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Help : Audio Problems

I am new to this forum of wonderful people, wizards and cooks. I have a problem.
I just flashed my X1 with the Phoenix ROM. Everything seems to run just fine. However the only problem is that the moment the device goes into standby or the screen completely turns off, the media player simply switches off the audio by itself. This is happening with Windows Media Player, Nitrogen and Pocket Music. Is this normal?
Previously, the music used to be on even when the device screen was switched off using the Power button.
Please help/advise on what to do. I listen to lot of Music. Desperate to get this solved.
Thanks in anticipation.
Regards

sometimes i get this problem with coreplayer and sometime i don't. using valkyrie rom. weird

[Q] Bluetooth Issues

Well I've got the Omnia 7 and love it, although I do have an issue with it regarding the use of bluetooth headphones.
Anybody else experienced issues with the handset not sending the sound to the headset when switching from movies to music and back again.
I can get the phone to pair with my headphones almost instantly (A big improvement from my blackstone) and if I listen to music straight away the music streams perfectly. If I then goto watch a movie, I get zero sound. I go back to the music and press play ... nothing again. Even with bluetooth off.
I have to restart the phone in order to properly re-establish the connection to hear sounds over the headset.
It appears to me that due to the fact that you can't properly exit out of zune, whatever your doing gets paused and "keeps" the link for itself.
SO my question is - Has anyone else come across this and how do you properly exit from zune?

I have the same thing on my HTC 7 Trophy. Music plays just fine on the headset, but video is always played over the handsets speaker. Switching back to music seems to work fine for me though.
Anyone know why this is? Is this a shortcoming of the first release of these phones or is there a setting we forgot to tweak?

also, if you headset/headphones have a play/pause button, the music can play at the same time as the video, kinda weird sometimes

rlatarche said:
Well I've got the Omnia 7 and love it, although I do have an issue with it regarding the use of bluetooth headphones.
Anybody else experienced issues with the handset not sending the sound to the headset when switching from movies to music and back again.
I can get the phone to pair with my headphones almost instantly (A big improvement from my blackstone) and if I listen to music straight away the music streams perfectly. If I then goto watch a movie, I get zero sound. I go back to the music and press play ... nothing again. Even with bluetooth off.
I have to restart the phone in order to properly re-establish the connection to hear sounds over the headset.
It appears to me that due to the fact that you can't properly exit out of zune, whatever your doing gets paused and "keeps" the link for itself.
SO my question is - Has anyone else come across this and how do you properly exit from zune?
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Thats a little different from what is happening to me. As I stated in my thread I have no sound through bluetooth for video files at all. After trying to watch a video I can go back to music and it will play through my bluetooth headphones just fine. Video sound comes out of the main speakers always.

[Q] Motorola S9-HD problems..

Hi, I'm having issues with my brand new, just bought today Motorola S9HD bluetooth headphones. I am having three issues so far:
First Issue: The headphones seem to work with the Google Music player (stock, but newest version via market), but I cannot use seek controls, play/pause.
FIRST ISSUE SOLVED BY REMOVING WP7 MUSIC PLAYER AND ONLY HAVING STOCK ON THE DEVICE.
Second Issue: While I'm listening to music, I sometimes want to make a quick call. I assume with these I should be able to hit the call button, which goes to voice commands, then I say who I want to call, and boom, done. BUT! whenever the screen is off and I'm listening to music, then click the call button, it gives me three or so beeps but never quits playing music and never goes to voice commands. THE ANNOYING SOLUTION THAT I FOUND: When I turn on the screen, I am able to click the call button and go into voice commands, call whoever, etc.
SECOND ISSUE NOT SOLVED EVEN AFTER SWITCHING TO STOCK GOOGLE MUSIC PLAYER.
Third Issue: For some reason, I will get a random space (0.5 seconds to 1 second) randomly of no music, then it resumes. BUT sometimes it just all together stops playing music. I have left it for a couple minutes to see if it'll resume, but it doesn't. Then I look at the phone and it says it's still working, and the only way to make it play music through the headphones again is to restart bluetooth via the phone.
THIRD ISSUE POSSIBLY SOLVED BY USING STOCK GOOGLE MUSIC PLAYER INSTEAD OF WP7 MUSIC PLAYER. BUT SUGGESTIONS ARE STILL WELCOME.
Thanks for all your help!

2nd issue: did you tell it the first time what voice control you want to use? Like Vlingo, google voice, google search, etc.
3rd issue: no clue, mine does that too and it is annoying. I notice it gets worse if the battery is 2 or so hours without a charge.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try assigning the voice commands app.
Sent from my GingerBlur'd, de-odex'd, modded Motorola Atrix 4G (ish.)

muy issue with my Moto S(HD is that I continually have to re-pair every time I try to use them. anyone know why?

Regarding item #3, I think this is more related to the bluetooth stack on the Atrix crashing than it is related to the S9HDs. I don't have that problem with my S9HDs, but I routinely get it when paired to my car stereo. Probably happens once a week with my car stereo, whereas I've only seen it once in several months with my S9HDs. I'm hoping the bluetooth stack has been improved when we get gingerbread shortly.

I've a nokia BH503 BT headset ATM and never had those issues. It works with EVERY app on the phone, even the emulators, games and notifications sounds through the bluetooth headphones. I luv it.
Before my motorola atrix I used a Blackberry Storm + motorola S9HD BT headphones, and had exactly the same issues u report...

I have the S9HDs and I get pauses too. The thing that frustrates me is that it depends on where I have my phone. I have a jacket in wear when I bike ride that has a pocket on the inside. If I put the phone in there it constantly pauses. If I put my phone in my pants pocket it doesn't pause at all.
It seems like an easy solution, keep the phone in my pants pocket, but I wear workout type pants when riding and they are not deep pockets so I'm afraid the phone will fall out. It just doesn't make sense that the farther I put the phone from the headphones the better it works.
Sent from my MB860

I use these, and play music with PlayerPro............have no issues. Don't call often with the headphones, but have not had problems with them there either.
I routinely have my phone in my pants pocket while I walk around the office listening to music, and never lose my connection.
Not much help I know, but there are I guess some of us who don't experience bluetooth issues.

I installed playerpro, and I'm liking it so far.
Sent from my GingerBlur'd, de-odex'd, modded Motorola Atrix 4G (ish.)

S9 HD's reception is really bad. And I tell you cuz I had those. I mean, u can´t use the phone on your pants' pocket without lil skips... Nokias' reception rocks, and the battery last longer.

The problem with the s9 hd cutting out is reception. I have been using this headset for about 2 years while riding my motorcycle, with three different phones. They all had the same problem. With phone in my front pants pocket the problem persists. With phone in my shirt pocket, or in a backpack behind me, it never cuts out.
Posted from Atrix running gingerblur 4.5

[DEV]Stock Headset behavior to be fixed

Hello,
So we're definitly getting there : more and more fixes for our Android ROMS on the HD2. Major bugs are fewer every month and I'm sure we'll reach a very very close-to-native feel in a matter of months.
Still, some bugs seem resistant or maybe, not looked into. That's the case for the stock headset behavior.
Support for the stock headset has been released a few months are the first Nand Android ROMS back in January but was never really improved. And to be completely honest, it never really worked.
Here is the buggy behavior
Musing listening :
When plugged in, the headset will behave properly : back, pause/play, next buttons respond quite well. However after a while (around a minute of music playback I would say but I guess it could be timed more precisely), they don't. Pausing or skipping to the next song might work but most of the time, it would ask several attempts (from two to ten or more !).
The back button never works : either it does not respond at all, either it behaves as a forward song, skipping to the next song.
You have to actually interact with the player with the touchscreen to restore headset responsiveness. Until it breaks again a minute later.
Call answering :
This is a field I didn't experiment much : as answering a call with the headset is a gamble, I tend to quickly disconnect the headset in order to respond. If not, answering with the Play/pause button might not work or might ask for way too many attempts. If I succeed to answer, the person will generally tell me that he or she can't hear me well. Mic issue ?
This happens with every ROM out there, with every kernel, with every Music player, stock or third-party.
I don't have my HD2 with me now (back to HTC for a while) so I can't provide logcat but I'm sure there are other music listeners out there who will help out.
I don't know if it's kernel related or not but I would assume it won't be that hard to fix...we just need someone who look into this.
I'll try to keep the OP updated with new information as it comes out...

I have a blackberry headset that works great. No such problems with pausing and resuming music or even answering calls for hours on end, with long holding to voice dial.
On cm7 roms you can long hold volume up with screen off to skip songs, no problems here, perhaps try another headset.

It seems it works fine with other headset yes but it means it's really not a big issue to fix for users who uses the stock headset...

DannyBiker said:
Hello,
So we're definitly getting there : more and more fixes for our Android ROMS on the HD2. Major bugs are fewer every month and I'm sure we'll reach a very very close-to-native feel in a matter of months.
Still, some bugs seem resistant or maybe, not looked into. That's the case for the stock headset behavior.
Support for the stock headset has been released a few months are the first Nand Android ROMS back in January but was never really improved. And to be completely honest, it never really worked.
Here is the buggy behavior
Musing listening :
When plugged in, the headset will behave properly : back, pause/play, next buttons respond quite well. However after a while (around a minute of music playback I would say but I guess it could be timed more precisely), they don't. Pausing or skipping to the next song might work but most of the time, it would ask several attempts (from two to ten or more !).
The back button never works : either it does not respond at all, either it behaves as a forward song, skipping to the next song.
You have to actually interact with the player with the touchscreen to restore headset responsiveness. Until it breaks again a minute later.
Call answering :
This is a field I didn't experiment much : as answering a call with the headset is a gamble, I tend to quickly disconnect the headset in order to respond. If not, answering with the Play/pause button might not work or might ask for way too many attempts. If I succeed to answer, the person will generally tell me that he or she can't hear me well. Mic issue ?
This happens with every ROM out there, with every kernel, with every Music player, stock or third-party.
I don't have my HD2 with me now (back to HTC for a while) so I can't provide logcat but I'm sure there are other music listeners out there who will help out.
I don't know if it's kernel related or not but I would assume it won't be that hard to fix...we just need someone who look into this.
I'll try to keep the OP updated with new information as it comes out...
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As for the music, i mainly use the volume rockers on device for volume + (next/prev), the play/pause button does work when songs are playing but after pausing and idling for sometime, the device goes to sleep and the key does nothing (This might be actual behavior ? as the kernel goes into suspend, needs to be checked on a htc with native android)
The call behaviour is true as per your explanation. The mic inuse when wired headsets are plugged is of the device and not of the headset, i have verified this by placing the device away with headset plugged in and gradually bringing it close during a call.

I had recently bought the stock original headset. working very well. i use poweramp. play / pause ffw rwd are all working even when screen is off.
i can answer calls with the call button and the caller can hear me clearly.
maybe another rom or another headset can bring in some varied results.

Then it must be hardware related. I have an EU HD2 and I swear it doesn't work with any rom (Sense/ASOP-CM7/MIUI), any kernel, any player.

What I think would be great is if someone could get it to work perfectly with a set of iphone headphones. EVERYONE makes a nice set of headphones for that dang phone and their cheep
Sent from my HTC Runnymede using XDA App

+1 for the idea !

well..with rafpigna/hieros kernel the headset works almost 100%.
I mean:
when phone is on, everything works 100%
when it is sleeping but music is playong, it works 100%
when radio is playing and the phone is sleeping: I can switch channels and stop it but then I cannot do anything.
with tytungs kernel I could not do anything when the screen was off and the phone was sleeping.
(in the same ROM of course)
so it is bug in kernel drivers

DannyBiker said:
Then it must be hardware related. I have an EU HD2 and I swear it doesn't work with any rom (Sense/ASOP-CM7/MIUI), any kernel, any player.
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Since you mentioned that, mine is T-Mobile. Might be hardware related.

how about trying Tytung 12.4 v3 kernel?
how about reading the low speakers/Mic gain fix thread?
it's fixed i think, i don't have these issues after installing typhoo' cm7 build with this kernel...

Audio playback stopping/muting?

I'm having issues with the playback on my N5X when using headphones w/ remote. Bluetooth seems to work without issue.
The problem is, randomly, and usually within a minute of starting audio and putting the screen to sleep, audio playback will stop. Once I unlock the phone, it looks as if the OS still thinks audio is playing. If I toggle the play/pause button, I can get it to restart audio, but it does not pick up at the point where I heard the audio stop -- as if it continued playing while "muted". This occurs in at least 2 separate apps, which is why i'm thinking it's either an Android bug or possible a HW issue.
Anyone seen this?

Well I guess that answers my question...

tjkrz said:
Well I guess that answers my question...
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I've had a problem playing audio using Podcast Addict over bluetooth, but it's not similar to what you're describing. In my case, playback just pauses randomly for a second or two, then continues. This can happen after 1 minute of playback, or 20 minutes. I'm assuming at this point that my problem is with the app, android 6.0 is still very new and some apps may have problems (like camera apps flipping everything upside-down).

Exactly the same issues with my Nexus 5X... Deezer and Podcast Addict. Music starts but as soon as the display is turned off, approx. one minute later the sound stopps but when I turn the phone on again the player looks like still playing... Very annoying... Have you changed someting like the "lock when power button is pushed" option ore anything which is connected to the display?

Same here with Spotify... I find that I have to unplug and replug the headphones, hit pause, then play again. :/ Have you tried disabling Doze for your music player? It may have something to do with that, but I haven't experimented with it yet.

tjkrz said:
I'm having issues with the playback on my N5X when using headphones w/ remote. Bluetooth seems to work without issue.
The problem is, randomly, and usually within a minute of starting audio and putting the screen to sleep, audio playback will stop. Once I unlock the phone, it looks as if the OS still thinks audio is playing. If I toggle the play/pause button, I can get it to restart audio, but it does not pick up at the point where I heard the audio stop -- as if it continued playing while "muted". This occurs in at least 2 separate apps, which is why i'm thinking it's either an Android bug or possible a HW issue.
Anyone seen this?
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Yes I Had this problem. Mine did the exact same thing as yours. I rebooted the phone and it seemed to fix the problem. I can't tell if I would have had the problem again because I sent my phone back the next day for a replacement. My WiFi was terribly slow so they are sending me a new 5X.

I'm having the same problem when I use Google Music. I don't even have to turn the screen off. Did you have any luck figuring the problem out?

jurey said:
Exactly the same issues with my Nexus 5X... Deezer and Podcast Addict. Music starts but as soon as the display is turned off, approx. one minute later the sound stopps but when I turn the phone on again the player looks like still playing... Very annoying... Have you changed someting like the "lock when power button is pushed" option ore anything which is connected to the display?
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Yes, I did deselect "Power button instantly locks". I'll try putting it back to the default to see what happens. I know this has nothing to do with the "Smart Lock" state, because it happens even when I'm away from home.
Otherwise, I've found nothing that solves the issue. It's very annoying. The good thing is it probably only happens 10% of the time when I turn off the display with audio playing.

Yeah it's happening every single time I play music. Driving me crazy

Having the same problem. Seems to only happen when I'm doing something that would trigger the motion sensors. So when walking, all audio gets muted within a few seconds of me starting to walk, then stays muted. However, if I pause the audio, after 10 seconds I hear a pop (like the sound of a speaker turning off or something similar) and audio is available again. Exact same thing happens when I'm biking. If I'm stopped, music will continue until I start biking again, pause music, ten seconds later pop, resume. Everything is fine until I stop again, then repeat.
This isn't a problem when I take the subway, or a bus.
It's not just music that's muted though, all notification noises and alarms are also muted. The phone thinks the volumes are all where they're set, but won't play anything either over headphones, bluetooth or the speaker.
A reboot has not fixed my issue. System logs haven't revealed anything. Since this doesn't seem to be a super widespread problem, I'll be RMA'ing this one and hoping it doesn't happen on my next.

I'm not the only one
I have similar issues with mine, using podcast addict and YouTube with either wired headphones or wired aux jack.
What I find weird is that I am able to continue watching the video but without sound. I am unable to reliably replicate the problem but it always happens very quickly in the car using the wird aux input.
Sometimes the headphones will be fine for a long time while I'm sitting still and other times it will seem to stop even if I have no motion happening or have not touch the headphones.
Would be interested in trouble shooting this please advise.

Putting my phone away without turning off the screen seems to make this happen less. However, since this doesn't seem to be a super widespread problem, I've RMA'd my device. Not interested in starting out with a broken handset.

Been happening to me too - think since the MDB08L update. I just turned off Google Now 'Always On' and my podcast is playing fine (so far, lol). Not ideal because I do use OK Google, but continuous audio playback is way more important to me. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. How can we report issues like this to Google?

Interesting. I use Nova Launcher and switched off Google Now 'Always On' in the phone settings, but left it enabled in Nova Settings 'Gestures and Inputs'. I can still say 'OK Google' on any screen and so far the audio is playing without stopping every minute or so.

Getting this too. Was out running earlier with headphones in, stopped playing randomly five or six times but found skipping track made it work again. At home, had it on loud speaker, got 5 seconds in but it froze, skipped track and got 3 seconds, skipped again and just got 1 second. Gave up after that..
But it works fine when connected to a bluetooth speaker or my car!

scgf said:
Interesting. I use Nova Launcher and switched off Google Now 'Always On' in the phone settings, but left it enabled in Nova Settings 'Gestures and Inputs'. I can still say 'OK Google' on any screen and so far the audio is playing without stopping every minute or so.
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I tried this - switched off the "Always On" option. Went for a 40 min run tonight with music on through headphones and it didn't stop playing once.
Even now, got the phone playing through loudspeaker and it's having no problems!

Exact same issue here .
Audio playback stops but device still thinks its playing ie speaker icon on top bar. Sometimes stopping app and restarting helps other times no joy. I have also heard the short pop sound when it stops.
So far has happened in Youtube, google music and in some games. Also intermittent loss of text alert tones too.
Only sure fire way to reset is to restart phone.
I shall give the switching google now always on off trick see if this helps and report back (never use it anyway but still it shouldn't prevent audio)

Try a reboot
droidXish said:
I have similar issues with mine, using podcast addict and YouTube with either wired headphones or wired aux jack.
What I find weird is that I am able to continue watching the video but without sound. I am unable to reliably replicate the problem but it always happens very quickly in the car using the wird aux input.
Sometimes the headphones will be fine for a long time while I'm sitting still and other times it will seem to stop even if I have no motion happening or have not touch the headphones.
Would be interested in trouble shooting this please advise.
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I did more searching online and found enough other people are having a similar to think that there's something going on with the software. One post on a nexus 5 X subreddit had talked to Google support and went through a process of a safe mode boot as well as a reboot. I have not tried a safe mode boot but a reboot has resulted in the best playback experience I have had since owning this phone. No interruptions in audio for the last several hours . I'm on Verizon and have not received any updates as far as I'm aware. I am hoping that this will last.

My phone updated yesterday... I'm not sure but I haven't run into this problem yet with the new update. It has only happen 3-4 times before the update but we'll see

Tank87 said:
My phone updated yesterday... I'm not sure but I haven't run into this problem yet with the new update. It has only happen 3-4 times before the update but we'll see
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After updating yesterday, I had it occur again this morning with video playback and the audio muting. So wouldn't be too hopeful, sadly...