Cant get full volume

Question

After putting my phone back to restore settings ( only way i could get it off headphone setting) I cannot get full sound out of it it is showing it is on full volume but you can hardly hear it ring. It's a 3gs

Answer 1

This is an interesting subject .... I recently got a Sansa Clip (great MP3 player for the price) but the volume at max was pitiful. A search on the internet showed that due to an EU directive (I think) the volume was capped.  I found instructions to reset the device and instead of Europe enter USA during the setup process. I did just that and now the volume is fine - much louder. So ... this may be a legal requirement imposed on us (and Nokia) by our elders and betters (HAH).
Extract from another website;
"Finally, your comment on European Union iPods. You are correct, all iPods (and all other makes of mp3 player) sold within the European Union (EU) countries have lower volume output than those sold in the rest of the world. This is because the EU has decided that we should be protected from ourselves."
So iPods seem to be subject to this as well - from my knowledge it applies to any device capable of playing sound - and I suspect this includes mobile phones.
The regulations have been introduced as listening to 85db for more than 40 hours a week, or 89db for more than 5 hours per week have been shown to have long term damaging effects on hearing.  Given the fact that on public transport I can regularly here the music (from so-called personal devices) of half a dozen young people round me, I wouldn't be surprised if half the population currently at teenage is deaf by the time they are 30.
My current phone - Samsung Galaxy Note