Loud Bluetooth 'ding' noise. How to lower volume?

[CorneliusRox]

I dont know if it is this way with all of the units but with my rns-e when my phone connects to the bluetooth, it makes a super loud ding noise.

Does anyone know how to make it a lot quieter? I start my car for work (in the garage), go inside, grab my stuff, hear a super loud 'ding', then start my day, but if I walk too far away, it does it's disconnected 'ding', and it is just really annoying.

Anyways, TIA

[mr shickadance]

the way i did it, and there may be an easier way but this worked for me


when you get in the car, you have about a 1-2 second window of the 'ding' so to speak.....during that 1-2 second window, rifle the volume wheel on your steering wheel down


similarly, if you want to raise the navigation voice, when the girl is speaking, play with the volume wheel on your steering wheel, it's the same concept, just a much much smaller wheel, depending on how ear splittingly loud the ding is, you may have to do this up to 3 times



have fun, good luck

[CorneliusRox]

the way i did it, and there may be an easier way but this worked for me


when you get in the car, you have about a 1-2 second window of the 'ding' so to speak.....during that 1-2 second window, rifle the volume wheel on your steering wheel down


similarly, if you want to raise the navigation voice, when the girl is speaking, play with the volume wheel on your steering wheel, it's the same concept, just a much much smaller wheel, depending on how ear splittingly loud the ding is, you may have to do this up to 3 times



have fun, good luck

That's a good idea. So when it dings (realistically it's probably less than a second), turn the volume down on the wheel and it will adjust the ding volume from then on?

Thanks Scott

[mr shickadance]

precisely

[drumnjuny]

so when the nav is talking, you can adjust the volume and it won't change the music volume but it will change the nav woman's volume. same goes for if you're on the phone, for me it changes the "bluetooth" volume setting on my phone (but i think that is just a reflection of the phone volume setting the car is set to). this is brilliant as i never thought to try to change the ding volume while it was going... my question is do u think its a separate volume setting stored or is it the phone setting that counts for the ding as well?

i'll try to experiment and find out at lunch

[JPT]

I did the same, and the volume has been fine since. It worked almost a year ago. I have yet to be able to get it to remember that I don't need the call volume to be all the way up when I make a call. When a call comes in, it remembers my last setting, but the call out volume is WAY high.

And another thing I have given up on... Getting the RNS-E to stay on presets when the car is off for more then like 10 minutes. All I listen to is XM, so I have to sit in the car, hit radio, then hit the top left preset button. Then hit navigation AND hit the bottom right to get the map view EVERY TIME I GET IN THE CAR...

[mr shickadance]

so when the nav is talking, you can adjust the volume and it won't change the music volume but it will change the nav woman's volume. same goes for if you're on the phone, for me it changes the "bluetooth" volume setting on my phone (but i think that is just a reflection of the phone volume setting the car is set to). this is brilliant as i never thought to try to change the ding volume while it was going... my question is do u think its a separate volume setting stored or is it the phone setting that counts for the ding as well?

i'll try to experiment and find out at lunch

the intial ding is stored in your car, not your phone.....as for actual voice calling? not sure, i do know that if you want the phone to ring instead of the ring in the car when you bhave an incoming call, (for an iphone, not tested on android) you just flip your switch on your phone from silent to loud....when an incoming call comes in, the phone will ring not the entire car

[dbens]

hate to thread jack but i have a simillarly different problem i guess... my ding is loud enough but i cant really hear my phone call properly i have to turn down the heat and roll up all the windows and even then its definately too low. I tried highering the volume during the ding and playing with settings on my phone but to no avail. Also tried this on different phones. Audi says everything is normal when i last took it in but it was the leats of my rpoblems so i kinda forgot to argue about that... anyone?

[JPT]

the intial ding is stored in your car, not your phone.....as for actual voice calling? not sure, i do know that if you want the phone to ring instead of the ring in the car when you bhave an incoming call, (for an iphone, not tested on android) you just flip your switch on your phone from silent to loud....when an incoming call comes in, the phone will ring not the entire car

Mine rings to the car, no matter if my iphone is on silent, or on sound. But incoming calls are not loud anymore for me. Once I lowered the steering wheel volume while a call was coming in. It is the sound of the phone ringing when I am calling someone that doesn't remember the setting from the last time the car was running.

[80sGuy]

the way i did it, and there may be an easier way but this worked for me


when you get in the car, you have about a 1-2 second window of the 'ding' so to speak.....during that 1-2 second window, rifle the volume wheel on your steering wheel down


similarly, if you want to raise the navigation voice, when the girl is speaking, play with the volume wheel on your steering wheel, it's the same concept, just a much much smaller wheel, depending on how ear splittingly loud the ding is, you may have to do this up to 3 times



have fun, good luck

But the problem is it'll also sequentially lowered the volume on your phone.

[drumnjuny]

But the problem is it'll also sequentially lowered the volume on your phone.

ah, i think that answers my question. makes sense to me.

[CorneliusRox]

But the problem is it'll also sequentially lowered the volume on your phone.

are you sure. I think the ding is it's own setting, like the NAVI voice is. The difference is that the NAVI voice has a setting that I can find to change it. As for talking on your phone through the car, that is based on your phones bluetooth volume. You can see your phone adjusting when you change the volume on the steering wheels while talking on the phone.

[mr shickadance]

it did not affect the voice of my calls at all....we may be talking about a different 'ding'....i was referencing when you intially get in your car, switch the key to 'on' and the car bonds with the blue tooth and gives you a 'ding'.....for some people this initial 'ding' is incredibly loud

[JPT]

Cornelius is correct. The ding is adjustable on it's own. You just have to lower the volume on the steering wheel, while it is dinging... It took me a few times of starting the car and shutting it down. But now that ding, is quite.

[80sGuy]

it did not affect the voice of my calls at all....we may be talking about a different 'ding'....i was referencing when you intially get in your car, switch the key to 'on' and the car bonds with the blue tooth and gives you a 'ding'.....for some people this initial 'ding' is incredibly loud

That's the tone I'm about talking about, it's like a quick two-step 'bi-ding'. Try making a call to your voicemail, then turned the volume from either your phone or car (radio button or steering wheel button) down, then hang up. Now when you shut the car off the noise level should significantly reduced. This should be the same when the next time you start the vehicle, it should have a lower and softer bi-ding...or 'ding'. The problem to this is I'd have to turn the volume up on my phone when I'm not at the car because the bluetooth had 'sequentially' took control of it earlier.

[mr shickadance]

huh, wierd, yea i mean im sure there are easier ways to reduce the ding....thats just something i stumbled upon bc i had just put in a new subwoofer and like the 3 year old i really am, i was listening to some jungle music at full volume to hear the bass, so when i started my car in the morning i was rifling the volume as to not blast my ear drums and i noticed the ding sound went down

[CorneliusRox]

huh, wierd, yea i mean im sure there are easier ways to reduce the ding....thats just something i stumbled upon bc i had just put in a new subwoofer and like the 3 year old i really am, i was listening to some jungle music at full volume to hear the bass, so when i started my car in the morning i was rifling the volume as to not blast my ear drums and i noticed the ding sound went down

Well, thank you for listening to your music loud!
I'm going to see if I can stay content with my car. My truck has a 15" L7 and custom back seat/full ported box. Looks good, but I like having a ton of room in the trunk of my car.

[CorneliusRox]

So I sat in my car and tried messing with this. Is this not a permanent solution? It seems like I have to change the volume very quickly every single time. Is there something I did wrong or is that just what I have to deal with?

[hiwhatsupnothin]

the way i did it, and there may be an easier way but this worked for me


when you get in the car, you have about a 1-2 second window of the 'ding' so to speak.....during that 1-2 second window, rifle the volume wheel on your steering wheel down


similarly, if you want to raise the navigation voice, when the girl is speaking, play with the volume wheel on your steering wheel, it's the same concept, just a much much smaller wheel, depending on how ear splittingly loud the ding is, you may have to do this up to 3 times



have fun, good luck

Tried this and I can verify it works! I have it nice and quiet now!

[CorneliusRox]

Tried this and I can verify it works! I have it nice and quiet now!

yes, I agree. But do you have to do that every time you star the car?

[mr shickadance]

the only difference i could see between us would be the following

1) i had rns-e.....not sure if you had nav or not
2) i had an iphone at the time ....no sure if you have that or not
3) i never vag'd my car.....in your sig it says you did


im just thinking that those 3 things may have impacted the results but i am not sure.....i mean possibly messing with all the convienance features in VAG made it not remember the volume? but for me, the ding volume stayed where it was once i lowered it permentantly


but idk...

[CorneliusRox]

I have rns-e, but I think maybe the vag changed it? LAME! maybe it has to do with the seatbelt chime or the euro lights

[JPT]

I do not have to redo the ding volume every time. It has been fixed for over a year.

I do have to adjust the outgoing sound volume (when you call someone from your phone) every time.

[CorneliusRox]

no, my ding needs to be changed every time the car is turned off and back on...

I have an 08, wonder if that matters. I think I am on 260 too

[JPT]

no, my ding needs to be changed every time the car is turned off and back on...

I have an 08, wonder if that matters. I think I am on 260 too

I have an '08 RNS-E, with 260 as well. Ding is quiet now...

[CorneliusRox]

wierd... have you done any vagcom?

[JPT]

wierd... have you done any vagcom?

I have done windows up and down from key FOB, and no seatbelt chime. That's it.

[CorneliusRox]

hmm, the only other thing I did (that I can think of) is the euro lights. maybe that has something to do with it.

When you did the ding volume did you just go through these steps?:
1) get in car
2) start car
3) wait for the silence before the ding of the bluetooth connect
4) rapidly turn the volume down on your steering wheel
5) repeat until it is quiet

[JPT]

I kept at it until I was turning the steering wheel volume down at the exact moment the ding played. It too a few times, until I got it just right.

[bnish]

you have to hold your voice comand button down while your turning the volume down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dont press it too early or too late though. you have to get the timing right

[CorneliusRox]

you have to hold your voice comand button down while your turning the volume down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dont press it too early or too late though. you have to get the timing right

really?

I dont think I did that but it seemed to work a bit at some point over the 3k I put on the car in the past few days.

[bnish]

worked for me that way on the first try. its still a mystery to me though because i cant change it now after trying the same method

[Mc Suly]

That ding is pretty loud but you get used to it lol

[CorneliusRox]

That ding is pretty loud but you get used to it lol

ha ha I hate it. I definitely got it to be quieter though, just not as quiet as I would like.
If it didnt ding at all I would be happy. I can see the little bluetooth icon, and that would be good enough.

[DrZEUS]

Don't mean to be bringing up an old thread, but I got to this thread using the search.

The ding scares my gf every time we get into the car. I've tried the volume down while it's dinging method but to no avail. Is there a setting you can change with VAG-COM? There must be!

I have a 2008 with Symphony II+ and DIS. Disabled door chime, did fog light mod, and switched to one button push for all doors unlock on fob, all with VAG-COM.

[PNW Avant]

How did you do the door chime? I thought you could only do seatbelt chime.

As for bluetooth, just navigate to the bluetooth module and scroll through the channels in adaptation 10 and see what comes up. Last time I used vag com, all the descriptions poped up in the top drop down menu.

[DrZEUS]

How did you do the door chime? I thought you could only do seatbelt chime.

As for bluetooth, just navigate to the bluetooth module and scroll through the channels in adaptation 10 and see what comes up. Last time I used vag com, all the descriptions poped up in the top drop down menu.

Sorry that should have read "disabled seatbelt chime"...but come to think of it, I dont have a door chime either...so I must have VAG'd that too maybe? lol

I will check the bluetooth module tomorrow and see if something pops up to change the ding volume....thanks.

[CorneliusRox]

I looked all over and never found a solution. You can scroll down on the steering wheel very quickly right when you hear the volume cut because it is going to make the BT connect noise, but that's about it. I have just gotten used to it. My fiance has too. If you do find a VCDS way to change it, let me know!

On another note, I would love to get rid of the door chime too!

[JPT]

The steering wheel scroll has still worked for me. I never dings loud anymore.

Door chime, I never hear mine, I only hear the short seat belt chime, when I first start the car. I Vag'ed off the seat belt light/notification.

[VroomTT]

I want to add that I just did the wheel scroll on my S4 and it worked right away. That's with most of the vagcom mods done too. Belt chime, remote windows, euro lights. No prob.

The chime is not completely gone, but its significantly better