Posting here since I'm a newb. I recently rooted and flashed a 4.2 ROM to my phone for the first time and I'm having some issues.
First, as many people have reported, I can not receive MMS. I have successfully sent one using ChompSMS, but when I receive one, I get a notification that I have an MMS, and Chomp displays the message size, but it never downloads. I have tried this using WiFi and mobile networks.
Then, a music app (dSub) that used to transmit track information over bluetooth to my car's stereo has stopped doing so. I no longer get the artist, track and album name on my head unit like I used to.
Last, the app automatically reduces volume on music if another sound takes focus (notification, for example). It is supposed to return the volume back to the initial level afterwards, but with this ROM, the phone volume stays very low. Even if I manually change the volume down and back up, or use different apps, or manually kill the music app, the volume is not restored to normal levels until I reboot the phone.
Any ideas on fixing these issues? The ROM has been great and very smooth otherwise.
EDIT - Fixed my MMS issue, I had forgotten to check "auto-retrieve" in the MMS settings of the stock messanger. Still looking for info about the bluetooth and volume issues.
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I installed the Xfinity TV Player App on my Epic 4g yesterday (stock FC09) and I am having a weird problem since where I am unable to hear any sounds from my phone speaker (media, system sounds, phone calls) except for notifications/ring tones. The microphone also does not seem to be working during my phone calls since the person on the other end cannot hear me. However, the speakers and microphone work just fine if I use my earbuds - I would just prefer to not have to pull them out all the time just to answer a phone call. It can't be a hardware problem with my phone since I hear ring tones just fine, so I figure it has to be a software problem.
All volumes in my sound settings are at max. Powering off and turning back on the phone doesn't fix it. I have uninstalled and re-installed and uninstalled the Xfinity player app with no change. (I don't know if this is relevant, but when I installed the app, after installation I got the "low internal memory" message and then when I uninstalled, it gave me a message that it did not uninstall properly.)
I would prefer not to hard reset my phone if possible, but I can't think of anything else I might try. Any input would be much appreciated - thank you!
The issue I am seeing is when music is being played on the phone and a call comes in, afterwards the music turns back on but only at half the volume. All volume indicators are at max and system sounds come through at that level. If I close the music player and re-launch the volume returns to what the phone is set at.
To put a bit of history into this issue, I had actually installed the vicious (I think) JB image on my phone back a while before it was officially released by verizon. With that release, I saw the exact same issue. I tend to listen to recorded music a lot during the day, so with this little glitch I took the phone back to ICS.
But now with the official release on the verizon network the exact same problem is happening. Mostly I have music recorded from DAR.fm and play it through that app. I do have some music in google music but can't quite remember how the details of it resuming after a call went.
So, while I'm querying the app dev guys for the various music programs I wanted to see if anybody else has seen this type of issue.
Thanks
I'm running CM10 and I notice the same issue but for notification sounds. When the sound alerts, it dims the music volume. Once the notification is done sounding, the music volume does not return to normal.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
Glad I'm not the only one seeing this.
I know issues brought up here have been noticed by the folks working on the official releases, but is there any system in place to report specific issues like this to either google dev or samsung?
There's an option in Settings > Sound I believe that sets the volume to half, it's called "Safe Headset Volume" try disabling that and see if it fixes your issue.
where exactly is this setting? I didn't see anything about headset volume anywhere in the sound settings panel.
militarymedic23 said:
where exactly is this setting? I didn't see anything about headset volume anywhere in the sound settings panel.
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This is only on CM10, just FYI.
ah ok. I am running the standard JB pushed out by verizon.
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ah ok. I am running the standard JB pushed out by verizon.
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Sorry about that, I just know that, that was an exact feature on CM10. I don't know why it would be happening on stock unless this is a built in option to Android that is unconfigurable on stock.
Since I tried running a JB build before, and saw this exact same issue a few months before JB was even pushed out by VZ, I'm wondering if this is a bug pretty deep in JB regardless of the build. Never had the issue with ICS.
Which volume are you talking about? Speaker, headphones, or Bluetooth? I use BT audio for music in my car, and I have no problems after calls or after notification sounds (volume dims, then rises again). However I *do* have a problem where GPS is too quiet, even when music is loud.
This is music played by the Pandora app BTW.
I notice this issue when I am listening to audio through the phone speaker. Not the greatest but it's ok. I have had the phone hooked up to external speakers and it has done the same thing. I check the volume levels in settings and everything is full. Don't have any devices for playing BT audio so I can't try that one. The notification sounds and other system sounds do seem to be at the proper levels, just not the previous playing music.
I am assuming this is a bug relating to the volume transition post-call, but I'm no developer so I'm just identifying the obvious points.
The app I am using is the DAR.fm app for recorded radio shows.
About a month ago I screwed up my phone and had to LGNPST it for the first time. I'm not even sure if this is the moment this problem appeared but it may have been the start of something. Before that, I was running a JB CM build with a GPS lock issue that I never got around to fix and decided to fix it before I flashed a Kit Kat rom. That lead to a bad stock-based flash which then lead to the LGNPST fix. I then flashed to a different stock-based rom, updated PRL and obtained a GPS lock, then flashed a few different roms before settling on the offical CM 11 rom.
Somewhere after the LGNPST I ran into problems with the sound volume settings being completely ignored and this issue appears across multiple roms. I'll have the settings set to silent and it'll still play some odd sound whenever I receive an sms. When I try to change the sounds, nothing plays when I am previewing the sounds and if I select one the settings will crash. The ringtone files do exist in /media/audio/ringtones and they play correctly in Apollo. I have also downloaded Zedge and used it for setting the sounds inside the settings screen and it does not play the sound when previewing and crashes when I select a sound. Setting the ringtone inside of the actual Zedge application does work for the notification ringtone, but does not work with phone ringtone (it does appear to be changed in settings, but no sound is played during calls). Furthermore, when I attempt to set the sound in Hangouts for either SMS or regular hangout messages, it does not change from "Silent" but does not show any crash messages or anything.
In a possibly related note, every time I flash a new rom it will get stuck on activation until I just skip it. However, data services work completely fine. I have no problems with making calls, 3G/LTE, sending and receiving sms including pictures.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I posted this question on a CM 11 Nightly forum with little success and was hoping to find a solution in this general forum. I am on CM 11 d2lte and have sound issues with my speaker when running my voice-mail. I historically would long press #1 on my dialer and access my messages that way, but no when I do that I get the "no messages" voice. I have left myself messages as a test to see if it works and it doesn't.
Here's what happens:
Get a message, go to v-mail app, press play, message starts out fine, but at the end of the message, then sounds turns into a very loud, scratchy, distorted static sound that cannot be turned off or turned down. When the sound stops on it own after about 7-10 seconds, i am not able to access the next message, cannot replay the same message, cannot do anything with the app. I am forced to reboot my system in order to get the next message and then I have to reboot after listening to the same garble...message after message.
1. I see others have had this issue
2. I have seen whacky solutions to this like disabling sms features
3. Does anyone have a real solution to this?
I have tried other Vmail apps and they all create the same sound in the speaker when checking v-mails, which tells me it is a communications issue with the vmail app and the speaker. Thoughts?
I don't necessarily care for a v-mail app...I'd like to be able to get my messages by long pressing #1...anyone?
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TheQuicken said:
I posted this question on a CM 11 Nightly forum with little success and was hoping to find a solution in this general forum. I am on CM 11 d2lte and have sound issues with my speaker when running my voice-mail. I historically would long press #1 on my dialer and access my messages that way, but no when I do that I get the "no messages" voice. I have left myself messages as a test to see if it works and it doesn't.
Here's what happens:
Get a message, go to v-mail app, press play, message starts out fine, but at the end of the message, then sounds turns into a very loud, scratchy, distorted static sound that cannot be turned off or turned down. When the sound stops on it own after about 7-10 seconds, i am not able to access the next message, cannot replay the same message, cannot do anything with the app. I am forced to reboot my system in order to get the next message and then I have to reboot after listening to the same garble...message after message.
1. I see others have had this issue
2. I have seen whacky solutions to this like disabling sms features
3. Does anyone have a real solution to this?
I have tried other Vmail apps and they all create the same sound in the speaker when checking v-mails, which tells me it is a communications issue with the vmail app and the speaker. Thoughts?
I don't necessarily care for a v-mail app...I'd like to be able to get my messages by long pressing #1...anyone?
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I had handcent and got rid of it and now using stock CM sms. No more bad speaker sounds.
I've recently migrated an m8 to Lineage from stock. It is currently running lineage-14.1-20171109 (initially lineage-14.1-20171102).
Call answering performs normally when Bluetooth is off or Bluetooth is active with no connected devices. It also works as expected when connected to a Bluetooth headset which can provide phone services. It does not work if any audio is playing when an incoming call arrives (only tested to the same headset).
On call presentation an incoming call alert appears at the top of the screen, which if the answer option is selected then the full incoming call screen is opened. From this screen the selector can be moved to answer or reject, both options having no affect. If Text is selected, then the pre-set text list is displayed but no text is sent if selected. At this point the phone is still displaying that there is an incoming call. This can't be cleared down and opening apps/settings is non-functional. Opening settings presents a blank screen with a white background. The only way to get back to a functioning phone is to reboot. After a reboot some of the app groups and icons on the Home Screen may have disappeared.
I've found some Bluetooth issues reported that look very similar to this problem. In those cases the remedy reported was to turn off Privacy Guard for the Bluetooth apps. I've tried this and have turned off Privacy Guard for all apps, though this does not resolve the issue.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Alan
Update:
Having been able to do some further testing with another m8 on the same build and a different Bluetooth device, this problem looks to be app specific. Since un-installing TuneIn Radio Pro I've been unable to reproduce the problem.
Alan