4s Ringing Tone Volume

4 May 2016 10:10:10

Drew McFarlane

Hi all,

With the volume turned to maximum, the ringing tone on my phone is still hard to hear (I have had my ears tested).

Is it possible to increase the volume within the settings or is there any other way to do this.

Drew

Re: 4s Ringing Tone Volume

4 May 2016 17:16:20

Mick Burrell

There's no way (I know of) to turn it up above maximum. Are you certain it's at maximum? Use the volume keys when you're not making or receiving a call. Other than that, are you using a built-in tone or one you've made? If the latter, then perhaps the music could have been recorded at a higher volume to help?

Re: 4s Ringing Tone Volume

4 May 2016 19:46:20

Drew McFarlane

Hi Mick, I am using a built in ringtone, "Old Phone" and the volume is turned up to maximum. Would it be possible to make my own loud ringtone or would the default settings prevent this?

Thank you.

Re: 4s Ringing Tone Volume

5 May 2016 11:32:15

Mick Burrell

I've not tried it but have a go - you have nothing to lose but a little time :-)

Re: 4s Ringing Tone Volume

7 May 2016 23:00:33

Tony Still

Hi Drew,

I had a similar problem with my (custom) ring tone. I was able to coax a little more volume out of it as follows - it's tone-dependent so may not work for your tone:
My tone is a 30s excerpt of music, turned into a ring tone. That means that I have access to the original audio file. I loaded it into an audio editor (I use the excellent Fission from Rogue Amoeba but any audio editor should do) and looked at the wave form. The volume is determined by the magnitude (height), not shape, of the wave form.

I could see that my audio never reached the maximum permissible before clipping (ie the highest point of the whole wave form was not as high as the 'max volume' limit of the sample). I increased the volume of the sample so that it just touched the maximum - any more will affect the quality - and saved it, then created a new ring tone from it.

The effect of this is to maximise the volume of the sound that the phone's amplifier starts with: louder in equals louder out, within the limits of the sample (this is equivalent to what happened to CDs in the early noughties: the audio engineers made the discs louder since we all know that louder is better ;-) ). So, if your sample has some 'headroom', you can squeeze a bit more out of it.

The other thing you could try is to use a sample with plenty of high frequencies, these seem to contrast with the usual background noises.

Re: 4s Ringing Tone Volume

8 May 2016 16:57:54

Drew McFarlane

Thank you for your suggestion Tony, I am working on it just now.

I will report back with the outcome asap.