Help Stopping ads from playing at full volume when phone is silent.

[Meetch Rogain]

A forum question was recently closed about a Galaxy S3 wherein the user would have advertisments play at full volume even when the phone was on silent.

The only reply included a solution to remove the app that plays the advertiements, or to install an ad blocker.

I have a Galaxy Nexus and am experiencing the same problem, but I don't want to uninstall the app, or install a new app to block the ad.

Is there any solution in settings or phone options to change this?

Is this a problem that still exists with newer Android devices?

 

[Hadron]

Have you checked your individual sound settings? It's likely that your "silent" mode has only silenced the ringer and notifications, but not the media and alarm volumes (each of your sound profiles will have separate settings for ringtone/notifications, media and alarms - that's been normal in Android since the beginning).

Otherwise the problem is most likely the specific app or the adware it contains, since this is clearly not a widespread problem.

 

[Meetch Rogain]

Was there ever a time when the side button controled both alarm/ringer volume and media volume?

When I looked into the sound settings it showed both media and ringer notifications were at their lowest settings. It could be that it is the app specifically. It still seems like it might be an issue with phone.

When ringtone and notifaction volume is moved lowest, it switches from a phone reciever image (audio) to a smartphone image (vibrate) to a speaker with a slash (no notification). However, when I move the media volume down the speaker icon stays the same from higest to lowest, like it can't be completely silent. Is that just a design issue? I'm sure that icon itself can't be an indicator of the sound not being able to be turned off, but I don't know enough about this topic to say for sure.

 

[Hadron]

The volume buttons' behaviour depends on what you are doing. If you are playing media then they will control the media volume. If you are in a call they control the earpiece volume. If you are doing neither they control the ringtone and notification volumes.

On my phone if I put the media slider to the lowest setting it turns into a speaker with a X rather than sound waves, clearly indicating that it's silent. However, that's just the icon - the only meaningful test is to try playing some music while the media volume slider is set to the lowest setting and see whether it really is silent.