edit: seems my headset volume no longer controls the Android bluetooth volume. I cranked that up and now it's good
Low bluetooth audio volume fix
ballisticn8 said:
Unlocked Verizon Moto X 4.4.4. Just updated this morning and now after getting everything set up I'm trying to play a podcast and bluetooth volume levels are ridiculously low, even after maxing out the volume. Anyone else experience this? Anyone know of any fixes? Tried searching the general, q&a, and apps sections of the moto x forums and got nada and this wasnt an issue for me prior to the OTA update.
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VIPER4Android fixed the bluetooth audio/music low volume problem. Here is how I got VIPER4Android to work properly: 1. Install iRoot on my laptop. 2. Connect phone to laptop using usb cable and ROOT it using iRoot. 3. Install SuperSU app on phone. 4. Install BusyBox on phone. 5. Install VIPER4Android on phone. On music player on phone, turn off all special effects and equalizer. Let VIPER manage all sound quality settings. It will not work well if you have two EQs competing against each other. You will have to play around with VIPER to get the quality that sounds the best.
Just got my Moto X today and I notice the in call volume to be low. Volume is at max and I still have a hard time hearing calls. Anyone else experiencing this or know of a fix?
Well I swapped out phones and the new Moto X seems better although not as loud as my previous Samsung devices. Guess I'll adjust.
I noticed this happens sometimes on mine, and it happened on both handsets I've received (exchanged my first handset for another one through Moto Maker). Will poke around my settings and see if there's something we're missing...
Just got a new Moto G 2gen 4G. Very nice phone.
However, it has a noticeable annoyance. After a sound has been played, such as a keyboard press, or locking/unlocking the phone, a hiss can be heard in the speakers and after a second or two a popping/clicking sound occurs. It sounds like the audio circuitry is 'powered down'. With headphones, the behavior is the same, but hardly noticeable.
I have not noticed this with other phones before. My Nexus 7 however has the same problem on further inspection, but I hadn't noticed it before, probable because the speaker is located at the back of the tablet and the sound is a little quieter.
Is this normal? I have been researching the problem on the internet, but didn't come to a conclusion.
Any of you guys notice the same behavior? Or have a solution?
I had a Moto z play twice and haven't seen this issue and I can't seem to find anything about it. When I'm using the soundmod, if it is not dead (1%-100%) the mod is a lot quieter then the actual phone speaker. I tried going to the Moto mod settings and reset the mod which boosts the sound back to what it normally is for about 10 seconds before getting quiet again. If the soundmod is dead and is just using my phone battery, it sounds loud like it normally would. I never noticed this problem on my regular z3 (not play) or on the original z play. Wonder if anyone else has this issue and if they have a solition
With the JBL app, my speaker was distorted. I thought it was broken out of the box, but I uninstalled the app and bingo, works as it should. But it isn't very loud, I'm underwhelmed. If this isn't your issue my guess is you should return it
have you updated the mod software?
If it comes back with no update, I would suggest reverting the moto mods main app to the factory version, then checking for updates to the moto mod.