Hey guys, just thought I'd throw this one out there to see if anyone has had any better luck than I have with music on the Droid X
I am currently playing my music off of my SD card in winzip but I only get just about 8-9 hours out of the battery I was wondering a few things:
1) is winzip the best way to play music?
2) is there a way to put your music into internal memory so it doesnt have to access the SD card all the time?
3) is there any other way to make my battery life better?
I don't know if this is really what you were looking for exactly, but I thought I'd share how I do it just in case. I've recently been playing around with an app called AudioGalaxy, which allows you to stream your music from iTunes straight to your phone. It works really well. I can't imagine it is exactly kind on battery life, but I haven't seen any major problems, although I don't stream 24/7. It takes just seconds to load songs, and seems to work really well. Its a great solution for when you have more than 16 GBs of music, and don't want to spring for a 32 GB card, and it allows you to have so much more room on your card.
Only problem is that you have to have your computer up and running for streaming to work (obviously).
Use poweramp for music and 8-9 hours is actually average for battery
Connected music player is the best
music player I've ever used...
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poweramp 6hrs straight with gtalk and exchange push brings me to 40-50% on the vzw extended.
so it sounds about right to be low on stock battery.
please keep in mind our phones so a ton more in the background than a standard pmp.
Another vote for Poweramp. Buy it and don't look back, it's the only music player for Android in existence with a good equalizer. (and alphabetized song/folder views, for those of us that keep all our MP3s in one folder; plus decent ear bud button support)
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Hey,
I am thinking about this phone but I have limited budged. Originally I wanted to buy S Omnia II and ipod nano for mp3. Now I discovered this phone which really get me!!! How long can play mp3?
do you mean how long the battery last?
if you play it with wired plug headset it will last you way longer than using Stereo Bluetooth
but even using Stereo Bluetooth, the headset itself will run out of battery before you phone does.
most good Stereo Bluetooth headsets can only last for aprox 6 hours
if you just go by normal wired headset, you can go on almost forever, assuming you don't use 3G / WiFi and keep the screen off when you are listening to MP3
by the way SGS i9000 has a build in FM radio! it's perfect for me
yes, I mean with wired plug...ipod is able to play music about 24 hrs so I want some comparsion with SGS (w/o any other work (with turned off display etc.))
It will be hard to give a definitive answer as it will depend on things like background syncing, what apps you have installed (task managers, widgets, things like that) and what equaliser you have enabled.
Yesterday I went to an airshow, my son played Asphalt 5 for 2 hours in the car, I took about 10 minutes of HD video, checked my email, made a few calls, sent a few texts and had 36% battery when I got home 10 hours later. If you didn't use the screen at all, and maybe had a task manager to kill anything that decided to fire up on it's own (email, market, etc) you could probably get 15+ hours use out of it easily.
I like music, its a thing of mine that I want the best, I have to say I am bit shocked at the player on this phone, its really really good, it is far better than any other phone I have used and the amazing thing I found is that it plays flac files straight out of the box, so get some good phones and you will be very happy...I use Shure 530 and they are great but you need to make sure that your recordings are a good to get the most out of them.
While it's a good thing that iPod can play music non stop for 24 hours with one charge, it should not IMO becomes the yardstick for determining the acceptability of the lesser music player.
I think the fact SGS has a removable battery is another factor you should consider.
If anything, it won't be the battery life that disappoint you. It may be the player itself. If you want a really really good music player, stick with iPod. But remember, it is not a smartphone with 4 inch beautiful screen, with great GPU (if you're also into games especially).
Hey guys I've read about another serious issue plaguing the Vibrant and unfortunately it has been affecting mine too. It's with the Music player. Every time I play a song, there's a lag or a stutter in the song.
Regardless of what song is playing, there's a serious stutter, and it takes away from the music experience.
At this point I'm ready to refund this baby back to bell and unfortunately am considering the Iphone.
I really don't want to but the phone is kinda laggy and with the gps + stuttering problem it's getting quite annoying.
Anyone else have this experience while listening to music? Or is it just mine? It's unfortunate cause the screen is quite nice and responsive at times.
It just seems like Samsung hasn't really fixed any of the bugs plaguing the phone.
What are the specifics on your media? Bitrate/encoder/file type? Are you playing off the internal or external sd?
The encoders are all across the platforms. I have .mp3's to .Wma's. Every song has a time where it stutters.
When I had my g1 this stutter and pause in the music happens when I recieved a text message.
It's just a really fast little pause and it really disturbs the music.
I'm using internal memory.
Same problem here . . .
I am using the internal SD card as well
mp3s
196kbps fixed
44.1 khz
basically as vanilla as you can get. . .
I tried airplane mode, just in case it was a sync issue, no luck
I just put a few songs on the 2gb sd card that came with the phone and I tried to play a song and the screen went black and my touch sensitive buttons were light up lol and it restarted itself.
Going back to my Zune HD/iPod lol. oh well. When it comes to media the iPhone takes the cake. Android is more nerdy and customizable.
Doesn't bother me too much. I would have personally like to have an all in one device but dont have the money for ATT's plan and prefer androids customization over iPhones.
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I just put a few songs on the 2gb sd card that came with the phone and I tried to play a song and the screen went black and my touch sensitive buttons were light up lol and it restarted itself.
Going back to my Zune HD/iPod lol. oh well. When it comes to media the iPhone takes the cake. Android is more nerdy and customizable.
Doesn't bother me too much. I would have personally like to have an all in one device but dont have the money for ATT's plan and prefer androids customization over iPhones.
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The Galaxy S Vibrant is supposed to be the best android phone for music on the market. Why should you cough up the dough and then go back to listening on another player?
It's not right. I'm beginning to think it's a software issue.
I've had no problems at all with the music player. Music in mp3 format at 320kbs.
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I just put a few songs on the 2gb sd card that came with the phone and I tried to play a song and the screen went black and my touch sensitive buttons were light up lol and it restarted itself.
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I have about 8GB of MP3, WMA and 4GB of FLAC songs on a class 4 microSD card. I don't have any issue as you describe. Try to reset your phone first.
iPhone and Zune only play few formats. Drag and drop FTW. What a PITA when I have you sync everything to my iPhone using that stupid iTunes. To be able to play my song/movie without converting it to another format FTW too.
Ive noticed this issue as well. The best way to describe it, is like a cd skipping real fast. It's less than a second long, and it's literally a skip in playback.
I initially suspected it was a small lag spike from the screen shutting off, but Ive had it happen twice in a row after the screen is already off.
There must be some process running in the background that is causing this to happen, because it's totally random. It does happen after the screen shuts off though.
I've been using mine with a class 2 card and about 14 gb of music of mostly mp3s. I get an _occasional_ skip but nothing more than I would get with any other music player. Haven't noticed anything else going on at the same time though.
I think it's your device, though IMO if that's enough to make you want an iphone then you're probably missing the point of android in the first place.
This happen to me too. The stock music player. Though, I have no problem with other music player apps eg. 3(cube), mixzing.
It's likely to be a widget. For me it was Gauge Battery.
Im not getting any type of stuttering.... This plays music flawlessly...
Theres got to be something going on with your device. Also I would have heard about this issue alot more if everyone was experiencing it...
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Im not getting any type of stuttering.... This plays music flawlessly...
Theres got to be something going on with your device. Also I would have heard about this issue alot more if everyone was experiencing it...
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Agreed. I don't have this problem either or have never noticed it. The only time I noticed skipping, it was a singular song I had on the device. Not a random occurrence as explained.
That makes issue 3 for the Vibrant that I don't have
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This happen to me too. The stock music player. Though, I have no problem with other music player apps eg. 3(cube), mixzing.
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The same goes for me. No problems with any other music player only the stock. It's not even close to bad enough to switch from this device only happens once every so often.
Ok tried simply music app and playing from a class 6 card. Still getting the stutter. I am using beautiful widget weather app, will disable it and try again. . .
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I have about 5G of music from itunes on my vibrant. I used isync app from the market to get the music from my itunes to my phone, I have had the phone 3 weeks and have experienced ZERO lag, stutter, or skipping...but my uncle who got the phone the same day from the store (i received mine through mail) had the same problem with the stock player. I think its because he used widows media player.
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I have the studder issue. Uploaded through windows media player. It seems to happen when i load the first song, and happens more if I'm listening to music while I search through the the music lists. When the screen is inactive it works perfectly unless its the first song. I have almost 8 gigs of music
It was the weather widget that was causing the problem, thanks heygrl.
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but I am about to retry it once again. I don't have a SD card other than the 2gb that came with the phone should I put the music on the phones internal and see if I get studdering again?
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.
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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.
Hi,
I recently came across a problem when listening to music on the DHD on stock rom and the newest OTA. When not listening to music I easily get two days on a single charge. When listening the battery is out of juice in around 11 hours, thats way too fast for me... I found out that a process called "mediaserver" is using around 50% of my battery when listening to music for more than 6 hours. HTC Music only takes around 2%. Is that normal, can the mediaserver be stopped? Already killed all of the media applications and cleared their data, also formated the SD card and put all my music back on. There are 1400 songs on that card, all in mp3 or m4a format, nothing else... 11h is a joke compared to the iPod Touch I had before...
Best regards
Oliver
I would just like to say that an ipod touch does not have cellular processes and hardware to drain the battery further.
Just saying that the comparison made may not be the best.
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Yes, I know that is a bad comparison, but I dont know why the music is draining my battery. The mediaserver seems to be the cause of the problem, but I dont know what it is and what it does. I also dont know how to solve the issue...
Best regards
Oliver
Try using a different music player. The one that is in the rom supports DLNA so it is possible that it tries to share your music with other devices. I have used it to stream music from my pc to my phone, but probably medaserver is the process that streams music from the phone.
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Could it possible be that mediaserver keeps running even when it's not supposed to? I would understand if the mediaserver was running when connected to WiFi and listening to music.
But what do I know? I'm keep using spotify instead of using the built-in player ^^
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Thanks for the replies.
Converted all tracks to mp3 today, so there are no m4a in my playlists anymore. Also renamed some songs with lots of characters, just to make sure everything is fine. Will see if it makes a difference. Are there any recommendations for alternative music players on the DHD?
Regards
Oliver
There is player pro and stock player, rest seem to drain too much battery.
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try Music Mod. i've been using it because the stock music player widget doesn't have a 'previous track' button, and so far it seems to be a better player.
Hi,
tried a different music player yesterday. Sadly, the mediaserver process still needs around 50% of my battery... I really dont know what is causing that problem. Could anyone with a lot of music on the DHD test how much battery the mediaserver needs after playing music for a few hours without pause? Maybe it is normal...
Also, I've read that mediaserver is indexing the sd-card. Maybe there is a corrupt file which causes the problem. How can I narrow it down on specific folders. Can I exclude some folders from indexing?
Best regards
Oliver
Have you tried to listen to your music while phone is in airplane mode?
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Not yet, will try that. Thanks for the hint.
What if the battery lasts longer then, where lies the problem?
Regards
Sadly, activating the flight mode doesnt help. Still drains the battery as much as before...
Any other hints, there must be a solution... A friend of mine tested playback on his DHD, the mediaserver only needs around 10% after a few hours of playback.
I used mine a lots today playing music....a hour and half playing over bluetooth to the car stereo and the way to work then i would say about 12 till 1.30 before dinner and then 3 till about 5.30 play thou exturnal speckers at work...
with a fully charged battery at 04.30 when i left to work till 18.00 when i got to the bed and breakfast and i was down to 68 present battery.
Hi,
thats impressive! Not possible with my DHD. May I ask you how much music you have on your sd-card, any which file types? I feel that there is a corrupted file somewhere in my card, but I dont know how to find it...
Using the hidden battery info tool (*#*#4636#*#*) I found out that the DHD was awake about 80% of the time. That means it doesn't get into sleep mode anymore when listening to music. Also, the back of the phone is getting hotter the longer I listen. Maybe that is the problem...
Mediaserver is a process that is playing back media on android. This includes sound and hardware accelerated video playback. It doesn't actually have anything to do with the internet, its name implies that it "serves media" to Android, to the user, to you.
Kill the mediaserver and you also kill the sound.
Also, it's normal for a phone to not go to sleep when it's playing audio. Something has to feed the mp3 data to the decoder right? In general, phones are not the best for listening to audio since they have to be awake to play it and keeping them awake wastes battery. Keep in mind that an iPod is a music player and has been designed as such so it probably supports a hardware mode to play music where the main processor is not required and can sleep (and not waste battery).
got about 10 albums all mp3, which rom are you using , some manage better then others.
Power management / battery better i mean..
Well I use my phone as my music player and I listen to like a good two hours meaning. The wake lock is on for two hours meaning the battery drains so fast, is there anything I can do to prevent this?
holomusic player seems to do this but unfortunately the developer has passed away and I can't get hold of the latest apk anywhere, I'd appreciate it if anyone had it
m4r0v3r said:
Well I use my phone as my music player and I listen to like a good two hours meaning. The wake lock is on for two hours meaning the battery drains so fast, is there anything I can do to prevent this?
holomusic player seems to do this but unfortunately the developer has passed away and I can't get hold of the latest apk anywhere, I'd appreciate it if anyone had it
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This is why I have a wireless charger so I can listen to music for a couple hours every day at the gym. I just keep it on the charger when I'm not using it.
am trying hard to avoid that at the moment lol if theres nothing that really can be done i may just get a dedicated mp3 player. the media server is cause 2 hours of wakelock yet the music player only has an 1 hour wakelock so there maybe a different issue, but ill see
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am trying hard to avoid that at the moment lol if theres nothing that really can be done i may just get a dedicated mp3 player. the media server is cause 2 hours of wakelock yet the music player only has an 1 hour wakelock so there maybe a different issue, but ill see
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mediaserver will always be higher as its used for all media not just music, i.e videos, notification sounds, etc. Basically anything that plays any type of media will call it up.
m4r0v3r said:
Well I use my phone as my music player and I listen to like a good two hours meaning. The wake lock is on for two hours meaning the battery drains so fast, is there anything I can do to prevent this?
holomusic player seems to do this but unfortunately the developer has passed away and I can't get hold of the latest apk anywhere, I'd appreciate it if anyone had it
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http://www.plusmobiles.com/holo-pad-and-holo-music-for-android-you-can-download-it-from-here.html
Not sure if that is the latest one or not. GL
Cheers kpkimmy that's the one. This will replace stock and see how battery life changes from there