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Re: How to get speaker on Phone when listening to voicemail?

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M.L. wrote:

>>Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
>>Android 4.4.4 Kitkat
>>
>>I get a call and they left a voicemail.  When I tap on the call in the
>>notifications list, I'm taken to the Phone app (the standard one
>>included in the Android setup) and into its Recent list with the new
>>call preselected.  I click on the Play button and the voicemail begins
>>to play - through the earpiece (the speaker to which you press your ear
>>on the rear of the case).  I'd like to have the voicemail play through
>>the speaker (on the front of the case); however, there is no speaker
>>icon for me to elect listening via speakerphone.
>>
>>If I make an outbound call using the Phone app, and after entering the
>>number and tapping the Call button, there is a speakerphone icon I can
>>tap to change output to the speaker.  Is it a limitation of the
>>pre-installed Phone app that it does not let me switch to speakerphone
>>when listening to voicemail?
>>
>>I have Google Voice installed.  Under Settings -> Call, the "Voicemail
>>service" option is configured to Google Voice (instead of carrier).  I
>>went into the Google Voice app where its "Voicemail playback" option is
>>set to "Play via speaker".  When I play a voicemail using the Google
>>Voice app, it does play through the speaker.
>>
>>However, it would be a nuisance to tap on a voicemail alert in the
>>notifications panel to be taken to the item in the Recent list of the
>>Phone app only to exit that and then open the Google Voice app to listen
>>to the voicemail over there.  I might have to do that if the standard
>>Phone app has no speakerphone option to use the speakerphone when
>>playing voicemails there or there is no global setting to change it to
>>always use the speakerphone to playback voicemail.
> 
> Once a call is placed or answered, SpeakerPhone EX automatically
> enables the speakerphone when your phone is held away from the ear,
> and disables it when held to the ear.
> https://goo.gl/SuKXnk
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidm8.speakerphoneex

Okay, I tried this but immediately noticed 2 problems:

- When it is outputting to the speaker, volume is a third, or less, of
what I've set using the volume control.  The caller's voice is to faint
when this app is using the speaker.  Volume is okay when I put the phone
next to my ear.  I found no separate volume control to adjust this app's
volume when outputting to the speaker.  It will do the switching okay;
however, its speaker volume is too low.

- Does not address my original issue.  When someone leaves a voicemail
and I tap on it in notifications to show it and tap on the Play button,
there is no output to the speaker, only to the earpiece.  Sound is still
output only to the earpiece when listening to voicemail despite that I
have the phone at arm's length.  So this app will do the switching on
for phone calls, not for listening to voicemail.

I notice that when the pre-installed Phone app is used for listening to
voicemail that sound is only output to the earpiece.  However, if I
listen to the voicemail using the Google Voice app, sound is output to
the speaker by default but there is a Speaker icon that I can tap which
sends sound to the earpiece.  So with the Google Voice app to listen to
voicemails, I can switch between speaker and earpiece.  The Speakerphone
Ex app has no effect in either voicemail app to switch between outputs.

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How to get speaker on Phone when listening to voicemail? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-03 09:48 -0500
  Re: How to get speaker on Phone when listening to voicemail? M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-08-05 03:25 -0500
    Re: How to get speaker on Phone when listening to voicemail? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-05 19:33 -0500
    Re: How to get speaker on Phone when listening to voicemail? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-05 21:05 -0500
      Re: How to get speaker on Phone when listening to voicemail? M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-08-08 02:20 -0500

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