I have noticed recently that I have to reboot my phone at least once a day just so the system would read and use the custom ringtones and notifications that used to work fine without a reboot for days.
I first noticed that my alarm made the same sound that the phone would make if it had a custom ringtone and someone called while the microsd card was mounted via usb. If the sd card is not available, then the system would use something from its system.
Then I noticed thy once this problem pops up, I can't play any videos (youtube too), or music. I get an error messege on music player that this format cannot be played.
This has become annoying because it happens more frequently than before. And I use a custom notification for my alarm and when it doesn't work, the alternative system one is too low and leaves me at risk of not waking up.
I have my wifes' DX set up exactly like mine and she just started having this problem today also while this has been going on for close a week for me.
Any suggestions?
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Bump. Im on Tranquility 2.3.8a btw.
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Two days ago my Pandora crapped out due to "unexpected technical problems." Typical. So I fire up Winamp to find that it won't play my music. Says it can't play the file type (mp3). All of my music is giving the error. I try with the native music app and get the same error. I end up wiping my phone and starting over. Everything is running fine until Pandora dies again. Winamp says it can't read the files again. Wtf? Reboot and it fixed it (unlike the first time I had this problem). Anyone having a similar problem or know of a fix?
I believe all droid x has this Problem, I've had two and they both shared this glitch. Restart the phone and it should remedy the problem. Temporarily
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Damn you, Motorola!!! *shakes fist in air*
yeah i have this problem ALOT. I think the more music you have the faster it happens. I have all 16g used up by music and I get like an hour or 2 and its done.
What bit rate is your music encoded at? I haven't done a lot of experimentation, but it seems like my higher bit mp3s may be causing more problems.
This happens to me daily. I reboot but a major pain. Is there an app to reboot with? Seems like there should be.
I have tried different music apps to no avail.
What about the SD Card? Think the supplied one for the Droid is the cause by chance? Anyone try another one?
--Mickey
Hello everyone,
I have a vm intercept that i use as my primary mp3 player and for car audio through aux input. Lately the music has started freezing/skipping atleast 5 times per song. Even tho the music freezes for fraction of a second, it is still annoying the heck out of me.
I asked dr. google for help and apparently many other people on some other phones also have the same issue. Can anybody suggest what to do to get rid of this issue please? Thanks
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I have the same problem while riding the subway. I finally realized that it happens every time I gain or lose a signal. This happens frequently when riding the subway. The only fix I know of is to turn on airplane mode. Obviously not a good solution if you need to have your phone working while listening, but it works for me in the subways since I can't realistically use my phone anyway (I just get flickers of signal).
I just got my Virgin Mobile Intercept last weekend. Used it yesterday w/ the audible.com app and the aux port in my car, no problems. Plugged the phone into the wall last night (in a power strip) and had the stutter issue today.
Only thing I've done to the phone is inxane's recovery (Android ver: 2.1-update 1). Tried 4 microsd cards (2 8gb sdhc, the 2gb sd that came with it and another 2gb I had), mp3 & tunein radio have the same problem. Calls are fine though.
Tried uninstalling audible and deleting folder from sd card, rebooted phone twice. Yesterday evening I did notice that the Notifications bar wouldn't pull down, but after the first restart this morning everything but playback was fine. Second restart I left the phone off for 10 minutes.
The lady I was talking with at audible heard what it was doing and was on the line while I tried mp3 & tunein, her suggestion, which is what I'm probably going to have to do, was to return the phone and get it exchanged.
EDIT:
Just did the factory reset in inxane recovery, tried the mp3 from my sdcard, same issue.
Try flashing a new kernel. I had inxane's from one of the rooting tutorials. From irc I found that the newest version of his recovery is much better, and that vampirefo's kernel w/ /system as ext2 and /data /cache as ext4 is really nice.
I did those things and my playback is fixed.
I have a stock T-Mobile Tab. I have a 16gb memory card installed in it, with quite a bit of music on the card. Whenever I play an mp3, it works fine....for the first song. It seems that about halfway through the second or third song, my tab always freezes. It doesn't seem to matter if the music file is on the sd card or my 16gb's of internal storage, it still freezes. I even placed an mp3 that plays through fine the first time on repeat to make sure it wasn't just bad files. The mp3 that worked on first play freezes upon being repeated.
Is this just me with this problem? Any ideas what it could be?
My tab doesn't freeze, but it does stutter/skip after a few songs have been played. I think there are two possible solutions. First, try a different music player from the market. I think skipping/stuttering is a known issue of the stock player. Also, maybe the quality of the SD card could be the problem. I bought the cheapest card. So use someone elses card to test that out.
Let us know how it works out.
My uk tab o2 has this issue to every time I start a track in music app built in the phone it shuts down. Also happens with stock email client.then opens on second try.
This is my second tab with o2 and the last had same issues.....
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Check the notification area if the media scanning is running, it is the sd card icon. If you have thousands of mp3 as in my case, scanning uses up the cpu slowing down the tab considerably.
If you want to cancel the scanning, you need to root your device. You can download z4root to safely do it. Then download Rescan Media Root. This program enables you to disable scan.
Note though you need to really run the media scanning for newly added media files so those can be accessed by the stock media player. You do this at night before sleeping. Mine takes about five hours to complete.
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After updating to EB13 (OTA), my phone seems to lose the ability to play ringtones, notifications and alarms sometime during charging. Interface and game sounds still play and a reboot will bring back full functionality.
It's particularly strange because if I temporarily plug the phone in for a brief charge (an hour or so) everything works fine. It manifests only while the phone is charging overnight. It fails to play the wakeup alarm and incoming calls and texts are completely silent, even if you try to play or change them from the settings.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Did you try a hard reset yet? If not try that, if all else fails then I would suggest wiping the phone and loading Froyo either via odin, or from the .exe file from the Samsung site
I played with the phone most of yesterday and I'm still having the same issue. I the stock/deodexed/rooted EB13 and TrulyEpic in addition to the OTA Froyo update that the problem first manifested on. If I charge the phone to 100% battery, media files on the SD card are suddenly unrecognized. Media files that are part of the ROM and on the phone itself still play fine. A reboot or rescan of media solves the problem, but it returns as soon as the battery is fully charged. When I try to play the files through the default media player in those ROMs, it says that the file type is not supported. I've tried both ogg and mp3 files.
The problem started occurring right after my phone received the OTA Froyo update- prior to that, everything had been working fine.
While my alarm and ringtone issues did not seem to be affected by any battery levels, I thought I'd share just in case. After reading reports of success using this method, I backed up the entire SD card contents onto the PC, then formatted the SD card (using the option in the phone's settings), then moved the contents back onto the card. After that everything works great! Except a streaming re-buffer problem, but that's minimal compared to the boatload of issues I was experiencing before doing this. Really saved my bacon because I did not want to have to wipe the phone completely and start from scratch.
Wondering if disabling touchwiz and running with stock froyo would alleviate all the "little glitches" ppl are experiencing with eb13...anybody?
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Just want to make sure-- you haven't manually removed the DRM apks, have you?
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Just want to make sure-- you haven't manually removed the DRM apks, have you?
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I didn't change anything at all. The OTA update was when I first started experiencing the problem so I figured I might have had an app that caused the issue. I was waiting for Froyo to root anyway, so I figured I would just flash a new ROM and start fresh. I first flashed the ROM in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853209 (the CWM 3.0.0.6, EXT4 version). Everything seemed to work fine, except for some issues with GPS that I wasn't too worried about. I didn't install any apps specifically because I wanted to make sure I still didn't have the media problem. It worked fine for a while but sometime after I started charging it, the problem reappeared. I clockwork flashed to the TrulyEpic ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971105) and installed all the extra patches in the 2nd post as well. Problem again reappeared sometime after charging it.
It only happens with audio files as far as I can tell. I haven't tried any video yet, but I have documents on the SD card that I can open fine even while it won't play the MP3s or OGGs. My wallpapers are stored on the SD card and they appear fine. Something happens during the charging process that gimps the ability to play audio but only off the SD card.
I did reformat the SD card before the first post-OTA flash. I'm going to charge the phone from a wall outlet tonight (I've been charging off USB) to see if that makes any difference. If it doesn't, I'll reformat the SD card again and see what happens.
Took a video this morning to help illustrate the problem:
After my last post in this thread, I went back to DI18 to see if my problems would reappear. They did not, so it's almost certain that it isn't my phone. Yesterday I flashed to Syndicate and this morning I woke to a ton of missed notifications again. I check and sure enough, it won't play A/V media from the SD card again. Curiously though, while an MP3 and AVI would not play, an OGG file did play. Images and documents opened and saved fine again.
I'd really like to get this figured out. What other logs or information can I provide that would be useful to debug this issue?
ZephyrFox said:
After updating to EB13 (OTA), my phone seems to lose the ability to play ringtones, notifications and alarms sometime during charging. Interface and game sounds still play and a reboot will bring back full functionality.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
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I don't know if you have already found the reason for this, but you don't need to reboot to fix this. All you need is to Unmount and Mount the SD card.
.....connected to my laptop all the apps I have located on my ext SD card disappear which I understand but when my Atrix is unplugged the apps I have stored don't reappear on my home screens.
They have to be manually put back on.
Does anyone know why this is.....it's doing my head in.
I'm running the Alien 4 rom with Faux123 kernel if that matters.
Cheers
Paul
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I don't understand why people move apps to sd on a phone that doesn't need it.
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For the same reason you cant access anything else on the SD card when in storage mode, the OS has to unmount it while the computer has access, thus you cant use anything on it including apps, this is normal.
To the first reply, cause I want to and to the second, read my question again. I said I know why they disappear when connected but don't know why they don't return when the device is unplugged.
Never had the problem on either of my 2 desires and wondered if it was Atrix or maybe ROM specific.
Don't post unless you can help. Thanks.
Ah i missed that part :-(..... In that case no idea never tried it as I have 1.2GB free of app storage.
Do they appear in the apps list?
Tried restarting the phone?
Tried a media scan (not sure if it will pick up apps)
Sounds like your ROM is not scanning the sdcard after remounting it.
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No probs Nap and thanks Dennis, tried it mate but no joy.
Looks like I'll just use internal storage for ease from now as it gets boring adding them all back after a while.
Thanks anyway tho
you could always buy the dual mount SD program, best .99c I have spent so far. It allows you to mount and still access the sd on the phone. it is very helpful for me.
I had an issue with my ringtones that are located on storage being jacked up during mounts. the issue would occur when I had a notification, call, text, anything that made a noise that used a custom tone while mounted to a PC. After unmount the notification would either revert to default or choose a completely random tone.
I downloaded dualmount a few months back and that issue was resolved. I havent had to reset my notifications except when I flashed to CM, and I can live with that