Here's an interesting problem for everyone to ponder:
My original setup was a stock rom with ryan's lag fix applied. My music played back just fine (WMA and MP3). Since I didn't backup my verizon apps correctly, I recently wiped everything and started over from scratch so I could get the latest update from Verizon. I gained root access again, and now, when I play music through any media player (stock app, winamp, mixZing, pandora, etc), there are noticeable skips in the audio every 15-20 seconds. I realize that pandora may be buffering, but there's no excuse for the others that are reading files from a class 6 microSD card.
Is this happening because I don't have a lagfix applied anymore? If that's the case, then it's incredible disappointing that a phone this powerful needs a hack to make music play back correctly. I don't want to install another lag fix, because, aside from the music, nothing seems to be noticeably slower on the device.
Any ideas?
I'd be interested to hear what solves this, as ever since I upgraded to DJ05 I have had the same audio skips, even on local content.
lowkee said:
I'd be interested to hear what solves this, as ever since I upgraded to DJ05 I have had the same audio skips, even on local content.
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+1 on audio pops
I had audio problems on a lot of the kernels I've tried with this phone, but the jt stable voodoo 5 kernel doesn't have them. I did have them on his 11/25 version, and on still the greeknic versions I've tried.
It's definitely kernel related. I had that problem on geeknik's and jt 11/16. I'm on jt 11/11 now and I'm fine.
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Someone on another forum had this narrowed down to the battery status polling, I think. Can't find the reference now...
Got stock kernal on my phone. No skips. I am rooted. Used to have skips on my last fascinate which I got replaced for the audio skipping problem.
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Voodoo kernels don't seem to have the problem on the non voodoo try bumping min cpu to 200
take off your widgets to make sure it's not something simple. Battery widgets can do this
I did just install a new battery guage widget right around when the pops started... if that's the issue, i'm thanking you in advance. This has been quite annoying. I'll go kill the app for kicks here.
Brilliant!! The battery widget did the trick! For reference, I had the guage battery widget installed. Looked great, but caused the skips. Been listening to VBR MP3 now for 20 min and skips.
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sorry, i meant to say 20 min and no skips
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battery widget
Dittos on the battery widget issue. I was using Circle Battery, killed it and the skipping/popping stopped.
Interesting to know this is the cause of the issue but it's odd that it would cause that to begin with..poorly coded something I suppose.
If anyone's interested, I switched to "Battery Widget" by geekyouup, and it doesn't seem to be causing the pops and skips. Working fine so far.
No battery widgets here. I'm running a fresh StupidFast DJ05 and I'm getting static/popping in doubletwist. Anybody else?
I'm having this problem too, and I'm not running a battery widget. I've only noticed it since I started installing themes. So maybe it's a theme issue? I'm not entirely sure. Also the popping and crackling seem to occur more often when I'm actually doing input and output operations like clicking on apps and whatnot, than when my device is asleep.
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spyd3r05 said:
Voodoo kernels don't seem to have the problem on the non voodoo try bumping min cpu to 200
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This actually seems to work. Weird fix, I must say.
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This is pretty pitiful. This is only Android phone I've had audio skip/pop issues on. It only happens when I'm running SysTray Monitor as my battery% display and my screen is on. If I have my screen off while using SysTray Monitor, it doesn't skip, and if I have SysTray Monitor off, I get no skips.
As soon as I turn my screen on with SysTray Monitor on, it starts skipping. I'm on DJ05
Didn't happen on my Epic, Moment, or Hero.
I definitely would not have marked this as "solved", because this is not a resolution.
it solved my problem, but i'll go ahead and change the title...
Widget size matters too for whatever reason. For me the 2*1 gauge widget did it but the 1*1 didn't
When using the stock player or Poweramp, shortly after sleep, the music stops. Neither of these apps are on my Auto-end list. Could it be something I froze using Titanium? I looked through my frozen list and don't see anything that related to music running in the background. Anyone else experience this and found a fix?
Thanks!!
I actually searched around more on another forum and found a fix. I had the Gallery in the auto-end. Not sure why that stopped playback while in sleep, but just played a few songs uninterrupted.
J-man67 said:
I actually searched around more on another forum and found a fix. I had the Gallery in the auto-end. Not sure why that stopped playback while in sleep, but just played a few songs uninterrupted.
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After much research I can assure you that autoend of any sort is very bad and a complete waste of time. Android "figures it out" without needing any help from a third party app.
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Had the same problem. For whatever reason it is the gallery app causing it in most cases.
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this was driving me nuts also and indeed it is the gallery app. This may have something due to album art
Anyone know if there is a way to stream music through stock browser so that it doesn't stop once the screen turns off? Leaving the screen on with lowest brightness setting still drains battery way to fast.
Please tell us what ROM or se firmware you are using along with baseband and if phone is rooted. That way someone else or me can help you better.
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I'm using wolf's GB rom version 3.6 bb 71, I'm wondering if a script can be made so that it doesn't shut of music when screen times out.
xperia_x10 said:
I'm using wolf's GB rom version 3.6 bb 71, I'm wondering if a script can be made so that it doesn't shut of music when screen times out.
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You can either try seeing the screen timeout section has a never time out option or go under settings-applications-development-then hit the stay awake option.
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thanx for giving me those suggestions but they don't solve my problem. I don't need the screen to stay on , i need the streaming music to keep playing when the screen times out, like it would happen when you listen to music on the music app. For some reason if you listen to something with an app you can still listen to it when the screen times out , but if its through the browser it stops playing when the screen times out.
i have the Infected rom on my htc thunderbolt and i love everything about it, the only problem is that my music skips when i lock my phone, as long as my phones screen is on my music plays fine but if i lock it, it will skip again. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS???
thanks
I've read that raising the CPU speed low setting to 384 fixes that. IIRC.
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The Android Media service comes on when the phone does, and continues to run non-stop with the cpu at 24-26% until i force stop it. Anyone know a way to disable it with no detrimental side effects or keep it from running unless it needs to? I don't use the stock media player, I use PlayerPro in case that matters.
I have a similar issue. I'd like a fix.
only certain apps make this happen, see if you still have a media app running our if they have services still going... I know vplayer is bad for this kind of stuff so.os the stock music sometimes but never upon wake-up...
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