Turn off noise cancellation on Bose headphones
About this app
This app allows you to quickly turn off noise cancellation on Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 (NC 700) and Bose QC 35 (QC35) headphones. It also allows a (less-useful) change of mode on Bose QC Earbuds and Bose QC 45 headphones (but not able to fully disable active noise cancellation on these devices).
For example, the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 can cycle through noise cancellation presets, but these are on a scale from actively passing external sound through, to cancelling out external sound. In a very quiet room, any setting on this scale can result in an audible hiss, and you may not want any active pass-through/cancelling at all, but just the source sound.
This app allows you to turn off noise cancellation, either in the app, or by adding a quick settings tile, or adding a single touch shortcut you can pin to your launcher.
Noise cancelling will turn back on if you alter the noise control settings on the headphones, or when you next turn the headphones on.
Licensed under MIT.
What's New in v1.5
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- * Fixed settings not working on Android 11 and below (caused by incorrectly handling new permission on Android 12).
Version history
Jun 14, 2022 · 4.6 MB · Android API 21–32 · code 5
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- * Fixed settings not working on Android 11 and below (caused by incorrectly handling new permission on Android 12).
SHA-256 790f5e778db981000c6e5feaa01b2bfb5d34e090ac7b804ac01d5b1d2a39e6c7
May 29, 2022 · 4.6 MB · Android API 21–32 · code 4
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Initial F-Droid Release.
SHA-256 0fb4255e89286ef05ce5ab776edaac19ea40aae010592a55c4b82f69aa11c27c
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- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
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