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Excessive Volume Warning

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Dr Jones

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Anybody found a way to turn off the volume warning that pops up if you're listening to headphones and try to bump up the sound? Once you get to a certain level it stops and you have to agree to a warning message in order to increase the volume.

Samsung turning to a volume nanny with the 6? Good grief...
 
IANAL

I'm sure most devices have it, not just Samsung. AFAIK it's a legal thing because of lawsuit happy nations rather than a nanny thing. Basically so you can't go suing Samsung, HTC, Motorola, et-al. because you deafened yourself playing your tunes too loud. You agree, hit OK, that you might be using an "unsafe volume level", and it becomes really "We are not responsible for any hearing loss you may incur as a result." I'm sure some countries have laws about capping media player volume levels, like France.

It can be disabled, but it requires the phone be rooted.

"Listening at high volume levels may damage your hearing" ... OK
"Smoking causes lung cancer" ... OK
"This coffee is scalding hot" ... OK
"This product contains nuts" ... OK
 
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mikedt said:
IANAL

I'm sure most devices have it, not just Samsung. AFAIK it's a legal thing because of lawsuit happy nations rather than a nanny thing. Basically so you can't go suing Samsung, HTC, Motorola, et-al. because you deafened yourself playing your tunes too loud. You agree that you might be using an "unsafe volume level", and it becomes basically "We are not responsible for any hearing loss you might incur as a result." I'm sure some countries have laws about capping media player volume levels, like France.

It can be disabled, but it requires the phone be rooted.
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That is crazy-town. My old HTC One did not have anything like that. I understand the need to protect themselves from lawsuit-happy dimwits, but I would think they could accomplish that same goal by having the owner agree to a setting cancelling the notification. If they're covered by making the user agree every time they push the volume rocker up, they should be equally covered displaying the same message when you select to stop the notification.
 
It should only display the warning message once, and no more after you've hit OK and acknowledged it. Unless you reboot the phone, then it will show again.

It was introduced in 4.2 Jellybean, so you're old HTC One wouldn't have had it.
 
mikedt said:
It should only display the warning message once, and no more after you've hit OK and acknowledged it. Unless you reboot the phone, then it will show again.

It was introduced in 4.2 Jellybean, so you're old HTC One wouldn't have had it.
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Mine shows it every day/time I try to raise the volume past their determined acceptable level. Phone is not rebooted in between. I'm guessing the removal of headphones resets it.
 
Dr Jones said:
Mine shows it every day/time I try to raise the volume past their determined acceptable level. Phone is not rebooted in between. I'm guessing the removal of headphones resets it.
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It might have changed then with 5.0 Lollipop, or it's something Samsung have done with the S6. The couple of phones I've got here, an Oppo F7 with 4.4.4 and a Samsung S4 with 4.3, only show it once even when removing/inserting the headphones, unless cycle the power and reboot.
 
Of course if you go rooting it, you can't go filling dimwit lawsuits against Samsung, because it's an "unauthorized modification", and if it's an S6 that's rooted, warranty will be void as well.

again IANAL :)

BTW there's another warning or disclaimer that you sometimes see on some devices, where you can disable or mute the camera shutter sound, that you might be committing a crime in certain countries and jurisdictions.
 
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