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Some dudes in this forum mentioned that the time of their Magician's mp3 playback is as long as 16 hours with the screen turned off. However, mine is just 9 to 10 hours. I use Pocketmusic instead of WMP to play mp3. Is that the reason for the relatively short mp3 playback time?
Guys, what is your Magician's mp3 playback time in average? and do you have any tip about how to prolong the mp3 playback time? Thx in advance!!
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Stefan
My Jam uses almost 10% of its bat for each hour... which means 10 hours Max.. and I don't think it will last more than 9 hours, coz the thing locks it self to save power for the RAM...
but I have a question for you??
why do u need something more than 10 hours :?: :!:
I can't listen to music for more than 4 hours, and after that i have a headache
I use WMP and TCPMP to play music files.. most of them are wma.. some are mp3...
cheers mate
I think WMP is the most efficient when it comes to battery consumption because it uses less resources. TCPMP (BetaPlayer) is also good. I've also used PocketMusic, iMusic and PocketPlayer but now i'm satisfied with WMP because i use DSP to change the Audio Output and i now finally know how to get an Album picture showing . WMP has the best standard quality output in my opinion. If Microsoft included an EQ it would be perfect
Hi everyone,
Since this is a thread about playing music on our magicians, I thought i'd share my internet find.
I use these:- http://www.slicsound.com/
Your music WILL sound better,fuller and, as you can turn the volume all the way down and still hear it, your battery lasts longer!!
you get 3 pairs, small,medium,large in the pack and.. well! they are really cool!
oh.. and no one else can hear what you are listening to, so you wont annoy people on the bus/train etc!
happy reading
take care
dan
I use MortPlayer, because you can configure it the best way in my opinion. It doesn't use much battery but I would like to have some real numbers here as well. Did anyone make such a test?
duke911 said:
My Jam uses almost 10% of its bat for each hour... which means 10 hours Max.. and I don't think it will last more than 9 hours, coz the thing locks it self to save power for the RAM...
but I have a question for you??
why do u need something more than 10 hours :?: :!:
I can't listen to music for more than 4 hours, and after that i have a headache
I use WMP and TCPMP to play music files.. most of them are wma.. some are mp3...
cheers mate
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Thx for info! My battery consumption of mp3 playback is similar to yours. I do not mind to have some differences of battery life between my Magican and others'. But 16 hours to 9 hours is like 78% better, which is a bit unaccpetable.
TCPMP is not bad but I mostly use it to play video files, since it does not look like a music player.... more importantly I like the pre-set EQ in pocketmusic.
I do not listen to MP3 continuously for more than 4 hours, as you said. But I fed up a bit by charging the battery everyday...
dood said:
Hi everyone,
Since this is a thread about playing music on our magicians, I thought i'd share my internet find.
I use these:- http://www.slicsound.com/
dan
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In a similar vein, I've been using a pair of Shure E2c sound isolating earphones. A consumer version of the earphones that musicians wear onstage they block out external noise and sound blooming marvellous.
http://www.shure.com/ got mine off ebay for about £60
Hello Guys or should I say lucky X1 owners.
Please tell me if this is a true iPod replacement I am not comparing this to iPod but the reason is a follows.
I used to have Qtek S100 and after a little music being played on it gets hotter (very hot really) and battery lasts for very few hours (not a whole day). As being this windows mobile at its core I would like to know if X1 suffers the same problems? Please tell me if you can play long hours of audio tones???
Kind Regards
Abbas
Very fair question:
The Ipod is unique, but not perfect because the limitation from apple.
Just to mention 2 things:
*You can not get your music from any place you like, must be from itunes
* No stereo bluetooth
Xperia has a powerful battery 1500 mah specs call for up 10 hrs talking time,
and up 800 hrs standby. But How long just playing music, turning off
everything else?
Well the question is not about features or limitation of a product, the question is does a device do a job which is an end user intend to do.
Has any of the X1 owner litlary played 2/3 hours of continues music and what was the battery status? also was the phone back burning?
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Well the question is not about features or limitation of a product, the question is does a device do a job which is an end user intend to do.
Has any of the X1 owner litlary played 2/3 hours of continues music and what was the battery status? also was the phone back burning?
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I got a good 12h of continuous playback in 1 charge. Pretty good comparing to my old W850i that had about 10h playback. And the back was not hot on the X1.
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I got a good 12h of continuous playback in 1 charge. Pretty good comparing to my old W850i that had about 10h playback. And the back was not hot on the X1.
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12 hours of CONTINUOUS music? I'm sorry, I have to call BS on this one. No way, no how, not in a million years.
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12 hours of CONTINUOUS music? I'm sorry, I have to call BS on this one. No way, no how, not in a million years.
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...why?...
Actually I am seeing similar times. This however only when I shut off UMTS and dont do anything power-intensive (GPS, Wifi etc).
At the moment my battery is good enough for a 45 min TV episode, about 20 mins of GPRS/UMTS surfing (checking emails) and about 6-7 hours of music.
it works okay, but its no iPod. Just not snappy enough.
My power lasts for using and playback of two tv episodes (2x ~45 min) and still have over 50 % left. My old atom life was after the same by about 25 % battery left. 3G is allways on. So 10 h music playback with screen turned off is I think absolutely possible. The battery of the X1 is great, SE did a great job here!
How is the volume and bass with headphones on the Xperia?
Equaliser?
Can anyone confirm if there is a sound equaliser on X1?
i use my x1 instead of my ipod. the battery consumption is low (imo).
to boost my soundexperience i just installed the "SRS WOW HD" driver .cab.
unfortunatly i forgot my earplugs at my girlfriends place and have to wait till tomorrow to test it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355725
- QuadWord
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12 hours of CONTINUOUS music? I'm sorry, I have to call BS on this one. No way, no how, not in a million years.
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Why not?
From Touch HD's review on SlashGear - http://www.slashgear.com/htc-touch-hd-slashgear-review-part-2-0721942/
With continuous audio playback, the Touch HD lasted around fifteen hours before playback ended.
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15 hours, taking in mind Xperia's smaller screen and bigger battery, 12 hours shouldn't be a problem...
I was gonna say the same, I get about 8 hours w/ BT Stereo on,and texting in the middle, along with a two or three quick 20 min calls on my Touch Pro.
Plus Sony has always been good with battery life, although not sure if I can say its Sonys or HTCs work this time around o_o.
The xperia makes as a nice ipod alternative I'm sure. but you need a hefty card to really make it ipod replaceable.
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Can anyone confirm if there is a sound equaliser on X1?
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not yet, when the audiobooster from HD is working then there will be.
Unfortunately SRS WOW HD doesn't work here.
Sounds brilliant if you use CorePlayer IMO.
Also with 8GB cards as cheap as £12.99 I should be able to fit a decent amount of music on it. Or at a push 16GB cards are around £40.
I never planned to use my X1 for music but it blows my Sony Walkman MP3 player out of the water, and that was the best quality I had heard on an MP3 player.
The catch is even CorePlayer is not exactly the best interface for choosing your tracks. Its also a bit crap that you can't listen to the radio and do something else, as the radio is only available via one of the panels and so turns off when you try to get into something else.
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Its also a bit crap that you can't listen to the radio and do something else, as the radio is only available via one of the panels and so turns off when you try to get into something else.
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The Radio player only stops when you change panels. I've managed to read SMS and browser the internet at the same time as listening to Radio 4.
Panel vs Radio Panel
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The Radio player only stops when you change panels. I've managed to read SMS and browser the internet at the same time as listening to Radio 4.
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Hi, its maybe just me, you said Radio player stops when you change panels but then how you managed to listen the read SMS and browser while listening the Radio 4??? I believe to read SMS and browse you have to change the panel don't you?
Whilst in the Radio panel you have the two softkeys / touch screen to open Contacts or Web and at the top left you have Start and top right you have the task man to switch to different apps.
Currently have some random local station and the BBC website running.
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).
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..
I have done a ton of reading about this mediaserver process, but nobody seems to have a definitive fix.. (.nomedia file etc etc)
It is ALWAYS greater than my "google play music" app usage or "poweramp" when I play music and sometimes it goes rampant and is the highest usage... (see pic)
I know the phone up time is pretty good for that charge level, but the killer is I only listened to music for about half an hour..
It just grinds my gears that this relatively unknown process is all but useless to my needs (poweramp has it's own media library), but cant be stopped..
Is anybody able to shed some light on how to stop this process, even if it is a temp disable while poweramp is running or something?
Anyone else sick of mediaserver feel free to chime in..
Oh, and to make matters worse, my friends Galaxy SIII can stream BT music all day long and mediaserver uses about 3%...
Both his phone and my phone seem to have the same "keep awake" time, but his uses almost no battery.. What gives?
My N4 is stock 4.2.1 rooted and i have no files on it apart from one album in the music folder, no google music sync, no ringtones, no pics.. Nothing..
I had the exact same problem on my Nexus S too..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
It seems reasonable that corrupted media files is the cause. The phone might have scanned the damn file(s) over and over.
This might help.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5hZGR6Lm1lZGlhc2Nhbm5lcnJvb3QiXQ
Edit: I also suggest changing the music player.
Try Apollo
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1227099&d=1343478747
This (slightly outdated) version works better and less buggy than the one on Google Play.
Less features, less bugs.
I have the same worry, I think it uses too much juice for about 30 minutes of music. I use the default Google play music app though. Hopefully someone can help
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1) "Mediaserver" is allegedly using up a huge amount of battery
2) Your battery's at 39% after 29 hours
...these two things don't work together.
Here's what's probably happening: Android is misinterpreting something as being related to mediaserver alone when in fact it's only partially related or even unrelated altogether. This is probably caused by an app you've installed, but could just as easily be an actual bug causing Android is assigning too high a percentage to a small amount of real usage, that's all it is. In any case, if your battery has lasted 29 hours, you're not suffering from any kind of "battery-drain" condition.
IIRC, in Android the ability to request music playback is separated from the ability to actually play music for the purpose of allowing music to be automatically muted or have the volume reduced under certain circumstances (phone calls, voice navigation prompts, etc) and probably various other reasons people smarter than me would understand. This generic process that plays audio is called "media server". When your music player of choice plays music, it's probably outputting the audio via mediaserver for compatibility and usability reasons - so you see "Google Play Music" and "PowerAMP" down at a tiny percentage because they're doing very little to speak of as applications, while mediaserver is running continuously whenever audio is playing.
When an app uses a service, or a service uses an app, or a service uses another service, the "blame" for battery consumption often goes to the wrong place in this way. For example, you might also have "Android OS" being blamed for "Google Play Music" using wifi to stream music, and various other perplexing scenarios. You might have "Android System" at 50% battery usage when in fact Android by itself is doing very little - it's the things that work through "Android System" that are actually responsible.
Another good example is MX Player, which IIRC uses mediaserver in order to provide hardware decoding, but is still really the app to blame for that video needing to be decoded in the first place. Etc etc etc, bla bla bla.
What's your screen-on time? I'm guessing around 1.5 to 2.5 hours, right? You're doing fine. Worry less about statistics and more about observable reality.
TL;DR: Sh!t fewer bricks.
You know i got the exact same thing as you have except mine is "google service." In a way I'm kind of disappointed with this. I expected a lot better quality from Google. Especially when these things are running on stock straight from Google.
nawoa said:
1) "Mediaserver" is allegedly using up a huge amount of battery
2) Your battery's at 39% after 29 hours
...these two things don't work together.
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Thanks for the reply, and the information, but I still think something is not right... As I said before, ignore the long battery life as I have heaps of stuff turned off to try and investigate this bug..
I have previously played music all day over BT and had about 30% battery drain (70% left) which was about 60% mediaserver and 40% google play music.. This is perfectly fine for 5 or 6 hours of music playback... Google play music only.
However on this particular day for some reason I have 13% drain for 30 mins (21% of the 61% used) .. Something is not right.. I had not played music for the entire 28 hour period and mediaserver was nowhere to be seen in the usage stats, and then drove home with BT audio on, and BAM it's number one.. Using PowerAMP..
Perhaps the problem is with PowerAMP and how it handles the service?
Cheers, Tai
Bit of an update,
I ran the MP3 checker utility and found two corrupted, one of which was my ringtone!
I have since run the phone for two days and the mediaserver process has behaved itself and is just higher than the google play music app..
I still think that this needs to be fixed somehow, it shouldn't go pear shaped because one file is not 100%..
I got 2 days 10 hours on the last charge with over 1 hour of screen time and a few calls, dozens of sms's and emails, and music over bluetooth to and from work each day (3 trips)
Gotta be happy with that..
All right. Quick consideration. On my S2 there is a somewhat mediaserver that kind of drains the battery. The cause of this was the "sound when pressing" and "vibrate on press" (sry if translate isn't accurate) on sound settings.
In addition to that, make sure all vibrate and/or sound pressings on keyboards are disabled too.
Hope it helps.
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Taijohnsen said:
Bit of an update,
I ran the MP3 checker utility and found two corrupted, one of which was my ringtone!
I have since run the phone for two days and the mediaserver process has behaved itself and is just higher than the google play music app..
I still think that this needs to be fixed somehow, it shouldn't go pear shaped because one file is not 100%..
I got 2 days 10 hours on the last charge with over 1 hour of screen time and a few calls, dozens of sms's and emails, and music over bluetooth to and from work each day (3 trips)
Gotta be happy with that..
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What kind of mp3 checker utility?
:/
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I'm lucky to get 15 hours of battery life... How???
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First it was Google services, then Android OS, I got them both to behave, now it's Android Media Server, when I click on it, I do see Poweramp full unlock app there.
Not sure if it's poweramp though because a lot of people still say it isn't.
Any ideas?
If you're playing sounds at all it's going to be in use. It keeps your CPU awake to keep a song playing...
If you don't have any songs playing and it's awake, then it's bugged and you should reset the process.
Maybe I'm missing the point of this thread but it (this thread) seems rather off.
"Unknown process useless to my needs."
definitely need mediaserver to use your phone.
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"Unknown process useless to my needs."
definitely need mediaserver to use your phone.
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I thought that the process only scanned the phone for media, and wasn't needed, but now I know what it does.. I still think that it should not have this problem dealing with corrupt files..
This is the checker I used..
http://download.cnet.com/MP3-Checker/3000-2141_4-10543407.html
How 2 days??
I have all the location crap turned off and only sync email, contacts and calendar.. Other than that, my phone is stock (rooted)
The mp3 checker doesn't see my phone when it's mounted via usb, I assume you have to copy everything off the phone to your computer and scan from there. This could take a while.
I had a similar problem before. I posted a possible solution in this other thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35116498&postcount=8
First mediaserver, now the phone app?? wth.
I haven't even looked at the phone app today.
Having the same problem with Mediaserver, if I listen to a podcast on Doggcatcher I'm draining 15% per hour and battery stats show Mediaserver killing my battery. Listening to a podcast drains 15% per hour, it should hardly be draining anything. Simply listening to a podcast stored on my device takes more juice than browsing the Internet with the screen on, that's not right.
here's what i've done
# created a .nomedia file in every damn directory on the sdcard:
for d in `find /sdcard -type d`; do touch ${d}/.nomedia;done
#Then went through the directories which I wanted to allow Mediaserver to scan
#(DCIM/Pictures/Movies/Music etc...) and removed the .nomedia
for dir in DCIM Pictures Movies Music media subsonic; do find /sdcard/${dir} -name .nomedia|xargs rm;done
I'll let ya know if this changes anything.