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Any way to disable Acoustic Warning without Root?

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For some reason my phone won't root even with the new "razrblade" exploit. I wanted to root only to freeze the acoustic warning app so it never starts up. That was my only reason.

Is there a way to disable it without root?
 
When in the Manage Apps, the disable feature is not accessible so I just Force Stop, but have to do this again if I reboot(which is not often).
 
I Want To Sit In On This Also. I Want This App Off My Phone. Oh Look THe New Droid Os Capitalizes Every Word. Grest........AnothEr Feature.
 
jumblebean said:
This might sound stupid but what exactly does it do?
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When you listen to music at full volume it cheerfully puts a warning on your screen that you're listening to your music too loud and may damage your hearing, so it will reduce the volume for you.

Then it proceeds to do so, without giving you an option to keep your music loud.

Here's the problem: I'm all for not blowing out my eardrums. But very often, droid users listen to their music through something else -- like earphones with their own volume control, speakers with their own volume control, or, say, your car, via bluetooth. (Indeed, the manual for my car recommends that I turn my phone's volume up to max and then control the volume I'm hearing through the car's controls. This makes sense. Since I'm changing the volume with pretty much every song, it's safer to control the volume with the buttons on my steering wheel than to fumble for the buttons on the side of my phone.)

If the acoustic warning were only a warning, it would simply be a mild annoyance. The fact that it lowers the volume for you, without letting you override it when circumstances demand your phone be at full volume (without any actual risk to your hearing) makes it a significant PITA.

It's one of those things that makes me wonder if anyone ever beta tests this stuff before they set it loose on an unsuspecting public. Because I'm sure that if you took even TEN random android users, at least ONE of them would discover how problematic this app is.

My own question: Does anyone know whose brilliant idea this was? I mean, did the Google people stick it in Jelly Bean? Or is this a special present from Motorola? (Or VZW?)
 
I believe it had to be Motorola that put this app in,they prob have had warranty claims on blown speakers so decided to throw this crappy app in! I was attacked by this app the very first day after the update,and it sucks cuz I listen to music threw a Bluetooth speaker n adjust the volume threw the speaker!
 
I think it would have been easier to modify the warranty agreement to exclude blown speakers from playing music too loud. Maybe place an app that monitors music levels so when it's sent in for a blown speaker, they would know how it happened.

This would piss off a lot less people
 
I've NVR rooted a phone and frankly NVR found a reason to want to root one,but this app deff has me thinking about taking the plung so I can freeze it,ugh!
 
djclemon said:
I've NVR rooted a phone and frankly NVR found a reason to want to root one,but this app deff has me thinking about taking the plung so I can freeze it,ugh!
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yep, titanium pro on a rooted phone will either freeze it or zap it gone...just be careful you don't get crazy and zap everything off till you are sure removing the app won't effect the phone...freeze first, then zap!
 
Future OTAs will be patches to what is currently installed on the phone. If you delete an app and it has a patch in the OTA then the OTA will fail.

It is best to freeze then unfreeze before applying the update then freeze again.

... Thom
 
The free version of titanium will freeze as many apps as you want .. but will only unfreeze a total of three apps. I've updated with frozen apps without any issues. The apps still patch as if it's working fine on the phone.

If you want to save some money install the free version. If you will never unfreeze the app, then it doesn't matter.

Now if only root would work on my phone. I might have to do a factory reset but don't want to spend six hours getting everything back with all the correct settings.
 
About the blown speaker theory, the acoustic warning only comes up if the headphone jack is being used so the speaker wouldn't be affected at all.
 
MeatLoafT said:
About the blown speaker theory, the acoustic warning only comes up if the headphone jack is being used so the speaker wouldn't be affected at all.
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That's not true at all, it happens to me while connected to a wireless blue tooth speaker, and has also occurred while using nothing nothing but the phones speaker!
 
djclemon said:
That's not true at all, it happens to me while connected to a wireless blue tooth speaker, and has also occurred while using nothing nothing but the phones speaker!
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Hmm, I've only had it come up when the headphone jack was in use. I use PowerAmp and set it on the desk for an hour or more at a time and have never had it pop up. Usually it pops up within 10 minutes if I plug in headphones.

How I've been dealing with it... I've been force stopping it as soon as I reboot and it hasn't been restarting on its own, extra steps but it's been working so far. Evidently that won't work for everyone either. :confused:
 
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