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[Q] issues after 24 hours of use!

Ok first off, I love the Galaxy Nexus. However I am a very intense user and always push things to the limits
So I have noticed a few oddities:
1. This morning the volume went down on its down. I actually saw the volume bar appear and decrease, as if I was pushing down on the rocker. It happened twice. Both times I was hammering the phone so perhaps it's related to RAM? The first time I was moving six 400mb avi files from one folder to another using a file manager app, and listening to MP3s at the same time.
2. I heard this phone has visual voicemail, but my voicemails appear in the same way as they did before. (a text telling me to dial the vm number). Any ideas? I am on Vodafone UK contract.
3. When I bought the phone and turned it on, I entered my google account details. The phone then installed a bunch of apps I had installed on my last phone, the HTC Desire. Some of these apps I didn't want any more so I uninstalled them. This was all fine until I woke up this morning and found the phone had downloaded and reinstalled them again overnight!! What's going on here?! Will I wake up tomorrow to find them appear again?
4. The Android Market sometimes has the movies page, and sometimes doesn't. Very odd. It's up to date so I don't know what that's about. Also there's now a Vodafone section to the Market. It's a non-branded phone so I am a little surprised. There must be a network dedicated section now.
5. The BBC iPlayer is missing from the market. Why is this? I am in the UK and it's always been there before.
6. I have found it tough to find a movie player app that plays my avi and mkv files. Rockplayer doesn't want to work now. MXPlayer doesn't run at all. Mplayer is ok but the videos are not that smooth. What else is there to try??
I hope this post has given a helpful insight into the Galaxy Nexus - it would be great if an expert could please address some of these issues for me.
Thanks all
Jonny

jonnyguitar said:
Ok first off, I love the Galaxy Nexus. However I am a very intense user and always push things to the limits
So I have noticed a few oddities:
1. This morning the volume went down on its down. I actually saw the volume bar appear and decrease, as if I was pushing down on the rocker. It happened twice. Both times I was hammering the phone so perhaps it's related to RAM? The first time I was moving six 400mb avi files from one folder to another using a file manager app, and listening to MP3s at the same time.
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I have noticed this too, odd! I thought it was because my hand was near it, but definitely haven't clicked the buttons so.. hrm!

I too have noticed that BBC Iplayer is missing.
Also, I went on the BBC website and tried a flash player video... not working.
Tried downloading flash and it's not compatible?
Anyone know why or if it is permanent?

jonnyguitar said:
1. This morning the volume went down on its down. I actually saw the volume bar appear and decrease, as if I was pushing down on the rocker. It happened twice. Both times I was hammering the phone so perhaps it's related to RAM? The first time I was moving six 400mb avi files from one folder to another using a file manager app, and listening to MP3s at the same time.
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I've had mine open the browser whilst it was laid on the table as I watched
jonnyguitar said:
6. I have found it tough to find a movie player app that plays my avi and mkv files. Rockplayer doesn't want to work now. MXPlayer doesn't run at all. Mplayer is ok but the videos are not that smooth. What else is there to try??
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I think I saw a thread saying that Diceplayer has been updated for the GN - not used it myself, but might be worth a look into. They claimed it's hw decoding avi and mkv.

dpenurse said:
I too have noticed that BBC Iplayer is missing.
Also, I went on the BBC website and tried a flash player video... not working.
Tried downloading flash and it's not compatible?
Anyone know why or if it is permanent?
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You will find that because it is a new OS version, some apps will have to be updated to show in the market.
E.g. BBC probably labelled their iPlayer app as being compatible with Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb so until the app is updated it won't show for ICS users.
Other app makers may have just labelled the app as "works with all versions" or "works with Froyo or later" for example.

I too have had an issue with the volume going down and then immediately going up again. Quite weird. Only happened twice since yday.
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For your visual voicemail you need to register with Google Voice, unless Vodaphone has its own app for it.
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I just received a phonecall and the volume rocker I had to fight with to try and get it full volume. Phone won, call was quiet

jonnyguitar said:
6. I have found it tough to find a movie player app that plays my avi and mkv files. Rockplayer doesn't want to work now. MXPlayer doesn't run at all. Mplayer is ok but the videos are not that smooth. What else is there to try??
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How about Mobo Player?
I'm so jealous on you UK guys. We will get maybe sometimes in the next 3 weeks...

jonnyguitar said:
6. I have found it tough to find a movie player app that plays my avi and mkv files. Rockplayer doesn't want to work now. MXPlayer doesn't run at all. Mplayer is ok but the videos are not that smooth. What else is there to try??
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DicePlayer works perfectly and has HW acceleration.

s.m.knipe said:
For your visual voicemail you need to register with Google Voice, unless Vodaphone has its own app for it.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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No Google voice in the UK.
There an app called Visual Voicemail Plus that provides this service (for, I believe, a small fee).

the missing apps are due ICS 4.0 not being compatible with those old apps
you have to wait for those old apps to be ICS 4.0 compatible for them to show up again on Market

I had the volume issue where it kept going up and down by itself a few times today.
but since about 4pm it hasn't happened again...

Could it be that the volume issue has something to do with some preset profiles that should not be there?
Sent from my X10i using xda premium

i've got the volume problem too. Picked up my phone today and its done it about 5 times in the past hour or so while i've been playing with the phone. usually coincides with me sending/ receiving a text message. Really annoying problem as i dont know i have received a text most of the time.

Mhhh. thats a handful of users now with the SAV-Ghost (had to give it a name - self-adjusting volume) .
Biggest worry I have seen yet (apart from flash which will be sorted out sooner or later)....

When the volume started changing on it's own, did the temperature suddenly drop and lights started flickering?

TonyHoyle said:
No Google voice in the UK.
There an app called Visual Voicemail Plus that provides this service (for, I believe, a small fee).
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Thanks, I didn't know that. GV has been out for a while, you would think Google would have brought that over by now...

dumb donkey said:
i've got the volume problem too. Picked up my phone today and its done it about 5 times in the past hour or so while i've been playing with the phone. usually coincides with me sending/ receiving a text message. Really annoying problem as i dont know i have received a text most of the time.
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I got the problem too, but it only seems to happen just after I unlock the phone.

Getting the volume problem a lot as well. It's weird cause it didn't happen yesterday at all, only started today.
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[Q] google music player stops playing/freezes after couple of songs

So I use google music player instead of the native s3 music player from samsung because I have all my music uploaded to the google cloud. I just got the s3 a month ago and continually have this issue. I'm listening to music then all of a sudden it stops, it looks like its still playing but can't hear anything and then when I try and back out of it its frozen.
Any ideas? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
thx in advance

androidcactus said:
So I use google music player instead of the native s3 music player from samsung because I have all my music uploaded to the google cloud. I just got the s3 a month ago and continually have this issue. I'm listening to music then all of a sudden it stops, it looks like its still playing but can't hear anything and then when I try and back out of it its frozen.
Any ideas? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
thx in advance
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This was something I experienced while on frosty jb rom. Thought I was crazy the only way I fixed it was to force stop the app when it happened. Quite annoying I know
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I think its a problem with touchwiz, so far have not had any issues with toasted .marshmallows. a solution I found is to go to application manager and clear data under Google play. Its not efficient and you have to wait a few minutes for it to sync again.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

Are you rooted? I had that same issue on jellybean stock w/ root. Better Battery Stats showed I kept getting a LPAplayer wakelock and when I changed the build.prop following this post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25475691&postcount=4732) it seemed to help. Dunno what the cause is or why that would fix it, but try it out if you have root.

thank you for all the responses.
So I am not rooted, just on the out of the box sg3 system.
I will try some of the suggestions..disappointed that there is the issue. And it does the same thing whether streaming from the cloud or the songs I have pined for offline listening which sits on the cache. :crying:

I'm having the exact same issue. I'm on stock JB, not rooted. It'll play a song or two then just freeze. I have to back completely out and try again and get the same results. Frustrating, because I don't store any music at all on my device.

The_MamaBee said:
I'm having the exact same issue. I'm on stock JB, not rooted. It'll play a song or two then just freeze. I have to back completely out and try again and get the same results. Frustrating, because I don't store any music at all on my device.
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and like me do you experience same results whether its streaming or playing a pined/cached song?
I wonder if there is someone to report this? I imagine it must be a know issue though?

md1008 said:
I think its a problem with touchwiz, so far have not had any issues with toasted .marshmallows. a solution I found is to go to application manager and clear data under Google play. Its not efficient and you have to wait a few minutes for it to sync again.
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Shouldn't be a touchwiz issue, as I have the same problem even though I'm running Nova Prime. I just replaced the google player widget with the samsung one and have been happy ever since. I don't really miss the cloud sync cause my library rarely changes much.

I am having the same issue. I thought it might be the romantic I was running, but now it has happened on two different roms. I wonder if it is a Jellybean issue?
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I see this every so often when I am listening to music in the cloud. I never had this issue with my Vibrant. I am betting it is the Google music player needing a fix
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Play music has been buggy for the past few releases. Bout the only solution is to roll back to a previous version. Down side is you lose themeing
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I'm still having this issue. I don't have music pinned on my device, it's all in the cloud. Never, ever had this issue on my Vibrant. I actually went to Google's help today and the rep who called said they know it's happening with this phone. He advised me to uninstall the updates and then reinstall from the market. I did that, and it actually feels worse. Now it's "frozen" on one song and won't let me select another. The only buttons I have available are back, pause and forward, but it isn't playing anything.
Interestingly, I just uninstalled updates again, taking my Play Music app back to v4.3.606.400990 and it seems to be working fine. I've even had music interrupted a few times by phone calls and it picks up again and plays with no help from me.

Used to happen to me as well on stock, but since rooted and now running 4.2.1 problem has disappeared

same problem with vzw gs3
I have this same problem with my phone. The following steps detail what reproduces the issue for me.
Play Music starts playing, gets through about two songs, then stops.
When waking the phone Play Music is frozen. The pause, previous and next track buttons, but nothing on the screen responds to touch.
Hold down home button and use the built in task manager to end Play Music, accepting the warning.
Restart Play Music and continue playing. It will play normally after that.
However, from then on the LPAPlayer will keep the phone from sleeping.
If I leave it alone, it will show wakelocks into the 10-15 hour range.
A reboot of the phone will fix the wakelock, until I use Play Music again.
I am on stock rooted JB for VZW (VRBLK3). I don't think it's ROM or even phone specific though.Iit seems to affect a wide spectrum of ROMs and a few different phones on different carriers.
I am currently trying out the recommendation on this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34586729&postcount=10
I am about six songs in now, will report back if it fails.

Babble0n said:
I have this same problem with my phone. The following steps detail what reproduces the issue for me.
Play Music starts playing, gets through about two songs, then stops.
When waking the phone Play Music is frozen. The pause, previous and next track buttons, but nothing on the screen responds to touch.
Hold down home button and use the built in task manager to end Play Music, accepting the warning.
Restart Play Music and continue playing. It will play normally after that.
However, from then on the LPAPlayer will keep the phone from sleeping.
If I leave it alone, it will show wakelocks into the 10-15 hour range.
A reboot of the phone will fix the wakelock, until I use Play Music again.
I am on stock rooted JB for VZW (VRBLK3). I don't think it's ROM or even phone specific though.Iit seems to affect a wide spectrum of ROMs and a few different phones on different carriers.
I am currently trying out the recommendation on this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34586729&postcount=10
I am about six songs in now, will report back if it fails.
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Did this work for you? I see that you have not posted again so I am guessing yes? This started happening to me when I went to JB Rom.

sstenhjem said:
Did this work for you? I see that you have not posted again so I am guessing yes? This started happening to me when I went to JB Rom.
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I can confirm this works it got rid of freezing and wake locks for me
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Guys Google put an update out that fixes Google music for galaxy s III !!!!!! woohoo!
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[Q] Google Play Music "All Access" Streaming Errors

The new Google Play Music update has caused some real headache for me and, as I'm finding, a number of other LG Optimus G owners. I get a couple minutes into a song and then everything stops. Error message: "Couldn't play the stream you requested."
As an experiment, I played Mackelmore's "Thrift Shop" 14x this morning (I am so sick of that song now) and the track stops within 2-3 seconds of the 2:35 mark every single time. This is not a problem on my Nexus 7. This is not a problem on my PC. This is only a problem on my phone.
3G, 4G, Wifi. same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
Riding in my car or sitting at my desk or in my living room, same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
My tracks or All Access tracks, same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue and, if so, how have you fixed it.
Thanks.

Update
Just got a reply from Support. They obviously did not read my email.
Hello Ryan,
Thanks for contacting our support team.
Playback issues can occur if your internet connection was lost or the speed of your connection changed while streaming. In addition, it is possible that there is an issue with the music file that you originally downloaded.
If the problem occurs while streaming music, please try playing the original file you added locally to determine if this is related to your internet connection. The issue is most likely related to your internet connection if the problem doesn't occur when playing the original file.
Please let me know if you have any other Google Play questions that I can further assist with.
Best Regards,
Samantha

I'm having this problem on the AT&T version of this phone. The problem appears to go deeper than mere connectivity: I'll get the error even with music that I have "pinned" (downloaded to my phone for offline listening). And I too have seen multiple LGOG users with this issue -- and no one else.
I think I'll have to try loading a custom ROM when I get home. I really hope the problem isn't the hardware itself, but I'm not optimistic.

MZille said:
I'm having this problem on the AT&T version of this phone. The problem appears to go deeper than mere connectivity: I'll get the error even with music that I have "pinned" (downloaded to my phone for offline listening). And I too have seen multiple LGOG users with this issue -- and no one else.
I think I'll have to try loading a custom ROM when I get home. I really hope the problem isn't the hardware itself, but I'm not optimistic.
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Lovely. There's also a thread over at productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/A01ByhnMKOQ that might be helpful. Thanks.

I haven't been using the app too much (maybe about 3 hours worth of listening, both All Access and my tracks, since yesterday) but I haven't encountered any issues. I am rooted and running EOS, if that matters.

ATT version here
if i have a song playing from all acess, not locally orginated, it will stop playing at about 2:30 min - 3:00 min. If i start the song over and try to skiip to the part it stopped on, it ill play for about 4 seconds and then same error again.
Any fix for this? is it just too new?

I'm also having this problem but it doesn't occur with my Asus transformer pad. Does running a custom rom fix this?
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I don't think this is a hardware issue. I hope as more updates are released this is fixed but idk how soon that it is.

badnewswrx said:
ATT version here
if i have a song playing from all acess, not locally orginated, it will stop playing at about 2:30 min - 3:00 min. If i start the song over and try to skiip to the part it stopped on, it ill play for about 4 seconds and then same error again.
Any fix for this? is it just too new?
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Yeah, that's what I'm experiencing as well.

rdpollard said:
The new Google Play Music update has caused some real headache for me and, as I'm finding, a number of other LG Optimus G owners. I get a couple minutes into a song and then everything stops. Error message: "Couldn't play the stream you requested."
As an experiment, I played Mackelmore's "Thrift Shop" 14x this morning (I am so sick of that song now) and the track stops within 2-3 seconds of the 2:35 mark every single time. This is not a problem on my Nexus 7. This is not a problem on my PC. This is only a problem on my phone.
3G, 4G, Wifi. same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
Riding in my car or sitting at my desk or in my living room, same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
My tracks or All Access tracks, same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue and, if so, how have you fixed it.
Thanks.
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I have a at&t optimus g and Im having the same issue. wont make it through a whole song before it stops. error "couldn't play stream you requested" pops up.

rdpollard said:
The new Google Play Music update has caused some real headache for me and, as I'm finding, a number of other LG Optimus G owners. I get a couple minutes into a song and then everything stops. Error message: "Couldn't play the stream you requested."
As an experiment, I played Mackelmore's "Thrift Shop" 14x this morning (I am so sick of that song now) and the track stops within 2-3 seconds of the 2:35 mark every single time. This is not a problem on my Nexus 7. This is not a problem on my PC. This is only a problem on my phone.
3G, 4G, Wifi. same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
Riding in my car or sitting at my desk or in my living room, same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
My tracks or All Access tracks, same result, my songs stop playing mid-way through.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue and, if so, how have you fixed it.
Thanks.
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I'm also having this issue. But I'm sprint LG Optimus G rooted 4.1. I've tried several things related to streaming errors in the past like making sure the hosts file is ok as well as setting lpa.decode to false. But no dice.

Does running a custom rom fix this?

jbrooks58 said:
Does running a custom rom fix this?
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I just installed EOS and so far I'm several songs in without it stopping. So, yes I think a custom ROM fixes this.

Thats good. Im just scared to unlock my bootloader because my freegee bricked me last time lol

Same issue here. Also whenever I try to start a "radio" it just tells me the "radio could not start"
Seems this new version is broken for us as the older version worked fine.
I'll just stick to iheart for now and see what they do to fix it.

I'm on CM10.1 and do have this issue once in a while. It's very rare though.

So sad.. Updated to the latest version, hoping it would fix the problem. I got past that 2:35 mark! But only just past. Still busted. Still waiting for Google support.
Sent from my LG-LS970 using xda premium

rdpollard said:
So sad.. Updated to the latest version, hoping it would fix the problem. I got past that 2:35 mark! But only just past. Still busted. Still waiting for Google support.
Sent from my LG-LS970 using xda premium
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I was able to get in contact with google support and send them some logs when the problem occurred. Anyone else who has the problem try and get ahold of support and tell them that you've already tried to reinstall the app, reboot the phone and clear it's cache. Send them the logs too if you can.

try this go to Settings -> Apps -> Media Storage -> Clear Data

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try this go to Settings -> Apps -> Media Storage -> Clear Data
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Are you sure this works? Have you done it?

It worked for a few hours, after that everything went back to the same issue. I moved to an asop rom and it is working just fine. I guess the problem is related with the lg rom

Google Music stops playing randomly.

Hi all,
I've read threads about this for different phones, but didn't see any for this one (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
But, my phone- stock T-Mobile S3- will randomly cut out and stop playing my music when I'm using Google Music.
I tried one of the solutions in a thread, where they advised to turn the volume down... that didn't work. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling... updating Google Music, etc. That didn't work either. The problem still occurs. I downloaded an album from Google Music onto my internal storage and it still skips even on that, so to me that tells me it's not a streaming or Internet issue.
Does anyone know of a way to fix this? I'd prefer to not have to root, but I'm open to the idea somewhere down the line.
Regards,
-Proxin

It still crashes frequently. Not much you can do about it. Need to wait for Google to fix it.

Aerowinder said:
It still crashes frequently. Not much you can do about it. Need to wait for Google to fix it.
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Thanks for the response- I'm relieved to hear at least I'm not the only one with the issue. Hopefully they'll have an update soon.

Help with Google Play Music control card

Hi guys i've just bought a fresh new moto 360. I played with it a few hours and there's something i can't get to work.
I noticed that when i launch the google play music on the phone, the card for controlling the music disappears in a second and it never turns back until i pause music from the phone. If i press play on the moto360, card goes away and never turns back until...and so on. I think (and i hope) that this is not the way it's meant to work
Android Wear app on the phone is the latest i suppose, i've downloaded it a few hours ago
Build number of the moto 360 OS is LWX49L (5.0.2)
Help please

Vahndroid84 said:
Hi guys i've just bought a fresh new moto 360. I played with it a few hours and there's something i can't get to work.
I noticed that when i launch the google play music on the phone, the card for controlling the music disappears in a second and it never turns back until i pause music from the phone. If i press play on the moto360, card goes away and never turns back until...and so on. I think (and i hope) that this is not the way it's meant to work
Android Wear app on the phone is the latest i suppose, i've downloaded it a few hours ago
Build number of the moto 360 OS is LWX49L (5.0.2)
Help please
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I think it's a bug in the music app as I have the same intermittent issue both on the watch and on my Nexus 6. I'm sure a fix will roll out shortly.
I'm running 5.8.1836R of Google Play Music.

xdatastic said:
I think it's a bug in the music app as I have the same intermittent issue both on the watch and on my Nexus 6. I'm sure a fix will roll out shortly.
I'm running 5.8.1836R of Google Play Music.
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i guess so
I've set the default instruction in android wear app ("play music on phone") and now everything works as it supposed to
thanks anyway