Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
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Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
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#2This is the one thing I dislike about Apple Airpods. I also don't like the connection sound effect because it adds a needless 2 second delay. Would love to get rid of both sound effects.
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#3NICE! Way to stick with it OP!
Speaking of loud earbuds, I might have the opposite problem. I use Bose exercise earbuds on the treadmill at what I believe is a comfortable and conservative volume, but my iPhone gives me a notification that the volume is too high and I am wrecking my hearing.
Is the phone correct? If so, I'd be willing to sacrifice a bit of enjoyment for a bit of ear health. However, there's a compelling alternative hypothesis: these earbuds have a distinctively lower physical volume at a given volume setting than others I have used, so lazy modeling on Apple's part could be expected to generate a false notification like the one I receive. I want to commend Apple if they did the right thing and built a database mapping (model,volume_setting)->physical_volume. Unfortunately, the complete lack of details in the notification and feature description do not inspire confidence and I do not want to make my workouts shittier just because Apple put a college homework quality model into production.
Does anyone here know if the data science backing these notifications is competent?
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#4Man I wish someone would do this for my bluetooth sleep mask.
It's pretty great except for one thing: When the battery is low or it's going to power off it announces it to you at full volume.
On a sleep mask.
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#5Man I wish someone would do this for my bluetooth sleep mask. It's pretty great except for one thing: When the battery is low or it's going to power off it announces it to you at full volume. On a sleep mask.
What does it do? Why do you want a bluetooth connection when you are trying to sleep?
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#6My Sony headset (wh-1000xm4) has the exact same problem, but they apparently encrypt the firmware payloads and decrypt them on device.
I've come this close to taking it apart and trying to dump and probe everything, but my shaky hands are too likely to break it.
I would pay very good money for a hackable noice-cancelling headset.
Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
#7NICE! Way to stick with it OP! Speaking of loud earbuds, I might have the opposite problem. I use Bose exercise earbuds on the treadmill at what I believe is a comfortable and conservative volume, but my iPhone gives me a notification that the volume is too high and I am wrecking my hearing. Is the phone correct? If so, I'd be willing to sacrifice a bit of enjoyment for a bit of ear health. However, there's a compell…
My phone (Android 5, and I barely use it, frankly, so until it stops working I don’t need anything newer) does the same thing when connecting it to my car over Bluetooth, the first time after every reboot. It’s simply and flatly a stupid feature. If I could root the device I could turn off that switch ’cos it’s in a config file somewhere, but I’ve never succeeded (Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016)).
Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
#8Man I wish someone would do this for my bluetooth sleep mask. It's pretty great except for one thing: When the battery is low or it's going to power off it announces it to you at full volume. On a sleep mask.
What does it do? Why do you want a bluetooth connection when you are trying to sleep?
For listening to music/white noise/droning YouTube videos while falling asleep.
Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
#9My Sony headset (wh-1000xm4) has the exact same problem, but they apparently encrypt the firmware payloads and decrypt them on device. I've come this close to taking it apart and trying to dump and probe everything, but my shaky hands are too likely to break it. I would pay very good money for a hackable noice-cancelling headset.
> I would pay very good money for a hackable noice-cancelling headset.
https://pine64.com/product/pinebuds-pro-open-firmware-capabl... ?
Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
#10NICE! Way to stick with it OP! Speaking of loud earbuds, I might have the opposite problem. I use Bose exercise earbuds on the treadmill at what I believe is a comfortable and conservative volume, but my iPhone gives me a notification that the volume is too high and I am wrecking my hearing. Is the phone correct? If so, I'd be willing to sacrifice a bit of enjoyment for a bit of ear health. However, there's a compell…
I don’t think the OS knows how many dB’s come out of the other end. My Boses act differently with different Bluetooth chipsets. On Linux I have to do 150% volume to hear much of anything