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2 of my buddies have the X2 (kick ass phone) but they're having problems with Pandora and slacker radio. Does anyone have the apk that works?
Thanks in advance.
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chefdave12118 said:
2 of my buddies have the X2 (kick ass phone) but they're having problems with Pandora and slacker radio. Does anyone have the apk that works?
Thanks in advance.
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What problem they having exactly?
It freezes, skips songs, pauses and just plain stops if they turn their phone on. I work with both guys and both are having the same exact problems. They're both rooted, one has stock rom, the other has a custom rom ( forget the name of the custom rom... eclipse maybe). I know it annoys the **** out of them because they use them for music at work.
I thought this was a DX2 common problem? Guess not.
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It freezes, skips songs, pauses and just plain stops if they turn their phone on. I work with both guys and both are having the same exact problems. They're both rooted, one has stock rom, the other has a custom rom ( forget the name of the custom rom... eclipse maybe). I know it annoys the **** out of them because they use them for music at work.
I thought this was a DX2 common problem? Guess not.
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The common problem about music is it constantly skips and stutters all the time.
have they tried clearing data for the apps? I know doing that helps with problem apps sometimes especially if flashing roms. Did they also try uninstall and reinstalling the app?
I don't use either of those but I have before but never had them just shutoff on me.
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The common problem about music is it constantly skips and stutters all the time.
have they tried clearing data for the apps? I know doing that helps with problem apps sometimes especially if flashing roms. Did they also try uninstall and reinstalling the app?
I don't use either of those but I have before but never had them just shutoff on me.
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Cool Thanks! The next time the two of them are working with me I'll give it a try. I thought it was X2 isolated prob and you guys had an apk for it pre update.
shake it like a Polaroid picture.
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Cool Thanks! The next time the two of them are working with me I'll give it a try. I thought it was X2 isolated prob and you guys had an apk for it pre update.
shake it like a Polaroid picture.
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I know slacker came reinstalled and unable to uninstall but if running eclipse they most likely got slacker from market. If its one of newer eclipse that is. Hope this helps ya co-worker out. Im kinda shooting at the moon but it is a main troubleshooting process I and others use for stubborn apps. I have to do it all the time for market cuzI think google screwed their newest version up. Clearing and uninstall market updates always makes it work for me
I use Pandora a lot and had the same issues with it skipping in the middle of the song, which drove me crazy. I found a fix that has made me happy with Pandora again. But, there's bad news. The "fix" is a hacked version (gives you unlimited skips and removes ads), so I can't exactly link you to it. I don't like that I'm having to use a hacked version, BUT I don't exactly feel bad about it, because I'm just doing what it takes to get the app to do its basic job.
(Regarding Slacker: I don't use it, so I removed it.)
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I use Pandora a lot and had the same issues with it skipping in the middle of the song, which drove me crazy. I found a fix that has made me happy with Pandora again. But, there's bad news. The "fix" is a hacked version (gives you unlimited skips and removes ads), so I can't exactly link you to it. I don't like that I'm having to use a hacked version, BUT I don't exactly feel bad about it, because I'm just doing what it takes to get the app to do its basic job.
(Regarding Slacker: I don't use it, so I removed it.)
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Any chance of a pm. So I can hook my boys up. We work in a hot kitchen and music is what get us through the day.
shake it like a Polaroid picture.
I've been having problems with pandora myself. Once I open it, Pandora will log me in, and then I get the music dialog but nothing will play over 3G (didn't test from WiFi, but then again I don't need it from WiFi). Not a huge deal because I have a 32GB MicroSD, but still annoying so I removed it.
(The install for pandora was clean, did not back it up)
They have that issue ^^^^^^
shake it like a Polaroid picture.
hmmm...thought the music skipping issue was fixed with the GB update for the X2....
anyways...am using Eclipse v7 RC and i have no problems streaming Pandora via 3g or wifi...so since they are rooted, maybe you should try this rom(if nothing else works)...its REALLY smooth...much better than stock...
I bought the HTC One S and it is my first android device.
I am very confused how multitasking actually works and how to close apps. For example I am playing a game then I press the multitasking button to select the webbrowser. Well if I immediately switch back to the game again, it will resume where I left it. But if I wait a little bit longer and then switch back, it will automatically start the app from new. I lose all my progress. This happens so often and I am think this is not multitasking at all.
Also when I swipe to close an in multitasking mode, it just doesn't close the app. For example I am using navigation but then I don't need it anymore. I press the multitasking button, swipe up to close the up. And then I noticed it isn't closed at all but there is no app for it when I enter multitasking mode. I'd have to actually open the app and manually close the app from inside to actually make it quit.
Am I using android wrong or is this just it?
I believe that is the way how android works. When you switch between apps or press the home screen they will minimize and stay in the RAM memory. While in the RAM memory apps will use very litte recourse. This way you can switch between apps quickly because they don't close. Those apps don't need to start up again. If you've got some apps in RAM and you'll launch a app that needs more RAM then there is available, android will close some background apps to make room for a new app.
I hope this is clear to you?
I don't think that is the reason. I got 1gig of RAM and I barely have any apps open and yet it still starts from new after some time.
And why doesn't it close my apps when I swipe up to remove them from the list of multitasking. I am running sense 4.0, ICS 4.0.3
I don't have ics yet on my phone, though I have been reading a lot about its more effective multitasking. But one thing I know for sure: sometimes it depends on how the app you have suspended works, that is how it is written and how it is designed to behave once suspended.
It's not all related to android's multitasking. For example, I have experienced in android 2.3.7 that some games, once suspended, can be recalled even 1 hour later as if no time had last. I don't exactly know how it can work, but that's what I saw.
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Yep, that's correct. That behaviour has to do with the life cycle of an Activity.
Well if this is how it works then I don't see how this can be called a pro for android. Then in my opinion ios has a much better multitasking system.
It instantly resumes where I left off and it instantly closes an app for good.
Not at all. In Ios apps (but for music and some other stuff I don't remember) once suspended aren't running any longer. Their current state is saved somehow, so that people have the illusion it is an actual multitasking, but it is not. That's not because Apple people are stupid (they're obviously as smart as at Google's) but it is a different approach which can't be compared to the one of android.
Among mobile system (but for maemo/meego and maybe webos) androids multitasking is the most similar to the one or your pc but I agree that it could be even better.
Yeah I am experiencing the same thing in my HTC EVO 3D. Here is my experiment.
An iPhone 4, and an HTC EVO 3D. I restarted both phones and opened Asphalt 7 on both. Opened the main menu screen on both phones and closed it with the home button on both iPhone and EVO. Now, opened Chrome on both phones and entered google.com. Searched blabity blabity bla and opened a new tab but didnt do anything. Then, went back to Asphalt 7 on both phones using iPhones multitasking bar (or whatever its called) and EVO 3D's recent apps list with long pressing the home button.
Result: Strangely iPhone wins as it continues where it left off, and sadly my lovely EVO 3D loses, opening the application from the begining.
Hell I tried to fail the iPhone but no, it always continues where I left off. I opened GTA3, opened Chrome, opened Asphalt 7, switched back and forth, everything continued from where I left off.
I searched this but it seems like its HTC's doing. People are having no issues with their non HTC phones about multitasking, but ONE X users are really complaining about this. Here, take a look:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646409
http://www.androidauthority.com/htc-one-x-multitasking-problem-apps-killed-off-86498/
However, if Sense 4 users are having this issue, I really dont know why I'm having this issue with my EVO 3D as its Sense 3.6. Maybe this "aggresive memory management" is also there on Sense 3.6. I bought this phone when it came out a year ago and it was running Sense 3.0 and Android Gingerbread, I cant really be sure but I think it wasn't this aggresive back then.
Does anybody know if this issue can be overcomed by rooting the device? If so which ROMS have a feature like this?
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Yeah I am experiencing the same thing in my HTC EVO 3D. Here is my experiment.
An iPhone 4, and an HTC EVO 3D. I restarted both phones and opened Asphalt 7 on both. Opened the main menu screen on both phones and closed it with the home button on both iPhone and EVO. Now, opened Chrome on both phones and entered google.com. Searched blabity blabity bla and opened a new tab but didnt do anything. Then, went back to Asphalt 7 on both phones using iPhones multitasking bar (or whatever its called) and EVO 3D's recent apps list with long pressing the home button.
Result: Strangely iPhone wins as it continues where it left off, and sadly my lovely EVO 3D loses, opening the application from the begining.
Hell I tried to fail the iPhone but no, it always continues where I left off. I opened GTA3, opened Chrome, opened Asphalt 7, switched back and forth, everything continued from where I left off.
I searched this but it seems like its HTC's doing. People are having no issues with their non HTC phones about multitasking, but ONE X users are really complaining about this. Here, take a look:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646409
http://www.androidauthority.com/htc-one-x-multitasking-problem-apps-killed-off-86498/
However, if Sense 4 users are having this issue, I really dont know why I'm having this issue with my EVO 3D as its Sense 3.6. Maybe this "aggresive memory management" is also there on Sense 3.6. I bought this phone when it came out a year ago and it was running Sense 3.0 and Android Gingerbread, I cant really be sure but I think it wasn't this aggresive back then.
Does anybody know if this issue can be overcomed by rooting the device? If so which ROMS have a feature like this?
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I rooted the phone and downloaded ROM Toolbox from Google Play. Under Performance there is Auto Memory Manager. I never touched any of the settings, just set "Mild" from presets and checked Apply on Boot box. Now the "aggresive memory management" thing is gone and tried Asphalt 7, closed it, opened Chrome, checked mails, surfed about 10-15 minutes, closed chrome, text a friend, then returned to Asphalt long pressing the home button and the game starts from where I left off.
TL,DR: Rooting is a great thing if you are unsatisfied with your device and it fixes the multitasking issue with HTC.
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I don't think that is the reason. I got 1gig of RAM and I barely have any apps open and yet it still starts from new after some time.
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The number (and size) of apps has nothing to do with RAM usage. I could write you a 1KB app that would use every byte of available RAM. It would be pointless, but I could do it
Games in particular will use more RAM than other apps, so will get shut down more often than other apps when not in use.
Fyi I had already fixed multitasking weeks ago and have just managed to fix it on sense 4.0 and 4.1.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900626
Hi guys, new to the EVO side (wife's phone) so I am very unfamiliar with how the EVO 3D runs but I am hoping to get a bit of quick help.
I did the ota update yesterday to a completely stock Rogers EVO 3D and ICS seemed to take just fine and all the features appear to work. The funny part is that whenever you switch between applications, ie; open gmail and than close it to go to the home screen I get the HTC something brilliant screen as if it is rebooting. This happens with anything I try to open or switch between. The screen will flash for a few seconds and return to the home screen.
Anyone else experience this or have any advice? I will read up on unlocking the bootloaders and rooting (I'm use to captivate and galaxy nexus) to be able to get different ROMs on but I was hoping to get a quick answer so the wife doesn't hurt me in my sleep tonight...
Thanks
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Something is causing the sense launcher to crash. I had that issue on GB when I had a different launcher installed, even if I was not using it. Maybe an app is causing it or maybe the memory management of the OS is overly aggressive and removing the sense launcher from memory (so it has to reload).
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Something is causing the sense launcher to crash. I had that issue on GB when I had a different launcher installed, even if I was not using it. Maybe an app is causing it or maybe the memory management of the OS is overly aggressive and removing the sense launcher from memory (so it has to reload).
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Thanks for that. No other launcher installed but I will at least clear data out of the current one or even try a different. Will also double check memory management to be sure it isn't killing anything it shouldn't be.
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try wiping your caches
Its an ics glitch. Nothing you can do that I've heard of.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\=LTE
Definitely sounds like a glitch. Tried all the suggestions but nothing worked. Just added Nova launcher to get around the sense issue. Wife hates ICS though and wants the old ROM back on. Can't win for trying.
Thanks for the tips guys.
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mine also does the same!!!
Had the same problem..
Do a factory reset With erase sd card...before that backup with astro !!
Is it possible to make Android NEVER automatically kills running apps, to have true multitasking like on Maemo and webOS?
I am really sick of it killing apps that I use.
I tried V6 supercharger, but that didn't help... I looked everywhere for an answer, but I never found one.
Surely there is a way to make Android multitask like a proper PC, where it's the user who manages apps?
(And please don't tell me that I should leave it to Android, that it knows better, and etc.)
Now, before you start defending Android:
Ever had your browser refresh the page by itself after switching to it?
Ever lost something you were writing when you switched to another app?
Ever had a video pause because you switched from the player?
That shows that Android does NOT have true multitasking.
Now, I see why Google did that - battery life. However there is a new class of devices, where battery life is not such a problem. Tablets.
And yet they still suffer from same issues.
Now, here's an example: the browser. Very often I'd come back to my browser, only to find that it is reloading the page I was on, wasting traffic, and losing whatever text I typed.
That's stupid, right?
I can even track back to what device did this first - the iPhone.
iPhone 1 had 8 times less RAM than your average high end device, yet they still have a similar problem.
So yeah. Not true multitasking. Even in the app switcher, notice that it never says "running apps", only "recent apps" - because it isn't a true multitasking app switcher, just a history of all recent apps you launched.
Go on, scroll to the very top, launch the oldest app on the list. I'm 99% sure that it has restarted. This would've never happened if Android had TRUE multitasking.
Now, there has to be a way to get that. Desktop Linux does it, so Android probably can too.
If you ever notice that the app restarts, it's the app that is badly implemented. All apps must be able to handle a restart by Android transparently to the user by saving its state. If not, tell the app developer to fix it.
Chrome, Dolphin, Boat, Maxthon, AOSP, ICS Browser+, Opera, Firefox.
That's a list of browsers that have this problem.
Do you really think that they all implemented multitasking wrong?
Again, it's a problem with Android - I don't want apps to save their state so that Android can kill them - I want them to never leave RAM at all.
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Now, here's an example: the browser. Very often I'd come back to my browser, only to find that it is reloading the page I was on, wasting traffic, and losing whatever text I typed.
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Maybe dont answer all ur questions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...lication-is-that-frowned-upon/2034238#2034238
Apps who properly implement onSaveInstanceState() can come back, in case of web browsers is more complex to use it properly, texts or images are simple to imagine how to OS save on "disk" to retrieve later, what about sockets or open files (can be deleted while in background).
Android keep on background until the resources are needed for another task (and maybe a time limit, but dunno for sure), if happen very often w/ u means ur OS r using more resources than what need to keep on background.
Android has true multitasking, but... eh here's a link. Read yourself.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html?m=1
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But is it possible to make it so that apps do not get killed at all, just like in Maemo or a normal PC?
What you showed me is exactly why Android does not have true multitasking: it uses stuff like services to actually have less things running - and I don't want that. I want all apps to truly stay in the background - so a YouTube video would continue playing, just like when I minimize the browser on my PC, and etc.
I understand why that isn't the default behavior on phones, but it could be really useful on a tablet.
I don't want to be at mercy of app developers - since even Google messes up: every time I switch out of Google Talk, I lose what I was typing.
I'd much rather have a limited amount of apps that I can launch at a time, and be able to manage what I want to keep open myself.
What you are asking for is basically to completely change core Android behavior.
Sorry, but its just not possible
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It is possible, because it's been done. There was a guy who did it over on the V6 supercharger thread, but I don't think the how he did it was ever released. Instead it was developed into a "kill apps only when ram is REALLY needed" method, which could run up to 20 apps at a time on some phones apparently
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I get what you are talking about but I'd say is what device your using. My eVo 4g lte's was written screwed up by HTC. Maybe yours is like that too. My rom maker and other devs have done many fixes for it. It has got better but my eVo and eVo 3d still multitask better, and it is true multitasking. It doesn't work like I'm talking about on all devices, but for u to say it's all of Android.......... It's not.
Swyped from my eVo
The mulittasking in Android has some limits which are quite annoying. On my Droid 3 apps that I haven't used will start in the background and waste RAM so there isn't enough RAM to multitask and the device is laggy. I tried rooting and freezing bloatware, but other apps have just filled the void by automatically running in the background. I really wish the user had more control over multitasking. Unless I open an app I don't want it to start in the background, even if there is enough free RAM. But Motorola makes some pretty bad software so this could be the issue.
On my Touchpad with CM9 multitasking is quite a bit better. Not sure if its having 1GB of RAM, improvements in ICS, or just CM but you can actually run several programs at once without them closing, so my browser pages stay loaded.
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Android has true multitasking, but... eh here's a link. Read yourself.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html?m=1
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gagdude said:
What you are asking for is basically to completely change core Android behavior.
Sorry, but its just not possible
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Then how come this was possible on iOS?
My iPad 1 was a multitasking beast with just 2 tweaks - Swap and Backgrounder.
Everything was smooth. And yet I can't get the same on devices with 4 times more RAM?
gagdude said:
What you are asking for is basically to completely change core Android behavior.
Sorry, but its just not possible
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Did it weeks ago. Maximum Overdrive to bypass Maximum hidden app limit.
Just grab the Ultimate Jar PowerTools script or the windows exe version.
http://goo.gl/1JPl8
Also read Post 2 of the thread for a link to the windows.exe
Currently hacking Sense 4+ which seems to be working well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900626
Tried V6 - but apps I bulletproofed still get killed.
So yeah. Looks like the only thing I can do is wait until webOS gets ported to my tablet...
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Tried V6 - but apps I bulletproofed still get killed.
So yeah. Looks like the only thing I can do is wait until webOS gets ported to my tablet...
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Did you patch services.jar with the multitasking mods?
Yes, with "Jelly ISCream Automatic Patcher".
V6 script showed me that I'm 100% supercharged.
well...I didn't experienced these kind of problem before. android indeed has good multitasking stuff. the number of app running on background depend on the ram size. you can't expect to run such heavy app with huge ram consumption on such device with low ram. anyway, you can try to play with minfree stuff. try to minimilize the value
The Note 10.1 can have side by side applications, is this what you kinda mean?
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Yes, with "Jelly ISCream Automatic Patcher".
V6 script showed me that I'm 100% supercharged.
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Well the latest one is actually called Ultimate Jar Power Tools so if you ran that, and enable Maximum Multitasking Mods, then you should be getting better multitasking/app reloads.
The windows exe would do the same thing of course and is up to date.... well until I update it later cause I'm adding the Sense 4 mod.
Any idea about how many apps you can run before vs after?
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Is it just me guys or do you also encounter some random stuttering while playing music in stock music player? It's just a quick stutter but really annoying since it happens randomly.
Im on stock LJ1, and this never happened when Im on ICS
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Is it just me guys or do you also encounter some random stuttering while playing music in stock music player? It's just a quick stutter but really annoying since it happens randomly.
Im on stock LJ1, and this never happened when Im on ICS
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Happens with me to. In stock and PowerAmp.
It started since Jelly Bean
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eggman89 said:
Happens with me to. In stock and PowerAmp.
It started since Jelly Bean
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Try Settings->Audio->Advanced Tweaks->Audio Buffer Size-> Large or Huge.
Haven't noticed any stuttering since I made it large.
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Try Settings->Audio->Advanced Tweaks->Audio Buffer Size-> Large or Huge.
Haven't noticed any stuttering since I made it large.
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Tried. Didn't help
Even tried b changing audio priority to highest.
Specially happens if I'm browsing something and some picture starts loading.
Doesn't happen in my year old iPod.
And I don't think it used to happen in ICS
I had a similar problem which i think i worked out to happen when a message was coming through or a application was updating, leading me to think it was a low RAM problem so maybe this could be whats happening, if alot of things are open in the background. Either that or processor isnt working fast enough. If your rooted and have a custom kernel try changing the profile to maybe a performance one?
But this didn't happen in ICS... jellybean was supposed to speed up our device not to make it crawl... looks like touchwiz is really :thumbdown: :banghead:
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Not a problem something is wrong with your phone .
jje
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Not a problem something is wrong with your phone .
jje
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I'd say probably not - I can confirm I've got this issue too, after upgrading to JB. I can't see why so many with the same problem would mean that all our phones are faulty.
Has anyone got a resolution for this?
Mine does it too.. Its just cause of too low ram or something. Never had this problem on S2. This is just samsungs way of saying "upgrade to the S4"
This phone would be brilliant without all these microlags because of low ram..
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Same for me since the JB upgrade in Poweramp and Play music. I thought it was something to do with my setup but had the sudden death failure on my phone so started with a clean install when it came back. Problem is still there with my new 32GB mboard and I haven't done any restores of apps.
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Same for me since the JB upgrade in Poweramp and Play music. I thought it was something to do with my setup but had the sudden death failure on my phone so started with a clean install when it came back. Problem is still there with my new 32GB mboard and I haven't done any restores of apps.
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It seems like some apps when they give ask CPU ( or RAM ) for something, the focus shifts from the music to that.
Like when weater widget asks polls for weather or something.
Funny how my 6 years old SE Walkman w800i was able to play for hours without a micro shutter.
And this almighty phone can't do a simple task,
It's worse when I try to browse and play music.
eggman89 said:
It seems like some apps when they give ask CPU ( or RAM ) for something, the focus shifts from the music to that.
Like when weater widget asks polls for weather or something.
Funny how my 6 years old SE Walkman w800i was able to play for hours without a micro shutter.
And this almighty phone can't do a simple task,
It's worse when I try to browse and play music.
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I agree. I've noticed it mainly when getting notifications through. It seems to me that it's down to bad RAM management. My Desire had less ram but played music fine with ICS.
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Reply ****ing frustrated with the phone.
Can't even listen to song on PowerAmp while surfing Facebook in the app or browse lightly on Dolphin .
The songs start to shutter at random places.
And if I press home button, Nova launcher reloads.
I'm on stock LLC with stock kernel.. Rooted.
Any solutions?
I tried many things, new roms, new kernels. All megawipes and stuff, nothing works..
Same problem here . It's so annoying. Given the great number of people with the same problem, I don't think it is a phone problem but a JB one!! Please!!! Help!!! I already tried changing the buffering size and even though it did help a little, I still get some stuttering!
Here's what I think I've worked out so far.
The problem has only arisen since JB and was fine in ICS. A change of handset has the same issue with a clean install of JB.
It seems to happen across different music apps but tunein radio is fine so isn't a specific audio app. Could be that it's linked to a particular file format, e.g. mp3?
When it happens in Poweramp I can see the buffering constant, it never fully loads. Increasing the buffer size and priority doesn't help.
Notifications can make it stutter but it seems that the problem is already there beforehand from the buffering.
Clearing RAM doesn't seem to help, however rebooting the phone will improve it for a while.
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I had the same problem.
Deleting the musicplayer widget on the homescreen fixed my problem.
Try deleting it or any other widget you have on your homescreen.
Think I've got a solution in poweramp. After a reboot go to settings/misc/tweaks and select keep service. It hasn't had any skips since I've done that and battery life/performance still seems OK. Early days yet though.
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