Hello everyone
To whom it may concern:
My name is Jé and I am having issues with this Chromecast. I was able to successfully set it up and begin streaming videos successfully via YouTube and Google Play Video( I rented a movie to try it out). I do not recall if this issue occurred on the YouTube video but upon casting a video from my T-Mobile Galaxy Note 3 to my T.V it plays just fine, as with YouTube I was able to hit my home screen and send texts, etc and the Cast window still be in my notifications panel.
Well I got a phone call and went to answer it and the Chromecast window disappeared . I tried going into Google Play and even the Chromecast application and got nothing….I even restarted my phone and the movie was still PLAYING!...o and I was OFF Wi-Fi! My device said Wi-Fi was on but my data was coming from 4G LTE!
Again the movie still played with no hiccups or nothing even when I restarted my cellphone and played just fine when I accepted the phone call.
I had to unplug it from the back of my T.V, re connect it, and then go back into it works just fine I scrub to where I was and again after a short while the cast icon disappears but the movie is still playing and the phone drops from Wi-Fi. I even turned Wi-Fi off this time and it still played just fine! This is weird! I put a call into Google but to no avail.
I was wondering if anyone else experienced this issue. Why does the icon go away? How was it even working with me being off Wi-Fi ?
bipoler said:
I was wondering if anyone else experienced this issue. Why does the icon go away? How was it even working with me being off Wi-Fi ?
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You have to be using WiFi to see and control Chromecast. After it starts playing a selection it is NOT using your phone any more.
You are not streaming from your phone to Chromecast. Once you send the program you want to view to YouTube, Google Movie etc... the Chromecast gets the URL for the item and then plays the item using its own connection to the network the WiFi you set up for it.
You can turn off your phone and it will not have any effect on what is playing since it is not using your phone to play the item.
When you got a call, your WiFi on you Phone must have been turned off, but the Chromecast is playing the movie on its own and doesn't need you phone).
To talk back to the Chromecast from your phone you have to have WiFi turned back on, and then send another program to the Chromecast.
You might look into a beta app called RemoteCast https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benlc.camcast
This will allow you to control Chromecast when it is playing something even if the phone didn't start the playing.
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krelvinaz said:
You have to be using WiFi to see and control Chromecast. After it starts playing a selection it is NOT using your phone any more.
You are not streaming from your phone to Chromecast. Once you send the program you want to view to YouTube, Google Movie etc... the Chromecast gets the URL for the item and then plays the item using its own connection to the network the WiFi you set up for it.
You can turn off your phone and it will not have any effect on what is playing since it is not using your phone to play the item.
When you got a call, your WiFi on you Phone must have been turned off, but the Chromecast is playing the movie on its own and doesn't need you phone).
To talk back to the Chromecast from your phone you have to have WiFi turned back on, and then send another program to the Chromecast.
You might look into a beta app called RemoteCast https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benlc.camcast
This will allow you to control Chromecast when it is playing something even if the phone didn't start the playing.
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Googles support team just wrote me back saying this, I will try this the next time I cast from my device :
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Google. It was my pleasure speaking with you about your Chromecast device. With the issues that happened while watching the movie on Google Play, I have a quick question. Do you have battery saving mode on your phone? If so, please disable the battery saving mode.
The Battery Saver feature can be found under Apps > Settings > General Tab > Battery
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Is anyone else able to stream movies from this phone to their DLNA devices (my case I use either Panasonic smart TV or Xbox One to stream to)? I've tried AllConnect and BubbleUPnP (and lesser know ones from google play) and they all drop connection between 5 - 15 minutes into the stream. I've tried turning off battery optimisation on the apps but it made no difference, nor did a reset. On occasion the phone even soft reboots whilst streaming.
Never had this problem on my android tablet or other phones. Any ideas?
I'm on the latest stock android nougat, unrooted. Never got to see if it worked on MM.
Hi guys, could anyone help me out with this?
Had a bit of a breakthrough with it today... the phone streams video perfectly without cutting off after 5/10mins if I set the phone to 'stay awake while charging' in developer options and leave it plugged in. I assume by activating that setting there are processes being overridden and prevented from occurring that cut the video stream off in normal use.
Perhaps some system process related to doze/battery optimization?
I keep having regular Chromecast issues since upgrading to Android Pie. What it does is if I'm connected, playing audio to any of my Google Homes or even the Chromecast on my TV, is it will become disconnected. For example this morning I was trying to play a podcast from Pocketcasts to my Google Home in my kitchen and it had trouble connecting at first and then kept disconnecting. It would continue to play on the Google Home but when looked at my phone it shows it stopped playing, was now out of sync and I could no longer control it (pause/play). I did a second fresh install of Pie but still having the same issues. Someone told me it was the battery monitoring stopping stuff in the background and killing my Chromecast connection. I turned off adaptive battery and it seems better. Is there just a way to tell it not to close certain apps?
I cast Hulu and MLB at Bat to ChromeCast Ultra / TV, and Play Music to two Home Max & three Mini many hours of the day with few issues. I very rarely get errors from Hulu, but it is there servers giving Hulu error codes.
acheney1990 said:
I keep having regular Chromecast issues since upgrading to Android Pie. What it does is if I'm connected, playing audio to any of my Google Homes or even the Chromecast on my TV, is it will become disconnected. For example this morning I was trying to play a podcast from Pocketcasts to my Google Home in my kitchen and it had trouble connecting at first and then kept disconnecting. It would continue to play on the Google Home but when looked at my phone it shows it stopped playing, was now out of sync and I could no longer control it (pause/play). I did a second fresh install of Pie but still having the same issues. Someone told me it was the battery monitoring stopping stuff in the background and killing my Chromecast connection. I turned off adaptive battery and it seems better. Is there just a way to tell it not to close certain apps?
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You may want to leave adaptive battery on and try to exclude your audio player from battery optimization.
madscribblerz said:
You may want to leave adaptive battery on and try to exclude your audio player from battery optimization.
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I know how to do that for an app but is there a way to stop it from stopping Chromecast itself from being "optimized". Because I think it's still stopping the Chromecast connection even if I stop it for try specific app.
acheney1990 said:
I know how to do that for an app but is there a way to stop it from stopping Chromecast itself from being "optimized". Because I think it's still stopping the Chromecast connection even if I stop it for try specific app.
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Go to settings/type in battery optimization on the top search bar. Look for the app you want to un-optimize, and turn it off :good:
acheney1990 said:
I know how to do that for an app but is there a way to stop it from stopping Chromecast itself from being "optimized". Because I think it's still stopping the Chromecast connection even if I stop it for try specific app.
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AFAIK there is no 'chromecast' application per se. Your phone tells the Chromecast where to get the stream, then the Chromecast and the source are directly connected. Sometimes the initiating app gets shut down and when you relaunch it there is a reconnection to the Chromecast to get stream state, but if you reboot your phone the Chromecast won't stop playing.
madscribblerz said:
AFAIK there is no 'chromecast' application per se. Your phone tells the Chromecast where to get the stream, then the Chromecast and the source are directly connected. Sometimes the initiating app gets shut down and when you relaunch it there is a reconnection to the Chromecast to get stream state, but if you reboot your phone the Chromecast won't stop playing.
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Ok. I think I'll just keep adaptive battery off for now because it's been messing up a ton of my apps. I cast numerous audio and video apps. Too bad. But thanks for the help. Hopefully it works. ?
acheney1990 said:
Ok. I think I'll just keep adaptive battery off for now because it's been messing up a ton of my apps. I cast numerous audio and video apps. Too bad. But thanks for the help. Hopefully it works. ?
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Makes sense. What I said about the Chromecast isn't the case with all apps though, so if you're streaming Spotify or some other background media that isn't through Chromecast it might get shut down unless excepted.
I was having issues with my Bluetooth headset not automatically activating with my watch when turned on, so unpaired an repaired it. Now, whenever I hang up on a call on my phone (not even using the watch) my watch starts playing music from the spotify app. This only happens if the spotify is set to "stream over wifi". Another fix is to quit the spotify app and turn on then off power saving mode. However if the spotify app is used again the issue comes back. It was fine until I did the Bluetooth repairing. I have uninstalled/reinstalled/ unpaired/repaired etc and this issue won't go away.
I use the running app on the phone. Shortly after I start running a graphic shows on the screen telling me to wear the watch on the outside of my wrist for the HR monitor. I am already doing this and always having to quit the notification which is annoying. It didn't do this when I first got the watch so I am wondering if an update has introduced it.
When playing music while I run (I now use music stored on the watch due to the spotify issue), sometimes it won't continue on with my playlist. It tends to stop after one song so I have to press play. I doesn't always do this. Even worse sometimes it will only play one song which I then have to keep hitting play to repeat. As I'm recording my run I can't exit the app to restart the music from the music app.
I use the voice memo app on the watch which syncs memos with the phone. For some reason when it syncs a memo it plays the notification sound on the phone about 20-30 times, so quickly some of them play over each other. It's like you've just received 20 odd messages all at once and is ridiculous.
While I like the watch overall I wish these issues could be fixed. Does anyone have any suggestions for any fixes?
Hi there,
i have the following situation with my RNP8. When i am connected to my car via Bluetooth, and listen to apple music or spotify, as long as the display is "on" everything is fine. But when my display go to sleep or when i lock it, i got those constant lags in the connection, which it makes impossible to listen to music. when i unlock the screen everything works fine again...At first i thought it was something in the energy plan, but figured out nothing so far.. I have the global version of the pro 8. Bootloader still locked . Would be grateful if somebody can help me here.
Are they locally downloaded files (ie. offline download in Spotify), or are you streaming? If the latter then maybe your screen off is also turning off data due to some setting?
Hi Jackson,
streaming apple music or spotify. But also tried it with some downloaded stuff in apple music. Same situation. It is weird, try to figure out what it is, i know from the past the Miui Energy plan had made lot of trouble...but could not figure out what is the problem now.
Same issue here with MiBand 3.
Band looses connection when screen is locked, kinda of bummer because I like the notifications on the band.
Hello,
Long story short, I have a Sony X950G with Android 9, and for some time, usually every day, randomly, when playing an stream the video and audio pauses on the TV.
I can browse back to the homescreen again, but the system will lose its navigation sound, and if I try to open another app, video won't play (eg, YouTube) or video will play breaking up and without sound (eg, CW app), and the system will feel under stress.
The only way to mitigate the problem is restarting the TV, but the next day will happen again.
I believe this not a networking problem, because I have 100mbps up/ 100mbps down, and it's a reliable connection.
Using the analiti app, the network ttl (round trip) was around 47, 55, 65, is this acceptable? Could this be an issue? I have an Xbox One, and I don't have this issues using streaming apps.
Anyone having a similar issue or ideas on how to fix the problem?
Thanks,
What application is this happening in, or is it on the OTA tuner?
Note10.1Dude said:
What application is this happening in, or is it on the OTA tuner?
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Usually, this happens when I'm watching videos, such as The CW, NBC, Plex, Sony Media Player app, etc. However, yesterday for example, I got the issue as I finish installing the NBC app. Though, I couldn't say if it actually started as I tried to open the Google Play store.
When I sound went off, I was able to navigate, but it felt that the system was using a lot of resources, because moving around and starting apps took a long time.
Disable any/all apps that you don't use?
Factory reset would be next suggestion.