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Mediascape music problems

Hi guys, I have a problem with my mediascape, when I play any music and the phone goes to sleep mode automatically or by me manually pressing the power button the music cuts off for a few seconds and then restarts from the beginning. If I play from a playlist and I'm using the phone then decide to put it to on sleep mode, it restarts from the beginning of the playlist, or if I'm going through the playlist and decide I want to hear a song and I select to go to next song, as soon as the screen turns off its back to the start again. This means I have to listen to a playlist from start and wait until a certain song comes up rather than being able to select a song.
I have tried the following already to see if I can solve the problem, I've gone to application settings and for mediascape clear data, clear cache, force stop and also the same for mediscape plugin manager settings. Ive checked my settings in task panel and set both mediascape/plugin manager to ignore, so therefore the task is not automatically killed.
Hope someone may be able to help me out or maybe there's someone else with the same problem. It's an incredibly annoying problem. I do not really want to reinstall the firmware again, as that is what I had to resort last time I had problems with my phone. Resetting to factory settings does not work correctly either it has to be reinstalled.
Any help would be great.
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Just use Mort Player, it is the best free player out there and put all the rest to shame.

Stick with meridian music player.. Drains battery less than mediascape, allows you to add playlists, looks ok and also has a nice music control widget. Prefer it more than mediascape.. hope it solves your issues an all
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Trust me...go to the Market and get Mort Player...it does it all, looks great, custom skins etc, used squat for the battery and works so well.

I do use Mortplayer too, and works fine. You can start it just by touching play button on your MW600 headphones with no need to start it from the phone. And it can read music from specific folders. For me the best too.

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juhalhamid said:
Hi guys, I have a problem with my mediascape, when I play any music and the phone goes to sleep mode automatically or by me manually pressing the power button the music cuts off for a few seconds and then restarts from the beginning. If I play from a playlist and I'm using the phone then decide to put it to on sleep mode, it restarts from the beginning of the playlist, or if I'm going through the playlist and decide I want to hear a song and I select to go to next song, as soon as the screen turns off its back to the start again. This means I have to listen to a playlist from start and wait until a certain song comes up rather than being able to select a song.
I have tried the following already to see if I can solve the problem, I've gone to application settings and for mediascape clear data, clear cache, force stop and also the same for mediscape plugin manager settings. Ive checked my settings in task panel and set both mediascape/plugin manager to ignore, so therefore the task is not automatically killed.
Hope someone may be able to help me out or maybe there's someone else with the same problem. It's an incredibly annoying problem. I do not really want to reinstall the firmware again, as that is what I had to resort last time I had problems with my phone. Resetting to factory settings does not work correctly either it has to be reinstalled.
Any help would be great.
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did you de-brand your phone?
if yes see now you know whats the problem on your precious SE x10 @@

are you using some kind of task killer that auto kills on sleep ?

sl1nk3 said:
are you using some kind of task killer that auto kills on sleep ?
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This seems like the most pertinent question.
Any kind of task killer, battery saving app or similar would be good to list here so we can test for ourselves and see what's up.
My advice would be to uninstall any task management, power saving apps, restarting your phone and see if you still have the same issue.

I've debranded my phone and mediascape works fine!
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bTunes is better than any other music media application

Hi, my phone is factory unlocked sim-only.
I've tried the other music player but that did not work, I believe it is a bug in the operating system which has caused this and will now reinstall firmware via SE update service.
Yes I use task panel to auto kill apps on sleep but mediascape is on the ignore list, so is not killed. Also this is a recent problem I've had and that is why I cannot blame the task killer. But rather on Sony Ericssons severely delayed and heavily flawed operating system. Let's hope the supposed "update" which is also delayed might be a bit better.
Thanks for trying guys
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Update: Custom Equaliser Auto Resets (caused by "Clarity" setting)

Hey all!
I just got my new piece of art. I found this issue few minutes after I started playing with the device.
Let me post it in points to prevent useless spam:
1- (Updated) I change the "Clarity" setting in the custom equalizer, and press OK to keep it as my setting.
2- After it's selected, I pause the music (either through the music widget or the music app itself).
3- I continue playing music.
Result:
The equalizer is reset to default. I have to select any other setting then return back to custom again to fix this problem till next pause.
I sent Samsung an e-mail and I hope they'll respond asap (will post here when/if they do). I thought I should post this here since manufacturers (especially Samsung) seem to be following what's happening here. I usually don't participate in the "environment" of reporting errors, but I thought it'd be worth it this time. ;P
Anyone here experiencing the same problem?

GalaxyS2_1 said:
Hey all!
I just got my new piece of art. I found this issue few minutes after I started playing with the device.
Let me post it in points to prevent useless spam:
1- I set a custom equalizer and press OK to keep it as my setting.
2- After it's selected, I pause the music (either through the music widget or the music app itself).
3- I continue playing music.
Result:
The equalizer is reset to default. I have to select any other setting then return back to custom again to fix this problem till next pause.
I sent Samsung an e-mail and I hope they'll respond asap (will post here when/if they do). I thought I should post this here since manufacturers (especially Samsung) seem to be following what's happening here. I usually don't participate in the "environment" of reporting errors, but I thought it'd be worth it this time. ;P
Anyone here experiencing the same problem?
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Nope not changing for me .
Nope Samsung don't take much notice of XDA general to much junk to sift through .
jje

JJEgan said:
Nope not changing for me .
Nope Samsung don't take much notice of XDA general to much junk to sift through .
jje
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This makes me a bit worried.
I bet some of those who're checking this thread can tell me whether it's a software or a hardware issue. keeping in mind that this bug doesn't occur on other music players (e.g.: Poweramp).
Any information about this bug would be appreciated!

so after spending sometime trying to figure out what's causing this bug. I found that it occurs only when I change the setting of the "Clarity" bar under "Extended" settings.
The clarity bar is set to 0 by default. Whenever it's changed to any other value then music is paused and continued again, the custom equalizer gets reset.
now what should we do to let Samsung know about it? anyone here experiencing the same problem?

Removing Audio Applications in Status Bar (And That Annoying Headphones Icon)

Hey guys,
I noticed when I plug in headphones it pops that stupid little icon up saying "You have earphones plugged, want to launch mah crap?" and found it rather annoying. Especially because I use the Google Music app, and when you're playing music there's two pairs of headphones. Looks cluttered.
After a little snooping through system APKs for which one looks after that I found that it's called ContextAwareService.apk in /system/app/
If you delete this the audio applications area doesn't show up in the notification area as well as the headphones icon.
If you want to remove it, back up the APK first because I don't know if it stops anything else (I haven't noticed anything breaking). If you didn't back it up... you're lucky because I've attached the original APK.
Hope this helps someone, I saw people wondering if you can modify that list. I personally just wanted to remove it because I removed the Samsung crap and it was displaying an empty area and two headphones when I used the Google Music app.
You do need to be rooted for this, and my suggestion is to use Root Explorer if you don't know your way around ADB

i dont mind it i just wish i could change the garbage listed in it.

It can also just be frozen with titanium backup if rooted.
Can anyone confirm if this disables anything else?
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Thank you very much! I can't get my head around why that icon even exists? I mean do we really need a reminder that we have our headphones plugged in? Are we that stupid?
Used TB to freeze that service and it worked great. Thanks again.
Now wondering what else gets affected by that service?

[email protected] said:
Thank you very much! I can't get my head around why that icon even exists? I mean do we really need a reminder that we have our headphones plugged in? Are we that stupid?
Used TB to freeze that service and it worked great. Thanks again.
Now wondering what else gets affected by that service?
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I've had it frozen all day and haven't noticed any problems as of yet. So far so good. It's nice to have that clutter gone. Thanks again.
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Glad to be of Service! When in doubt, delete it and see what breaks.

[email protected] said:
Thank you very much! I can't get my head around why that icon even exists? I mean do we really need a reminder that we have our headphones plugged in? Are we that stupid?
Used TB to freeze that service and it worked great. Thanks again.
Now wondering what else gets affected by that service?
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YES! I was wondering the same thing just yesterday. 2 headphone icons so you know that music is play (I'm deaf?) and that headphones are plugged in (I'm blind?).

drksilenc said:
i dont mind it i just wish i could change the garbage listed in it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756355
Might be what youre looking for

For those who have yet to root, you can also use the ICS Disable App function. Seems to work just fine for removing it. I would be interested in modifying the apps and use it, but until we can mod it, I will disable it.

lsmunoz said:
For those who have yet to root, you can also use the ICS Disable App function. Seems to work just fine for removing it. I would be interested in modifying the apps and use it, but until we can mod it, I will disable it.
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How do you disable a service without root? I don't think this is an actual app... right?

what is the big deal about a headphone icon? are you sitting there staring at it or something? lol smh

vnguyen972 said:
How do you disable a service without root? I don't think this is an actual app... right?
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If you go under Settings -> App Manager -> All -> And it's in that list, much safer and easier than TitaniumBackup and ADB, and it's easily reversible.

goblue30093 said:
what is the big deal about a headphone icon? are you sitting there staring at it or something? lol smh
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It's more of a preference, I don't like a bunch of icons at the top. Might be a little bit of a minimalist. I prefer to keep that area clean for notifications instead of notifying me that I have a headset/aux cable plugged in.

Long shot.
Do you know how we can get rid of the persistant connected to wifi in teh notification area?
It is not needed and steals from real estate.

Thank you. After knocking out the ongoing wifi notification and the annoying wifi pop-up, this was my last annoyance.
Now that I've frozen it with Titanium Backup, it's all good.

BlackDino said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756355
Might be what youre looking for
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Thanks, This actually makes the notification useful.

vnguyen972 said:
How do you disable a service without root? I don't think this is an actual app... right?
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Edit: Didn't notice someone else already answered it, my bad, sorry for the spam.
Go into settings, then application manager, then all and find it. If you click on it it will give you the option to disable it.

This is exactly what I have been looking for, thanks!

Don't know if anyone's said this but, you could name it to .bak so it doesn't go away.
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Thanks for posting this, always bugged me when headphones were plugged in
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Suddenly have no sound EXCEPT in music players.

I'm rooted, no problems at all except I installed some notification and ringtone apps today and when I tried to listen to the ringtones, there was no sound. I tried Netflix and no sound. My music players are the only thing that still plays out loud. Oh, and my current notification sounds quit sounding too.
Any ideas where to look or a fix? Thanks!

No Sound
kmodek said:
I'm rooted, no problems at all except I installed some notification and ringtone apps today and when I tried to listen to the ringtones, there was no sound. I tried Netflix and no sound. My music players are the only thing that still plays out loud. Oh, and my current notification sounds quit sounding too.
Any ideas where to look or a fix? Thanks!
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kmodek,
There was a sound problem with the initial Kindle Fire HD 7" release, although the current
version has been perfect. Music and Netflix application calls to there own software sound controller, so
this may be the ICS controller that's failed. Take a peek by pulling down the bar, click on More, then
click on Sound & Display. Is the volume up here? How about Mute All Notifications, is that
checked? Is Dolby on? If yes, turn it off (just as a test). Does your sound come back?
If none of this works, send it back to Amazon for replacement, you may have an older
revision that was accidentally released (what is the serial number? This is under More>
Device>About).

My serial is d025 a0a0 2394 19j8
System version is 7.2.3_user_2330720
I uninstalled all the ringtone apps and sound came back for a couple of days but now it's gone again.
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Volume Not Functioning
kmodek said:
My serial is d025 a0a0 2394 19j8
System version is 7.2.3_user_2330720
I uninstalled all the ringtone apps and sound came back for a couple of days but now it's gone again.
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kmodek,
Contact Amazon, ask them to replace your Kindle Fire. It is defective, period.
The volume service does not come and go unless the Kindle is defective.
Sorry for the bad news. If it is out of Warranty, contact us, we service
the Kindle and are very reasonable.

prokennexusa said:
kmodek,
Contact Amazon, ask them to replace your Kindle Fire. It is defective, period.
The volume service does not come and go unless the Kindle is defective.
Sorry for the bad news. If it is out of Warranty, contact us, we service
the Kindle and are very reasonable.
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Will they replace it if it's rooted? That's what I'm afraid of.

I've noticed this problem too, but I found that if I only change volume via the notification slider it doesn't happen. Stay away from sound managing apps that separate the the different volumes, that's what causes it for me.
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kmodek said:
Will they replace it if it's rooted? That's what I'm afraid of.
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Kmodek,
I am not Amazon, so all we can do is go by past experiences. Yes, in the past they have overlooked
Rooted devices and replaced the devices. The other option is to remove Superuser.apk from
/system/app - if you can not, which I believe you can not, then send it in, all they can say is no.
If they do say no, send it to us, we will get it to work. We are very reasonable and fair.
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MadJoe said:
I've noticed this problem too, but I found that if I only change volume via the notification slider it doesn't happen. Stay away from sound managing apps that separate the the different volumes, that's what causes it for me.
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MadJoe,
We found a bug in Netflix and Hulu which both use there own Volume control Service. This sometimes
freeze and we have to exit the application and open the application back up, then the Volume Service
works fine. The fact that it does not work in anything but Music means he has a serious problem with
the Kindle OS. This can be fixed by obtaining a USB Factory cable, then Flashing a new system.img.

Download Quickmute app from amazon. Use it to reset all your volumes. worked for me when I lost sound due to some downloaded app.

QuickMute Volume Control
Xyth said:
Download Quickmute app from amazon. Use it to reset all your volumes. worked for me when I lost sound due to some downloaded app.
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Xyth,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.graycode.quickmute
This is also available on Google Play using the above link.
Thank you for the feedback, this may solve his odd problem.

Xyth said:
Download Quickmute app from amazon. Use it to reset all your volumes. worked for me when I lost sound due to some downloaded app.
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I installed this app and my sound problems are solved!!!! Thank you!

Follow Up - Feedback
kmodek said:
I installed this app and my sound problems are solved!!!! Thank you!
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kmodek,
I learn something new everyday! I am so happy for you kmodek, your odd problem was resolved!
Good work.:good:

Glad that solution worked out for you. Enjoy.

Xyth said:
Download Quickmute app from amazon. Use it to reset all your volumes. worked for me when I lost sound due to some downloaded app.
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Had the same issue. This was the solution. (Had to reboot to get it to work) Nice work!
I have also had issues where dolby turns off on its own. If i go into settings and toggle it the sound comes back louder than before, which is how I know dolby is back working.
Both of these issues make me wonder how CM10 will deal with dolby.

Voice in the gallery and the browser?

I have a problem concerning some voice which appearce in the browser and the gallery. When im in the browser and I press something the voice tells me what I have pressed, and in the gallery when, for example, I multiselect pictures in tells me my action. Driving mode is disabled, TalkBack- deleted, I searched everywhere but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone knows how can I turn this stupid voice off, because it is driving me crazy...

Voice in Browser
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I have a problem concerning some voice which appearce in the browser and the gallery. When im in the browser and I press something the voice tells me what I have pressed, and in the gallery when, for example, I multiselect pictures in tells me my action. Driving mode is disabled, TalkBack- deleted, I searched everywhere but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone knows how can I turn this stupid voice off, because it is driving me crazy...
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By chance are you using Lightflow. That's what was causing that same thing on my phone.

Yes, I do. I should remove it then?

Voice in Browser - Lightflow
derWolf_ said:
Yes, I do. I should remove it then?
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That's what I did and it went away.

Yes, now it is fine. Although I liked the program. Is there a way in which I can leave it without the phone talking to me?

I am getting the same issue but I am not using lightflow - anyone else have any ideas as this driving me up the wall!!

Lightflow
derWolf_ said:
Yes, now it is fine. Although I liked the program. Is there a way in which I can leave it without the phone talking to me?
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Unfortunately not that I found. Sorry. I too like it, but had to delete it.

I found the issue. Similar to the other issues, the problem is that my phone is paired with my pebble watch. It looks like the accessibility options are causing this issue.
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I've found a solution!
Everytime you activate something like lightflow or other apps (like pebble pairing and so on) talkback gets "half" active. I deleted talkback and both pre-installed text-to-speech engines. now everything work fine. But I don't know if other apps that use text-to-speech are affected. I don't use any.
In a german android forum a found a same thread for the Galaxy SIII so it seems it's a Samsung or Google related bug (on Android 4.1.x and above). On my S2 with 4.0.3 nothing like that happend. Maybe I can test it with the 4.1.2 firmware in a few days.