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I recently got a new Sencor wireless headphones, but my issue with it is that the volume is weird. My phone is a Samsung Note 9.

Straight out of the box, the volume at the lowest level is loud. I would expect the volume to be enough to hear faint music and all background noises (like with wired headphones), but with my headphones, the volume seems to be moderate and I can't hear background noises clearly without having to fully mute my volume.

I tried disabling absolute volume in developer options, but while I was able to get the volume to act in a reasonable level, the headphone's local volume setting kept going to the minimum volume whenever my phone stopped playing any sound. It's quite annoying since I would have to adjust the headphone's local volume again and again. So it got rid of the first problem, but I ended up with a worse one.

I tried restarting and using safe mode, but neither worked.

Does anyone experience this too? Is there a permanent fix?

(Also as a side note, I posted this in reddit and got 0 replies; seems like the traffic's really going to the fediverse now. Well done!)

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[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a small app in F-Droid called Speaker https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.danjackson.speaker/ (If you're not familiar with F-Droid, go down to download the apk, not the big blue download button).

The app outputs noise when a Bluetooth device is connected to stop it from going to sleep. Maybe it'll help, just keep in mind it will also run down the headphones battery because they will be always active.

I have set volume to 3 so the noise is below the noise level of my speaker.

Another option is go back to enabling absolute volume, and use the app Bluetooth Audio Connect Widget from Gplay. Among other things it can set the volume for a BT device upon its connection.

I use both of these at the same time + GreenTooth from F-Droid for delayed turning off of BT after a device disconnects.

Ed: Don't downvote me, I'm right. These are both common problems with crappy BT audio devices. With an Android phone you have at least some chance to use it reasonably.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this unrelated to OP?

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago

Not if I understand the question correctly.

It's an Android phone, so I recommend 2 Android apps.

Headphones start at high volume, or go to sleep/low volume when there's no sound, just like my BT speaker. Those two apps help with those 2 problems.