Get Hyper Volume up and running

1. Before you start

• Android 7.0 or newer. Hyper Volume is an Android app; the custom panel, equalizer and recorder rely on Android features that iPhones don’t offer.
• No account. There is nothing to sign up for. Your settings, styles, profiles and recordings are stored on your phone.
• One required permission. The Hyper Volume service (Android’s Accessibility API) is what lets the app show its panel when you press a volume button. Everything else is optional and only needed for the feature it unlocks.

2. Install & first launch

1. Install Hyper Volume: Custom Panel from Google Play and open it.
2. Swipe through the short tour: the panel, styles, equalizer & recorder, profiles & shortcuts, and a few pro tips.
3. On the last page (One quick step), tap Enable service and continue with the next section. You can also tap Skip and do it later from the Finish setting up card on the Home tab.

In some regions (the EEA, the UK and Switzerland) Google’s consent form asks how ads may use your data. You can change your answer later in Settings ▸ Privacy options.

3. Turn on the Hyper Volume service

This is the only required step. Android lets an accessibility service — and nothing else — receive the volume buttons and draw a panel over other apps, so that is how Hyper Volume replaces the system panel.

1. In the app, tap Enable service (at the end of the tour, or on the Finish setting up card on Home).
2. Read the Accessibility permission explanation, then tap Agree & continue. Android opens its Accessibility settings.
3. Find Hyper Volume panel. It is usually listed under Downloaded apps, Installed apps or Installed services — see your phone’s path below.
4. Open it, switch on Use Hyper Volume panel and confirm with Allow.
5. Go back to Hyper Volume. The Home tab now shows Active. Press a volume button to see your panel.

Accessibility

Downloaded apps

Hyper Volume panelOn

Other serviceOff

What the service does and doesn’t do: it detects volume-button presses, draws the panel and the bubble over other apps, and sees which app is open (only to apply per-app profiles and leave volume keys to your camera). It cannot read the text or content on your screen, and nothing it sees is stored or sent anywhere. See the Privacy Policy.

4. Optional permissions

Each of these unlocks one feature. You can allow them from the Finish setting up card on Home or from Settings ▸ Permissions, and revoke them at any time — only the related feature stops working.

5. Settings for your phone

Many phones aggressively stop background apps to save battery, which makes a custom volume panel disappear. Pick your brand for the Accessibility path and the settings that keep Hyper Volume running. Menu names change between versions — if you can’t find one, type it into the search bar at the top of Settings.

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6. Using the panel

Panel settings

Under Settings ▸ Panel you can change:

• Custom volume panel — the master switch. When it’s off, Android’s own panel is used. The same switch is on the Home tab.
• Volume buttons control — whether the buttons change Media or Ringer volume by default.
• Hide after — how long the panel stays on screen (1–15 seconds).
• Open expanded — show every slider, tools and media at once.
• Sliders — choose which volumes the expanded panel shows (media, ring, notifications, alarm, call, system) and drag to reorder them.
• Show media controls, Vibrate on slider steps and Panel sounds.
• Use on lock screen — turn off to get the system panel while the phone is locked.

7. Floating bubble

A small bubble that opens the panel with one tap — handy for one-hand use or when your volume keys are worn out.

• Turn it on from Home ▸ Floating bubble or Settings ▸ Floating bubble.
• Tap to open the panel, drag to move it, long-press to hide it.
• To bring back a hidden bubble, tap the Volume bubble hidden notification or use Show hidden bubble in Settings.
• Adjust size and opacity, and choose Hide in landscape for games and videos.

8. Styles & Theme Studio

The Styles tab controls how your panel looks. The card at the top is the style you see when you press a volume button.

Presets, Hub and Mine

• Presets — built-in designs. Three are free; unlock any other by watching one short ad, and it stays unlocked.
• Hub — designs shared by other users. A short ad unlocks a batch of community styles. If the Hub can’t be reached, featured designs are shown instead.
• Mine — styles you saved or imported.

Tap any style to preview it (drag the sliders, long-press to lock, tap the arrow to expand), then tap Apply this style.

Theme Studio

Fine-tune every detail with a live preview. Each tab controls one part of the panel:

• Layout — vertical or horizontal, screen edge, position along the edge, distance from the edge, slider length and thickness, spacing, padding, button size.
• Surface — solid or gradient background, opacity, corner radius, border and shadow.
• Sliders — track and fill colours, slider corners, thumb (none, line, circle, bar) and glow.
• Icons & text — icon position and style, percentage position, colours.
• Colours — accent colour, button shape and colours, random gradients.
• Motion — open animation (slide, fade, zoom, pop, drop, flip) and duration, animated volume changes.

Tap Save style to keep it in Mine, or Apply to use it right away.

Theme Wizard & Random colours

No time to tinker? The Theme Wizard asks five quick questions — layout, look, colours, shape and motion — and builds a style for you. Random colours rolls a fresh gradient in one tap; keep tapping until you love it.

Share, import and submit

• Share a style to send its style code to a friend.
• Import style code (Styles ▸ Import) to use a code someone shared with you.
• Submit to Styles Hub to share your design with the community. Your design and the nickname you type are reviewed and may be published for other users.

9. Equalizer & boost

1. Open Audio ▸ Equalizer and switch on Equalizer & boost. It shows Active on all audio when it’s working.
2. Pick a preset — Flat, Bass, Treble, Vocal, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Classical, Electronic, Loudness or Podcast — or drag the dots on the graph to shape each of the 10 bands (31 Hz to 16 kHz).
3. Under Effects, set Audio boost (up to +12 dB), Bass boost and 3D surround. Keep the Limiter on to prevent crackling when boosting.

Apply to chooses how effects are attached:

• All audio — works with every app on most phones.
• Compatible players only — only apps that open an equalizer session (many music players). Use it if “All audio” has no effect.

You can also toggle the equalizer from the panel’s EQ button, the Equalizer app shortcut, or turn it off from its notification.

10. Recorder

Record voice notes, lectures or ideas without hunting for an app.

• Start from Audio ▸ Recorder, the record button on the panel, the Recorder Quick Settings tile, or the Record app shortcut (long-press the app icon).
• Recording continues in the background. Pause, resume or stop from the app or the recording notification.
• In Recordings you can play, share, rename or delete each file, or Save to Music folder to copy it to Music/Hyper Volume (Android 10 and newer).

Recordings are stored in the app’s own folder on your phone and are never uploaded. Uninstalling the app deletes any you haven’t exported.

11. Profiles

A profile sets several volumes and, optionally, the ringer mode in one tap.

1. Open Audio ▸ Profiles. Start from a template — Meeting, Night, Gaming or Outdoor — or tap New profile.
2. Name it, set each volume (or tap Use current levels), and pick a ringer mode: Keep, Sound, Vibrate or Silent.
3. Tap a profile to apply it. You can also add profiles as buttons on the panel.

Per-app profiles

Under Per-app profiles, pick an app and a profile: the profile is applied automatically when that app opens. Turn on Restore previous volumes when leaving the app to get your old levels back afterwards. This uses the Hyper Volume service to know which app is open.

12. Tools & shortcuts

Settings ▸ Tools & shortcuts decides which buttons appear on the expanded panel.

• Built-in actions: ringer mode, mute media, equalizer, recorder, sound settings, open Hyper Volume, flashlight, screenshot, power menu, lock screen, notifications, quick settings, home, back, recent apps, Do Not Disturb, play / pause and Bluetooth settings. Actions like screenshot, lock screen and power menu use the Hyper Volume service.
• Custom shortcuts: tap New shortcut and choose App (any installed app), Activity (a screen inside an app), App shortcut (shortcuts other apps provide, like a contact or a map destination), Web link (an https:// address) or Action.
• On the panel, long-press the ringer, EQ or record buttons for more options.

13. Exclusions

• Leave volume keys to camera apps keeps the volume-key shutter working in your camera.
• Excluded apps are apps where the volume buttons keep their normal behaviour — useful for e-book readers that turn pages, games or remote-shutter apps.

14. Widgets, tiles & app shortcuts

15. App settings

• Language — follow your phone, or pick one of 18 languages.
• Sound & haptics — tap feedback inside the app.
• Privacy options — review or change your ad consent choice (shown where it applies).
• Show tips again — replay the guided tour on every screen.
• App version — tap to copy it when you contact support.

16. Troubleshooting

17. Turn off or uninstall

• Pause the custom panel: switch off Custom volume panel on Home. Android’s own panel comes back immediately.
• Stop the service: Settings ▸ Accessibility ▸ Hyper Volume panel ▸ Off.
• Uninstall: uninstalling removes the app and everything it stored — settings, styles, profiles and recordings you haven’t exported. See Data Deletion.

18. Contact

Questions, ideas or a bug? Email phongvanhoa.dev@gmail.com or use Settings ▸ Contact us in the app. Including your app version (Settings ▸ App version, tap to copy) and phone model helps us answer faster.