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[Q] Ringtone and notification volume

Can someone who already has this device comment on the volume of ringtones and notifications?

It's damn loud frightens me to death every time some one rings me
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I don't have this yet, but I've heard it's like a freakin' blowhorn

Yeah, it's LOUD

Oh yes, it's dam loud, mine is on the lowest setting and it's still too loud haha.
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its the loudest handset iv ever had even vid clips sound amazing and loud
but be warned if used as a alarm clock do a sound test first cos mine just woke the whole street up at 5-45am lol:victory:

That's what I like to hear, thanks!

dont find my ringtones that loud it was a lot louder on my galaxy note 2 but music and youtube is way louder

Yeah it's damn loud and for me it is a real issue as you cannot dissociate Ringtones volume and notifications volume.
You'll either have to lower the volume to the point notifications are barely audible or have everyone around you staring at you because your Led Zep Kashmir Ringtones sounds amazingly loud in your office.
If anyone got an idea to dissociate these 2 volumes please shoot
I didn't plan on using another ROM than the stock one but I'm seriously considering it for this very reason.

stock boot up jingle is very loud, its now gone, cos on rooted arhd 3.6

Loud. Too loud for my liking in most instances.

iKoyy said:
Yeah it's damn loud and for me it is a real issue as you cannot dissociate Ringtones volume and notifications volume.
You'll either have to lower the volume to the point notifications are barely audible or have everyone around you staring at you because your Led Zep Kashmir Ringtones sounds amazingly loud in your office.
If anyone got an idea to dissociate these 2 volumes please shoot
I didn't plan on using another ROM than the stock one but I'm seriously considering it for this very reason.
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Try using a volume control app, it seperates the ringtone from notification. I have the notification & ringer on 1 (of 7) which is fine.

basil281 said:
Try using a volume control app, it seperates the ringtone from notification. I have the notification & ringer on 1 (of 7) which is fine.
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Have a rooted Dev Edition One. Not being able to set separate volume settings for Ringer and Notification was pretty frustrating. I installed Power Toggles and can now set separate volumes for Ringer and Notification.
I have always used Tasker to change these volumes depending on where I am and the time of day. However, on the One, even though Tasker shows separate volume settings for Ringer and Notification, it sets them both to whatever is the last action. For instance, if I am at work, I set my ringer volume to 1 and notifications to 5. Depending on which one I put first, both volumes get set to the last one set. Any thoughts on how to set these separately using Tasker?
Thanks.

What app
basil281 said:
Try using a volume control app, it seperates the ringtone from notification. I have the notification & ringer on 1 (of 7) which is fine.
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What app are you using?
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Just tried around 15 different apps for controlling the volume. Most of them separate the ring and the notifications, until you go back in and they have linked again.
There does not appear to be anyway of unlinking them

Dal1970 said:
Just tried around 15 different apps for controlling the volume. Most of them separate the ring and the notifications, until you go back in and they have linked again.
There does not appear to be anyway of unlinking them
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Dang it! You're absolutely right. Power Toggles appears to allow the volumes to be set separately, but, when I go back and look, they are set the same. I set my ringer at 1 and notifications at 5 this morning (I use a really quiet notification sound and even at 5, it is not too loud). Was in a meeting at work.. I get a call and the #&%$(*(*$ ringer goes off SUPER LOUD!!! So terribly embarrassing and uncool.
Hard to believe that HTC would have goofed this one. Haven't seen any other phone to date that does not allow setting the volumes independently. If I can't find a fix quickly, this will force me to start flashing custom ROMs. (I really like Sense 5 and had made up my mind to stay stock (albeit, rooted) for at least a few months).

The only app I've found can actually separate and keep the setting is ICS Enhanced Ringer Control (or Volume), it is a paid app, however, after changing system sound profile from normal > silent or vibrate and the phone still rings... I am so frustrating, it is either adjusting the actual notification file volume for a workaround, or install the ICS control app but you will lose the sound profile feature.....
The other alternative is Sound Profile apps that takes over system profile, it separates notification from ringtone and has its own profile widget you can put on your home page for fast switches. It also comes with scheduler that replaced my other sleep silent apps, so finally I picked Sound Profile for all trouble saver, and it is free.

Using an ascending ringtone app
compact_bijou said:
Loud. Too loud for my liking in most instances.
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I agree; these suckers are too loud.
To help to deal with this, I installed HandyPhone, which allows me to set any ringtone to become an ascending ringtone. With luck, I can answer before that ringer becomes really intrusive.

Honestly it hurts my ears someyimes because of how loud it is
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Notification Volume "loud"

Hi
Can anyone confirm the following.
The notification and ringer volumes are linked. Now when I set the ringer volume to level 1 and choose a ringtone and notification in Settings->Sound, they both play at a soft volume. If I then receive a WhatsApp, Gmail, etc the notification is loud, a lot louder than when I selected in the settings. The ringer volume is still soft though.
I then tried to troubleshoot. If I increase the ringer volume, the ringer and notifications get louder as they should, except the notification get MORE louder. Its would seem that notification is honoring the volume level, but notifications have been amplified before being played. Even playing a sound via Lightflow or Tasker results in this extremely high volume.
Can anybody confirm this odd occurrence I am experiencing.

I have the same problem too.. Let's just hope that in the next update we will get a separate notification volume slider

yes, confirmed. This annoying bug is there from the very beginning.

ilea said:
I have the same problem too.. Let's just hope that in the next update we will get a separate notification volume slider
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Tequila.CZ said:
yes, confirmed. This annoying bug is there from the very beginning.
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OK, I found a pretty good work around.
I only use 3 notifications sounds, so I copied the three ogg files from my previous rooted phone onto my PC. You will likely need root access to copy from the Huawei, so you could probably just Google your notification sounds and download them.
I then downloaded Audacity from http://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html so that I could lower the volume of the sound files. You can merely drag-drop the file into Audacity from Explorer, and it will open a wave representation. On the left of the wave is a -/+ slider where you can change the clip volume. I reduced my files by -20db, but you could choose you own negative value. I then saved the files. During the save process a dialog will come up where you can set some meta info like a title. I added -20 after the title so that when the phone lists the sounds, you will know which one is yours. I then copied them into the /notifications folder on my phone, or even add into draft gmail which you can then access on your phone and then save into /notifications. When you go to your app or settings to choose a notification sounds, you will see the original and the "new" sound in your list like below, hence why you need to add the -20 behind it.
Pixie Dust
Pixie Dust - 20
When you choose the default notification sound in settings, it will sound very soft. But when it actually plays for a notification, it will be close to the same ringer volume. It will also get louder when the ringer volume increases as well :good:

During call notification sound like wechat or wsp app still make sound very loud.very anoying n its hurt my ear.how can i fix this.so regret buying this phone so expensive but quality so dumb even my s5 can control n dont make sound during call

Volume Butler is an third party app that could help

Can not set my text notification to a downloaded tone.

Hi Everyone!
My name is George and I am setting up my new Note 9 and I have run into a snag. This is such a trivial thing I am almost ashamed to post about it.
I have downloaded several message tones from Zedge that I want to assign as my text notification tone.
My second issue is with the volume of the text notifications. I can't seem to raise the volume for those either.
I look forward to hearing any input, suggestions, thoughts, and opinions. Thank you all and have a great holiday weekend!
Respectfully,
George D.

GeoGoGo said:
Hi Everyone!
My name is George and I am setting up my new Note 9 and I have run into a snag. This is such a trivial thing I am almost ashamed to post about it.
I have downloaded several message tones from Zedge that I want to assign as my text notification tone.
My second issue is with the volume of the text notifications. I can't seem to raise the volume for those either.
I look forward to hearing any input, suggestions, thoughts, and opinions. Thank you all and have a great holiday weekend!
Respectfully,
George D.
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You should have a folder called 'Notifications' on your internal storage, put your tones in there and reboot, you should be able to choose them after that. 2nd, press volume up/down on the side, click the arrow on the top right so it expands, the notification volume adjust will be there. Don't be ashamed to ask questions, we are ALL learning ALL of the time.

Thank you for the help, padlad! It is greatly appreciated. Is there a way to set a separate notification sound for texts and for everything else? My text tone is going off for every notification I get. It is really annoying when it goes off 3 or 4 times in 5 minutes. I was able to set a separate tone for my texts and everything else on my Note 8 but I cannot figure it out on the 9.
Thanks again!
Respectfully,
George D.

It sounds like you set the sound for notifications within the main settings, you need to set the sound within the settings of the messaging app.

Possible to have vibration on notification ?

It's hard to understand why there is no LED on the Nokia 8, not necessarily a color one like on my trusty Lenovo P2, even a white one would do the trick for notifications...
Anyway I don't like audio on notifications so I was hoping to have the phone vibrate but that doesn't seem possible, am I missing something ? Thanks for any help !

Just turn Notification/Phone ring Volume to 0 should be vibration only

LoaderFabi said:
Just turn Notification/Phone ring Volume to 0 should be vibration only
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That would also mute phone rings, which I doubt OP wants.
@webvan You can manually turn of notification sounds for each app by long-pressing an app icon and tap: App Info -> App notifications -> Messages -> Sound -> None.

Thanks, yes I'd still like the phone to ring !
Will try the app by app setting.

ok so I tried that method and you can indeed dig into the notifications and when they are set to a high or above importance you can activate "vibrate" and deactivate "sounds". Thanks !

webvan said:
ok so I tried that method but that's only letting me turn off sound, not enable vibrations.
Seems crazy that 10 years into Android development there is no option to only make your phone vibrate when a notification arrives instead of making a sound !
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May I ask what apps you are trying to turn off sound notifications? For Instant Messaging apps like Viber, Signal, Telegram, etc. I can easily turn the sound notification OFF and leave the vibration option ON. Some apps don't have those options simply because they don't send and/or display notifications.
It's strange to hear you can't do that. Try exploring all the options around the Notification Settings in each app.

Oops, had edited my message in the meantime! Yes I found that the trick is to set importance of the notification to high or above to get control of the sound+vibration settings. All good now!

Separate notification and ringtone volume

Hi!
I just want to know if there is anything I can do to separate notification volume from ringtone volume as I could not find anything on the internet that worked for me.

Try to use tile settings from play store, it has 3 sound modes in tile

HTCDevil said:
Try to use tile settings from play store, it has 3 sound modes in tile
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I don't think you understood my question. I don't want to switch between different modes, I want to set different volumes for ringtone and notification. I have tried Volume Butler, Precise Volume and other such apps but they decrease the ringtone volume along with the notification volume & vice - versa.

Piyush1149 said:
I don't think you understood my question. I don't want to switch between different modes, I want to set different volumes for ringtone and notification. I have tried Volume Butler, Precise Volume and other such apps but they decrease the ringtone volume along with the notification volume & vice - versa.
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Oh sorry, ok i understand now, i'll try to remember which app i have used in past for doing this and then reply.
Edit: found https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.hp.volume
I have used it one years ago, you should try it

HTCDevil said:
Oh sorry, ok i understand now, i'll try to remember which app i have used in past for doing this and then reply.
Edit: found https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.hp.volume
I have used it one years ago, you should try it
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Thanks for the link, but I have already figured out a way of my own. I am using macrodroid(Tasker's free alternative) to increase the volume while the phone is ringing and automatically decrease it after the call ends or I miss the call. ?
????? Thanks for trying to help me. ??????

Piyush1149 said:
Thanks for the link, but I have already figured out a way of my own. I am using macrodroid(Tasker's free alternative) to increase the volume while the phone is ringing and automatically decrease it after the call ends or I miss the call. ?
????? Thanks for trying to help me. ??????
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I am glad you resolved bro :fingers-crossed:

I don't find any solution for this problem! If I use apps to solve the problem they say that it didn't work of course the system set the ringtone and notifications twice. So is there any fix for that. I need a really loud ringtone sound for work outside. But if don't won't a really loud notification. I use C26 One Ui Android 10.
I hope that you can help me out!
Thanks!

Social_Work said:
I don't find any solution for this problem! If I use apps to solve the problem they say that it didn't work of course the system set the ringtone and notifications twice. So is there any fix for that. I need a really loud ringtone sound for work outside. But if don't won't a really loud notification. I use C26 One Ui Android 10.
I hope that you can help me out!
Thanks!
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Use tasker/automate/macrodroid or something similar to automatically increase volume while the phone is ringing and then decrease it after the call ends.

Can you give me an export file of your Macrodroid Macros. Of course I have problems with the settings.
Or can you tell me your correct settings for each macro.
I hope that this is possible for you!
Thx a lot.....

triggers: phone ringing, call ended, call missed
actions: if trigger fired (phone ringing)
increase ringtone volume to 100%
if trigger fired(call ended or call missed)
change ringtone volume to 30%
constrains: not dnd/vibrate/silent
Hope it helps

Not realy..... :laugh::laugh:
1) Phone ringing
triggers: phone ringing
actions: increase ringtone volume to 100%
condition 1: not in "do not disturb" - allow all
condition 2:sound on
2) Call ends
triggers 1: call ends
triggers 2: call missed
actions: increase ringtone volume to 30%
condition 1: not in "do not disturb" - allow all
condition 2:sound on
3) No sounds - only alarm
triggers 1: not in "do not disturb" - allow all
triggers 2: no sound
actions: increase all volume to 0% and Alarm to 40%
These are my macros. But I dont find the way for "only vibration" for my 3 Option.
And I am not sure if two macros are enough.And what means "allow all"? If this trigger is true - it allow the action?!
I put my macro export in the attachment.
If you have the time I would be happy if you put your export in the attachment of your next post
Thx a lot......

My Macros doesn't work. When call comes in it is under 30% or 30%. And the 3) is really wrong, after I get up today I'm in vibration mode and can't get out. I had to stop the macro 3).
So I hope you are rescue me with a export of your macro.
Grettings from Germany

Social_Work said:
My Macros doesn't work. When call comes in it is under 30% or 30%. And the 3) is really wrong, after I get up today I'm in vibration mode and can't get out. I had to stop the macro 3).
So I hope you are rescue me with a export of your macro.
Grettings from Germany
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Try this and change the settings according to your preference.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dzmnx_dJDPaITeKwCboCWCqkE_TKtFZz/view?usp=drivesdk

Social_Work said:
Not realy..... :laugh::laugh:
1) Phone ringing
triggers: phone ringing
actions: increase ringtone volume to 100%
condition 1: not in "do not disturb" - allow all
condition 2:sound on
2) Call ends
triggers 1: call ends
triggers 2: call missed
actions: increase ringtone volume to 30%
condition 1: not in "do not disturb" - allow all
condition 2:sound on
3) No sounds - only alarm
triggers 1: not in "do not disturb" - allow all
triggers 2: no sound
actions: increase all volume to 0% and Alarm to 40%
These are my macros. But I dont find the way for "only vibration" for my 3 Option.
And I am not sure if two macros are enough.And what means "allow all"? If this trigger is true - it allow the action?!
I put my macro export in the attachment.
If you have the time I would be happy if you put your export in the attachment of your next post
Thx a lot......
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Try removing "allow all" dnd condition first.
It may work then
I didn't check my mail that's why I didn't know that you were still facing problems.