Lukas
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16 votesunder review ·
AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.)
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We’re investigating whether an Alarm volume setting makes sense.
Although a 3rd party developer has implemented the “Locale AllVolumes Plug-in” we strongly discourage using this plug-in because it is extremely buggy. This plug-in may appear to work correctly, but will actually fail in many circumstances. For example: it does not set ringer or notification volumes correctly and may cause the ringer or notifications to go off unexpectedly, it does not correctly perform backup and restore across different devices, and may set all volumes to the incorrect level.
Lukas
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I'm confused as to why all of the volume settings (call, notification, alarm, voice, media) are not bundled as part of the default "Volume" condition. Is it because there are no official Android APIs to access these settings? Is it because it may hamper the user experience?
Why is the media volume plugin a plugin, rather than built into the app itself?
Lukas
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6 votesLukas
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13 votesunder review ·AdminCarter
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We’re investigating whether a Voice call volume setting makes sense.
Although a 3rd party developer has implemented the “Locale AllVolumes Plug-in” we strongly discourage using this plug-in because it is extremely buggy. This plug-in may appear to work correctly, but will actually fail in many circumstances. For example: it does not set ringer or notification volumes correctly and may cause the ringer or notifications to go off unexpectedly, it does not correctly perform backup and restore across different devices, and may set all volumes to the incorrect level.
Lukas
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77 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.)
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There is a third party plug-in that accomplishes this. The “Locale Plug-in Appli Detection” is available on the Android Market in all countries that support paid apps.
Lukas
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For example, when I open up the music player, turn media volume up full blast. When I exit the music player, turn media volume back down.
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40 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
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Locale 2.5 (which requires Android 3.0 or later) includes the Shortcut setting built-in, and this built-in version of the Shortcut setting can now open apps as well as app shortcuts.
Today this requires Android 3.0 or later. An upcoming version of Locale will bring this feature to older versions of Android as well.
Lukas
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Thanks for getting back to me!
Yes, I see your point regarding alarm volume. You're right. I set this once, then I'm done forever. However, with system volume, I think you need just as much control as ringtone and notification. When I'm in a meeting, I don't want others to be able to hear me making clicks and sleeping/unsleeping my screen, but I do like the noises otherwise.
(Perhaps I should be posting this in the other suggestion about system volume.)
Thanks for your consideration.