[wimble]

I've got 12.0-RC1 running on a Samsung Galaxy 2. And it's very, very happy. As am I! I'm loving having the same piece of software on 4 different platforms at home (Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, and Android). But found one "quirk": the volume control.

For all my other apps, the phone volume control either sets the phone ring volume, or the media playback volume, using a standard Android popup, on top of the application image. (I'm not even sure the applications are aware of the volume changes, although I don't know what's going on under the surface). XBMC instead, grabs control of the volume changes, and therefore gives a scale up to the volume level that's already been set. Which is fine if I want to turn the volume down, but ineffective if I want to turn it up.

Eg. if I've turned the media volume down to 60% at night (I use MortPlayer's sleep timer as I'm going to sleep), then in the morning, XBMC's maximum volume is only 60%, and I can't turn it up any higher. Instead, I have to fire up a different media player, turn up the master volume, and then switch back to XBMC.

Is there any better way of doing this?

[shorty_hughes]

I am also having the same issue except and I tried your work around which seems to work. Exit app, open different media player, adjust volume, close that media player and open xmbc. I found best result were to turn volume up full which allows me to turn down as required when running xbmc.

Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 with Android 4.1.1 running xbmc-12.0-Frodo_rc2-armeabi-v7a.apk

Again this is a slightly annoying problem but I realise that it is a Beta and as such might be working on final release.

[kriaxpatala]

Same problem, and just finished installing the final version However, the suggested workaround works, thanks.

GS3 I9300 as well.

Regards.

[MukiDA]

Hate to pop up a dead thread, but 18 months later this is actually still the behavior present in Android XBMC. Is this an issue with XBMC being able to *read* the media volume setting but not being able to *write* it?

[Koying]

Are you using the latest Gotham release?