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This bugs me like mad on Android. When I know the app is going to blast out, I have to let it before I can turn it down. I'm forever having to hop through men

This bugs me like mad on Android. When I know the app is going to blast out, I have to let it before I can turn it down. I'm forever having to hop through menu after menu to turn the volume down. My phone is permanently on vibrate (have young kids in the house and don't want to wake them), so changing the ringer is frustrating at most.

wlesieutre 10y ago
On Android 6: 1) Press volume button to bring up volume controls 2) Tap the arrow on the right to expand 3) Adjust ring/music/alarm volumes as needed: http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/05/android_m_volumes-100587783-orig.png http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/05/android_...
- swiley 10y ago
  Just like he said, that involves touching the screen and opening a menu. There's no predictable way to immediately silence your phone.
  - badlucklottery 10y ago
    You can predictably silence it before it happens with the above method. Just drag the "music" volume to zero.
    - wlesieutre 10y ago
      I'm not sure what solution they're looking for. A single universal volume control where if you turn up a video it means your ringer is now on full blast? 6 volume buttons on the side of your phone to adjust them each individually? Android's system of adjusting media volume when media is playing and ringer volume when it isn't seems like a reasonably clean solution. It takes a single tap to expand to the three sliders. Maybe a shortcut where where pressing volume up/down simultaneously mutes everything?
      - ZeroGravitas 10y ago
        It's not that exotic, you've got a child or a sleeping partner or a boss in the same room and you want to watch a mostly visual video without any unnecessary jingles or other audio cues from disturbing them. So you reduce the volume, but it only reduced the ringer for calls, which isn't what you want. As the sibling answer says, newer Androids can do this. One click to display the volume, a touch to see the individual controls and then slide.
        mintplant 10y ago
        Or swipe down the top drawer and tap the Sound setting to Mute.
      - pbuzbee 10y ago
        > A single universal volume control This is exactly what I want.
untog 10y ago
If you're on a newer version of Android you can actually open up a three-slider volume control that has alert volume, media volume and alarm volume separately.
dskhatri 10y ago
Just tap the pull-down menu button in the volume dialog and change the appropriate volume slider.
JustSomeNobody 10y ago
So, on Android, if you know it's going to blast out, you can't go into settings from the notifications shade and change the volume for Music, video, etc. to a reasonable level? I can on mine...
- martin-adams 10y ago
  Yes, this is what I do. It would be nice to use the volume rocker to do that.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    How do you expect it to know which volume setting you want to adjust?
    - leohutson 10y ago
      It just needs to be smarter about the context. If a video is loading in chrome, 90% of the time the intent is to turn down the volume of the video, it's broken that it waits for it to start playing. Honestly, the most intuitive option for me would the audio controls should never touch the ringer, bury that behind a menu, rather than switching based on context.
      - other_herbert 10y ago
        I haven't used Android in a while but that used to be a setting... "Volume controls:" with a selector for what it did... Volume, ringer or both
    - coldtea 10y ago
      How about having them not ever adjusting the ringer? You can always adjust the ringer (something people rarely do -- for quite times there's the "silent" mode anyway) from the UI, and always use the volume buttons for the system's (music, video etc) audio volume.
  - pritambaral 10y ago
TheOneTrueKyle 10y ago
It is even a bigger nightmare if you have chromecast streaming to a TV. Now you have another volume control (which chromecast usually takes priority in this situation). This have been the biggest usability issues I've had with Android.
julianz 10y ago
Press the volume once, the display has an options "cog" on the right, tapping that shows all the volumes on the device and you can set them to your heart's content.

wlesieutre 10y ago

On Android 6: 1) Press volume button to bring up volume controls 2) Tap the arrow on the right to expand 3) Adjust ring/music/alarm volumes as needed: http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/05/android_m_volumes-100587783-orig.png http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/05/android_...

swiley 10y ago
Just like he said, that involves touching the screen and opening a menu. There's no predictable way to immediately silence your phone.
- badlucklottery 10y ago
  You can predictably silence it before it happens with the above method. Just drag the "music" volume to zero.
  - wlesieutre 10y ago
    I'm not sure what solution they're looking for. A single universal volume control where if you turn up a video it means your ringer is now on full blast? 6 volume buttons on the side of your phone to adjust them each individually? Android's system of adjusting media volume when media is playing and ringer volume when it isn't seems like a reasonably clean solution. It takes a single tap to expand to the three sliders. Maybe a shortcut where where pressing volume up/down simultaneously mutes everything?
    - ZeroGravitas 10y ago
      It's not that exotic, you've got a child or a sleeping partner or a boss in the same room and you want to watch a mostly visual video without any unnecessary jingles or other audio cues from disturbing them. So you reduce the volume, but it only reduced the ringer for calls, which isn't what you want. As the sibling answer says, newer Androids can do this. One click to display the volume, a touch to see the individual controls and then slide.
      - mintplant 10y ago
        Or swipe down the top drawer and tap the Sound setting to Mute.
    - pbuzbee 10y ago
      > A single universal volume control This is exactly what I want.

untog 10y ago

If you're on a newer version of Android you can actually open up a three-slider volume control that has alert volume, media volume and alarm volume separately.

dskhatri 10y ago

Just tap the pull-down menu button in the volume dialog and change the appropriate volume slider.

JustSomeNobody 10y ago

So, on Android, if you know it's going to blast out, you can't go into settings from the notifications shade and change the volume for Music, video, etc. to a reasonable level? I can on mine...

martin-adams 10y ago
Yes, this is what I do. It would be nice to use the volume rocker to do that.
- throwanem 10y ago
  How do you expect it to know which volume setting you want to adjust?
  - leohutson 10y ago
    It just needs to be smarter about the context. If a video is loading in chrome, 90% of the time the intent is to turn down the volume of the video, it's broken that it waits for it to start playing. Honestly, the most intuitive option for me would the audio controls should never touch the ringer, bury that behind a menu, rather than switching based on context.
    - other_herbert 10y ago
      I haven't used Android in a while but that used to be a setting... "Volume controls:" with a selector for what it did... Volume, ringer or both
  - coldtea 10y ago
    How about having them not ever adjusting the ringer? You can always adjust the ringer (something people rarely do -- for quite times there's the "silent" mode anyway) from the UI, and always use the volume buttons for the system's (music, video etc) audio volume.
- pritambaral 10y ago

TheOneTrueKyle 10y ago

It is even a bigger nightmare if you have chromecast streaming to a TV. Now you have another volume control (which chromecast usually takes priority in this situation). This have been the biggest usability issues I've had with Android.

julianz 10y ago

Press the volume once, the display has an options "cog" on the right, tapping that shows all the volumes on the device and you can set them to your heart's content.