For most owners of smartphones, it can be a drag to use the included speakers. The sound from those devices almost never sounds loud enough, and many times the quality of the audio is very poor. However, there are many different methods of improving
both the sound level and quality of your phone including headphone volume booster apps or even just pairing a solid set of headphones with your device instead of using more generic ones.
In this article, we shall go over many of those methods. It’s more than likely that at least one of these ideas, or maybe a combination of several of them, will help boost your volume and audio quality on your smartphone.
1. Always check your volume and other audio phone settings first
You might be amazed at how many people who own a phone don’t go into their settings to see if they can tap a slider or other control to improve the audio. This simple move could help boost the volume. If you want to do just that, just tap on the Settings app on your phone and then scroll down to the “Sound and vibration” section. Tapping on that option will bring up more options, including a “Volume” selection. Tapping on that will bring up several sliders to control volume for many aspects of your phone. The Media slider is the one you really want to use to lower or increase the sound from audio and other media apps.
Android owners can also check out some extra audio adjustments in the “Sound and vibration” section of Settings. Scroll down to the very bottom to check out the “Sound quality and effects” selection. Tapping on that will bring up Android equalizer, with several sliders that can be used to help improve the quality of your phone’s audio.
2. Use a Headphone volume booster app
There are a number of apps that are available in the Google Play Store that claim to boost the native volume of your smartphone. Most of these work pretty well. One of them is simply called Ultimate Volume Booster from developer Porrassoft, you can get from Google Play store. It will increase the overall volume on your phone by as much as 40 percent.
As we said, there are many volume booster apps in the Google Play Store, and you can browse through them right now to see if you can find one that will work on your phone. Be aware that increasing the volume of your phone’s speakers using one of these apps has the potential to actually damage the speaker’s hardware in the long term, so you might want to try another method, or use one of these booster apps in small doses.