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Volume Control with Screen Off

Does anyone know if there is a way that the volume can be changed on the SGS i9000 without the screen turning on?
I have checked the settings of both Android and Winamp but found no option.
Also, an Internet search using Google and searching the XDA did not return a result...

I also find this annoying. I use the MIUI player
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GOTFrogqc said:
I also find this annoying. I use the MIUI player
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Thanks for the quick reply and information; I will definitely check that out now.
You would think that this would be a feature included with Android; although, maybe a developper would be able to create a mod with this feature. *hint hint*
Can anyone comment if such a modification would even be possible?

PlayerPro supports volume up/down with the screen off. It also supports skip forward/back with the volume keys, by holding them down. (this behaviour can be turned off and/or reversed with volume as well).
It's the only music app I've found that does this, although I wish it did pause instead.
Cheers

What firmware are you on? I'm on Darky's 9.3 (2.2) and it does this with the default music player.

Kops said:
What firmware are you on? I'm on Darky's 9.3 (2.2) and it does this with the default music player.
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THANK YOU!!!
I am using the JVB firmware currently and, as you mentioned, the default music player actually does not turn the screen on when changing volume.
Hah! All this time and I never thought to use the default music player. Go figure...
So, seems as though I should send yet another request to Winamp development.
Wish me luck...

Alright, to finish this thread off I thought I would mention that I have been using Winamp since it was released and never looked back; so, my apologies for anyone that may have facepalmed while reading this...
Suprisingly the default music player is not that bad. Actually, I think that I may continue using it instead of Winamp until an equalizer has been implemented and the volume can be changed without causing the screen to turn on. Also, the music player has features in the notification area and Winamp does not.
Either way, thanka again to everyone that helped; it is greatly appreciated.

DeHann said:
Does anyone know if there is a way that the volume can be changed on the SGS i9000 without the screen turning on?
I have checked the settings of both Android and Winamp but found no option.
Also, an Internet search using Google and searching the XDA did not return a result...
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Voodoo sound seems to allow me to adjust all music apps with screen off.
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Hi the problem with the screen that turns on when pressing the volume keys occurs when you have a non stock lockscreen like widgetlocker or winamp lockscreen controls above the stock lockscreen.
I think everyone reproduce this problem in sgs
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use player pro and voodo sound (voodoo control plus)
its worked like a charm

I honestly would just use the default samsung music player. It has built in eq's, has lock screen player & has a funky 5.1 button for the hell of it. (although it's debatable if it changes the sound quality for the better or not)

sammy_user said:
Hi the problem with the screen that turns on when pressing the volume keys occurs when you have a non stock lockscreen like widgetlocker or winamp lockscreen controls above the stock lockscreen.
I think everyone reproduce this problem in sgs
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You have helped me to find the root cause. THANK YOU IMMENSELY!!!
The issue is that; although I use the stock lockscreen, it was disabled using the Extended Controls application because I was at work and next to my phone the entire time...
Good catch and thanks again. I owe you a coffee, beer, or something; but, in the meantime, I will click your thanks button. That's just as good, right?!

Spotify on the Fire

Hey guys,
I just got my Fire and I love it (besides the fact that I feel like I have to sideload EVERYTHING). I installed the official Spotify app, and it ran alright aside from some screen formatting problems (the navigation buttons for the Fire get in the way). The main issue is that the Fire doesn't realize it's a music app for some reason and puts the wifi connection to sleep when the screen goes off so my music shuts off... Very frustrating. Anyone have any ideas for a fix for this. I thought about installing Spare Parts Plus, but I can't find it anywhere to sideload it and it's not in the stupid Kindle App store...

Anyone? I may return my Fire if I can't get this to work...It's THAT important to me that I can stream without the wifi turning off...

you might want to look into apps that keep wifi on since the settings page for wifi is gone in the Fire. I'm sure one of those must exist somewhere. If not it seems like a very trivial app to write. Some sort of wifi lock toggle.

https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5rbWFuLldpZmlNYW5hZ2VyIl0.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hogdex.WifiRuler&feature=also_installed
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mdsoftware.wifipowermanager&feature=also_installed
Try any of those apps, I'm pretty sure WiFi manager will be able to do whatever you need and more.

The screen formatting problems make it impossible for me to pause playing music without exiting the app - am I missing a way to do that?

paulm13 said:
The screen formatting problems make it impossible for me to pause playing music without exiting the app - am I missing a way to do that?
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I have the same trouble. I haven't figured out a way around it.

see if changing the lcd density helps. btw has anyone tried using Spare Parts on this thing?

orangeagent said:
I have the same trouble. I haven't figured out a way around it.
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It's silly, and really, really less-than-ideal, but using the spotify widget works for this. Toss in a volume control widget on the same screen, works great.
(This, of course, assumes you... have a normal launcher installed >.>)

mewshi said:
It's silly, and really, really less-than-ideal, but using the spotify widget works for this. Toss in a volume control widget on the same screen, works great.
(This, of course, assumes you... have a normal launcher installed >.>)
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Nice tip! Thanks. With ADW installed, being able to use a widget really is a life saver! The app is really crippled with the Kindle bar over the top. I hope they come up with a fix soon, but seeing as they don't officially support it, and Amazon probably won't allow it in the store, I won't hold my breath.

I can't get the buttons to show up correctly on the Spotify app itself. I can't tell if it's something to do with the tablet, or something to do with the fact that it's on a modified version of Android. I guess once the custom ROMs are out we'll know for sure.

Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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gigaorg said:
Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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Man I hope so.

gigaorg said:
Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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Even if it *is* a silly workaround
I also told Amazon they should try to get it working properly, since, hey, I pay for Spotify, I'd like to use it on here.
Also, the music app that comes on it tends to be a bit... stuttery.

i have been having the same issues. Does anyone know if Spotify works on any tablets?

Music randomly starts playing

Over the past few days, the music app has started playing music without anything to start it. I have not installed any apps that control the music playback and there are no widgets on the main home screen to do as such either.
Anyone else? Very odd behavior. I tried searching but nothing even close came in the results.
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This will happen when a Bluetooth audio device connects..

Good point. However, I'm currently not paired to any devices. I haven't needed my headset or headphones just yet, so no pairing yet.
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-Verizon SGSlll-
Yeah this is happening for me too. It plays the same song each time as well.

I have some similar problem. Sometimes when playing a track, it skips to the next track automatically. I have no idea what's causing this.
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kgamed25 said:
-Verizon SGSlll-
Yeah this is happening for me too. It plays the same song each time as well.
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Yes! It's always Dave Matthews' "Crash Into Me" for me. Maybe my phone is trying to tell me something. Is it THAT advanced?
Seriously, though, it's annoying and embarrassing. Yesterday, it started up during a meeting.
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Random music
I have had the same type of thing happen with a Droid X. Seemed to happen when I received a notification. As if it was grabbing a particular song instead of the notification tone. Just a thought.

Dfrand said:
I have had the same type of thing happen with a Droid X. Seemed to happen when I received a notification. As if it was grabbing a particular song instead of the notification tone. Just a thought.
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Did you accidentally assign a song as a notification? I haven't done that.
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If you have root, I recommend Autostarts. Let's you disable apps being notified when various events happen.

kronium said:
If you have root, I recommend Autostarts. Let's you disable apps being notified when various events happen.
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Would this app tell me what app might be starting the mp3 player? Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.
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Have you restored any application backups with TiBu or something similar? If so, then that app's ringtones could be set to play a random ringtone. With the right software installed, this could mean a random song. If this is the problem, just set that app's ringtones again to fix it.
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One handed operation -- not working

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/4740120/galaxy-note-3-in-one-handed-screen-mode
For some reason, the feature mentioned in the video above does not work in my phone.
I already activated this in the Settings. Any thoughts why?
Thanks!

chadman4 said:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/4740120/galaxy-note-3-in-one-handed-screen-mode
For some reason, the feature mentioned in the video above does not work in my phone.
I already activated this in the Settings. Any thoughts why?
Thanks!
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it should work if you checked one handed operations in the settings. this was the first thing i tried on the display model at the at&t store today. the guy in the video is kinda doing the wrong gesture to get it to work though. its not a half circle gesture, you need to swipe the screen to the left and back to the right real quick with out taking your finger off the screen. or vice versa.

Did that already. Still does not work. Dont know why. Hehe.
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Here is the same problem, and really annoying.

szotyi said:
Here is the same problem, and really annoying.
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Good to know it's not just me
Maybe software thing.
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It works on mine (French device) .

Works on mine.

I'm also having the same issue, haven't got it to work yet either. Again, I've enabled it in the options but no matter what gesture I make, it doesn't work.
I've got a suspicion that there's another setting conflicting with it somewhere but I don't know what.

Does it only work on the home screen with the stock launcher or is this supposed to work anywhere? In the videos I've seen demoing it it's always been on the main home screen.

Anywhere
Anytime
Even in multi window mode

I can't even get it to work on the home screen. I'll try to record a video tonight.

It works on app as well.
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I had problem to turn that on first time and still i cant turn that on sometimes. I dont know if that help but this option work only with finger, no s-pen
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Swipe frome right edge to the left and back to the right with about 2cm swipe lenght
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I've just made a quick video showing this not working on mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AddrtLg1Ok4
Please excuse the poor quality, that's my old phone (and the woman in the background is my wife, ignore her).
Believe me, I've tried every variant of swiping that I can think of, I just cannot make this work.

Somebody did a factory reset and after tried? May be some settings or app cause this.

I had the same problem. I solved it by disabling all accessibility services, in my case it was lightflow that caused it. If you enable lightflow you get a warning that talkback can't be active in junction with several Samsung services, which is on one hand exactly what happens. On the other hand it's not talkback that's activated, but lightflow. which is really strange : the message is simply wrong.
I spotted this thread here:
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/...=GeneralB&messageId=204387&messageNumber=2156
Look at post #35. This is a bug of the S4 but it seems to be also existent on the note 3. this is what also breaks the gesture for one handed operation .

onyxogen said:
I had the same problem. I solved it by disabling all accessibility services, in my case it was lightflow that caused it. If you enable lightflow you get a warning that talkback can't be active in junction with several Samsung services, which is on one hand exactly what happens. On the other hand it's not talkback that's activated, but lightflow. which is really strange : the message is simply wrong.
I spotted this thread here:
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/...=GeneralB&messageId=204387&messageNumber=2156
Look at post #35. This is a bug of the S4 but it seems to be also existent on the note 3. this is what also breaks the gesture for one handed operation .
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This is it! I disabled all my accessibility services and suddenly one-handed mode worked right away!
That's a bit of a damn shame, as I need those services for my Pebble and to a lesser extent, Lama. Oh well, fingers crossed for a bugfix.

We better cross fingers very hard because Samsung had not fixed this for over a year!!!

To get this working it seems all accessibility options have to be turned off. I don't think any specific third party app is to blame as any of the ones on the screen cap caused the function to stop if it was turned on. If they are turned of it works fine in Touch wiz and other launchers tried.
Hope this is fixed soon as Lightflow, DynamicNotifications, Pebble and Tasker etc. are very useful to me - even more so when rooting is reliably sorted.
It's also worth mentioning that turning on any of these accessibility options also causes the standard browser to keep talking annoyingly saying "Page Loading", Page Loaded" etc. Further indication it is an Android bug.
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Yes you are wright. This was the problem. But without pebble and tasker is not my option, so I'll wait for the fix it.
Really thanks for your solution!

How to play youtube videos/music in the background.

As from the title you can see that I found the easiest way to play background YouTube's videos or music which doesn't require for you to download external apps that allow that. This allows the listening while the screen is off and while using other app (not sure didn't test on every app).
Note: I'm not sure if if there is a another post on this but just incase if someone don't know about it...
1) First of all chose the YouTube video/music you want to listen in the background while doing other stuff.
2) once the video/music is playing go to home screen and after going to the home screen press the power button once to lock your device.
3) then wake up your device again this should take you to the lock screen page as shown in the picture below
4) once you can see the lock screen that has notifications on it, then swipe the clock to the left which should show the name of the YouTube title.
That's it hopefully this does work forever as I am not sure if the android would potentially close YouTube after a while but yeahhhhhh. You lot probably already know about this but just wanted to share if somebody doesn't know it.

You need to have lucky patcher and adaway youtube. Don't let it update or you'll lose ad free.
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Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.

Masterfellow said:
Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.
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TheUndertaker21 said:
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Hmh. Unlucky me then lol.

Masterfellow said:
Hmh. Unlucky me then lol.
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You need lucky patcher so root as well.
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OGYouTube will let you play in background without any workaround

Masterfellow said:
Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.
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Wallpaper? Looks nice

TheUndertaker21 said:
You need lucky patcher so root as well.
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For this you don't need it. My galaxy s8 isn't rooted

AndroiderM said:
OGYouTube will let you play in background without any workaround
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Read the text the point of this post is to allow background YouTube to work without any additional apps. Read

Masterfellow said:
Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.
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Could it be something related to Vodafone WiFi calling?

TheUndertaker21 said:
You need to have lucky patcher and adaway youtube. Don't let it update or you'll lose ad free.
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Who told you that to do this you need root??

kimple_john said:
Wallpaper? Looks nice
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Thanks, I'm not sure but I think it's from backdrops. I have many apps with wallpapers lol.