Questions tagged [audio]
Questions regarding the audio output of an Android device in general, rather than a specific audio topic, like music.
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Making SMS sound and other notifications play in speaker with headphones inserted
I would like to be able to go to sleep with headphones plugged into my S4 so that I can listen to podcasts, but then there is the problem that I don't hear SMS messages or calls during the night, ...
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How to enable audible alarms while making phone calls?
I often need to use a timer while making phone calls. No matter what timer I use they never play the alarm sound while you are on the phone, they simply emit a brief "beep" and vibrates (if the timer ...
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How to turn off/mute the USSD notification sound in Jelly Bean?
I recently got my Lava Iris 501's OS updated to 4.1.1 and now it even chimes whenever my operator sends me a 'Last Call/SMS/Data Cost' notification. This happens even on the Silent/Meeting modes also.
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Google Music Gapless Playback Works on my Galaxy Nexus but not my HTC One?
I've recently started using Google Music on my phone but gapless playback isn't working. I listen to a lot of mixed, electronic music albums where it's absolutely essential that it's totally seamless ...
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It is possible to forward all audio to the Android smartphone via wi-fi?
Are there apps/methods that allow for the sound to be forwarded to the smartphone?
So if I would watch a YouTube video on the PC, I could also hear the sound via the smartphone.
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Hard Wired Aux In not working
I just recently purchased a Galaxy Three with 4.0.4. Before the new phone, I had an Apple iPhone 4S. When I plugged the iPhone's headset jack directly to my car receiver's Aux In it worked just fine. ...
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Disable loudspeaker usage for audio playback?
I get my voicemail messages by e-mail (using K-9 mail), however, when I play the attached wavefile, the loudspeaker is used for the playback, so everyone around me can listen to the message, that's ...
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Why is all audio suddenly phase cancelling on headphones? [closed]
When I listen to audio through headphones on my Galaxy S2, there's a phase-cancellation effect that attenuates any centered signal (so I often get most of the music but little of the vocal, or on ...
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SatNav app with Audio Book app [closed]
I'm trying to find a satellite navigation app that works with an audiobook app such that I can listen to the audio book while navigating. When I get a navigation instruction I want the audio book to ...
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Video Player with support for audio channels?
I have recorded a TV show with dual channels (left is dubbed, right is original voice) and then converted into a mp4 file. The movie plays fine in VLC where I can choose the audio channel I want to ...
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Is there a way to get my android phone to stop going back to the beginning of a song when I disconnect my bluetooth audio?
I have an Android phone (a Motorola Droid, running android 2.2) that I use with my car's bluetooth audio. When I turn on the car, it will automatically conenct to the Droid and tell it to play, which ...
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Turn off Snapchat camera sound in Android [closed]
Whenever I take a picture with the front camera on Snapchat on my Xiaomi Mi Max 2, it makes a loud fake camera shutter sound.
I have tried putting the phone on mute/do not disturb and having the ...
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How can I tell if a car stereo's controls can be used with my Android phone?
I'm thinking about getting a Pioneer DEH-2200UB, which advertises itself as having controls compatible with iPods. I will be using it with my Samsung Fascinate in my 2005 Honda Civic. Is there any way ...
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Can't I change the sound volume with the screen locked?
When I'm listening to my podcasts, with the screen locked and turned off, isn't there a way to enable change the sound volume (with the physical volume buttons)?
--update
I'm on a Motorola Razr D3.
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Is there a default/stock sound recorder app?
In most of the Android phones sound recorder has a different look and feel and slightly different functionality. So is the sound recorder is a basic feature of all Android phones?
Can I assume that it ...
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any application to detect sound tone?
is out there any Android application that would tell me what sound tone makes my Singing bowl?
HTC Desire on Android 2.1
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Improving Galaxy Nexus's audio quality
I found out about this website through androidguys.com and I'm giving it a first shot. :)
I remember when I had my Fascinate which is Samsung Galaxy S, I had Voodoo Sound Control app which helped to ...
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Specific MP3 plays over headphones only
I am out of ideas. The following MP3 does not play correctly on many Android-devices:
https://www.heimatmuseum-zinnowitz.de/app/download/12553824899/Kino%20Audiodatei%20Deutsch.mp3?t=1590484494
It ...
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How can I disable the low-battery sound in Cyanogenmod?
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod 11 (20140804-SNAPSHOT-M9-i9300). When the battery hits ~15% or 5%, an alert appears with a warning sound. How can I disable this warning sound (...
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Using an audio dock on CM10.1 i9100
I'm running the CM10.1 nightlies on my Galaxy S2 (i9100). I've purchased the KitSound GALS2Dock, which has audio out over USB, but it doesn't work.
I've asked KitSound via Twitter, and they told me to ...
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Batch Update Android alarm ringtone?
I have a bunch of alarms on my Android phone and I want to change their current ringtone to a new one. The new ringtone is in MP3 format and is located in the sdcard. Is there any way to change them ...
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Is it possible to output audio from the speakers while a Bluetooth headset is connected?
In iOS, this is achieved by double-tapping the home button, swiping right twice, and selecting the speakers.
Can this be done in Android?
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How to play hyperlink to mp3 on Android
When I lick on a link to a mp3 file on in web page on my Android phone. It starts playing it on Google music player, but as soon as I hit home button or back button it stops playing. I know why it is ...
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Asus Transformer : no more sound after update to Ice Cream Sandwich
I updated my Asus Transformer TF101 to Android 4.0.3 last weekend and I have no sound anymore. Is this a known issue? How can I solve this problem?
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How to play/record sound from Debian chroot?
There's big file with ext2 with ARM Debian where I can chroot to.
There's functional mplayer (I can -ao pcm or -vo yuv4mpegpipe) there.
How to record/play sound (or video) from this Debian? Is there ...
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has no aux jack, trying to use a USB-C adapter instead
I'm trying to use an aux cord, but my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra does not come with one.
I got a USB-C adapter, but when plugged in, it says the connected USB device isn't supported. I've tried to go ...
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How to change volume balance for headphones?
I am using a Moto Z2 Play, unrooted. One ear is louder than the other and i have discovered thaf it isnt the earbuds. How can I change the volume balance on my earbuds?
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System control take over by whatsapp media playback or a call
For some reason, as I activate media playback in WhatsApp or hold a call there, mobile phone controls are deactivated and the screen is blacked out until the playback, or the call ends.
This is a ...
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Play audio through phone speakers when connected to Bluetooth car
My car has Bluetooth for making / receiving calls. It also allows media playback if I switch to Bluetooth instead of USB. I use my phone for sat nav so I'd like to be able to hear the audio telling me ...
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Turn off the notification sound at system level - Android Marshmallow
I have an OPO 3 and I was wondering if there is a possibility to turn off the notification sound for all app, but I would like to retain ringtone sound as well as vibration.
Normally on Samsung S6, ...
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Why don't I see my custom ringtone under Default Notification Sounds?
I just got a Nexus 5X, currently running Android 6.0.1, and managed to get some custom mp3 ringtone files into the Ringtones folder on the phone.
Under Settings > Sound & Notification, if I ...
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Speaker and Mic stoped working on MotoG (1st Gen) after upgrade
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One day my mobile was dead because of empty battery. I recharged the battery and turned on the mobile. Mobile showed a message "Android is upgrading" while turning on. After that Speaker and ...
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List of supported A/V and Image Codecs
Using ADB, is it possible to obtain a list of audio, video and image codecs supported on a given device? Whether or not they physically play is another story. I'm just trying to poke the device and ...
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What is the setting in xprivacy to access the microphone?
I use xprivacy to set all permissions on my phone, but I accidently forbid the tuner app to access my microphone.
Which setting do I have to enable?
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Record phone calls [closed]
Is there a way to record phone calls? I tried some apps that appeared to work but it seems these only record thru the mic, ideally it should work with headset and earphones too but it doesn't and the ...
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Audio playing only on right side on my Galaxy S3
I'm using Cyanogenmod cm-10.1.0-RC1 on my Samsung Galaxy S3 (at&t US version)
With either a headset or bluetooth, I'm only getting audio from the right side. It doesn't matter which output device ...
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Is it possible to detect a keyboard paddle press plugged in the headphone/microphone port?
I know that some devices headphone ports (maybe all of them? any reference here would be good) have 3 channels, for stereo sound and microphone. So I was wondering if it's possible to detect something ...
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My Google Now App does not speak
I tried out the Google Now feature that comes with Jelly Bean and it's not working as I expected. It answers my questions as a search result but does not show the exact result as a card nor does it ...
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Video player with ability to set SW/HW for Audio and Video separately
I want following: be able to set hardware mode for video decoding and software mode for audio. Best players I have seen so far support one switch for both. Am I corrent that hardware mode for video is ...
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How to disable certain Android sound alerts?
I have a Motorola Droid phone running Android 2.1. Many times per day my phone alerts me with a sound. It is not a new email or SMS or disconnection from the 3G network. I suspect it may alerting me ...
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What's causing the Sirius XM app to stutter even with a good 3G signal or WiFi connection?
More often than not, the Sirius XM app has trouble streaming content when the screen turns off - it will replay the same buffered audio in a loop (usually 20 or 30 seconds worth) until I turn the ...
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Audio recorder triggered by global long press gesture
A friend who has limited eye sight would like an audio recorder on his Samsung phone. Ideally it starts when he long presses the display anywhere after unlocking the phone.
Is that possible?
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Audio resumes whenever bluetooth connects or disconnects - how do I stop this?
This seems to be independent of which bluetooth device I connect/disconnect to (car audio, ear buds, etc), and is also independent of whatever the last app I was listening to (VLC, Pandora, etc).
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What happened to the sound profiles that were in Lollipop?
I recently bought a new phone to replace my old one. The old phone is running 5.1 (Lollipop) and has "Predefined [sound and notification] profiles" (see screenshot). However, there seems to be no ...
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Stream Audible audio to DLNA/UPNP speakers
I would like to listen to my Audible audio books on external speakers because the tablet's internal speakers are too weak and headphones are not always practical.
In another my post, Stream any audio ...
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How to find audio files from apps
I have this app from Bungie, which is called Destiny, and it's a companion for their game.
The app has a really nice notification sound but I don't know how to find the audio in the file manager ...
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Is it possible to set the default volume per application?
Some of the apps I use have very different output levels. One is only comfortable with volume set to the minimal and another is inaudible at that level, so I am constantly raising and lower volume ...
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Sound whitelist
I really hate it that every new app (mostly games) that I install, thinks it has a right to make noise. Just about every game I ever installed comes with audio enabled by default.
This is annoying ...
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Is there a way to make Android in general play sound a little louder on the right side?
For some reason my earphones have a lower volume on the right side and it throws me off, is there a non-root way to make the phone's audio (at least via earphones) play a little bit louder on the ...
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Mute button doesn't work on a rooted Samsung Galaxy S4
Device: GT-I9500
Android: 4.2.2, rooted
Whether I press and hold the power button and select mute from the menu or double-press the sound icon in the pull down notification menu, the phone still ...
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