Just wondered if anyone else was having a problem when playing music.
Seems to just be pausing randomly and sometimes it will be playing and then need to buffer. Alsooooo if I use audio manager it tends to crash the device.
Any known solutions without going back to the old roms?
Cheers
I 've also faced with this problem. Not only WMP but HTC Audio Manager.
Sometime while I play music. it occur an Error "Not enough space" or something like this.
but sometime after I reset my phone, the problem is gone.
I use a rom "ARTEMIS & LOVE WM6.1 ROM V34 - Build 20758.1.4.1 (Manila2D)"
So these are two separate issues. One is general and the other more specific hoping for help on both.
1. Whenever I play music on my phone (no matter the app, i.e stock, mixzing, doubletwist, etc) I also get a laggy music/choppy. I am running ATK and I am closing everything and when I do I usuallt get 160-200 MB of RAM left. I still get the lag. Yes I turn my phone off/on occasionally, and yes my screen is off. It is really annoying to try to relax after a stressful day and your music chops up on you.
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2. Trying to play a certain anime on my phone but oddly enough it isn't playing right. It is a subbed MKV...but before you start let me just say, that I have watched other subbes MKV's with RockPlayer just fine. But no matter how many times I download the file or get a different version (MKV but bigger or small res or MB) it still with lag. Some will not play it will just freeze, some will be really out of sync. I eventually got it to "work" by using a pogram to turn it into a mp4 and then tell Mobo Player to play it with Soft-decoding.
Are there any apps that would play the mkv better? So far i have tried rockplayer, qqplayer, and moboplayer. Also what are the best settings to use Hand Brake with? Or is there a better program for Evo?
any help? I am still having the issue.
There are several threads now detailing a problem with playing music, mainly reported when using the Google Music app. To be more specific here are some examples:
When playing music and then multitasking, the phone crashes and requires a battery pull and reboot.
Another is when playing music and then turning the screen off, the music is jerky and stutters.
People have reported this happening with apps other than Google Music, so it would appear that this isn't a problem with the Music app, but either the phone or ICS.
I wanted to start a poll to gauge how many people have this problem and establish whether it's everyone or not.
Here are some links to what I'm referring to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381413
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1380773
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379600
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22669
Your poll is a bit flawed. My experience so far is that these crashes are a bit more random than being attributed to any specific apps right now. I've experienced the crash, but long story short, I am not convinced it was related to the exact app that I was using at the time.
Well just because you have experienced an unrelated crash it doesn't mean my poll is flawed, just that you have a separate issue
People have spoken of this happening repeatedly when trying to use Music and multitask so I think it is definitely an issue of it's own. Usually it is said that the sound/screen goes corrupt and then requires a battery pull. Are you not referring to a random reboot or something?
i have a couple of problems with PowerAmp, no problems with google music though.
1. PowerAmp can't see playlists that were created in google music
2. PowerAmp stutters when the screen goes to sleep. (does the clock speed lower when the screen goes off?)
i've read that increasing the buffer size in poweramp options fixes no. 2. I havent tried it due to no.1.
i'm just using google music at the moment.
WinAmp i found would often have slight cracks in the music (i.e. stop and start again quickly, almost like it was being disturbed/cpu high).
doubletwist is fine though, as is Music player
This is such a huge problem I can't believe more people haven't responded :S
I've had Google Music, Rhapsody, and Pandora all crash at one time or another.
str355 said:
i have a couple of problems with PowerAmp, no problems with google music though.
1. PowerAmp can't see playlists that were created in google music
2. PowerAmp stutters when the screen goes to sleep. (does the clock speed lower when the screen goes off?)
i've read that increasing the buffer size in poweramp options fixes no. 2. I havent tried it due to no.1.
i'm just using google music at the moment.
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increasing the buffer size in power amp fixes no.2
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problem number 2 here for me. songs with high bit rates tends to trigger the stutter problem after the phone goes to sleep. tried on google music and playerpro
Google Music 4.0.1 (ICS stock) often crashes within a minute after I reboot the phone - without me actually using it.
Obviously it's trying to do something in the background on start-up and fails. Miserably.
Did not crash while I was using it so far, but I didn't run it for any lengths of time either. No problems with other apps crashing, just Music.
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problem number 2 here for me. songs with high bit rates tends to trigger the stutter problem after the phone goes to sleep. tried on google music and playerpro
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Yes I notice it too, it's very annoying especially since I payed so much for this phone and a good set of headphones just for my high bit-rate music to constantly stutter; hopefully google fixes this. I seem to only notice this on the stock music player, but I prefer to use it over others due to its integration with the lockscreen and notification pulldown bar, especially considering the nice visuals it now has.
my 2 cents:
i can recreate the crash consistently by doing the following:
1. reboot the phone and connect a pair of headphones
2. stream a song (i.e., a song that's not already saved to the phone) using google music
3. use the home button to leave the google music app and return to the homescreen
4. while the song is playing, try to increase or decrease the volume of the music with the volume buttons and then almost immediately the phone reboots automatically.
i haven't been able to recreate the issue once with the headphones disconnected. also, the issue doesn't seem to occur if you connect the headphones after you start playing the music. i need to test that theory some more though.
I noticed this right away when I got my phone (launch day)
Since I constantly stream music from google music, I noticed pops and weird noises all the time. Very weird and SUPER annoying
The stock music app is not able to find my music at all. I use PowerAMP now and that works fine.
Music also crashes when not actively in use at all. When I open a lot of apps, i.e. multi-task a lot, Music often just force closes after a while.
I'm using PowerAmp now to listen to music stored in either .flac or the highest quality .mp3 files lame could produce. Some are 320kbps cbr others are vbr. In PowerAmp I set the process to the highest priority possible but left the buffer on auto.
I have never had any reboots or studering when locking the screen and I've been listening to music for over 3 hours now while doing some home work. Just to test it I put on one of my flac files and quickly locked and unlocked the screen. The phone took it like and champ with no studers at all.
No problems with music apps crashing, or needing to pull the battery. The only issue I have is with music or podcasts played through the native music player or Google Listen stopping at random intervals. Happens using wired speaker/headphones or bluetooth audio.
Frustrating, but not a dealbreaker yet.
I called Verizon for no other reason other than trying to create a record of the issue... They claimed to have not heard of this... Is there any way to let Samsung know directly? I know there is a google code ticket open, but Google hasn't "owned" the issue yet... I'd also say if you have the issue to let VZW know so they can get things in motion on their side as well.
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I called Verizon for no other reason other than trying to create a record of the issue... They claimed to have not heard of this... Is there any way to let Samsung know directly? I know there is a google code ticket open, but Google hasn't "owned" the issue yet... I'd also say if you have the issue to let VZW know so they can get things in motion on their side as well.
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It seems they don't give a ****, unfortunately. Just have to live with it..
WinAMP - today while playing an album with the screen off paused (twice). I had to turn on the display, and hit the play button to continue. There was a bit of a lag (I got the FC screen, but when i hit wait the app returned a few seconds later)
I'm facing some weird effect on my Arc S if playing music for a longer time.
The effect:
- music is playing (mostly in background) with any kind of player app (I used CMs Apollo most of the time, but also tried Sonys Music Player and Google Music)
- the CM DSP service is running with my settings (but it doens't matter what settings are used)
- after a random interval the loudness drops and somehow treble and bass seem to be lost (sounds like low-fi radio then)
- The DSP serive isn't restarted in between (none of the processes/services seem to be restarting)
- If now a new track is started (sometimes after fifth try) volume/treble/bass are back to the expected level
- buildin volume control, etc. isn't changing (visually)
- From what i saw the audio format doens't matter (I tried mp3, mp4, ogg, wmv)
- There are no other "audio-enhancers" or what ever installed
This is sometimes really annoying when listening to audio books or mixtapes, which mostly are single longer tracks.
Behavoir was recognized on following builds:
- FreeXperia CM10 build 231, 241 and version "24-12-13" (I suspect this to be the project christmas gift)
Running Kernel 2.6.32.9
- I tried some other JellyBean ROMs but didn't kept the name
The things didn't appeared on 4.0.4 stock rom, so I suspect drivers whatever to be the root of it.
Does anyone have similar problems on their Arc S with FXP or some other JB-build??
The rest of the ROM is just fitting perfect my needs, so I would grateful so some advice how to get rid of this behaviour.
Sounds as if the DSP Manager service is being killed in order to free up RAM... You have to lock it in the memory with the help of 3rd-party stuff, for example V6 Supercharger's bulletproofing apps service.
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Sounds as if the DSP Manager service is being killed in order to free up RAM... You have to lock it in the memory with the help of 3rd-party stuff, for example V6 Supercharger's bulletproofing apps service.
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RAM (>100MB most of the time) is good and I tried "freezing" DSP service without any luck - But this was also the first thing I had in mind as the behavior first appeared...
Edit: I tried the latest SuperCharger-Script on DSP-service without any luck (problems is still there).
I think I need to roll back/reset (or whatever it's called) my Swift, since this last Crackling update thing I have the following issues:
1) The Visualiser on the music player only works when it feels like it on the lock screen
2) I can't delete individual call logs, I can only wipe the lot
3) when some people text me, it doesn't play the text sound or notify me in any way, not even the notification light
4) switches off when I play music on the music player (I use Onkyo HF Player - free version)
All this worked fine before this latest update, is there any way to fix these issues in settings? if not, how do I do a "system recovery/factory reset" ... sorry for my lack of tech ability, I'm ok on a PC but phones are not my thing .... any help would be very much appreciated!
Hi,
I can't comment on your points 1 and 4, but:
2) I didn't notice this - doesn't bother me too much, but indeed I can't find out how to delete single calls from my call log
3) I don't see this issue. My phone makes a sound and vibrates when I get a text message.
I don't think you can roll back to the previous update, but a factory reset is:
Settings > about this phone > backup and reset > reset to factory settings (my phone is not set up in english, so I translated the texts I see - but I think you should be able to find it this way )
Hi, for the 1st issue I have noticed that the visualiser works perfectly with Google Play Music but doesn't work at all with SoundCloud. Might have something to do with the music player you are using.
I haven't tried Onkyo HF Player to check how it works with the Swift yet. I will give it a try over the weekend.