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Hello everybody, i'm experiencing laggy sound when i playback music, with the htc player on every roms htc 2.2 i tried.
For exemple, i'm listening music, and i browse gallery, sound begin laggy.
I dn't have the problem under eclair HTC.
Someone with the same Problem?
thanks
djboulette said:
Hello everybody, i'm experiencing laggy sound when i playback music, with the htc player on every roms htc 2.2 i tried.
For exemple, i'm listening music, and i browse gallery, sound begin laggy.
I dn't have the problem under eclair HTC.
Someone with the same Problem?
thanks
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Hello djboulette, I had the same problem: dropouts when turning display off and randomly while playing music. Also the system hung from time to time. The only way to solve the problem is to do a factory reset. To do this go to Settings->SD & phone storage->Factory data reset. I recommend to backup your phone because this wipes your entire phone memory. The system software and the files on the SD won't be touched.
I hope I could help you.
thank you for your reply, but problem occure with fresh install too.
But it's weird that nobody with froyo sense experiment the same problem.
Also i have a friend with froyo sense rom and same laggy sound bugg...
I have a very similar problem with the HTC Player. Besides of that everything seems to work fine. I don't have any hangs etc. I think the dropouts are happening when the SD card is accessed.
I tried MixZing and have very similar results. Maybe the SD card is too slow, no idea?
Hello, i don't think is the sd card too slow, because with 2.1 eclair no problem at all.
I have a class 4 16go Lexar card
and my friend class 6 16gb transcend card
It seems to me that the memory management changed. I'm not sure if as much cache is available to the music player as it was on 2.1. If this is the case the storage has to deliver faster. It's a long shot but I can see the same problem with different players and different tunes that used to work fine.
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my htc music widget seems jumpy, when recving txts or using copoilot, when using coplilot espicially, the music seems to jump when i tap the screen
Hello, i found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723073.
I think all is linked, maybe the sd card gestion has changed, and perfomance too.
As in the signature of my posts, I have the stock ROM on my unrooted Desire. However, after the OTA update it occured to me. The sound of the music player dropped frequently. After I hard-resetted my Desire, it was gone. I could browse through my galleries without a single drop of the sound.
The thing with the SD or generally the file system speed of my Desire was never a problem. It was fast all the time. Maybe it had something to do with my goldcard or it was a coincidence. I don't know.
Sadly problem still here after factory reset.
Nandroid is my friend, but thank for your help ^^
Hard-resetted, formatted my SD card.
Still choppy. This is really sad.
Flash is rubbish, russian froyo has some localisation problems (like when i want to type space, it types "!" instead, yeah, that bad), SD card copying is slow, and music is laggy. I wish i've stayed on eclair.
I have no problem with Music Player, yesterday i've listen more than one hour and a half of continuous music playback without any kind of problem with some tasks in the background (Last.fm, Seesmic, Facebook, weather widget etc).
pigbrother said:
I have no problem with Music Player, yesterday i've listen more than one hour and a half of continuous music playback without any kind of problem with some tasks in the background (Last.fm, Seesmic, Facebook, weather widget etc).
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Did you tried to load gallery, or some apps that read to sd?
I tried so many ROMS (ap2sd+ or not), all with problem (Whatever the music player: spotify, 3, stock player, etc.)
Except with vanilla ROMS, music run smoothly.
I have a LEXAR 16gb micro SD, class 4, with ext3 partion.
I also had the problem on Froyo, and traced or back to a widget I was using. Pure calendar. Not saying the widget is faulty, but it seems that the widget and maybe other widgets that call on processor power regularly may affect the music player. Changing the settings on the widget sorted the problem. See if there is a process or widget that is polling regularly, and that may be your problem. To be honest, on a multitasking phone with a processor like ours, this shouldn't be an issue, but hey...I may be wrong. Not sure if it will help you guys, but hope it will.
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I also had the problem on Froyo, and traced or back to a widget I was using. Pure calendar. Not saying the widget is faulty, but it seems that the widget and maybe other widgets that call on processor power regularly may affect the music player. Changing the settings on the widget sorted the problem. See if there is a process or widget that is polling regularly, and that may be your problem. To be honest, on a multitasking phone with a processor like ours, this shouldn't be an issue, but hey...I may be wrong. Not sure if it will help you guys, but hope it will.
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I tried different combination, even with no widget at all, and no running apps on backround, same problem.
I'd restore a old nandroid backup of my eclair stock rom, no problem a all, even with a tonne of widget and running apps.
HTC froyo for sure...
I'm getting the same problem only since the ota update. Listening to music as I'm writing this and its fine but as soon as I access photos the music becomes laggy. I have a 4gb class 6 sd card so can't be the speed of that. I'm using task manager and there is loads if free memory... strange.
Can I ask aswel, the people who are having this problem, have you tried recording in 720p. I tested his out earlier and it seemed to record fine but The playback is really poor. Very jerky and laggy.
What transfer speed are you getting from the class 6 card? Measured on the phone, not on a pc.
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Ok I have just tested my mem card. It states class 6 on the card although the app that I used says 4mbps write and 6mbps read. The app states that this its a class 4 card so can't see that being the problem.
Any ideas anyone
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I had something bad happen to my rooted one x running leedroid 4 yesterday.
I sync'd a lot of music to the phone, around 15gb. I then disconnected it and went out in the car and the phone freaked out, everything crashed then it wouldnt boot for a good 10 mins, then when it did, it was really slow. The back of the phone was red hot.
anyway, i ended up having to restore from a nandroid. Everything was back to normal.
So, i decided to try again tonight. It did the same thing. This time i've narrowed it down to the music apps scanning the music. If I freeze out the apps (music & player pro) the phone works normally.
I've tested this a few times and get the same results. I've also noticed that when the music player is scanning (you can see the album list updating) the battery discharges faster than usb can power!!!.
During normal use, it's doing things like bluetooth streaming and gps at the same time with no issue. It just seems that writing to the internal "sd" is killing my phone.
Has anyone else transferred a huge number of tracks to this phone? Is this a rom issue?
It seems to work ok with lower numbers of tracks. which is leading me to believe that the scanning of music is the problem
This is an issue.
Had it too, sync the first 5gb, let it do its job. It will freeze, stuck, bug and **** as long as it is indexing the new music.
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the irony is, my old desire v1 happily syncs and scans 16gb without a problem
Identical issue. I returned it lol
New one seems fine but I have left it stock. Its possible issue with my old one started after unlocking though it was present even after relock and RUU
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Mine is on LeeDroid from and synced 9gb quickly and went right to listening without noticing anything different
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Hey Folks,
I have an issue with the built-in stock Music player constantly taking all of the available RAM, which causes Android to start killing other processes like the launcher (Apex Pro), Tasker, nearby devices service (force closes occasionally), etc. It is very odd. I have tried several attempts to remedy the situation. I have, so far, cleared the Media Storage data, cleared the Cache partition from the boot recovery menu, have music on built-in storage and un-mounting my MicroSD card, to which none of these efforts helped. It seems like the Music Player app has a memory leak, which I am wondering if this was introduced in 4.3. I did not see it listed yet in the 4.3 issue threads, and not really sure if 4.3 is the culprit. I upgraded to the S4 from an S2 recently and a week later the official 4.3 upgrade was available. Thus, I do not know if this issue was happening in 4.2.2.
The interesting thing is that this leak or loop is occurring whether or not I have music on the device. So, to be clear, the issue specifically is when I launch the Music Player and then go to Task Manager to see the used RAM, the RAM will just continue to get used up until it reaches about 1.70GB or so out of 1.78GB available and then Android will start killing other processes to accommodate for more memory. This is when Apex and /or Tasker and other services start getting the ax. What's more, if I kill the Music Player (either right away or later), the memory continues to be consumed until it reaches about 1.5GB - 1.6GB and then finally releases and drops to 700MB - 900MB.
I am on a stock ROM, non-rooted and I have also confirmed this issue with my wife's S4 as well. We can use Google Play Music with no issues, but prefer the stock player if there is a solution to this "memory leak" or other situation that is causing the issue. If anyone has some insights as to what this issue is and a fix, please let me know. Also, if anyone can launch the Music Player and watch the RAM in Task Manager to confirm that this is or is not occurring on other S4s out there as perhaps it is an issue that some may not have noticed. In fact, my wife has been using her device in the car for a couple of weeks and streaming with Bluetooth and not noticed this was occurring. However, if she were to have music and use Maps/Navigation at the same time with this issue, Maps will get killed along with other multitasking tasks. I happened to noticed this behavior when I moved my music on the device and was playing around with the player, when I saw that Tasker restarted itself and then shortly after the nearby devices service forced closed and the music app got real sluggish. I then started observing the RAM usage with the launch of the player and realized why apps were closing. The funny part is that the music plays fine and never dies, it just kills everything else in its wake.
Any insight to this will be greatly appreciated. Also, I have been scouring the forums and Google in general to see if this has been mentioned and have not found this exact situation. However, if I did overlook a thread/post that has this as a known issue, please let me know what that link is. Thanks.
First off, damn. You might want to take a refresher course on how to say what you mean without all the extra words. You wrote a book man. 90% of what you typed is unnecessary. Nobody wants to read all of that and must won't even entertain a response. Just a friendly heads up.
Now, are you sure that the RAM is being taken up by the music app and not a combination of apps/processes? The stock task manager isn't very good for situations like this so you'll need to download a system monitor. There are quite a few out there, take your pick.
Could be that when you open the music player the media scanner is eating up RAM along with other processes. Those together are killing your memory. If that's the case you need to create a .nomedia file to place in the folders on your internal/external memory. Also, do you have any other music or media apps installed?
Figure out those then post back. You might try uninstalling all your apps then reinstall them one by one ( backup first). Yes, it can take a while if you have a lot but once you install the culprit - you'll know it. Hope that helps.
SOLVED!!
Ah, thanks for the heads up! Sorry about the long-winded post, I just wanted to convey the issue and what I have done so far. In future posts, I will be much more concise and to the point.
On a good note, I have solved my issue and found that if you disable/freeze/uninstall apps but still want to use the built-in music player, there is a conflict if you disable S Voice. I was going through the settings in the music player and noticed the voice control feature (which was unchecked), but clearly the player still wants to talk with or "see" S Voice out there. I took a shot in the dark and once I re-enabled S Voice, the gobbling of RAM from the music player launching stopped. Yay!!
Not solved!
Well that victory was short lived. That seemed to have only worked for about 10 minutes and it is back to the same memory gobbling issue when the player is launched. I reactivated Google Play Music and am using that with no issues, so it seems that will have to do.
Well that was all I had. I don't use the stock music player since I stream with Google Music.
You might look in the app store for an app to replace the stock one. Then uninstall the stock app so you don't have the issue anymore.
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Hi all,
First time poster so please go easy on me..
Basically since the lollipop update (stock unbranded HTC M8) my stock HTC music player app has developed a rather annoying bug which involves the music song displaying its length completely wrong (please see attached pics). This causes the track to skip and jump to another track completely. It is very annoying!
It is not just with the HTC Music app either, I use a podcast app and the problem is also persists on that app too.
I have cleared caches, deleted and re-installed the podcast app. I don't know what to do apart from factory resetting the device hoping that will fix it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for reading
Andy
Digital_Enemy said:
Basically since the lollipop update (stock unbranded HTC M8) my stock HTC music player app has developed a rather annoying bug which involves the music song displaying its length completely wrong (please see attached pics). This causes the track to skip and jump to another track completely. It is very annoying!
It is not just with the HTC Music app either, I use a podcast app and the problem is also persists on that app too.
I have cleared caches, deleted and re-installed the podcast app. I don't know what to do apart from factory resetting the device hoping that will fix it.
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Another one here with exactly the same problem. Unrooted, stock UK M8. Only happened since OTA update to Lollipop. Also noticed this (or very similar) issue appears to sometimes affect my Pocket Casts podcast app as well. The only time I've ever seen anything like this in the past was an old MP3 player I had that displayed incorrect times if music was encoded with variable bit rate. However all the music I have on my M8 is fixed bit rate so it's not that...
Does no one have any idea yet why this is happening or any suggestions for a fix? I've found that clearing the cache under Settings > Apps > All > Music can sometimes fix the issue temporarily. Soon comes back again though.
Ok this seems to have resolved it on my phone for now:
- Eject SD card (all my music is stored on SD)
- Go to Settings > Apps > All > Music > Clear Cache
- Go to Settings > Apps > All > Music Enhancer > Clear Cache
- Reinsert SD card
- Fully reboot phone by holding Power + Vol Up for 10 seconds
I'm still seeing a few isolated little glitches with some song times but they seem to be resolving themselves after a few goes, and the majority are currently displaying correctly.
Regarding the podcast side (using Pocket Casts app), I think I may have fixed this incidentally a few days ago when I moved my podcasts from using phone storage to SD. Taking this into account, it looks to be some kind of database corruption after the Lollipop upgrade, hopefully all ok after letting the phone rebuild its relevant media databases from scratch (I suspect a full factory reset would also fix it.) I wonder if the update included some kind of change to the MP3 decoding codec used which somehow misinterpreted the cached time info?
Same issue .. and lot of issues since lollipop
I did exactly like you said .. but I still get the same annoying bug .. and also there are many bugs after lollipop . like if you cleared recent apps and soundcloud was one , you see soundcloud's notification in the top left , when you slide it down , you see the latest song you have been playing , and it is frozen you can not clear it . and when you touch it , it opens again soundcloud .. you cannot fully close the app .. only if you did that in running Apps and force stop it .. EVEYTIME .. is that normal ? please help . and is it also possible to get back to Android kitkat ?!
I too have a similar issue... When playing, if I pause the song or audio book and exit the app, when reopening it forces the song or book to reset back to the beginning. Before it would resume from the place it was paused at.
Any ideas?
Audio messed up by lollipop
Hi
I am having the same issue. Any info on a solution?
Ivan
Digital_Enemy said:
Hi all,
First time poster so please go easy on me..
Basically since the lollipop update (stock unbranded HTC M8) my stock HTC music player app has developed a rather annoying bug which involves the music song displaying its length completely wrong (please see attached pics). This causes the track to skip and jump to another track completely. It is very annoying!
It is not just with the HTC Music app either, I use a podcast app and the problem is also persists on that app too.
I have cleared caches, deleted and re-installed the podcast app. I don't know what to do apart from factory resetting the device hoping that will fix it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for reading
Andy
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Does it play the full song inspite of showing the wrong length, or even the song's messed up ? A hard reset helps sometimes
Same problem here. Audios received by whatsapp have the same problem sometimes. I reverted to kitkat and the problem is gone, upgraded again to lollipop and problem is back. My music is on internal storage. Poweramp do not have this problem.
Hi,
I had same issue, it turned out that it appeared after turning off Nuplayer option in dev settings. When I turn it on again, as for now (2 days), works as expected.
MajkelKas said:
Hi,
I had same issue, it turned out that it appeared after turning off Nuplayer option in dev settings. When I turn it on again, as for now (2 days), works as expected.
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i will try turning it back on to see if problem persists here.
EDIT:Turning nuplayer back on solved the problem. thanks.
I'll give that a try too. I can't remember why we turned off NuPlayer in the first place, but isn't there some other issue?
Guys the problem is caused by enabling dev options then turning it off
Just head into bev options and enable Nuplayer.it worked for me
Turning nuplayer on helps but than Messenger lags very often. Any solutions about that?
Thanks, turning on NuPlayer worked for me too !
Hey Guys, newbie here!
I've been using CM13 for a while now. Recently my Spotify app started freezing and crashing my phone when accessing my 64GB MicroSD card. I can not reproduce this however since it seems to happen randomly. But when Spotif or my SD card are uninstalled i do not get these freezes.
I did a clean install of the most recent CM13 Nightly and the Experimental CM14 release, which did not yield any results other than corrupting my data file system. After fixing this, I now run in the Experimental CM14 without Spotify.
If you have ans Idea I would really appreciate the help from you guys.
*Edit* This is about the LG G3 D855 which I am using with a 64GB Sandisk MicroSD card.
Rossi
Wow, reading that post, it's almost as if I posted it myself.
I have similar issues as you. But I'm using stock. I thought it was something wrong with my new 128gb microsd. I even gotten a new battery just in case, as I see other people pointing to these random issue to battery issue.
Until I realized Spotify somewhat actively caches stuff on my microsd card, plus the earlier issue of using network data in the background even when not actively in use (killed my wife's data usage for that month).
Issues I've seen are phone not waking up from black screen (or taking a really really long time to wake up), issue playing the next song with my regular mp3 player with songs stored on microsd, spotify freezing, bluetooth freeze on connect, etc.
Just recently I've just tried to clear all data/cache on the spotify app (took a long time, I clicked the button and went to sleep). Then as soon as I'm back on spotify, I go to settings and tell it to cache on phone sd instead of external. So far my phone seem to be running better. Will have to wait a few more days to see how it goes. Hope this helps (for myself as well : ) )