How to Enable or Disable Bluetooth Absolute Volume in Windows 10

Brink · 16 Aug 2020

TONPumper said:

This is true, but what if your settings don't match up with my hardware settings? I don't mean any offense, but I'm sure that your hardware is different from mine.

Sometimes, reinstalling the Bluetooth driver may help.

Otherwise without a backup, you may need to do a repair install.

TONPumper · 16 Aug 2020

Brink said:

Sometimes, reinstalling the Bluetooth driver may help.

Otherwise without a backup, you may need to do a repair install.

Yeah, it looks like a reinstall might be the answer then. Life is too short to do backups.

TONPumper · 18 Sep 2020

Okay, I disabled the absolute volume and my bluetooth volume is working like my speaker volume, i.e., it's operating as a separate volume from the computer volume. That's how I wanted it, but it didn't work like that before I reinstalled Windows, so I definitely messed up something. For example, when I use my desk speakers, I put the Windows volume at 100%, but my speakers have a volume knob that allow me to adjust the volume on the physical speakers. Now my BT headphones do the same: I set the BT volume on Windows to 100%, but I can increase/decrease the volume more or less than that on my headset. Now I can rock out properly.

The only downside is that I don't get the onscreen display of the volume, but that's to be expected because the volume adjustment on my headset is divided now from the Windows volume, which is what the OSD represents.

Brink · 18 Sep 2020

TONPumper said:

Okay, I disabled the absolute volume and my bluetooth volume is working like my speaker volume, i.e., it's operating as a separate volume from the computer volume. That's how I wanted it, but it didn't work like that before I reinstalled Windows, so I definitely messed up something. For example, when I use my desk speakers, I put the Windows volume at 100%, but my speakers have a volume knob that allow me to adjust the volume on the physical speakers. Now my BT headphones do the same: I set the BT volume on Windows to 100%, but I can increase/decrease the volume more or less than that on my headset. Now I can rock out properly.

The only downside is that I don't get the onscreen display of the volume, but that's to be expected because the volume adjustment on my headset is divided now from the Windows volume, which is what the OSD represents.

Great news.