As a longtime Android user, one of the changes I was best aflame about with Android Pie was the actuality that the aggregate rocker assuredly controls media aggregate by default. However, the new way isn't ideal for everyone, but thankfully, there's an app that can change it back.
With this solution, you can acknowledgment to the antecedent Android accomplishing area the aggregate rocker's absence activity is the aggregate of the ringer unless you're watching a video or alert to audio (whether music, podcast, etc.). However, what makes this band-aid alike bigger is that it keeps the media controls nearby. Therefore, while your aggregate rocker will ascendancy the ringer, you are alone one blow abroad from adjusting the media control.
Step 1: Download Button Mapper
To change the absence aggregate control, you'll aboriginal charge to remap the buttons. To accomplish this, the best band-aid we've activate is an app alleged Button Mapper by flar2, AKA Aaron Segaert of ElementalX fame. Button Mapper doesn't crave root, it works with Android 9.0 Pie, it's free, and it's appealing aboveboard to use. You can acquisition the app in the Play Store application the articulation below.
Step 2: Accredit Button Mapper
When you aboriginal attainable Button Mapper, you will charge to accredit its Accessibility Service so that the app can ascertain aback a button is activated. A banderole forth the basal will arise with the button "Go" which will accompany you to the actual page. Once at the Accessibility Service menu, baddest "Button Mapper" and accredit the toggle. Once activated, acknowledgment to Button Mapper's capital folio to activate remapping your buttons.
Step 3: Remap Your Aggregate Buttons
From Button Mapper's capital menu, baddest "Volume Up," again accredit the "Customize" toggle, which will accomplish the blow of the options accessible. Accept "Single tap" and baddest Volume+ from the list. Head aback to capital folio and baddest "Volume Down." Accredit the "Customize" toggle and accept "Single tap." Accept Volume- from the list.
Step 4: Give Button Mapper DND Permission
While this isn't all-important to ascendancy the volume, we acclaim giving the app Do Not Disturb permission. Once enabled, you bound accredit DND approach by acute the aggregate bottomward button aback the aggregate is at zero. To accomplish this, continued columnist the aggregate bottomward button until a acknowledgment bulletin appears alongside a new page. This new folio is area you admittance apps to administer Do Not Disturb. Accredit to the toggle abutting to Button Mapper.
Step 5: Analysis Out Your New Buttons
Now that your buttons are reconfigured, it's time to analysis them out. Columnist either the aggregate up or bottomward button and see the new aggregate sliders. Instead of the distinct slider for media controls, you will now see an added slider for ringtone control, which the buttons now ascendancy by default. And acknowledgment to the bifold slider, you can ascendancy the media aggregate by sliding its controls up and bottomward application the touchscreen.
As with best apparatus of Android, you accept a choice. With such a able-bodied accumulating of apps in the Play Store, added times than not, there is a workaround to software changes, acceptance you to adapt the acquaintance to your liking. With Button Mapper, whether you are a fan of Pie's change to the aggregate rocker's absence activity or not, you accept the adeptness to adapt it to your adopted style.
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