Develop Bugs

[Q] Music stops when switching apps...

While I've been a member of XDA for quite a while (since my early days with a TyTn II), I've never posted. Mostly because I've always found an applicable post regarding my interest, need, problem, etc.. Can't find anything this time!
I recently upgraded from an original Moto Droid to the Incredible (bought off E-Bay) and have two annoying issues.
The biggest is that, unlike the Moto Droid, the music stops whenever I switch from music player to another app. On the Droid, I could go to the home screen or browser, etc and still listen to music. The weird thing is that it still exhibits the same behavior after rooting and loading the latest JagerRom. Is this just normal for the Incredible?
The second problem (not so much), is that the phone refuses to automatically pull my apps down from the Market after an upgrade or factory restore. It syncs Contacts and email just fine, but I've had to reload my apps manually after each restore and the switch to JagerRom. It's had this issue since day one.
Any thoughts/advice would be much appreciated!

how are you accessing your music? to start it playing? I noticed that if you go through a file manager and play a song you have to leave the music app open or if when you back out it will stop but if you go to the music app and start it then you can back out and it will play in the background fine. Make sense?

Thanks for the reply. I'm playing purely from within the stock player. That's why I'm baffled by the problem.
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hmm thats very strange. not sure what to tell you on that. Ill try to rack my brain some more and let ya know if I come up with anything.

I thought I should chime in here also. I am also experiencing this issue. Seems like navigation is killing pandora instead of muting it. Very annoying on road trips, a fix would be much appreciated.

[Q] Camera app on G2 often won't show pictures taken

Not sure if this is a common problem. I couldn't find anything on the interwebs indicating that others are having this issue frequently.
It seems like my Camera application will almost never allow me to see the pictures that I've taken. When I tap on the picture preview it just goes to a blank screen. If I hit slideshow, it momentarily tries to take me to the slideshow and then bounces me right back.
Sometimes after force closing it with the system monitor app a few times will eventually let me see previews.
It's pretty infuriating that it does this and I have no idea what would cause it. I'm thinking about buying Vignette, but in my opinion the stock camera should work.
Any ideas?

You know what I just noticed - it appears to be the gallery app and not the camera app. Anyone else have this problem with Gallery?

It is most likely a media scan issue with the gallery (sometimes my pictures take a long time to show up on their own as well).
You can either reboot the phone or use an app to rescan media. There are a bunch out there (search market for rescan or scan media). Or if you are running CM6, you can choose the function in the built-in Dev Tools app. Tasker also has this function built in if you wanted to set up something like forcing a rescan every time you exit the Camera app.

[Q] Problems caused by Google Play Store

So I'm having two pretty major problems with my phone.
1. The Music app doesn't work.
2. My screen goes blank during a call, and I cannot hang up
1. When i tap the Music icon, it "bumps," but nothing happens. If I use Firefly to check a song, and click the store link, it will open, and I can buy the song. But if I try to go to my media from there, the app crashes.
2. I'm assuming my prox sensor is locked or something? As soon as I begin a call, the screen goes black. The only way I can hang up is to hold the power button for 40s to force a shutdown, or if my headset is handy, I can switch it on and that will reactivate the screen.
I have contacted Amazon support about issue #1 and the first question the support girl asked was if I had installed any third-party apps through the Google Play Store. She said that she had seen this issue before and that was always the culprit.
Has anyone else experienced these issues? Any way to track down what app is causing them?

The easiest way to figure it out is to uninstall Google Play Store for now, and any other apps that you might have installed one by one, and see which ones makes a difference.
FYI I have the Play Store installed with a bunch of my usual apps and my Music app works fine.

Amazon music app will stop working if you update the app through Google Play. Go to your setting in Google Play and select "Do not auto-update apps". Un-install the music app through Google Play and the Amazon music app should start the work properly, if not re-install the music app through Amazon.
If you have a screen protector without a hole for the proximity sensor that is located below the front camera then that is the reason why the screen turns off and you are not able to hang up.

jack9955 said:
Amazon music app will stop working if you update the app through Google Play. Go to your setting in Google Play and select "Do not auto-update apps". Un-install the music app through Google Play and the Amazon music app should start the work properly, if not re-install the music app through Amazon.
If you have a screen protector without a hole for the proximity sensor that is located below the front camera then that is the reason why the screen turns off and you are not able to hang up.
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Thanks for the advice!
I do have the Google Play Store set for manual updates, but it is possible that I accidentally did an "Update all" at some point. I know I did it once and screwed up Netflix, but I was able to just delete and reinstall from Amazon.
Unfortunately, since it's a Fire Phone, Amazon Music is not available in the app store, it's built in. Does anyone know of any way to "reinstall" the app other than restoring the phone?
Regarding the proximity sensor, I don't have a screen protector, and I forgot to mention that it's not constant. Yesterday, I was able to make a call normally. And often, rebooting will solve the problem temporarily as well.

If the Amazon Music was accidentally installed through Google Play it may still be on your phone. Use ES File Explorer to see if you have Amazon Music installed in your User Apps and System Apps. If so then use ES File Explorer to un-installed the music app that is in your User Apps.

[Q] Music Player issues since lollipop...

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 !

Wear Actions/Assiging Apps Issues

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Update: It seems after a couple of reboots and launches of app manually on watch/phone it seems to be working correctly
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I've just reset watch and also ran an update to latest build. I've also recently done a clean install of rom on phone.
Upon getting setting some apps up I've noticed that the Android Wear voice actions seems to be having issues assigning/recognising apps correctly. For example Play Music kept assigning a podcast app and would not let me use Google Play Music unless I uninstalled the podcast app. I've also noticed things like "Start A Workout" and other fitness actions are greayed out and wil not let me assign apps at all, were as start a run is auto assigned to Google Fit and lets me assign others.
Has anybody else has similar issues/knows what's wrong?