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my phone turning my headphone volume one notch from silent halfway through a song then telling me off for turning it back up (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 months ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 44 points 2 months ago

On my old-ass Samsung, you cannot turn down the volume while that message is shown. So when your phone is in a pocket and you increase the volume but don’t notice that the message appeared, you cannot save your ears when the next song actually is much louder.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

iPhones will do this even when you’re connected to an external device. Like I’m using you as a source, I want high signal-to-noise ratio, not constant nannying nonsense

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tell the iPhone that the output isn't headphones and it'll stop warning you. Plug it in, then head to Settings -> Sound and Haptics -> Headphone Safety -> USB Audio Accessories.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Mint, thank you! It stops doing it for a while, then decided it needs to warn you every time god a while, and so on. It’ll be great not to have that!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Way too deep (as usual in todays world).
Just yesterday I was wrangling my phone because my passwort manager stopped showing inline overlays for passwords.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I like this warning. Many young people already suffer from hearing loss due to excessive volume. But I cannot understand why they don’t measure how loud the song actually is right now. I have many songs in my library that just are not mixed as loud, or start quietly and then ramp up. Why do I get the ‘your music is too loud’ message for those?

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The phone manufacturer can only guess how loud it actually is to your ears. Every pair of headphones outputs at a different volume, and more expensive ones tend to be quieter for reasons I forget.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because expensive headphones tend to have drivers with higher impedance, meaning they produce less volume at the same current versus a lower impedance set.

That's true for wired headphones, at least. For anything wireless, they have a secondary amplifier not in your phone, so then the phone really really has no idea.

[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 20 points 2 months ago

Yeah it seems to be a static volume setting rather than actual dB or mV output

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

While at it, they could also add option to decrease minimum volume. Often it's too loud, at least for me. One dumb phone I planned to use as MP3 player has this same issue.

Actually, I feel like it's most phones. Thankfully the music app I use has equalizer to tune it down.
Hell, even many separate music players. Only stuff with analog volume control is basically always OK.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yes. I flippin HATE that "feature". I own you. You do what I tell you!

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would like this feature, if there was any customizability. Let me set my own limit, and let me change it per device (headphones should have limits, speakers shouldn't)

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Usually there is! Though I think itd should be togglable from the alert on every device

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

What? I can't hear you. Try speaking up a little.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Does someone actually know how to turn this off on android? My work phone does this all the time. It's a car! I was looking at that map under that modal and trying to listen to the directions you reduced to a whisper thank you very much!!

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

You can only turn it off when the phone is rooted - there is a Magisk module for that: https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Alt-Repo/Disable_high_volume_warning

Or if your phone supports LineageOS, install that. It only shows the warning once and remembers your choice. At least for a looong time.

[–] dodekaphilist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You can do so with Tasker and the SecureTask plugin.

Write global audio_safe_ volume_state value 2

I let it run after a system reboot and daily at 6 am, never seen this pop-up in years

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

It seems to think you have headphones in, not a speaker

If you're in EU I think you need root to bypass it

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this a Samsung thing? My S9+ used to do this all the time and it annoyed the fuck out of me, never had it happen on my Pixel

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All three of my pixels had it. Maybe it's a region thing?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

at least the EU mandates the warning

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Mine will just turn it down in the middle of a song, I don't need your bullshit samsung. I plug it into the car and control the volume from there so every once in a while I have to turn it back up because fuck me I guess.

[–] Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You can turn this off

[–] haywire7@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Never been able to track down how on my redmi note 9 pro, annoys the crap out of me when I'm driving and the music suddenly goes quiet.

[–] axh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where?

[–] Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Depends on the phone

[–] 2fm@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Aaaaaand even after having played through a few tunes before randomly deciding it's time to warn you about a loud limit, while limiting the volume.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Should be a way to tell ur phone that you already have a loss of hearing and that's why you need it to stop reminding you

[–] vala@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Why does this look like an ancient android version?

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I have a little Bluetooth speaker that for some reason the phone thinks is headphones - and yes, turns the volume down mid-song. Grrrrrr.

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What in the Android 11 is this

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, same here.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

yep, android 11. my phone is fine but the manufacturer no longer updates the software so I'm left with this. No lineage OS either :/

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I had to design a volume-limiting system for one of our devices that uses headphones. We know that the users turn the volume up to unhealthy levels - more often than not because their hearing is already damaged from listening for years or decades to systems that had no limitation. They are still able to turn the volume up with the (analog) amplifier, but we measure the signal, and if it exceeds the legal limit, we scale it down digitally.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I got this sleep headband with speakers in it. It's Bluetooth but they aren't very loud.

Got it hooked up to my ccwgtv.

When I set the volume to max on the ccwgtv, it makes a super loud high pitched beep in my ear to warn me that I'm at max volume. That beep is easily like 10x louder than the audio I want to hear.

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

this happens to me all the time! So annoying...