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DRM service in Froyo

I noticed that the drm service (omadrmserviceconfig to be exact) is automatically turned on at booting on Froyo just like it did on Eclair.
Has anyone figured out if they fixed the battery draining issue for DRM in Froyo?
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I just uninstalled it with SDX Stock App Remover. I noticed there are only two files to remove now instead of three.

stir fry a lot said:
I just uninstalled it with SDX Stock App Remover. I noticed there are only two files to remove now instead of three.
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I wouldn't uninstall it. it turned out to be the root of some crazy problems I was having. But I do kill the process pretty much every time I boot.
for reference.. here was the loneliest thread on xda with 'said' problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844343

I noticed I only had to delete two files this time as well. I always delete it and it doesn't cause me any problems, but I don't play ay drm music.
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It looks like the DRM service is draining the battery in Froyo like in Eclair.
I'm getting better battery life after disabling the service.
I'm surprised that nobody brought this up in a separate thread.
EDIT: I guess the thread mentioned above by decalex IS about this exact issue... sorry, missed that.
I've also heard from someone that deleting those apk's related to DRM will cause problemsin Froyo,
so I think it's better off just preventing the service from starting.
So I tried using the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app from the Market to disable the DRM service.
At first it seems to be working well, but after a while the omadrmserviceconfig starts up again.
Deleted the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app as soon as I found that out.
For the moment, I'm just disabling the DRM service manually (Settings -> Applications -> Running Services)
every time I do a reboot.
Anyone have any suggestion on automatically preventing the DRM service from starting?
BTW, thanks for your replies guys.

tonysohn said:
It looks like the DRM service is draining the battery in Froyo like in Eclair.
I'm getting better battery life after disabling the service.
I'm surprised that nobody brought this up in a separate thread.
I've also heard from someone that deleting those apk's related to DRM will cause problemsin Froyo,
so I think it's better off just preventing the service from starting.
So I tried using the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app from the Market to disable the DRM service.
At first it seems to be working well, but after a while the omadrmserviceconfig starts up again.
Deleted the Startup Cleaner 2.0 app as soon as I found that out.
For the moment, I'm just disabling the DRM service manually (Settings -> Applications -> Running Services)
every time I do a reboot.
Anyone have any suggestion on automatically preventing the DRM service from starting?
BTW, thanks for your replies guys.
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I'm on 2.1 still but I've been using startup auditor free from the market to stop this process at startup. It only allows you to block 5 apps with the free version but it has been working for me ever since I installed it.

I used to disable the DRM service every time I rebooted but eventually I stopped because I got sick of doing it and my battery performance did not seem to take a hit. I am leaving it enabled on Froyo as well and get good battery life. Maybe the DRM bug only effects some phones.

optimiss said:
I used to disable the DRM service every time I rebooted but eventually I stopped because I got sick of doing it and my battery performance did not seem to take a hit. I am leaving it enabled on Froyo as well and get good battery life. Maybe the DRM bug only effects some phones.
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This seems to be the case. There was no noticeable decrease in battery performance on my phone in DI18 and Froyo.

(I've posted this reply before on a similar thread, but I thought I'd share my 2 cents with you here...)
You're not the only one running into this issue.
I ended up rooting my Epic to get rid of all the sprint bloatware and what-not. Everything seemed to be going smooth from the stock standpoint. I removed Samsung Media hub first. Rebooted the phone and noticed nothing bad. Played around with the setup like that for a few days with no problems.
I next got rid of both the DRM service .apk's that were still running even after I got rid of the media hub... and then the problems started. For the first couple days I noticed DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED battery life and EXTRAORDINARY performance so I imagined what I did was a good thing: WRONG! A few days later, I noticed that if I assigned a sound to a notification or a ringtone *from the SD card*, that it would not work. I couldn't play sounds anymore and instead whenever I went to adjust the volume with said notes/tones selected, the Sound_service would crash.
However, I'm the only person I knew before now who has reported this issue so I'm sure there's not a lot of hubob to fix it. Every Epic is built different. Same parts or not. It's a mass-manufactured phone and each one will have its own quirks. There's my 2 cents.

I font delete it but I freeze it with titanium
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Is there a free program that will freeze it?
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musclehead84 said:
I font delete it but I freeze it with titanium
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Are you saying you don't run into any problems or force closes in system apps when frozen instead of uninstalled?

I wouldn't delete those apks due to malfunctions with the app market and force closing of the vending app
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Whosdaman said:
I wouldn't delete those apks due to malfunctions with the app market and force closing of the vending app
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And freezes in anything that plays audio or video.

Now everytime I boot I just go to the running services menu and disable the drm, alarm, and google messaging services.

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And freezes in anything that plays audio or video.
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I've noticed the freezing in the built-in apps, but when I use third party apps to mix and crossfade tracks (PartyMixer) or just play music and videos (MixZing), they don't freeze.
It still makes me wonder though, why a system service that's not running doesn't crash the system, but uninstalling it does. Why should it make a difference if the service isn't being accessed? Stupid...
Whatever. I've just been disabling it on every reboot. Batt life is a little better, but still batt. life is *max* when I uninstalled all DRM crap.

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And freezes in anything that plays audio or video.
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Yes that too, totally slipped my mind.
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Oooops. I deleted mine last week. I have not had any audio problems using power amp or pandora but tried a video after reading this and sometimes it works but mostly freezes. I did a backup with titanium but it doesn't give me the option to restore. Could someone post them up for me please?
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So instead of deleteing the APK, if I just take it out of autostart, I assume that is OK???
ALSO, What the hell does it do??? lol

Milkman00 said:
So instead of deleteing the APK, if I just take it out of autostart, I assume that is OK???
ALSO, What the hell does it do??? lol
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I think DRM = Digital Rights Management. It is some kind of security service that is tied to the Market and anything Media related (on the Epic). You should get Titanium or Bloat Freezer from the Market and just freeze it. Don't delete or uninstall it.

Honeycomb music sync Works! -Kind of! Maybe?

Looks like googles music sync is up and running for the honeycomb music app. It installs and runs on the epic, but I am passing in and out of a codine/nyquil induced acoma. Someone want to look further into this and see if we can get sync working? It appears to do something for me, but I'm no sure where the music syncs too to prove it works...and I'm not getting out of bed to get my laptop...not sure id make it to my desk...
A jumpertest app gets installed with it, and appears to impot and export...it also logs debug info...kthxbai *passes out*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980018
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Audio policy manager keeps erroring with unknown stream type errors on logcat...Interesting.... Need more cough syrup to sleep on it
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Pretty interesting. I'd love to do this. The more my phone can sync with Google...well, aside of the potential security risk, the better!

Here's a link to a tutorial, I haven't tried it yet. But I'm about to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11916958#post11916958

gonna try this too

The only issue I have ATM is knowing where the music is at. I can't tell if it is playing locally from the SD Card or if it is playing from the cloud I have no idea how to tell....

Ok so over night I let it sync, uploaded around 50 seconds to the cloud. This morning I deleted them all from my phone, went into Music > Options > Checked Stream Music and get Error "Sorry the player does not support this type of Audio file"
This is where LogCat goes nuts with Unknown Stream Type errors, in Audio Policy Manager...
I wonder if we can edit E/AudioPolicyManager to accept this new stream type, assuming that is where the issue is, and we knew what the stream type was...

Yea I also ran into that problem, so far nobody knows how to get around it. Some say it might be because the version of Android you're running or the ROM
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Out of the 50 songs I received this error on all but 2 of them. Maybe it just hasn't finished syncing? I don't know.....
I guess the good news is I was able to stream 2 of them.

Yeah if you got 2 of them to stream, then its only a matter of code to fix.
We're on our way to honeycomb! Baby steps..
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Waiting for my 6gigs of music to upload lol might be awhile
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Under Accounts and Sync, my music has beem going on pretty much all day, but I still can only play 2 tracks....
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Watching logcat, two servers get hit. music.google.com/jumper and clients4.google.com/chrome-sync. So Id guess google will be opening a new gdata api soon...just wish I could get a hold of it to see whats in the cloud.
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[Q] Text (notifications) Interrupt Music

Notifications Interrupt music for about 2 seconds, then music starts again. This does not happen on Cyanogen just wondering if there is a FIX for Sense Roms.
Is there a FIX out there for this very annoying issue? I have searched and searched with diff combination of words and no answer comes up?

If you are using the standard music app, open the app, p ress settings, then you should see a lossless ducking option, enable it. Then what wil happen is that the notification will play at a quieter right through the music, so it doeesn't stop at all.

Is this for the EVO? I forgot to mention what device I had lol...I just went to the Myn Synergy RC2 ROM from CM7 ROM. I cant find this setting on it. I want a sense ROM that doesnt interrupt music, I know Myn Warm 2 Point 2 RC5 didnt do this. Thnks for your reply

put the phone on silent. the media volume remains unchanged, and the phone will vibrate your notifications and not interrupt the music.
been doin this since stock froyo, and now running synergy rls1, but works on and rom this way.

Thx for your replys guys...I put notifications on Silent for now...until Poweramp Player includes fhe option to fix this. I just wonder why CM7 and Myn Warm 2point2 dont interrupt.
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Putting thebphone on silent is the on,y wat to fix it at the moment but some developers have just found way to build their rooms so that this flaw doesn't occur

DJ1395 said:
Putting thebphone on silent is the on,y wat to fix it at the moment but some developers have just found way to build their rooms so that this flaw doesn't occur
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I don't think it's a FLAW, but rather intended operation. When I'm listening to podcasts in DoggCatcher, it pauses while any notifications are playing. It resumes playback after the notification sound is complete, but I don't miss words in the middle like I would if it were playing the notification over top of the podcast. It really seems like it's a system feature that requests to pause currently playing media while notifications are happening, and these apps merely respect the request.

It only does it when the headphones are plugged in, without them it will not do this.
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Infliciton said:
It only does it when the headphones are plugged in, without them it will not do this.
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So is there nothing to do for this then since I plug my evo in through the earphonejack to listen in the car
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that happens to me too. i cant find anyway to fix it. turning off the notification sound just draws a silence when i get an new email or sms.

I don't think there is a fix yet if your on a sense Rom. I went crazy reading and searching about this. The Dev of Poweramp Player will be fixing this in the next update. Def. Worth the purchase without the fix...its a major plus once he can fix this.
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Spotify on the Fire

Hey guys,
I just got my Fire and I love it (besides the fact that I feel like I have to sideload EVERYTHING). I installed the official Spotify app, and it ran alright aside from some screen formatting problems (the navigation buttons for the Fire get in the way). The main issue is that the Fire doesn't realize it's a music app for some reason and puts the wifi connection to sleep when the screen goes off so my music shuts off... Very frustrating. Anyone have any ideas for a fix for this. I thought about installing Spare Parts Plus, but I can't find it anywhere to sideload it and it's not in the stupid Kindle App store...

Anyone? I may return my Fire if I can't get this to work...It's THAT important to me that I can stream without the wifi turning off...

you might want to look into apps that keep wifi on since the settings page for wifi is gone in the Fire. I'm sure one of those must exist somewhere. If not it seems like a very trivial app to write. Some sort of wifi lock toggle.

https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5rbWFuLldpZmlNYW5hZ2VyIl0.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hogdex.WifiRuler&feature=also_installed
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mdsoftware.wifipowermanager&feature=also_installed
Try any of those apps, I'm pretty sure WiFi manager will be able to do whatever you need and more.

The screen formatting problems make it impossible for me to pause playing music without exiting the app - am I missing a way to do that?

paulm13 said:
The screen formatting problems make it impossible for me to pause playing music without exiting the app - am I missing a way to do that?
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I have the same trouble. I haven't figured out a way around it.

see if changing the lcd density helps. btw has anyone tried using Spare Parts on this thing?

orangeagent said:
I have the same trouble. I haven't figured out a way around it.
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It's silly, and really, really less-than-ideal, but using the spotify widget works for this. Toss in a volume control widget on the same screen, works great.
(This, of course, assumes you... have a normal launcher installed >.>)

mewshi said:
It's silly, and really, really less-than-ideal, but using the spotify widget works for this. Toss in a volume control widget on the same screen, works great.
(This, of course, assumes you... have a normal launcher installed >.>)
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Nice tip! Thanks. With ADW installed, being able to use a widget really is a life saver! The app is really crippled with the Kindle bar over the top. I hope they come up with a fix soon, but seeing as they don't officially support it, and Amazon probably won't allow it in the store, I won't hold my breath.

I can't get the buttons to show up correctly on the Spotify app itself. I can't tell if it's something to do with the tablet, or something to do with the fact that it's on a modified version of Android. I guess once the custom ROMs are out we'll know for sure.

Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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gigaorg said:
Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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Man I hope so.

gigaorg said:
Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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Even if it *is* a silly workaround
I also told Amazon they should try to get it working properly, since, hey, I pay for Spotify, I'd like to use it on here.
Also, the music app that comes on it tends to be a bit... stuttery.

i have been having the same issues. Does anyone know if Spotify works on any tablets?

Music randomly starts playing

Over the past few days, the music app has started playing music without anything to start it. I have not installed any apps that control the music playback and there are no widgets on the main home screen to do as such either.
Anyone else? Very odd behavior. I tried searching but nothing even close came in the results.
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This will happen when a Bluetooth audio device connects..

Good point. However, I'm currently not paired to any devices. I haven't needed my headset or headphones just yet, so no pairing yet.
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-Verizon SGSlll-
Yeah this is happening for me too. It plays the same song each time as well.

I have some similar problem. Sometimes when playing a track, it skips to the next track automatically. I have no idea what's causing this.
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kgamed25 said:
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Yeah this is happening for me too. It plays the same song each time as well.
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Yes! It's always Dave Matthews' "Crash Into Me" for me. Maybe my phone is trying to tell me something. Is it THAT advanced?
Seriously, though, it's annoying and embarrassing. Yesterday, it started up during a meeting.
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Random music
I have had the same type of thing happen with a Droid X. Seemed to happen when I received a notification. As if it was grabbing a particular song instead of the notification tone. Just a thought.

Dfrand said:
I have had the same type of thing happen with a Droid X. Seemed to happen when I received a notification. As if it was grabbing a particular song instead of the notification tone. Just a thought.
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Did you accidentally assign a song as a notification? I haven't done that.
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If you have root, I recommend Autostarts. Let's you disable apps being notified when various events happen.

kronium said:
If you have root, I recommend Autostarts. Let's you disable apps being notified when various events happen.
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Would this app tell me what app might be starting the mp3 player? Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.
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Have you restored any application backups with TiBu or something similar? If so, then that app's ringtones could be set to play a random ringtone. With the right software installed, this could mean a random song. If this is the problem, just set that app's ringtones again to fix it.
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