[Q] Having issues with audio playback using headphones - Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, so I am experiencing an issue with audio playback on my phone - I never had this problem with my nexus 5. I listen to podcasts a lot with my apple EarPods, I click the button on the headphones to mute however when I press it again to unmute it only works 5% of the time. To unmute I have to press the power button of all things.
Whats the deal with this? As I mentioned it never happened with my previous phone. I tried looking in Pocketcast settings but found nothing.

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[Q] Galaxy Note 2 sound/headphones issue

Loving my Galaxy Note 2, but I do have a few minor niggles regarding the stock Music Player that I'm hoping someone may be able to help with. I'm on stock firmware btw.
#1 Headphone play button often does not respond if left in pause mode for over a few minutes.
Allow me to explain - I'm at my desk at work listening to music with the stock music program. I get a phone call on my work phone so I click the headset button to pause the music. I finish my call and press the headset button to resume music. No response. Sometimes if I click once, twice or three times more it will start playing again. It's like the phone enters a sleep mode that won't respond straight away.
#2 Music EQ gets lost when something else happens on the phone.
For example, if I unplug my headphones to go for a walk to another part of the office. I return moments later, plug my headphones back in but the EQ is all messed up. Almost sounds like you’re in a tunnel. If I click the EQ button it immediately reverts to the correct EQ setting. This can also be simulated on demand by having music playing, swipe your hand over the screen to take a screenshot (music fades out, there is a camera click sound), then when the music fades back in it has gone into that tunnel EQ sound. Again, clicking the EQ button sorts the issue out.
I have considered moving to a different music program instead. I've tried Google Music (which has it's own bugs like album art disappearing), Winamp etc but for some reason the stock player's EQ settings (custom extended with Bass on 2, and Clarity on 1) make my Sony headphones respond far better than the EQ's in the other programs. And you can put a spot of reverb on the music as well which sounds ace.
No one else has these problems? Does no one use the Note 2 for music listening?
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g00nerz said:
No one else has these problems? Does no one use the Note 2 for music listening?
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I have had some issues with my Note 2 also. Coming from Htc One XL with beats audio which some people don't like, however I did. Whenever I plug my headphones in the sound quality is just not as good but compared to HTC output sound is so much better.
Ive tried Original settings with phone plus added beats mods, but neither are producing same I quality I had with HTC phone, which is a pain as I do listen to music regularly on my phone. Not sure if makes big difference but thought I'd better mention I'm using in ear phones not headphones.
similar issue here.. sometimes the headset next/pause button works.. sometimes it doenst.. looks like once the phone sleeps it doesnt want to respond .. but response if i wake up ,, which is just stupid.

Watch effecting volume when playing music through bluetooth

I've had the Moto 360 for 5 days now and love it. There is one bug I have noticed and wanted to see if others are having the same issue. When I am listening to music through bluetooth in my car and have the watch connected it occasionally turns the phone volume down to a very low volume. I notice this happen almost everytime I start navigation. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
I'm using the Moto 360 with the HTC One M8.
I just get choppy volume in that situation. There is a Bluetooth bug somewhere with the moto 360.
ttown said:
I've had the Moto 360 for 5 days now and love it. There is one bug I have noticed and wanted to see if others are having the same issue. When I am listening to music through bluetooth in my car and have the watch connected it occasionally turns the phone volume down to a very low volume. I notice this happen almost everytime I start navigation. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
I'm using the Moto 360 with the HTC One M8.
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Ahhhh. I thought I was going mad. I just got a new Sony z3. Been blaming my phone all along.
That makes sense now. So it's the watch that's causing the volume to randomly decrease the volume to its lowest. I wasn't running any watch apps at all.
Any solution anyone.?
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Is it possible that "OK Google" is inadvertently being triggered by background noise?
When I reply to texts via voice it mutes the streaming music volume on the phone (and also in my car), which I like as it increases the accuracy of my voice reply.
vansmack said:
Is it possible that "OK Google" is inadvertently being triggered by background noise?
When I reply to texts via voice it mutes the streaming music volume on the phone (and also in my car), which I like as it increases the accuracy of my voice reply.
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I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
I have no issues. Nexus 5 connected to my Moto360 and factory head unit (2011 Camaro). I stream Pandora, Google Play, and have spoken notifications.
no issues here either.
ttown said:
I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
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Ah, I see. This is testable and will do so today.
I use my X with Moto S11 Flex HD bt head set when cutting the grass.
Before the 360, music would get lower on an incoming notification, and I'd hear the notification sound via the headset.
With the 360 On/Connected, I see the music controls on the screen. Now I notice that when the 360's screen lights up(from twisting my wrist), or I get a notification, the music volume drops slightly for a few seconds, then returns to normal. BUT I do not hear the notification sounds via the Headset when this happens.
ttown said:
I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
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I used navigation while streaming GPMAA and the volume would return to normal on it's own after giving me an audible instructions the entire way home today. Sorry man, I"ll try again tomorrow, but I couldn't recreate it - it might be phone specific.
Nexus 5
Moto 360
BlueTrip BT Audio
Stock Audi BT Phone
I have had this issue for years (nothing to do with Android Wear in my case). It has to do with how an app obeys the audio focus rules. Some apps are more problematic than others. Rdio is extremely problematic while navigating. Google apps seem to be the best. But whenever the audio focus goes all wacky, it will generally go back to normal once the next navigation prompt plays. With Pandora, this often happens when a navigation prompt plays between tracks...the next track will be much lower in volume. At least, until the next audio prompt. Then volume returns to normal. Skipping to the next track also fixes it.

Bluetooth streaming issue

Hey guys
Just got my OnePlus 3 today. Connected it to my powerbeats wireless headphones and it's chop city. Every button I press cuts off the sound. Tried rebooting the phone. Toggling Bluetooth but nothing works. Anyone else having this issue?
I think the problem is with the Music player app. I face similar problems when I use the native music player.
I switched to Power AMP and now I don't face any problems while using the JBL Xtreme bluetooth speakers with with One + 3
PowerAmp I have the problem where BT skip stops playback. I switched to Player Pro and enabled their launcher which has a BT auto play and button function and all is working fine. I'm sure other players can do as well. I don't use PowerAmp all the time since it's EQ fights with Viper4Android.

Headset button weird behavior.

Hello.
So I had a lot of experience with previous Zenfone devices but this seemed pretty awkward for me. I'll explain the issue and list all of the troubleshooting I've done so far.
Here's the problem, the headset button (I got those cords with volume and play/pause buttons). Seem to activate something else besides just pause or play music. When I press it, it pauses but at the same time audio quality changes to a "Phone line call" Quality... I have to press it a couple times more in order to rotate to the default audio quality... Sometimes it even changes the audio output, I've noticed that even with the headphones plugged in, it seems to change to speakers...
Observations/troubleshooting:
It looks like this problem happens only when the device is locked. The play/pause button behaves normally if the screen is on. During Asus cover screen does the problem too.
It definitely is not the music app (Tho I found weird that it didn't come with a built in music player, BTW Google play is more a store than a music player, so I don't use it... I've been using Black Player for a month now, it's s amazing). I tried messing with the Audio Wizard app, but no matter the settings or the mode I put it, it seems to not fix it.
I tried downloading the Headset Button Control app, it still seems to do something else besides what I assign the button to do...
This didn't happen with my zenfone 2 Z00AD... I love this phone but this issue is important for me because I live in a pretty dangerous country, so I use every tool I have in order to not show my phone outside...
Pls halp.

Audio randomly stops working

So not sure what exactly is the cause but one thing that sometimes will cause all audio to stop working is Google play music. Sometimes when I start playing music (device speakers, not Bluetooth or casted), the audio will stop working in a few seconds as if all volumes have been turned down but they're not. Music playback is still going. Verified that when this happens no other audio works as well.
In some cases the volume slider does nothing when adjusting (slider can be moved but no change in actual volume output level) and playback is still going and then audio is lost.
Playback control buttons in play music become unresponsive and eventual play music not responding message comes up. Closing app doesn't fix and still no audio in other apps or system. Restarting phone doesn't help either really. Only workaround I have found is to cast to Google home, play for a few seconds on there (which does work) and then disconnect and audio on device is functional again. Sometimes cast workaround works without reboot, otherwise the reboot is necessary.
Anyone dealing with this too? Things I should look into for suspect causes? Any help greatly appreciated.
Edit: now when audio stops on device, things become a bit more unresponsive throughout device and eventually the device restarts on own without the play music not responding message. Power off and restart options via power menu are unresponsive at this time too.
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So not sure what exactly is the cause but one thing that sometimes will cause all audio to stop working is Google play music. Sometimes when I start playing music (device speakers, not Bluetooth or casted), the audio will stop working in a few seconds as if all volumes have been turned down but they're not. Music playback is still going. Verified that when this happens no other audio works as well.
In some cases the volume slider does nothing when adjusting (slider can be moved but no change in actual volume output level) and playback is still going and then audio is lost.
Playback control buttons in play music become unresponsive and eventual play music not responding message comes up. Closing app doesn't fix and still no audio in other apps or system. Restarting phone doesn't help either really. Only workaround I have found is to cast to Google home, play for a few seconds on there (which does work) and then disconnect and audio on device is functional again. Sometimes cast workaround works without reboot, otherwise the reboot is necessary.
Anyone dealing with this too? Things I should look into for suspect causes? Any help greatly appreciated.
Edit: now when audio stops on device, things become a bit more unresponsive throughout device and eventually the device restarts on own without the play music not responding message. Power off and restart options via power menu are unresponsive at this time too.
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Hi Jason, I have the same issue. When I play music, the upper speaker stops emmiting audio and the lower one suddenly lowers its volume (but the audio is at full volume in the UI). the problem is that is random and also affect the phone app. so if this happen and someone call me I cant hear it.
do you resolve it?
let me know,
thanks
fadudba said:
Hi Jason, I have the same issue. When I play music, the upper speaker stops emmiting audio and the lower one suddenly lowers its volume (but the audio is at full volume in the UI). the problem is that is random and also affect the phone app. so if this happen and someone call me I cant hear it.
do you resolve it?
let me know,
thanks
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I tested in safe mode and verified it was not a hardware fault. I suspected it was something that happened when I was using substratum and applied a theme to Google play music. Factory reset was my only way to resolve.
Same issue here with my Pixel 2. I notice this behaviour after using a Bluetooth speaker, and disconnect from it. Sometime i lost Speaker and Microphone access to the phone. If i connect back to a bluetooth device, audio/mic in the bluetooth device work's fine.
I i reboot the phone, i regain access to speaker and MIC... until the next time i use a bluetooth speaker. I didn't notice this behaviour until last week. I have this pixel 2 phone for 2 month now.

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