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r/GooglePixel•
Dalambo

App solutions for volume button change?

I updated my P6P this morning and now the volume slider wants to change the call volume on my phone, instead of the previous default to media volume. This change led to me disrupting a meeting with a call ringer that should have been a vibrate, scaring the dog with media that was too loud and took forever to change with a manual slider, and has generally ruined the Pixel experience for me today. I've had the Pixel XL, 3XL, 5, and 6Pro, and this is some behavior I haven't seen since a Droid 2 back in 2010.

Any 3rd party apps that folks are using to put this setting back how it was yesterday?

Posted Mar 31, 2022, 10:49 PM UTC

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HumoriiPixel 6 :pixel6coral:•

This was an awful change and I hope they put it back the way it was, or make a way to change it. I've always had my phone on vibrate and it's been so disruptive when I've accidentally turned on the ringer by trying to turn up the volume on something else.

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eruantiensaga•

Have you tried rebooting your phone? I noticed that for the first time this evening along with some other weird glitches and a reboot fixed it for me so that the volume buttons only change the media volume again.

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DalamboOP•

I had rebooted after it rang in the meeting yesterday morning... Nothing. Just rebooted again and it fixed it. IT'S A MIRACLE! Thank you, kind internet stranger!

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eruantiensaga•

Just had it happen to me again. I don't know if it could be something similar, but seems to happen when I get a call and I'm connected to bluetooth. I'm wondering if there's something to do with one of the services that doesn't let go of the audio after a call has ended.

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DalamboOP•

This is the problem with supporting an indie tech firm with our phone hardware! Sometimes, the software is buggy due to lack of resources for rigorous testing! 😝

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eruantiensaga•

Lol, and here I thought I fell into a freelancing QA gig.

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