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I am not sure why this issue has all of a sudden popped up. I have been using fresh 1.0 since it was released. This issue is there even with the stock rom so it isn't the rom. At first everything was great. A couple of weeks ago I noticed this problem and I don't know what is causing it. Before I could use Meridian, Act 1 or the stock video player and watch a couple of movies without issue and they looked and sounded great. Now after a few seconds the video freezes or the screen goes black but the audio continues to play. The way to fix it is to reboot, use advanced task manager and kill the running processes/apps. Then the movie will play fine. After being on for a couple of hours if I go to watch another movie, same thing happens and I have to perform the same reboot/task manager ritual again. I tried using another sd card in case there was a problem with this one and the same things happens. This issue did not exist a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Keep in mind I have not installed anything nor have the movies been changed.
Try turning off all 3 location service options, just to see if it's related to the location manager chewing up your CPU.
Unfortunately those settings are already off. I guess when I get back town this weekend I am going to have to wipe and start with a new build and root it again and flash to Fresh 1.0 and then see if the issue is gone. I have tried everything I can think of and it is still happening. I am still puzzled why it just started out of the blue.
I think I have found the culprit. I tried a different card with the same result. I formatted the card and ran chkdsk on it and then copied the data back to it and checked to see if it would need a defrag and of course it didn't. I terminated the Weatherbug widget I had on my homescreen and so far I have been able to play movies without issue.
ElAguila said:
... and checked to see if it would need a defrag ...
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A sdcard does not need a "defrag" by definition. It takes the same amount of time to access a sector on a sdcard no matter where it is.
Yep. Just covering any possible scenario. I certain at this point it has to do with widgets. I am not sure if it is just that widget or not. I had auto update turned off on that one.
I bought my TMOUS HD2 on launch day. I've noticed a few strange things about it that I thought I'd report. You should check your HD2 for the same things. Pay attention when you check--these are sometimes subtle.
1. The demo racing game, Ferrari, is choppy--there are small freezes during races.
2. The audio is slightly delayed (audio plays just before the mouths move, producing "lip sync" problems, etc). Turns out this affects the Transformers videos as well as all players and maybe some games. Coreplayer/tcpmp are affected, too.
3. Newton's rings. After a day of use, angle your device in front of an indoor/flourescent light. You might be able to see oily rainbow rings appearing in your screen. These can't be wiped off, and are not just under your case/screen-protector, they're deeper than that.
Does anyone else have these problems? Are they normal? Should I/you ask for a refund or an exchange?
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#1 is CONFIRMED for users with some stock microSD cards! Moving the game off of the memory card fixes the choppiness!
#2 seems to be present in ALL HD2 devices!
#3 seems unique to my device.
I've observed all of these problems except the newton's rings.
i havent noticed these things, ive had mine since launch day
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i havent noticed these things, ive had mine since launch day
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umm.. if you can replicate those problems on pc (more specifically the movies on a pc, just copy the files to your pc and play them and see if its the same) I have had my phone since the thursday before launch.. and i don't have ONE of those problems...
good luck getting an exchange done with the backorders and high demand BUT i would at least return it till more come in if they can't "exchange" it.
My biggest problem i HAVE had is random sleep of deaths... where it doesn't want to turn back on from sleep mode... but being a long time windows user... pulling the battery randomly is natural (sad i know lol)... and it doesn't happen frequent enough to piss me off.
Also... r you on the stock rom or cooked rom?
I've noticed skyfire to be choppy and audio out of sync on a strong 3g connection pulling 1100 kb/s. Never had that problem on my touch pro 2.
the ferrari game is , and has been, choppy since day 1. there was an unboxing video a few days before the HD2 came out, can't remember what site it was, and he played the game for a little bit....looked choppy too.
the transformers audio does appear to be a little bit out of sync, very little but still noticeable.
I don't see the 'rainbow screen' on the HD2 though I do have it on the TP2, first I've heard of it on the HD2.
The problem with the choppyness on the game is actually the micro SD card. The micro SD cards that shipped with our devices seems to have a problem. If you copy the game on to another micro SD card the choppyness will go away. The same might be true for video (I just have not had time to test it yet).
I don't want to thread jack, but maybe you guys are having this issue also.
After syncing my contacts, I lose contact numbers. I've synced via outlook and gmail and I get the contact's names onto my phone, but phone numbers are randomly missing. I can't figure out what the contacts have in common. I came from a blackberry and my lady from a dumb phone and we both have the same issue with missing phone numbers.
Anyone else? Got a resolution?
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I don't want to thread jack, but maybe you guys are having this issue also.
After syncing my contacts, I lose contact numbers. I've synced via outlook and gmail and I get the contact's names onto my phone, but phone numbers are randomly missing. I can't figure out what the contacts have in common. I came from a blackberry and my lady from a dumb phone and we both have the same issue with missing phone numbers.
Anyone else? Got a resolution?
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which server are u trying to sync? google server? I just notice the names aren't syncing properly but in terms of phone numbers and e-mails and addresses, i got all of those back by syncing to google's server via outlook.
in terms of this thread tho, i haven't had any of these problems above, i just tested my transformers pc and phone and both are playing in sync... the ferrari game yes its kinda choppy, but like the guy said above it might've been a sdcard issue, since they will only ship us with class 2 sdcards...
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which server are u trying to sync? google server? I just notice the names aren't syncing properly but in terms of phone numbers and e-mails and addresses, i got all of those back by syncing to google's server via outlook.
in terms of this thread tho, i haven't had any of these problems above, i just tested my transformers pc and phone and both are playing in sync... the ferrari game yes its kinda choppy, but like the guy said above it might've been a sdcard issue, since they will only ship us with class 2 sdcards...
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yep, synced via google's server and outlook
my girl just imported from her simcard and has the same issue
thanks
Received my HD2 from TMO on the 31st and do not have the problems you are describing.
Thanks for the responses, everyone! For those of you who aren't experiencing at least problems 1 and 2, can you answer the following:
1. Are you using a custom microSD card?
2. Could someone take a video demonstrating that the problem does NOT occur with your device?
T mobile will claim ignorance unless there is some proof that at least some of our devices don't have the first two issues (the choppy racing game and the audio delay).
I havent noticed the audio lag in transformers but have noticed that Ferrari game to be choppy. Have any of you notice Sense UI locking up your phone?
For Instance, If im browsing on Opera Mobile 10 and then quit the app, I get a black screen for the today screen and only the Start Menu is accessible.
Then I hit Start, and I hit settings but its just stuck so I can get to "HOME" to turn off Sense UI so basically I have to remove the battery.
Also, in the Photo Viewer IN SENSE UI , I recorded about 15 3min videos (Went to a Mexican Corrido Concert ) Once I click on "Albums Soft Key", All the preview thumbnails start loading for the videos and just freezes there.
Then when I try to click on any image, It wont pull up the picture in fullscreen. It just hangs. This is BS.
Never had these issues with my Sprint Touch Pro 2. Will remove the SD card and try my 4gb card.
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I havent noticed the audio lag in transformers but have noticed that Ferrari game to be choppy. Have any of you notice Sense UI locking up your phone?
For Instance, If im browsing on Opera Mobile 10 and then quit the app, I get a black screen for the today screen and only the Start Menu is accessible.
Then I hit Start, and I hit settings but its just stuck so I can get to "HOME" to turn off Sense UI so basically I have to remove the battery.
Also, in the Photo Viewer IN SENSE UI , I recorded about 15 3min videos (Went to a Mexican Corrido Concert ) Once I click on "Albums Soft Key", All the preview thumbnails start loading for the videos and just freezes there.
Then when I try to click on any image, It wont pull up the picture in fullscreen. It just hangs. This is BS.
Never had these issues with my Sprint Touch Pro 2. Will remove the SD card and try my 4gb card.
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A hard reset and new card should fix the software issues. So would a new ROM. This thread is primarily concerned with hardware defects.
buy class 6 microsd card and your problem will be gone
u will find alot of problems with this device reason being tmo never looked into it they just seen it and said we will take it , slapped there name on it and threw in a few bells and whisles and apps and threw it on the shelves. without knowing anything about it, now its like if u need to know anything about the device or need to fix it because of a software issue its pointless to call them because they dont know anything about the hd2, so u hav to know people like us to help u guys out
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buy class 6 microsd card and your problem will be gone
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Exactly...The card came with the phone is class 2 which is too slow for this kind of device. Damn cheap ass Tmo.
curiousGeorge said:
I bought my TMOUS HD2 on launch day. I've noticed a few strange things about it that I thought I'd report. You should check your HD2 for the same things. Pay attention when you check--these are sometimes subtle.
1. The demo racing game, Ferrari, is choppy--there are small freezes during races.
2. The audio is slightly out-of-sync with the Transformers videos (audio plays just before the mouths move, etc). Turns out this affects all players and maybe some games. Coreplayer/tcpmp are affected, too.
3. Newton's rings. After a day of use, angle your device in front of an indoor/flourescent light. You might be able to see oily rainbow rings appearing in your screen. These can't be wiped off, and are not just under your case/screen-protector, they're deeper than that.
Does anyone else have these problems? Are they normal? Should I/you ask for a refund or an exchange?
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1. The Ferrari game runs smooth on my HD2, not choppy at all
2. This is a microsd card speed issue, I replaced mine with a class 6 and the audio is in perfect sync.
3. I have yet to see the rings you are speaking about.
kongzilla said:
1. The Ferrari game runs smooth on my HD2, not choppy at all
2. This is a microsd card speed issue, I replaced mine with a class 6 and the audio is in perfect sync.
3. I have yet to see the rings you are speaking about.
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Was it ever out of sync for you, even with a class 2?
My videos can often play without skipping any frames. Playback is full speed, but the audio is always 250ms behind the video (that's 1/4 second--a large amount).
Are you sure the card speed is the only issue here? I can understand for the ferrari game, or for skipped frames in large videos, but my videos can be as low as 25MB for 25 minutes, and not drop any frames, but the audio is still exactly 250ms behind the video at all times.
I'm going to create a new thread specifically about the audio delay.
the ferrari game plays perfectly if you copy it to the phone. i tried it on mine and it worked fine without any choppiness whatsoever.
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,
My music player ( pre-installed in Milestone 2 UK retail ) go freeze sometimes, especially after a song finished.
This happened randomly and not so frequently, sometime music player works perfect even I played all songs ( 80+ songs ). So I don't know whether a solution really works immediately.
After the music player freezed, I cannot operate any thing in the player interface, just force close the player in process manager, restart the player, then I can't play songs anymore ( freeze again ) .
And, I can't start any SD-related apps like video players and some games ( like Asphalt 6 ). But I can copy/cut files in the file manager.
Remount SD card or reboot the phone, everything backs to normal.
Is this the microSD's problem?
I tried different ways to format it but never solve the problem, and, Watching movies/Playing games goes well. I also try to replace the music playing libs with Droid X's (http://yuanjie.name/entry/milestone-2-mp3-crackling-playback-issue-solved), but music player freeze again last night.
I have no idea what happened.
Thanks in advance.
Try an alternative music player such as WinAmp or PowerAmp.
Check if your problem persists.
MegaBubbletea said:
Try an alternative music player such as WinAmp or PowerAmp.
Check if your problem persists.
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Thank you very much!
I'm try PowerAMP now, I really enjoy this powerful app.
I'll give a feedback if it doesn't freeze after several days.
This looks like SD Card issue. New player won't help IMO. Try testing on another dard.
I really think it's a kernel problem, or at least a problem with the media scanner. Sadly, I think we'll have to wait for GB update =/
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I really think it's a kernel problem, or at least a problem with the media scanner. Sadly, I think we'll have to wait for GB update =/
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For GT540 or M2? I think ur i the wrong thread mate.
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For GT540 or M2? I think ur i the wrong thread mate.
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I didn't say anything about GT540 =]
I'm in the same situation as he is: an issue with high capacity sd cards on milestone 2
Welcome to the club.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929901
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Welcome to the club.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929901
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I read the thread, it has some similarities with the problems that waigx and I are facing. Can you open any other application after PowerAMP shuts down? Does it really shuts down or crash (stays in memory but doesn't execute anything)? Can you open a file manager when this happens?
I'm using Cubed as my player - though all other players I tried (default from Motorola, Meridian, PowerAMP, WinAmp) behaved exactly the same.
Sometimes the player keeps on thinking it is still playing (i.e. track progress is moving without sound), but usually it just ends up with ANR. All other applications [that I need] seem to work fine after this. I do seem to remember Goggles and Camera not responding after a crash, but they crash on their own anyways, so can't really put blame on music player crashing.
A couple of times I did have a case where I couldn't open up SD card anymore, but I've gotten so used to this (8 hours of work+music with 2-3 crashes [or more?] every day) that I stopped trying - just reboot and continue where I left off.
The crashes happen around the same time (but not exact) - around lunch, then at around 3-4pm. Sometimes it also crashes when I'm on my way home ~6-7pm. I think it is somewhat related to power management - I notice it crashes more often as the battery is going down (although I do charge pretty much every night) and there's that "standby called" log message. I did try various battery settings with no luck - any suggestions what I could try more?
There were also a couple of times where I would just leave it at rest after a crash, then start Angry Birds (seemed to reset media/sound system or something), or just wait 15-30 minutes and the sound would come back and the player would unfreeze after a force close and everything would work fine. Until the next crash, that is.
I'll try the remount SD trick and I'll double check the file manager the next time it does this - presumably just after lunch on Monday
I freezed the media scanner with Titanium Backup and scanned music media with PowerAMP, but I had the same problem afterwards... Looks like a deeper problem or a problem with the sd card
waigx said:
Hello,
My music player ( pre-installed in Milestone 2 UK retail ) go freeze sometimes, especially after a song finished.
This happened randomly and not so frequently, sometime music player works perfect even I played all songs ( 80+ songs ). So I don't know whether a solution really works immediately.
After the music player freezed, I cannot operate any thing in the player interface, just force close the player in process manager, restart the player, then I can't play songs anymore ( freeze again ) .
And, I can't start any SD-related apps like video players and some games ( like Asphalt 6 ). But I can copy/cut files in the file manager.
Remount SD card or reboot the phone, everything backs to normal.
Is this the microSD's problem?
I tried different ways to format it but never solve the problem, and, Watching movies/Playing games goes well. I also try to replace the music playing libs with Droid X's (http://yuanjie.name/entry/milestone-2-mp3-crackling-playback-issue-solved), but music player freeze again last night.
I have no idea what happened.
Thanks in advance.
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This thing has worked on my gf's milestone 2 ... but I am not sure if it will work for you ...
1.) Backup ur device/settings/messages etc
2.) Factory reset the device
3.) Sign in your motoblur a/c after factory reset
Immediately after that
4.) Open connected Music Player .. press menu button and find the options for tunewiki lyrics/covert art downloader ... uncheck all of those
5) Settings->DataManager-> somewhere u will find similar options as above .. disable all of those
Basic Idea is to completely diasble all sort of data that the connected Music Player will ever need ....
Sorry, I could not give you the exact Menu operations because I dont have the device with right now... But it works if u r ready to do the factory reset...
You will actually like the Connected Music Player after this because it has a nice shoutcast integration and neither does it crash so often like Winamp...
Also as far as I know the bug with the Connected Music Player is such that Music in all sort of other players including Winamp also stops working ..
Tell me if it works
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I'm using Cubed as my player - though all other players I tried (default from Motorola, Meridian, PowerAMP, WinAmp) behaved exactly the same.
Sometimes the player keeps on thinking it is still playing (i.e. track progress is moving without sound), but usually it just ends up with ANR. All other applications [that I need] seem to work fine after this. I do seem to remember Goggles and Camera not responding after a crash, but they crash on their own anyways, so can't really put blame on music player crashing.
A couple of times I did have a case where I couldn't open up SD card anymore, but I've gotten so used to this (8 hours of work+music with 2-3 crashes [or more?] every day) that I stopped trying - just reboot and continue where I left off.
The crashes happen around the same time (but not exact) - around lunch, then at around 3-4pm. Sometimes it also crashes when I'm on my way home ~6-7pm. I think it is somewhat related to power management - I notice it crashes more often as the battery is going down (although I do charge pretty much every night) and there's that "standby called" log message. I did try various battery settings with no luck - any suggestions what I could try more?
There were also a couple of times where I would just leave it at rest after a crash, then start Angry Birds (seemed to reset media/sound system or something), or just wait 15-30 minutes and the sound would come back and the player would unfreeze after a force close and everything would work fine. Until the next crash, that is.
I'll try the remount SD trick and I'll double check the file manager the next time it does this - presumably just after lunch on Monday
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My Goggles and Camera also always crashed long time ago, but your problems is really stranger than mine.
I think you should WIPE your phone ( don't forget backup data before it ).
Before I flashed the Argen2Stone ROM, I suffered from the same problem. The CMP froze spontaneously.
Now - after using A2S - I never recognized such a behavior again.
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This thing has worked on my gf's milestone 2 ... but I am not sure if it will work for you ...
1.) Backup ur device/settings/messages etc
2.) Factory reset the device
3.) Sign in your motoblur a/c after factory reset
Immediately after that
4.) Open connected Music Player .. press menu button and find the options for tunewiki lyrics/covert art downloader ... uncheck all of those
5) Settings->DataManager-> somewhere u will find similar options as above .. disable all of those
Basic Idea is to completely diasble all sort of data that the connected Music Player will ever need ....
Sorry, I could not give you the exact Menu operations because I dont have the device with right now... But it works if u r ready to do the factory reset...
You will actually like the Connected Music Player after this because it has a nice shoutcast integration and neither does it crash so often like Winamp...
Also as far as I know the bug with the Connected Music Player is such that Music in all sort of other players including Winamp also stops working ..
Tell me if it works
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Hey anupash,
I really appreciate for your detailed answer, I was bought PowerAMP. Even thought it cost $4.99, but I think it worth that.
I delete up CMP in the file system, my phone runs well in these days. Players like Winamp, realone are using system decode libs, so they also meet some problems I guess.
Connected Music Player have a great integration with the whole system, but I need data sync and album-arts.
Thank you again, If I meet additional problems I'll post in this thread later.
Best regards.
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I'll try the remount SD trick and I'll double check the file manager the next time it does this - presumably just after lunch on Monday
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File manager seemed to work - at least for browsing the folders.
Unmounting SD killed the player. Remounting it back and trying to play anything made the phone reboot on it's own. Go figure.
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My Goggles and Camera also always crashed long time ago, but your problems is really stranger than mine.
I think you should WIPE your phone ( don't forget backup data before it ).
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Thanks for the tip Sadly, I don't have time for this now - as I mentioned - I pretty much got used to it constantly crashing... But I'll probably do that if the upcoming (hopefully soon...) MotoEurope update doesn't help.
Im having this problem also. Random freezes at playback... using winamp there´s no problem...
Last night I saved about 3 albums from Google Music to save onto my phone. They are STILL downloading. My homes wifi is not that slow, any way I can find out why?
knitler said:
Last night I saved about 3 albums from Google Music to save onto my phone. They are STILL downloading. My homes wifi is not that slow, any way I can find out why?
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Downloading from the app is slow in general, it's not user side (took me about 9 hours to download 300 songs on my 18 Mbps connection). I'd recommend downloading using the PC client, then transferring the songs to your phone. Much faster that way, and you have direct access to your songs which means you can also play them from third-party apps.
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Ok I was worried that maybe the phones data was turning off when it went to sleep over night