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!
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seriously, and i mean it.. did you guys have trouble multitasking with youtube?
When you buffer anything inside youtube, and you switch to ANY other app for example browser or calendar or whatever, all the buffer you have done, will gone back to zero !! Wtf!
How stupid this is?? And i wonder why nobody has ever noticed this and complained about it somewhere over the net.
Yes, I have even basic problem with youtube. When I switch to another app, why does the video stop playing? Sometimes, I am only interested in the audio!
Osho
Hi, I'm having same prob and I don't think we can do anything to it ;/
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oshogg said:
Yes, I have even basic problem with youtube. When I switch to another app, why does the video stop playing? Sometimes, I am only interested in the audio!
Osho
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you mean the video stops playing but audio still play? I dont think so
denis_sianto said:
you mean the video stops playing but audio still play? I dont think so
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No, the video can continue to play but in the background. For example, on a PC, if I have youtube video playing in a browser tab, and I switch to another browser tab - the video continues to play back. So, I can at least listen to audio (which is useful for music videos).
Thanks,
Osho
I have this problem and it annoys me, as I have very slow internet,so last thing I need is for it to restart again.
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oshogg said:
No, the video can continue to play but in the background. For example, on a PC, if I have youtube video playing in a browser tab, and I switch to another browser tab - the video continues to play back. So, I can at least listen to audio (which is useful for music videos).
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Yea, i know that if in pc, you switch to another tab, youtube would still continue buffering. But this did not happen in tab's youtube. If I buffer any video, and then i switched to browser, then switch back again to youtube, all the buffers would have gone to zero.
Are you 100% sure you dont have this problem with your stock youtube app?
vauxhallastra said:
I have this problem and it annoys me, as I have very slow internet,so last thing I need is for it to restart again.
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Are you talking about p1000 or the new gt with honeycomb?
Don't be fooled into thinking that Android's multitasking is that much more robust than iOS. When you move away from an app, the system sleeps the VM that it is running in to devote clock cycles and memory to your current working application. The only way an app can continue to persist alive in the background is to specifically request to remain alive and working on something with background processes. The YouTube app doesn't do this, so when you move away from it the application sleeps.
The only advantage Android has over iOS in terms of multitasking is the easy ability for an app to run background processes if it so chooses. Fortunately no sane app developer is going to write an app that tries to stay completely active in a non-windowing OS.
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Don't be fooled into thinking that Android's multitasking is that much more robust than iOS. When you move away from an app, the system sleeps the VM that it is running in to devote clock cycles and memory to your current working application. The only way an app can continue to persist alive in the background is to specifically request to remain alive and working on something with background processes. The YouTube app doesn't do this, so when you move away from it the application sleeps.
The only advantage Android has over iOS in terms of multitasking is the easy ability for an app to run background processes if it so chooses. Fortunately no sane app developer is going to write an app that tries to stay completely active in a non-windowing OS.
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Okay, i know it make sense to not write an app that tries to stay completely active in background. But wouldnt it make sense for an app such as youtube that needs a lot of buffer (since not all country in the world have fast mobile connection), to be partially active in background, such as the buffering ability?
I think that make sense! And i still wonder why wouldnt honeycomb developer realize this .
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Be careful, Playbook owners might start feeling smug about their device if they see things like this
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I would also like Youtube to be able to play in the background, just like on a PC. Why not? It can't be too hard to programme either.
Swedish national radio, Sveriges Radio, has a good app that allows you to listen to all their programmes and the app runs smoothly in the background while I surf or do other stuff on the tablet. You'll find it at Google Play (former Market) if you're interested.
An other thing that Youtube on Android does not do is to run playlists. Again, why not?
I can't really see the point in removing great features when you develop a new OS. The goal can't really be to make it worse compared to the PC, can it?
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An other thing that Youtube on Android does not do is to run playlists. Again, why not?
If your mostly worried about the playlist feature, it works when running stock browser and you are signed in. All you have to do is tap on the bottom-right corner of the video's preveiw image, afterr tapping, the little '+' shows up
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A solution would be using OverSkreen (Browser) and just open youtube in a small window.
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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I am having a problem where the Skype overlay disappears after 5 seconds if I go back to the home screen or switch to another app. I know it is not Skype's problem because I tried the same version on my older Galaxy Note Edge phone and it works perfectly especially when I am playing multiplayer games with my friends.
I have set the priority of the Skype app to the highest and allowed it to overwrite other apps in the EMUI settings so I don't know why this problem is occurring. Same goes for FB Messenger's video call overlay. Anyone knows the fix to this? It is super annoying.
Thanks!
Nobody else got this issue or my post got burried? This Skype and FB Messenger video overlay disappearing thing is a huge issue for me since I want to be multitasking when video chatting. I know it works because the video overlay gradually disappears as if the software detected it and removed it.
Another thing to note is that app multitasking also does not work with Skype and FB Messenger so I can't divide the screen in half while running them.
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
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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
I have a big problem on my pocophone, when i recording in 4k 60fps my câmera app closes beacause my phone is overheating, i cant record more than 1 minute, i can disable this? Or convert the camera app to a user app? Only system apps have this problem, i tried to convert to a user app but i have a problem with mount system, i tried to download titanium backup but the app not works more, anyone can help me? (Sorry for my bad english, i'm from brazil)
Can't you use Open Camera, or lower the resolution of your integrated camera app?
I don't have a Pocophone, so not sure how to navigate the settings.
michaelmouton510 said:
Can't you use Open Camera, or lower the resolution of your integrated camera app?
I don't have a Pocophone, so not sure how to navigate the settings.
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What is open camera? Yes i can lower the resolution but if a need to record in 4k 60 fps the app closes itself, i want to disable this overheating protection or change the app to user app, in games my phone is much more heat but it's safe
GALO_DE_KALSA said:
I have a big problem on my pocophone, when i recording in 4k 60fps my câmera app closes beacause my phone is overheating, i cant record more than 1 minute, i can disable this? Or convert the camera app to a user app? Only system apps have this problem, i tried to convert to a user app but i have a problem with mount system
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At it's runtime it doesn't matter whether an app is a system app or an user app: both use the hardware resources ( RAM, CPU, GPU ) as needed in same way to successfully run.
Only difference between a system app and an user app is that a system app can get rolled back to it's initial version in case it got updated: that's not possible with an user app.
Ii's absolutely common that when you use your phone’s camera for longer time that your phone is heated up. This generally happens when you shoot high quality for recording videos as this increases temperature. Therefore, you should reduce the footage quality and try to record short videos to reduce the temperature that increases while using.