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Gps/google maps/wardrive doesn't like pandora or a online radio running at same time?

I just noticed this at work while driving around today. I couldn't do process of elimination because I was busy. Here's the scenario: Running wardrive and mapping ap's while driving around. No problems. Decide I wanna listen to some music so I fire up pandora and put it in the background. I bring wardrive back to the screen I'm monitoring. The map isn't updating as I'm driving and no access points are showing up that are new. Hmm. Close out pandora and try again. After closing pandora, wardrive comes back to life. As soon as pandora starts up, wardrive stops. Closed pandora again. Wardrive comes back to life. Try running A Online Radio. It starts playing and wardrive stops. Wtf?
Anyone else experience behavior like this? Running latest stock rooted rom 1.47
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known issue, music/sound can't be running through the physical speaker while using gps, otherwise the gps won't lock. Works fine with BT headphones and while using the headphones jack. Search around for the thread on here.

i dont have wardrive, but i use googlemaps w/gps and pandora frequently with no issues, even with google navigation.
stop trying to map peoples wireless networks and youll be fine.

Lol. Ok. I did a search and went a few pages into the general section. The search didn't turn up anything with the words I tried. No problem.
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Music player problem... Music skipping and clipping...

Hey guys,
Has anyone noticed that when playing music in the vibrant that their songs skip or cut out for a split second like 3 or 4 times a song? This is driving me nuts as I use my phone to play my mp3s in my car every single day and its very noticeable. I have tried other players like mixzing and same thing...
I have owned a bunch of android phones and haven't had this problem on any others.
Thanks...
Oh I should add that I am stock 2.1 with ryanzas oc lag fix but a friend of mine is still stock and experiencing the same problems just not as bad.

Ive noticed the same thing. Mostly when a notification or call comes in but sometimes when nothing else is happening. Yea really annoying.
My phone is completely stock except for being rooted.

It also happens when wifi is turned on when wifi is off it doesn't happen
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I've never had this problem but I have experienced "the beat" being extremely loud and the lyrics being too soft, its a hardware problem, if the headphones aren't plugged.in the exact way, this will happen. Perhaps this is what is causing your problems as well, also this should be in the Q&A Section

I get a small skip every couple of songs using MixZing. I have Wifi off, so that's not the issue for me. I don't really notice it. Is your music on the internal or the SD card?

I have tried both the internal and a couple external memory cards...i actually swapped my vibrant at t mobile today to see if a new one would help...the new one does it but not as much. However given how much I use my phone for music its enough for me to return and go back to my android hd2...i like this phone better over all but music is pretty much number one cuz I am a musician... I tried lowering everything on the eq to the bottom...didn't help... Seems like an issue like you might get streaming pandora, where its running out of buffer so to speak...weird.
Wifi on or off and other stuff like syncing off doesn't help either...also have a task manager that will give me 200 mb free ram that doesnt help either.
sorry for postingin the wrong section btw

I would think this is fine in the General area.
fliplovin', when you talk about the EQ, do you mean in MixZing? Because the EQ in MixZing tells you it will cause high CPU usage, so I would turn that off completely.

no , there is an equalizer in the stock music player under settings... it allows you to not only do preset values, but also custom channel per channel... it also has effects like arena, and wide... etc..
i have tried EVERY setting possible... i am now about to flash a custom rom and see if that helps...
one thing that seemed to help temporarily was to use the system manager and close everything leaving me with 200 mb available memory and turn the eq all the way down, however, that made my max volume quite a bit lower... not exactly what i want to do.

fliplovin said:
no , there is an equalizer in the stock music player under settings... it allows you to not only do preset values, but also custom channel per channel... it also has effects like arena, and wide... etc..
i have tried EVERY setting possible... i am now about to flash a custom rom and see if that helps...
one thing that seemed to help temporarily was to use the system manager and close everything leaving me with 200 mb available memory and turn the eq all the way down, however, that made my max volume quite a bit lower... not exactly what i want to do.
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You ever get this figured out? its been pissing me off really bad as of late. I want to keep the phone stock, but i would still like to know if flashing to a new rom helped

the only time it's skipped for me is when installing apps etc..

This same thing happened to me when I had Weather Widget installed. It seemed that every time it would try to update, the music player would skip. Using fancy widget now and never had the problem again

Music player and Google Listen both stutter a bit for me when playing a large file (over 5mb or so) and it tends to stop after the first 30 seconds. This is when wifi and gps are turned off and my phone isn't doing anything.

I did a clean flash today to JFD, then JI6. I noticed while listening to music on the way home from work tonight, there was no skipping in MixZing. I'm only doing the "/data/data to NAND" hack.

Do any of you have battery widgets/Accurate battery mods?
They can cause skipping and choppiness throughout the entire OS.

I had the same problem. I had world Analog and digital widget installed. I read on the T mo forums about some clock widget causing it so i uninstalled mine.
No more problems with the music.
I also use "Zimly" for audio player.
For Acurate battery info i use "MiniInfo" its not causing any problems.

[Q] Pandora skipping songs?

I know this issue has been brought up previously but I can't find any fix for the problem.
Ever since I upgraded to 2.2, pandora is skipping songs on its own, often times in the middle of a current song that's playing.
This apparently had to do with Android's Stagefright component, but beyond that I'm clueless.
Is there a fix? PLEASE! It's driving me insane.

It started happening to me since pandora updated to 1.5.1, then the 1.5.2 update came out and fixed it for about 3 days, now it's happening again.

Pandora has always been buggy, but .... its free. I will deal with the bugs because the free music I get from Pandora is light years better than what I can listen too on the radio.

Brutal-Force said:
Pandora has always been buggy, but .... its free. I will deal with the bugs because the free music I get from Pandora is light years better than what I can listen too on the radio.
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May have always been buggy for you, but up until last week, I was able to listen for WAY longer than 5 min before it started randomly changing my songs and/or freezing. Actually, I don't ever remember it happening before last week.
OH, and when i go to menu > quit after it does it's random song changing, it acts like there's another instance open and pops up again. It doesn't actually close until I do menu > quit twice.

yep it will randomly start the next song. So does Grooveshark, which is WAY more buggy and random. Grooveshark is a total crapshoot where Pandora will at least play some of the song

I think it does it when your phone switches between 3G and x1, either that or it is from your connection being to slow and the buffer running out. Mine does it all the time when my data drops below 300k down.

I've been experiencing this with Slacker as well. Though acker seems to be doing a lot better after the most recent update
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GPS stops working in standby (Gingerbread-ROMs)

Hi,
when i go jogging and want to log my track with a gps programm (e.g. RUN.GPS) all is working fine, while my display is on.
If my phone goes to standby, gps is shut off - so i get no log for this time. If i wake up my phone, i get a straight line from my last known position before the standby to the actual position.
Anybody knows how to fix this? Or does anybody know an app, which is logging the track while my phone is in standby?
This behavior is only watched with gingerbread roms. Not only on HD2, on Desire HD too.

I use Runkeeper, and don't get this issue. Might want to give it a try.

I have the same problem with Endomondo.
Is there anyway to lock and turn off the screen, but keep the phone on?

It seems like the GPS log works better when listening to music (Spotify), maybe it's because the phone is "alive". Any chance of someone making a app just for that, to keep the phone alive? With a setting for how often it should "get alive".

I use endomondo on the HD2 running gingerbread and I also have the same problem. I have to agree that you need to play music in order for it to log your GPS continuosly.
Waiting for a solution for this...

I to have been looking for the answer on this one! For quite some time! devs just seem to ignore it?!!?!?!?! I am still using froyo as I can't live without tracking
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give a try to latest gps libs v1.9 from tytung http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100114
they have a modified gps.xxx.so which allows gps to work on standby.but for it to work the gps program must support this "type of running" (device on standby and program works i mean)

can anyone verify that gps now works in standby for the apps cardio trainer and mm tracker.

well after no replies i took the plunge yesterday and thought i would try to see if the new gps libs made a difference. And i can confirm that at least with tytungs gingerbread build tracking in standby is working a dream.
Many thanks for all your hard work tytung

Issue with long/large podcasts

I've had an issue with long/large podcasts ever since the Sept. security update and it wasn't resolved with the Oct. security update.
The problem is, and you can test this with The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast since their podcasts are usually around 3 hours, start the podcast in whatever app you use (I've tested this with Pocket Casts and Podcast & Radio Addict) then scrub around a couple of times. The podcast will act as if it either starts over even though it's somewhere in the middle of the time bar or it acts as if it finished and marks it as such.
I've also downloaded the same podcast on another phone and scrubbed through it with no issues multiple times with multiple long podcasts. So, I don't believe it's the podcast file itself.
Has anyone else had this problem?

IamDefiler said:
I've had an issue with long/large podcasts ever since the Sept. security update and it wasn't resolved with the Oct. security update.
The problem is, and you can test this with The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast since their podcasts are usually around 3 hours, start the podcast in whatever app you use (I've tested this with Pocket Casts and Podcast & Radio Addict) then scrub around a couple of times. The podcast will act as if it either starts over even though it's somewhere in the middle of the time bar or it acts as if it finished and marks it as such.
I've also downloaded the same podcast on another phone and scrubbed through it with no issues multiple times with multiple long podcasts. So, I don't believe it's the podcast file itself.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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Yes I have run into this problem with Podcast Addict. The dev believers it's an issue Ruth the audio decoder on the phone. There are two "fixes" built into the app that seem to fix the problem. They are under "Player" in the settings menu.

gumbyx84 said:
Yes I have run into this problem with Podcast Addict. The dev believers it's an issue Ruth the audio decoder on the phone. There are two "fixes" built into the app that seem to fix the problem. They are under "Player" in the settings menu.
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I just tried the different settings in the player section. Although it's a little better it didn't resolve the issue. After about the third or fourth scrub it treats the podcast like it finished it. Thanks for the reply. I have a feeling I'm going to have to reach out to the devs for each app directly to get help.