Music distorting on ICS? - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

I experience music distorting when I hold down my home button key (to get to recent apps) or sometimes taping different places on the phone . It doesn't happen with the stock music player(only happens with apps like Player Pro, Power Amp, N7 player, Music Mod, Datpiff) and I know it's not my phone or a bad download.. Because all other audio on my phone is fine (YouTube, phone calls, stock player, alarm sounds etc).. Kinda bothering me especially since I shelled out money for some of these music player programs which are now useless (got them while I was on Gingerbread and never had that "distorting problem)
*Set up is in my signature of what I'm currently running*

When your running your music app try and see if you get any CPU spikes. Sounds like your ram could be running low . Since the real source code for Ics is coming soon that could fix it. have you tried rebooting your phone? I know your running blu Kubans ROM. Go to the updater and try another kernel. These are just thoughts so my two cents may not help any.

Also did you notice these issues before any of RUs updates? if not try to revert back to one of the other updates or even ask him on his thread

juggalo1300 said:
When your running your music app try and see if you get any CPU spikes. Sounds like your ram could be running low . Since the real source code for Ics is coming soon that could fix it. have you tried rebooting your phone? I know your running blu Kubans ROM. Go to the updater and try another kernel. These are just thoughts so my two cents may not help any.
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juggalo1300 said:
Also did you notice these issues before any of RUs updates? if not try to revert back to one of the other updates or even ask him on his thread
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What app would you recommend to monitor cpu spikes. And if my ram is running low how could I fix that?
I've tried different kernels (agats numerous ones). And no avail.. Also tried rebooting.. But it had happened on all the updates, tried asking on the thread but I'm the only individual with the issue

I just use a stock player im not picky. I went back to GB roms so I use the ROM manager to see how much ram is being used. For the CPU I'm sure the market has some apps for CPU usage. Have you tried clearing the cache for the music apps you own? are they up to date? They may not be compatible with ics roms yet.

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Choppy audio on ULTIMATE DROID v2.0

I happen to use andless to play flac files on my phone, and I've noticed that there is an unbearable lag and tons of choppy audio when on ultimate Droid. Has anyone been able to fix this? Even if overclocked it will lag a ton when I lock it. I don't have setcpu and the phone runs fine aside from the audio. Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on? It was great on the desire z Rom.....
Sent from my HTC Incredible using XDA App
Have you tried another kernel on the UD ROM?
smtom said:
Have you tried another kernel on the UD ROM?
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No. 1st rom that i never replaced it. Until now, i had no problems except for wireless tether failing occasionally, but a reboot would fix it. What kernel do you reccomend? Theres so many and im just not sure now lol...
invisiblek
I can highly recommend invisiblek's #16 kernel found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=854390
Performance is great, and battery life has been truly epic.
Best AOSP kernel I've ever loaded, without question.
smtom said:
I can highly recommend invisiblek's #16 kernel found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=854390
Performance is great, and battery life has been truly epic.
Best AOSP kernel I've ever loaded, without question.
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I just installed it, seems a bit smoother and havent found any issues... except choppy sound.. I simply sont know what it is. I have a class 10 card, am overclocked, but every time i lock my phone it gets choppy as hell. Could the built in overcllocking be doing this?
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I just installed it, seems a bit smoother and havent found any issues... except choppy sound.. I simply sont know what it is. I have a class 10 card, am overclocked, but every time i lock my phone it gets choppy as hell. Could the built in overcllocking be doing this?
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It could - perhaps try stock speeds (no overclocking) and see what that does.
Idk if it was a typo, but what are the file formats in your OP?
Also, have you tried updating to UD 2.4?
Are you using the native UD media player, the themed one, or the Android one?
Finally, do any other media player 'helpers' or media players at all make any difference - example - DSP?
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It could - perhaps try stock speeds (no overclocking) and see what that does.
Idk if it was a typo, but what are the file formats in your OP?
Also, have you tried updating to UD 2.4?
Are you using the native UD media player, the themed one, or the Android one?
Finally, do any other media player 'helpers' or media players at all make any difference - example - DSP?
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Well, ive tried screwing with the overclocking settings. Stock speeds didnt help though. Im really not sure why. And yea. im running 2.4.0 and uh.... its gotten worse lol. Not sure why. Im listening to FLAC files using andless. as far as i can tell, the music app cannot find them. but they are on the internal memory so idk. Ive switched kernels and its better, basically it just lags like a mofo when i lock it.
It def. seems like a clock speed thing, but leaving it on defaults hasnt helped. Im really not sure. Are there any other good flac players for me to try? maybe the app sucks?
Stumped on this one .... idk anything about flac files.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
Does your kernel change performance when you lock it, screen off? Can you use SetCPU to change the screen off performance?
Have you tried UD2.4 yet? Also, 2.5 is suppose to release sometime Sunday or Monday. Maybe the issue has been fixed in one of the last few updates.
Under UD settings and the overclock/underclock feature, what is the minimum clock speed set at? Maybe raising that value would help?
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Have you tried UD2.4 yet? Also, 2.5 is suppose to release sometime Sunday or Monday. Maybe the issue has been fixed in one of the last few updates.
Under UD settings and the overclock/underclock feature, what is the minimum clock speed set at? Maybe raising that value would help?
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Its currently at 245, ill bump it to 450 or something around that, ill update.

[SOLVED] GPU performance decreased at least about 40%

I (still) love my Desire, unfortunately after two weeks of usage or so the screen starts annoying me! Any live wallpaper is unusable due choppy home screen scrolling and some menus like "All Apps" or "Customize" become very slow at the bottom. At first I thought it was problem of custom ROM, but this is happening even on stock ROM, so it's probably a HW problem (GPU maybe?).
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
HW problem? Don't think so. However, can be, but it's not likely.
I suggest to try a different kernel and if that not helps do a full wipe & reflash.
I see, that we use the same radio & kernel (except that I'm on LeeDroid) - but i never experienced that slowdowns.
Nah, coutts, CM, HTC, ziggy... All the same.
Try changing your governor
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Maybe a ram thing .... i use (i know not all think this is good but) a taskmanager with a auto close apps widget
with kind regards...Alex
Still the same and I have plenty of free RAM.
If your device can still play 3d intensive games without slow downs or errors then I doubt it's a hardware problem. So...Does it play games properly?
Recommend such game that is OK on your Desire, so we can compare.
Try nenamark (1.5 free in the market). I get 20.9 FPS with the stuff in my signature. So if you get more than 15 then I think it won't be a hardware problem.
Also I noticed the lag when something is installing. So can be the a2sd+ slowing down your phone.
It can't be due A2SD (read OP).
Btw, I got 18,6 FPS.
Hmm, then the gpu/cpu seems to be fine. Must be a software error.
But what SW? Every ROM and every kernel behave in the same way.
That's what I try to figure out. So if you do a full wipe & changing ROM - Lag remains.
Changing kernel - lag remains.
Seriously, I have no idea. Usually a full wipe & reflash helps (ROM+kernel).
Can't it be the radio?
Can't be, this problem started in virgin stock ROM (I have copyright on that ).
Have you tried aosp roms its probaly a HTC sense issue
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
AOSP ROMs have the same issue.
maybe your NAND got corrupted in some way?
maybe after you install new ROM try not to restore your previous apps or system setting with neither titanium backup or mybackup, whichever you use.
however,i would assume you tried that already.
also you could try going back to stock ROM and or even HD rom which fits on NAND and try booting without SD card which maybe trying to read something and it cant.
so was your phone branded?
and when did you noticed this performance issue?
Unbraded. And I noticed it during using stock ROM.
Don't know if its just imagination but i think my desire has also gotten more laggy lately.
My phone has definitely slowed down LWPs are pretty much unusable & Sense always slows right down at the bottom of some menus, including the app drawer.

[Q] InsertCoin ROM - Killing apps too aggressively?

Hi all,
This is my first post here.
I have flashed the InsertCoin stable ROM 03/06 and I have to say it's great (despite the video playback bug). Recently I found another issue that bothers me a lot.
The problem I found is that the ROM seems to be killing non-active apps too aggressively. I learnt if I press "home" button in an active app, it should stay for a while until it is killed to free up memory. However, in my phone, the non-active apps are always killed within one minute even when the phone isn't running out of memory. Why it is an issue to me? Because:
1) It is killing the browser too fast. Usually I switched to other app, do some work, and back to the browser. Since the browser is killed it has to reload the whole page to restore the state. This wastes time and data.
2) Most importantly It is killing my music app!! I tried fire up HTC's music app, select a song, tap to play, leave the app and do other things like web surfing. The music app would surely be killed in a minute. This happens to other music playing app like Winamp.
This makes my phone a relatively single tasking one. I didn't install any 3rd party task killer because I never needed one. But I cannot find any settings regarding this "feature" on my phone.
I found people in this forum seeking help on how to kill some background apps. What I want is the opposite: How to prevent some background apps to be killed.
Anyone here has similar problem and has found a solution?
Thanks in advance!
on 1.0.8 i had no problems
on v45 (which is last 2D Rose version) you need to flash pre46test.zip in order to fix agressive app killing.
other than that i never heard of any complaints regarding apps being killed too quickly.
Thanks, dzumagos. Yes I am running 1.0.8 and unfortunately this happens on my phone
Maybe I'll try flashing the nightly version (v51) to see if things improve.
Whatever you do, don't use task managers and other memory scripts. Every developer makes his own memory parameters which suit his rom the best, so I think you are best off pointing baadnwz to this issue and see what he says.
erklat said:
Whatever you do, don't use task managers and other memory scripts. Every developer makes his own memory parameters which suit his rom the best, so I think you are best off pointing baadnwz to this issue and see what he says.
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The ROM has HTC's ROM manager built in, and I didn't have any installed by myself. AFAIK the only difference between the Stable and Nightly version is the Rosie 3D homescreen that is missing in the Stable version, so I flashed 1.0.9 and unfortunately the problem persists.
And looks like I'm not eligible to ask on the development thread

[SOLVED][Q] music app "lags" on AOSP/MIUI ROMs

solution: increasing buffer size removes the lag, i even increased the buffer's priority just in case...
my music app is kinda lagging... it just hangs and repeats itself for 2-3 seconds then continues fine...
tried:
music app
google music
player pro
musixmatch
all of them do that
ILWT/andromadus/MIUI GB... And some other AOSP ROMs have that...
The thing that's weird is that the music runs fine on sense ROMs, and sense ROM just does fine with music... But i need AOSP, and i can't live without music...
So, any solutions?
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Another ROM maybe? But 3 seconds is almost nothing (for me)
Sent from my chair.
its really noticeable.... i was at my "nokia" loving friend, and we wanted to hear a song, and when it lagged, he laughed so hard and said that my phone sucks...
maybe it is the rom... new roms are coming soon.... hope it will be fixed
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Updated the first post... Maybe i'll get some help now... Hopefully
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I noticed the phone hanging up sometimes when I access it after unlocking the phone(need to pull out battery). Noticed this on many miui roms as well as on a few builds of cyanogen.
Sent from my HTC Desire Z
I also have this issue with ILWT. Music player is laggy and it glitches. It mostly happens when i switch songs, but sometimes it happens during playback. I never had any issues with stock rom.
A fix would be nice
Sent from my DZ
liud said:
I also have this issue with ILWT. Music player is laggy and it glitches. It mostly happens when i switch songs, but sometimes it happens during playback. I never had any issues with stock rom.
A fix would be nice
Sent from my DZ
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I Don't think it's fix"able" cuz it happens on many other AOSP roms...
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I dont think that everyone is having this issue. If only a few people have it that means there must be a specific cause. So why are our phones so special?
Sent from my DZ
I'm having this issue with play music :/
Sent from my HTC Vision using xda premium
liud said:
I dont think that everyone is having this issue. If only a few people have it that means there must be a specific cause. So why are our phones so special?
Sent from my DZ
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Can you specify this specific cause?
Let's talk about ILWT...
What i did:
Wiped, flashed, resotred my apps, music: laging
Superwiped, flashed, didn't restore any app, music: still laging
Superwiped, flashed, wiped sdcard, put only one song in it, music: STILL LAGING!
The only possible difference is that you may have a G2, while i have a DZ... But that's so not the cause...
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i doubt having a g2 or dz would matter. i have a g2 hboot and im running elitemod with little tweeks clocked aroun 1.1ghz, i use google play music to stream and have around a gb of music on a class 6 sdcard. i rearly if ever get a lag in music from sdcard or streaming. i also stream public radio and music from live 365 without any lag. i keep my phone light, apps i rarely use are on ext partition or not on my phone at all, i dont use a task killer but use watchdog to monitor any app that is consuming to much cpu and ususally i take those off my phone or restricted them
Sent from my HTC Vision using xda premium
I have a DZ. But i dont think its hardware related, because I had no issues with stock rom, so this must be a software bug. And I too have no problems when streaming music from internet, its when listening to music from sd card that is laggy. I really have no idea whats causing it, I guess it might be some app like dsp manager..
Anyway, Im new to this whole rom thing and maybe my wrong ideas will give someone the right idea
Sent from my DZ
MIUI doesn't have dsp manager.... Or any equalizer, and it also lags... Streaming is fine, sense roms are fine... But playing music on the phone's speaker/earplugs and on AOSP lags...
Any help?
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I've never had any lag with the music player except for Sense 3.* ROMs where the scrolling was slow and unresponsive. In CM7, the music player is super fast and responsive, the same applies to virtuous g-lite and g2 slim. Music playback was also fast and smooth in MIUI when i used it a while ago. I haven't tried ILWT recently, but i doubt it has something to do with the ROM.
If i were you, i'd do a backup of my sd card, format it, and then put everything back on and see if the lag was still there. If the lag was still there, then i'd try a different sd card. Both the stock and very plain looking music app and google music were always fast on AOSP ROMs for me, so there is something that you haven't considered/done yet on your end.
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I've never had any lag with the music player except for Sense 3.* ROMs where the scrolling was slow and unresponsive. In CM7, the music player is super fast and responsive, the same applies to virtuous g-lite and g2 slim. Music playback was also fast and smooth in MIUI when i used it a while ago. I haven't tried ILWT recently, but i doubt it has something to do with the ROM.
If i were you, i'd do a backup of my sd card, format it, and then put everything back on and see if the lag was still there. If the lag was still there, then i'd try a different sd card. Both the stock and very plain looking music app and google music were always fast on AOSP ROMs for me, so there is something that you haven't considered/done yet on your end.
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But, how can you explain the non-laggy sense music... All of the sense roms don't lag on playback, and sense roms in general, lag alot... Except for music though
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I don't quite know how to explain it either but you can at least try and fix it rather than speculating about the whole smooth Sense vs laggy AOSP music playback. Also have you tried the latest CM7.2 RC? Music playback was fast on that. Make a backup and just try things out and see what works. We're not devs and we probably won't find a dev who can explain this for us, so you may as well just try.
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I don't quite know how to explain it either but you can at least try and fix it rather than speculating about the whole smooth Sense vs laggy AOSP music playback. Also have you tried the latest CM7.2 RC? Music playback was fast on that. Make a backup and just try things out and see what works. We're not devs and we probably won't find a dev who can explain this for us, so you may as well just try.
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I suppose you didn't see my threads about roms:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1376496
This is a list of SOME of the roms i've flashed, i flashed more... And more, and all of the AOSP ROMs lagged INCLUDING CM7.2...... I'm one of the most flashaholic users here
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solved the lag issue
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I have this lags only with stock music player but it's fine with PowerAMP.....
It's might be software issue...
@Riro, what'd you do to solve the lag issue? Also i've seen your thread but i didn't see any parts of it that were relevant to your issues that you've been having with music playback.
So you solved the issue for all AOSP/CM ROMs then? Please share the good info with all the friendly people here on xda .

Question about Xperia Play Z Ultimate Edition rom (apps closing).

Greetings.
In hopes of finding someone who's facing a similar problem, I'd like to ask you about a certain issue.
I've installed the Xperia Play Z Ultimate Edition rom on my Xplay r800i. It's running all cool and great, but there's one problem. The apps are closing for no reason. It's like, one moment you're playing a game, and all of a sudden the main screen appears, as if you pressed the home button, but the app is gone. It looks like they're crashing when the phone is under heavy load. It happens to literally everything. Even Messenger bubbles often disappear when there's a new heavy app starting.
I've searched the rom's thread, but didn't find any information about such problem.
If this matters, I've flashed the kernel that was supplied by rom creator - 480p DoomKernel.
This is the first rom I've seen which has an issue like that, and I don't think there's any alternative, as this is the only ICS rom I know that keeps all of Xplay's core features while significantly improving speed and functionality.
Please help. Does anyone know why this happens?
Update: out of frustration, I've changed to another ICS rom, Honami 2.1.3, together with switching to a Lupus V7 kernel (ram version)... and the same thing happens. Although with the new rom my phone's performance seems to have DRASTICALLY improved, apps are still closing for no reason. There's not even a popup or error, or anything like that - it just pulls the plug and suddenly kicks me to the main screen.
This problem renders heavy games literally UNPLAYABLE. It runs perfect for like 5 or 10 minutes, with high framerate even, then out of a sudden BAM - back to the main screen. No error, no nothing.
Browsing around Lupus settings I've found something called Low Memory Killer. From what I understand, this thing kills the apps when the device is on critically low memory. Maybe this is the cause? And if it is, why the heck is it "going rogue" and killing apps that I'm ACTIVELY USING? How do I configure this? I assume you can't just disable it...
Please help.
Seriously? No one has ANY IDEA what's happening? Please help! I literally have no clue what may be causing this.
Switched to YET ANOTHER rom and kernel - Nexplay, with bundled Lupus kernel, this time also changing the firmware to R800i_4.0.2.A.0.58_Enhanced. With this one, the phone runs definitely the fastest, but guess what... same thing happens as before. Games commit suicide when played for too long. Out of all I've tested, the only ones that don't shut down are OpenTyrian and Nes emulator. Gun Bros worked fine for like 5 minutes, and suddenly closed, working very slow for like 2 seconds before it happened. Same thing with Vendetta Online but this one outright REBOOTED THE PHONE! And these games supposedly are optimized for xplay, so it doesn't make any sense why there's such a problem going on...
I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's because I'm using ICS roms? But then, I've never seen anybody reporting such problems with ANY rom. This definitely isn't a common issue. I'm also using Link2SD, but again, I've never seen anyone mentioning it causing anything like that.
I can relate to your problem. I've experienced the same (apps randomly closing while in use) issues 1 or 2 years ago and to me the development on these roms are dead since the developers have moved onto newer devices. Currently my xperia play is dead (bricked) however with experience of using many of the roms i can safely say that ICS is not meant for the xperia play. Sony themselves didn't officially release ICS for this device due to the number of bugs and problems associated with it. I'd recommend you to use GB roms to bring out the best potential of your device. ICS lags some way or another whereas GB doesn't. All games run smooth on Gingerbread and they certainly do not have issues like ICS does. The best rom for this device is Gin2kitkat ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631144 ) and my personal favourite Xperia NXT 2 r1 (i've used this rom the longest). Here's the link for that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649368
From experience, as long as you use a Gingerbread rom you should be good to go as they are the most stable for our device. Good luck
Aaw, that's a real bummer. The problem with GB roms is that there's a lot of ICS apps and games that I really need. One of the main reasons I've decided to unlock bootloader on this device is because I wanted to get an upgrade to ICS. It's really strange. I've seen people play advanced games on this phone (example) and there are no signs of problems such as the one I'm experiencing.
Thanks a lot for your reply. I guess I'll use one more ICS rom, and if that fails, I'll give GB roms a try.
Btw, what do you think about NXT Gaming rom? I don't care much about flashy UI and widgets, and as long as everything in the phone works (camera, xLoud etc.) priority for me is gaming performance, and from description, this rom seems to be the most aggresive I've seen when it comes for optimizing performance for games.
I agree, from the vid the user is seen to be running the ROM "ICS Ultimate". Also i haven't tried the NXT gaming rom only the NXT 2r1 but regardless, with that rom i've been able to play emulator games and heavy intensive games such as Fifa 2012. I'd only imagine the 'NXT Gaming rom' is faster and better but since i haven't tried it, i'm unable to give you a direct response, sorry. Anyways Gingerbread will always be the best in terms of gaming performance and functionality, but if you're able to find a good ICS rom that is smooth when playing games such as GTA then it's entirely up to you whether you want to stay on ICS or not. Also correct me if i'm wrong but i remember GTA3 (not san andreas) being playable on gingerbread.
Correct, GTA3 DOES work on Gingerbread, but unfortunately only this one and Vice City do so. GTA San Andreas and Chinatown Wars will not work on anything lower than ICS. This is an example anyway, cuz there are few more things that I need and will work only on ICS.
Anyways, guess what. I've tried YET another Rom from a portuguese site (rom is Fusion ICS 2.4), and the problem stopped - apps no longer spontaneously shut down. There's another problem though... as this system is ridiculously unstable. Sometimes it's fast as lightning, then sometimes it slows down to a crawl for no reason - it has nothing to do with active apps; it often happens with no active apps running and with tons of free ram available. It's completely random. Even the interface sometimes crashes for no reason. Curiously though, all games run extremely fast and they never shut down on their own. Unfortunately, it's not worth using such a train wreck. Games running well while the rest of the system goes haywire defeats the purpose for me.
I'd give "ICS Ultimate" rom a try, but for some reason, I get virus alerts when trying to download or open the file. I guess I'll either wait until it's confirmed false alert, or go for GB roms finally.

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