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[henryd]

Does it sound tinny, maybe slightly rattly, and distant (and quiet)?  If so that's usually a broken or poorly seated speaker..

Bound to be distant,it came from fikkin China

[omega3000]

Settings,volume, ++++++++ 

Turned up as high as it will go.

Thats not good then  Send it back 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Does it sound tinny, maybe slightly rattly, and distant (and quiet)?  If so that's usually a broken or poorly seated speaker..

Hmmm....not really, Aaron. Just lacking in volume.

I can't believe they are all like this. The P10 is the latest model.

[tidla]

ebay purchase?

[AndyRoid]

Cheap headphones with too high an impedance/low sensitivity possibly?

Measure the impedance of the current headphones, you want it as close to 16 Ω as possible, and with a sensitivity that exceeds 100 dB.
Depending on how the volume restriction is carried out, it may be possible to root the handset and modify the audio config file to increase the DAC gain to increase the volume as done on some Samsung Galaxy S models. 

[Rods2]

Sounds like you've got it in wife around, sister-in-law mode. 

[omega3000]

Cheap headphones with too high an impedance/low sensitivity possibly?

Measure the impedance of the current headphones, you want it as close to 16 Ω as possible, and with a sensitivity that exceeds 100 dB.
Depending on how the volume restriction is carried out, it may be possible to root the handset and modify the audio config file to increase the DAC gain to increase the volume as done on some Samsung Galaxy S models.

Thats easier said than done 

[pscocoa]

The volume turned up to 'max' but I can barely hear people on the other end.

The same applies to video footage.

Any ideas, chaps?

What happens if you plug in the ear phones - is sound normal? also test on loud speaker.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The volume turned up to 'max' but I can barely hear people on the other end.

The same applies to video footage.

Any ideas, chaps?

What happens if you plug in the ear phones - is sound normal? also test on loud speaker.

The loudspeaker works fine. I'll check out the ear phones.

[pscocoa]

Fairly common fault these days but the fix will be £50 if you are not a phone techie and opening up is tricky for you.

[AndyRoid]

The volume turned up to 'max' but I can barely hear people on the other end.

The same applies to video footage.

Any ideas, chaps?

What happens if you plug in the ear phones - is sound normal? also test on loud speaker.

The loudspeaker works fine. I'll check out the ear phones.

I thought you said it was just the "in-call" volume that was affected?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Loudspeaker works fine.

Volume on video both with and without earphones is poor.  However, the volume for the chinese dancing girls video that came with the phone is excellent.

Strange shit, man.

[Gaffers]

Could be the sound level in the source file of the films.  SOmetimes a poor job is done of audio leveling when it is ripped in to a format suitable for the phone.

[AndyRoid]

Could be the sound level in the source file of the films.  SOmetimes a poor job is done of audio leveling when it is ripped in to a format suitable for the phone.

+1 for that.
DS2 was recently complaining that some of the MP3's he had were barely audible, turned out whoever ripped and encoded them had the audio level set dismally low when encoding them. Boosting the amplitude by +10dB in Audition got them back to what they should have been to start with.

PS
As it's Android, install MX Player as that has a software volume boost built in

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Thanks Mr Guffer and Mr Andyroid, It all sounds greek to me but I'll look into it.