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Need help with media player 10 (Xda IIs)

Hi guys....need some help. With the old version of wmp 9 i could play music whilst the PDA was off (standby, i guess) thereby saving battery power. With wmp 10 as soon as i turn it off the music stops playing.
Any ideas, or am i stuck with leaving it on when playing music???

mplayer 9 also stop playing if you turn it off
but you can turn off the screen if you set a shortcut to one button
look in mplayer10's options i'm sure it support that too

where do i get the wmp10 for xda2s?

Search the wiki for Blue Angel and you will find the latest 1.40 ROM which contains WMP 10. By the way, Gadget Boy, assign one of your hardware buttons to screen toggle like in WMP 9 and you can listen to music while the screen is off!
HTH
Fin

does anyone has the upgrade file? or anyone has extracted from the rom?

findus said:
...... By the way, Gadget Boy, assign one of your hardware buttons to screen toggle like in WMP 9 and you can listen to music while the screen is off!
HTH
Fin
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Which function do i assign? Seems to be different than old version!!
Thanx

A2DP: poweroff -> music stops!

Hi,
with my wizard and wm6 when I pushed the poweroff button while listening to music with a2dp, the music continued so it was perfect.
But now I have a trinity with LVSW rom and when I push poweroff the music stops.
Somebody know how to change it in order to have music continously playing?
Thanks!

Same with most, if not all HTC phones do this. VERY annoying! And I would like this fix as well...

same. any one know a fix?

Power Off suspends the device, so all processor based activity will stop, including the player program playing the music, though BT itself will remain active.
The 1st poster with the Wizard- that is not normal behaviour, and it is probably that the power button was remapped to 'Screen Off' when using the Player program.
What you need to do, is open WMP (if that is your player) and go to Options/Buttons. Within the list is a 'Toggle Screen' item. Map a button to that, and then when you press the button, the screen will blank, but the player will continue with A2DP. Pressing the button again, or the power button will restore the screen. As the screen is the biggest user of power, this will conserve your battery. I think you can also elect to lock other buttons with teh screen off, to prevent unwanted actions.

NeilM said:
Power Off suspends the device, so all processor based activity will stop, including the player program playing the music, though BT itself will remain active.
The 1st poster with the Wizard- that is not normal behaviour, and it is probably that the power button was remapped to 'Screen Off' when using the Player program.
What you need to do, is open WMP (if that is your player) and go to Options/Buttons. Within the list is a 'Toggle Screen' item. Map a button to that, and then when you press the button, the screen will blank, but the player will continue with A2DP. Pressing the button again, or the power button will restore the screen. As the screen is the biggest user of power, this will conserve your battery. I think you can also elect to lock other buttons with teh screen off, to prevent unwanted actions.
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Hi Neil,
Most certainly you are right on this, I've seen devices that had the "Screen Off" assigned to the Power button by default, so instead of going to suspend, the backlight was turned off.
To toggle Audio to A2DP you might want to see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1485391#post1485391
I'd like to know how it works on your hardware.

rodalfa said:
Hi,
with my wizard and wm6 when I pushed the poweroff button while listening to music with a2dp, the music continued so it was perfect.
But now I have a trinity with LVSW rom and when I push poweroff the music stops.
Somebody know how to change it in order to have music continously playing?
Thanks!
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Are you using HTC Audio Player or Windows Media ?
On my device, I'm using HTC Audio Player, included on HTC Home and it works fine. My ROM is Faman's ROM 3.3.
For sure, on Faman's ROM 3.3 in spanish, it souhld be the same.
Spanish :
Intentalo con la ROM de Faman ES 3.3 que funciona bien. Puedes apagarlo y sigue tocando musica.

Same, I use HTC Audio Player from PDAViet's latest rom.
Music plays fine after you suspend it
If you use GS player, you can bind another key to "screen off + key lock" which will effectively do the same thing

I second that request. My xda flame acts the same, and it is not normal behaviour (there is more than one suspend state and one of them is supposed to keep BT active). I hope it's not hardware and can be fixed.
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The 1st poster with the Wizard- that is not normal behaviour, and it is probably that the power button was remapped to 'Screen Off' when using the Player program.
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No I can confirm it worked this way with htc's prophet also.. whatever player you use it won't stop when going to standby. And with same players on other devices it will stop.
Am currently digging into registry, will post if I find something....

NeilM said:
Power Off suspends the device, so all processor based activity will stop, including the player program playing the music, though BT itself will remain active.
The 1st poster with the Wizard- that is not normal behaviour, and it is probably that the power button was remapped to 'Screen Off' when using the Player program.
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cant be that the processor stops, i also have the p3600 and can hear music when play with media player and turn my device off !?!
But with coreplayer same prob, no sound anymore !?!

try this:
hklm\software\microsoft\bluetooth\sys\disableautosuspend=1
should work

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hklm\software\microsoft\bluetooth\sys\disableautosuspend=1
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I think it just prevents the device to go to suspend while bluetooth is active, but then the battery drain is bigger..
The best until a solution is found is to turn the screen off

lastnikita said:
I think it just prevents the device to go to suspend while bluetooth is active, but then the battery drain is bigger..
The best until a solution is found is to turn the screen off
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No, this has nothing to do with device being suspended or turn off.
It only prevents bluetooth to break connection when device is suspended.
Please try this and report here.
@lastnikita: unfortunately it does not work with our xda flames, but it works well with a prophet and wizard.

If you want then you can check the 'Blank Screen' option in CorePlayer. I hope it will help you.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Media Player/Preferences
Set "unattended play" to "1"

shaileshashar said:
No, this has nothing to do with device being suspended or turn off.
It only prevents bluetooth to break connection when device is suspended.
Please try this and report here.
@lastnikita: unfortunately it does not work with our xda flames, but it works well with a prophet and wizard.
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Well, that's what was said here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms884944.aspx
And I could just check it.
Prophet and wizard don't have that problem (I had 4 prophet and the author of the thread had a wizard) so they don't need any trick..

Do you know of a media player software that keeps playing when device in standby ?

Currently I'm using Windows Media Player 10 mobile, and when the device goes to Standby (to save battery), the player stops playing.
When I had the HTC Diamond the ROM I used had a tweak in it to allow Media Player to keep playing even in standby mode.
Do you know of a way to solve this problem with Media player, or can you suggest other player that can play in standby ?
Thanks.

S2P does it
Try A_C's S2P, the best mobile media player ever.
It turns off backlight automatically and is really great to use.
Enjoy!
Gien

Kinoma Freeplay all the way, most fluid and pretty interfrace you can get.

Mortplayer!

all player will auto "shut off" music in standby mode;
ONLY when u have earpiece plug in, then it wont cut off the music.
anyway, kinoma freeplay is very buggy.. mortplayer FTW

Pocket Player 4
mate, all these players mentioned above are good, but i've always felt the whole thing getting a bit sticky when they're running.
however (not perfect either) i would recommend Pocket Player 4. is the one i been using for a few months and cooking in my own roms. it plays everything from audio to video and has full support for online streaming.
it will carry on playing as normal when you put the phone in standby and will keep backlight on if you dont press the top button.
if youre listening to online radio via network it wont drop the connection - fantastic here in the uk where some of us have unlimited data - but it will stop if you're using wifi, but this has nothing to do with the app, by default, touch hd will drop wifi connection in standby mode.
it is skin changeable and i use the windows media player one, so i use different app but at least with same face.
the only bad thing about this app is that it takes about 20-40 seconds to load and for a moment you might think it isnt loading but it is. apart from that, it's all joy.

bigdeal88 said:
all player will auto "shut off" music in standby mode;
ONLY when u have earpiece plug in, then it wont cut off the music.
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But I AM connected via bluetooth earpiece, and it does cut off the music (using windows media player), why ?

err... the TF3D player works fine over bluetooth when in standby!

skribzy said:
err... the TF3D player works fine over bluetooth when in standby!
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Yes I know the TF3D works fine while in Standby, but it has a different problem.

Well, you could also try something else; use your favorite mediaplayer and let the screen be turned off when the device is faced down.
I use Gyrator to turn off the screen, no stand-by mode nessecary. When you need it be turned on again, press the on/off button.

As a slight aside, Resco Radio also works fine in standby. Just hit Disp Off.

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As a slight aside, Resco Radio also works fine in standby. Just hit Disp Off.
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"Display off" is not standby. There is a difference in battery usage between the two.

In standby/suspended mode the device is sleeping and all OS processes are suspended, therefore you can't have audio playback still active then.
In unattended mode, and this is what you are referring to, you can have audio playing while some other functionality is effectively disabled.
Since screen backlight is one of the major contributors to power consumption, turning the screen off is almost as good as running in unattended mode, don't exclude this option.
Sadly most players are not designed to fully take advantage of unattended mode. WMP IS aware of this mode though. However, with the variety of platforms around there's no easy way to make wave and bluetooth drivers remain operational in unattended mode.
Check out http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/WiMoPower1.aspx for an article dicussing power state adjustments for various drivers in unattended mode. Be careful if you change anything, as the result may not be exactly as expected and effective power consumption may increase.

Thanks for the clarification stepw.

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In standby/suspended mode the device is sleeping and all OS processes are suspended, therefore you can't have audio playback still active then.
In unattended mode, and this is what you are referring to, you can have audio playing while some other functionality is effectively disabled.
Since screen backlight is one of the major contributors to power consumption, turning the screen off is almost as good as running in unattended mode, don't exclude this option.
Sadly most players are not designed to fully take advantage of unattended mode. WMP IS aware of this mode though. However, with the variety of platforms around there's no easy way to make wave and bluetooth drivers remain operational in unattended mode.
Check out http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/WiMoPower1.aspx for an article dicussing power state adjustments for various drivers in unattended mode. Be careful if you change anything, as the result may not be exactly as expected and effective power consumption may increase.
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Well said, I was just about to type that up, but now you saved me the time and trouble.

AUDIO MANAGER (Touchflo3d) CAN'T WORK TURNING OFF DEVICE??

On my old but great TYTN2 audio manager used to work with device off... saving battery...
what needs to be done.. to work it on the new audio manager in touchflo3d??
tnx in advance..

Er. . nothing. Mine plays quite happily with the screen off

Mine doesn't I was playing music through bluetooth to the car and screen goes off and media player stops playing until I hit the power button again (I need to find out what the app name is of the media player as well so I can add it as an exception into slide to unlock)

cotc2001 said:
Mine doesn't I was playing music through bluetooth to the car and screen goes off and media player stops playing until I hit the power button again (I need to find out what the app name is of the media player as well so I can add it as an exception into slide to unlock)
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Is that HTC media player or Windows media player?
The HTC one ( the one on the music tab) works fine streaming to my car radio with the screen off. WMP turns off with the screen tho'

I haven't found a fix for this either =( When I use my stereo bluetooth headset all is fine: I can press the power button, device goes into suspend, music keeps playing. But when I'm playing music through the speaker - as I like to do in the morning in the shower - music playback stops when pressing the power button.
I found a registry setting for the HTC audio manager (hkey\localmachine\software\htc\audiomanager_eng\config\enter_suspend) but it didn't do anything =(

stunno said:
Is that HTC media player or Windows media player?
The HTC one ( the one on the music tab) works fine streaming to my car radio with the screen off. WMP turns off with the screen tho'
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It's the HTC media player (one on the tab) you don't happen to know the actual file name that is run when you select it from the tab do you?

I have the same problem with TouchFLo Music tab... power button and stop music!

I have the same problem with the built in player - Core player & Pocket music player although that freezes & generally is unstable - dunno why it was perfect on my X1.

I have a small problem (I don't think I had it before)!
when I put Music tab from TouchFlo playing and press power button the sound stops!
does it happens to you? how can I solve it?
thanks

Deiota said:
I have a small problem (I don't think I had it before)!
when I put Music tab from TouchFlo playing and press power button the sound stops!
does it happens to you? how can I solve it?
thanks
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This is the way it's meant to be.
If it's playing through speakers, the sound stops by pressing the power button. If it's playing through headphones, you can press power and it will still play.

is there anyway to change it in the registry so that we can turn the device off and still play it through the speakers. TP2 got 2 good speakers so it would be nice to leave it in the table and listen music without hearphones

hgsz said:
is there anyway to change it in the registry so that we can turn the device off and still play it through the speakers. TP2 got 2 good speakers so it would be nice to leave it in the table and listen music without hearphones
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I used S2U2 lastest version, run S2U2 Settings > Advanced > check on "Don't Suspend Power" > Save > Yes, and my TP2 can play music when device off

Play music in standby

I know Ive seen this done on other phones and Ive searched high and low on the forum to no avail. Is there a cab tweak that will allow WMP to continue playing while on standby.

You shouldn't need any add-on or tweak to do this - unless you are playing thru the speaker. WMP should continue to play on wired and BT headsets even in standby.
S

The issue is seen when playing music through the TF3D player itself out through the speaker, and the system locking through S2U2. You can't turn the screen off or else playback will stop.
Someone posted a solution for what sounded like the same problem, here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4468939&postcount=14
They stated that it is actually caused by S2U2, and there is a setting within the program that will fix your issue.
However, this doesn't fix it for me. Worth a shot to try though, so I know if its just me or not.

You can use ShutXP to turn off just the screen (instead of going into standby) to accomplish your needs. However, this isn't the most ideal solution.
Explained:
It seems that the power button driver doesn't turn the screen off it puts the device into standby. That is why when you try and turn of the screen with the power button ur music turns off. Its just like a computer. If you use psshutxp and use that to specifically turn off the screen the music will continue to play.
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Possible workaround
fronc said:
The issue is seen when playing music through the TF3D player itself out through the speaker, and the system locking through S2U2. You can't turn the screen off or else playback will stop.
Someone posted a solution for what sounded like the same problem, here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4468939&postcount=14
They stated that it is actually caused by S2U2, and there is a setting within the program that will fix your issue.
However, this doesn't fix it for me. Worth a shot to try though, so I know if its just me or not.
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Actually, after doing the option mentioned in the other thread, it will still cut off the music if you just press the power button. My solution (which works for me, at least) is while listening to music in the Touch Flo tab, I press start, then enable S2U2 by clicking on its icon. The S2U2 screen then shows up. I tap anywhere on the S2U2 unlock screen (without actually trying to unlock it) THEN I press the power button. Somehow, that's my workaround to keep music playing through the phone speakers while the screen is off.
Hope it works for you.

I have thesame problem. The default WMplayer works even in standby but all other players like coreplayer, pocketmusic, etc stops when I press standby. So what's in WMplayer that made it continue to play even in standby?

If u press the power button to send the phone into standby the music stops. However if u just leave the phone and allow it to enter standby automatically (set at 30 secs for me) it will continue to play the music.

start playing a song, go to menu, options, buttons and set Toggle Screen to a button. Then when you press that button it will turn off the screen. Works on the Fuze..should work on the TP2 as well

Another solution would be to use gyrator2, and create a rule that when running WMP it blanks the screen when turned face-down.
(remember if adding gyrator to a TP2 to disable the "hang up call when turned upside-down" option as that's when speakerphone is supposed to kick in, not hang up the phone!)
Joe

BoyBawang2 said:
I have thesame problem. The default WMplayer works even in standby but all other players like coreplayer, pocketmusic, etc stops when I press standby. So what's in WMplayer that made it continue to play even in standby?
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my wm does not do this, when i hit the top button in wmplayer it still cuts the music off

since I upgraded to 6.5 the screen will turn off automatically (after the time you've specified in energysettings) and the tf3d audioplayer continues the playback. If I switch of the device the playback will stop, so let the device switch the screen of by itself. At 6.1 the screen always stays activated.

I've got a similar issue and some noob questions:
Regardless of if i have headphones connected or not, WMP stops playing within a few seconds of the screen shutting off. This happens regardless of if I let the screen turn off on its own or if i do it manually.
I went into the power settings page and disabled "turn off device if not used for ".
Now the backlight dims, but the screen never really shuts off (unless you push the power button). WMP works like a champ, but I have a few questions/concerns:
Is the above behavior normal for a completely 'stock' phone?
How bad is that for battery life?
Is there a better way to accomplish the same thing (turning off the screen, but maintaining playback)?
Based on the option in the settings page, im assuming that more then just the LCD turning off is actually occurring when the screen blanks out?
Thanks in advance,
Chris

Mine turns off the music whenever I press the power button, whether on WMPlayer or TouchFlo, when playing on the speaker. When I hooked the phone up to external power it does the same. When I hooked it up to external power and to my cars speakers through an FM Transmitter, with the transmitter being plugged into to headphone/lineout jack the music stayed playing.
This is not due only to S2U2...because I did a hard reset...and it still has this issue, without any added hardware on the stock Rom on a Tilt2.
My Samsung Epix with its stock 6.1 Rom never had this problem. Music always stayed playing.
No fix yet?