topic Re: Media volume setting greyed out in Other Smartphones

Media volume setting greyed out

mrg9999 — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 23:51:35 GMT

Can't change volume all of a sudden

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

AndrewL — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:48:59 GMT

@mrg9999: Please can you confirm the model number and current Android version of your phone? In the meantime, please disconnect any recently paired Bluetooth devices via Settings > Connections > Bluetooth > Tap the cog to the right of the relevant device > Unpair, then restart the phone to see if this helps. If the issue persists, head to Settings > Sounds and Vibration > Volume > Use Volume Keys for Media > On > Tap the 3 dots in the top right > Media Volume Limit > Off > Set Volume Limit PIN > Off.

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

mrg9999 — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:17:38 GMT

There was a brief pop up message before this happened. Is there a log file I can interrogate. I looked in developer options,

is was quite spooky. No audio worked from speaker , headphones, blue-tooth and I was about to perform a full restart. It has never been right since the last firmware update but thought I'd sleep on it.

Alarm went off at 08:00 and speaker, volume button, blue-tooth auto are working again.

I'd already looked into media volume limit and PIN and they were already set to OFF.

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

MrDC1 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 05:18:43 GMT

I've just had this problem after an update. It turned out that my Do Not Disturb settings had the media control turned off.

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

Anonymous User — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:30:31 GMT

Might want to check for Do Not Disturb restricting access to your media volume and also if you use Digital Well-being, make sure nothing is set to restrict anything that uses media volume.

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

revvit — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:39:18 GMT

It was the enabled Do Not Disturb option that was doing this for me. I must have turned it on accidently at some point.

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

BigDog63 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:53:12 GMT

Yep, this was it. Glad you posted that! Would have been nice if the others had led off with this, restarting phone, etc. before going over the various setting that could cause this.

Why does DND even turn this off? You want to prevent external sources from disturbing you. CLEARLY if you are trying to play media...you WANT to hear the sound (or, if not, you can turn it down yourself). So, the setting makes no sense (which is why I didn't check that). Also, have played media MANY times past the time I have DND set for. So, what made it suddenly decide to disable this?

Ruined my evening, messing around with this rather than relaxing to the media I was trying to play. Which is also the OPPOSITE of what people turn on DND for.

/endrant. 😉

Re: Re: Media volume setting greyed out

MrDC1 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:17:29 GMT

Glad this helped you. Hopefully Samsung patches this annoying bug soon for us

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

y0y4y0 — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:40:51 GMT

After fighting it, having the issue with my Note20 ultra (but not my wife's Note20 ultra 5g), and changing to an s24 ultra, I found the issue: I was not using Spotify!

I have always preferred to use the audio files on my memory card (since I own the songs by buying the cd or whatever), but now I found out I have to start playing something with Spotify and then I can start playing something from my sound player and then I can change the volume.

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

Anonymous User — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:22:47 GMT

glad you were able to resolve the issue

Re: Media volume setting greyed out

Z-22 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:33:10 GMT

Red volume warning no longer showing on my s22