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From: VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>
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Subject: Re: Samsung Galaxy A11 Ring Volume
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:12:06 -0600
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<jaugustine@verizon.net> wrote:

> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
> 
>> <jaugustine@verizon.net> wrote: 
>> 
>>> I have a Samsung Galaxy A11 Tracfone (smart phone). 
>>> 
>>> When someone calls me on my Tracfone, the first couple rings are at
>>> a low volume.
>> 
>> Tried a different ring tone?  There are ring tones on my phone I do
>> not use because they start soft to grow louder.  I won't hear the
>> first soft rings, so I have less time to answer the phone.  Instead
>> I use an always-loud ring tone.
> 
> I wonder what model phone you have where the Ring Tones have a built
> in Volume control !!! 
> 
> My phone is a Samsung Galaxy A11. 
> 
> Any Ring Tone I tried has a progressive volume (low to loud). 

Mine is an old c.2019 LG V20 running Android 8.0.0.  It was released in
2016, LG stopped support in 2019, and then LG left the smartphone market
in 2021.  It will never get an OS update, and I'm not rooting my primary
phone to put someone else's firmware on it.  

I can pick a ring tone, and the global volume for several types of
sounds, but ring tones themselves have different volumes.  Sound can
also have a different density which the human ear perceives as different
volume (commercials make use of density to make it sound like their ads
are louder).  Some are soft, some are loud, and some start soft and get
louder.  You can get ring tones online, so you might want to search for
ring tones that start loud.  If there is an option on your phone to
graduate the volume of ring tones, you'll have to find it to turn it
off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1_w_VEbVg
That author is talking about making alarm tones gradually increase in
volume.  He might be trekking into global sound options that might also
apply to call ring tones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnmNB9YFkt8
That guy mentions setting a gradual ring tone option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMsdDaL64c&t=26s
Another guy showing how to configure gradual volume on ring tones.

These were easy to find with just an online search, like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=android+ring+tone+volume+gradual+volume+increase&oq=android+ring+tone+volume+gradual+volume+increase

"Samsung Galaxy A11" doesn't really say which Android version you have,
plus phone makers customize their version of Android on their phone.
Samsung add many different or new features.  You didn't mention your
Android version on that phone, so I had to go to:

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a11-10132.php

That says the phone started with Android 10, but that doesn't mean that
is the version on your phone since there could've been updates since you
got the phone.  You could add "Android <yourversion>" to the above
online search to help focus on finding information on if, and where, is
a gradual volume setting on ring tones on your phone.

I don't have the gradual volume option on ring tones.  My Android
version is too old.  However, I can pick ring tones that sound softer or
louder to my ear.  Have you visited the ring tones to test them out to
see if some sound louder or softer to you?

If you're always hearing a progressive low-to-loud change in volume to
the ring tones in the available list on your phone, likely you have the
gradual volume option enabled.  While you could try using the nav paths
mentioned in the videos or online articles, don't you have a search box
when in settings where you could enter "gradual" or "increasing"?