Boost sound..?
 

Hello,

I've had an issue with my N900 lately. The sound has lowered when using headphones. Usually when I listened music, the sound was at about 70% to be loud enough for me. Now even at 100% it is too low for my liking.

I already checked alsamixer, tried changing various settings to no avail, just made things worse when the sound disappeared completely without headphones :) I reset alsamixer, rebooted the phone and fixed that problem, however headphone sound is still too low.

The sound is lower everywhere - music, videos, calls. But only on headphones.. speakers are just as loud as ever.

Any suggestions how to fix this or what might've caused it?

Re: Boost sound..?
 

Have you tried other headphones?
Headphones can break and show this behavior, especially those with a adjustable resistor for volume control.

Re: Boost sound..?
 

Have you tried another headphone? Maybe try to reinstall pulseaudio.. or try the fix proposed by MuhammedAG.

Re: Boost sound..?
 

Hmm, I wonder why I never considered trying other headphones..

I am using the ones that came with N900, they have no volume control on them.

I was using them with my PC at home, I was able to get the sound higher than what I get from N900 though.

Will try plugging in different headphones at home.. thanks for the advice.


Also, how do I reinstall pulseaudio? apt-get threw out bunch of dependancy messages, so I assume it's not as simple as removing and installing it again.

Re: Boost sound..?
 

I've found that my creative zen headphones were louder and the sound was richer compared to the nokia ones

Re: Boost sound..?
 

if I remember correctly, your PC doesn't have to follow strict volume limits in order to prevent mp3-players too loud output that causes hear loss.

Re: Boost sound..?
 

Well, no, but like I said in my first post - I used to have the volume high enough that I didn't even need to max the volume setting... now I do and it's still too quiet.

Edit: I suppose one of the programs I'd installed might've caused the issue, since I'm a total geek and addiced to trying out new apps. Have encountered weird errors due to this "habit" before >_<