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Music Starts Playing By Itself

I've encountered a strange problem lately. Within the last few days, my music apps seems to start playing on their own. This does not seem to be related to putting in or removing headphones, as I have not used any headphones for quite some time. Rather, it seems to happen after I perform certain functions on the phone.
For example, it happens whenever I use Astro to move or delete a file. Immediately after performing the cut or copy, the music starts. It has also happened after I disable bluetooth and/or turn of the screen.
What's strange is that it is not always the same music player which opens. Sometimes its HTCMusic and sometimes its DoubleTwist. As an experiment, I tried freezing HTCMusic with TitaniumBackup and then installing the AOSP music app from CM6. Same result.
I'm using Calukin's ROM, but have been for several weeks without issue so I don't believe that is the cause.
Any ideas as to what might be going on here?

Bump. Really need help figuring this out. Late last night, my Evo was tucked away for bed in its charger. All of the sudden, the music started blaring again. Nobody touched it. In fact, my family was all asleep when it happened and it woke up my kids. Thinking I'm just going to have to start over with a new ROM if there's no answer.
What's odd is that whenever the music starts, I will open the music app to kill it and the app doesn't know it is playing right away. In other words, the play button is displayed, rather than the pause button. To kill the music, I have to hit play, then pause.

I assume you're not running any tasker profile or other program related to running sound based on a condition?
Have you explored the possibility you have a music-loving ghost living in your home?

There is a bug where sometimes a random song off your memory card gets used for a notification sound, you may want to check those out. Last time I did an OTA update it changed my facebook notification to baby got back and the only way I could get it to stop playing was to mute or reset my phone lol

[Q] Phone freezing when trying to play audio

For about a day now my m8 has been having some strange audio issues, and since I haven't found any other discussions surrounding it, I thought I'd drop in here as a last hope.
Essentially, almost any audio that plays from the internal speakers freezes the phone and forces me to soft reset it. Any games/music/videos locks it up, but notification/ringtones play without issue. When I try to play music, the boomsound icon appears in the notification bar, and I can change the volume for about a second before the phone freezes, though no music actually plays.
It seems to have started after I downloaded Sherlock: The Network(which I have since uninstalled), but that may be coincidental. I have a Verizon m8, rooted with S-OFF but stock ROM. I'm backing up things right now in preparation of a factory reset to hopefully resolve the issue, but if anyone has any solutions or suggestions, I'd be more than happy to hear them - can provide more info if needed.
Another edit since I'm now remembering info I was going to originally add: I did an audio test via HTC's Diagnostic Tool - which was hard enough to reach because touch tones would freeze it all up - and could not hear any of the sounds it was apparently making.

Use Titanium to freeze the suspected app, and see if the issue persists.

redpoint73 said:
Use Titanium to freeze the suspected app, and see if the issue persists.
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I should have noted in the OP (in fact, I'll edit it in now) that I uninstalled said app as soon as the issues began. I've also checked through the running processes in hopes of finding some sound driver that wasn't responding, to no avail.

This started happening to me after installing/uninstalling Hungry Shark. Did you end up doing a factory rest? 3-4 resets a day are quite annoying...

davidwnbrgr said:
This started happening to me after installing/uninstalling Hungry Shark. Did you end up doing a factory rest? 3-4 resets a day are quite annoying...
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Yup, in the end I had to do a factory reset and didn't reinstall the app (though I'm not sure that was entirely the source of the issue). I've had no problems with the audio since, but I know how aggravating it is to deal with.

[Q] A Couple VERY Weird Glitches Occuring (Need help!)

Hey all,
So I'm posting this thread regarding a couple pretty weird glitches and bugs occurring on my G3, 3 specific ones.
The first: (Probably the least serious but still REALLY annoying) At EXACTLY 12:00AM every night no matter what timezone I set the phone to (I'm in AU on the AEST GMT+10 timezone but it does this at the same time on any timezone) the phone will switch it's WiFi off automatically without warning, reason or explanation. It just goes off and then I have to manually turn it back on. Sure I could use an app such as Tasker or AutomateIt to turn it back on but I don't see why this is occurring in the first place?
The second issue (Most recent): Lately after updating to the V20E firmware for my D855 I've noticed that a graphical glitch (Specifically related to the colour Blue) occurs when there are fast moving elements on my phone's screen (Such as when I move a chat head around on my phone from Messenger, or when I'm scrolling Facebook or my App Drawer fast, there's just a blue box around whatever object/s appear to be moving on my phone's screen. I've not dropped the phone at all, and it has only been present since updating from the V20D ROM. Not sure what could be causing it.
The third and by far the MOST ANNOYING of the issues I'm having, is that for no apparent reason, whenever I am listening to Music with the stock Music player, and I lock the screen (The screen goes off) about 5 seconds later weird stuff starts to happen..
The song will pause, play or even stop completely, seemingly on its own. The "phone" will change songs, artists and sometimes complete albums and playlists completely by itself, with me doing nothing but staring at the lock screen (It keeps doing it until I re-enter the Music app, then when I lock the phone the whole cycle just repeats itself.)
I've done some looking around and careful observations on the phone itself, and it seems that before the weird stuff starts happening to my music, the phone opens Voice Mate by itself, and then if I'm not present, it apparently closes it and then that's when the stuff happens. I've tried everything I can on a non-rooted phone to stop this. I've tried re-installing the Music app, Uninstalling all updates to the Voice Mate and it's packages to the factory version, force-stopping Voice Mate, everything and no matter what I do the phone still opens Voice Mate and the weird stuff starts happening (It's like it's taking commands from Voice Mate to do something but I'm not even doing anything ) It's been doing this since I got my phone when it came with Android KitKat 4.4 (I was on the D10M ROM until I moved to the D20D Android L ROM) and I moved ROMs doing a completely fresh start ( I factory wiped the phone and then upgraded via a CSE flash and put all my stuff back on it manually) and I would've thought a completely fresh start would have fixed it but apparently not... Either it's a bug that's been present for a while, or it's something deeper than the ROM.
So yeah some pretty weird issues, if someone knows what could be causing them, please let me know, especially if you know a way to solve them.
Cheers guys.

I'm having a very similar problem with regards to #1 but it's doing it with Bluetooth for me!
At midnight on the dot, it will disconnect my connected Bluetooth devices. It doesn't shut Bluetooth off, it just drops the connection. I posted about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/bluetooth-disconnects-midnight-t2973187

Your phone sound possessed! Call 1-800-Exorcism now.
You right, weird/unusual.

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:

sound-feedback lag still present in replacement Note 7 (see videos)

I'm sad to discover that after working fine for the first 60 hours, my post-recall Note 7 is showing the same sound-feedback lag as my original Note 7 did.
Every few hours, my phone goes into a mode where there's a one or two second lag before the sound and vibration feedback for typing and for icon or button tapping. Even the (stock) phone-dialer keypad has a one or two second lag before it plays a tone when a key is tapped. However, visual responses (e.g. when typing) remain instantaneous--it's just the sound and vibration that lag.
After it goes into lag mode, the phone stays that way until it's rebooted. Then it's ok until the lag resumes in another few hours. I haven't identified any specific triggers. Here's a video that demonstrates the lag: https://vid.me/8eQX. This video, in contrast, shows the phone when it's working properly, with no lag: https://vid.me/5v9T.
The phone is completely stock (AT&T N930AUCS2APHE), no esoteric apps or settings, no package disabler, no third-party antivirus.
When the phone is in lag mode, the lag occurs in all apps, for multiple launchers (Google Now, Touchwiz), multiple keyboards (Samsung, Google), for all icon/button-taps as well as typing. The lag continues despite clearing the keyboard/launcher caches, closing all open apps, clearing the clipboard, using Device Maintenance|Optimize (which reports no problems), or engaging Airplane Mode or Power Saving. The lag also persists despite enabling Developer Options, turning off Window Animations, and forcing GPU rendering.
I booted into recovery and reset the system cache, but the lag still resumed a few hours later. I haven't tried a factory reset, but other users with the same problem have reported that factory reset does not fix it.
When the phone is in lag mode, if I turn off keyboard sounds but leave keyboard vibrations enabled, the keyboard vibrations no longer lag (until I re-enable the keyboard sounds). But with keyboard sounds and vibrations both enabled, the sounds and vibrations both lag.
When the phone is in lag mode, if I start using BT earphones, the lag stops (or rather is replaced by a uniform ~100ms lag, which is less annoying). When I disconnect my BT earphones and go back to speaker sound, the sound and vibration lag both resume. Wired earphones, unlike BT earphones, do not affect the lag at all.
When the phone is not in lag mode, the sound-feedback is instantaneous no matter how heavily the phone is being used, no matter how many apps I have open. When the phone is in lag mode, it lags even with all apps closed (but the vibration-feedback lag can be temporarily stopped by turning off the sound-feedback); the lag is not accompanied by any unusual heat or battery drain. So the lag is not caused by the phone being overloaded (and certainly not by bloatware, which imposes a negligible load). Rather, it's clearly a software bug, such as a memory leak in the sound-feedback drivers.

Another clue: when the phone is in lag mode (as described above), the volume buttons bring up the media slider instead of the ringtone slider, even though no media app is running. This incorrect slider comes up whenever, and only when, the phone is in lag mode, so presumably the media-slider mode and the feedback-lag mode have the same cause.
With the phone in media/lag mode, I've tried force-closing every app (including system apps) that seemed like it might grab a media resource, but the phone remained in media/lag mode.
Is there some direct way to monitor what app may have grabbed a media resource to put the phone in this mode? The media/lag mode starts at seemingly random times, with no obvious correlation with any app that I'm running (or have recently run) .

Have the same problem. And then have notification sounds that play over and over and over and over and over... only to be stopped "most of the time" by hitting the power button. Quite annoying.

that's terrible i hope it gets well soon
hugs and kisses

i killed tupac said:
these phones are crap. I can't think of a product that disappointed me as badly as this, at least in recent times.
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Please respect the purpose of this thread, which is to share useful technical information about a specific technical problem.

I think I've found a workaround. The lag-mode problem appears to have been caused by turning on the "Records audio through Bluetooth headset if available" setting in Google Now. ...
UPDATE: I was wrong. The problem occurs even with that setting turned off (it just took 20 hours for the problem to start again).
So I really have no clue what might be causing the serious lag.