G+_Jeff F. Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Installed Lollipop on my Nexus 5, generally like it, but one great big glaring issue for me is the volume controls. What happened? I used to use the power button long press to toggle silent/vibrate/sound on all the time. It's gone?! The new controls are impossible to figure out? How do I set silent mode with no vibrate? Or vibrate only? Anyone else confused by the volume controls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff F. Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 I have reason to want to toggle between totally silent/just vibrate/sound on. So this is a pretty big issue for me. I just can't believe something so fundamental is gone. I've seen mention of the Priority settings, but those do not do the same job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff F. Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 Hopefully everyone will star the issue in the issue tracker so it gets attention. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79445 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Nick Wellman Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Ron Amadeo talks about this in his article "Android 5.0 Lollipop, thoroughly reviewed" in the section titled "Notifications and quick settings panels". I won't try to re-explain it, but say that I agree with you about not being able to toggle the three options. You can read for yourselves in his article. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/android-5-0-lollipop-thoroughly-reviewed/4/#h1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Kwok Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I use an app called AudioManager that lets you set different profiles that have presets for everything that can make sounds in Android. Then, you can add these profiles as widgets. In my setup, I have one widget called MUTE and one called NORMAL. One tap and the phone changes to whatever settings I have assigned to that profile. Works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff F. Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 Turned my volume to the so-called silent position last night, set the phone on my night stand. The vibrating woke me up. This is ridiculous. The lack of a real silent setting is unacceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff F. Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 I just want to use the volume control to get to silent. Shouldn't have to add steps to kinda sorta do a similar thing. It's really bothering me every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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