Android Question Testing if all sounds are muted

[rleiman]

Hi Everyone,

Can you tell me if there is an easy way to test if all sounds on a device are muted?

Is there a toggle I can set in code to mute and un-mute the device?

Thanks.

 

[Todd Carlton]

Have you explored Phone.SetMute?

http://www.b4x.com/android/help/phone.html

 

[rleiman]

Have you explored Phone.SetMute?

http://www.b4x.com/android/help/phone.html

Hi,

Thanks for letting me know of Phone.SetMute.

I used it like this:

Sub SwMute_CheckedChange (Checked As Boolean)

    If SwMute.Checked = True Then
        LabelMuted.text = "Sound Is On"

        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_ALARM, False)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_MUSIC, False)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_NOTIFICATION, False)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_RING, False)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_SYSTEM, False)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_VOICE_CALL, False)
       
        kvConfigurationSettings.PutSimple1("Sound Is Muted", 0, "Not Muted")
    Else
        LabelMuted.text = "Muted"
       
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_ALARM, True)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_MUSIC, True)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_NOTIFICATION, True)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_RING, True)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_SYSTEM, True)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_VOICE_CALL, True)
       
        kvConfigurationSettings.PutSimple1("Sound Is Muted", 0, "Muted")
    End If
End Sub

but all of the volumes got muted except VOLUME_ALARM and VOLUME_VOICE_CALL.

They stay the same and are not muted. Is this a bug with SetMute ?

 

[Erel]

You can make your code shorter:

 phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_ALARM, SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_MUSIC,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_NOTIFICATION,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_RING,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_SYSTEM,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_VOICE_CALL,  SwMute.Checked)
... other code here

It is possible that Android doesn't allow you to mute these channels. You can change the ringer mode instead.

 

[rleiman]

You can make your code shorter:

phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_ALARM, SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_MUSIC,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_NOTIFICATION,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_RING,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_SYSTEM,  SwMute.Checked)
        phThePhone.SetMute(phThePhone.VOLUME_VOICE_CALL,  SwMute.Checked)
... other code here

It is possible that Android doesn't allow you to mute these channels. You can change the ringer mode instead.

Hi Erel,

Thanks for the coding sample.

Since it looks like Android won't allow me to mute them, I think I will just set the volumes to 0 and restore them to their original values when the user taps a switch view.