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Okay, I've searched high and low and have not found anything related to this and if it's already been asked about, apologies in advance...
In every CM6 based build that I've tried, on a fresh install, everything is fine. I keep my builds very basic, not many widgets running, etc, etc...
However, it seems like after a days use, the phone will slow to an absolute crawl. Scrolling between homescreens is severely laggy, opening screen previews then subsequently selecting a screen is extremely jerky and slow. Reboots don't help, task killing doesn't help, nothing seems to help, except..
If I remove a widget, any widget, does not matter which, everything goes back to normal. A lot of times, after using the phone for a while, it slows back down. Remove another widget, everything back to normal. It's really strange and quite frankly it's driving me up the wall because I highly prefer Non-Sense builds, but the Sense based builds don't give me this problem at all. Has anybody else had this issue, if so, were you able to fix it? Or has this already been discussed and I missed it? Thanks in advance...
Edit: Just tested it again... Everything running fine, added vlingo widget, phone slows to a crawl, remove it, back to normal. Tried this with Vlingo, Engadget, Music, and Power Control. All with the same results.
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My phone slows down to the point where I have to reset...what kind of micro SD r u using?
Transcend, 4 GB, Class 6... I thought it may have been a overclocking issue, uninstalled SetCPU, no dice. Reinstalled. I can not figure out for the life of me what's causing it. Rebooting doesn't help me, I have to remove a widget. I can replace it with shortcuts all I want, it's definitely widget related.
I have an issue that is driving me absolutely crazy... When my screen times out, the application that I am using closes. This does not occur on my G2 and I cannot figure out how to stop it from occurring on my Galaxy Tab. I know that I can increase the time before the screen times out, but I would prefer to have the app stay running. Anyone know how to fix this?
Ugh!!!
By default Android does not terminate Apps when the screen times out.
1. Does this happen with ALL Apps?
2. Has it happened all the time or only recently?
If it is recently, have a look at your installed Apps to see if there is something you have either installed or altered at the time the problem was first noticed.
As Beards says it shouldn't do this. What have you done to your tab, because you give us absolutely no information with which we can help you!
I do have Launcher Pro installed, but do not see an option to change the way it behaves when the screen closes. I have noticed that this DOES NOT occur when the tablet is plugged in to a charging source, only when running on battery.
As I mentioned previously, could you answer my previous questions.
Simply mentioning Launcher Pro does not really help in diagnosing the problem. You must be specific otherwise it is difficult to assist.
The use of battery only is interesting but need further info.
Weird.
Have you got power saving mode unchecked in display settings?
Not running an app. like JuiceDefender or similar are you?
vs2 said:
Weird.
Have you got power saving mode unchecked in display settings?
Not running an app. like JuiceDefender or similar are you?
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Yes, this is what I am leading up to, rather than asking direct which may end up sending us on a wild goose chase.
Hi Folks:
Is anyone else having this problem?
New Info as of 16 July. Sound Still Skipping
Unfortunately, I'm still having sound file skips when the tablet is off.
I did some more Google research on this, and I found several instances with regard to phones having sound problems with skipping and popping sounds while playing. Nearly all of those seemed to be related to either headphone issues or the Bluetooth xceiver.
I originally though this problem was specific to Overdrive Media console, but it has also turned up in the Music app. I also installed a couple of other music/sound apps to see if it may be app specific, but all of them had the same consistent behavior of the sound file...pausing at random intervals....and then continuing after a few seconds when the screen...was turned off. The skips DO NOT happen when the screen is on.
Going through Erica Rene's thoughts I went into the Running Applications Manager and turned off several services I wasn't using, including Neo Player, 3d Gallery, Skype, and even Music. I initially thought that worked, but I was wrong. Same behavior.
This morning I did a factory reset. No change in behavior.
Since I just started using the tablet for audio books and podcasts I honestly don't know if this problem was there in 3.0. When I did the factory reset I thought the tablet might go back to 3.0, but I was wrong. I am still on build Acer_A500_4.010.08_COM_GEN2 after the factory reset.
There seems to be nothing wrong with my hardware that I can see. These skips happen with the headphones in or out. The only thing that triggers it is turning off the screen.
Insofar as software is concerned, I've not done anything more except rooting the tablet (which survived the factory reset process, which did surprise me! ). Beyond putting in another ROM - which, unless I can get some specific thoughts that it will fix the problem, given my experience level I'm a bit leery of doing - I can't see how software would fix it now.
Is anyone else seeing this???
Thanks!!!!
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I've searched Google and here on XDA for this and not found anything, so I'm hoping that someone can say something.
When I play a sound file on my A500, and then turn it off, the sound continuing to play is a very iffy thing. This works on my Nexus One phone, so I assumed it would work here. On my phone I start a sound file running (music, podcast, audio from an audio book or Google reader) and then I turn the phone "off" to conserve the battery, of course. The sound continues to play.
When I do the same thing on the A500 it is very rare that the sound continues to play. Sometimes it will stop as soon as I turn the tablet off, sometimes it will continue for several seconds and then stop, sometimes it will continue for several seconds and then pause for a couple of seconds and continue in this loop for the life of the file.
I originally thought that this was a specific issue with the audio books in the Overdrive Media Console program, but I've now encountered it with Google Reader and playing things through either Music or Rockplayer Lite.
Has anyone seen this yourself, or does anyone have any thoughts? Details on the tablet are below:
OS: AndroidOS 3.1
Build: Acer_A500_4.010.08_COM_GEN2
Rooted
Could be some of the apps not playing fair.
Do you have a task killer or any add on management app.they can cause this
Also in settings sounds.there is a check button to control this.
Also do not hit the back button on the apt this will kill it
I had Google music going off when I would hot the power buttonbtobturn off display and it was ina task killer ibaccidently installed something I had on USB drive for my cell.it had a setting to close all apps on display off or sleep.
Erica:
Thank you for your reply. Oddly enough, something along those lines may be it.
I've not modified my tablet much beyond rooting it. I've not uninstalled applications and don't have a custom ROM.
You mentioned that something might not be playing fair. I have no add on management application, nor any task killer I'm aware of. The Applications area of Settings has been doing what I need in that department fine for me. So I went in and looked at what services were running, and specifically turned off the services and programs I know I was not using: Skype, NemoPlayer, PhotoBrowser, Acer Sync. I then tried a sound file, turned off the tablet and it did continue to play steadily.
Now I guess I just have to figure out which program is the culprit, but it seems evident that one of them is.
Along those lines, perhaps you can answer something else for me: Those programs I mentioned above basically started running services on bootup. How do I stop that? I don't use NemoPlayer, for example, and so have no reason to have any service from it starting. I took a look at the Settings->Applications area and don't seem to see anything there that indicates what gets started upon bootup.
Thanks!
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I use titanium backup. It has a option to not only backup. But can freeze apps.Im not sure but you might need to have root for this feature.there are other apps on market to freeze them maybe someone can help by telling the app they use.just do not remove any apps Acer put on your tab.
You can get root easky look in Dev area
Put some new information in teh original post.
My sound also cuts out when tablet goes to lock mode. I thought it was certain apps. Removed everything as far as widgets anything running in backround on home screen but I still have the same issue its random. Tried a clean wipe/install basic apps root explorer and still had it happen. I thought it might be a audio codec problem. In Honeycomb 3.0 I was able to play AVIs with AC3 in mobo and nemo player now I cant in 3.1.
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i have the probleme too with the sound when it goes to sleep when i stream webradio !
Just a thought, along similar lines when my screen is off sound will cut out after about 15 to 20 mins. I think for you as others have said you have something else that is causing the problem. For me I think it's just a system timer. Don't know how to fix it.
i have experienced a similar thing with some Roms I've tried and with them it was the built in overclocker that was the culprit. I had to change the profile in the overclocker to enable the playback while the screen was off. Same goes for overclocking apps such as setcpu.
I'm experiencing a skip with my email notification. I recorded a short notice (similar to you got mail) & it does a 5 second pause 1/2 way through. Didn't do it prior to 3.1
Hi guys. I got myself a 32gb, wifi only version of N7. Upgraded it instantly to 4.2.2 . Nothing to complain about in the first 2 days.
After that, I noticed that, when I play music (stream through upnp on local network or play mp3 / flac files on local storage - tested several players, bsplayer, google player, poweramp...), and do some other stuff on the tablet at the same time - surf, or just 'click around', or swipe through my documents - occassionally I experience short sound dropouts, like the I/O-load would be too high or something. Please note this isn't bluetooth thing some people experienced, I use regular phones. It happens sometimes when I do some trivial stuff...noticed it all over the place, while starting an app, surfing, writing something in the Google search window, searching people on FB, opening a browser (empty) tab, even clicking on application button to see the list. It can be really anything, it doesn't happen a lot but it's there.
I googled the problem but couldn't find anyone with similar issues. Read on the other hand a lot about general performance issues of the Nexus 7 after 4.2.2 upgrade, about (visual) lag, so I figured, even though my eye didn't catch that on my device (this is my first experience with 4.x.x so it looked fast and smooth enough to me), I decided to revert to 4.1.2 and see whether there would be any difference. I can't say I could see/hear improvement, maybe a slight one, but I still get to experience occassional chops in my music, which is very annoying, this should be ridiculously easy for a 4-core processor to accomplish. It's unacceptable. I even checked that CPU wasnt overloaded when these chops occured (in fact, it was only around 25%-30% when the chops occured, perhaps the peaks were too short for program to register them - I dunno)...
I also tried everything people suggested here regarding general performance issues, disabling this and that, Currents, factory resets, cleaning cache partition...you name it. Nada.
Anybody experienced similar thing? Don't know if I have faulty unit or if this is bug in software (Samsung Galaxy S3 had a similar thing when it got out, even though the sound pops were of different nature and occured under different circumstances - took several software upgrades until it got fixed)...I'm thinking of returning it and go for iPad mini or something.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
The results of this have varied but there are some who attest that this works.
Have you disabled auto-sync in Google Currents (Blue Circle Icon)?
If not, try that; this has worked for me.
Open up "Google Currents" Hit the 3 dots on the top right -> Settings -> Scroll down and UNCHECK "Enable background sync"
Remember these results have varied, but it fixed the issue with my tablet. Also I heard there were some issues (although if someone can confirm them further for us--that'd be appreciated!) with the RAM in many Nexus 7s so stressing out the ram and filling up your SDcard to the max will cause it to have stutter issues too.
Hi and thanks for the suggestion,
Disabling the background sync in Google Currents was actually the first thing I did. I believe I tried out everything that was suggested so far on the net regarding the general performance issues. I used Forever Gone app to fill up all space and then delete it, I wiped the cache partition in bootloader mode, I even did a factory reset, and eventually I re-flashed it back to 4.1.2 (it did improve then but the music lag / pops were still not entirely gone). SD-card space-thing cannot be the issue either as I have like 23gigs free.
Now I even noticed that video playback is effected by occasional sound pops. When I play video in full screen, not doing anything else, it still happens. Rarely but it does happen.
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The results of this have varied but there are some who attest that this works.
Have you disabled auto-sync in Google Currents (Blue Circle Icon)?
If not, try that; this has worked for me.
Open up "Google Currents" Hit the 3 dots on the top right -> Settings -> Scroll down and UNCHECK "Enable background sync"
Remember these results have varied, but it fixed the issue with my tablet. Also I heard there were some issues (although if someone can confirm them further for us--that'd be appreciated!) with the RAM in many Nexus 7s so stressing out the ram and filling up your SDcard to the max will cause it to have stutter issues too.
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Returned it and took money back. Will look for other options soon. This thing was too 'beta' for me.
I'm currently on stock 4.4.2 ROM on T-Mobile for my Samsung Galaxy S5 device and have been getting some rather annoying stuttering/skipping while listening to audio. My current player of choice is GMMP and have tried Rocket Player, Neutron, and doubleTwist... I've removed any use of equalizers and have cranked up buffer settings in all the players I've tried, but no dice. the stuttering happens randomly across my selection of MP3s and I can't figure out why! I've tried moving the files to the internal SD for faster access, but no luck. I've cranked up the read ahead on the SD reads, no change. The only thing I notice is that if I leave the screen on constantly then it plays stutter-free! Leaving the screen on in this manner is a waste of battery and raises the temp unnecessarily especially given that other S5 owners don't seem to have this problem. I've tried wiping my device, but that did not fix it. Anyone have any suggestions? Hoping to be able to tweak some kernel settings to fix this if needed!
dimm0k said:
I'm currently on stock 4.4.2 ROM on T-Mobile for my Samsung Galaxy S5 device and have been getting some rather annoying stuttering/skipping while listening to audio. My current player of choice is GMMP and have tried Rocket Player, Neutron, and doubleTwist... I've removed any use of equalizers and have cranked up buffer settings in all the players I've tried, but no dice. the stuttering happens randomly across my selection of MP3s and I can't figure out why! I've tried moving the files to the internal SD for faster access, but no luck. I've cranked up the read ahead on the SD reads, no change. The only thing I notice is that if I leave the screen on constantly then it plays stutter-free! Leaving the screen on in this manner is a waste of battery and raises the temp unnecessarily especially given that other S5 owners don't seem to have this problem. I've tried wiping my device, but that did not fix it. Anyone have any suggestions? Hoping to be able to tweak some kernel settings to fix this if needed!
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Senor, not the right section..
This is for development etc.. go to Q & A
sorry, please move this if possible...
Since that guy won't help, I will.
-Have you tried ODIN back to stock and start fresh again?
-Did you wipe everything? Data, Cache, and Dalvik Cache?
-Have checked your phones clock speed? Try checking the CPU Governor/Scheduler settings?
-What kernel are you using? Stock or Custom.
As the guy* stated above me, this is a Q&A problem, not a development problem.
*=at least give the guy some tips, then tell him its not a development question.
De_Falt said:
Since that guy won't help, I will.
-Have you tried ODIN back to stock and start fresh again?
-Did you wipe everything? Data, Cache, and Dalvik Cache?
-Have checked your phones clock speed? Try checking the CPU Governor/Scheduler settings?
-What kernel are you using? Stock or Custom.
As the guy* stated above me, this is a Q&A problem, not a development problem.
*=at least give the guy some tips, then tell him its not a development question.
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Dont get me wrong, i didnt read the whole story.....
But wasnt it about sound?
If the phone was complete dead or something like that.... that would be a bigger issue, wouldnt you agree?
Hey op , disable 'adapt sound' app and the stuttering should be gone.
If not, install power amp music player and go into settings>audio>advanced tweaks and increase the audio thread priority (auto, +1, +2, or +3) and/or increase the buffer size (auto, +250, +500, +750ms)
Well I am too getting this on my Samsung Galaxy 3 Avant as well, android 4.4.2, but I did diagnosed something from it via an app called "CPU Monitor" and apparently some how it is tying into 2 processes sometimes 3 that over power my Music Player app Winamp, the Process seem to be from the Android System and System UI, possible triggers for higher than normal Processes, KLMS Agent and ELM Agent, part of Samsung KNOX which appears to be behind such problems as usual, because I tested this when I ended those processes, but when the 4G Status was updated or reconnected, it triggers the Stutter and already has loaded both KNOX apps, Package Disabler no longer adds them due to Samsung's Cease and Desist orders against blocking KNOX for Security reasons.