I am very interested in this device but was upset at the small amount of usable memory. I store music and podcasts on my phone which can take up 4-8 gigs of space. I also would like to have a few games to play. So my question to you is, now that you've had the DNA for a few days, how is your memory holding up?
Memory is great I have 12 albums by H.I.M., 11 albums by Rammstein, 9 albums by Suicide Silence , 7 Albums by Volbeat ... Various apps .. a bunch of pictures, and I've got well over 8 gb left , not to mention drop box , and Google drive
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I've used about 2.6GB. Most of my content is cloud-based. #unlimitedswagga
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Amaze music player will not play full mp3?
OK all; I’ve had this issue with both of my phones (one went swimming). It didn’t bother me so much before as I had not yet did the full merge for phone only use of music. NOW that I am using my cell as mp3 player like I should, this bugs the **** out of me!!! ***ANY help or knowledge on this matter will save me from doing another destructive test! *****
What happens is when I play any mp3 file that is longer than a normal or standard track it switches to the next track without finishing the current one. Such as a 1.5 hr continuous mix, around ten minutes in it switches to the next mp3 file (whether it’s a downloaded noise for ring tone, or the beginning of another track). Sucks with earbuds in on a quiet track and then BAM-a loud track –or vice versa –totally makes me wanna throw this $500 cell!!
I have tried using the google player, the other music player, switching from cell hard drive to removable card—does not make any difference. It will play single normal tracks of course but they are not as long and does not have the time to skip ahead.
One of the main reasons I am using the phone is for the ability to skip through long tracks/mixes. I don’t know if it is an amaze issue, android issue, sd card format issue, music placement on card issue or what. I have tried many things and am willing to do whatever it takes if someone knows a fix. A diff music program/root? I have a stock cell now.
It will happen when I am using headphones or plugged into car audio .
I sure hope someone has come across this ! Thanks in advance for any response!
Anyone? I mean, have any of you tried to play an eBook mp3? Maybe a school lecture? A long DJ mix? ----and have it play all the way through? Like past 10 minutes?
Maybe you have shake to shuffle enabled.. otherwise my long EDC mixes play just fine I think
Just for you I played a 1hr+ MP3 on a 32Gb class 10 card,
27 mins in, playing fine. Try copying your tracks to your internal memory or re-converting them from CD?
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Maybe you have shake to shuffle enabled.. otherwise my long EDC mixes play just fine I think
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Thank you sooooooo much for a reply! And EDC type muze is exactly what I am talking about! I tried it again w/ a long mix and at 10 min 26 sec every time BAM-skips to nxt track or sound. I have headphones plugged in and cell is still on desk (no movement) so no shaky. Where do you have your files? on an sd card or phone memory? Are they listed in folders? Any details will help !!!! If yours is working then mine should!!! aaaaaaarrrgh!
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Just for you I played a 1hr+ MP3 on a 32Gb class 10 card,
27 mins in, playing fine. Try copying your tracks to your internal memory or re-converting them from CD?
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THANKS FOR TESTING FOR ME!!! yeah mine again --10min 27 sec switches? I too have a 32gb card. i have played them on the cell mem and sd card with same response. The tracks that i am referring to are actually not on a disc but only a file so cannot re-convert. They play as they shld everywhere but on cell. I dont know if there is a time out feature/limit? But i have not found one. I have taken them out of folders and put just on the drive main page to see if there is a change ( at s/o request) but there is no diff. Where do you store you mp3 files and how if I may ask? THANKS AGAIN for your time!!!!! This is so frustrating to me for an otherwise very pleasant phone!
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Anyone? I mean, have any of you tried to play an eBook mp3? Maybe a school lecture? A long DJ mix? ----and have it play all the way through? Like past 10 minutes?
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THANKS FOR TESTING FOR ME!!! yeah mine again --10min 27 sec switches? I too have a 32gb card. i have played them on the cell mem and sd card with same response. The tracks that i am referring to are actually not on a disc but only a file so cannot re-convert. They play as they shld everywhere but on cell. I dont know if there is a time out feature/limit? But i have not found one. I have taken them out of folders and put just on the drive main page to see if there is a change ( at s/o request) but there is no diff. Where do you store you mp3 files and how if I may ask? THANKS AGAIN for your time!!!!! This is so frustrating to me for an otherwise very pleasant phone!
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My files are on my SD, and I'm using the MIUI music app (awesome app)
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My files are on my SD, and I'm using the MIUI music app (awesome app)
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THANKS! I shall DL that app right now. One more question...where are your music files located on your SD card? Are they in a folder? If so what do you have it labeled as? (dont know if that makes any difference). Or are the mp3 files just "ON" the cards "main menu" screen that comes up when you access the SD card, and not in a folder? Thanks again for your time and response!
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THANKS! I shall DL that app right now. One more question...where are your music files located on your SD card? Are they in a folder? If so what do you have it labeled as? (dont know if that makes any difference). Or are the mp3 files just "ON" the cards "main menu" screen that comes up when you access the SD card, and not in a folder? Thanks again for your time and response!
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Yeah, created a file on root of the SD called "Music"
GL, hope it works
Ohhhhhhhhh laaaaaaaaaawd
OHHHHHHHHH MY LAAAAAAAAAAWD HAVE MERCY ON ME !!! I couldn't, nay.......shouldn't just simply bow out of my thread with my tail b/t my legs--without an explanation. It was some sort of corrupted mp3 files! 3 of them. All from the same source. They played fine everywhere but the Amaze. I played others that were from a diff source and they will play through no problem. So I went back to the files and monitored as well as listen closely and there is a slight hiccup at the 10:26 time, which in effect would trigger something in the Amaze with 3 diff music players, to skip forward. But does not affect playing on a PC or CD.
It was fueled by the emotion I had towards these mixes and I HAD to have them and hear them!! I should have tried others more effectively.
Thank you two for your help, even though it was me at fault on this end.
On a positive note this has inspired me to go ahead and root my Amaze. This will be my first root. There are some awesome ROMS out there, now...I just have to pick one.
Thanks again for your time and response's, all is well with the Amaze.
Coming from iPhone, i was used to play music without any noticeable battery drain for long time. I mean, while on aiplane mode, phone used about 10% of battery to play music for 6-7 hours (during long flights). Now I play music with Google Play Music using my regular IEM phones (Xears Maestro MH700PRO) on HOX+ and it takes about 2-3% for 30 minutes of music, tested on my trip from home to work. And it seems to me bit too much.
I checked battery stats and found out that most juice is used by Mediaserver app. From searching around I found out that this process is handling playing media, but also scanning storage for media files. And it sometimes gets stuck in infinite loop from some messed files. So I used some NoMedia app to create .nomedia files in every folder of my virtual SD card to avoid Mediaserver scanning, since Google Play Music uses system Data folder to store its cached files. And it also has .nomedia files in its folders.
Problem is, that nothing changed, Mediaserver process is still on the top of power usage while playing music and phone still uses too much power to play simple MP3 music. Any ideas how to solve this?
More digging brought more info - used simple CPU Spy app to monitor which states are used while playing music in period of 30 minutes. And result is interesting - most used state is 760MHz with 21:33 and second is 640 MHz with 9:55. Unfortunately app doesn't show how many cores were active during that time, but even assuming it was only one, its still bit too much for playing simple MP3. Or is it normal with Android devices?
Try Media ReScan Root - if you are rooted It should stop scan your mediafiles without having to create .nomedia files...
Pls report back, I too have the feeling that this task uses a bit too much... not a problem, but could be better...
Have root, Media Scan Root (app has different name after install than on play store) installed and active, CPUstate reset and running music test again. Its quite annoying to see how much power phone uses to play music, simple MP3 player costing few bucks have like 1000% better power usage than phone in this price range. Wonder if there is some specialized player, maybe requiring root rights, but able to significantly lower CPU speed to save battery...
EDIT results are same, most used states are 760 and 640 MHz, most battery drain goes to Mediaserver with 45%, 20% goes to Google Play Music. 30 minutes took 3% of charge.
Wlk said:
Its quite annoying to see how much power phone uses to play music, simple MP3 player costing few bucks have like 1000% better power usage than phone in this price range.
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It's the same as running a V8 while not driving, you will use more gas than with a v4 doing the same
Hmm, nice theory, but when apple can do it with their hw, android should too...
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Hmm, nice theory, but when apple can do it with their hw, android should too...
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I wouldn't say that, i say you have installed a power hungry app!!! I just used the stock Music player at the gym for 2hrs straight and guess what? I walked into the gym with 73% battery and walked out of the gym with 73% battery, did not use a stitch of battery. Coming from an iphone 4 and always using it for the gym (which i still do cus this stupid phone doesn't offer wired headset controls yet!!!) i'd say this device gets just as good if not slightly better battery while ONLY listening to music. Now if you are using third party apps, streaming music, blah blah blah, well duh you're going to use up battery. Common sense there. If solely only using the Stock Music Player to listen to music SAVED on your phone, you will not see much of any battery consumption. Actually very impressed myself!
This was also before i rooted and was using the stock rom/device. Now i'm rooted and running a custom rom, battery is even better across the board!!!
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Hmm, nice theory, but when apple can do it with their hw, android should too...
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For starters your comparing a 1.5ghz dual core iphone 5 with a 1.7ghz quad core, secondly 3% for listening to half an hours music is good. What planet are you from? Either buy an ipod or a less powerfull phone. You chose to buy the most powerfull phone on the market. No one made you, now you have to live with the limitations that brings
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I wanted to start a discussion here where developers can possibly provide insight into this known issue on some devices and Android versions. There is a google product discussion over here https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/mobile/8IapTtKsUsI/393hsmGnbh4J
Basically the music app downloads pinned tracks extremely slow despite fast internet connections. It can take more than an hour to download a 10 track album. I've noticed this when streaming music too, the buffer does not load quickly at all, barely keeping ahead of the playback. I'm running a custom 4.2.2 ROM on an evo 3d and I know that on an ICS ROM in the past I did not have this problem. From the linked discussion above it seems everyone is running JB who has this issue. I've contacted Google support but they have no idea what's going on and suggesting I don't understand how to pin music.
My current theory is it has something to do with the encryption of the music that the google music app does in order for your All Access music to not be transferrable off the device. Possibly with the new way JB organizes SD cards, this has created a rate limiting issue considering the app was originally programmed for ICS when it was birthed.
I can provide logcat if anyone is interested.
I just started my All Access trial and am shocked at how pokey downloads are compared to Spotify. I'm trying to pin perhaps 40 songs from three albums and after a half hour it's only 25 percent done! What are they saving, WAVs?
Seems like certain files (unfortunately seems to be all newer music) download slow whereas other files go fast. Slow songs are all mp3 but all show encoded_library/string=LAME3.98
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same here
stock JB 4.2.2 on galaxy nexus
uploaded from pc 2.000+ songs in less than 1h from ofgice lan but pinning playlist thru wifi at home is painless
thegios said:
same here
stock JB 4.2.2 on galaxy nexus
uploaded from pc 2.000+ songs in less than 1h from ofgice lan but pinning playlist thru wifi at home is painless
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My uploaded music downloads fast. I am only having trouble with newer play store music that shows a specific encoding. Can you check the encoding on your uploaded music with mediainfo?
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My uploaded music downloads fast. I am only having trouble with newer play store music that shows a specific encoding. Can you check the encoding on your uploaded music with mediainfo?
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I am seeing the same thing. I'm not sure where I can see the encoding of my music.
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I am seeing the same thing. I'm not sure where I can see the encoding of my music.
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download Mediainfo. Anyone you don't need to it is a confirmed issue with certain encoded Mp3s if you check the google discussion linked in the OP. Just hope google cares to fix it soon.
dankerton said:
download Mediainfo. Anyone you don't need to it is a confirmed issue with certain encoded Mp3s if you check the google discussion linked in the OP. Just hope google cares to fix it soon.
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yes it could be... but... dont care anymore... stopped using play music cloud after one day... will go back to local mp3 and will subscribe to spotify for the rest
With further investigation, I'm seeing two absolute deal-breaker problems with Play Music All-Access which are inclining me to ditch it:
1. The download speeds are catastrophically slow. When I first set up All Access last week, I added a few albums (about 40 songs) and tacked them to my device. I go to leave about 40 minutes later and was stunned to see it was only a third of the way done downloading. Huh? Spotify downloads like a rocket on my 25 Mbps connection. Later I tried simultaneously downloading the new Daft Punk album on my girlfriend's pokey DSL on Play and Spotify - it finished in about 8 minutes on Spotify, 35 mins on Play.
What prompted me to search for the problem was being back at home and it taking a full hour to download Wings Over America. After it finished on Play, I downloaded it from Spotify and it took TWO MINUTES! 30 times faster! 28 tracks shouldn't require an hour's advance notice. Does Google think its customers won't be in the mood to listen to something on the go? Streaming, you say? I had a song freeze, restart, and refreeze at the same point several times while streaming in a major suburban area with good coverage. Yeah, that doesn't work.
2. My phone was fully charged when I unplugged it to use as an alarm while I napped while Wings was downloading. I wake up and it's down to 90%! Huh? I use GSam Battery Monitor to look for the power sucks and the top culprit is System (*wakelock*) responsible for 19% of overall use with AudioOut_2 holding it awake for 1h 32m, almost the whole time it's been unplugged! Nothing was playing; it was just downloading. Play Music was #2 with 16% used, but no ridiculous wakelocks.
It doesn't matter if All Access is a couple bucks cheaper and has more music than Spotify if it's unusably slow to download and a battery killer.
Nexus 4, rooted, faux123 kernel
It appears that the app update for May 30, 2013 has resolved the problem. After updating, I downloaded a pair of albums - one new and one from 2000 to rule out encoding questions - and they both were down in less than 5 minutes. That's more like it.:good:
I accquired a 128 GB SD card a while back after losing my iPod. This was put into my phone hoping it could be a worthy replacement and also more practical that I would only need one device to carry around all the time. My problem however is that most music apps if not all are really slow to browse and they also trigger the "Do you want to close the application" dialogue when they are launched. They eventually respond, but having to wait for that each time is really cumbersome.
Is there anything I can do to get a faster experience with music players in general? I mostly use shuttle+, but other players are really slow to use aswell. I do have a big library of about 100 gigs and about 15k songs, so maybe that plays a part.
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I accquired a 128 GB SD card a while back after losing my iPod. This was put into my phone hoping it could be a worthy replacement and also more practical that I would only need one device to carry around all the time. My problem however is that most music apps if not all are really slow to browse and they also trigger the "Do you want to close the application" dialogue when they are launched. They eventually respond, but having to wait for that each time is really cumbersome.
Is there anything I can do to get a faster experience with music players in general? I mostly use shuttle+, but other players are really slow to use aswell. I do have a big library of about 100 gigs and about 15k songs, so maybe that plays a part.
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vonVaffel said:
I accquired a 128 GB SD card a while back after losing my iPod. This was put into my phone hoping it could be a worthy replacement and also more practical that I would only need one device to carry around all the time. My problem however is that most music apps if not all are really slow to browse and they also trigger the "Do you want to close the application" dialogue when they are launched. They eventually respond, but having to wait for that each time is really cumbersome.
Is there anything I can do to get a faster experience with music players in general? I mostly use shuttle+, but other players are really slow to use aswell. I do have a big library of about 100 gigs and about 15k songs, so maybe that plays a part.
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Even your laptop will have delay to load 100GB of data! and maybe freeze if load them immediately.\
anyway If you think there is unusual delay in media play app first check the sd-card format
(format it to FAT32)
and also tell about sd-card detail? brand? is it C10/U1?
> for stock music play (Walkman)
- clear cache/data and force stop then install the latest update (you can find simply by a search)
- If it doesn't help try to repair firmware of phone by PC companion
> for 3rd party music player
- just contact its developer (tell them about amount of data + details of sd-card and phone)
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Geeks Empire said:
Even your laptop will have delay to load 100GB of data! and maybe freeze if load them immediately.\
anyway If you think there is unusual delay in media play app first check the sd-card format
(format it to FAT32)
and also tell about sd-card detail? brand? is it C10/U1?
> for stock music play (Walkman)
- clear cache/data and force stop then install the latest update (you can find simply by a search)
- If it doesn't help try to repair firmware of phone by PC companion
> for 3rd party music player
- just contact its developer (tell them about amount of data + details of sd-card and phone)
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It's formatted to exFAT, isn't that supposed to be suitable? It's a 128GB sandisk C10 card. Regarding the amount of data, it doesn't play slowly on any computer. I can easily make a library of the songs in itunes and play songs with album art etc without any issues. The walkman application, while good, doesn't have thumb scrolling meaning that it will take ages to go through several thousand artists. Shuttle+ has this along with many other players. Clearing cache etc. doesn't fix it, neither does a soft/hard reset of the phone.
Seeing similar problems the Pixel 3 had with only 4gb. XP1 camera is closing out any background music after taking the pic, which is dumb.
I don't use my phone all day like most & when I do it's for YouTube , Spotify, Gmail, simple stuff. Why am I averaging usages of 4.3 / 6.0 gb of RAM ? Seems very poor, especially for how I use the phone AND for the fact that it's simply vanilla Android with very little extra added features
What's your opinions?
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Seeing similar problems the Pixel 3 had with only 4gb. XP1 camera is closing out any background music after taking the pic, which is dumb.
I don't use my phone all day like most & when I do it's for YouTube , Spotify, Gmail, simple stuff. Why am I averaging usages of 4.3 / 6.0 gb of RAM ? Seems very poor, especially for how I use the phone AND for the fact that it's simply vanilla Android with very little extra added features
What's your opinions?
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4.3 is fine, I'm getting 4gb with Similar usage. System and Google will take up 3gb+.
Music stopping when taking a pic is strange, any apps taking up more ram than they should?
davey_wavey said:
Seeing similar problems the Pixel 3 had with only 4gb. XP1 camera is closing out any background music after taking the pic, which is dumb.
I don't use my phone all day like most & when I do it's for YouTube , Spotify, Gmail, simple stuff. Why am I averaging usages of 4.3 / 6.0 gb of RAM ? Seems very poor, especially for how I use the phone AND for the fact that it's simply vanilla Android with very little extra added features
What's your opinions?
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The music stopping is not a RAM problem, but something else. I've had this happen as well on the XZ3. It's annoying, but a bit better on the Xperia 1, since it just pauses the music instead of closing the app.
As for your usage, depends on what apps you have installed. I played a game of pubg, switched over to facebook, messenger, chrome; and about an hour later reopened pubg. It was still minimized.
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4.3 is fine, I'm getting 4gb with Similar usage. System and Google will take up 3gb+.
Music stopping when taking a pic is strange, any apps taking up more ram than they should?
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I figured something out. Not very practical, but def did a lot to open up RAM. Under Home settings I disabled the Google search bar located in the dock. By doing that , it freed up 275mb out of 315 that Google was taking up. RAM usage is now hovering around 2.4 gb over 3 hours. Interesting
Go to settings -> system -> advanced -> programmer's options -> in Applications section check limit of the processes in background. Make sure it is standard and not limited to 1-4.
friends you can turn off the camera sound in camera settings，then the videos and music will not paused