Voice Navigation anncouncement too quiet

[Westerwald_Rider]

Dear MRA Team,

am using Myroute app 4.4.0-404. During the navigation the Voice get quiet, and quiet.

When using the volume down buttons, the voice announcement becomes quieter and quieter. You can no longer increase it while driving. Eventually you can no longer hear the announcement at all. If you want to vokume up it doesn't.
The volume always refers to the connected BT device. The Myroute, however, refers to the volume of the cell phone. You have to stop an navigate to Audio settings. At the next volume down on an connected SENA 30K Myroute app get quieter an quieter. The same procedure, you got to stop and level up in the app.
I testet it on SENA 30 and Carpuride in my Car. It is both. At all devices the same issue.
You should offer three levels: quiet, medium and loud. Or a fixed level hook so it get not quieter. So that the navigation instructions can be heard clearly above the music.

Best regards from Westerwald

Westerwaldrider

[Lluis Arasanz]

I can also add:
When music o audio is ON, Next can down this audio volume, but Next announcements are also low volume, so is more difficult to hear them.

If Audio is OFF (music stoped before Next announcements) then audio level from Next is higher and perfectly audible.

This was checked at Android and IOS devices directly, I cant tes't it on Carplay/AndroidAuto.

Also, in same configuration, other apps like Tomotom AmiGo or Radarbot uses a higher volume output when music is on, so I can hear perfect above music, while I can't hear Next announcements.

Regards

[Con Hennekens]

@Westerwald_Rider said in Voice Navigation anncouncement too quiet:

When using the volume down buttons, the voice announcement becomes quieter and quieter. You can no longer increase it while driving. Eventually you can no longer hear the announcement at all.

That's a new one...
Why can't you increase the volume while driving, does it already show max volume?
I never saw (heard) this behavior.

The volume always refers to the connected BT device. The Myroute, however, refers to the volume of the cell phone.

I assume you are talking about the volume slider in the MRA app settings? This slider shows the system volume, equal to pressing the volume buttons. The slider may not show the BT symbol, but when your phone is connected to a headset, it certainly influences the BT volume.

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@Westerwald_Rider I can confirm this; I had these problems on my trip this weekend. At first, I thought it was due to the very warm temperatures, but I also had to increase the volume in my phone's audio settings because I couldn't hear any announcements at all. The announcement from the Blitzer.de app, however, was audible at a normal volume.

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@Con-Hennekens Hello Con,
Even with the volume control in the MRA app set to maximum, I couldn't hear any navigation announcements.

Only when I set the media volume to maximum in the Android phone's "Sound and Vibration Settings" could I hear the navigation announcements again.

In other apps, the volume can be adjusted independently of the Android system in the "App Settings."
I would welcome this option in the MRA app as well.

[Con Hennekens]

@Peter-Zehentreiter, When I change the slider of the in-app volume setting, the OS system Media Volume changes accordingly. It is one and the same sound channel. When I change that slider while a BT headset is connected. The smame slider does affect the BT volume, just like what happens with the volume up and down buttons. Even the volume change graphic from Android itself is displayed over the app...

And when you use the volume buttons to change the volume, the slider in the app changes accordingly, and in menu you show above the media channel is the one changed. So to me, really, the in-app slider has no function at all, since everyone uses volume buttons, much easier.