Hello.
I have an international galaxy S2 (GT-i9100) with CM 11 Snapshot M4 installed. Everything works perfectly beside PowerAmp music player. From time to time (daily, some days it happens like 4 times) PowerAmp just freezez, refuses to play anymore song, although it's menu keeps working. For example if I listen to a song, it just pause and freezez the song there. Nothing works to make poweramp recover, only a full phone restart.
Sometimes if I force close the application and restart it several times it will work again, but it will keep the phone awake and drain battery while in idle when not even listening to music (15% per hour). The battery drain caused by PowerAmp gets fixed after phone restart.
I have the latest version of PowerAmp, and my music is on a external SD card (samsung 32GB class 10). Any idea what could the problem be?
Same problem here
Hi there
I have the same problem except that I don't use PowerAmp. I have CM 11 too. My battery is draining at an alarming rate when it's in idle. More 75% of the battery gets drained in 6 hours (when I sleep) when the phone is in idle state. The battery looks pretty normal. There is no bulge. I have been using the phone for over 2 years and am facing this problem since last 4 months. I changed to CM 11 from stock JB because I was facing this problem even before I installed CM11. Does anyone have any answer to this problem? Is it because of the battery??
costin96 said:
Hello.
I have an international galaxy S2 (GT-i9100) with CM 11 Snapshot M4 installed. Everything works perfectly beside PowerAmp music player. From time to time (daily, some days it happens like 4 times) PowerAmp just freezez, refuses to play anymore song, although it's menu keeps working. For example if I listen to a song, it just pause and freezez the song there. Nothing works to make poweramp recover, only a full phone restart.
Sometimes if I force close the application and restart it several times it will work again, but it will keep the phone awake and drain battery while in idle when not even listening to music (15% per hour). The battery drain caused by PowerAmp gets fixed after phone restart.
I have the latest version of PowerAmp, and my music is on a external SD card (samsung 32GB class 10). Any idea what could the problem be?
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I had the same issue on slimkat, i disabled the direct volume control option in audio settings and installed volume + instead, been trouble free since (fingers crossed)
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i got the ace last week its been amazing til now, it is on 2.3.3 in the box, and i rooted it and added custom recovery for future use,
when i am listning to music (just got a 16gb class 10 card) it plays absolutely fine,
but once the device tries to sleep (screen timeout or lock button) it jumps for about 100ms (no sound) and does this for about 1 second, and continues to play as normal.
and the same happens when i wake the device, its pretty annoying now that i have a 16gb sd card and spend £150 on this phone lol
ive noticed its not so bad without headphones,
today the ace had no music player playing, and i had headphones in, and some music is playing out of the loudspeaker. do you think this sounds like a hardware fault?
anyone else have this problem? or working on another stable rom (2.3 if possible)
EDIT: I think i may have diagnosed the problem, i had 'root helper' enabled on the app widgetlocker, ive turned it off and just running widgetlocker without root functions and there is less lag. i may post to the developer then with this
Try using DSP manager mightily help....
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cheers, would dsp manager make it worse as it uses more resources? i dont know what the problem was on the root helper setting on widgetlocker, but ive reported it to the developer maybe they can figure out why
Has anyone else experience the same problem where their music would not play smoothly anymore Neutrino v2.0 and v2.1(p)? My music played just fine on v1.4.
I'm using powerAMP and I've already tried increasing the audio buffer and the audio thread priority and neither is fixing the problem. This happens both from the speaker and through the headphone.
I saw a post about this in the main dev thread no one else seemed to have followed up on it =(.
lur3nj14 said:
Has anyone else experience the same problem where their music would not play smoothly anymore Neutrino v2.0 and v2.1(p)? My music played just fine on v1.4.
I'm using powerAMP and I've already tried increasing the audio buffer and the audio thread priority and neither is fixing the problem. This happens both from the speaker and through the headphone.
I saw a post about this in the main dev thread no one else seemed to have followed up on it =(.
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I think it has something to do with the 'Media step' mod, which I deleted from V2.0 onwards so it shouldn't be a problem...
Can you describe in more detail what happens?
The phone runs very smooth in all other aspects, but the audio would hiccup...as if I was listening to CDs that were scratched.
I have had the same experience. I have tried different music programs so it's not app-specific. I've also flashed a different kernel to see if that could be the problem.
I have noticed I do not get the same bugs as on different cm7 ROMs where the speaker wouldn't work at all after unplugging from the car dock so the trade-off's been worth it.
I only experiance this when the phone switches from 3g to H. And the slipping becomes extremely bad when I lose service for a bit. If I go to networks and select 2g only, it seems to somewhat fix it. Until I drop service. Used several different radios with the same result
I'm going a hunch that the tweak to the windowsmgr.max_events_per_sec in the build.prop is somehow interfering - I've edited mine from 150 to 50 and I think it sounds smoother on the speaker but that could just be deceiving. I'll update after I've used it in the car dock on my way home.
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To I'm sure no one's surprise, this did not work. Music still pops. Maybe once or twice every thirty seconds.
I just tried playing music in airplane mode and the music doesn't skip either with Wi-fi on or off.
Is this problem only with PowerAmp? Does it work fine with other music players?
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Is this problem only with PowerAmp? Does it work fine with other music players?
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Every music player. Stock, double twist, poweramp etc. I have tried them all.
Confirmed for me with every music player, not just with powerAMP.
TTT Any fix yet?
I've been looking into this over the weekend. It happens on all media players I've tested:
DoubleTwist
WinAmp
PowerAMP
Stock
Sometimes it is so subtle that you wouldn't noticed if you didn't literally have every nuance of a song memorized. I took logcat logs and marked every "skip" I heard, while playing video games with my headphones on for a few hours this weekend, but nothing stuck out of the logs.
This issue is not in 1.4S, but was in 2.0, 2.1, and still in 2.1P. Sorry I don't have any other useful info.
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Will yours skip if in airplane mode? Mine doesn't.
mine actually skips in airplane mode aswell, but rarely...
See if it skips in V2.2...
Bad news...the audio still skips. I'm seeing that it happens often especially when there are changes in reception, like when it's switching between h+ and 3g...
I can happily confirm that setting SeCPU profiles to sleep at max and min @ 456mhz fixes the skipping.
Hmmm, I thought that would hinder the battery saving effects of clocking down. I've been clocking the CPU down to around 216-312 Mhz when my phone is idled.
Usually I'm playing audio on the phone when I'm driving and I have the phone plugged in to the car charger, I'll try to increase the min clock for when the phone is charging and report back.
I don't know if it's worth mentioning again, but with the same setting I have now in V1.4, the audio doesn't skip at all. I'll also test if this is happening with weekly #6 as well.
I realize this is a bit off topic, but seeing as how my issue is audio related I figured I'd give it a shot.
In short, my internal speaker is going in and out. There's no specific instances I'm seeing, but I can say I notice it most when it goes out during a phone call. A couple of times I've noticed a bit of a raspy sound, kind of like a loose speaker wire or skipping cd would make (which leads me to think it's the speaker itself).
That being said, if anyone else is having this issue I'd like to help out as best I can.
I'm on 2.2, btw. Currently running 100% EE, with the CM7 provided Google Apps.
Thanks for the help, and sorry for the intrusion.
HP touchpad on newest alpha 2 ICS build - when i play google music it works great until the screen sleeps. Then the music is all cracking and muffled.
If i hit any button to waken the screen it resumes perfectly.
How can i fix that?
You can't.
All audio is messed up when it's sleeping.
"Audio is a mess. The microphone does not work. Work on the current libaudio solution has halted because we will eventually switch to a CAF libaudio." from http://rootzwiki.com/topic/18843-releasealpha2-cyanogenmod-9-touchpad/
You can fix it by having your volume at 40% or less.
or changing the sleeping time to 30 minutes
I've not had sound problems, guess I'm lucky.......
Yea I've noticed the same thing when using the app but I just assumed it was just one of the glitches yet to be solved. Which I'm sure is the case.
Hey everyone,
When I have my phone connected up to Bluetooth in my car I can stream music (from andrewhaug.com app) for about 5-10 minutes before the music stops. If I wake the device it will resume streaming. Has anyone experianced this behaviour? Is there any kind of setting that I need to look at?
Im running DevBase 5.9.
I have tried resetting the Bluetooth settings but to no avail.
I have noticed possible similar behavior. When using my s9 plus verizon with my 2012 infiniti g37 randomly the Bluetooth music will skip on Spotify(every couple of minutes the music I'll pause for a second almost like a skipping CD) Never experienced this with my s8 or s7. Its always been like this with my s9. Never changed any settings or bothered looking into it.
So, somewhat of an update.
Over the past week I have noticed that the music streaming only cuts out IF the app is not the main focus. What I mean by that is; the app has to be running in full screen, like any normal app, BUT, if you exit out of it to the Home screen or go into another app and then lock the phone, that is when the music stops after a certain amount of time. Even though the app has a background service running, for some reason, its not the main app in focus, it gets put to sleep/kills the resources for it.
A bit of a weird quirk. Not sure if its an Android thing or an app thing.
Put the app out of battery optimisation & allow its background activity
RISHI RAJ said:
Put the app out of battery optimisation & allow its background activity
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I have battery optimization turned off for all apps.
Another interesting issue is when I'm streaming music, a call comes through, and when its done, the music doesn't resume playing. If I resume it like normal, it then stops like the original problem.
I can restart the phone and then it doesn't have a problem.
Hello there,
I've recently updated to 9.1.0.326 (C432E4R1P12).
Noticed few slight visiual changes and a bit faster (smother?) navigating through system. Maybe thanks to EROFS?
But main downside and reason why I started this thread is that it started killing apps in background in brutal way.
Most noticeable PowerAmp (yes, i have exception in power optimisation for it and also the second thingy you need to do, in order to keep it from getting killed by aggressive huawei strategies) - was working just fine for last year.
Now, headphones plugged in, music playing, no other apps running. Switch screen off -> after about 10 sec, music stops. Switch screen on -> music starts to play again.
Also, headphones in, start poweramp, play music. Open chrome or Facebook (or pretty much anything else for what i can tell), after about 10 sec on a different app on screen -> music stops. Switch back to poweramp -> music starts playing immediately on it's own again.
Doesn't happen with default music app though. Maybe, because it's whitelisted in power genie?
Anyone having similar issues?
i don't know if powergenie is causing trouble. I have no problem with deezer or podcast addict (need exception in battery settings)
Removing Power genie by following this https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-20-pro/themes/remove-powergenie-to-allow-background-t3890409 did the trick.
I would prefer not to remove it, but since I can't edit the whitelisted apps I have no other choice right now.