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Screenlock and PowerAMP - volume issue.

I have problem with my Galaxy Nexus. When the screen is locked and I press the volume up button , the volume goes down first and then up. It is quite weird because with unlocked screen everything is ok.

kara mustafa said:
I have problem with my Galaxy Nexus. When the screen is locked and I press the volume up button , the volume goes down first and then up. It is quite weird because with unlocked screen everything is ok.
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SOrry to bump an old dead thread but I am also experiencing this problem. Any fix for it?

Disable direct volume control?
Also I stopped using PowerAMP, it was causing my phone to randomly reboot whilst listening to music and doing other tasks. Gone back to google music for now .

zeekiz said:
Disable direct volume control?
Also I stopped using PowerAMP, it was causing my phone to randomly reboot whilst listening to music and doing other tasks. Gone back to google music for now .
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Thanks! that worked, but somehow i feel that the sound quality is better with DVC.
I haven't experienced your random reboot problem YET. Been using it for more than a week.

i have it too but it really dosen't bother me, also no random reboots, i haven't had any on any phone since my atrix, god that was a terrible phone

DemonTweakZ said:
Thanks! that worked, but somehow i feel that the sound quality is better with DVC.
I haven't experienced your random reboot problem YET. Been using it for more than a week.
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Try increasing the amount of buffering it allows (Poweramp Settings > Audio Engine > Advanced Tweaks > Audio Buffer Size), I felt after increasing that made the sound quality a bit more pleasing.
I don't know why it started, but if I was using PowerAMP, browsing the net, or using it for an extended amount of time doing numerous different things, it would go black for about 10 seconds, then the google logo.
Since uninstalling it and using the stock google music, no issues what so ever lol.
EDIT
Just had a look at the reviews on the marketplace and they seem to be echoing the same issue, but not just the Galaxy Nexus, but ICS in general. Apparently clearing the application data should rectify the problems. I'll give it a try for the next two days and report back.

There's a lot of new beta builds that are available on the power amp forum. I haven't had any issues at all.
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[Q] Problems with Pandora on ICS and up?

Hey everyone:
Ever since I upgraded to 4.x on the E4GT, I've had intermittent problems with using Pandora on 3G. The connection appears to timeout, as it displays the song information but never actually plays, and then it skips to the next song generally repeating until I close the application. I've tried uninstalling it, clearing data, etc. even going so far as to factory reset. This persists across modems. The only thing I can say for sure about it is that it happens more when I use it while it's plugged into my car dock. Has anyone else had this problem?

jyaworski said:
Hey everyone:
Ever since I upgraded to 4.x on the E4GT, I've had intermittent problems with using Pandora on 3G. The connection appears to timeout, as it displays the song information but never actually plays, and then it skips to the next song generally repeating until I close the application. I've tried uninstalling it, clearing data, etc. even going so far as to factory reset. This persists across modems. The only thing I can say for sure about it is that it happens more when I use it while it's plugged into my car dock. Has anyone else had this problem?
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I've found the same. The only time that I see it working in when connected to WIFI. I've tried it under ICS and JB 3G. But it doesn't word either place.http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Did you change your Sprint proxy? I've heard of people fixing their Pandora 3g streaming issues by restoring back their Sprint proxy to default values from that 0.0.0.0 tweak thingy..
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This happens on and off with Pandora and it happened to me on GB rom also. It seems more common right after a Pandora app update then after a day or two it always fixes itself so I figure the issue is on their end.

jyaworski said:
Hey everyone:
Ever since I upgraded to 4.x on the E4GT, I've had intermittent problems with using Pandora on 3G. The connection appears to timeout, as it displays the song information but never actually plays, and then it skips to the next song generally repeating until I close the application. I've tried uninstalling it, clearing data, etc. even going so far as to factory reset. This persists across modems. The only thing I can say for sure about it is that it happens more when I use it while it's plugged into my car dock. Has anyone else had this problem?
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It does the same to me, besides the fact that data is so slow in most of the greater Sacramento area I don't even get fast enough data to
run Pandora.
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Hey, I had the same issue. This thread solved it for me. your mileage may vary but it worked so worth a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844271

That seems like it might work. Since this is related to the thread, does anyone know how to change proxies from AOSP? Maybe using adb?
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No idea, Sorry man. Try the same way as with touchwiz. If it doesn't work it you might have to flash to touchwiz so it and flash back, or if the temp touchwiz thingy is done use that.

You were right about the Sprint proxy. I changed back and it started to work on 3g. However, when I have it plugged into my car dock (the official Samsung one) it still refuses to play. I'm wondering if car mode interferes with it.
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jyaworski said:
You were right about the Sprint proxy. I changed back and it started to work on 3g. However, when I have it plugged into my car dock (the official Samsung one) it still refuses to play. I'm wondering if car mode interferes with it.
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I had a similar issue with dock mode as well but i was using the dock but connected to the car by bluetooth(sync is one hell of a system) try checking your dock settings specifically the audio out setting, Play around with that guy. Also get an aux cable plug that into the dock and the car and see if that helps you.

pandora problem
jyaworski said:
Hey everyone:
Ever since I upgraded to 4.x on the E4GT, I've had intermittent problems with using Pandora on 3G. The connection appears to timeout, as it displays the song information but never actually plays, and then it skips to the next song generally repeating until I close the application. I've tried uninstalling it, clearing data, etc. even going so far as to factory reset. This persists across modems. The only thing I can say for sure about it is that it happens more when I use it while it's plugged into my car dock. Has anyone else had this problem?
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Yeppers, same here, was instructed to clear data out of app, but no-go, seems to work better on wifi for some reason though...

Music stops playing

Hi there,
I've got an annoying issue with my S3 with any player I use. The music stops playing at some point. It could be either after 3 min or 27 min with headset plugged in or not.
I've checked everywhere and 've seen a lot of people with the same problem but none of them has a proper fix.
I am running stock JB, Canadian Bell version, no root, no flash or any of these.
I didn't activate any motion option or fancy way to stop the player. When I receive a notification of all kind while listening, the player just stops for half a sec and then resume, I believe it is the way it should work.
I would much appreciate some help coz it drives me crazy.
By the way, happy new Year!
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I have had a similar problem with my phone ever since I switched to JB. My problem was that once the screen turned off, the player would stop, or stop once the song ends and not start the next song. I did not have this problem with ICS.
For me, I was able to fix it by going into the music app setting and unchecking the box for the screen automatically turning off during music play. However, if I turn the screen off manually the music will stop again either right away or at the end of the song. For now I'm OK just leaving the screen on since I charge the phone when I'm streaming music in the car.
Idk if this will help you or not.
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had a friend that was using go locker, when the phone fell to sleep, within a few minutes the music would stop. disabling and renabling go locker fixed it. this phone was not rooted.

I tried disable/enable and uninstall /reinstall and no luck. But, I figured it out that it was due to Juice Defender settings and adjusted them and now Pandora will play when the screen is off.
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nurseshelly said:
I tried disable/enable and uninstall /reinstall and no luck. But, I figured it out that it was due to Juice Defender settings and adjusted them and now Pandora will play when the screen is off.
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Well you said you have no motions enabled but just throwing this out there you can turn over to mute/pause under motion control. I don't see how this could be a hardware problem so if you reinstalled stock it shouldn't be happening. If it's not your software then the only thing I could imagine is the encoding of your files. I know from experience that some MP4s from iTunes don't work. idk why.

Hi,
We guys don't seem to have same problem.
Music doesn't stop when screen's off. It just stops randomly.
Any other ideas?
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What are you playing music with? (I'm assuming whatever media player comes with stock, but I could be wrong.)
What else do you have running on your phone right now?

I first used the stock media player then tried winamp and now poweramp.
Same problem with any of these.
There is always a lot of apps running in background such as bloat, mail, fb, rss reader, games....
I don't use task killers. I have GSam battery monitor and juice defender.
But as far as I know they don't kill running apps, unless i'm mistaken.
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djakereur said:
I have[...]juice defender.
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nurseshelly said:
I figured it out that it was due to Juice Defender settings and adjusted them
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I think we have an answer, folks.

I would suggest going back to basics. There might be some debris in your headphone jack that shorts the "Pause" action. I would blow some compressed air in there, just in case.
Also, didn't S Voice or something have a command to Pause/Play? Maybe you have that on and through casual conversation S Voice is picking it up as Pause?

Thanks for your advise.
Blew some air but just in case but nothing.
S Voice cmd isn't active, I had already turn that off.
I think I'll do a factory reset and see if it fixes it.
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djakereur said:
Thanks for your advise.
Blew some air but just in case but nothing.
S Voice cmd isn't active, I had already turn that off.
I think I'll do a factory reset and see if it fixes it.
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I have had this problem off and on ever since I got the phone. It usually happens when I am listening to music and listening to the coaching from my running app (Endomondo Pro). They both work fine for a while then randomly one or both will stop playing through the headphones. I have tried a factory reset multiple times and nothing completely stops this.

Ok
Basically I don't need to bother to do so. Coz to be honest it's a pain in the a.. to do it.
Don't know what to do to fix this.
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My PowerAmp developed a similar problem out of the blue just today or within the last few days.
JB 4.1.1 Ultimatum ROM.
Was working fine.
Then noticed it would stop playing after just five seconds, repeatedly.
I uninstalled.
Wiped Cache & Davlik.
Reinstalled and so far, so good. No more problems yet.
Pandora did not have any problems before or after.

Nope, n/m.
As soon as I hooked it up to my dock with DIY USB-OTG cable, PowerAmp started stopping/starting again.
Could be JB or any dozen other things, including my DIY cable.
I'll have to t/s some more.

djakereur said:
Don't know what to do to fix this.
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As I said here:
You are running JuiceDefender.
Someone else in the thread with the same problem was running JuiceDefender.
Said someone else was able to make the problem go away by tinkering with JuiceDefender settings.
Could that possibly be the source of the problem, and a possible solution?

And as I said : we guys don't seem to have the same problem.
My player doesn't stop when screen goes black. My player stops randomly that's it.
He wanted to listen to internet radio while screen's off and just needed to set juice defender properly.
Anyway
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If a specific program you're using is causing a similar issue to the one you're experiencing with other users, is it not worth taking a similar approach to solving the problem? If you don't have a sense of what settings in that program might be causing issues, then just stop the program running for a while and see if the problem goes away.
Likewise, if it's something else on your phone causing issues, stop other programs you might be running from running one by one and see if/when the problem goes away.

djakereur said:
And as I said : we guys don't seem to have the same problem.
My player doesn't stop when screen goes black. My player stops randomly that's it.
He wanted to listen to internet radio while screen's off and just needed to set juice defender properly.
Anyway
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Umm, I am a she, not a he .
When I researched further, it was Juice Defender turning off the cellular raido that was causing the problem. The screen was a coincidence.
It wouldn't hurt to turn Juice Defender off and see if it still happens, just to rule that out. That way you would know for sure it is something else.
My set up is the same as yours, stock phone (can't remember if you are using ICS or JB), with Juice Defender and GSam Battery Monitor.
I ended up just turning Juice Defender off and putting it on power saving mode and honestly I haven't noticed a difference in performance, and I'm having better battery life than with Juice Defender. I'm getting average 23 hours on a charge and I'm using it a lot (although it does get charged in my car when I'm streaming music). With Juice Defender I was getting average 17 hours on a charge with using it a lot.

Sorry about that!
I did try that already but didn't change a thing.
I think I'll consider rooting it and flashing it.
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Notification/ volumes sounds changes to very low by its self.

OK this problem has been bugging me. Its started a few weeks back and i thought when i updated to 4.3 it would go away. But no luck.
Here is the problem. I have a Samsung S3 SGH I747M on Rogers was on 4.1.2 stock rom rooted. Now im on 4.3 stock rom rooted.
My phone keeps changing the notification/ all volumes on it own to very low. I can hardly hear it. I reboot my phone and its back to normal and all volumes are were i set them. Now i did notice that when it does go very low all my volume sliders go to the max position but everything will be very low.
Its driving me crazy. I have uninstalled several apps that i thought might be causing the problem but nothing seems to fix it. My next step is to do a factory reset. Which i really don't want to do as i have my phone set up the way i like it.
I'm hoping some of you phone gurus out there can help me find this annoyance.
Thanks.

Wow. No reply's. I guess nobody has had this problem before. Ill keep looking.

My volume dips occasionally, but I'm on pacman Rom with viper4android installed. In my case it happens when viper decides to randomly crash.
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Satstalker said:
OK this problem has been bugging me. Its started a few weeks back and i thought when i updated to 4.3 it would go away. But no luck.
Here is the problem. I have a Samsung S3 SGH I747M on Rogers was on 4.1.2 stock rom rooted. Now im on 4.3 stock rom rooted.
My phone keeps changing the notification/ all volumes on it own to very low. I can hardly hear it. I reboot my phone and its back to normal and all volumes are were i set them. Now i did notice that when it does go very low all my volume sliders go to the max position but everything will be very low.
Its driving me crazy. I have uninstalled several apps that i thought might be causing the problem but nothing seems to fix it. My next step is to do a factory reset. Which i really don't want to do as i have my phone set up the way i like it.
I'm hoping some of you phone gurus out there can help me find this annoyance.
Thanks.
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Did you have any audio mods installed ? If so then that might have caused the problem because to fully uninstall those you have to remove some of their system files or if they changed your build.prop you might have to undo the changes.
Other than that im not really sure what might be causing it.
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Florad77 said:
Did you have any audio mods installed ? If so then that might have caused the problem because to fully uninstall those you have to remove some of their system files or if they changed your build.prop you might have to undo the changes.
Other than that im not really sure what might be causing it.
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Hey thanks for the reply Florad77.:good:
I don't have any audio mods installed. I do have poweramp audio player and tasker installed and Tasker does not seem to work good now since the 4.3 update. Well its looking more and more like im going to do a factory reset. ugg!
Does anybody know a way to restore the phone back to the settings and the way it looks now after a factory reset?

Volume changes
Satstalker said:
Hey thanks for the reply Florad77.:good:
I don't have any audio mods installed. I do have poweramp audio player and tasker installed and Tasker does not seem to work good now since the 4.3 update. Well its looking more and more like im going to do a factory reset. ugg!
Does anybody know a way to restore the phone back to the settings and the way it looks now after a factory reset?
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I have the same issue. I uninstalled Ram Booster and disabled Power Savings Mode. Problem still exists but volume change is much less. Also ,it happens exactly when screen turns off. Factory reset did not solve it for me.

Satstalker said:
Hey thanks for the reply Florad77.:good:
I don't have any audio mods installed. I do have poweramp audio player and tasker installed and Tasker does not seem to work good now since the 4.3 update. Well its looking more and more like im going to do a factory reset. ugg!
Does anybody know a way to restore the phone back to the settings and the way it looks now after a factory reset?
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I just started experiencing this issue as well. Never noticed it before as I always had my phone on silent for school but now that im on vacation I turned the sound back on and I can't hear the locking and unlocking sounds unless the phone is right next to my ear. The keyboard and the basic touch sounds are very quiet too. Wondering if you managed to fix this problem ?
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Florad77 said:
I just started experiencing this issue as well. Never noticed it before as I always had my phone on silent for school but now that im on vacation I turned the sound back on and I can't hear the locking and unlocking sounds unless the phone is right next to my ear. The keyboard and the basic touch sounds are very quiet too. Wondering if you managed to fix this problem ?
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Hey Florad77,
Yes i did manage to fix it. Tasker is the culprit. Its not playing nice with the 4.3 update. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and everything was working fine. No volume changes. Then i set up some tasks, simple ones like turn off my Bluetooth when i leave my truck etc. And low and behold the sound issues came back. It must be when tasker trys to run tasks that it F,s everything up in the phones settings for sound. I just uninstalled it again and i also removed secure settings as well. Here is a review of Tasker from google play with the same sound problems.
Bob Porvan November 30, 2013
Sound notifications don't work... After the recent update, notifications stopped playing sound files, unlike always. A power related task keeps firing when it's not supposed to. 4.3.yuga.pac
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I hope this fixes your problem. Mine is work just fine now after the uninstall.

Volume issues fixed.
OK. I was still having the problem even after deleting most of the apps i thought were causing the problem. But had no luck fixing the volume issue. I remembered my son saying he has had a problem with his phone not connecting to the Bluetooth also but his had a different error. So i asked him what his issue was and he said every time he tries to connect he gets an error saying "unable to play during call" So i googled his problem and found the answer and it fixed his Bluetooth error. I then checked my own settings and changed it also and if fixed mine.
So If you use text plus go to settings and unselect enable incoming calls, and that will fix the unable to play during call error when using your music player over Bluetooth. And like me if your also having volume issues after connecting to Bluetooth it will fix that also. Make sure to reboot your phone after the change.
I hope this helps somebody as this problem has been driving me crazy for months now. I was so close to doing a factory reset and re flashing the rooted 4.3 rom again.

Satstalker said:
OK this problem has been bugging me. Its started a few weeks back and i thought when i updated to 4.3 it would go away. But no luck.
Here is the problem. I have a Samsung S3 SGH I747M on Rogers was on 4.1.2 stock rom rooted. Now im on 4.3 stock rom rooted.
My phone keeps changing the notification/ all volumes on it own to very low. I can hardly hear it. I reboot my phone and its back to normal and all volumes are were i set them. Now i did notice that when it does go very low all my volume sliders go to the max position but everything will be very low.
Its driving me crazy. I have uninstalled several apps that i thought might be causing the problem but nothing seems to fix it. My next step is to do a factory reset. Which i really don't want to do as i have my phone set up the way i like it.
I'm hoping some of you phone gurus out there can help me find this annoyance.
Thanks.
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The problem with the volume that you are facing is because of a secret call in the background via Hangouts.
Basically Hangouts connects a call with someone in the background without user's interaction and phone goes into call mode.
And in call mode volumes are adjusted appropiately as it should be in a normal call and all the sounds come out of earpiece.
If you turn off Hangouts, you will not get this problem again.
Hit Thanks!, if it helps

Sound cutting out

Has anyone found a fix for the sound cutting out after a few seconds of a video or game? I have tried the soubdabout app, Turing the USB option off, disable Power save.. Still happening..
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I have the same issue sometimes, I've read around the web and it seems to be a mix of software and hardware related, I read a guy suggest removing and putting back the case (in case you have one) and I did that and the sound came back, haven't had the issue again.
Dakotahorse said:
Has anyone found a fix for the sound cutting out after a few seconds of a video or game? I have tried the soubdabout app, Turing the USB option off, disable Power save.. Still happening..
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hudtwalcker said:
I have the same issue sometimes, I've read around the web and it seems to be a mix of software and hardware related, I read a guy suggest removing and putting back the case (in case you have one) and I did that and the sound came back, haven't had the issue again.
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Hmm, I keep mine out of a case,.. Yeah I'm not sure what it is, it's a 50/50 between some say software and some say hardware. I would asume that software would of been fixed by now, either Samsung or 3rd party
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So I found a solution for the issue in my case, it does seem to be software but it's really weird cause the issue continues in any firmware, it started when I was on 6.0.1 PI2, then I flashed Nougat and had the same problem (I hated it and battery drain was killing me) I went back to 6.0 and changed to the PK2 version and the issue continued, it was really weird cause it would cut out in audio messages, games but not music, I also tried every single suggestion on every forum and post I could find EXCEPT the Soundabout app, today I gave up, installed soundabout, selected media to speakers and bam, problem solved, I still need further testing, but it seems ok for now, keep in mind that I also have "prevent USB audio routing" on and "Easy Mute" off.
Dakotahorse said:
Hmm, I keep mine out of a case,.. Yeah I'm not sure what it is, it's a 50/50 between some say software and some say hardware. I would asume that software would of been fixed by now, either Samsung or 3rd party
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Im trying the soundabout app now, I orginally had it set to automatic and was still having the issue, now I set it to speaker and so far so good.

as this worked for me but idk about others... I was told to remove all paired bluetooth devices (on/off doesnt matter) then go to settings>connections>more connection settings>nearby device scanning then turn off... worked for me... (sorry for zombifying an old post but as this is still current with mine and many devices i decided to help)

samsung galaxy s7
Hi. I drop my boyfriend phone today and the volume cut it off for a while. It's that because I drop it off? Or because of the headphones that I had it in...because after I took the headphones off its works but after starts and go again? Pleasee helppp....

Andra1997 said:
Hi. I drop my boyfriend phone today and the volume cut it off for a while. It's that because I drop it off? Or because of the headphones that I had it in...because after I took the headphones off its works but after starts and go again? Pleasee helppp....
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Is anything still wrong? Or does the sound work both with and without headphones?

Hi. I dropped my phone and have the same problem now. Did you get any useful help?