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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 >_<