Volume

[sherrye]

The volume is very low for messages. Everything else is loud. I've turned volume up every where & on anything possible

 

[no one]

What phone? Do you have a 3rd party message app?

 

[Mikestony]

Is your tone that you use for messaging downloaded from another app? I ask as sometimes tones downloaded from places such as Zedge, then used with a messaging app, are not as loud, or even louder than what your phone volume can control.

 

[Bri the Tech Guy]

Also, following up on Mikestony's question, have you created a tone of your own using an app (e.g. Ringdroid?).

You often have to tweak the base volume on the source file in order to "make it match" the volume level on the built-in sounds. You'll also notice that even with the built-in notification sounds there is a very wide variation in perceptual volume for the same volume setting depending on which one you choose, and this is by intention. Perhaps choosing a different notification sound for messages could solve this issue.

 

[Mikestony]

Also, following up on Mikestony's question, have you created a tone of your own using an app (e.g. Ringdroid?).

You often have to tweak the base volume on the source file in order to "make it match" the volume level on the built-in sounds. You'll also notice that even with the built-in notification sounds there is a very wide variation in perceptual volume for the same volume setting depending on which one you choose, and this is by intention. Perhaps choosing a different notification sound for messages could solve this issue.

Ah yes indeed! I've often wondered how to go about doing so? Is there a computer program to tweak the volume before installing it on the phone? Can the OP do that with a tone that is a stock tone?

 

[Bri the Tech Guy]

I can't speak at all to stock tones as I have not explored the file format used for same.

If one is creating one's own via Ringdroid or similar, and using an MP3 file as the source, you most likely could use MP3Gain to adjust the perceptual volume up or down on the source file. This would likely be iterative, as you'd have to have a listen to what it sounds like after you've produced the tone you want, then adjust up/down as needed, then re-create that same tone afterward.

At least that should work if Ringdroid (or similar) uses the data encoded in the MP3 with regard to volume.

 

[Bri the Tech Guy]

A quick follow-up.

All of the system supplied notification sounds, ringtones, etc., are stored in /system/media/audio on the device's main storage in OGG format. On my Samsung Galaxy S7 running Android 7.0 the three folders there are:

• notifications
• ringtones
• ui

and I have read and copy access from them even though the device is not rooted. There are scads of options for OGG to MP3 conversion out there, and after the conversion is done one could manipulate the volume gain via MP3Gain then convert the resulting MP3 file back to OGG using Ringdroid or similar.

I am guessing, though, that one would have to have root in order to place it in one of the above noted folders such that Android itself would present it as an option when you were trying to change the sound used. I haven't rooted this device, and don't intend to, so this is where my current experimentation is going to stop.

 

[Xavier Black]

Actually you don't have to be rooted..to be able to increase the volume on a particular sound..

This app will let you cut, edit and twick the volume off of the original file you have in your phone..

 

[Bri the Tech Guy]

It has been so long since I was playing with making ringtones that some of the details are lost to the mists of time.

You're definitely correct that provided you're using MP3 files as your base that Ringtone Maker can adjust volume. It looks like it can store the resulting OGG files only on the SD card, though, and I cannot recall whether one can make the phone look on the SD card when it's creating the ringtone list.