How can I control both volume and track skip on my Android device from my headphones? How can I control both volume and track skip on my Android device from my headphones? I.e with a set of headphones having 3 buttons


Button 1: Volume +
Button 2: Play/Pause/Skip Forward/Skip Backward
Button 3: Volume -


All android headphones I've seen to date only have a single button for skip control. I've been looking around the web for a clear answer very extensively, most of the answers revolve around either


Use Bluetooth headphones OR
Install app that converts the skip button to a volume control


Why can't android headphones have both features? Such controls have been available on Apple devices, Nokia Phones and Sony Phones etc. all through the simple headphones jack.
I will answer your question in the meaning "How can I control both volume and track skip on my Android device from my headphones?". This might not be supported by the system itself, but the Playstore holds a number of solutions available. Depending on your headset and Android device, one of them might work better than the other:


JAYS Headset Control
RemoteControl for Earphones
Philips Headset
Headset Droid Trial / Headset Droid (~ EUR 2)
Headset Button ControllerTrial / Headset Button Controller (~ EUR 2)
Klipsch Control


Ordered by their Playstore rating. These apps seem to share the same pattern -- and it is a pattern you use with the one-and-only button on your headset:


tap 1x for play/stop (or to accept an incoming call)
tap 2x for skip-to-next (or to reject an incoming call)
long-press to increase volume
tap 1x and then long-press to decrease volume


Plus more (up to 4x tap), but you've got the idea. I tried JAYS, which is the most configurable (1x tap and vol+ worked fine, but even after 3 weeks only 1 out of 10 tries for the other combinations worked, which might be due to hardware (headset) incompatibility) and the Philips Headset (which worked out of the box for all the above mentioned combinations -- no wonder, my Headset is a Philips, and that app was developed with this headset in mind). So if you have no luck with one of those, try another :)