(Take 2):
THE PROBLEM
I've been having serious problems getting ringer control apps to work on my Desire (stock MIUI GB rom). I've tried one after the other after the other, and they just don't work. Some were the type that supposedly locks the volume at a certain level, so that it reverts to the set level if you try to change it (or pops up a notice requiring permission to change it). Others I've tried attempt to escalate the volume to maximum, when the phone rings. Now here's the deal....
WHAT IT ISN'T
At first, I thought it was the apps, just lousy engineering. It's not.
Then I thought it might be the ROM. It's not.
How do I know? Because at one point, I tested three "escalating ring" type apps, and they all worked.
WHY IT WORKED
I can't be sure that there's a link here, but in an effort to fix the problem, I started messing about with Superuser.I dont' recall, but I think I may have changed my stock MIUI version of Superuser for another (maybe it was Superuser SU). This other Superuser app (which I no longer have), had app permissions that I went and fooled around with. It was some point after that, I noticed the escalating ring type apps worked.
SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
...And now they don't work anymore! So what changed now? I don't know. A lot. I had to reflash the (same) ROM, after an accident. I installed more apps. etc.
ATTEMPTS TO FIX THE PROBLEM
I used Autorun Manager and Autostarts to disable services and receivers of startup programs. Then Titanium Backup to freeze even more programs entirely. This brought everything crashing down, and reoccuring boot loops etc, but throughout I tested the escalating ring programs, they still didn't work!
THE CALLER ID PROBLEM
At the same time, I also want to install an instant caller ID program - and I must have tried about 8 or more of them. None of them work. But here too, I'm now getting the impression it is not the fault of the apps themselves. Because (all but one) won't even pop up a notification box. My thinking is that something is blocking ringer volume control apps, and that same thing is blocking caller ID notification boxes.
SOLUTIONS?
Is it a permissions problem? I have Superuser Elite, but it has very few apps listed who's permissions you can change. I've frozen the firewall and even the data monitoring programs, etc. I'm not sure what else, as a user, I can do to ensure that no other program is blocking system permissions for ringer volume control, or caller ID notification popups. (I have no problem with notification popups in general).
UPDATE: Well.... no one got it, so the prize goes unrewarded!
No, it goes to me. I believe this mystery may finally be solved, so if it helps anyone... the solution is found in MIUI XJ's native superuser app. The problem, as I long suspected, is one of permissions. The superuser app was not allowing ringtone volume control apps and caller ID apps to do what they do. You had to go into the app (which seems impossible on the stock ROM, unless you install an app that allows access to it), you have to specifically allow full permissions for the app in question. ONLY the MIUI XJ Superuser app offers detailed permissions for the ringer volume apps (ie. Escalating Ring) out of all those I tried. This is why I could never get these apps to work on other ROMs, including MIUI stock GB, and MildWild. They have different native superuser apps, that dont offer the detailed options of MIUI XJs. I tried installing other superuser apps, including the latest paid Superuser SU. But the ringer control - caller ID apps would not work with them. In fact, those superuser apps would not even have them listed, in order to configure their permissions.
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Hi everyone,
I have a rather sticky problem. A few hours ago I decided to disable a few of the services that I wasn't using on my phone in the hope of some more free memory and battery saving. The services where things like Stocks (including it's widgets and tools), weather, some pre-installed apps like Sound hound and a few others. As far as I could tell none were critical system services. After finishing I rebooted my phone to check the outcome....and it was not pretty....
Phone boots and everything seems to be loading fine (interface, startup apps, notifications), but my desktop is blank, none of the three soft buttons work and the only thing that works is the power button (to reboot). ah, actually the main menu (sliding from top) works, it slides down but whatever I select from it, the menu closes and nothing would happen. I assume I disabled a service that was in dependency with HTC Sense service and now that service is failing to load...?, correct me if I'm wrong.
At this point I have no clue as to what to do except to try to see if I can root the phone again, any ideas on how I can fix this without rooting the phone?
(I have no backup, no version info...nothing..., I wasn't expecting anything like this to happen while messing with non-critical app services so I did not go through the "backing up everything" procedure... sadly... )
Hello,
I'm sure this may seem silly, but it's a genuine nuisance and I'm hoping somebody will be able to help me (and others) out here.
I have an M8S, though this probably applies to most HTC's, that is rooted.
I have my PC set up next to my TV, so one of my favourite apps is the excellent Unified Remote, however whenever I run this app, a HTC Connection services icon appears in my notification bar along with a drawer telling me that it is running. Not information I am that interested in to be honest, but then it won't go away.
I have tried disabling this notification from the app settings, but the checkbox is greyed out.
I have tried installing third-party notification blockers such as this and this, which work for maybe five minutes before it reappears. Again.
The problem is, once it appears, it stays for literally days. Even if I reboot. It returns. Force close. It returns. Eventually, it goes away, but only if I don't launch Unified Remote.
I am rooted as I said above, but I cannot install Xposed. I'm running the custom Pandora Rom and it caused a bootloop.
There must be a better solution. I hope you guys can help me out!
I eventually decided to use Lucky patcher and Disable/Freeze the app. Does anyone know what it is explicitly for? I can't find any information on it.
No ill side-effects so far, I'll update this post if I find any.
UPDATE: 48 hours and so far so good.
i'm experiencing a complete outage of my (no root) n5x's volume, including alarm clock volume when using text-to-speech (3.9.16). this happens several times a day, usually after about an hour, but could be random, to solve it, i have to force-close tts as well as the MacroDroid app using it.
so, if you select a ringtone in settings you usually hear the tone when you tap on it - when i do so, there's no sound at all, nor if i use the volume slider.
- i use Outloud to speak notifications via tts
- and MacroDroid (or Automate-it) to speak well, things like, when i disable wifi ("wifi deactivated"..), or tells the time when the sun sets, tells time/every 15 mins., etc.
so you might guess it's the apps' fault, but it's not, i also tried automate-it app, and disabled Outloud.
- i tried everything to fix this, like: disabled battery optimization, background processes, notification priority/level, even a factory reset! nothing helped.
- i reported this issues to Google about 15 days ago.
- volume is on in settings, of course..
- (and dnd is off, as well..)
- one strange thing: i can play music using g play music
- it worked on M!
have you experienced the same?
do you have any idea to help? this is so frustrating because i used this all the time on my previous N4, and also on another LG phone, and it always worked.
P.S. I remember to have already had this issue when I used a custom rom on the N4, but don't remember what fixed it, probably used a different rom.
tia.
Google text-to-speech 3.10.10 does not fix it.
It seems to be a Nougat problem, doze or memory.
Issue is fixed on 7.1.1-dp1! :victory:
Ive noticed that certain apps were still leaking past the do not disturb mode, even though they are not in my exceptions list. Then, I noticed these were apps that were specifically newly installed/re-installed. For example, I had to uninstall Instagram and re-install it. Before this process, the notifications were being blocked properly, but now that its newly re-installed, I am now getting their unwanted notifications.
Another example of an app bypassing the exception list is a fantasy football app called Sleeper. I hadnt had it installed on my phone prior to do not disturb being enabled. Once it installed, I started getting multiple notifications, even though i didnt add it to my exceptions list?
I am going to try to restart and see if that helps, but does anyone else have any tips?
Turning off DND, restarting the phone and then turning DND back on did NOT fix it.
I just take out the trash instead of playing with it
Try clearing system cache.
Otherwise likely a settings issue.
There's no fixing a trashware though...
My Pixel 6 Pro has a similar problem ever since the Mar 5 update has been installed. Since then, every phone call I made comes with the non-stop notification tone literally every second. For now, I managed to get around it by enabling the "DND Mode", but it isn't a long-term solution.
Is there a way I can re-apply the same update? or flashing a new one would help?
To be clear, you're saying that you keep getting the notification tone even after answering the call? If so, is it the same as your ringtone?
Is your bootloader unlockable? If so, Official Google Android Flash Tool (OEM Unlocking needs to be toggled on - you may not have to manually unlock the bootloader - the "site" will do that on its own).
It wouldn't surprise me if that doesn't fix the issue, however. Have you tried rebooting? Maybe clear the cache and app data for the Phone app (but then you'd have to re-customize the settings for the phone app to your preferences).
I'm not on the March update, but I also don't receive many phone calls anyway.
that notification tone, during normal time, represents incoming message. It is very short, unlike a ringtone..
Tried rebooting and clearing cache and app data of the Phone app. In fact, that notification could likely come from anything like WhatsApp, Messenger, Twitter...
I noticed that the repeating tones would not happen if the phone is on silent mode. So for now this is my workaround.
Very interesting, and strange. There have been settings in some OEM's phone apps you could enable to get notification tones at regular paces - usually once a minute - while on a phone call, but the issue on yours is only similar since it's constant / every second.
I stick with my recommendation of clearing the app cache and data for the Phone app. I also assume you're using the stock Phone app that Google provides.
In my previous phone (OnePlus 6T), the very same tone happens once in a while, but only at the moment an incoming message arrives. Pretty sure I am not getting a new message every second this time around, and I think it was triggered by apps other than the Phone app. I just noticed that the same symptom showed up when I tried to play video clips from certain apps as well.
And yes, I am using the stock Phone app.
Sounds like a factory reset and only selectively installing and configuring apps, or trying to figure out which app is causing the issue.
If you factory reset, I would first not even restore any apps at all, so you can verify if you have the same problem without any third-party apps installed at first. I would suspect you won't have issues then. And then when you install apps, do it in groups of your most important ones first, maybe at the most 10 at a time, then re-verify each time if you have the same issue or not, then the next batch of app installs. It could be a particular setting in a app as well, so it's possibly merely installing an app might not be enough, so each group of apps you install, make sure and configure them as well.
If you don't factory reset, go the opposite way, uninstall your least important third-party apps and see if the issue disappears. Keep track of which apps you're uninstalling in each group. Keep doing this in reasonably sized groups of apps until you narrow down when the problem stops happening.
Once you find which group of apps being uninstalled keeps the issue from happening, you can reinstall in even smaller batches, among the ones you most recently uninstalled, and eventually find the one causing the issue. In some ways I think it's easier to go the other way around, though, start with a factory reset.
Found the culprit!
Kind of silly: I have installed this app "Internet Speed Meter Lite" when I first started using my P6P, which is for me to monitor my real-time network usage (courtesy of that endless WhatsApp - Google Drive restoring process....). It basically refreshes itself every second and this morning I tried temporarily disabling it, the problem goes away even when the phone is not set to silent mode.
Glad I didn't have to come to the point of factory resetting the device, as I really don't want to go through the WhatsApp restoring process.
Thanks for all the input, much appreciated.