Possible Increasing Ringtone Fix

[Skyline987]

I did some Googling and found this on Treo Central (http://discussion.treocentral.com/tr...tweaks-13.html). I made a new DWORD value in Attenuation named 5 with a value of 1 and changed the attenuationcatagory of ring to 5 and so far its working for me with no side effects.

In the registry you have "sound categories" and "sounds" which are assigned to sound categories.

For example I am using "RingTone0" located at HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0 which is the main ringer tone and assigned to the sound category "Ring" which is located at HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring.
InitVol changes with the volume control button.

We also have "Attenuation Classes" located at HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Attenuation with Dword names & values:
Name "0" with Value=0
Name "1" with Value=1
Name "2" with Value=3

The key name is the class index, and the associated value is the amount of gain to allow during a call. The value ranges from 0 to 5, with 0 meaning totally muted and 5 meaning no attenuation.

Each sound catagory has an AttenuationCategory setting.
Attenuation settings will stick after a soft reset
Volume setting is a combination of InitVol and Attenuation.
Ringpreview is a separate category that is for playing ringtones in the notification management section of the phone, the InitVol default setting seems to initially default at 5 and seems louder than Ring0 at the same setting, that is due to the attenuation setting I believe.

One way to get higher Ring Volume is this:
Step 1: In HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Attenuation
add a key name of "4" and set value to 1.
Step 2: In HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring
Change key "AttenuationCategory" from 2 to the new value of 4.
Step 3: Soft reset the phone
Step 4: Turn ring volume DOWN to 50% setting using the side volume button, otherwise the ring will be VERY loud.

I have attached a matrix of the Default settings on the 800W. In the registry there is a VoiceCommand setting that references Attenuation Category 3, but that key does not exist in the Attenuation section.
Also on the matrix is the standard Attenuation Classes used by WM6.
Notice the Attenuation Class 4 is not attenuated but is affected by system volume.

Caution: You can damage your speaker and/or phone by changing these settings, I don't believe that changing the Attenuation Category to 4 is the proper way to increase Ringtone volume, but that is what I changed for now.
I am posting this for those experts on this forum hoping they can use the info to find a fix for the ringer volume issue. Before you make these changes, you might wait for the experts to comment.