I'm looking for an app that locks individual volume settings. I have AudioManager Pro and while it does have lock volume feature setting, it locks everything. Honestly, I just wish to lock the system and ringer volumes. I keep pressing the volume keys when I grip the phone so I keep messing w/ my preferred settings. I tried AM Pro's lock setting but since it locks everything so times like when I'm on a call and wish to change the volume I have to change it via the AM Pro app or unlock the volume settings from the app. Other times are when I'm playing games and wish to change the volume. As you can see, it gets annoying. I've already emailed the AM Pro devs requesting the feature but was wondering if anyone is using or know of any app that locks individual volume settings. TIA!
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Hi developers!
Would anyone be able to develop a tweak for the Desire so that we could use the volume keys to also modify the screen brightness up and down.
I'm thinking of something like when you first press the + or - button, a pop-up appears on the screen asking you whether you want to switch to brightness control and tapping on the screen would effectively switch to brightness control, while not tapping the screen but keeping pressing on the + or - button would maintain the default volume control (so that people who do not need the brightness control would not suffer the hassle of this additional option).
I think such tweaked feature would be a great addon to our phone. I'm used to use the lowest brightness possible in order to save battery but once I go outdoor or in any bright environement, I need to rapidely increase the screen brightness without the hassle of having to go through Settings etc...
Unfortunately, I'm no developer myself
Surfinette
You should try Brightness Profiles
Surfinette said:
Hi developers!
Would anyone be able to develop a tweak for the Desire so that we could use the volume keys to also modify the screen brightness up and down.
I'm thinking of something like when you first press the + or - button, a pop-up appears on the screen asking you whether you want to switch to brightness control and tapping on the screen would effectively switch to brightness control, while not tapping the screen but keeping pressing on the + or - button would maintain the default volume control (so that people who do not need the brightness control would not suffer the hassle of this additional option).
I think such tweaked feature would be a great addon to our phone. I'm used to use the lowest brightness possible in order to save battery but once I go outdoor or in any bright environement, I need to rapidely increase the screen brightness without the hassle of having to go through Settings etc...
Unfortunately, I'm no developer myself
Surfinette
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Why dont you use power control from widgets.
So brightness can be changed without exiting apps.
A bit like in-app wifi switch (switch wifi with search button)
The dev of this app is on this forum and may be able to help.
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You should try Brightness Profiles
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Yes I know, I'm already using it
It is the best thing I found so far for my need, but it is still not perfect!
Because when I'm using an App requiring more brightness, I still need to "quit" it go to Home, hit the Brightness Profiles widget, change the brightness and switch back to the App.
For ultimate convenience, I wish I could just use the volume control buttons so that I would never have to go back and forth off my App screen...
I'm probably too lazy but still, that would be a cool feature (not less useful imho than using than tweaking the trackpad to make it a power button).
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So brightness can be changed without exiting apps.
A bit like in-app wifi switch (switch wifi with search button)
The dev of this app is on this forum and may be able to help.
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This is exactly the philosophy behind what i'm looking for... and I was thinking of using the volume keys because brightness needs to be set up and down just like volume...
I think a switch may be better. Pressing it forces 100%. Then you could use a less used key. Like holding search.
Search for in-app wifi toggle in the market and email the dev. You never know he may develop the app you want if it only involves changing a few lines in his existing app.
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Yes I know, I'm already using it
It is the best thing I found so far for my need, but it is still not perfect!
Because when I'm using an App requiring more brightness, I still need to "quit" it go to Home, hit the Brightness Profiles widget, change the brightness and switch back to the App.
For ultimate convenience, I wish I could just use the volume control buttons so that I would never have to go back and forth off my App screen...
I'm probably too lazy but still, that would be a cool feature (not less useful imho than using than tweaking the trackpad to make it a power button).
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The way I get round this is using Bar Control to put a shortcut to Brightness Profiles in the notification window shade - so changing the brightness is only ever a drag then tap away. You never have to leave your current app at all.
Tbh though, I would rather a hardware control like the vol key - the other day I had gone outside in the bright sun, and I honestly thought my phone had switched itself off cos I couldn't see the screen well enough to perform this simple procedure.
It's pretty rubbish imho that the battery life/poor AMOLED screen tech mean we have eff around changing screen brightness manually. In fact I'd go so far as to say it's a major fault with the phone...
Love the DInc, but I have the worst time with the hard buttons on the side. They are so easy to press, and while I'm handling the phone, I frequently accidentally turn the volume down all the way. Ideally, I'd like to disable those buttons from being able to change the ringer volume. I haven't seen an app for that, although I have seen apps that change the ringer volume back to what it was after a few seconds if it was accidental, but that also affects changes with my auto-profile settings app as well. Not helpful...
Any ideas?
Thanks.
I had the same problem and I use "vibrate mode by force" app, not sure if this is one you've tried already. It basically locks it into vibrate mode. Perfect for me since I never use the ringer, ever- and it doesn't affect media volume when you want to change that.
There's another setting on the app to lock it into silent as well.
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I had the same problem and I use "vibrate mode by force" app, not sure if this is one you've tried already. It basically locks it into vibrate mode. Perfect for me since I never use the ringer, ever- and it doesn't affect media volume when you want to change that.
There's another setting on the app to lock it into silent as well.
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I used to never use the ringer when I had my Blackberry, as the vibrate was so strong. Now I just miss calls.
Thanks anyway for the feedback!
Bump... anyone else? Maybe a CFW can give me the option?
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Bump... anyone else? Maybe a CFW can give me the option?
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There is an app called volume locker. I use it and it works great (Free App)
Yep tried volume locker, but doesn't play well with auto profile setting software. I'll keep looking, and update this thread if I find the answer.
Thanks!
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Volume Locker worked well when I was using Timerriffic, but with Tasker I keep getting a volume change notification from Volume Locker.
Anyone else having this issue?
I have no issues with volume locker. Works great...
Running Skyraider 3.5 and No task killers
Damn. just did a complete wipe and reinstalled Volume Locker and it still asks me to confirm the volume change when Tasker changes my profile. I did notice there's a plugin necessary for Tasker (according to the Volume Locker listing in Market), but I can't seem to find anything on it on the net or either dev's site.
Sometimes I accidently turn ringer volume down low (not mute) and miss an important call.
I’ve found apps such as Ringer Volume (Android-Lab) to reset it at given times, however they all wants ‘full Internet access’ don’t know if I like that with an app that will be constantly running and with my limited data allowance?
Another option would be a taskbar icon showing my volume level; however I cannot find any such widget.
It’s not mute that give me the problem it’s when I decrease the Ring Volume sometimes by accident when holding my Desire HD, with CyanogenMod 7.
Anyone got any suggestions on this?
there's an app called Settings Profile that u can set rules to do stuff, so u can set a rule to keep invoking a certain profile at whatever interval you want. The Lite version can only set 1 rule so I am not sure if that's good enough for you or not.
Hi Lukesky, thanks for taking the time to help.
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there's an app called Settings Profile that u can set rules to do stuff, so u can set a rule to keep invoking a certain profile at whatever interval you want. The Lite version can only set 1 rule so I am not sure if that's good enough for you or not.
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I think I had looked at Setting Profiles before but just had another look and my concern with it is that it takes Full Internet Access, perhaps I’m being paranoid but I only have 20Mb of data per day and then the price per Mb goes up dramatically, let alone when I’m roaming, OK I know I could turn Data off if I wanted. So do you think the Lite App will be using data via its internet access?
here u go buddy...its simple quick and fast.... i use it all the time and place as widget
Thanks Lalitehgal, I appreciate your help however unless I’m mistaken this widget has no option for an auto timed volume increase, and my problem is I sometimes do not realize I have decreased the volume while holding the phone.
@richardsoffice: in my opinion you should definitely not be required to adjust ringtone or notification volume manually. Because once - in office - you are satisfied, but then - on the street - you just don't hear anything. The phone should adjust the ringtone volume automatically based on ambient noise and phone position (pocket/out of pocket/table/...). Check out an app called IntelliRing.
Manually adjusting ringtone volume does not do any harm if your ringtone volume is managed by IntelliRing. So you can accidentally adjust volume as you want
Hello,
I have Gnex GSM version, bought from Amazon.de.
I have the latest official firmware 4.0.2, received it promptly.
Today i was at the hospital, to see a person dear to me, and i put the phone on silent. The phone would increase the volume by itself.
It did not go crazy or sumth, however it would not stay silent.
I tried turning off the data network (3g/2g) as the [repeating] change between all data speeds seemed to trigger it (though i cannot tell for sure).
This did not fix things.
What eventually SEEM to have fixed the problem was quiting from the app i have running called LLama (this is an app which according to your location/signal [NOT GPS] performs certain actions and events such as profile changes.).
Conclusion? is this the volume bug? why is it still there if that is the case?!
I am annoyed and looking for help as i know there are a lot of experts here.
Thanks
Regards,
Llama has an option to disable volume buttons, which is useful to prevent profile changes when you press a volume button. You can manually choose another profile (silent) or disable that feature in Llama settings - Disable volume buttons.
Ok so, under the original lollipop silence settings, when you pressed a volume key it brought up the volume bar, with the options underneath to choose "None, Priority, All" for sounds. So I could just tap the volume key, tap priority, and go to sleep knowing there would be no sounds apart from my alarm. I could also do this at work, because it was quick and silent. It also had the advantage that when I changed it back to "All", my volume would revert back to my old setting. All easy and good.
Now though... theres two choices.
1. Tap the volume all the way down, to vibrate. The phone vibrates loudly (even if I have all vibrations turned off). Then I press it again to go to silent. Then I have to do the same in reverse (including another vibration) to get it back up to my old volume. Dumb.
2. I found out you can tap the bell icon in the volume bar to cycle between states. This at least keeps the volume on my normal setting. But it still vibrates when i cycle through it.
SO... Is there no way to go from normal to silent without the damn thing vibrating loudly? I never use vibrate, so I'd want to just deactivate this option entirely. I used to be able to do this.
I have tried play store apps which say they do this... but when I set them to the "silent" option (not their vibrate option) and ring my phone, it vibrates! Even though I have phone call vibrate set to off.
This is such a stupid change. I know people disliked the priority options (I thought they were an improvement myself), but this new system just seems so much worse than anything I've used in the last 5 years of android ownership.
Help me obi wan
If you have an unlocked bootloader you can flash a costom kernel and turn the entire vibration off.
Read this thread for instructions:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3096060
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Frunzdoedel said:
If you have an unlocked bootloader you can flash a costom kernel and turn the entire vibration off.
Read this thread for instructions:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3096060
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Cant unlock bootloader unfortunately.