Power On sound - MTCB Android Head Units Q&A

Hi,
Is there a way to have a sound automatically play as soon as Android is started? I tried using Tasker but the delay (1 or 2 minutes) is too long for me
Thank you

I have also tried adding a PowerOn.ogg in /system/media/ui/ to no avail so I have no clue where to go from there

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[Q] Settings app crashes only when changing sound settings

Hello everyone. Thanks for all the great help over the years. My settings app crashes whenever I click (tap, touch whatever) the sounds settings category. When I setup my phone Google automatically loaded the "Rings Extended" app which I used to use on my old phone, but doesn't support ICS yet. It worked for a few days, but would never save my ringtone and notification sound settings. Now it just reports that "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped" whenever I try to go into the Sound option. Any ideas what I can do to fix it? FWIW the phone is unlocked and rooted, but still on the stock image.
Any hope for this problem? Are the configuration settings for sounds stored in a text file somewhere that I could change manually?
Same here!
I had this problem a little while ago and I'm trying to remember the circumstances and how I resolved it. Iirc, it happened after I used rings extended to set a ring tone, causing my sounds setting to crash. What I think I ended up doing was using ES explorer to select one of the standard tones as the ring tone and that fixed the crashing.
Hope this works for you.
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Well I seemed to have worked around the issue. I installed a sound profile app from the market then used it to change the ring and notification tones. After a reboot for good measure the sound settings are working again. Hope this works for you too.

[Q] Volume (Ringer/Notification Linked)

I've tried numerous apps and they all seem to fail in doing this.
I want the option of linking my ringtone and notification volume levels together.
I got so used to CyanogenMod for years doing this by default, but Sammy took that away from us - again. In the past, certain apps were able to put it back in, but it seems the coding with regards to our volume control is not currently able to be changed.
Other than flashing an AOSP-based rom, is there any way to do this?
Thanks!

My Music Stops When I Unlock The Phone

Hi Guys, I have a G3 (D85510L) 4.4.2 unrooted and running Next launcher. The problem I have is when I play music with
the screen off, when I unlock the phone the music STOPS coming out of the speakers or headphones, bluetooth or
wired but the player is still running, so I then have to unlock the screen and then press the volume up or down just
once to get the sound back again if you go into the sound setting on the phone the media bar is at whatever it was at
before I unlocked it. Even if I stop the player and then start it again still NO sound :crying: .
Things I have tried,
Reset the phone 3 times but each time I do it works fine for about 3 days and then
the problem starts again :crying:.
Gone through all my apps but can't see anything that would cause it, apart from Google now and Commandr for Google
now, I have been in the settings and uninstalled them and tried again but just the same.
Also the Voice Mate app I tried the settings (I can't disable it) but again it was no good :crying:.
Tried some audio manager apps, no good :crying:.
I have used the stock player and PowerAmp Player but again no good :crying:.
Changed the lock screen from swipe, Knock, password and pin but still no good, BUT it will work fine if there
is NO lock screen set :crying:.
I have no idea so any help will be very welcomed :fingers-crossed:.
Paul
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I'm having trouble understanding your problem. Does the music pause when you open your phone or does it just mute? And calm down with the emojis bro lol
Hi many thanks for your reply, well to be honest with you I don't know if its muting as I would not know how to do that. What happens is the music just stops coming out no sound but the player keeps going and even if I stop the player and start it again still no sound and the only way to get the sound back is to press the volume up or down.
But I was going to update this morning as I have found out what the problem is, it my flash light app (tinyflashlight by Nikolay Ananiev) from the play store I have had it for years.
As I said I have only had my G3 for about 4 weeks but this time when I was setting it up I turned on the voice activation on the torch app for the first time, so when I turn on the lock screen and you say "torch" it turns the torch on, and that was what the issue was.
So posted the reply just in case anybody else has the same problem.
ps. sorry about the smilies I was on a downer, but now I'm not life's great
baylakedrive said:
Hi many thanks for your reply, well to be honest with you I don't know if its muting as I would not know how to do that. What happens is the music just stops coming out no sound but the player keeps going and even if I stop the player and start it again still no sound and the only way to get the sound back is to press the volume up or down.
But I was going to update this morning as I have found out what the problem is, it my flash light app (tinyflashlight by Nikolay Ananiev) from the play store I have had it for years.
As I said I have only had my G3 for about 4 weeks but this time when I was setting it up I turned on the voice activation on the torch app for the first time, so when I turn on the lock screen and you say "torch" it turns the torch on, and that was what the issue was.
So posted the reply just in case anybody else has the same problem.
ps. sorry about the smilies I was on a downer, but now I'm not life's great
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Ye you never want to be the guy who uses too many smilies. It just looks weird after a certain point. And for future reference anything that affects the lock screen will most likely affect your music players performance on the lock screen. So if you run into any more similar problems check if you got any apps that affect the lockscreen recently.

Complete outage of device volume

i'm experiencing a complete outage of my (no root) n5x's volume, including alarm clock volume when using text-to-speech (3.9.16). this happens several times a day, usually after about an hour, but could be random, to solve it, i have to force-close tts as well as the MacroDroid app using it.
so, if you select a ringtone in settings you usually hear the tone when you tap on it - when i do so, there's no sound at all, nor if i use the volume slider.
- i use Outloud to speak notifications via tts
- and MacroDroid (or Automate-it) to speak well, things like, when i disable wifi ("wifi deactivated"..), or tells the time when the sun sets, tells time/every 15 mins., etc.
so you might guess it's the apps' fault, but it's not, i also tried automate-it app, and disabled Outloud.
- i tried everything to fix this, like: disabled battery optimization, background processes, notification priority/level, even a factory reset! nothing helped.
- i reported this issues to Google about 15 days ago.
- volume is on in settings, of course..
- (and dnd is off, as well..)
- one strange thing: i can play music using g play music
- it worked on M!
have you experienced the same?
do you have any idea to help? this is so frustrating because i used this all the time on my previous N4, and also on another LG phone, and it always worked.
P.S. I remember to have already had this issue when I used a custom rom on the N4, but don't remember what fixed it, probably used a different rom.
tia.
Google text-to-speech 3.10.10 does not fix it.
It seems to be a Nougat problem, doze or memory.
Issue is fixed on 7.1.1-dp1! :victory:

Several sound issues, I believe they are related. Welp!

Some info: Pixel XL, one-year-old, rooted with Magisk, android up-to-date version 9, Build number PPR2.181005.003
Some weeks ago I started to see some weird behaviour related to sound. First, while listening to Spotify and Google Podcasts (from now on called "The Apps"), the phone would simply stop producing any sound through the headphone (or speakers when the headphones are then unplugged). A restart would fix it until the next random time it would happen again.
After a while, I've decided to factory reset the phone and reinstall the Android system from scratch and root it again (I've been doing this kind of stuff for years now, so I'm pretty knowledgeable about these procedures), to no avail. The problem was still there.
I've started to try to pinpoint what the main problem would be, and then I've started debugging other stuff. What I've found is:
- If I restart the phone and immediately try to play Spotify or Google Podcasts, it will not work and only a restart will fix it.
- If I restart the phone and wait a few minutes (around 5 minutes) everything works, until the next random failure.
- After a restart, my widgets on the home screen will take a few minutes to load (Google Calendar and The Weather Network)-- if I try The Apps before that, no sound will come out through the headphones (or speakers if I disconnect the headphones)
- Sometimes the sound will come out through the phone's speakers, even if the headphones are connected. Only a restart will fix this.
- Sometimes a loud cracking sound will come through the headphones and after that, no sound is played whatsoever by the phone -- a restart fixes this.
- Both The Apps would randomly stop playing (as if the pause button is pressed). Pressing the Play button again restores the sound, but with different volume level. If it was lower, it will become louder, and vice versa. I didn't test this without the headphones as I would need to isolate myself from the world LOL.
- No sound is produced during phone calls either. A restart fixes this until the next random failure.
- The volume indicator will randomly lag to display after pressing the volume buttons.
- The volume indicator will appear randomly and change small amounts (up or down) while I'm using the phone.
I am slowly removing less-used apps to try to pinpoint which one could be the offending factor, with no luck so far.
I've unrooted my phone today to try and see if this has any effect on those problems (no effect).
Any ideas what I can try next? Any idea what can cause these problems?
daniel3ub said:
Some info: Pixel XL, one-year-old, rooted with Magisk, android up-to-date version 9, Build number PPR2.181005.003
Some weeks ago I started to see some weird behaviour related to sound. First, while listening to Spotify and Google Podcasts (from now on called "The Apps"), the phone would simply stop producing any sound through the headphone (or speakers when the headphones are then unplugged). A restart would fix it until the next random time it would happen again.
After a while, I've decided to factory reset the phone and reinstall the Android system from scratch and root it again (I've been doing this kind of stuff for years now, so I'm pretty knowledgeable about these procedures), to no avail. The problem was still there.
I've started to try to pinpoint what the main problem would be, and then I've started debugging other stuff. What I've found is:
- If I restart the phone and immediately try to play Spotify or Google Podcasts, it will not work and only a restart will fix it.
- If I restart the phone and wait a few minutes (around 5 minutes) everything works, until the next random failure.
- After a restart, my widgets on the home screen will take a few minutes to load (Google Calendar and The Weather Network)-- if I try The Apps before that, no sound will come out through the headphones (or speakers if I disconnect the headphones)
- Sometimes the sound will come out through the phone's speakers, even if the headphones are connected. Only a restart will fix this.
- Sometimes a loud cracking sound will come through the headphones and after that, no sound is played whatsoever by the phone -- a restart fixes this.
- Both The Apps would randomly stop playing (as if the pause button is pressed). Pressing the Play button again restores the sound, but with different volume level. If it was lower, it will become louder, and vice versa. I didn't test this without the headphones as I would need to isolate myself from the world LOL.
- No sound is produced during phone calls either. A restart fixes this until the next random failure.
- The volume indicator will randomly lag to display after pressing the volume buttons.
- The volume indicator will appear randomly and change small amounts (up or down) while I'm using the phone.
I am slowly removing less-used apps to try to pinpoint which one could be the offending factor, with no luck so far.
I've unrooted my phone today to try and see if this has any effect on those problems (no effect).
Any ideas what I can try next? Any idea what can cause these problems?
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I'm sure you have already looked into this - but just in case....make sure that the "Apps" are NOT set to Optimize Battery nor to Restrict Background Usage. There was another thread recently about a user having Spotify stop playing randomly for them and the issue was the app was set to Restrict Background Activity. Good luck!
sb1893 said:
I'm sure you have already looked into this - but just in case....make sure that the "Apps" are NOT set to Optimize Battery nor to Restrict Background Usage. There was another thread recently about a user having Spotify stop playing randomly for them and the issue was the app was set to Restrict Background Activity. Good luck!
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Thanks for the confidence you projected on me LOL, I had NOT looked at it! Indeed, both apps are set to "optimize battery". I'll change this setting and give it a go.
Thanks!
sb1893 said:
I'm sure you have already looked into this - but just in case....make sure that the "Apps" are NOT set to Optimize Battery nor to Restrict Background Usage. There was another thread recently about a user having Spotify stop playing randomly for them and the issue was the app was set to Restrict Background Activity. Good luck!
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I must say a LOT of the related problems are, if not completely, at least partially solved. I've seen way less problems since I disabled the battery optimization for Spotify and Google Podcasts.
Thank you so much!
I'll keep tracking them and running some more tests just to be sure, but it seems this was the main issue here.
Amazing how one single app and setting can bring a phone to an almost useless state!

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