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I hope it's okay to ask for support here. I have a 2022 Motorola 5G phone, and it keeps turning down the volume on its own by exactly four notches. Is it possible this is some kind of setting somewhere? Maybe I have accidentally turned this on, and it's trying to protect my hearing or something?

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[-] thantik@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure you've assumed right. A lot of builds of Android 12 will warn you if you're over a safe limit, but it's very possible that Motorola (who keep things pretty close to stock Android) probably have something that's knocking it down back to a 'safe' level after some bit of inactivity.

You may have a setting to disable it in the developer menu, usually accessed by tapping the build number in the "About" section of the settings menu a couple dozen times until it says "you are now a developer!" - and then checking there. Anything beyond that is gonna require root/rom or other trickery.

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Look for an option in there called "disable absolute volume"

[-] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll try that!

[-] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll poke around in the dev options.

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Do you have Dolby Atmos enabled? Apparently that can mess with the volume on Moto phones.

[-] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I do have it enabled. Thanks, I'll play around with that.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fairly sure I had this issue as well (same model) but sad to say I couldn't find a fix for it. I think it's a built-in safety feature so the volume isn't maxed out when you have earbuds in. Best I could do is setup Tasker to max out the volume when connecting to certain devices (just for my car).

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