On my old-ass Samsung, you cannot turn down the volume while that message is shown. So when your phone is in a pocket and you increase the volume but don’t notice that the message appeared, you cannot save your ears when the next song actually is much louder.
my phone turning my headphone volume one notch from silent halfway through a song then telling me off for turning it back up
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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I like this warning. Many young people already suffer from hearing loss due to excessive volume. But I cannot understand why they don’t measure how loud the song actually is right now. I have many songs in my library that just are not mixed as loud, or start quietly and then ramp up. Why do I get the ‘your music is too loud’ message for those?
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
The phone manufacturer can only guess how loud it actually is to your ears. Every pair of headphones outputs at a different volume, and more expensive ones tend to be quieter for reasons I forget.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Because expensive headphones tend to have drivers with higher impedance, meaning they produce less volume at the same current versus a lower impedance set.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
While at it, they could also add option to decrease minimum volume. Often it’s too loud, at least for me. One dumb phone I planned to use as MP3 player has this same issue.
Actually, I feel like it’s most phones. Thankfully the music app I use has equalizer to tune it down.
Hell, even many separate music players. Only stuff with analog volume control is basically always OK.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Yes. I flippin HATE that “feature”. I own you. You do what I tell you!
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I would like this feature, if there was any customizability. Let me set my own limit, and let me change it per device (headphones should have limits, speakers shouldn’t)
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Usually there is! Though I think itd should be togglable from the alert on every device
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Their manufacturers think they do own us.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I’m pretty sure the EU mandated this feature.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Precisely why I use as open hardware as I can, which isn’t much in the world of phones : (
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What? I can’t hear you. Try speaking up a little.
archonet@lemy.lol 2 days ago
Is this a Samsung thing? My S9+ used to do this all the time and it annoyed the fuck out of me, never had it happen on my Pixel
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All three of my pixels had it. Maybe it’s a region thing?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
at least the EU mandates the warning
Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You can turn this off
haywire7@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Never been able to track down how on my redmi note 9 pro, annoys the crap out of me when I’m driving and the music suddenly goes quiet.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Only with Magisk: github.com/…/Disable_high_volume_warning
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Mine will just turn it down in the middle of a song, I don’t need your bullshit samsung. I plug it into the car and control the volume from there so every once in a while I have to turn it back up because fuck me I guess.
Zess@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What in the Android 11 is this
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
yep, android 11. my phone is fine but the manufacturer no longer updates the software so I’m left with this. No lineage OS either :/
remon@ani.social 15 hours ago
Yeah, same here.
arin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Should be a way to tell ur phone that you already have a loss of hearing and that’s why you need it to stop reminding you
2fm@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Aaaaaand even after having played through a few tunes before randomly deciding it’s time to warn you about a loud limit, while limiting the volume.
vala@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why does this look like an ancient android version?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I had to design a volume-limiting system for one of our devices that uses headphones. We know that the users turn the volume up to unhealthy levels - more often than not because their hearing is already damaged from listening for years or decades to systems that had no limitation. They are still able to turn the volume up with the (analog) amplifier, but we measure the signal, and if it exceeds the legal limit, we scale it down digitally.
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
iPhones will do this even when you’re connected to an external device. Like I’m using you as a source, I want high signal-to-noise ratio, not constant nannying nonsense
egrets@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tell the iPhone that the output isn’t headphones and it’ll stop warning you. Plug it in, then head to Settings -> Sound and Haptics -> Headphone Safety -> USB Audio Accessories.
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Mint, thank you! It stops doing it for a while, then decided it needs to warn you every time god a while, and so on. It’ll be great not to have that!
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Way too deep (as usual in todays world).
Just yesterday I was wrangling my phone because my passwort manager stopped showing inline overlays for passwords.