Hi
I inherited a Samsung Galaxy 4 player from my daughter. I want to use it primarily for listening to audio books and have installed smart audio player for this purpose.
Earlier I was using an old Windows Phone. On that device if I turn off the display or it turns off after the specified interval, when I turn it back on the audio player controls (play/pause control primarily) are visible on top of the screen saver making it easy to pause or resume.
With the android device however, this is not the case. If the display goes off when I turn it back on (using the button on the top right side of the device) I am presented with a screen saver and an instruction to sweep glass to unlock. There are no audio player controls visible.
Is there anyway to bypass that initial screen, i.e. not have it display at all? Since more often than not I would have been in the audio player app before the display turned off, at least I have direct access to the controls.
Let me know if my request makes sense or you need additional information.
Thanks
(Also posted on anythingbutipod)
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Is it possible to listen to music on the XDA with the screen off? ie just like when your talking on the phone and the screen is off but the speaker is still active.
If I turn the phone off with the power button the music stops, also the auto power off after time X doesn't kick in when Win Media Player is running.
Having the screen on all the time (even with the back light off) really drains the battery.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
If you're using Windows Media Player, goto Tools, Settings, and then Buttons. You'll be able to map Screen Toggle to a key which will turn the screen on/off with the press of a button.
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Hi!
Yes, you can do it too with other players like GSPlayer and Mort Player.
These players come with preset timer to off your screen to save battery power and at the same time allows you to listen to music.
resco audio thingy will do the same job, as will betaplayer.
be sure to enable the feature through options.
Also im sure there are many more programs that will do this for you.
(even just a backlight plug-in?)
w0rd.
Pocket Music Player 3 has this feature also. It's one of the better players I've found thus far.
screensaver
phm power toys has a app that will turn off the display
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/PowerToys/
Heres another little freeware app that I have been using for a while - gives an option on the Today screen to turn off display, and pressing one of the units buttons turns it back on.
Also gives on screen bar graph of the battery capacity (the main function of the program i think) plus main memory and expansion memory capacity/usage, plus a soft reset, ability to turn off auto power off and a few other things i cantremember.....
There has been a lot of notes from people who have installed and cant uninstall (although why you would want to is beyond me..) but if you go into settings/today/items/ select power check then options, there is all the configuration settings plus instructions on how to uninstall.
Cheers, Dave.
EDIT.... Might help if i pasted in the link huh... http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/powercheck.shtml
EDIT2... Worth mentioning that the default button to fire back up the screen is Button 1, which on the XDA2 is the top right button (calendar). Don't do what I did and try each of the buttons - couldnt work out what button 5 was so I selected it as the option to turn back on the unit - guess what - there is no button 5 on the XDA2.... soft reset wouldn't bring it back up, had to hard reset in the end... Please learn from my mistakes!!!
The buttons on the front of the phone (under the external screen), control Windows Media Player by default.
I'm sure many users don't like the fact that pressing the play/pause button (which happens accidentally) turns on windows Media player and its music.
My question is, is there anyway I can stop the buttons from activating windows media player when pushed, or better yet, is there a way to define what the buttons do (so I can use them to control another program) ?
Thanks for anyhelp.
I would like to bring this thread back form the dead. I would also like to know about this.. The phone keeps playing music while I have it in my pocket because of these damn little buttons.
Thanks
I had this problem too, 'till I told my StrTrk to lock the buttons when closing...
3125 external control of Conduits Pocket Player
I just found this solution to successfully hook into both the external buttons AND the SubDisplay using Pocket Player 3.2! Been looking for something like this for a while. I'm sure others will appreciate it as well.
http://www.conduits.com/community/forum_posts.asp?TID=887
Hi.
I have the new Samsung Galaxy S II and am mostly pleased with it.
I'd like to address one of the annoying issues I'm having though:
When I plug in the headset and listen to music or audio books the pause/play button on the headset works while the music is playing back.
However, when I pause and wait for a while I cannot use the button to continue playing anymore.
I assume that the phone went to sleep and is not "listening" to the button anymore. I think this is a general issue and not only present on the SGSII, though.
Are you having this problem too?
Is there a way to make the phone react to the pause/play button so it continues playing even if it is in sleep mode?
If so, would enableing this have a noticable effect on battery life?
I should notice I both use the default music player app and also at times another app called Subsonic to play music (the latter streams the music from my NAS that I do not have directly on the phone). The problem is also apparent in the default music player.
Thanx in advance!
(I tried to add a [Q] in the title afterwards but i cant anymore
P.S.:
I moved from the LG Optimus Speed and the SGSII is much better, and its quite nice overall, but there are some issues:
- The device can easily get too hot for my taste. I understand that it has a powerful processor and if it is used much it is bound to happen when you tax the cpu much (such as when navigating or playing games), but:
I notice it happens for instance just when I scroll on the home screen. Whereas when I play audio or even video (at least in case of standard sd video) it barely gets wormer.
So I think there is lots of room to optimize and use less resources in so the heat problem is less prominent.
- I think I too am affected by the battery drain issue of the Android OS process to a degree. It is not as prominent as others have it, but i think it's still too high.
- When taking photos i have the red dot problem (both in the preview and the taken photos). It is not evident when taking videos. Apparently its a whitebalance issue. I updated to KE7 and it is still there, but only notciable when for instance pointing at a white wall.
- The screen is gorgeous but has a blue tinge. It is not noticable when looking directly at the screen unless the display is white. However it gets noticable when looking at the screen at an angle.
From what I found out its common with amoled displays to compensate for the increased loss of brightness of blue pixels, so i guess it will get fainter with time.. but still.. I hope samsung is able to improve on this with their new amoled display factory which is planned to be used sometime this summer which promises displays that use less power and have a longer life-time...
My nexus one begins playing music while in sleep mode from the button on my headset, so maybe its an issue with the galaxy s2.
Well, I had the same problem on my LG Optimus Speed, thats why I assumed it is not specific to the SGSII.
Anybody else having this issue?
How to solve it?
Try holding down the button. I know when I use my headphones once it has been paused, to get it to start back up I have to hold onto for a bit. I use the headphones given with the SGS II and the Google Music player.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA Premium App
Can confirm what brandenk0 said:
Try holding down the button a little bit
--> or sometimes double/tripple klicking the button works.
I tried it with the built-in music player, WinAmp and PowerAMP and it always continues the music; even after a very long sleep
Thanx for your help, that did it!
Another question:
Is it somehow possible to use the button to go the previous or next track?
I know there are bluetooth headsets that have buttons for that.. but with the standard cable headset there is just the one button...
Hironimo said:
Thanx for your help, that did it!
Another question:
Is it somehow possible to use the button to go the previous or next track?
I know there are bluetooth headsets that have buttons for that.. but with the standard cable headset there is just the one button...
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As far as I have tried, I haven't found a way to get the standard headphone controls to go to the previous or the next song.
Hope this helps.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA Premium App
I can confirm that the headphone button has changed from S1 in the S2. Normally no issues between standby or not on the S1, but on the S2 it seems different and much more issues unpausing
Pause = 1x short
Unpause within 2 sec after pausing = 1x short
Unpause after 2sec = 1x long or 2x shortly (differs ... sometimes no resume :s)
Next Track, during play = 2x short
Hi
try something like these (from Market):
Headset Droid
Headset Button Controller
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Official Solution:
I spent over an hour on this.
Download Headset Button Controller, THEN: go to Advanced, way bottom "Advanced settings", and "Prevent sleep mode". Also have Run in foreground checked.
Another thing that might help is downloading "SoundAbout", an app that overrides the kernel's decision on whether there's a mic attached with the headphones, and will override just about everything else related to audio routing as well.
+1 if this helps! :good:
Hi,
i'm having a problem with bluetooth control (AVRCP)
when i'm trying to control my musicplay (poweramp) using my BT Headphone, then it first turns on the screen and after that it changes the to the next song, without turning the screen of afterwards.
1. is there a way to disable screen on? (i think that also because of that, the controls are very slow)
2. if not, is there a way to directly lock the screen again afterwards?
thanks
I'm trying to create a profile that will wake my screen for a few seconds when I control music through my Bluetooth stereo. I've tried Tasker's built in music controls as the beginning of the profile along with Secure Settings to wake the device, but nothing happens. Any tips? I feel like this is really straightforward, but I'm missing something.