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Hello,

despite the fact that a headset is used, the audio of certain stream types (at least alarm, ring and notification on my Samsung SII+) is still routed to the speaker as well.

Because of this, the only way to prevent people from hearing the phone ringing, receiving WhatsApp messages etc. is to set the ringer mode to Silent. Meaning I won't hear such things as well...

This is not an Automagic issue but a well known android flaw for years, and seen on many devices (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36928407). As far as I know the app SoundAbout is the only one which addresses this issue, and since it works perfectly on my device, I wonder if it would be possible for Automagic to do the same (something like 'if headset is plugged in -> turn off speaker')?

Hi,

I'm not sure how SoundAbout does it but you could try to achieve something similar, you could turn the device to silent mode and play a sound with action Sound when a call is ringing.
I'll add a note to investigate what SoundAbout does. I fear that it's in unofficial API territory so I will likely not add support for this anytime soon.

Regards,
Martin

Hi Martin,

thank you for taking a look into it. Since it's always beneficial to become the only alternative to another app, I hope for the best.