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TV Interference... Weird...

I'm having some situation here... This Hermes is causing TV Interference... not only on my TV, but also with my TV input card on my PC. It just happens at data transfer.
Weird? Any suggestions?
I had radio 1.48 and now 1.51... and always the same issue...
HELP!

All mobile phone causes interference on the TV signal, and most analog signals. There is nothing you can do about it.

But this are not some little lines on the TV... i'm talking about a high pitched noise on the TV or computer... the whole screen flickers...
I've had mobiles for the last 15 years and this is the first time I've seen something like this. And like I said, it's just when sending or receiving data.
I think this is weird... I'm gonna check with a Mogul that my g/f has to see if the same thing happens...

ejcortes said:
But this are not some little lines on the TV... i'm talking about a high pitched noise on the TV or computer... the whole screen flickers...
I've had mobiles for the last 15 years and this is the first time I've seen something like this. And like I said, it's just when sending or receiving data.
I think this is weird... I'm gonna check with a Mogul that my g/f has to see if the same thing happens...
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It probably wont happen with the Mogul since that's on Sprint's network which is PCS - the Hermes is a GSM phone which is associated with the analog signal interference (It almost sounds like a galloping drum beat right before an incoming call de-dadade-dadade) - you will note though, if the phone is connected to a 3G signal, you will not have this problem! Your best bet is to place the phone with good distance away from speakers and such to avoid. I also find that for some reason, it's slightly less prone to happen with my phone if I put it screen down.

yeah, i'm hoping for a solution to this annoying problem too.

I've had the same thing going on with the last 5 Cingular/AT&T phones I've had. I kinda like it, I know when the phone is ringing before it actually rings.

heh, yeah, i also did find that beneficial. it kinda gave me a feeling of clairvoyancy -but i still hate it and need a fix. i have to turn off my comp speakers at night and my port speakers in my car that i use for my podcasts when im in a call or in a data session.

on a friend's tv, interferences happens when we enable the blutooth and they stops when we disable it.
mine is a m3100 and his is a m3000. both cause this problem on HIS TV but not on mine or other tv we tested. bad luck

[Q] Disabling Bluetooth AD2P Audio Autoplay

Hey everyone. So I find I have an annoying issue that is kind of pissing me off. I guess a majority of car makers have this wonderful "feature" that sends a "play" signal to the phone while connecting. This would be nice IF I could pick the app it would play with but the epic and other phones like to pick the defauly music player.
The downside is that I tend to stream pandora or slacker while on the road so each morning I get 2 songs playing at once lol.... rather annoying. I then need to load the music player and stop it. There are some good parts to what the cars do....like if an incoming call is answered it pauses the active player (usually slacker for me) while on the call.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to change any of this behavior? I guess that would have to be a kernel change or possibly a bluetooth apk if there is one? I would love to try to find a way to leave the pause portion there for calls but maybe like a check if there is a active player on top then play or pause is OK, but if in background, dont do anything.
I have searched a lot on this and it seems to be a common issue. But I just wanted to see if anyone has any ideas. I tried the app "autostarts" but it complains about not having root access even though the phone is rooted so that isnt an option it seems. It's probably wishful thinking, but was hoping maybe someone has an idea.
Or is there something I could use to kill Music Player for example "if" it was auto started and not run by me directly?

I suppose you could use a task killer and set it to kill the music player whenever it starts up. You could always disable it when your not using it. I wouldn't use it for anything else besides the music player that you wish to kill.

The problem I see with that is with most task killers they use a timer... unless I am missing one that will kill it automatically when it opens? The downside to that is if I use another app to monitor that app I have a feeling I am going to kill my battery life if it constantly monitoring.

You may be able to do this using tasker. It's not free (five bucks) and it's a bit complicated, but there is a week's trial on the developer's website.
I'm not allowed to post links, but just google tasker for android. The version in the market doesn't have the trial, though.The one on the developer's website is a buck cheaper and offers a trial.
If you aren't familiar with it, you can basically use it to take any input the phone uses (phone, sms, location data, gesture, bluetooth data, whatever) and make it output any event, so you could have it give a media all stop command every time you connect it to bluetooth. You could even have it automatically bring up a little menu with pandora, music player, last FM.. whatever media players you use.. after that. You could probably even get it to perform different behaviors depending on which bluetooth radio you connected to (so you could have it do something different in your car than in your friend's car for instance).
It's really a lifesaver of a program, well worth the five bucks I dropped on it, it's replace multiple other apps in my life. Not trying to sound too much like a commercial, but I have every reason to think it would do what you want. It is a bit complicated until you get the hang of it, though.

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You may be able to do this using tasker. It's not free (five bucks) and it's a bit complicated, but there is a week's trial on the developer's website.
I'm not allowed to post links, but just google tasker for android. The version in the market doesn't have the trial, though.The one on the developer's website is a buck cheaper and offers a trial.
If you aren't familiar with it, you can basically use it to take any input the phone uses (phone, sms, location data, gesture, bluetooth data, whatever) and make it output any event, so you could have it give a media all stop command every time you connect it to bluetooth. You could even have it automatically bring up a little menu with pandora, music player, last FM.. whatever media players you use.. after that. You could probably even get it to perform different behaviors depending on which bluetooth radio you connected to (so you could have it do something different in your car than in your friend's car for instance).
It's really a lifesaver of a program, well worth the five bucks I dropped on it, it's replace multiple other apps in my life. Not trying to sound too much like a commercial, but I have every reason to think it would do what you want. It is a bit complicated until you get the hang of it, though.
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+1... was just about to say, Tasker can do it. Tasker has been the best $5 I've spent in a loonnnng time.
I got tired of getting up in the morning for my 1.5 hour morning commute (gotta drop the kid off to daycare in another county) and getting to work late because it had been rainy and terrible. Setting the alarm crazy early just to check and see if the weather was any good was not a pleasant prospect, and with winter on the way, I needed a solution.
So I spent an evening with Tasker. I had it perform an HTTP GET at Accuweather.com after passing my zip code to the website. I then had it search the returned text for words such as "rain", "snow" and storm". It runs this search at about 5:00 AM, and dependent upon the result, sets an alarm (with a snooze function that I programmed in). After the initial alarm, since I knew I'd be too tired to pay much attention to WHY it had woken me up early, I have it speak out loud "Good morning, you have been woken early today because it is [X weather] and [X degrees, after performing a Celcius to Farenheit conversion]. It is currently [time].
I plan on posting the Tasker profile to my blog in a couple days after I'm sure it contains no bugs (it'll probably snow in the morning so I'll be able to test that scenario).
Anyhow, this just gives a taste of what Tasker can do. I have it launch a list of apps when I plug into the headset jack, silence my phone if I get within 300 meters of work, or sound an alarm, vibrate, flash an LED, take pictures, and redirect outgoing calls to my girlfriend's phone if I send it a certain text message, to name a few very useful profiles I've got set up.
Tasker does everything without forcing you to learn any syntax or do any coding at all. It would be a matter of minutes to set up a scenario where, if you connect via Bluetooth, it waits a moment and terminates the default video player application and then launches the other application you want to use. One of the profiles I've forgotten to mention is one that, when I launch Navigation with the GPS off, closes Navigation, enables GPS, and loads Navigation back up. When I'm in the car I just want to touch Navigation, not screw with GPS settings.
Anyhow, enough of my gushing about Tasker. Seriously, best $5 app you'll ever buy. Trust me.

That might be pretty nice... wonder if it can tell the difference between a bluetooth headset and AD2P. I'll have to try it. Wonder if it could start my car with its application too like 30 min after my alarm hehe.
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I've been playing with Tasker and it will do what I need Thanks! I ended up setting up a profile that when it connects to my vehicle only, it will kill music player, wait 3 seconds and then kill it again... it took that due to the fact the car doesnt send the play signal for a few seconds.

Shift Slows down and starts vibrating.

I seem to be having a weird behaviour with my phone lately. Once in a while, it just slows down to a crawl, and intermittently vibrates (not the quick haptic vibrations, but maybe 1 to 1.5 second long vibrations). although the phone still responds, it's really slow, and i had to do a battery pull in order to get it property working again. I didn't actually have that problem, so i can't be sure, but the symptoms may match those of a bad temp root. (phone slows down, etc). I never waited long enough to see if the phone reverts to normal after a while, and i've always just pulled the battery.
it seems to be correlated to blutooth connections. it happened once when i was turning on an app (torque) ...and today, happened again while i was exiting from torque. i've been using torque for maybe 2 months now, and everything was fine.
the symptoms also doesn't happen all the time.
anyone know what the problem is?
i have a rooted shift, stock rom, and bc's 1.8 kernel running @ 368-1401 on-demand.
it's also possible that the OBD2 blutooth adapter i'm using with torque is a cheap knock off elm327.

This is a bug with Torque and Pandora. If you uninstall Pandora or turn off the car Bluetooth in the Pandora settings it will fix it.
I use both Torque paid and a cheap knockoff adapter also.
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thanks for the response. are you able to elaborate on the bug? is it the combination of torque and pandora that triggers it? i do have pandora installed, but don't really use it.

finalhit said:
thanks for the response. are you able to elaborate on the bug? is it the combination of torque and pandora that triggers it? i do have pandora installed, but don't really use it.
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This is from the Torque forum:
There is a good chance that you have another app or bluetooth pairing that is conflicting somehow – with quite a few EVO users (though it wasn’t limited to just the EVO), the ‘Pandora’ app was the culprit, but any app that stays active monitoring bluetooth could be the culprit.
Torque’s bluetooth code is rock solid, and it works on the Tab, so you’ll have some 3rd party app somewhere which is going crazy consuming all the available CPU power.
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If you go into Pandora and go to Preferences then at the bottom is "Bluetooth for Automotive" turn that off and it fixes the issue. I rarely use Pandora myself and was bummed that I couldn't use both apps, until I found this workaround on the Torque forum.

Interesting. I also have my phone paired to my car...could that be an issue?
Is the fact that I've only experienced this recently inspite of 2+ mos of use, consistent with that thesis?
edit: nm. i went to the torque forums, and learned myself a thing or two. yup, definitely experiencing those symptoms. the dev was saying the newest version should have some workaround, so we'll see tommorow if it takes.
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Task Manager kills Live Wallpapers

So I am currently running the latest version of Fascinate Community ROM and whenever I do a "Level 2" ram clear whatever Live Wallpaper I'm using gets killed, resulting in a black screen behind my desktop.
I can although change to a different Live Wallpaper and go back and the original will work.
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Am curious why you would be doing a lvl two cache clear enough that it would be a problem?

As am I. If you are using it to save battery life and attempt to fully close programs there are countless ways of doing this which are easier and better.
These is a reason it is killing your wallpaper..... you are telling it to.

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As am I. If you are using it to save battery life and attempt to fully close programs there are countless ways of doing this which are easier and better.
These is a reason it is killing your wallpaper..... you are telling it to.
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Yes I am telling it too, but on my Mesmerize ROMs it restarted right away with my launcher.
The reason I do a level 2 ram clear is because level 1 doesn't close any applications. Plus, some apps run as services and I don't want to have to go into Services but to end them one by one.
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The problem with that is that those services just start back up. There are some that I think only load on boot. Why not just uninstall what you are trying to close instead. Wiping the cache isn't exactly a normal way of closing apps.

Think of ur phones memory as a chalk board.. ur phone write the programs down one by one.. till it fills up.. then it erases the least important app.. and writes over it.. u do a level 2 wipe.. its trying to write with both hands to catch back up, then most likely you hit home and it has to throw a 3rd hand it doesnt have to try to open ur launcher.. last thing it thinks of is ur walpaper. being its least important.. u shouldnt be doing wipes like that.. its not nessisary.. just close open programs if ur having problems.. actually hurts bat life more than it helps

I'm not saying I'm doing this very often but at times i have to.
For example, about half the time I unplug my headphone jack from whatever I'm using a random song starts playing. It will not stop, the music player doesn't show up as running and a level one clear doesn't stop it, level two does. The music will play behind anything else I do i.e. phone calls, other music, even during shutdown until it actually turns off.
Also, battery life isn't the reason I do it, I am currently only using about 43% battery medium use running unplug for 12-17 hours because of my undervolt settings. I understand the concept of clearing the cache, it's just as I stated there is a need from time to time and it's incredibly irritating to not have a live wallpaper after stopping the ghost music.
Also, as I said this (ghost music and live wallpaper problems) never occurred on my USCC Mesmerize ROMS only this VZW Fascinate ROM (Community ROM V1.2).
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I'm not suggesting that it is the most likely possibility but it could be a physical problem with your 3.5 jack. A short in the jack can cause some funkyness playing songs and other audio. While back I had the og droid which suffered from this. If I moved the cord at all mp3s, podcast, pandora would all go crazy. Had to get a replacement. Since then I have tried to avoid ever plugging anything up to that jack when it is in my pocket. Bought a blue tooth to 3.5 adapter to protect it.
Again not saying that this is your problem, just that it is a possibility to be aware of. Concerning the issue with the music playing, not the wallpaper ofc.

MattRussNC said:
I'm not suggesting that it is the most likely possibility but it could be a physical problem with your 3.5 jack. A short in the jack can cause some funkyness playing songs and other audio. While back I had the og droid which suffered from this. If I moved the cord at all mp3s, podcast, pandora would all go crazy. Had to get a replacement. Since then I have tried to avoid ever plugging anything up to that jack when it is in my pocket. Bought a blue tooth to 3.5 adapter to protect it.
Again not saying that this is your problem, just that it is a possibility to be aware of. Concerning the issue with the music playing, not the wallpaper ofc.
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Yea I think this is the problem, a buddy of mine still has the og droid and says the if he moves the jack around music will start and stop. I think it's partially hardware and software because android has the ability to pause when unplugged and to resume when plugged back in.
The live wallpaper problem is only a temporary problem until I get that fix. I think I'm gonna call samsung for a replacement under warranty because my screen also has burn in and that is covered as well.
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So I decided the other day to take a look at the running services while the ghost music was playing and noticed Winamp was running and as soon as I stopped it the music stopped.
Update: I uninstalled Winamp and have used an 3.5mm jack for music unplugging and re-plugged in with no problems.
- Swyped on my USCC Mescinate ED01 running Com ROM

Disturbing Sounds Coming from phone ( Samsung Galaxy S4 SGH-1337 - 5.0.1)

On 3 separate random occasions now. I have set my phone down for the nite. Plugged in the charger and was I was watching TV or reading heard voices comming from my phone. When I leaned over and listened it sounded like audio from a pickup truck ad (on the 2nd occasion) and as soon as unlocked the phone the audio stops. The screen is completely off when this occurs and there as no apps open when I unlock the phone. The phone was locked for at least 30 min on the last occurrence. I have scanned my phone with malwarebytes & avast both turn up nothing.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this ???
TLDR:
Screen off/locked
Charging
Strange Audio plays
Unlock phone nothing running (no youtube or games open)
Audio Stops
WTF??? :silly:

Your charger is generating radio interference that the S4 is picking up when charging. It's not something to worry about.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Your charger is generating radio interference that the S4 is picking up when charging. It's not something to worry about.
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Thanks for the hypotheses but I very much doubt that is the case. Radio reception in the room I was in is very weak as it is below ground level. I am pretty sure on one occurrence the phone may have not even been plugged in at all. The audio is clear(not static-y) but at a low volume since i usually have the ringer low in the evenings, and it was definitely playing over the devices speakers.

You misunderstand. This is not like tuning in a radio. Your charger was generating the noise and the S4 picked it up due to being close to the charger. Try a different charger and see if you get the noise again.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
You misunderstand. This is not like tuning in a radio. Your charger was generating the noise and the S4 picked it up due to being close to the charger. Try a different charger and see if you get the noise again.
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I have been using an Anker 40W 5 port charger for almost a year and this has never been an issue. There is no way that it was this charger. It is not a some cheap clone either with some copper wound around a piece of iron acting as a transformer/ Antenna. The USB cables are all HQ with shielding as well. It was definitely an audio advertisement file playing not broadcast radio.
My question is more is there some malware/adware that could have been piggy backed in with a game or app?
Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this before?

If you get your apps from outside the established stores like Google Play or Amazon Underground you shouldn't have any malware. From outside the stores, you may very likely have gotten something. You'll need to go through your apps though one by one, and find out which one is generating this.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
If you get your apps from outside the established stores like Google Play or Amazon Underground you shouldn't have any malware. From outside the stores, you may very likely have gotten something. You'll need to go through your apps though one by one, and find out which one is generating this.
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I only install from Google Play store or Amazon. But some apps that do pass approval of Google still might have aggressive advertising cookies or popups through their adverts built into the app.
I should also clarify that by DISTURBING Sounds, I meant that the phone is 'off' and on the table and then suddenly I hear a voice coming from the phone.
I found the experience disturbing. Firstly because it was late at night and was alone then heard an unannounced voice (not a ring tone or a beep).
Then I began to worry my phone was infected or hacked by something or someone.
What would be worst is if I was just straight up having an auditory hallucination or my home was haunted by a truck salesman. But I am 99.99% certain it was the phone playing the audio.
It would be great if there was a simple explanation like 'oh yeah sometimes in a game when you watch a video to get a free bonus powerup sometimes the video player crashes but the ad is still in memory and once in a blue moon the video unfreezes long after you closed the app and begins to play even though the screen is locked.'
But I guess this has not happed to anyone else.

[SOLVED]
I found the culprit!!!
I had this app [My Fitness Pal] installed on my phone and found several other users complaining in this forum.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/...tarts-playing-when-app-is-in-background-scary
This is bullcrap. I can understand having a banner in app. I can understand popups or videos that play while you are in the app.
But playing audio when you are not using the phone is MALWARE.
I am boycotting this company and all others who think this kind of intrusive advertising is in any way acceptable.

Take the advice given on that page and flag the app as inappropriate in the Play Store.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Take the advice given on that page and flag the app as inappropriate in the Play Store.
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Already done. =)