Barely hear ringtones and notifications

mrwicked

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Are all these phones quite or is it just mine? Alarms are quiet, can barely hear ringtones and notifications. Vibration is weak as well, which causes me to miss calls while in pocket. Don't get me wrong, I love this phone. But my HTC ,10 had loud ringtones and mortifications.

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tommyntpham

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i have recently had this problem as well. get it replaced. theyll send you a new one overnight if you got one through verizon. mines would be loud initially but after a while it was quite.
 

xocomaox

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My problem is that there is one volume slider for both the ringtone and notification sounds. This is quite limiting (I feel like this was not linked in earlier versions so either they are taking features away or are simplifying things).

Does anyone have any magic tools to un-link these volumes so I can make my ringtone max and notification volume at 50%?
 
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My problem is that there is one volume slider for both the ringtone and notification sounds. This is quite limiting (I feel like this was not linked in earlier versions so either they are taking features away or are simplifying things).

Does anyone have any magic tools to un-link these volumes so I can make my ringtone max and notification volume at 50%?
No, that is how stock android is. Other devices, like a Samsung may seperate them. But google leaves them linked by default.

As far as changing that... I really don't know. I leave my phone on vibrate all the time because I have a smart watch that vibrates on my wrists and I can check messages without even taking phone out of pocket.
 

xocomaox

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No, that is how stock android is. Other devices, like a Samsung may seperate them. But google leaves them linked by default.

As far as changing that... I really don't know. I leave my phone on vibrate all the time because I have a smart watch that vibrates on my wrists and I can check messages without even taking phone out of pocket.
I found a solution to this problem... Volume Butler! It's great, and does exactly what I need it to do (without even buying the "pro" version).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiletrialware.volumebutler&hl=en
 

razor237

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My sounds were all too low for me, i downloaded some iPhone MSG / alarm sounds as well as a Air horn sound and all those sound that i downloaded are much much louder then the default sounds
 

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for me it seems that its something with the software because the speaker is very loud but, for example i download a song, listen to it and it plays very loud but if i set it as ringtone its very low when my phone rings. i was searching in the settings if there is anything to disable but cant find anything
 

CZ Eddie

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Vibration power on this phone sucks.
I've had the 32gb and 128gb and they were both the same.

I setup the Moto X Pure 2015 for a friend last week.
I used it a half-day to ensure all was working fine.
And realized how much I really miss a proper vibration out of a phone.

Can't stand missing calls in loud places because I didn't notice the phone vibrate in my pocket.

As for ringtones - there are louder ones out there.
I attached a couple of loud ones in the zip.
I setup a Tasker profile to change to one or the other when I'm at parties or other loud places.
 

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Vibration power on this phone sucks.
I've had the 32gb and 128gb and they were both the same.

I setup the Moto X Pure 2015 for a friend last week.
I used it a half-day to ensure all was working fine.
And realized how much I really miss a proper vibration out of a phone.

Can't stand missing calls in loud places because I didn't notice the phone vibrate in my pocket.

As for ringtones - there are louder ones out there.
I attached a couple of loud ones in the zip.
I setup a Tasker profile to change to one or the other when I'm at parties or other loud places.

Thank you for posting them. The standard Pixel XL ringtones wouldn't wake up a light sleeper on the loudest setting, and most are tunes are kind of dreamy and sleepy. Its been so annoying finding replacement sounds, I installed Alarmy just to get louder sounds and of course soon after my network log starts spiking like crazy, with Alarmy opening multiple connections to facebook/google/etc sending off my data. Out of the entire Pixel XL forum your post was the only one I could find with links to sounds to download that I can load into the standard clock.

Many many tanks, now can get rid of another 3rd party crapware that slurps data like crazy.