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Well I bought a 32Gb SD card and excitedly copied my MP3 music collection onto it.
However, playing these on my Windows 7 HTC Shift results in a disappointing playback quality, with 'popping' and 'glitching' occuring about every 6 seconds. It's almost listenable but rather anoying.
My Vista laptop plays the mp3 music fine from the SD cards, the issue is specific to the HTC shift, it's SD card drivers and the SD card slot.
When the MP3 is copied onto the Shifts hard drive, it plays perfectly.
I have tested all 3 of my SD cards, one FAT 4Gb, one FAT32 4Gb, and one NTFS 32Gb, and all of them exhibit the same glitchy MP3 playback on my HTC Shift.
I have tried all players on my shift, Windows media player, itues, and the lightweight VLC. All result in the same poor music playback on my Shift when the MP3 is on the SD card.
So there seems to be a problem with the Shift specifically, with MP3 playback from the SD card slot.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I have yet to try other music formats, but I'll write up my findings here.
It's disappointing as I don't want to clog up my Shifts hard drive with music files.
Could any of you shift owners do a quick test to see if an MP3 file plays smoothly from an SD card in your shift?
No problem with my 4gb sdhc.
dannyt84 said:
No problem with my 4gb sdhc.
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That's good news. Thanks for taking the time to test that.
Are you running Windows 7?
My device driver reckons the SD driver is up to date.
I'll try installing the SD formatter 3 patch this evening so see if that solves it.
Yes, windows 7. Let us know.
Negative. I installed patch KB976422-x86, rebooted, reformatted the SD card and re-tested. But the same glitchy playback occured.
Hmmm. I'm going to try safe mode or strip down all the services and startup programs to see if any of those is causing it.
Can you try playing with buffering inside the players? Maybe, like when playing big files from the internet on a low bandwith it makes things run not quite so smooth. By the way, what is the bit rate you are using? Playing with the quality of the recording can also have some influence: lower bit rates go smoother through the bus if it is struggling with higher bit rates. I've seen it happening at work with CD/DVD players.
I had high hopes for resolving this problem as I make backup images of my Shifts hard drive from time to time, so I restored an image that was made soon after windows 7 was restored. But the music still played back badly from SD. Even after I uninstalled all unecessary programs and killed unecessary tasks.
So I still haven't resolved this. I had a red herring solution, but it turned out that if I play the SAME mp3 twice, the second play is fine as the file must be cached on my hard drive following the first read.
My next thoughts are with services and the BIOS. My BIOS reads 1.0.0.18.
This is a little surprising as I know the latest HTC released BIOS is 10.0.0.8. I had loaded 1.0.0.8 before when I was Vista, but since installing windows 7 I didn't bother changing the BIOS as I thought it would be independant of the OS and persist. Do Windows 7 installers put the HTC Support BIOS 1.0.0.8 on their shifts?
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Can you try playing with buffering inside the players? Maybe, like when playing big files from the internet on a low bandwith it makes things run not quite so smooth. By the way, what is the bit rate you are using? Playing with the quality of the recording can also have some influence: lower bit rates go smoother through the bus if it is struggling with higher bit rates. I've seen it happening at work with CD/DVD players.
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Thankyou Wovens. These are great points which I hadn't considered. My MP3s are 160kbps. Fairly hight but not excessively so.
Buffering and quality will be by next area of investigation.
UPDATE:
I have had the very same MP3 music playing smoothly now from the SD Card. Amazingly, this was on my restored latest hard drive image which had ALL my programs installed. What's even stranger is that I didn't do anything specifically to get it working. I just left Windows 7 to rest for a good 10 minutes before attempting to play the music. I have suspicions that the OS 'gets busy' doing someing that interferes with the SD card.
I'm getting there... and I'll post my findings which should hopefully conclude with a culprit and a permanent solution.
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.
I followed the following link to set up CM7 on a SD card:
edit: can't post links in the forum yet
This worked but I really dislike how low the volume is.
I read at a few places that copying a file (asound.conf) to the /system/etc directly might fix the issue but /system is read only.
Question...is the /system on the eMMC or the SD card?
Is there a way to fix the audio issues without rooting my Nook since I am running CM7 off of a SD card?
Which nightly or stable CM7 do you have on your microSD disk?
For nightly, If you have anything newer than #98, then you can go to market and download an app by darlingrin: Nook Color tweats. It allows you to adjust volume and cpu speed.
For stable, there is an app like Volume+ that allows you to adjust volume as well.
Good luck.
it was a nightly one but not sure of the build number
maybe 97?
how would I check?
which should I use in that case?
I tried the Nook Color Tweaks app
it sounds like it worked
thanks!
I am going on vacation in a couple of days and copied a bunch of movies on it to watch and was worried about hearing it on the plane
Have a nice vacation.
Great topic.
I was wondering about this topic myself. I can barely hear my NC under CM7. If there's any background noise - forget about it.
Does anyone else find that trying to multitask with music playing makes your music choppy? Has anyone find a way around this? I'm using krillos 5.7 and power amp.
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Yeah..Even am facing the same problem since the past couple of weeks.
Though am facing the problem with the stock music player in Indroid 4.3!
It could be a problem caused by sdcardspeedreadingfix, which has a bug that causes struttering on videos. Never heard of it causing lag on music, but you could give it a shot.
1. Download SD speed boost
2. Open it
- Move current value to 128 and save. Make sure it has changed to that by re-opening the app.
- See if music lags now.
I just flashed the pre-release fugumod kernel from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134369 and it solved this problem. turns out it was the kernel xD. I just did a full titanium backup while playing angry birds AND music on poweramp and no stutters at all.
Update on this: it appears that today while at work I discovered that it was not even solved on using stock JPQ with this Kernel, and now I know why...yesterday I was just using music through speaker and running stuff...today I was at work using bluetooth headset to lisen to music and the skipping has returned! Can anyone else confirm this?
i have sennheiser ears and sometimes when i am doing alot my phone gets laggy when listening to music and sometimes (not often) it laggs a littlebit). I'm just using kyrillos 5.7 with stock kernel and stuff. standard music player.
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Update on this: it appears that today while at work I discovered that it was not even solved on using stock JPQ with this Kernel, and now I know why...yesterday I was just using music through speaker and running stuff...today I was at work using bluetooth headset to lisen to music and the skipping has returned! Can anyone else confirm this?
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I had the problem when I first got my Galaxy 3 last week.
Only did two things:
1. Bought a new MicroSD card
2. Updated to JPM
Problem solved.
Never had any skipping again.
And that's ALL i did.
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I had the problem when I first got my Galaxy 3 last week.
Only did two things:
1. Bought a new MicroSD card
2. Updated to JPM
Problem solved.
Never had any skipping again.
And that's ALL i did.
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Wich class of sdcard did you buy?
Found A workaround, using titanium I uninstalled all the system apps I don't use and integrated all the things I do use into the rom apart from games so I would have more internal memory space. Disabled apps2sd and now no skipping! It was indeed my sd card being weird. I guess I'll have to use the apps2sd app from the market to save space now.
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Even though it is resolved for you, let me add this as a reference for others.
I've also always had the Audio-Skipping problem ever since I updated from 2.1 to 2.2 (via Kies back then, so everything was stock). I tried pretty much everything, eventually I just gave up on trying to solve it. I had also advanced to using custom ROMs, including some like Dharam's (Ulta-)Clean, which essentially have everything non-essential stripped already - no success... I also was on Kyrillos and InDroid.
I don't have a high-end sd-card, but it's a class 4 @ 16 gb so it's not THAT slow either (it does about 5.5 mb read & write). But since this isn't exactly high-performance I never used app2sd (or link2sd or what-have-you), but I doubt that would've made a difference...
I (finally!) got rid of the issues yesterday, even though I wasn't even trying: I tried out the latest FuguMod Ultra kernel to improve performance and battery life (which it did) - mostly for the new & improved governor "SavagedZen". It runs perfectly at full speed on my phone and the audio hasn't skipped a beat since I installed it. I know this won't work for everyone as overclocking to 1366 MHz isn't stable on every phone, but I suspect that that kernel will improve on these audio-skipping-issues even if you set the max speed to something like 800 (which to my knowledge doesn't cause trouble on any phone). You still need to get it to boot and let you into SetCPU to do so though I guess...
i tried fugumod 2.4 beta3 (standard) yesterday and it finally fixed this problem...
I'm currently having intermittent problems with random freezes. My nook freezes up and becomes unresponsive to input. I'm forced to manually shut down the nook by holding the power button for 4-5 seconds, and restart.
The last time the nook froze was when I tried to download the doubletwist player app from the market. After it froze, i restarted, and then the installation went on just fine.
I'm currently running CM 7.1 stable on a sandisk 32gb class 4 card using verygreen's method. I got the latest gapps (i think 0828), and the market is at version 3.3.11. I don't have much loaded on the nook just yet since it's still new to me, so it's strange that I'm having instability issues so early. I have also tried fixing permissions by using ROM Manager without much effect.
Also, on a side note, it seems like my nook does not update any accounts (gmail, imap email, facebook, etc) when my screen is off - is that normal? My wifi is always on and active, but the accounts don't update/sync until the screen is turned on.
Hmmm... so no one has experienced freezing issues for the Nook Color? My nook seems to freeze at least once a day - it ranges from downloading apps, playing games, all the way to typing an email...
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
I rooted and had my Nook all for a day, but rooted it immediately.
Only thing I can think of:
1. Are you OCing?
2. Did you format data before installing the rom?
3. Did you flash a different kernel?
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About the syncing issues, I don't know if the nook is setup to sync like that? It has wifi but I don't believe it is on all the time to save battery... in all honesty its all new to me, but we can learn together.
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Well it does seem like it syncs some data now... for instance my yahoo mail, and my work's exchange mail. But it doesn't seem to be very frequent... i guess maybe that's just how it is?
It still does freeze on me though, but to answer your questions:
1. Are you OCing - Yes, I do have it OC'ed to 1200mhz
2. Did you format data before installing the rom? - I'm back onto MIrage's 7.2 RC, but i did not format the data beforehand... maybe that's it.
3. Did you flash a different kernel? - Yes, i flashed to the new kernel that fixes SOD.
It's all new to me too, but i'm beginning to think you get what you paid for in this instance.
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Well it does seem like it syncs some data now... for instance my yahoo mail, and my work's exchange mail. But it doesn't seem to be very frequent... i guess maybe that's just how it is?
It still does freeze on me though, but to answer your questions:
1. Are you OCing - Yes, I do have it OC'ed to 1200mhz
2. Did you format data before installing the rom? - I'm back onto MIrage's 7.2 RC, but i did not format the data beforehand... maybe that's it.
3. Did you flash a different kernel? - Yes, i flashed to the new kernel that fixes SOD.
It's all new to me too, but i'm beginning to think you get what you paid for in this instance.
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1. OC to 1100. OC'ing to 1200 has no noticeable increase in performance, it overheats the device, and burns through battery like no tomorrow. I also suggest setting your minimum frequency to 1100. It sounds counter-intuitive, but the minimum frequency shows no real effect on battery. LeslieAnn (Harmonia dev) linked to a thread about the effects of overclocking on the battery (The OP was testing on the LG Optimus V to be precise). This person benchmarked and tested at different clocking speeds and found that if you set your CPU to it's highest stable clock speed (806 for the Optimus, 1100 for the Nook) it's actually better on battery life. So, my suggestion is set it to 1100/1100 min/max.
2. *facepalm* Tsk, tsk, tsk. I tried the Mirage port for the Nook and found it to be very buggy. The keyboard was always glitching, apps FC'd, etc. I'm not necessarily putting Mirage down, but it has quite a way to go before it's ready to be run on Nook. ATM I'm running Dalingrin & Fattire's CM9/ICS build (though it's only an early build, an RC maybe an alpha build at most at this point), it is amazing, aside from some bugs (you have to use a bootable microSD to utilize recovery) it's superb. If you feel a need to change ROMs, I'd go with either CM9/ICS: http://tinyurl.com/7ny5r5c Or one of the CM7 nightlies (they are fairly stable for nightlies and include plenty of goodies).
3. SOD... never had that. So I have no advice there, apparently you got it patched. I'm running Fattire's 2.6.32.9 kernel for ICS (comes standard with the ROM), no problems so far.
Edit: Clock to 1100/1100 on the interactive or interactiveX governor. Forgot to write that.
Edit #2: I'm a bit unattentive today (3.5 hours of sleep...). To address your email sync issue, I'd go into settings and see what your sync interval is (mine is set to every 15 minutes, screenshot here: http://tinyurl.com/cgkjnxe). If you have it set to something low like that and still have sync issues, it may be due to ROM bugs, or a plethora of other reasons (possibly WiFi speed?). If setting it to a lower sync interval helps, so be it, but if not, I'll look further into the problem. And by the way, check out that sexy ICS interface. This shall be my last edit.
worldindo1 - do you run CM9 off of your emmc? or a sdcard? I'm thinking about moving over to the emmc, and wondering what the benefits would be.
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worldindo1 - do you run CM9 off of your emmc? or a sdcard? I'm thinking about moving over to the emmc, and wondering what the benefits would be.
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By default, the way Dal and Fattire have it set up, it automatically installs the boot to eMMC. Which means the loss of 5GB of storage space. But with another .9GB on internal, and up to 32GB of external, app and media storage should be no problem. So there is a con, but the pro is that you never have to worry about inserting SD to get into it.
Take heed to a few warnings:
1. Don't try to boot into recovery by using ROM manager or by Power+Home button. Use a CWR bootable. Otherwise, you corrupt your boot and have to restart.
2. GApps is still a bit buggy (unless you build straight off from their most current source) so it can/will FC on you.
3. Make sure you flash the proper version of GApps: http://db.tt/ujcVWK1U All other versions of GApps for ICS have nfc (Nook doesn't have nfc) which leaves you with a completely unusable device due to cont.force close of nfc service.
4. USB transfer DOES NOT WORK! D: If you want to put files on your SD, either use a phone or use a microSD adapter.
Note: Took down the link because something in the ZIP (not quite sure what) may have corrupted. Now I say this, but don't freak out if you already downloaded it. Whatever happened within the ZIP wont harm your Nook so don't worry about it.
The CM9 zip can either install to emmc or SD depending on which installation method you use.
Which you choose to do is entirely dependent on your usage of the device and whether the NC is a working tablet or an experimental device. Some are OK with current state of CM9 and put it on the emmc for convenience.
At the moment I chose to leave CM7 on the emmc for normal usage and swap in a CM9 SD card to play with the current state of play in its development.
On the subject of OC I have pretty much always run at 1200 On Demand with the default minumum. I do tweak the voltages down to the value originally suggested by Dalingrin. I have no overheating and battery life is great.
For freezing it maybe be worth upping the version or trying out the KANG MiRaGe which has all known fixes in.
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The CM9 zip can either install to emmc or SD depending on which installation method you use.
Which you choose to do is entirely dependent on your usage of the device and whether the NC is a working tablet or an experimental device. Some are OK with current state of CM9 and put it on the emmc for convenience.
At the moment I chose to leave CM7 on the emmc for normal usage and swap in a CM9 SD card to play with the current state of play in its development.
On the subject of OC I have pretty much always run at 1200 On Demand with the default minumum. I do tweak the voltages down to the value originally suggested by Dalingrin. I have no overheating and battery life is great.
For freezing it maybe be worth upping the version or trying out the KANG MiRaGe which has all known fixes in.
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I've found it to be more stable on eMMC. Installing via recovery menu by default put it on my eMMC. The loss of space doesn't bother me, even on other ROMs. There is actually a way to trick the device into thinking that eMMC is an SD card (basically the ability to install apps on "SD" without a mounted SD card, as well as media storage)
So I have not yet tried CM9, or putting the OS on the emmc... however I did switch over to LauncherPro recently.
I have to say... I've been having a lot less issues with LauncherPro... and not to mention, there is a HUGE performance difference. The scrolling of the home screens are so much smoother with LauncherPro than ADW. So I would recommend anyone to give that a shot!