My apologies if this has been asked in the past... my research suggests that it's an old issue.
I am having a problem getting the volume from the Google Maps GPS to be equal to other sound output. Example, when I am listening to music from Google Music and I have turn-by-turn navigation on, when instructions are spoken to me they come in at about twice the volume as my music. I know that in the past Google used to have separate volume levels for navigation and other applications but that seems to have been removed for a few years.
In short, has anyone else been able to find a way to adjust the navigation volume separate from the main volume? I was thinking that maybe Waze handles navigation volume differently... maybe I'll try that.
Thank you
I too would like an answer to this question.
It makes using my phone for car audio really uncomfortable.
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I had this happen a few times, so I spent some time trying to figure out how to repeatedly reproduce it. It wasn't too hard.
1) Turn on a youtube video (I think that anything that used the phone's loud speaker would work).
2) Turn your media volume up to max.
3) Hold down the search button to bring up Voice Search.
I suddenly hear static and garbled audio.
4) Cancel (because I only accidentally pressed that button in the first place)
and the static and garbled audio stays around.
After that, I can go to most any audio app (visual voicemail, music beta, pandora, etc) or just get a notification sound from my phone and it will be complete static and garbage.
The first time I fixed it by playing a voicemail via visual voicemail through the normal speaker and then changing it to the loud speaker. That doesn't work every time though. I'm guessing that a reboot would also fix this.
I tried to reproduce this on my other TMO SGS2 both with the Voice Search shipped with the phone and the update from the market. On the one phone it happens with both versions and on the other, it never happens. I'm not sure that this is a hardware issue but I don't have a good explanation either way.
I've tried this a few more times today with a number of different apps and Voice Search and it hasn't reproduced itself. Most apps, like Google Music and Pandora, stop audio output when Voice Search is activated. Only YouTube seems to just ignore the Voice Search and keep going.
Edit: I exchanged my phone and this doesn't happen on the new one. Seems like a bad hardware issue.
Hi,
Have anyone noticed how low the TTS voice is in Navigation? I usually have a music app playing in the background while using Navigation. After upgrading to JB, I could barely hear the new TTS girl's voice. Is there a setting that I need to change? The volume level was maxed out. So...
Thanks for your input.
Same here. Barely audible!
luckymeeh said:
Hi,
Have anyone noticed how low the TTS voice is in Navigation? I usually have a music app playing in the background while using Navigation. After upgrading to JB, I could barely hear the new TTS girl's voice. Is there a setting that I need to change? The volume level was maxed out. So...
Thanks for your input.
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Google probably took to heart that we always complain about our Wives and GF always yelling at us and telling us where to go
Seriously though - mine is pretty quiet as well... Maybe the volume + App?
Hi Guys,
I had this problem too but now I realise that my text to speech is entirely gone!
It works everywhere else, in Google now, Google voice actions etc. I'm not sure what's wrong.
One thing though is that I'm using Urvana's Google Maps which unlocks navigation in my country. I am not sure if cause it's not an official Google map which is why it can't connect to text to speech, though I doubt it since I did initially had voice navigation even after installing Jellybean.
I noticed this last time I was driving with gps on. I figured I would just turn down the volume on the music on the phone and turn up the volume on my car. Haven't had an opportunity to try it yet, though.
As per the title, I've been having issues when trying to use voice search when my OP3 is connected to my cars Bluetooth. The head unit has a dedicated button for using voice search, which I quite often use to send text messages whilst driving.
The issue is I simply can't hear it, the volume is too quiet. Even when the car is stationary I can only just hear it. There's no volume control for the app either. Sure, in call volume can be changed and I can hear that no problem, media too. My S6 Edge was perfectly audible (except the initial "bling" noise the app makes to let you know it's listening).
Does anyone know what could be causing this and how I could fix it?
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I am kind of perplexed about the Media app built into the Galaxy Watch. It works fine, but on the display there is a Foward and Back track button, but the ring controls this also, why do I have to click the volume button to control the volume! Why cant there either be a button on the main screen of that app or let me use the ring!
I have been looking all over for an app that would let me control the volume with the Ring but to no avail on the Samsung store. Any ideas?
would be super helpful! then you would have one screen control everything!
Because it makes more sense to think that normally most people the first thing they do is press play and set the volume they want. Once set the thing they are going to use more often is the next and previous track and not the volume control.
You may think "but why?"
These days most of the audio we get on apps like Spotify, iTunes and others don't have big variations on loudness from one track to another and/or they include settings in the app so you can set them on to normalize the volume, that includes the Samsung music app, making it easier as you don't need to be turning it up and down each time a new song starts.
It could be done? Yes.
Will be? Idk, and really don't care that much because I use more the widget than the app and volume control it's really easy to access when needed in both.
You should try to make the suggestion to give you the option to configure it that way on the Samsung forums or in the galaxy store on the app.
Haven't seen this specific issue answered yet - if its a duplicate somewhere a point to the right thread would be appreciated.
For whatever reason over the last couple months, the volume on my pixel 2xl will jump way up (or way down) when on bluetooth either after a call or after using google assistant. It doesn't seem to happen everytime, but just now I was listening to music on my bluetooth headphones at my desk and got a call. I took the call on the headphones by answering the phone and then as soon as I hung up, the volume on the phone shot up to 100% which was not enjoyable.
This also happens when connected to my truck (Ford SYNC) or my running earbuds, and it can also crank the media volume way down (happens frequently in the truck) after a call, at which point I have to manually adjust the volume again. The same activity also happens if I activate google assistant and issue a voice command, but in both cases it is not 100% consistent. It appears like the system is trying to dynamically change the volume for some perceived situation, but it sucks at it.
I also use A2DP app for volume control settings and app launching for all my connections, but I have used that since I got this phone 2 years ago and none of the settings have changed.
Anyone had similar behavior and found a fix? It is really annoying when my music goes so low that I can't even hear it in the truck after a call, and equally annoying when I have headphones on and it cranks the volume up and tries to blow out my eardrums.