Volume control question

[cb2367]

At times, the volume seems to increase by itself. For example, there is a 30 second video ad in a game I play. Depending on where I am, I will turn the volume control all the way down so it's on vibrate. When the video ad plays, the sound is all the way up.

When I view YouTube videos that have ads in them, the audio plays even though the volume control was turned all the way down before opening YouTube.

Why is the volume control getting overridden in these situations?

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[DroidXcon]

At times, the volume seems to increase by itself. For example, there is a 30 second video ad in a game I play. Depending on where I am, I will turn the volume control all the way down so it's on vibrate. When the video ad plays, the sound is all the way up.

When I view YouTube videos that have ads in them, the audio plays even though the volume control was turned all the way down before opening YouTube.

Why is the volume control getting overridden in these situations?

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Well phone volume and media volume are not exclusive. if you turn down the volume before you open a youtube video you are only turning down the ringer, after you play a video then you can control the media volume. what I do is get a volume control widget then leave a media volume control on my homescreen and turn it down or up before I open up anything involving media.

 

[rawmustard]

You might have turned the ringer volume all the way down, but not the media audio. The former is indicated by a phone-shaped symbol when the volume rocker is pressed, while the latter will be indicated by a speaker symbol (normally you would have to be playing audio for the rocker to control that volume). You can also press the settings icon on the right to bring up the volume of each component of audio.

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[cb2367]

I guess I didn't realize that I was only turning the ringer volume down, and I just noticed the settings option when pressing the volume button.

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[Golfdriver97]

I guess I didn't realize that I was only turning the ringer volume down, and I just noticed the settings option when pressing the volume button.

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It happens...every now and then I learn something new about my phone and I have had it almost a year now....lol