Help ICS - volume rocker only adjusts ringtone

[zuoken]

So, install ICS, great. Got a text message, was a little loud. Fine, hit the volume down rocker a couple times. Got another message... same volume.

Went into settings - sounds - volume... I come to find out that there's separate volume sliders for ringtone, notification (texts) media, and alarm. And hitting the volume rocker only adjusts the ringtone volume and nothing else. What? Gingerbread did not do this. So if I need to quiet my phone down, I have to go into settings to adjust a slider for ringer and texts separately? Come on.

 

[Joshbear]

I've noticed that too. Gingerbread also had them separate, but at least you had the option of having the notification volume the same as the ringtone volume. I have no idea why this was removed, but it's dumb.

 

[james98520]

You're correct that ICS has taken away the feature to adjust ringer and notification volumes at the same time (so far that I've seen anyways). But also, the rocker does do media and Bluetooth volumes too, just that you have to be in an app or feature that uses those before the rocker will control the volume for that. For example, play media and you can use the rocker for media volume, or in a phone call adjust the phone call volume, etc.

 

[seVer]

or you can just create a shortcut/widget to the sounds function for free

 

[seVer]

No I haven't tried it. Don't need to spend money to change an easy setting.