Just got a pixel 2 xl and one of the features I was most excited about was Now Playing, unfortunately I can't find it anywhere in settings>Sounds>Advanced settings, any idea what could be wrong?
Settings, Security, lock screen preferences then it should be in there
Yasharkhan said:
Just got a pixel 2 xl and one of the features I was most excited about was Now Playing, unfortunately I can't find it anywhere in settings>Sounds>Advanced settings, any idea what could be wrong?
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What happens if you type in "Now Playing" in the settings search menu?
Badger50 said:
What happens if you type in "Now Playing" in the settings search menu?
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Thanks for the quick reply, I got it ,I had to install pixel ambient services from play store but now I've another issue, now playing isn't working, I've tried turning it on and off and on and even rebooting my phone but nothing, tried with many songs but doesn't recognize any, any one else faced similar issue?
Yasharkhan said:
Thanks for the quick reply, I got it ,I had to install pixel ambient services from play store but now I've another issue, now playing isn't working, I've tried turning it on and off and on and even rebooting my phone but nothing, tried with many songs but doesn't recognize any, any one else faced similar issue?
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It's glitchy at best. Works sometimes for me and takes a long time to recognize a song. Much more of a novelty item
For me works well with commercial music. If I listen the sort of music I like best.. Nothing. Not surprised there though.
I hope they'll be adding songs to the database and make it more useful.
Yasharkhan said:
now I've another issue, now playing isn't working, I've tried turning it on and off and on and even rebooting my phone but nothing, tried with many songs but doesn't recognize any, any one else faced similar issue?
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Well, it takes quite a while to recognize a song, and it can range from several seconds to even minutes. I wouldn't rely on it being able to pick up every song out there, especially at low volumes or loud environments that can make it harder for the device to recognize songs. Also, you might want to make sure that you're not covering the microphone and that your microphone works perfectly fine.
It was working for me, but it has since stopped. I think it happened when Google issued the November update. Looks like they might have broken something.
Yasharkhan said:
Thanks for the quick reply, I got it ,I had to install pixel ambient services from play store but now I've another issue, now playing isn't working, I've tried turning it on and off and on and even rebooting my phone but nothing, tried with many songs but doesn't recognize any, any one else faced similar issue?
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Tis a poor feature. Only recognises very famous songs. The sort of songs you already know the name of!
Plus, Google Hates Christmas. 1 in 3 Christmas songs don't show up.
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Many users facing this problem. Even me, After enable now playing feature it's not working properly. But after uninstall Words With Friends 2 game, it's work like a charm.
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Anyway to turn the screen off, with the power button, but keep music playing?
Tried it with the touchflo3D player and the windows media player...both turn off the music when I try to turn the screen off...
Anyone else have this problem?
I have pocketshied installed...so not sure if this is a phone prob or pocketshield is causing it to happen...it still happens whether pocketshield is on or not though...
Thanks
I have never had this problem on my Tilt 2. Is this a TP2 only issue?
Miami_Son said:
I have never had this problem on my Tilt 2. Is this a TP2 only issue?
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No Kidding?! I have a Tilt2 also with the stock rom and all!
This must be an issue that pocket-Shield is Causing...grr
Guess I need another hardbutton/screen lock...device...hmm
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No Kidding?! I have a Tilt2 also with the stock rom and all!
This must be an issue that pocket-Shield is Causing...grr
Guess I need another hardbutton/screen lock...device...hmm
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dude..u only need reg.cab name
"keep music playing".
search xda or google..
yeah, it's working for me as well although you cannot skip tracks like you can with iphone unless you install third party software.
did you check your lock setting and make sure you check "lock if playing music"?
PUTALE said:
yeah, it's working for me as well although you cannot skip tracks like you can with iphone unless you install third party software.
did you check your lock setting and make sure you check "lock if playing music"?
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Again, not an issue for me. I skip tracks without issue. I use my BT headphones to listen to music while I ride my mountain bike and I have runsat recording my ride going in the background. No issues whatsoever. I have none of the "fixes" mentioned installed, it has always worked fine for me even now that I'm using S2U2.
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Again, not an issue for me. I skip tracks without issue. I use my BT headphones to listen to music while I ride my mountain bike and I have runsat recording my ride going in the background. No issues whatsoever. I have none of the "fixes" mentioned installed, it has always worked fine for me even now that I'm using S2U2.
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I'll have to try S2U2.
What's with the skip track thing that's being talked about?
Do you guys mean while the screen is off?
I have the tilt2 and also have this problem. by default, WMP is supposed to keep playing, but only if you let the device suspend on its own. This generally works, but there will be a brief stutter and lag when it first turns the device off.
PocketPlayer is a good 3rd party app that has the option to turn off the screen for uninterupted listening. Playlist management is a bit of a chore with that program, though.
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Again, not an issue for me. I skip tracks without issue. I use my BT headphones to listen to music while I ride my mountain bike and I have runsat recording my ride going in the background. No issues whatsoever. I have none of the "fixes" mentioned installed, it has always worked fine for me even now that I'm using S2U2.
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Tried to get S2U2...but all I get is the zip file...can never get to the cabs...http://ac-s2.com/
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Tried to get S2U2...but all I get is the zip file...can never get to the cabs...http://ac-s2.com/
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The cab file is inside the zip file along with a bunch of other stuff for modding the S2U2 clock and skins. All you need is the one cab file for the actual S2U2 program. Unzip it to a folder and just copy the cab file to your device and run it. If you don't know how to unzip a file you might want to reconsider modding your phone.
EDIT: Here. I'll make it easy for you. Latest version attached.
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The cab file is inside the zip file along with a bunch of other stuff for modding the S2U2 clock and skins. All you need is the one cab file for the actual S2U2 program. Unzip it to a folder and just copy the cab file to your device and run it. If you don't know how to unzip a file you might want to reconsider modding your phone.
EDIT: Here. I'll make it easy for you. Latest version attached.
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Never had a problem with zip files till i got Vista on a new computer. Was never a problem with XP...stupid vista.
Miami_Son said:
I have never had this problem on my Tilt 2. Is this a TP2 only issue?
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BTW did a hard reset...and the issue is still there.
It keeps playing if there's a headset, external speakers, or bluetooth headset that it is playing through....but not through the phone's speakers.
StrangeShadow said:
BTW did a hard reset...and the issue is still there.
It keeps playing if there's a headset, external speakers, or bluetooth headset that it is playing through....but not through the phone's speakers.
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Hey, I never thought to try that since I don't listen to music through the phone speakers. Mine stops when listening that way, too.
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BTW did a hard reset...and the issue is still there.
It keeps playing if there's a headset, external speakers, or bluetooth headset that it is playing through....but not through the phone's speakers.
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My Tilt 2 does the same thing.
Could you just set a quicker "screen off" time in the power settings? Wouldn't that basically accomplish the same thing? It is weird that it will keep playing when the phone goes into standby on its own, but not when you press the power button to turn the screen off.
dwboston said:
My Tilt 2 does the same thing.
Could you just set a quicker "screen off" time in the power settings? Wouldn't that basically accomplish the same thing? It is weird that it will keep playing when the phone goes into standby on its own, but not when you press the power button to turn the screen off.
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Actually, it makes sense the way it is. If you are manually turning off the backlight it assumes you want to shut down all functions except the phone.
I found that if I just push the lock button for S2U2 it locks the screen and shuts the screen off at the set time, but allows the music to keep playing. A small hassel, but a work around.
Keep Music Playing
Registry location:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\ Unattended\
Change Wav1 dword value to a "0"
Then when you have music playing in any program,
tap the power button to put in suspend mode,
and you're good to go.
Having lots of difficulties with "OK Google" on this watch. Bluetooth stays connected fine and so does wifi because i'm getting all my notifications instantly and it doesnt say that im disconnected. When I say OK Google the prompt comes up to speak...but only like 4 of the 30 times I tried did it actually work and not show the cloud symbol. I restarted the watch a couple times and the same thing happens, i've also done a factory reset since purchasing the watch 4 days ago. Thoughts? Thanks.
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Having lots of difficulties with "OK Google" on this watch. Bluetooth stays connected fine and so does wifi because i'm getting all my notifications instantly and it doesnt say that im disconnected. When I say OK Google the prompt comes up to speak...but only like 4 of the 30 times I tried did it actually work and not show the cloud symbol. I restarted the watch a couple times and the same thing happens, i've also done a factory reset since purchasing the watch 4 days ago. Thoughts? Thanks.
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I found it to be very hit or miss as well.
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I've not had it work once yet. The mic works as if I manually launch it everything seems fine.
I've tried restarts, factory resets & all the above. I'm pretty close to returning in all honesty as the voice launch is a huge deal for me!
I use my Huawei Watch with a OnePlus One on stock COS12.1 and have the same problem.
A lot of times when I use the watch to say "Okay Google" it will tell me it's disconnected. The only work-around I found was to quickly wake up the phone and it would start working right away. It seems like the internet pauses if my phone has been idle too long. I receive notifications in real time so I don't know what's really causing it.
I had the same problem with the huawei and a dutch HTC one M8.
The problem was gone after changing "Google voice typing primary language" from dutch in english.
And teach Google the sound of my voice in "OK Google" detection =>> From any screen.
Try turning off the restricted data for google app and google play services under Data Usage in settings.
ultimatdan said:
Having lots of difficulties with "OK Google" on this watch
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I find it very hard for it to recognise my Australian accent. However, when I put on an American accent it works 100% of the time!
Any way of fixing that?
salada2k said:
I find it very hard for it to recognise my Australian accent. However, when I put on an American accent it works 100% of the time!
Any way of fixing that?
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Did you try going into Google Settings on your phone? There's an option to retrain the voice model in there.
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Did you try going into Google Settings on your phone? There's an option to retrain the voice model in there.
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HI mate, yes I've done that countless times to no avail unfortunately. It works fine on my phone, but it's like retraining the voice model has no effect on the Huwaei Watch.
salada2k said:
HI mate, yes I've done that countless times to no avail unfortunately. It works fine on my phone, but it's like retraining the voice model has no effect on the Huwaei Watch.
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Dang, I was wondering about that. Sorry!
Randomly my notification sound disappear.
No problem with the rest of the phone, if I reboot there's no problems.
I've not found a way to restore sounds except a reboot that is trivial and unacceptable twice a day.
Someone has this problems?
Any idea?
My wife's phone won't ring sometimes. She has to reboot as well.
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My wife's phone won't ring sometimes. She has to reboot as well.
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It's probably a software related problem.
She was using something connected with bluetooth or using spotify?
No Spotify. The last time something was connected via Bluetooth would have been 8 hours prior on her way home from work.
did you guys find out the cause? it happens to my mom as well. seems like an app might be the problem. but I don't know which one.
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No, I can't figure out why. I've tried with n7player and, same problem.
Could be headphones ? I really don't know but, this phone is really disappointing.
Happened again yesterday, using n7 and headphone but, I've done a call using earphones so, could be a earphone issues that not restore correct audio channel after headphone are unplugged?
In this case, is there a way to reset only audio avoiding a full reboot?
anybody figure this out? super annoying lol..
In my case it happens after I disconnect from Bluetooth hands free
Happens to me every day. I thought it was an app but I doubt it now. I have a n5 and n5x set up identical, non rooted, all stock, same apps.
5X looses audio all the time. Twice a day maybe. Annoying is an understatement.
I've got the same issue. Anyone come across a solution yet?
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I'll keep you guys posted but for some odd reason, I feel it's candy crush that causes the problem. My mom plays it alot and she told me it wasn't working. I did everything (but reboot of course). Then i noticed the only app open was candy crush so I swiped it to close it. and boom.. it started ringing again. idk if it's coincidence but I'll check again if she tells me its not ringing.
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I'll keep you guys posted but for some odd reason, I feel it's candy crush that causes the problem. My mom plays it alot and she told me it wasn't working. I did everything (but reboot of course). Then i noticed the only app open was candy crush so I swiped it to close it. and boom.. it started ringing again. idk if it's coincidence but I'll check again if she tells me its not ringing.
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I don't play games. It happens every time I start a call from my wearable. No other problems but, I can't solve avoiding a reboot.
Someone can tell me please a way to report a bugreport to google? Becouse I can reproduce the bug so, probably I could be useful. But I don't know how to sumbit a complete bug report, with all necessary info.
Has anyone found a fix for the sound cutting out after a few seconds of a video or game? I have tried the soubdabout app, Turing the USB option off, disable Power save.. Still happening..
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I have the same issue sometimes, I've read around the web and it seems to be a mix of software and hardware related, I read a guy suggest removing and putting back the case (in case you have one) and I did that and the sound came back, haven't had the issue again.
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Has anyone found a fix for the sound cutting out after a few seconds of a video or game? I have tried the soubdabout app, Turing the USB option off, disable Power save.. Still happening..
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I have the same issue sometimes, I've read around the web and it seems to be a mix of software and hardware related, I read a guy suggest removing and putting back the case (in case you have one) and I did that and the sound came back, haven't had the issue again.
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Hmm, I keep mine out of a case,.. Yeah I'm not sure what it is, it's a 50/50 between some say software and some say hardware. I would asume that software would of been fixed by now, either Samsung or 3rd party
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So I found a solution for the issue in my case, it does seem to be software but it's really weird cause the issue continues in any firmware, it started when I was on 6.0.1 PI2, then I flashed Nougat and had the same problem (I hated it and battery drain was killing me) I went back to 6.0 and changed to the PK2 version and the issue continued, it was really weird cause it would cut out in audio messages, games but not music, I also tried every single suggestion on every forum and post I could find EXCEPT the Soundabout app, today I gave up, installed soundabout, selected media to speakers and bam, problem solved, I still need further testing, but it seems ok for now, keep in mind that I also have "prevent USB audio routing" on and "Easy Mute" off.
Dakotahorse said:
Hmm, I keep mine out of a case,.. Yeah I'm not sure what it is, it's a 50/50 between some say software and some say hardware. I would asume that software would of been fixed by now, either Samsung or 3rd party
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Im trying the soundabout app now, I orginally had it set to automatic and was still having the issue, now I set it to speaker and so far so good.
as this worked for me but idk about others... I was told to remove all paired bluetooth devices (on/off doesnt matter) then go to settings>connections>more connection settings>nearby device scanning then turn off... worked for me... (sorry for zombifying an old post but as this is still current with mine and many devices i decided to help)
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Hi. I drop my boyfriend phone today and the volume cut it off for a while. It's that because I drop it off? Or because of the headphones that I had it in...because after I took the headphones off its works but after starts and go again? Pleasee helppp....
Andra1997 said:
Hi. I drop my boyfriend phone today and the volume cut it off for a while. It's that because I drop it off? Or because of the headphones that I had it in...because after I took the headphones off its works but after starts and go again? Pleasee helppp....
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Is anything still wrong? Or does the sound work both with and without headphones?
Hi. I dropped my phone and have the same problem now. Did you get any useful help?
So I have an interesting problem. Whenever I use voice button on gboard, (on my 9 pro) intermittently, it won't recognize my voice unless I speak INCREDIBLY loudly. It's incredibly annoying because I'll be speaking a paragraph, and it just stops randomly recording midway through it.
My theory is that it might be a microphone volume problem. I've come to this conclusion because I have an S21 ultra, and it NEVER ever does that. On my Ultra, it picks up my voice smoothly throughout the entire paragraph.
I've tried normal gboard and gboard beta. Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a way to fix?
(I've checked everything. I have background data on, and set the battery to 'not optimize'. I don't have any special battery saving apps that could be causing issues. Usage access and all relevant permissions has been granted for voice dictation).
Working just fine
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Working just fine
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Say two paragraphs, with about a 4 second pause in between. Please make a video and upload here so I can see. Hitting the voice button multiple times is okay.
I tried this and for me it is working with normal pauses. I am not gonna make a video, sorry.
flaxjef said:
I tried this and for me it is working with normal pauses. I am not gonna make a video, sorry.
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I'm sorry I'm having trouble believing you. (I don't mean that in a bad way)
Are you rooted, do you have any audio mods?
I am rooted and have no audio mods.
If you do not believe me that is fine.
Maybe someone else can test it for you.
I never use this function, but today I have tried it specifically for you.
Talked around 3 -4 minutes and it was dictating just fine. When I was finished talking I noticed that the keyboard was still listening for quite some time.
Maybe my voice is a little bit louder, but I did not have to raise my voice.
On OP9, happens to me but when it does it will type out the first word and then it will stop recording. Not sure why it does this
rickysidhu_ said:
On OP9, happens to me but when it does it will type out the first word and then it will stop recording. Not sure why it does this
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This is EXACTLY what I was talking about. It does this to me constantly.
This never happens to me on my S21 ultra.
I'm wondering if there's a way to increase microphone volume for voice dictation.
Does anybody know an ADB command to accomplish this?
Burt Squirtz said:
This is EXACTLY what I was talking about. It does this to me constantly.
This never happens to me on my S21 ultra.
I'm wondering if there's a way to increase microphone volume for voice dictation.
Does anybody know an ADB command to accomplish this?
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Same issue here. It doesn't happen always, but it happens frequently enough to be annoying. Just the first word and then it stops.
Mine does the same thing. Super annoying.
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Mine does the same thing. Super annoying.
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Argh. I Really want to get to the bottom of this. Nothing I've ever tried ever works.
howbeit said:
Same issue here. It doesn't happen always, but it happens frequently enough to be annoying. Just the first word and then it stops.
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Are you using Viper4Android by chance? It's the only audio mod I have installed.
Burt Squirtz said:
Argh. I Really want to get to the bottom of this. Nothing I've ever tried ever works.
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I'm full stock as well. No unlocked bootloader prior or root and still have the same issue,