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Hi,
Had my HD for just under a week now and I must admit I wasn't overly impressed with it at first. Quite slow in general and video playback wasn't great...decided to hard reset it and start from scratch...before I did anything I followed the performance increase tutorial on here and now I'm happy as larry with the HD - it's exactly what I hoped it would be even the keyboard is good on the screen in landscape mode.
However there is still one problem that I can't resolve or find a lot of information about...it's the music tab in the touch flo....yes I know there's a lot of posts about album art etc - but none seem to mention AudioManager_eng.exe crashing when you try to use it...other people have mentioned this on other forums but no-one seems to know what's going on...does anyone know what causes this...??
Thanks,
Dan

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463296
You might wanna track this thread and see what goes on here. Unfortunately no solid resolution as of now.

dangreen said:
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However there is still one problem that I can't resolve or find a lot of information about...it's the music tab in the touch flo....yes I know there's a lot of posts about album art etc - but none seem to mention AudioManager_eng.exe crashing when you try to use it...other people have mentioned this on other forums but no-one seems to know what's going on...does anyone know what causes this...??
Dan
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I saw that very early on when I started putting music on my HD.
By a process of elimination, I isolated it to a "rogue" music track, (or else my HD simply disapproves of Blondie ).
I suspect that although the music file in question played back fine on the PC, there was something about it that thoroughly confused audio manager to the point of crashing. I imagine that the meta tags are the most likely culprit, but never got round to conclusively proving that. When I removed the album in question and soft reset, the problems went away.
Note that you seem to need to soft reset the 'HD to make it rebuild the music indexes.
- Steve

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I saw that very early on when I started putting music on my HD.
By a process of elimination, I isolated it to a "rogue" music track, (or else my HD simply disapproves of Blondie ).
I suspect that although the music file in question played back fine on the PC, there was something about it that thoroughly confused audio manager to the point of crashing. I imagine that the meta tags are the most likely culprit, but never got round to conclusively proving that. When I removed the album in question and soft reset, the problems went away.
Note that you seem to need to soft reset the 'HD to make it rebuild the music indexes.
- Steve
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The most likely cause still remains an unsupported file. Wonder why though

Hey thanks for the replies!
Well I bit the bullet yesterday....got myself a few bottles of beer lined up and went through all the music I had one the HD. I firstly set my PC to show protected operating system files and begun checking everything. On my HD I am using the folder structure Storage Card --> My Documents --> My Music --> Album Name.
In all of the album folders I left only the mp3's and the album art image which i renamed to folder.jpg. I went back to the Music tab and the same crash occurred. So I turned off touch flow...deleted AudioManager_eng.vol then fired up touch flo again...this recreates the AudioManager_eng.vol but the crash still occurred.
I then removed all music and started to copy the albums on one by one...started with Foo Fighters and happy days it worked! So I continued on with the others until I got to Nirvana - Nevermind....anyway the tags on the mp3 for track number were 1 - 2 - 3 - 4/13 - 5/13 - 6/13...etc. Set all the tags to just the single track number and hey presto everything works fine...I can just dump music into the storage card following the same structure, hit the music tab and there it is ready to play!! I now officially love this device! lol Sorry for the long winded explanation! Thanks again for your replies!

it seems pocket player 4.1 is the only palyer that has no stuttering

Hey guys
I experienced audio stuttering with every player, but when I installed pocket player 4.1 all the stuttering disapeared.
any comments on this note

I would have to agree with you on that one. Although I'm having issues with adding my own podcasts from valid addresses not updating at all. And, I don't know how to delete the podcast entry and start over. Perplexing indeed!

got core player and its terrible for it. Real let down, bougth this phone for one of the big plusses of being able to plug head phones in. Is rediculas tbh.

8igdave said:
got core player and its terrible for it. Real let down, bougth this phone for one of the big plusses of being able to plug head phones in. Is rediculas tbh.
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Might be because the built in equaliser is enabled. If I disable it and use something like Audio Booster instead Core Player is better than perfect.

custardo01 said:
Might be because the built in equaliser is enabled. If I disable it and use something like Audio Booster instead Core Player is better than perfect.
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Its not enabled it really screws up the sound i find. are you runing version 1.3? im on 1.2

8igdave said:
Its not enabled it really screws up the sound i find. are you runing version 1.3? im on 1.2
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I have the latest 1.3.2 but have also found success with earlier versions. What about preferences/audio/audio output=Wave Output or preferences/buffering/Preload for audio =64kb. Problem is there are so many options. I am sure it must be something in the preferences not set right. I don't use scan library at startt up option but prefer to select files direct from storage card or from a playlist file. My experience with WMP and HTC Audio manager is that library sorting always causes problems like pauses and skipping. Hope this may be of some help anyway.

custardo01 said:
I have the latest 1.3.2 but have also found success with earlier versions. What about preferences/audio/audio output=Wave Output or preferences/buffering/Preload for audio =64kb. Problem is there are so many options. I am sure it must be something in the preferences not set right. I don't use scan library at startt up option but prefer to select files direct from storage card or from a playlist file. My experience with WMP and HTC Audio manager is that library sorting always causes problems like pauses and skipping. Hope this may be of some help anyway.
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I already have those options set thanks though, yaeh i suspect it hs something to do with library scan as when im looking through my songs, by scrolling thro them it causes music to skip like made. So i suspect there is a connection there.
Sadly it appears i am not alone at all:
Hi, this is a known issue with the hand set not coreplayer. See XDA Dev for details. This has not yet been fully solved but there are some improvments that can be made updating your ROM, drivers and Coreplayer to latest version.
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From a post i did on core palyers forums to try get some answers:
http://forum.corecodec.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2614
Someone had a fix for it somewehre i saw a logn tiemn ago, i dont know where it was. Might have been a differnt rom.
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Im going to see if douberling the buffer size to 128kb makes any difference.

increasign the buffer size does appear to have made some difference. Not sure its completely gone tho. I increased it further to 256kb, that smoothed it out a bit more. I may try 512kb

8igdave said:
increasign the buffer size does appear to have made some difference. Not sure its completely gone tho. I increased it further to 256kb, that smoothed it out a bit more. I may try 512kb
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Sounds good. Will be interested to hear how that goes. I found it really bad at first and it did take a while to settle down. Pretty sure it helped putting the equaliser off. Now it is brilliant and would not be without it. Would using Audio Booster help at all? Not sure why it would help but just another thing I use without problems.

DRM Protected Content Storage - High Battery Usage

So I've been trying to figure out what app(s) has been causing my battery to drain quicker than normal because I noticed it draining quicker than when I first flashed the Bionix 1.3 rom. I found a program called PowerTutor that profiles and monitors your phone's power usage and allows you to see how much power is used by each app.
I quickly found that 2 apps were sucking up all the power. The OLED screen by itself uses about 400mw of power. I found that QuickDesk is using about 350mw and DRM Portected Content Storage is using 380mw of power.
I have uninstalled QuickDesk, but what the heck is DRM Protected Content Storage. Is this a necessary app that needs to run in the background or is it safe to kill or better yet, prevent from running at all?
Thanks
New Finding: So I killed the DRM Protected Content Storage with a task killer, but apparently it's still running in the background because it's still eating up the battery according to PowerTutor.

Maverick777 said:
So I've been trying to figure out what app(s) has been causing my battery to drain quicker than normal because I noticed it draining quicker than when I first flashed the Bionix 1.3 rom. I found a program called PowerTutor that profiles and monitors your phone's power usage and allows you to see how much power is used by each app.
I quickly found that 2 apps were sucking up all the power. The OLED screen by itself uses about 400mw of power. I found that QuickDesk is using about 350mw and DRM Portected Content Storage is using 380mw of power.
I have uninstalled QuickDesk, but what the heck is DRM Protected Content Storage. Is this a necessary app that needs to run in the background or is it safe to kill or better yet, prevent from running at all?
Thanks
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If you kill it, your Avatar movie may stop working. It will also likely make the Media Hub app never work, should they ever enable it for us. I can't think of anything else DRM would do for/against us. Avatar is easy enough to replace if you want to with Handbrake and a copy of the movie in a non-DRM format, so give it a go I guess. I might try it just to save battery. I have AutoStarts, so I should be able to keep it from ever loading. I suspect if you kill it, it will just come back.

ttabbal said:
If you kill it, your Avatar movie may stop working. It will also likely make the Media Hub app never work, should they ever enable it for us. I can't think of anything else DRM would do for/against us. Avatar is easy enough to replace if you want to with Handbrake and a copy of the movie in a non-DRM format, so give it a go I guess. I might try it just to save battery. I have AutoStarts, so I should be able to keep it from ever loading. I suspect if you kill it, it will just come back.
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The problem is it looks like the program is still running after I've killed it with a task killer. It doesn't even show up as a running task, but it's apparently still using power. 390mw's at the moment.
I don't have Avatar anymore since I swapped out the SD card and didn't plan on putting it back on and I won't be using MediaHub.
Since this program alone accounts for 80% or more of the power usage among all my apps while the phone is idling, I just want to prevent it from running at all. It's rediculous for a program to be using almost as much power as the screen!

DRM Protected Content Storage is a native Android service. It's a background loop service that runs whenever the display is active to insure that content with DRM is allowed to run and display.
You are misinterpreting what this is doing, as is the Power Tutor application. It will *ALWAYS* show a power draw that is roughly equivalent to the displays power draw when the display is active because it runs as a subset of the display service.
Fire up an ancient G1 running Donut and you'll see the same behavior...

Maverick777 said:
The problem is it looks like the program is still running after I've killed it with a task killer. It doesn't even show up as a running task, but it's apparently still using power. 390mw's at the moment.
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That's where something like AutoStarts comes in. It allows you to disable services that auto-start.
See the other post about why it shows up that way. Sounds like it's not a big issue and the app you're using to estimate power draw is wrong about it.

ttabbal said:
That's where something like AutoStarts comes in. It allows you to disable services that auto-start.
See the other post about why it shows up that way. Sounds like it's not a big issue and the app you're using to estimate power draw is wrong about it.
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OK, in that case I'll let it keep running. Thanks for all the info.

its safe to stop the drm content storage i did it havent noticed any bad things going on with my phone.. hopefully battery life gets better.. i stop sns, drm, and some other service that was running havent had any FCs or anything like that if battery life gets better ill definitely be happy

you can also freeze these process using Titanium Backup. This way, you won't delete them if you ever need to use them [DRM] and they won't be running in the background unnecessarily. Better battery life has been reported.

sad to say battery life hasnt increased for me smh

HG! said:
you can also freeze these process using Titanium Backup. This way, you won't delete them if you ever need to use them [DRM] and they won't be running in the background unnecessarily. Better battery life has been reported.
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This is exactly what I did and have experienced bettery battery life with no ill side effects.

Wrong About the Media
masterotaku said:
DRM Protected Content Storage is a native Android service. It's a background loop service that runs whenever the display is active to insure that content with DRM is allowed to run and display.
You are misinterpreting what this is doing, as is the Power Tutor application. It will *ALWAYS* show a power draw that is roughly equivalent to the displays power draw when the display is active because it runs as a subset of the display service.
Fire up an ancient G1 running Donut and you'll see the same behavior...
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I am having the same issue and have found you're above theory is incorrect, according to my G1.
Cell standby: 69
Display: 12
wifi: 11
phone idle: 5
(weird stats, though wish i could have it on my overheating sgs2) (
on my sgs2 screen is 37% while media is 25% (not close enough to be "rough" either)
anyway, where did you find out about this? (power draw of display = same because parent of set)
because i have tried disabling all the subsets of media and it doesnt change. so your idea might make sense to explain it..

HG! said:
you can also freeze these process using Titanium Backup. This way, you won't delete them if you ever need to use them [DRM] and they won't be running in the background unnecessarily. Better battery life has been reported.
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Thanks! I did the same, next is 'download manager' which is draining me too....

masterotaku said:
DRM Protected Content Storage is a native Android service. It's a background loop service that runs whenever the display is active to insure that content with DRM is allowed to run and display.
You are misinterpreting what this is doing, as is the Power Tutor application. It will *ALWAYS* show a power draw that is roughly equivalent to the displays power draw when the display is active because it runs as a subset of the display service.
Fire up an ancient G1 running Donut and you'll see the same behavior...
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Do not take it personally, but it's the most stupid thing I've ever heard of.
DRM crap can only check/search for data streams, but not on the screen like you claim, as such would drain your battery much faster (probably in an hour or so) and would have to use internet databases or the data would fill you SD about what is to be protected and what not - as I assume you thought about "screen recognition of protected content" - so no, you are TOTALLY wrong. Those are simple certificate-like algorithms based on the digital data stored inside the movies/songs etc.
And I'm going to freeze this crappy DRM too, as I have no movies/audio to be checked at all, all free stuff, so it's of no use to me ever.
I'll keep you posted what it did on my DHD Sense based Android. And I suppose it won't do anything.
PS. Most of the DRM drain is caused when you mount/unmount SD card as this crap scans for files.

What DRM Protected Content basically does is prevent a user from viewing, converting and copying the copyright illegally downloaded content.
If you want to know more about Digital Rights Management refer to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
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Any ideas on these
Hello Everyone,
Below is the list of apps running as pre-installed. A discription, safe to remove or not, safe to disable at startup or not. Information will be helpful.
Google Contacts sync
Market feedback agent
MusicFX -- I disabled it at boot via Clean Master app
Picasa uploader -- I disabled it at boot via Clean Master app
Calender
Calender Storage
DRM protected Content -- I disabled it at boot via Clean Master app
Download Manager
Google One Time Init
Google Play services
Google Services Framework
Media Storage
Omcap
Atci_service
Bluetooth
Cell Broadcasts
Key chain
Phone
SIM Toolkit
let me know guys... thanks

Atharkhan101 said:
Hello Everyone,
Below is the list of apps running as pre-installed. A discription, safe to remove or not, safe to disable at startup or not. Information will be helpful.
Google Contacts sync
Market feedback agent
MusicFX -- I disabled it at boot via Clean Master app
Picasa uploader -- I disabled it at boot via Clean Master app
Calender
Calender Storage
DRM protected Content -- I disabled it at boot via Clean Master app
Download Manager
Google One Time Init
Google Play services
Google Services Framework
Media Storage
Omcap
Atci_service
Bluetooth
Cell Broadcasts
Key chain
Phone
SIM Toolkit
let me know guys... thanks
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Cell Broadcasts I try delete 1 time no problem

Rodriguez92 said:
sad to say battery life hasnt increased for me smh
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Did you uninstall it ? Is it possible via ADB ?

Camera lag and other problems

running aosp cm right now and everytime I press the button to take a picture theres like a 3-5 second lag after pressing it. is this normal? Does not happen with video.
another problem I had was that I had a problem with my car making a wierd noise, so I decided to take a video with my hero so I could upload it on youtube for my friend hear the noise. The video plays great on the phone...when I upload it directly to youtube it gets fuzzy and distortioned and the sound is whack. I transferred the video to my pc and it plays fine problem is when I upload it to youtube
had a similar issue the other day when I recorded something and when I started playing it on the phone it looked fuzzy like I stated above.
could this p0roblem be caused by an SD booster app I have installed? its set to 2048kb I believe.
and the gallery app is really laggy for me so I downloaded quickpic from the market...when I look at some pictures they look low quality compared to the gallery app.
I'd appreciate some input on this if anyone has had a similar problem
other than that my phone has been rock solid! Thanks guys
Edit this is the video I shot...clearly not the noise my car is making....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGpE85MF28s
sorry don't know how to put an embed code on here for the video :/

the 'stock' camera app is less than desirable. From what I've heard, this is the truth with just about all android phones, for various reasons. I also experience the lag you speak of, but not with the MIUI camera app that's listed in the 'heroc apps and themes' forum (i posted it for you in the other thread)
as far as videos/youtube, you might want to run the video file through a codec converter to clean it up. if i remember correctly youtube likes certain file types better than others.
Keep in mind this phone is running an ARM6 processor. custom ROMs improve usage, but only when configured properly, and even then it's still like running windows 7 on a single core processor with 512RAM. You might want to try tinkering with overclocking at this point... just do a nandroid backup in clockwork beforehand, and you'll be able to revert changes back to a working config if you get bootlooped.

got the nandroid setup, what settings do you recomend for cpu usage?

Set the ' set on boot' setting to off, set on demand for governor.
Start with 392 low 691 high, and putz around the phone opening a bunch of apps, just generally trying to max out cpu usage. If that doesn't crash the phone (though you will eventually see performance degradation) then that setting is safe. push the low cpu setting down / high setting up
A single notch, repeat. Keep doing this until 176\729. If that setting works, set it to set at boot.
you can try pushing for the higher ones, but probably best not to use 19 for the low just stick to 176.
Sent from my derp.

Well turns out the aac compressor on my car is bad :/
Back on topic, ill be sure to check it out later when i get home.
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There are a bunch of third party camera apps in the market that should fix the lag problem ... had to use it for one of the sensible salsa builds, fixed the issue for me.

slimshade4545 said:
There are a bunch of third party camera apps in the market that should fix the lag problem ... had to use it for one of the sensible salsa builds, fixed the issue for me.
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Like what?

CM12 Nightlies - assorted crashes in Music app

I've been running official CM12 nightlies on my XT907 for a few weeks now. It's rock solid overall, but one issue has plagued me since I first flashed the ROM - the built in Music app (com.cyanogenmod.eleven).
I have given up on trying to actually play music with it. For every build I've tried, including the 2/15 build I'm on at this writing, the app:
crashes in the background, seemingly at random,
creates four entries in the music browser for every song,
crashes as soon as I tap a song (rendering me unable to play any music),
occasionally crashes in the middle of updating/loading the music database,
appears to crash while running, but keeps running.
(Note: "crashes", for this post, means that a pop-up dialog appears, saying, "Unfortunately, Music has stopped," and getting dropped back to my launcher.)
No amount of clearing the app's data/cache, disabling and re-enabling the app, or double-checks of my copy of the ROM .zip have provided me any hints as to the cause of the problem, let alone solved it or revealed a solution.
While I can always use another app (Google Play Music seems to work fine, if sluggishly), I'd really like to give the stock Music a proper whirl (that, and there's the principle of wanting a fully-working CM ). I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem, at least on other phones, so it is possibly just me and some weird configuration, or possibly a song file that the database scanner is tripping up on, or ... sheesh, I don't even know.
So, uh, help? Please?

Screw that Eleven player. I don't know what the hell CM is trying to do, but it's said to be not utilizing the media library properly, causing crashes. Even a phone with *no* songs inside it will still have it crash. Tried back in December and still isn't fixed by now.
I used to like Apollo a lot but now I'm forced to switch to NexMusic - nice experience anyway.
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AndyYan said:
Screw that Eleven player. I don't know what the hell CM is trying to do, but it's said to be not utilizing the media library properly, causing crashes. Even a phone with *no* songs inside it will still have it crash. Tried back in December and still isn't fixed by now.
I used to like Apollo a lot but now I'm forced to switch to NexMusic - nice experience anyway.
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It's nice to know that at least I'm not the only one experiencing issues. I'll give NexMusic a try and keep tabs on Eleven when I flash updates.

I found the solution to my problem. Long story short: Settings -> Apps -> All -> Media Storage -> Clear Data, then reboot and wait for the database to repopulate. Hopefully Eleven will work afterwards; it did for me.
The full story is thus: I did a factory reset at one point, wiping data and functionally starting over on CM12, and I found that the stock Music app ("Eleven") worked for once. I like the interface, and the fact that it responds much faster than Play Music (and seems to be less of a resource hog in general, when in the background, than both Play Music and VLC), so I started using it more.
Today, though, I copied some music to the microSD and found that Eleven crashed on startup - same problem as in February. So I tried poking around. Remembering that Eleven wasn't the only music app to crash on startup at one point during my search for an answer, I focused on the media database this time.
I didn't find anyone else with the exact same problem, but this thread on Android Central's forums sounded vaguely similar to me, so I decided to try their solution. Lo and behold, it worked, and I can use Eleven again.
I hope the kinks get worked out in Eleven, especially if a snapshot build ever gets released, but aside from this issue it works well enough for me.