If you are using an S5, then it has a delay in turning on the volume to max.
For the Ringer, I use Disable Increasing Ring to "fix it".
* Disable Increasing Ring - Android Apps on Google Play
For the Alarm Clock, I use Alarm Clock Plus
* Alarm Clock Plus★ - Android Apps on Google Play
because it specifically has a setting to Over-Ride the system volume levels.
I also have severe hearing loss in the order of -25 dB and -35 dB....
$8,000 later and I can "almost understand" most conversations.
but, would the rest of you NORMAL PEOPLE please please start pronouncing your words correctly, and accentuate the 'T', 'S', 'H', 'B', 'V'.... consonants?? they all sound alike to us disabled fokkers.
and while on this subject, would all of you NORMAL PEOPLE please stop alluding to innuendos? It is a horrible mangled mess to those who cannot understand what you are saying in the first place.... much less, try to interpret a slang expression.
I hate it when my wife switches thoughts, she never makes a full sentence, she just spouts off incomplete phrases and I am supposed to know that she is no longer talking about the same subject material. I have learned to just totally ignore her period, until she FACES ME, AND SPEAKS CLEARLY....
Okay, back to the S5.... that darn thing cannot speak clearly period, the speaker is too small to move any air, and anything that requires a tiny bit of BASS or LOW PITCH is totally lost for us w/o good ears.