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request* how to delete HTC.music.apk app

hey guys.. i was wondering if anyone knew the command line to remove HTC music app... i like the vanilla music app better.. i installed it.. only problem is.. when i use my bluetooth stereo earphones.. when i try and skip a track or resume a track.. it actually starts up the HTC music app.. while the vanilla app i have to control via phone.. i tried to do it with a file manager.. but its telling me its " read only".

Easiest way to delete apps is get Titanium Backup found in the market.
It gives you a list of all your apps, to back them up, delete, whatever.
If you having problems, tap the problems tab and install busybox

[Q] Timeout for music player PowerAmp

Hi,
I'm sure I can find settings to regulate timeouts of programs. Lately I gave PowerAmp a try, very neat music player, but when my screen times out PowerAmp does aswell after 5 - 15 mins. First, the program was in my "force close" list in my task manager. I took it out but it still closes.
Somebody?

My phone had the same problem,
took me ages to find out what was wrong - all those google searches paid off tho!
just go to:
Settings > Applications > Running Services
and then delete the original Connecting Music player service...
and if that still doesnt work,
deleting the google listen service may do the trick
let me know if it works

I haven't had the bug for a while but this is a good clue. Thank you so far, I will update here once I tried it out.

Hello,
I'm actually facing the same problem, no matter the player I'm using, the music shut down a few minutes after the screen goes dark.
How do you managed to get rid of the "Connecting music player"??? (called "Lecteur de musique connecté" in my french phone)
I found it in the Settings > Applications > Running Services
but I can't uninstall it (button is disabled).
Please help, thank you

Hi,
well I have not been playing music with PowerAMP lately. But to get rid, or better freeze the program, I guess Titanium Backup would do the job. Why don't you try it out to freeze the native music player with it.

Thank you for your response.
Titanium backup needs my phone to be rooted, so I opened z4root and use the temporary root. A few minutes later, white screen and then it says "temporary root applied. You are now rooted until your next reboot"
I ran Titanium backup which said again that my phone is'nt rooted or that busyBox is'nt installed, but it is.
So, I ran busybox (1.17.1) which says that the phone is'nt rooted too.
So it seems to me that I screwed up with z4root but how?
I don't want to be permanently rooted.
(I will look for an answer on this forum as well)
Thank you

I was having trouble with all the music players crashing as well. I rooted, froze (with Titanium Backup) the Connected Music Player (and other motoblur stuff) and I don't think I've had any trouble ever since with my preference - Cubed player.
goldensgui: I saw somewhere else on these forums that temp root doesn't really work for MM2 - but you can unroot your phone anytime - I do have the option to undo the permanent root (not sure if it works [correctly])

Well, thank you dymonaz, I've followed your advice and rooted my MS2.
I had to root it twice because the first try froze my phone (I waited more than 30 minutes staring at the rolling icon ^^) and I reboot it
The second try was a success (only 2 minutes)
Then, I had no problem with Titanium Backup.
I froze the "Connecting music player" with it and a few motorola's stuff like TV channels etc.
But this didn't solve my problem. I restart my phone (who know's), but no change. So I uninstall and reinstall my player for the nth time and this time IT WORKED and I'm currently using it.
I hope it will last.
Thank you all for your help

I'm afraid I was wrong The fact that it didn't crash for almost two weeks after rooting/disabling motobloat didn't solve the problem, as it crashed again, with the same issue as I was having before:
AudioHardwareMot(1110): AudioStreamOutMot: standby called
AudioHardwareMot(1110): Output 0x12480 entering standby
AudioHardwareMot(1110): Closing Output device
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Go figure

It really sucks.
It does'nt work anymore and I don't now why.
Frustrating
dymonaz, how did you manage to get this log?

I was using OSMonitor (from the Market) - it has a log viewer.
It requires a lot of scrolling to find these messages, but after reviewing all the other messages for around a few minutes before and after the crash, there was nothing else that made sense to be the cause, so I ruled them out and figured these are the ones...
I have no idea who "called the standby" or why, but there's a very poorly documented standby() method AudioHardwareInterface in Android source code. Didn't have time to dig deeper yet.

I found that, whatever the player I'm using, every time it shuts down.
02:07:07.100 Kill com.maxmpz.audioplayer (pid 5555): provider com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider in dying process android.process.media
Does someone have an idea?

Do you guys put the gallery in the auto-kill list in task manager?
I read a post from other forum long time before, I remember they found out that excluding gallery from auto-kill list would work!
I personally tried to put gallery into auto-kill list before(I forget it will shut down the music player). after I exclude it, the music player never stop unexpectedly again
have a try!

I've got the same problem and thats so bad.. -,-

You were right about the gallery put in auto-kill list, WongJames.
I came with the same conclusion removing one by one the applications in the list.
And it appears that the gallery shares the same provider with the music player.
Sorry about the delay and thank you.
(One new weird thing is that gmail doesn't sync anymore since my player is back)

i didn't understand one thing: i have to put the gallery.apk into the black-list (of which program?) or put it out the black-list?

skaburn said:
i didn't understand one thing: i have to put the gallery.apk into the black-list (of which program?) or put it out the black-list?
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DO NOT put the stock gallery into auto-end list of ANY task manager/ task killer
And I found out one thing, freezing the stock gallery in titanium backup would not shut down the music player
I used to use Quickpic, so stock gallery is useless to me

I must say that ever since I upgraded with the 2.2.2 SBF, I haven't had a single crash.
I do have all the crapware frozen: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11180030&postcount=17

Good to hear that. At least Moto fixed that.

WongJames said:
Do you guys put the gallery in the auto-kill list in task manager?
I read a post from other forum long time before, I remember they found out that excluding gallery from auto-kill list would work!
I personally tried to put gallery into auto-kill list before(I forget it will shut down the music player). after I exclude it, the music player never stop unexpectedly again
have a try!
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Thank you WongJames, this is my first post in this forum, and the don't-auto-kill gallery-advice actually works for my MM2

Camera can record, but can't play in gallery.

Hi everyone.
I got a Samsung Galaxy S4 and used Titanium Backup to remove all the bloatware.
I'm completely new to the Android OS and got a little too happy with all the uninstalling, and now am faced with two problems:
1) (More urgent): I am able to record videos perfectly fine with the default Camera app, but when I try and replay whatever I just recorded in the Gallery, it says "Unable to Play Video." Do any of you guys know what system app is needed to be reinstalled resolve this?
2) The default music player will not open at all. I did not freeze it/removed it, so idk why it doesn't open.
I installed Rocket Player as a substitute, but would like to know how to fix the default one.
Again, I would appreciate it if any of you guys know what system app is needed to be reinstalled to resolve this.
If anyone also knows a site that has all the system apps for the Galaxy S4, that would also be lovely.
Thank you very much for your time.

hyperfire7 said:
Hi everyone.
I got a Samsung Galaxy S4 and used Titanium Backup to remove all the bloatware.
I'm completely new to the Android OS and got a little too happy with all the uninstalling, and now am faced with two problems:
1) (More urgent): I am able to record videos perfectly fine with the default Camera app, but when I try and replay whatever I just recorded in the Gallery, it says "Unable to Play Video." Do any of you guys know what system app is needed to be reinstalled resolve this?
2) The default music player will not open at all. I did not freeze it/removed it, so idk why it doesn't open.
I installed Rocket Player as a substitute, but would like to know how to fix the default one.
Again, I would appreciate it if any of you guys know what system app is needed to be reinstalled to resolve this.
If anyone also knows a site that has all the system apps for the Galaxy S4, that would also be lovely.
Thank you very much for your time.
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You may have removed a necesary component, and flashing back to stock will be necessary... Try clearing cache and data for the Gallery...

LostInMyHead said:
You may have removed a necesary component, and flashing back to stock will be necessary... Try clearing cache and data for the Gallery...
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How would I flash back to stock?

Go to titanium backup and unfreeze "video player 1.1". Should work after that.

Unknown Ringtone. Only default ringtones/notifications

Symptoms: stock and unrooted, don't know how it happened but sometime in the past few days, all my ringtones and notifications sounds reverted to "unknown ringtones". When trying to change it, it would only give me options of the default Nexus 6P ringtones. All my mp3 sounds (inside Ringtones folder) where not shown as options, though files still inside ringtones folder. If I tried to change with Zedge, app would set customs ringtone and/or notification but when I would look in the sound settings, it would show as "unknown notification". Symptom would remain after rebooting phone.
So I decided to root and install a Customs rom to see if problem would go away. Now if I try to change ringtone/notification with Zedge, app says it is set but nothing changes under sounds in settings (but no more "unknown notification"). If I try changing through settings>sounds, it again just gives me the default nexus ringtones/notifications (though I transferred back all my mp3 files to ringtones folder)
I've exhausted all search on XDA and Google. Much appreciate if anyone can help.

I'm seeing the same problem with my 6p. I think it was ever since the march update. The April update didn't fix it. I found that I could use es file managers audio player to set the ringtone and notification but that also added the tones to my Google music library which I didn't want.
Have you found any other alternative?

I have no issues. I am rooted, running pure nexus and have numerous custom ringtones all working on my phone. I do NOT use Zedge though. I made my own mp3 ringtones on my computer from a program designed to do just that. Do web search for android ringtone maker. You will come up with numerous programs that will work for this.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using XDA-Developers mobile app

My update on this problem is I called Google store troubleshooting a few days after posting this and went through their troubleshooting steps. Nothing worked. So rep said they would replace my phone.
Got new phone and a few days after setting up, same problem occurred. Called Google again and this time they said they couldn't pinpoint the cause or come to a solution but that it was likely being caused by an app.
So after several factory resets (it always fixed issue) I have a suspicion on 2 apps: Nova Launcher (Beta or stable) and Zedge.
Only time my phone did not have this occur again was without both of these apps.
I just installed latest Nova beta to retest my suspicions and after 24h of use, all is well. Problem would usually appear a few days after use so I'll report back next week.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using XDA-Developers mobile app

I have neither zedge nor nova launcher installed. I use the google experience launcher, non-rooted phone running stock mob30d.
My ringtines are my own mp3 or ogg files (i converted the mp3 to ogg after i had this problem to see if that had anythign to do with it).

I figured out what my problem was. Something or somebody (me by accident) created a .nomedia at the top level of my storage mountpoint.
Removed it, and all is good in the world.

I haven't had problem again since reinstalling Nova launcher so I guess I can take it off my suspicious app list.
Perhaps also something might have been fixed on latest system update MHC19Q build.
Not willing to reinstall Zedge to further test since I have all ringtones/notifications I want
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Anyone figure this out. Still having issues

ks_47 said:
Anyone figure this out. Still having issues
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I had my device replaced by Google when I contacted them about the issue.

I'm on my 3rd device. Same issues

Viper4Android issue

Ive installed Viper4Android through Magisk Modules over latest Android Oreo but I'm having an intermittent problem where "Processing" shows No and a reboot is required to fix the problem. I've done several reinstalls, installed Audio Mod Libs, deep buffer removal etc, but it still happens. It occurs after receiving or making a call, then nothing processes anymore, regardless of the output (headset, Bluetooth, speakers). Has anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it?

Android can only have 1 EQ or they will conflict with one another. Essential is using Snapdragon Audio+ for the pre-installed EQ.
Go to Android settings, apps, tap the 3 vertical dots and show system apps. Scroll to MusicFX, tap it and select disable.
Also, if Viper4Android does fail to process, you can choose Exit from one of menus and then re-open it and start playing music again. It should start processing again without needing to reboot.

gk1984 said:
Android can only have 1 EQ or they will conflict with one another. Essential is using Snapdragon Audio+ for the pre-installed EQ.
Go to Android settings, apps, tap the 3 vertical dots and show system apps. Scroll to MusicFX, tap it and select disable.
Also, if Viper4Android does fail to process, you can choose Exit from one of menus and then re-open it and start playing music again. It should start processing again without needing to reboot.
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MusicFx is disabled. And restating doesn't help. I figured out the scenario where is stops working: It's after making or receiving a call. Strange bug. Same thing is happening with other EQ apps from the Play Store,but force closing and then restating those apps restarts the EQ again

sam2c said:
MusicFx is disabled. And restating doesn't help. I figured out the scenario where is stops working: It's after making or receiving a call. Strange bug. Same thing is happening with other EQ apps from the Play Store,but force closing and then restating those apps restarts the EQ again
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Interesting findings. Same behavior is happening on the stock EQ, Snapdragon Audio+.

gk1984 said:
Android can only have 1 EQ or they will conflict with one another. Essential is using Snapdragon Audio+ for the pre-installed EQ.
Go to Android settings, apps, tap the 3 vertical dots and show system apps. Scroll to MusicFX, tap it and select disable.
Also, if Viper4Android does fail to process, you can choose Exit from one of menus and then re-open it and start playing music again. It should start processing again without needing to reboot.
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gk1984 said:
Interesting findings. Same behavior is happening on the stock EQ, Snapdragon Audio+.
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Guess I'm not alone, not sure if this has any bearing on the issue, but I'm running ElementalX 3.00 kernel as well

sam2c said:
Guess I'm not alone, not sure if this has any bearing on the issue, but I'm running ElementalX 3.00 kernel as well
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Nope. I'm stock except for Magisk and 1 camera module. What you described happens with the stock EQ. Only, skipping a couple of tracks brings the EQ back. This even happened during the beta for me but oddly, it was never an issue with Viper4Android using the Magisk module. I haven't tried it on the official 8.1 yet but I've been tempted to over this bug.