Just a couple quick questions about the change Google made to the volume controls after Oreo where the physical buttons change Media instead of Ringtone...
Does anyone know if any of the ROMs revert this back to Pre-Pie method baked in (or with an optional setting)?
Otherwise, is Xposed the best bet for this? (been away from the rooting/custom ROM world for a little while)
thx -jonn
[by the by... My last phone had Pie and was not rootable... this one change to volume is the closest I have ever been to moving from Android to iPhone. While some may welcome this change, IMHO it is FOOBAR and has completely borked the way I use a phone... working around dogs and both inside and outside, I change my ringer volume constantly.)
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I bit the bullet this weekend and actually purchased a HD7 after noticing the bargain basement price of £380 for the phone on O2 PAYG.
Windows phone 7 is pretty cool except that microsoft and/or HTC forgot that this phone sits on your desk in Landscape mode.
What Microsoft need to is enable these changes and it'd be a pretty good phone.
1. enable the start screen to rotate to landscape and scroll horizontally through the tiles.
2. enable zune player to rotate to landscape including the radio.
3. enable the lock screen to convert to landscape if on charge and enable the proximity sensor to flick the screen on to show the current time when you get closer to it.
4. enable custom colour selection of the Accent colour (color for US). (i personally dislike most of the options)
5. enable custom ringers
6. when we touch the top let us turn on and off different connectivity options or a shortcut to the settings - I don't need or want a live tile for this but having to scroll constantly to find settings is hell.
7. make the volume level more visible - volume across the screen not vertically.
8. enable bookmark on zune. I may have video or music that i want to continue where I left off from if I play something else. In fact I do.
What HTC need to do is
1. pump up the volume on the phone. it's got more speakers than the hd2 but so much quieter and this phone is supposed to be a multimedia phone.
2. optional install of your htc font - I fell in love with your font on the desire hd.
3. speed up your notes application launch time. I love the notic board but it took a while to open it when I needed it today.
I'm sure there's many more things but this'll do to start with.
I believe MS has done a tremendous job In WP7. Sure, there are shortcomings with every first release of new operating systems, however, many of these will no doubt be addressed at some point in its' further development.
I've had the HD7 for a few days - it shows good promise and I've decided to stick with it for as long as possible. A few rough edges but it's got what it takes to be a solid and robust operating system that I believe most would easily adopt.
Thanks for the input. When you mention volume. How is the ringer volume and text message volume?
ratchetjaw said:
Thanks for the input. When you mention volume. How is the ringer volume and text message volume?
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awful, but the range of tones is appalling tbh and they are all very tinny so it doesn't help. Also the volume being centralised means if you adjust the volume in a game or in the zune player, the ringer gets changed also.
frontieruk said:
awful, but the range of tones is appalling tbh and they are all very tinny so it doesn't help. Also the volume being centralised means if you adjust the volume in a game or in the zune player, the ringer gets changed also.
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Oh okay that's no good. Thanks for the info. Is the vibrate strong at least?
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Oh okay that's no good. Thanks for the info. Is the vibrate strong at least?
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yeah do tell, the vibe on the HD2 is pretty bad compared to the TP2
So back when i did use CM stuff i very much enjoyed being able to use a held down volume rocker to skip songs, but not so much the ROM, it was a lot of effort to keep up with the nightlies and bugs. Seems someone else had the same feelings as me and here we someone delving into the decompiled system apk's to bring it to stock... but for the S3....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2071970
Please those with greater coding brains than I, bring this to the nexus 4!
also here is android.policy.jar that i pulled from my phone http://www.mediafire.com/?y1zpd3ab2n1wru5
You can use Tactile player from the play store..... It hinders the phones ability to increase or reduce volume when it is activated but it does skip tracks effectively...
You can always disable to widget to get access to fully functional volume controls..
Thanks for the suggestion, and if a dev never picks this up for the n4 that may be the only option. But I'd love to see a permanent mod
Hey guys,
well known topic, but I'm still left with questions.
I go with ARHD and Sense (Android 4.3 and Sense 5.5 atm, 4.4 KK might be soon) and the minimum volume levels are too loud IMHO (regarding my taste), therefore I want to readjust them or have to increase the number of volume steps as this also redefines the array and the fraction of each step.
I use ZeroInfinity's PureXAudio (now ProjectEra) if that counts. Also Xposed framework.
I'm aware of Volume steps mod (HTC One) and I checked {Mod & Tuto} 30/45 Steps Volume Project (framework.jar), so I might do editing hex-values soon.
1. can I readjust the volume levels to my needs somewhere, if this is the simpler way: step x [1-15] - level y [0-1] (e.g.) ?
2. does changing the number of steps definitly means changing framework.jar? best file, best approach. If so I will go for it..
3. does sth. has to be taken into account, sth. changed with 4.3 or KK 4.4, or Sense 5.5,.. someone told about the master-volume with 4.2.2 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47668094&postcount=310)?
Thanks for helping !
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Volume step mods are completely broken in 4.3 and onwards. Jonny has already explained everything you need to know, the master volume is locked at 15 steps of volume, no more no less. Whilst you CAN get 30 steps, you'll only have 15 volume changes meaning the volume will simply go up like this
1-1-2-2-3-3-4-4-5-5-6-6-7-7-8-8-9-9-10-10-11-11-12-12-13-13-14-14-15-15
30 Steps, only 15 volume changes. A shame really
Thx Galactus.
Hmmm, if the known mod is resulting in 15 levels at the end there must be some different, maybe additional place (lines in the code, file,..) where to modify an array, a number, levels,..
We have to find the hole where to put the dynamite..
xfish said:
Thx Galactus.
Hmmm, if the known mod is resulting in 15 levels at the end there must be some different, maybe additional place (lines in the code, file,..) where to modify an array, a number, levels,..
We have to find the hole where to put the dynamite..
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Indeed we do lol, but I am not skilled in that area and I have no idea if any devs can, or will attempt to fix it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565559
So I've been scouring the internet looking for something I saw in a custom ROM for the N6 and I can't for the life of me remember which ROM it was and haven't been able to find any reference to any feature resembling this.
There was a ROM, don't recall if it was LP or MM that had the softkeys go into low-profile mode after a couple of seconds regardless of what app you were in (done at the root/kernel level is my guess). I've attempted to make a root app that will do this to no avail so far. Though I can get a stand alone app to do this rather well until of course I exit the app.
Is there a kernel or a mod out there that will do this system-wide?
I'd imagine I could just start a root-level process at boot that watches the UI thread for state changes to the visibility properties and waits 2 seconds then resets it to SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE.
Thoughts on the easiest way to acquire or add this feature?
I know that Cataclysm ROM has this feature.
I just looked into it and it's almost what I'm looking for. Looking at the video and the source code all this does is programmatically change the alpha of the softkeys, it doesn't trigger SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE which I've seen in another ROM. I also found that same mod in the eXistenZ Premium Rom for Sony Xperia. I've been working for two days on creating a mod myself no no avail. Very frustrating indeed.
To be clear........ I'm not asking about getting louder volume but rather more volume steps. 15 steps for multimedia volume just isn't enough. I don't want to go down the custom rom route. The only way I can see to get more volume steps at the moment is to downgrade to MM and use Xposed with Gravitybox or something similar.
Is there any way to get more volume steps on Nougat? It would be really nice if Oneplus could implement this into the stock rom as they have with several other "custom rom" types of features.
appro77 said:
To be clear........ I'm not asking about getting louder volume but rather more volume steps. 15 steps for multimedia volume just isn't enough. I don't want to go down the custom rom route. The only way I can see to get more volume steps at the moment is to downgrade to MM and use Xposed with Gravitybox or something similar.
Is there any way to get more volume steps on Nougat? It would be really nice if Oneplus could implement this into the stock rom as they have with several other "custom rom" types of features.
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Looking at AudioService in AOSP repository for Android 7.0 I can see:
https://android.googlesource.com/pl...om/android/server/audio/AudioService.java#624
which means if you are rooted you should be able to edit build.prop to insert config line ro.config.media_vol_steps=X where X is the number of desired volume steps.
I too would like this. When streaming BT audio the jump in volume from one step to the next is way too high.
Maybe Oneplus should change it to something like nexus devices, where you can scroll the volume bar continuously from 100% to 0% without steps...much more practical, especially in cases like an alarm, where even the first step now is quite loud.
Exactly same issue here! I hate it!! Music sounds all stupid and with OnePlus tweaking the sound. The music is not natural like it's supposed to be! Saw it on a video **** sucks! Maybe alot of people can't noticed the difference and I do mean ALOT. But I can! And the few also complaining about this too! No equalizer works properly. Treble too high and the mids are low! Bass not even there. I'm actually using my s7 edge for music because the DAC on oneplus 3T is absolutely horrible
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C3C076 said:
Looking at AudioService in AOSP repository for Android 7.0 I can see:
https://android.googlesource.com/pl...om/android/server/audio/AudioService.java#624
which means if you are rooted you should be able to edit build.prop to insert config line ro.config.media_vol_steps=X where X is the number of desired volume steps.
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Confirmed to work on a rooted 3t
install magisk and use the module that increases volume steps. You don't need a custom ROM or xposed for this.
bunu said:
install magisk and use the module that increases volume steps. You don't need a custom ROM or xposed for this.
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tried all the above on lenovo m8 fhd (android 10) best I get is two volume ranges. No one has a fix for this so looks like a custom rom is needed