It use to be that my bluetooth (jaw bone) would ignore the volume set on the phone. I've screwed something up by where now if I set the phone to vibrate (consequently turning sound off) the headset turns it's volume down as well. I played with the volume control on the phone and indeed when I move the slider up and down, the bluetooth volume is effect.
I played around with some registry setting I read here that could possibly enhance bluetooth audio quality, but now I've got it like this and it sucks.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Whenever my Bluetooth earphones are connected, my volume controls will either be controlled by my earphones and/or the phone which is how it's supposed to be. But most of the time, it'll be controlled by the phone and whenever I change the volume on my earphone, no icon or animation will appear and the volume won't change.
PlsHelpMePPL said:
Whenever my Bluetooth earphones are connected, my volume controls will either be controlled by my earphones and/or the phone which is how it's supposed to be. But most of the time, it'll be controlled by the phone and whenever I change the volume on my earphone, no icon or animation will appear and the volume won't change.
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I have found the solution, it is to clear the Bluetooth Cache in my apps setting.
I'm having a problem with bluetooth volume. When it's connected to the car stereo it turns the volume lower automatically whenever I try and raise it. It only happens with this phone and it's super annoying! I can't find any option to stop it. It's like an automatic audio limiter. So in the car my volume can go up to 30 but every time I pass 16 it goes back down really low and I have to fight it to see if it will stay. This happens every time I get in the car. I've seen something similar with headphones when you have them plugged in to certain phones. It would give you a warning and then you you turn it up. That, you were able to turn off in settings. Anyone know a fix?
jayb222 said:
I'm having a problem with bluetooth volume. When it's connected to the car stereo it turns the volume lower automatically whenever I try and raise it. It only happens with this phone and it's super annoying! I can't find any option to stop it. It's like an automatic audio limiter. So in the car my volume can go up to 30 but every time I pass 16 it goes back down really low and I have to fight it to see if it will stay. This happens every time I get in the car. I've seen something similar with headphones when you have them plugged in to certain phones. It would give you a warning and then you you turn it up. That, you were able to turn off in settings. Anyone know a fix?
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I think this has something to do with an option in the developer options:
try to "disable absolute volume" in the developer options and test.
some devices try to sync the volume to the phone and this doesnt work as intended. had this with my jbl charge 2+. after deactivating the absolute volume i can set the volumes separately. e.g. on phone 100% and on the jbl 50% and adjusting the volume on the jbl doesnt change the phone-settings.
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I think this has something to do with an option in the developer options:
try to "disable absolute volume" in the developer options and test.
some devices try to sync the volume to the phone and this doesnt work as intended. had this with my jbl charge 2+. after deactivating the absolute volume i can set the volumes separately. e.g. on phone 100% and on the jbl 50% and adjusting the volume on the jbl doesnt change the phone-settings.
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Just as an update, that developer option worked!!! All is well. Thanks!!!
No problem.
Hey guys since I've owned this phone I've had constant problems with the phone automatically adjusting the volume usually way down. When not on Bluetooth it's less pronounced but still occurs, I'll turn on a podcast and the volume will drop on the phone to like 20%.
On Bluetooth, the problem becomes an absolute nightmare. Every time I switch apps, or even open new browser tabs the volume settings appear on screen and randomly jump either up or down. If I'm moving quickly between apps or browsers, this can occur multiple times (up or down) within a 5 second window. Pretty much anytime I turn on audio I have to turn the volume all the way back up.
I've disabled Bluetooth absolute volume in dev settings but don't see any other fix for this.
Also, the problem is independent of player. Spotify does it, stitcher does it, VLC does it, and pi music does it. And even when I'm connected to Bluetooth and doing nothing audio related but just switching between apps and browser it will be jumping the volume levels around and popping up the audio slider on the right side of the screen.
What Bluetooth device are you using? Perhaps it uses touch controls and they're acting up
The issue is that I set my S21 Ultra to max volume for bluetooth devices. The phone remembers this setting during use. But after a reboot, the phone reduces the volume when playing over bluetooth.
When connecting to the very same bluetooth device after a reboot, the volume is very quiet.
This behavior seems to ignore the media volume limit settings, two different settings and both are ignored:
1) Turn off media volume limit
This doesn't work because the phone still reduces volume to bluetooth devices after a reboot, and continues to behave as though media volume limit is turned on.
2) Turn on media volume limit, but set custom volume limit to maximum
This doesn't work because the phone still reduces volume to bluetooth devices after a reboot, and continues to behave as though media volume limit is turned on.
I feel as though most people stopped paying attention to this bug because they don't reboot their phones very often, and the issue shows up after a reboot. However I prefer to reboot the phone every night at 3:00 am.
FYI this is particularly frustrating for use in a car, because I toggle between radio (listen to talk radio shows) and bluetooth (listen to podcast), so when you set the car's volume for listening to the radio, it's unusable when you toggle to bluetooth and can't hear the phone very well. For car radio and bluetooth to be heard at the same levels, the phone needs to have it's media volume set to max. But after a reboot the phone lowers the phone's media volume despite any settings in the media volume limit controls.
KingFatty said:
The issue is that I set my S21 Ultra to max volume for bluetooth devices. The phone remembers this setting during use. But after a reboot, the phone reduces the volume when playing over bluetooth.
When connecting to the very same bluetooth device after a reboot, the volume is very quiet.
This behavior seems to ignore the media volume limit settings, two different settings and both are ignored:
1) Turn off media volume limit
This doesn't work because the phone still reduces volume to bluetooth devices after a reboot, and continues to behave as though media volume limit is turned on.
2) Turn on media volume limit, but set custom volume limit to maximum
This doesn't work because the phone still reduces volume to bluetooth devices after a reboot, and continues to behave as though media volume limit is turned on.
I feel as though most people stopped paying attention to this bug because they don't reboot their phones very often, and the issue shows up after a reboot. However I prefer to reboot the phone every night at 3:00 am.
FYI this is particularly frustrating for use in a car, because I toggle between radio (listen to talk radio shows) and bluetooth (listen to podcast), so when you set the car's volume for listening to the radio, it's unusable when you toggle to bluetooth and can't hear the phone very well. For car radio and bluetooth to be heard at the same levels, the phone needs to have it's media volume set to max. But after a reboot the phone lowers the phone's media volume despite any settings in the media volume limit controls.
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Settings>System>Developer options>Disable absolute volume
Try turning that on. It might solve your problem.
Spaceminer said:
Settings>System>Developer options>Disable absolute volume
Try turning that on. It might solve your problem.
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Thanks. My car is from 2012 and it doesn't support absolute volume. I had the same issue with my Galaxy S9+ until Samsung finally patched it.
I think they are just including the same bug with the S21 Ultra, where settings for Media Volume Limit are ignored after a reboot, and the phone forces the volume setting lower.
Just to be sure, I've followed your suggestion and toggled the developer setting on for the disable absolute volume, because I dislike that feature anyway. Unlike my car that doesn't support it, my bluetooth headset supports bluetooth absolute volume and I dislike how it works.
I'll reboot the phone and test it out in a couple hours when I go driving, to see if the phone again lowers the bluetooth volume and post an update.
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Settings>System>Developer options>Disable absolute volume
Try turning that on. It might solve your problem.
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No, this did not help. Absolute volume is disabled, and I connected to my car and set the phone's volume to max.
But after a reboot, as before, when my phone connects to the car via bluetooth, the phone decreases its volume as though media volume limit is kicking in.
As for settings, my phone has the media volume limit toggled on, and the custom volume limit set to maximum. So the volume is being changed to lower than maximum, approximately 2/3 setting. So the phone is not respecting the media volume limit setting with the custom volume limit.
As mentioned earlier, I can also turn off the media volume limit, but get the same frustrating behavior where after a reboot, when I connect to a bluetooth device, the phone will lower its own volume setting to 2/3.
It just seems like a bug where the phone always uses a hard-coded 2/3 media volume limit, and disregards the on/off setting for media volume limit, and also disregards the custom volume limit.
Can anyone else actually try this with their phone to confirm it's a bug? The issue happens after you reboot, and connect to a bluetooth audio device. The full volume setting is maintained so long as you haven't rebooted since setting the volume level.
I'm still on the April firmware, T-mobile, so I'm really hoping the May update will address this bug.
Does anyone else see a different behavior?
Will your phone always reduce the volume and prevent max volume, after you reboot and connect to a bluetooth device for audio output?
Use Bixby Routines to set the BT volume to max whenever you connect to your car.
I have a routine for when it connects my car that keeps the phone unlocked, sets media volume to max, and starts playing music.
Doesn't fix the bug but it's not a concern after doing this.
Also I don't see the point in rebooting your phone daily...
Reboots always lowers my volume but I raise it on my Phone to max and it remains that way when on the Bluetooth headphones then control volume via the headset not the phone.
Is there a way to report this bug to Samsung?
It's a bug because the phone ignores it's own settings after a reboot. The settings are obeyed during use only after you've manually increased the volume upon first connecting. This bug was in the S9+ phone, until Samsung finally fixed it. Now they just need to fix the bug for the S21 Ultra.