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Google wants to reduce hearing loss with Android 14's latest safety feature (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/android@lemdro.id
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[–] 31 points 3 years ago (3 children)

While I like the concept, I don't think it's going to be very useful

A given volume, e.g. 50% can be vastly different on different headphones/earbuds. Only really useful on 1st party products

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    For me personally, I connect my phone to my car and always have my phone's volume at 100% for the Bluetooth because I control the volume with the physical knob in the car.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Man, I hate that BlueTooth doesn't have an equivalent of "line-out" that isn't affected by the host devices' volume settings. It's so annoying when I can barely hear my music because I turned the volume way down on my phone while watching a video late last night.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    It's should to be close enough, the spec is called sensitivity (SPL) and most headphone manufacturers try to hit around 100dB/mW.
    Hopefully the setting would allow you to fine tune it based on what headphones you have.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Where exactly are you seeing that most manufactures are aiming for that spl?

    I own many headphones all with vastly different sensitivities. And headphones are almost always far less sensitive than IEM's

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Samsung turns the volume icons green beyond 60%, and it's much better than nothing; I would've raised the volume way above that way too often, if it weren't for that feature.

    There's a feature to limit increasing the volume beyond some point, which—if you enable—you'd have to disable it to increase the volume, but I find it unnecessary.

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