Hello,
I recently installed the newest rom on my phone, and it is fantastic, however I'm having an issue installing the google music app (so I can stream from the google servers).
I keep getting the error
"Package file was not signed correctly. Uninstall the previous copy of the app and try again."
I don't have any other versions of google music in the application list in settings, or titanium backup. I also checked the /system/app folder and the google app isn't there from what I can tell.
I tried manually removing the "music" app (which was musicplayer.apk) but that didn't help either.
I've cleared all market data.
Did anyone else have this issue or know a solution? This is a must have app for me, and I really like this fast rom and want to keep it.
Thanks,
Austin
I think the really amazing thing would be to see the Google Music app actually work correctly on our phones in the first place.
I've tried it, on several different roms, and it always has the same problem.
I use it strictly for my local mp3 collection. I set it to shuffle, let it play, turn off the screen (or let it time out, whatever works), and after that song plays, the player stops. If I turn the screen on again, it starts playing the next song, but this is far from correct behavior.
So, I don't know if there's an app that will let you play your Google cloud-based music that isn't the official Music app, but if there is, I'd use that instead.
Sorry, that's just my two cents. I know it's not really helpful.
You might check to see if there is an associated .so file in /system/lib, but that starts to get into dangerous territory.
Hmm... I've got the same rom on my phone and it's working fine. Have you tried finding an apk and installing directly from it? Might be something else going on.
What
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I actually just backed everything with titanium backup then wiped everything then reinstalled and I have the app now. I think the app was originally there just not in the applications list. I didn't see it in the apps folder when I looked with root explorer.Thanks for the replies though.
I'm running stock GBE22, and I do have quite a few saved voicemails, which are stored in the .amr format. The problem showed up after I had tried a custom rom & then went back. I was able to get everyrhing restored without a problem, but my problem is that every audio player, from the voice recorder to the Google Music player, add ALL of my .amr voicemail files to the playlist, because they just do a random search over the entire sd card for playable files. How do I get these programs to filter out/ignore the voicemail files? Or is there even a solution to this unique problem?
Thanks
~Z
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if you can find the folder they are being cached in you can add a .nomedia file to it. That should prevent the scanner from adding these files. Didnt know vmails were cached on the sdcard though
I'm having a problem with the Google Play Music app.
I've been using it fine for at least a month, but all of a sudden tonight, when trying to play some music I get the error: "Couldn't play the song your requested."
I can go to the files and play them myself with the file manager, and with the samsung music player... I even downloaded Power Amp to check and it works fine. But I can't seem to use the Play music app. I've cleared data, uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm a Canadian user. Would this have anything to do with Play music not being available in Canada? And if so why was I able to use it all this time without?
can you go to google's music page and play that way?
I don't think its nothing to do with you in Canada, Google opened the music publicly/ international several months ago.
Thanks for the response!
I can't play music that way because I don't actually have any music in the cloud... All locally on my SD Card.
Also I had to install the apk manually instead of through the store. It says play music is unavailable for my phone.... which I assumed meant Canada....
we have the same problem.. any tips how to make it work?
I think I remember someone saying to clear cache/data for the play music app.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
They updated the app recently and its giving a lot of people issues on aokp and cm9. The prior version did too, but was hit or miss. Some had issues some didn't. If you have an older version try it
Play music is problematic at best. I loved it too. I tried to use it and I'm also a Canadian user.
I did a lot of reading and its a problem with Play music itself. Sometimes the program loses track of where exactly the music is. Its database gets out of sync. So you have to go to Manage apps and clear the data. Then download "Re-scan Media" from the app store. Let it do its work, then it will work again. But you'll have to do this constantly. Its totally not worth it. Especially when you're out... ready to play music and you have to do all that drama.
Hey guys stupid update here. Play music works again for me. Tried tons of stuff, so don't know which thing fixed it when it dies again I will try to narrow it down. Found out the mp3 codec lib is a bit flimsy. Found out play music has issues with sd card reading. Found out it also is programmed to search for atom moov contents for streaming purposes before playing. And oddly it loads/pushes bluetooth ad2p every time it plays a song. And it's database of adding song registration duplicates entries often, but it has a built in verification method. Each of these were determined through a logcat of the issue.
I had the same issue and fixed it with just a simple copy to a folder on my desktop, delete from Internal SD, then adding it back on. Now it works again.
Copy whole "music" folder or sd card contents?
Can you confirm internal or external card?
Rom?
At this point, my assumption would be your issue fell into the internal (emmc) rescan fix category.
Turns out the rescan app pulls the GetExternalStorage api which isn't able to pull external sd. It only will have the system rescan emmc. Unfortunately, Google didn't have the foresight that phones would have two cards originally. So if you have music there, clearing cache and rescanning works well for many.
Found out one other issue/fix. Someone asked me about the media app loading draining battery issue some of us have had. I had them pull the mp3s and run them through an mp3 validator and reload. It fixed both the media hang up and play music.
Here's what I tried:
My music is in my external SD card. Go to your app drawer, press menu, Manage Apps.
Scroll the top bar to the right and choose All. Find Media Storage and clear its data.
Reboot into recovery, fix permissions. Open the gallery and let the list populate (it takes a bit).
Download the app SDrescan. Run it. Reboot.
At this point PM should recognize all your music.
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You got sd rescan to scan your external? On aokp/cm9?
Anyway, looks like you have also confirmed another relationship to media scanner. Though quick question, why gallery open?
Yes.
Regarding the gallery open, I figured it would get the OS jogging. But its also because there were double or triple false entries of every picture on my SD card.
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i've had two root causes related to this i'll share with you guys here. i'm using an lg g pro 2. two problems:
i uninstalled two programs and the issue went away: greenify and v4a.
first, apparently *GREENIFY* was causing issues. i don't know wtf i put into auto hibernation, but something was causing this issue. at first i suspected n7player, so i degreenified it. nothing. anyways, i DID have ES File Explorer and MX Player still greenified, maybe they were the culprits?
second, i had uninstalled v4a before uninstalling greenify, but that still didn't fix the issue. anyways, after i got my music back, i reinstalled v4a and the thing stopped working all of a sudden (used 4.4 install). shifted to 2.3.4.0 and v4a did NOTHING. music worked again but it wasn't functional.
end result: i flashed the lolliviper zip from the nexus 5 forums and it works again, w00t! i'll link if you're itnerested
blitz9826 said:
i've had two root causes related to this i'll share with you guys here. i'm using an lg g pro 2. two problems:
i uninstalled two programs and the issue went away: greenify and v4a.
first, apparently *GREENIFY* was causing issues. i don't know wtf i put into auto hibernation, but something was causing this issue. at first i suspected n7player, so i degreenified it. nothing. anyways, i DID have ES File Explorer and MX Player still greenified, maybe they were the culprits?
second, i had uninstalled v4a before uninstalling greenify, but that still didn't fix the issue. anyways, after i got my music back, i reinstalled v4a and the thing stopped working all of a sudden (used 4.4 install). shifted to 2.3.4.0 and v4a did NOTHING. music worked again but it wasn't functional.
end result: i flashed the lolliviper zip from the nexus 5 forums and it works again, w00t! i'll link if you're itnerested
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I did not get you. Please explain in clearer words..
I've decided to factory reset my phone since I'm hoping some issues that started after getting Lollipop will be fixed. I use the stock Music app and have over 100 Playlists, and I'd really like to avoid them being erased when I redo my phone. Note: My music is stored on my SD Card, so I'm not sure if the playlists would be here too, tried looking, but I'm not seeing them.
Did you find the path, I'd like to know it too. Also, did you make all those playlists manually? Or is there a program to do it in a desktop and then just copy the lists?
It has restored the messages but will not restore the data (pics and videos) from a Gdrive backup.
So, it finds the backup and grabs all the chats but stops when downloading the media.
Has anyone managed this?
Yeah mine restored perfectly fine 733MB restored all back.
I didn't do anything special, opened the app, put in my mobile number, the it said backup found and restored it with all options, was on stable wifi at the time
I'm having the same issue on my six pro. WhatsApp backed up chats instantly but media has been stuck at 0 percent for 3 days
Full WhatsApp backup media restore worked perfectly first time and then a second.
I had the same problem. But was able to fix it by force stopping Whatsapp, delete the WhatsApp media folder, then start Whatsapp again.
I was using the WhatsApp beta. I did have the same problem as you (and I had no notification sound).
After I left the beta program and installed the stable WhatsApp I could restore the data with the new Pixel 6 Pro.
emaileverything said:
I had the same problem. But was able to fix it by force stopping Whatsapp, delete the WhatsApp media folder, then start Whatsapp again.
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Thx. That was the trick.