Bluetooth Causes system Volume to change

[darb85]

My wife and I both have s5. Mine, no volume change when connecting via bluetooth. But on her's It presents a Volume changed:headset Plugged/unplugged dialogue on the bottom of the screen and turns down system volume. Which is quite annoying and this thing dosent need help with decreasing volume.

Is there a setting somewhere Im missing to shut this off?

I cant figure it out. My phone does not do this, checked with numerous bluetooth devices, mine never does it and heres does.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Brad

 

[Rukbat]

It depends on whether she has her Bluetooth headset connecting as a system audio device or a media audio device. You probably aren't both set the same. (Different headsets?)

 

[darb85]

same car and audio speaker. so its the same settings coming from the car and speaker. Is that setting somewhere im missing?

Thanks

 

[AZgl1500]

I only use a Blue Parrott trucker's headset....

But, I also use MacroDroid to always preset all of my volume levels to exactly the levels that I want Each Time the screen is unlocked.

I labeled that macro Set Awake Volume.

Maybe not exactly "the why" of what you need to know, but it does give you an option to precisely control how her phone, or yours, is setup each time it wakes up.

Prior to creating that macro, I kept experienceing changing volume levels on different things. I never knew exactly why, but nearly always it was fat fingers doing things when I was not looking.

Costs nothing to try, check it out.
* MacroDroid - Device Automation - Android Apps on Google Play


Trigger: Screen Unlocked
Action: Set Volume (check mark each one you want to control, move the slider to what you want it to be for each one)

 

[darb85]

that will work in a pinch, but there has to be a setting in the phone to turn this off. Can anyone guide me to this?

Ive tried a soft reset.

 

[darb85]

Now the System Doesnt show the dialog, but volume is low. Tried Macrodroid, Didnt do anything. ...Im at a loss

Is it worth doing factory? Or is this a new phone time issue?

Thanks

Brad

 

[darb85]

Tried Factory Reset, didnt fix. Samsung wants the phone back...Probably just going to go to verizon and get new phone.

Brad

 

[boomor]

What was the outcome of this issue for you? My phone does the same thing, but I really don't want to have to reset EVERYTHING so I really don't want to exchange the phone or hard reset...

 

[Bradley Kieser]

It's a bug in the newer Samsung phones. The notification system turns down the volume for all apps not just the notification noises, presumably to protect your hearing.

So the Note4, S5, all suffer from this bug.

There are loads of misleading bits of information out there like "reboot your phone" but all this are incorrect ways to get to the real issue: The error occurs when notifications happen, so you have to turn off all the things that would produce notifications. These are: WiFI, Bluetooth, GPS and possibly mobile data. Even then you can have notifications such as calendar reminders.

So what to do? First, complain to Samsung so that they fix this problem because it's annoying many people and chances are the bug still exists in the newest phones.

However, the best advice that I can give is what I do: If I am listening on a bluetooth device, then I kill everything other than bluetooth as less frequent drop-out is a lot less irritating than the "every few seconds" drop-out that can occur.

However, as I use my phone as podcast streamer in-car with sat nav as well as other items running, I have a plan B which is a hair tie combined with a wooden block that I strap across the phone such that the volume button is permanently depressed for "increase volume". The notifications come in, the volume drops then it is immediately restored to full volume again.

Oh, and don't fall for the "volume locking" apps... none of them work that I have tried and pretty much tried them all.