After the update from android 14 to 15, my Bluetooth earbuds have become much louder. Before the update I could have the noise level at 1 to 3 whereas now even the first level seems to be very loud. Is this a Fairphone issue or this something wrong with the whole version of android 15?
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I also have the same issue. With my earbuds, the lowest volume is already quite loud. But I haven’t noticed a difference for my headphones.
There are usually/sometimes two separate volume controls when using BT sets, one via the phone, the second via the device.
Perhaps they have reset themselves after the update?
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Can’t really say how Android 14 to 15 affected this, but I recently switched from an old Pocophone F1 with a custom rom (crdroid) running Android 15 already to a brand new Fairphone 6 and I noticed worse volume controls on the Fairphone as well:
Overall, only every 2nd increase/decrease actually causes a change in audio volume via bluetooth. This makes it annoying to properly dial in, as the steps become twice as large.
Very annoying…
I tried disabling “Bluetooth absolute volume” in developer options, but my specific earbuds directly change the phone’s volume (ie. when I press volume up on the earbud, Android displays the volume meter). But it was a good suggestion.
For now as a workaround, I’m using Wavelet to lower the volume.
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It seems that this old problem got worse with Android 15, see here: