Hey guys, I just bought a BLU Studio X8 HD and it satisfies all my needs but I have a problem when playing music, Android randomly closes the music player if I'm doing anything else like using Chrome, I guess it's to free some memory but it's really annoying having to manually open the app every time it happens.
This phone only has 512 mb RAM but I previously used a phone that had 256 mb and this didn't happen.
I've tested a lot of music players like Poweramp and Play Music but it happens with every one of them. Is there something I can do to prevent Android from closing it?
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Are you running any kind of RAM cleaner or scheduled task that would try to "free up" your RAM?
Can you monitor your RAM usage while playing music and pinpoint when it happens? For example at a certain RAM threshold?
Akti88 said:
Are you running any kind of RAM cleaner or scheduled task that would try to "free up" your RAM?
Can you monitor your RAM usage while playing music and pinpoint when it happens? For example at a certain RAM threshold?
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No but thanks man, I solved it.
I used the App Settings Xposed module and set the app to never close, now I'm enjoying my music
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Not an unusual problem by the looks of it but sooooo annoying and soooo many options to try and fix the problem.
(edit - just to clarify, its more of a skidding than a skipping - the sound/rhythm is stretched and short of shudders like when a CPU is under-load with other apps running, but I've currently got over 100MB at idle.)
I've read the following forum which has so many options in it and a lot of good info so I'm going to slowly work through a few of the options with my Xperia and see what might solve the skipping issue.
http://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/72913-music-player-skipping-cause.html
I initially started using the stock player that came with the Neo and noticed it skipping every now and then but then yesterday when coming home from a music festival with a few new albums it came to time to STOP the skipping.
I always copy files from original CD's at the highest quality and then drag and drop them directly into the folder on the SD card to cut out any other application adding its musical interpretation into the tracks with missed data and timing etc (this is a practice I started years ago so hopefully the tracks are the best they can be)
So from here I start fiddling with the device......
1) I noticed that I dont get any skipping when using ES File Explorer to play the files but the problem ES File explorer is that it doesn't appear to have a shortcut directly to its media player and I dont want to have to go hunting for files EVERY time I want to play music.
2) So now I've started Meridian just as a test and it definately made an improvement = less skipping but still some
3) So I"ve moved Meridian to System App as suggested in the Forum and I'm running the player and keeping a close ear on it to see if it skips.
If it does the next step will be to start using "AnTuTu CPU Master Free" and setting it to start from boot and set it to raise the minimum processor level to around 400 MHz
If anybody who actually knows about this stuff has any ideas I'd be interested in hearing them.
I dont know why EX file explorer plays the files better than anything else I've tried - I have made it a system (ages ago) but I would also like to know what it uses for media playing? is it using its own complete of settings or whatevers? or is it piggy backing off the standard player? If I uninstall the standard player will ES still work?
If ES is using its own settings - how does it take control of things so well that the skipping stops?
What other media players take majority of control and ----------dam it just skipped, so I'm rewinding to see if its the track.............nope---------(ok onto the next plan and increasing processor idle speed.
4) Increased Idle speed to as close to 400 as I can and 3 min later - still skipping! c##p
Now what? I'm going to go away and think about this some more - if anyone has any ideas please let me know.
I'm trying to replicate your fault but so far its been playing pretty well, Havn't noticed any skipping, stutters or whatever for the last hour or so.. I did notice a slight jitter when I first started up the music player (Stock) but that was just on startup.. now its rock solid.
you might have some service/App running in the background thats causing some CPU strain or memory hogging momentarily.. I would suggest checking your logcat either with adb terminal or an app that can show you your logcat. check this to see if your getting any low memory warnings or any other errors.
I'll start up a bunch of services and apps and see if I can get my music to skip, Ill also search my music collection for the highest bitrate files I can find (might be that I just use lower bitrate MP3's and so they don't strain the RAM and CPU as much as your high bitrate ones)
I'll let you know if I can get my music skipping like yours.
Kiwi
I've experienced this before, turns out it was the SD Speed Increase app settings that was causing the trouble. Apparently, if I change the setting to anything other than the stock (128 [bytes allocation unit?]), my music would randomly stutter/skid. Left it to stock and never installed it again. I hope this helps.
I've had it too, using UberMusic and CPU Tuner. The problem is not the minimum cpu speed, because the cpu will be running full speed when the screen is on (or more than the minumum). With the screen off profile, my cpu is running at 122MHz, and still no stuttering.
I think the problem is caused by low RAM. Uninstall any unneccesary app and try if the problem persists when you're not multitasking.
I've experienced the same problem a few times using stock music player.. but recently I downloaded google music and never experienced it again... you might want to try this app since it's made by google and ui design is awesome!(ics like)
I've been listening to music for 3 straight hours now, I've managed to get it to stutter twice, once opening a news app (CPU strain while updating web pages?) and once when I opened a file explorer (I repeated that action several times since and couldn't get it to repeat the fault) logcat on both occasions mentioned an error: DMAMISSED 32 for the audio driver. In computer terms DMA means "direct memory access" or the newer version Ultra DMA. this is a little chip that accesses external memory (firstly directed by the CPU but then it frees the CPU up to do other stuff while its reading away, kinda like having a second cpu just for reading your music, but it still needs to get commands from the CPU) and I'm guessing that the missed 32 error is the DMA not getting the message from the CPU in time, perhaps the CPU is busy with something else? or whatever, I'm going to suggest running lower bitrate mp3's and see if it still stutters as much (if at all) try ripping a cd at or under 192kbps stereo or even 128kbps.. What bitrate are you running now? 320kbps? Or variable bitrate? Still not sure if its the problem but would help to eliminate it.
DMA Errors could also be caused by an SD card fault.. might be worth trying another card and seeing if it stutters.
Kiwi
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buzzzy said:
I've experienced the same problem a few times using stock music player.. but recently I downloaded google music and never experienced it again... you might want to try this app since it's made by google and ui design is awesome!(ics like)
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Bummer this player aint available for NEO.......
kiwiBratwurst said:
I've been listening to music for 3 straight hours now, I've managed to get it to stutter twice, once opening a news app (CPU strain while updating web pages?) and once when I opened a file explorer (I repeated that action several times since and couldn't get it to repeat the fault) logcat on both occasions mentioned an error: DMAMISSED 32 for the audio driver. In computer terms DMA means "direct memory access" or the newer version Ultra DMA. this is a little chip that accesses external memory (firstly directed by the CPU but then it frees the CPU up to do other stuff while its reading away, kinda like having a second cpu just for reading your music, but it still needs to get commands from the CPU) and I'm guessing that the missed 32 error is the DMA not getting the message from the CPU in time, perhaps the CPU is busy with something else? or whatever, I'm going to suggest running lower bitrate mp3's and see if it still stutters as much (if at all) try ripping a cd at or under 192kbps stereo or even 128kbps.. What bitrate are you running now? 320kbps? Or variable bitrate? Still not sure if its the problem but would help to eliminate it.
DMA Errors could also be caused by an SD card fault.. might be worth trying another card and seeing if it stutters.
Kiwi
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I wouldn't have a clue about this bit-rate thing your talking about - how do I check this?
I've also stopped using the CPU minimum speed thing because I think it caused my phone to totally crash and not display any menu's at all - so had to re-install from clockwork mod boot.
When I'm listening to music I'm not ever doing anything in the background with the phone - it just sits on the table or on the seat of the car - this is when it skips.
kiwiBratwurst said:
I've been listening to music for 3 straight hours now, I've managed to get it to stutter twice, once opening a news app (CPU strain while updating web pages?) and once when I opened a file explorer (I repeated that action several times since and couldn't get it to repeat the fault) logcat on both occasions mentioned an error: DMAMISSED 32 for the audio driver. In computer terms DMA means "direct memory access" or the newer version Ultra DMA. this is a little chip that accesses external memory (firstly directed by the CPU but then it frees the CPU up to do other stuff while its reading away, kinda like having a second cpu just for reading your music, but it still needs to get commands from the CPU) and I'm guessing that the missed 32 error is the DMA not getting the message from the CPU in time, perhaps the CPU is busy with something else? or whatever, I'm going to suggest running lower bitrate mp3's and see if it still stutters as much (if at all) try ripping a cd at or under 192kbps stereo or even 128kbps.. What bitrate are you running now? 320kbps? Or variable bitrate? Still not sure if its the problem but would help to eliminate it.
DMA Errors could also be caused by an SD card fault.. might be worth trying another card and seeing if it stutters.
Kiwi
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Are you saying my music is too high a quality?
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I've had it too, using UberMusic and CPU Tuner. The problem is not the minimum cpu speed, because the cpu will be running full speed when the screen is on (or more than the minumum). With the screen off profile, my cpu is running at 122MHz, and still no stuttering.
I think the problem is caused by low RAM. Uninstall any unneccesary app and try if the problem persists when you're not multitasking.
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thanks for the feedback - currently I have 61 mB free on ROM and 86 MB internal and then 1.37 GB on SD. Also I'm not doing anything else with the phone when the skidding occurs.
breakfastdude said:
I've experienced this before, turns out it was the SD Speed Increase app settings that was causing the trouble. Apparently, if I change the setting to anything other than the stock (128 [bytes allocation unit?]), my music would randomly stutter/skid. Left it to stock and never installed it again. I hope this helps.
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I will try this! I have one of these running.........
kiwiBratwurst said:
I've been listening to music for 3 straight hours now, I've managed to get it to stutter twice, once opening a news app (CPU strain while updating web pages?) and once when I opened a file explorer (I repeated that action several times since and couldn't get it to repeat the fault) logcat on both occasions mentioned an error: DMAMISSED 32 for the audio driver. In computer terms DMA means "direct memory access" or the newer version Ultra DMA. this is a little chip that accesses external memory (firstly directed by the CPU but then it frees the CPU up to do other stuff while its reading away, kinda like having a second cpu just for reading your music, but it still needs to get commands from the CPU) and I'm guessing that the missed 32 error is the DMA not getting the message from the CPU in time, perhaps the CPU is busy with something else? or whatever, I'm going to suggest running lower bitrate mp3's and see if it still stutters as much (if at all) try ripping a cd at or under 192kbps stereo or even 128kbps.. What bitrate are you running now? 320kbps? Or variable bitrate? Still not sure if its the problem but would help to eliminate it.
DMA Errors could also be caused by an SD card fault.. might be worth trying another card and seeing if it stutters.
Kiwi
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Situation summary..............
1) Minimum processor speed app removed due to possible fatal error and notes above suggesting no difference (which is what I thought also).
2) SD speed increase app removed
3) Still running Meridian player due to user friendliness and less skidding - (might go back to stock app to help create more skidding so I can isolate the problem.
4) Track bit-rates might be too high - I will try this as a last resort once I've tried the other options.
5) Try another SD card - hmmm maybe I'll try this another day when I've got some spare cash
In my case, the track bit rates aren't a problem since I often have 320kbps and variable bit rate mp3 files being played in the stock music player and I experience no jitter/skidding.
Ok -
* Instant skidding using Stock Media player with "SD speed increase" app uninstalled.
I'm also running
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.freeb.automm
Would this cause skidding?
Now I'm going to re-rip the CD I'm listening to at a lower rate and see how that goes.
----right I've done that and also realized that when I put the original music files on my phone I hadn't converted them from WAV to MP3 so they were huge files. I've now re-ripped the cd in WAV and then converted the files to MP3 so now the files are approx 3 MB instead of 30 MB.
So now I will play them on the stock player and see how they respond.
that has been happening to me ever since i updated to .42 and i didnt know whether it was because i was fiddling with the phone (rooting, installing ics them which .62 reset to SE GRRR ) or whether it was just the amount of music and i had recently added Kasabians new album Velociraptor .. it was really ("was" hehe) especially because i would play it in the car connecting it to a jack lead on my radio .. and it was driving (no pun intended lol) me mad .. but then today i found my mini mp3 dock and though id plug it in and whack a few songs Foo Fighters and the like .. and I swear it didnt jump/skid/skip/slip once .. it was perfect .. and this was all before i updated to .62 about 10mins ago .. hopefully its all ok .. gotta check and make sure its still rooted
anyway thats my version of events .. peace out
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Bummer this player aint available for NEO.......
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It is dude!
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hilfordjames said:
Bummer this player aint available for NEO.......
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Search for 'google music apk'
buzzzy said:
It is dude!
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Well I wish I could find it - all it says is.............
"This app is incompatible with your 2degrees Sony Ericsson MT15i."
https://market.android.com/details?...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5tdXNpYyJd
Maybe you can be more specific about what app your talking about...?
bassybekx said:
that has been happening to me ever since i updated to .42 and i didnt know whether it was because i was fiddling with the phone (rooting, installing ics them which .62 reset to SE GRRR ) or whether it was just the amount of music and i had recently added Kasabians new album Velociraptor .. it was really ("was" hehe) especially because i would play it in the car connecting it to a jack lead on my radio .. and it was driving (no pun intended lol) me mad .. but then today i found my mini mp3 dock and though id plug it in and whack a few songs Foo Fighters and the like .. and I swear it didnt jump/skid/skip/slip once .. it was perfect .. and this was all before i updated to .62 about 10mins ago .. hopefully its all ok .. gotta check and make sure its still rooted
anyway thats my version of events .. peace out
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Thanks for your input.....are you trying to say that you dont get any skipping when you use the mini mp3 dock rather than the jack lead?
I get skidding both through the lead and through Bluetooth.
Since reducing the size and format of the files I've not had any skidding or skipping.
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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So I know I shouldn't expect much from the hardware site of the phone, but even when I just do easy multitasking like if I'm in facebook for a while and the swap over to snapchat via the multitask menu, it usually has shut down snapchat by itself so the app has to restart? Same thing happens with almost every app.
Also with spotify for example if I have to other apps running and swap a little between them in the end spotify will force close, this has not happened to me on any other device not even on my galaxy nexus.
So does this happen to others than me? I mean a light use of multitask it can't handle...
Other than that I sure do love this phone
Also how can it be when I turn up for the volume playing a YouTube video, listening to spotify, Google play music and so on, it pauses the video/song? Check through all settings can't seem to find anything.
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Hi Guys,
I got a Chinese tablet that's got pretty low specs (Quad processor, 1gb Ram, 2gb storage, Android 6.0) and I am trying to use a screen recorder app to record some video from the tablet.
But I've tried tons of video recording apps, all with the same result. After the recording starts and the recorder app goes in the background, it closes immediately, thus the video recording stops.
I've not been able to find an app or a way to keep the recording going when I switch apps, because the background apps get killed immediately after I switch to another. I'm assuming this is likely because of the slow specs, but could there be any way to prevent the killing of the background apps or forcing an app to stay open? Or is there an app you can recommend that will stay actively recording no matter what?
Thanks for the help!
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?
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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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