topic Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker in XZ Series

Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

Hildur13 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:24:27 GMT

I have a Marshall Kilburn bluetooth speaker. Suddenly, the volume is really low when listening to music/radio through the phone, despite media volume set to max on the phone. Possibly the problem started with the last update (Android version 8.0.0), but not sure. I only know that sound output through this speaker was great and no longer is. ClearAudio+ is activated (and was when it worked fine).

Checked with a different mobile, and sound was as expected, so the problem isn't the Kilburn.

Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

Hildur13 — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:45:44 GMT

No one? Anyone?

Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

Damo_ — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:31:33 GMT

Have you tried this? Seems to fix most recent Bluetooth issues...

/t5/Xperia-XZ1-Compact/Bluetooth-issue-after-update/m-p/1297136#M2072

Good luck!

Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

Hildur13 — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:22:46 GMT

Unfortunately, no success...

Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

Hildur13 — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:51:30 GMT

Few days later - working... Not sure what helped, unpairing/pairing a few times, restarted the phone etc. Now I just tried again without changing anything else and all of a sudden it worked. (Chose AVCRP 1.4)

Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

Hildur13 — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:29:24 GMT

Just kidding, not working again... Well, apparently connects, but not getting a full sound and proper volume. 🤔

Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

akarion — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:41:47 GMT

Its quite late, hope you fixed the problem already haha ))

But I encoutered the same couple of months ago and I found the solution. (My Device: Galaxy S10 Plus)

All you have to do is to Activate Developer Mode and go to Developer Options.

When you scroll you will find "Disable Absolute Volume" option and you just need to turn it ON.

Leave everything else default, it will fix the problem.

Hope this will help someone.

Good Luck!..

Re: Low volume through Bluetooth speaker

Hildur13 — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:16:36 GMT

Thanks! It did start to work again and has been fine since then. Out of curiousity I checked the setting you mentioned, and it is ON (meaning Absolute Volume inactivated?). Not sure whether that is something I fiddled with or not. But it is working now anyway, even if I don't know why.