[PSA] HQ Trivia for Android automatically turns up media volume without user interaction

I didn't even know it was possible without special permissions, but it apparently is.
You can reproduce it by muting your media volume and then opening the app (it only happens after a fresh start, so swiping the app from recents first may be necessary).

The worst thing is, it does so even if you're not actively using the app, maybe it runs in background from time to time to check for notifications or whatever.

This happens without the user noticing, you don't see the volume slider going up, and that may lead to some embarrassing situations, where you know you muted audio, only for it turning itself up to 70% in the worst moments.

I'm using version 0.9.3 beta and already contacted the developers, but I thought it would be useful to share it to everybody, since someone may think it's an hardware issue with their phones (even though that should at least show the volume slider).



Submitted December 30, 2017 at 07:06PM by Osiride http://ift.tt/2Cg747C http://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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