I've installed Speaker Boost to help to no avail. Does anyone else have this problem and is there a solution? Thx
It's everything I listen too, music, games, videos and all notifications. Headphone volume works fine, which I find quite odd.What sources are you listening to? Does this occur with all apps? Is it both for main audio and notifications? Do you also have the problem when using a headset?
Speaker boost (and pretty much all volume boosting apps) are broken in 4.2. Still work in 4.1 so if you really care you can downgrade...
I called Google Play Support and they are shipping me a replacement. Lets hope it doesn't have this volume issue as wellThe suggestions are good, although this issue of low volume has been widely reported with the JB update. Also, people have complained of even worsened volume after trying to augment it with a volume booster app, which may interfere with default settings. So, the factory reset may help clear the app, but still leave relatively low volume from the JB update, as mine is.
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It wasn't until the 4.2.2 update that the speaker issue came up for me, I wish Google would fix it. Sound is great on my headphones but lousy on the tablet.I believe it an issue with Nexus 7 in general. All the reviews I've ever read or watched said they were disappointed in speaker volume.
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I have no sound on the speakers on apps / media / video games, but I do have sound on Alarm and Notifications... with headset all sound is good... any suggestion, I did Factory Reset, reboots, all sound booters and no luck... any idea? I have 4.2.2 on Nexus 7What sources are you listening to? Does this occur with all apps? Is it both for main audio and notifications? Do you also have the problem when using a headset?
I have this problem too. Bought the Nexus 7 the first week it came out. Didn't notice any sound problems then. That was originally Jelly Bean 4.0 I believe. Then the system updated to 4.1 and finally to 4.2.2 which I have now. Then I noticed a big sound problem. Low volume both through the built in speaker and the headsets. With headsets, I couldn't hear the music above the ambient room noise. Since the warranty was about to run out in 1 week, I called ASUS. They didn't offer any solutions but they did issue an RMA to send it in for warranty repair. The RMA form required me to agree to let them reset my tablet which would delete all information. I don't have anything critical on my tablet so why not? But I decided I might as well do that myself instead of paying shipping charges to Grapevine, Texas where the warranty facility is located. I went ahead and uninstalled all the apps I added also. Well what do you know...it fixed the sound problem. NOTE: I failed to mention that when I would start the music player, it would have normal volume for the 1st few seconds before it dropped low, not to recover. Since the system restart, the volume is good now. I've been playing it for a few days now and the sound has stayed consistent.
I post this realizing that many of you have tried a system reset and it didn't fix your problem. After reading several comments like that, I wasn't even going to try doing so on mine. But since ASUS was going to do it, I figured I had nothing to lose. So I recommend that if you have a sound problem, you give a system reset a try. It won't fix everyone but since it did fix mine, I know it will help others who had the same issue as me. In my situation, it is possible that one of the apps I installed didn't play well with JB 4.2.2 and caused sound problems or maybe even it was just Jelly Bean itself. But resetting the system and uninstalling all my apps did fix this aggravating problem that has been going on too long. I will reinstall apps only one at a time and wait several days to make sure it wasn't one of them causing the problem.
Also note that on my system, sound for games was normal and good. It was only the sound for media (music, video) that was low.