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.
Mackay53 said:
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
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Hello,
- My battery is approx. 1,5 years old. If I buy a new, genuine battery for X10i, would it increase my phone duration usage significantly? Or do li-ion battery's stay the same during time?
- Is their an alternative for the standard camera app? It loads so slow ...
- I accidently deleted my standard movie player. How can I restore it?
- I moved all apps from phone to SD, but they get smaller when on sd. Example: Adobe air from 24mb to 80 kb. How is this possible. (apps using adobe air not working as result)
kr1st0f1 said:
Hello,
- My battery is approx. 1,5 years old. If I buy a new, genuine battery for X10i, would it increase my phone duration usage significantly? Or do li-ion battery's stay the same during time?
- Is their an alternative for the standard camera app? It loads so slow ...
- I accidently deleted my standard movie player. How can I restore it?
- I moved all apps from phone to SD, but they get smaller when on sd. Example: Adobe air from 24mb to 80 kb. How is this possible. (apps using adobe air not working as result)
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-About the battery - I recently bought a new battery and it lasts significally longer (about 24h in mid to high usage vs 15 on the old one). I also bought an external charger so I use them both
-There are a lot of cameras on the market that you can download, but from my experience the semc stock camera has the most features.
But you can try angel camera, it's the best of the free camera apps imo
- I recommend MX movie player, it's much better than the stock one...
- When you move an app to SD, it still leaves a very small portion of the app on the internal storage, and that's the 80kb that you see....
Hope I helped
I would suggest moboplayer for video works great and supports most of formats.
I would suggest camera360,camera zoom fx etc but picture quality in stock app is better.
Thanks for the replies.
Also, When I restart my phone, some apps dissapear from desktop , any reason for this?
kr1st0f1 said:
Thanks for the replies.
Also, When I restart my phone, some apps dissapear from desktop , any reason for this?
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which rom are you using?
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...
Wlk said:
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!!!
Wlk said:
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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2 days ago, or so, my screen mirroring was working well (yeah, it lags a lot, but we're talking about a Xperia M4). Today I had to study, the presentations that I needed to read were on the device, so I decided to use the screen mirroring and put some music to study...here starts the problem. When I opened the music app, it worked well for less than 2 seconds...then the phone got....damaged? I dunno. The thing is, if I open the music app, I get stuck on the screen mirroring (Yes, nor the screen mirroring, nor the phone can be turned off, just using the little button on the SD card slot). Also this will bug the phone completely, making it act like it had around 10mb free ram (And it has 40% free ram, so, it's just the phone acting weird). CPU usage is also normal, half of the cores arround 300-900mhz, half arround 1000mhz. Help me please, what can be doing this? I thought it was an app that changes navbar color, but I uninstalled it and the problem remains. Also the music app is factory restored. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the phone is NOT rooted.
Also, if you could help me remove the album app, it'd be great (I want to replace it with the Jellybean model, since I use MX player, also, Jellybean's version is way more beautiful and clean).
Nevermind.
Alfamax said:
2 days ago, or so, my screen mirroring was working well (yeah, it lags a lot, but we're talking about a Xperia M4). Today I had to study, the presentations that I needed to read were on the device, so I decided to use the screen mirroring and put some music to study...here starts the problem. When I opened the music app, it worked well for less than 2 seconds...then the phone got....damaged? I dunno. The thing is, if I open the music app, I get stuck on the screen mirroring (Yes, nor the screen mirroring, nor the phone can be turned off, just using the little button on the SD card slot). Also this will bug the phone completely, making it act like it had around 10mb free ram (And it has 40% free ram, so, it's just the phone acting weird). CPU usage is also normal, half of the cores arround 300-900mhz, half arround 1000mhz. Help me please, what can be doing this? I thought it was an app that changes navbar color, but I uninstalled it and the problem remains. Also the music app is factory restored. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the phone is NOT rooted.
Also, if you could help me remove the album app, it'd be great (I want to replace it with the Jellybean model, since I use MX player, also, Jellybean's version is way more beautiful and clean).
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So, while I was writing this message and searching for solutions on the web, I left the phone, mirroring its screen and DOING NOTHING, and PHONE DISCONNECTED showed on the TV. Then I discovered that it was due to a senseless reboot on the phone... And it fixed it! Actually, screen mirroring works better than never.
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
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!