Hi everyone,
first-time poster here, so 'hello' I fear I may be posting quite a bit here now that i've chopped in my iPhone 3G for the Leo...baptism of fire!
I used to use a free app - FStream on the iPhone to stream radio stations, it worked great and I could lock the phone and turn the backlight off when it was running to save battery.
On the HD2 I can't find any free radio apps yet and i'm using opera to open the BBC iplayer to play stations, but I can't seem to minimise it and keep it playing and I can't turn the backlight off ever when it's running. The batteries lasting just a couple of hours over WiFi! Any ideas how to turn the backlight off or where I can get a radio player app that's good?
Cheers all
Have you tried pressing the "on/off" button once? that's the sleep mode, maybe the app still runs in the background? can't try it right now because I'm syncing my phone. but I guess it sends opera to sleep aswell.
there was a tool, I have to look it up. it was quite new and seemed brilliant. I'll let you know if I find it.
EDIT: Well I started the music player and pressed the "on/off" once to turn the screen off and the music still plays so opera should play too.
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When i had my Wizard (k-jam) i would use TCPMP to play music through my Bluetake iPhono Mini Bluetooth Headphones. When i pressed the power button to enter standby mode the music would continue to play.
Now i have my nice new JasJam, i try to do the same however as soon as i press the power button it seems to enter a deep standby mode and the music stops.
When playing music i now have to remember to lock it everytime i put it in the belt holder or my pocket to stop opening applications and as the backlight keeps turning on it chews through the battery life.
So does anyone know of a way to keep music playing while in standby? Is this a hardware limitation of the Hermes?
Cheers
I am running the Imate Telstra (AUS) 1.3.1 ROM
Puckster said:
So does anyone know of a way to keep music playing while in standby?
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I use mortplayer, this is one of it's many features
Thanks pof, i'll give it a go.
I'm still curious why this worked with TCPMP / WMP on a rom with same AKU (2.3) on Wizard but will not work on the Hermes. Sometimes i think HTC must be half asleep when looking at certain aspects of new devices..
Never had a wizard, but the BlueAngel had the same problem as the Hermes has...
wmp and spbpocketplus have this feature
if you assign a button to this in wmp, you can use 'screen toggle' and it both turns off the display and locks buttons except the dpad. I use this daily to play music. played for 5 hours today and down to 90%.
(i was on gprs at the time)
spbpocketplus also has a screen toggle function that you could use. it does exactly the same thing.
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if you assign a button to this in wmp, you can use 'screen toggle' and it both turns off the display and locks buttons except the dpad. I use this daily to play music. played for 5 hours today and down to 90%.
(i was on gprs at the time)
spbpocketplus also has a screen toggle function that you could use. it does exactly the same thing.
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Thanks, i didnt even think about the Pocket+ screen toggle feature (i guess i was hoping for a reg hack). I tried the Pocket+ feature and it actually locks all buttons except power so this should sort me out.
wwwes said:
if you assign a button to this in wmp, you can use 'screen toggle' and it both turns off the display and locks buttons except the dpad. I use this daily to play music. played for 5 hours today and down to 90%.
(i was on gprs at the time)
spbpocketplus also has a screen toggle function that you could use. it does exactly the same thing.
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I tried to assigned a button going through the WMP's options>buttons>toggle screen, but it did not let me. Do I have to install the spbpocketplus to accomplish this?
I had the SX66 before and now moved to the Cingular 8525. My SX66 was able to go to the standby mode while playing th WMP by turning the power switch off. The screen got dimmed and all the button except the power button became disable. I don't exactly remember why mine could, but mine had the latest ROM and etc. It was a nice function and I miss it...........
I have stock Telus ROM and have one of the options set in WMP to "toggle screen off". This previously worked and would completely turn the display ONLY off, allowing WMP to continue playing.
Additionally, I was using an EXE app called "ScreenOffArm", which would do the same thing in any setting (IE: listening to streamin music).
NOW, with both of these tools the display only dims to about 50% rather than turn off completely like it did before.
Any ideas, suggestions what may have caused this malfunction to happen? In Settings/ System/Power/ Backlight I have "Auto Adjust Backlight" checked and in Advanced I have "turn backlight off" unchecked and "turn off device" set to one minute. These settings have not changed.
Lee
screen only dims when playing music
I have the same problem on my TYTN II... when playing music either WMP or HTC Audio Manager the screen only dims. Side power button only dims and will NOT shut screen off from any application while music playing. The button works when music is not playing or headphones not plugged in. I even tried my bluetooth stereo headset and same problem while playing music.
I tried other apps like SPB PocketPlus (screen toggle) and PSshutXP as well as a few other suggested "fixes" with no success. The results are the same.
This used to work (side power button) but after installing some apps I noticed this problem. Unfortunately can't pinpoint exactly when it started. Not sure if they are the culprits. Apps that were installed...
walking hotspot
vsdraw
phonex
pocket mechanic
miriam webster
I also unistalled Phonex because I thought it was causing my phone to shutdown but later found out my battery is heading for the graveyard (almost 1.5yrs). I later reinstalled Phonex.
I have spent at least 10 solid hours over the past week looking for a fix with no working solution. Anyways... anybody with a registry fix on this?
PS I did find a nice fix for photo quality during my search. Just thought I'd share that... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375101
Hey guys, I can swear that when I first had my TMOUS HD2, I could play music on the sense music player, and could then press the end button to turn the screen off without the music stopping. For whatever reason now, whenever I press end to turn the screen off, however, the music also stops. I can't figure out if I changed a setting anywhere or not, but any ideas? Fyi, I installed TCPMP player and messed with a few of the "play music/video" in the background settings, but I don't think that's what's doing it.
I am not sure about sense player but most of the music players I tried have the turn screen off option. The only player which plays even if the screen is locked from outside the player is the "Pocket Player" (conduits.com). You can change that behavior though.
also if you hit the screen off button (one on the right/hang up button) then hit it again so the lock screen comes up this has made a difference for me... (allows the non windows media player player to keep playing)...
A solution to that will be welcomed. I want my LastFM client to keep on playing after the screen goes off. Currently it starts to stutter and then shuts up.
On the HTC HD, I used the "nueDynamicClock" application, which could maintain (for chosen applications) higher CPU clock while the HD went into suspend. This app does not work on HD2.
Please advice
Thanks
My sense player keeps playing as i hit the hang up button and screen turning off... Don't know if this helps, but here are my versions:
OS: 5.2.21869.5.0.82
Manila: 2.5.19211619.0
ROM: 1.66.409.1 (76641) NOR (Norwegian official updated ROM)
Radio: 2.06.51.07
Anyways, the sense player isn't what i want it to be, it is far too limited, so i use CorePlayer. CorePlayer also plays with the screen off, no problems.
Have you tried using S2U beta (from the people who made S2U2)?
I was having the exact issue, but S2U is a god send. You can control the skip, play/pause and volume buttons with the screen locked.
It's very good, especially if combined with S2U2 for text, email, mms and calendar previews while the phone is locked. Well worth checking out.
There are threads on xda-developers about both.
The funny thing is, I'm on a stock TMOUS rom, and I definitely recall that at least in the beginning, I was able to have the sense music player keep playing with the screen turned off. Thus, there must be a way to get this back again. Any more ideas?
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The funny thing is, I'm on a stock TMOUS rom, and I definitely recall that at least in the beginning, I was able to have the sense music player keep playing with the screen turned off. Thus, there must be a way to get this back again. Any more ideas?
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Update: For no apparent reason at all, it seems that my phone has reverted back to "normal" and now allows me to play music in the background with the screen turned off. Did absolutely nothing.
Have you tried the start button and then lock.
I use this when listerning to audio books viaTCPMP
colinm said:
Have you tried the start button and then lock.
I use this when listerning to audio books viaTCPMP
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Yup, I can lock the phone just fine without the music turning off, but it's as soon as I then press end to turn the display off (even after locking the phone) that my music suddenly stops playing. And as an update to my previous update, my phone has decided to revert back to pausing as soon as I turn the screen off! Just when I thought all was well...
Once you have locked your phone there is no need to to ress the end key. Your screen will switch off depending on your timeout settings.
Hi,
If I don't have my mp3 player with me, there is still some music on my phone. The annoying thing is, it turns off always when I turn off the screen of the device. I am using the original htc player. I don't want to have the screen on, because the phone is in my pocket and it opens all possible stuff while I am moving. Is there a solution to that, or do I need a different player?
download slide 2 play. it is free and does everything you want it to do.
This happens because when you hit the power button you are suspending the device. What you want to do (to keep the music playing) is just turn the screen off without actually suspending the device. Find a program to toggle the screen.
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Hi,
If I don't have my mp3 player with me, there is still some music on my phone. The annoying thing is, it turns off always when I turn off the screen of the device. I am using the original htc player. I don't want to have the screen on, because the phone is in my pocket and it opens all possible stuff while I am moving. Is there a solution to that, or do I need a different player?
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Install this and soft reset.
View attachment Keep_Music_Playing_Registry_Fix.cab
thanks guys
I normally hit home then either turn it off or just let it dim out at the home screen.
i use nitrogen player
alows the screen to be off and my lockscreen activates, so no random numbers dailed whilst in my pocket.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523505
I've been having a problem recently work Pandora on my Axon 7. Music streams without any problems when the app is open or running in the background, but if I sleep the display the app stops running. Even if the app was open as on-screen. This doesn't with any of my other music steaming or player apps. I did a bit of research and found that power saving settings can closer it but this happens even of I turn off Smart power-saves and all power saving settings/policies. Has anyone r run into this before on their A7 or even another phone or is this normal behavior for Pandora?
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I've been having a problem recently work Pandora on my Axon 7. Music streams without any problems when the app is open or running in the background, but if I sleep the display the app stops running. Even if the app was open as on-screen. This doesn't with any of my other music steaming or player apps. I did a bit of research and found that power saving settings can closer it but this happens even of I turn off Smart power-saves and all power saving settings/policies. Has anyone r run into this before on their A7 or even another phone or is this normal behavior for Pandora?
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What firmware you on,
I believe there was an issue on b29 or 27, the power saver settings didn't really work as in background app killing, it just killed everything lol
Have a look in the thread somewhere, can't remember where i read it
I'm on B29. This doesn't happen with all apps so I don't know why the power settings would be affecting it, especially if I shut the power saving settings off