I was getting severe stuttering when playing back a podcast over my bluetooth headset today, so ran the OS Monitor app to see what was running in the background. While "Android system" was the main CPU user, a process called MirrorLink was also regularly using 15-20% CPU. This seems to be an app designed for interacting with suitably equipped cars, but I don't have such a car and there is no app called MirrorLink in my list of apps.
Does anyone know how I can get rid of it?
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Anybody else having issues with Spotify on the Galaxy Nexus? I keep getting force-closes & the occassional loss of offline cached playlists. I've contacted the support team & got a reply stating that the app 'isn't available' for ICS, despite the market telling me it is compatible with my handset. To be honest, i have similar problems with the app on my ipod, so i'm thinking it's just a shoddily programmed piece of cack, but wondered if anybody else is having similar issues?
Sometimes it crashes on me, just exits to the launcher or previous app without crash message or anything. And sometimes it stops playback of songs for no reason.
It doesn't bother me that much though, since i'm guessing they are working on getting it more compatible with ICS.
the sound is crackly in my car stereo....dunno is thats cuz of my setup though...
I keep getting an error message to say that my device storage is full and it can't sync any more music.. but I have 11GB free??
About to factory wipe my phone anyway so see what happens after
On a side note, I've recently got an iPod touch for the gym, the Spotify app is much better designed and uses the folders properly rather than just listing everything like the android version. Bout time they improved ours...
Hello,
There's one function on Android crucial to me that I have yet to find a perfect solution for, and that's variable speed audio playback. I'm a big audio podcast fan (using the excellent Pocket Casts app), and to get through hours upon hours of podcasts I like to play them back at a faster speed than normal. 2x speed, for example, sounds absolutely fine (not quite Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks fast) and as you would surmise cuts the normal podcast play time in half.
Pocket Casts uses an external app called Presto Sound Library to accomplish variable speed functionality, but this app appears to have been abandoned. The user forum, for example, hasn't been posted to since August, and the developer hasn't got back to my emails. Basically, the problem is that if you get a phone call when listening to something in Pocket Casts/Presto, upon completion of the call Pocket Casts force closes (although sometimes the audio just keeps on going uncontrollable). I've figured out via a helpful Play Store comment that force-closing Presto saves you from having to reboot, but needless to say this bug is extremely annoying. Problem started in Ice Cream Sandwich as I recall having it also on my CM9 Galaxy S II.
Anyone else out there have an alternative app for variable playback that works better on Jellybean? Cheers
kitecarl said:
Hello,
There's one function on Android crucial to me that I have yet to find a perfect solution for, and that's variable speed audio playback. I'm a big audio podcast fan (using the excellent Pocket Casts app), and to get through hours upon hours of podcasts I like to play them back at a faster speed than normal. 2x speed, for example, sounds absolutely fine (not quite Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks fast) and as you would surmise cuts the normal podcast play time in half.
Pocket Casts uses an external app called Presto Sound Library to accomplish variable speed functionality, but this app appears to have been abandoned. The user forum, for example, hasn't been posted to since August, and the developer hasn't got back to my emails. Basically, the problem is that if you get a phone call when listening to something in Pocket Casts/Presto, upon completion of the call Pocket Casts force closes (although sometimes the audio just keeps on going uncontrollable). I've figured out via a helpful Play Store comment that force-closing Presto saves you from having to reboot, but needless to say this bug is extremely annoying. Problem started in Ice Cream Sandwich as I recall having it also on my CM9 Galaxy S II.
Anyone else out there have an alternative app for variable playback that works better on Jellybean? Cheers
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I'm having the same problem!!
Have you found a better alternative? I especially have the problem when listening to my bluetooth headphones, lots of times the podcast just keeps playing uncontrollably. I've started rejecting calls just to quit the podcast, and then call people back, which is terrible! The whole program is quite glitchy and seems to freeze at the end of every podcast--for me at least.
I love the program interface, etc. I just wish it worked better.
I haven't been able to find anything else really. What was the tip about force quitting presto? It doesn't show up in my task manager, am I missing something?
Thanks!
I use Dice Player https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.a to play lectures at increased playback speed. Works great for that purpose. I dont think it has a podcast downloader ability though, but if you have the files on your phone, this app works great for variable playback
I listen to music via Bluetooth streaming in my car using the factory MUSIC app. I'd like to be able to get into the car, turn on the BT streaming mode on my car audio and automatically begin playing music. However, the factory task manager automatically closes the MUSIC app after I get out of the car and I have to load it manually each time.
Being that everyone recommends that with KitKat one shouldn't install a task killer/manager other than what's from the factory....how can this be done?
Is there any way to put the music on an exclusion list?
Thanks in advance.
If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?
serio22 said:
If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?
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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
Thanks.
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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
Thanks.
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It will continue running in the background, this isn't really a task killer problem but more of an app thing.. For example, I use play music and it resumes playing once I connect to Bluetooth again even if I kill it myself.. I would check the settings if you haven't already and see if there's is a setting for it, I've seen other apps with settings like that, but don't know about the stock music app
it is not in fact running in the background. No such option in setting either. Anyone know of any app that could make it be ignored by the default task manager?
You can do it with xposed if interested
The head unit in your car may have something to do with it.
Factory? Aftermarket?
I have a Kenwood w/7in touch screen and if my BT on phone is enabled as soon as the Kenwood starts up whatever app was running before will start playing automatically, Samsung music app, Amazon music app..
If Milk music or Pandora I have to launch app.
Pp.
there are a few apps on the market with that name.... also do I need root access? As far as the head unit it's a factory stereo Infiniti q50
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there are a few apps on the market with that name....
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It's not on the market and you need root access.. If you are interested do a quick search for xposed on Google and go to the one here on XDA, read about it on the thread and how to use it, install it, open it, and search for a module called app settings, in there you have an option to always keep in memory for whatever app you want so just select stock player. Keeping the music player running may not even be the solution, but it is a possibility.. As the previous poster stated, there are apps that just lack autoplay feature.. It is also possible that some other music app or app that uses Bluetooth may conflict with it, preventing it from auto playing
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?
Anyway to get Android Auto installed on this Tab S4?
I drive a Ford Escape and the crappy Sync 3 system that Ford uses causes BT lag. Both for audio and video. I don't watch videos whilst driving, I'll explain.
So when I discovered that whilst using Android Auto on my phone (Note 9) the sound that I'm listening to comes in perfect, no lag and when I change tracks via the button on my steering wheel (or volume buttons on my phone) there is no lag, unlike when I'm only using Sync 3.
So, with video the BT lag is bad. Like almost two seconds. I get to campus super early because of construction on a new parking garage. So typically, I'm chilling in my car until the library opens. That's when I'm sometimes watching stuff on my phone so the BT lag gets super annoying. Android Auto relieves this issue perfectly so I'd like to be able to enjoy that benefit on my Tab S4.
But when I try to install it I see the message saying this device is not compatible. Kinda makes sense since this is a tablet. But as you can see, being able to enjoy lag-free video (using any video app/service on the tablet) would be super duper cool on this tablet whilst inside my car.
Anyone know how I can bypass this restriction?
By the way, there is no aux input in this car. It's a 2018 Escape. I'm assuming Ford removed this useful feature the year before? If I had an aux input this would be no issue. But BT is my only option if I can't get Android Auto to work on this Tab S4.
Thanks!
Odd. Installs (and runs) just fine on my Tab S4 directly from Google play.
You can always try to install from other sources, apk mirror for example.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-auto/
So I tried it out and it doesn't seem to work. It installed just fine on its own but when I connected the tablet to my car the tablet started vibrating from the notifications of AA. Like crazy. It just kept flashing the notification icon and vibrating but nothing showed up on the infotainment screen.
I don't know if this is the same as you are talking about, but I've got a couple apps that "aren't compatible with your device," being my Tab S2 or S4. The Jetblue flight app is one. I found that if I install them on my S7 Edge phone, back up the app, I can copy and install it on the tablet. Of course, they need to be manually updated. The Android Auto gives me the same message as roadardo, plus it says "the app may not be optimized for your device." That could explain the bugs when running. I know for chromecast it says my Tab S4 is not optimized for casting and it is a disaster.