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I want my phone to be on "Vibrate" mode about 99% of the time. I've found that every time I hit the volume buttons on the side of my Evo, it's either accidental (and I don't want the phone to either go silent mode or ringer mode), or I was trying to control the media volume.

Is there a way to force the phone into interpreting every volume button press as a media volume change, and not a ringer volume change?

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    I suspect this is a root-only thing. </speculation>
    – gary
    Commented Oct 29, 2010 at 14:48
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    @gary if that's true, I'd like to know how :)
    – Bryan Denny ♦
    Commented Oct 31, 2010 at 12:30
  • @bryan I was just shooting from the hip. It just sounded like something that wouldn't be available but perhaps more likely on a rooted phone.
    – gary
    Commented Nov 1, 2010 at 0:35
  • This behaviour of Android is really upsetting me. Why the hell do we need to control 3, 4 types of volumes with the buttons? On Windows or Mac, the volume keys control the "master volume" as they should. I am using tablets, and like the OP, 99.999% time I need to control multimedia volume but if no a/v is playing, pressing the volume keys controls the damn notification volume, with that annoying beep sound.
    – Damn Vegetables
    Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 18:15

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There is no setting for this as I'm sure you know. The only way l see this working is if you potentially write an app to capture all volume button changes and then act on the changes from within the app.

You could potentially use registerMediaButtonEventReceiver to register your app as a BroadcastReceiver for all media button calls. I say potentially because I'm not 100% sure if this BroadcastReceiver will handle these Intents since I'm purely looking at documentation and haven't actually tried this myself.

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    4 years have passed. Is there any app for that?
    – Damn Vegetables
    Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 18:09

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