Earpiece

Omega Centauri Software

About this app

Listen to audio books and music through your phone's earpiece when you don't have earphones handy. Boost your audio (Android 2.3 through 4.1 or so only, not working on 4.2.1 or higher), whether through earpiece or through the speaker.

Earpiece is a simple, light-weight audio-control app.

You can pop Earpiece up on top of another application simply by holding down the SEARCH key.

In the options, you can enable an experimental feature which switches the phone to speaker phone when it's away from the face and then back to speaker phone close up. This only works on devices with a proximity sensor, of course.

Another experimental feature is that you can significantly reduce the volume of the camera sounds on some devices. Ensure your local laws allow you to do this.

Earpiece is free and Open Source.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Playing audio at high volumes, especially for a prolonged amount of time, can damage speakers and/or hearing.

Note 1: There is no affiliation between the developer of Earpiece and the developer of Mortplayer, which is the application shown in the background of the screenshots.

Note 2: The reason the application needs permission to read log data is for the camera quieting feature. When the camera quieting feature is active, Earpiece monitors the log for when the camera is about to take a picture and then quiets things for about two seconds. If you are worried about privacy issues, or otherwise curious, you can look at the full Earpiece source code at github.com/arpruss/earpiece and you can build it from source yourself.

Note 3: If you use Earpiece, don't use my Speaker Boost with it--just use Earpiece's audio boost option instead.

Ratings and reviews

edit- The yes button beneath the warning is not clickable, which essentially makes the app unusable for me. Cant get into the app. old review- Wow wow wow this 38kb app actually worked ! Useful in listening to podcasts when I don't have earphones and stuck somewhere getting bored. Truly awesome although an update would be cool at this point.

It's great this works on Android 9 on my Huawei P20 Pro. The only things are is I got a warning when I first opened it saying this app was designed for an old version of Android so an update is overdue. The other thing is unchecking use earpiece doesn't deactivate it first time. So I recheck then uncheck it again to get it back to loudspeaker.

this apps really "WERKS PROOF" on any apps dat related wiith audio and the sound is crystal clear, not even any distorted during any in/outgoing calls, it really help me when i'm riding my bike. This apps comes in "tiny" 283kb size, it free of charge and wih ZERO nonsense ads.!! Superb job, to the Developer Thanks-YOU..!!

What’s new

1.11: bug fixes
1.10: Lollipop support
1.09: Click outside to exit (Android 3.0+); on-boot fix
1.07.2: Some devices need bluetooth permission--I added it
1.07: Fix crash in Settings under Android 4.x
1.06: By default limit speaker boost to 60% (even that can be dangerous). This can be changed in Earpiece Settings.
1.05.1: Improve camera quieting; improve screen layout
1.05: Experimental feature: make camera sounds quieter on some devices
1.04: No ad, auto speaker phone, non-uniform boost