Squatting Hen
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I love my WP, but I really wish there were separate volume controls. This has annoyed me since I first got my phone, and I did not have an iphone before.
The only people who want this feature are the same people who complain that Windows Phone isn't like iOS or Android. Sorry.
Those of us who have had devices for years view the "multiple volume settings" as the confusing usability nightmare that it is.
Sounds like your car has a defective A2DP processor.
The only people who want this feature are the same people who complain that Windows Phone isn't like iOS or Android. Sorry.
Those of us who have had devices for years view the "multiple volume settings" as the confusing usability nightmare that it is.
You are mistaken. Even when the phone is set to vibrate, when you take a screenshot it will still make a sound. Also when you hold down Start button to start TellMe, it was also make a sound.I don't get the Android and iOS people who want 5 different "volume" settings on one device. It's confusing and makes no sense.
It also means that, when apps adjust volume, it's inconsistent. Some apps will mute important volumes (like the alarm, which may make you sleep in).
Other times, you think audio is off when it's not. On the iPhone, for instance, you can actually put it in mute mode by flipping the mute switch (which Apple totally stole from Palm and the Treo, BTW -- where's the lawsuit?!?), and still have sound happen. This happened to me in an important meeting when I had an iPhone in "mute" mode that started BLASTING one of those annoying web video ads when I was looking up information pertinent to a topic being discussed. On Android and iOS devices, mute doesn't actually mean mute -- it means "sometimes mute."
With Windows Phone, audio is simple, easy and straightforward. Mute is ALWAYS mute, not "hopefully" mute. Volume level medium means medium volume, across the experience. It is how things should be. Multiple volumes is a complicated, confusing "feature" that adds nothing to the experience and significantly detracts from overall usability.
You are the king of mass generalization. 1976? I hope that's not your birth year.
For those of you that like the "simple" non-existent control as it stands, how the heck do you lose if they give what most of us want? You can simply set all volume levels the same and be done with it.
LOL It's not confusing on iOS.
What is so confusing... one is for Notifications... one is for everything else.
DONE!
For those of you that like the "simple" non-existent control as it stands, how the heck do you lose if they give what most of us want? You can simply set all volume levels the same and be done with it.
The only people who want this feature are the same people who complain that Windows Phone isn't like iOS or Android. Sorry.
Those of us who have had devices for years view the "multiple volume settings" as the confusing usability nightmare that it is.
On WP8, can I turn off text message sounds and just hear phone call sounds? That's what I need to have.
There should be 1 control for ringer volume within the settings. I like to have my ringer LOUD, and with the one volume control, I have to keep remembering to lower my volume for apps and music (especially painful when I forget to lower the volume and put in earphones and then music BLASTS).