Help Volume Issue with ICS (Not Bionic Exclusive)

jonathansullivan · Jul 2, 2012

Loaded the ICS leak over the weekend, works very well.

This morning I put my Bionic in my HD Dock which is attached to a speaker bar on my desk. Generally I keep the volume on the sound bar as low as possible, and then run the Bionic at about 1/2 volume, and its perfect for this working environment.

Found that there is a bug in ICS (Razr has this problem with released ICS). While the volume control goes through the motions, it is either full volume or off.

For troubleshooting, I turned off all of the "EQ & Effects" that ICS added, but that made no different.

Anyone have a suggestion for a workaround? My Pandora sounds sooo thin on the internal speaker, want to plug it back in, but can't until I can harness the level.

Other mentions of it:
Having a volume problem when listening through HD Dock since ICS upgrade

xmr405o · Jul 2, 2012

I've noticed that issue with my standard dock too when I was on build .2233 and still on .229. The speaker/aux jack that's on the dock doesn't recognize volume controls. I've plugged my headphones through the Bionic's headjack and that seems to be ok. Have you tried plugging your external speakers directly to the bionic rather than using the ones found on the dock?

Let me know if it works.

dautley · Jul 2, 2012

While I'm not familiar with this particular issue I'm thanking that because Bionic and Razr are practically the same phone on the inside, they are going to have the same bugs in ICS. Hopefully Motorola will fix it before the Bionic official release but it's kind of hard to report it because we aren't suppose to have it anyway.
If you feel comfortable you might want to go to Motorola's official Bionic forum and give it a shot. or complain about it in the official Razr forum and maybe they will fix both of them.

jonathansullivan · Jul 2, 2012

xmr405o said:
I've noticed that issue with my standard dock too when I was on build .2233 and still on .229. The speaker/aux jack that's on the dock doesn't recognize volume controls. I've plugged my headphones through the Bionic's headjack and that seems to be ok. Have you tried plugging your external speakers directly to the bionic rather than using the ones found on the dock?

Let me know if it works.

While on the dock, plugged in speakers and the volume control works.
...so it is only when running through the dock.

DanDroide · Jul 2, 2012

dautley said:
While I'm not familiar with this particular issue I'm thanking that because Bionic and Razr are practically the same phone on the inside, they are going to have the same bugs in ICS. Hopefully Motorola will fix it before the Bionic official release but it's kind of hard to report it because we aren't suppose to have it anyway.
If you feel comfortable you might want to go to Motorola's official Bionic forum and give it a shot. or complain about it in the official Razr forum and maybe they will fix both of them.

Actually, after reading this, I went into AndroidForums Razr forum and I found their comments on ICS interesting/helpful. They received ICS as late at June 30th.

TheCarsForever · Jul 3, 2012

I have contacted Motorola Enterprise Support and they confirm this is a known bug. It is slated to be fixed in the next software update, but there is no official ETA for the next update.

TheCarsForever · Jul 26, 2012

I have just heard back that I likely misunderstood the original response from Motorola. The headphone jack on docks now being treated as a line out instead of an amplified out has not been slated for correction. I can understand using line out - I like it on my Razr Maxx Navigation dock - but it should not a hard change. Letting users decide to use the line out or amplified out lets users is optimal. This way we can keep using our Motorola docks as has been the case for years or can change to the new line out.

Bowslayer · Jul 26, 2012

Im having sound issues as well. However, I am finding that, listening to music via Bluetooth Speaker with FM transmitter sounds absolutely Horrible suddenly. The signal loss at points in songs is unbearable. I thought my Jabra Cruiser was going bad so today I bought the Droid Roadster. Same issue no volume configuration solves this issue. I may have to go back to Gingerbread and stay there.

dave1812 · Jul 26, 2012

Bowslayer said:
Im having sound issues as well. However, I am finding that, listening to music via Bluetooth Speaker with FM transmitter sounds absolutely Horrible suddenly. The signal loss at points in songs is unbearable. I thought my Jabra Cruiser was going bad so today I bought the Droid Roadster. Same issue no volume configuration solves this issue. I may have to go back to Gingerbread and stay there.

oh great. first we put up with whine in the headphone output and next up is ICS's audio problems?? damn...

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