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HTC Streaming Media only works in foreground?

Hi,
Does anyone know a tweak to make the HTC Streaming Media app continue to work when the back light is off, or the screen is locked etc...
It just stops playing on my Diamond when streaming and not in the foreground.
Thanks in advance

I have the same problem with my HTC elfin. I have tried several of the possible fixes listed in these forums; however, none have worked perfectly so far. I can listen to streaming internet radio fine without lossing connection; however, I can't listent to music from my shared folder's over my home network without loosing connection after the first song. The first song will play until the end but the network connection is lost as soon as the device goes to sleep and will not play any of the next songs in the list. I would also love to finally have a fix for this.

[Q] Help me switch to WP7!

So I got my hands on a Samsung Focus and decided to give WP7 a shot. Much to my surprise, I can't put the phone down. I've gone so far as to pull the SIM from my Galaxy Nexus and started using the Focus as my daily driver.
However, as with anything I have a few gripes (which I hope have resolutions). Any help would be appreciated!
Streaming music is dodgy at best. I've used wpFandora, Metro Radio, and Zune Pass and with all of them I get constant drops, song skips due to buffering problems, etc. I don't have these problems on Android or iOS devices. So, is this inherent to WP7 or maybe just the Focus?
Is there any way to prevent screen time out in music apps? I use my phone while driving, and having to wake it and unlock it to change media is troublesome and dangerous.
Bluetooth. When paired to a BT headset, there's no ringtone played on the headset. If I'm listening to music and the phone rings, it mutes the music (but doesn't appear to PAUSE) and that's it. The only ring is from the phone itself, nothing over BT
Really, that's it for me. I really hope these are fixable and/or device specific because I'm salivating to pick up a Lumia 900 once its available!
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Not sure I can help you with the first. I use T-Mobile, so my coverage is poorer than your but my network less saturated, and I almost never have trouple with streaming Zune Pass.
Press the Volume rocker once, either up or down, while at the lock screen. This will show the media controls, and allow you to pause or skip music (and change volume, of course). True apps can also disable the screen time-out (I don't think there's an option in the built-in player), though the effect on battery will be significant.
It takes the phone a second (literally, as in about 1000 ms) to sync to the headset when a call comes in. After that, the headset will either play the ringtone or text-to-speech the caller, depending on the headset and the settings on the phone. Also, on music playback that supports Pause (i.e. Zune Pass streaming, but not radio), the phone will pause music playback when a call arrives.
HTC HD7, build 7720 (quite out of date, by intention; your Focus should be on a newer version). It's possible the problems you are having are Focus specific. For example, there used to be a really bad bug where the Focus would vary the Bluetooth volume continuously while on a call, making it sometimes impossible to hear. I thought they fixed that though...

definately make sure that focus has all the updates installed (including firmware)
Also since you like streaming - check out tune in radio. it finds all the local stations around here and even tells you when shows are on like bob and tom.
Granted, if you have a headset plugged in you can also use the fm radio.
Streaming is normally not a problem at all. Might be the network towers you are on, but then other phones on att / verizon or whatever should have the same issue.

update all your focues firmware to get best experience out of it

WiFi performance while using Bluetooth

Issue on my HOX. 1.85, rooted. When streaming via BT to and A2DP speaker or headphones, the WiFi becomes unmanageably slow. Meaning I sometimes can't even get enough wifi speed to stream a 192k file. If I go to speedtest while playing music through BT I get less than 500kbps. Turn the BT off, and bam ~20-30mbps. This is all when sitting within 10 feet of my router.
I know that BT and wifi conflict due to same frequency, etc....but is there any setting hiding anywhere in a DB or something that can help?

I had the same issue with my HTC Titan (Windows Phone 7) but I never found a solution for it (except to disable the bluetooth when I needed good wireless but that is not really a solution).
At least I can confirm the issue on the HOX. I tried making a phone call using my bluetooth headset and then while on the phone ran a speed test over the wireless. It jumped around (very erratically) under 100k then failed due to a communication issue. Immediately disabled the bluetooth on the HOX and then ran the same speed test and I got 7277kbps down and 5229kbps up on the phone using wireless and the speed was much smoother.
After running the test multiple times, the best that I got with the bluetooth enabled and in use was 374kbps down and 819kbps up...and again the speeds are very up and down with the bluetooth enabled and in use.
If I find any kind of solution I'll post back here.

Bt and WiFi run on the same2.4 GHz band. Typically, Bt chip set has circuit too detect WiFi and use a frequency less interference with WiFi. Sounds like this is not the case with the bt 4.0 chip inside HOX. Try change the WiFi channel on your router to see if it helps.
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Good idea! My router was on channel 7 and I changed it to channel 1. My test results are much better...2000+kbps down and 3000+kbps up - but still not very smooth (much up and down and stuttering). My results are still much higher with the bluetooth off but changing the wifi channel made a difference for me. Thanks again.

[Q] Potential WiFi issue

Hey,
I just got a TF300 and I've been trying to get video streaming to work on the tab. I'm using BubbleUPNP and I've tried about a dozen video players to go with it (dice player, vplayer, moboplayer etc etc).
The issue I'm having is that the video just randomly stops. I'm not having any issues relating to video quality or file formats. I'll be streaming a video and the video will just randomly stop, and because its streaming I can't resume at the same place I have to start again.
I have not yet managed to complete a single video without it being exited at a random interval. Its not always the same place, sometimes I'll get 20minutes in, other times 10minutes of the same video file.
I'm using iSedora media center to stream across my internal LAN. I've been using this program to stream to my TV without issues for over a year.
At the moment it looks like WiFi could be the culprit however
a) I've used WiFi Analyzer to find an unused channel for my router
b) I've tested the stream right next to my router at about -20dBm to -30dBm
c) I have tried a factory reset
d) I have tried 8dBi antenna and they just made my signal worse
Any assistance here would be amazing
Thanks
FMM

Have you tried UpnPlay?
Just so you can rule out the client.

i use emitapp for streaming - works perfectly over lan and at work.
it does allow resuming from a specific point in the video as well.

Android, BBC Sounds and WiFi

Guys,
Slightly obscure one here. I hope that someone can help!
I have a Samsung SM-A405FN and run BBC Sounds. Occasionally the 'phone will start to 'play' BBC radio with no prompting from me - it will spontaneously start for no apparent reason. The most recent time was at 5.0am this morning when Mrs 2B and I were asleep and my 'phone was charging in the bedroom.
More detail:
At home I have a number of ChromeCast Audio devices. I will commonly start listening to a radio station on ChromeCast from my 'phone whereupon the audio output moves from the 'phone to the ChromeCast. I understand that the audio is not playing from the 'phone, rather that the 'phone is instructing the ChromeCasts to hook up to the BBC and play the radio.
Sometimes I will leave the ChromeCasts to play for many days; the amplifiers turn off overnight and when I turn them on the radio comes on instantly. Just what I want.
My suspicion (and this is only a suspicion) is that when the audio spontaneously plays from the 'phone then it is in some way due to this; for some reason it thinks that the audio is no longer playing from the ChromeCasts and hence plays it from the 'phone. Quite often when I leave the house (and hence away from the home WiFi) then the 'phone will start to play R4 in my pocket (i.e the same problem).
So I guess my question is whether anyone else has experienced this and has an explanation? Failing that, how does Android cope with playing BBC Sounds via ChromeCasts and WiFi drop outs? Is a WiFi dropout an explanation for this? (If it is then the next question is why should the WiFi dropout at 5.0am when it has been stable from 11.0pm to that time?)
Of course my suspicion could be entirely wrong.
Three other things which may help:
- I rebuilt the 'phone from scratch last week because it was doing this. And it's doing exactly the same thing again. I DIDN'T import the settings from before when I rebuilt it; it was a clean rebuild after which I re-installed most of the same apps as I had before (including Google Home and BBC Sounds).
- My wife has the same model of 'phone and largely the same software installed (BBC Sounds and Google Home), but hers doesn't do this.
- I have also had problems with playlists played from Amazon Music and iBroadcast stopping half way through when playing on ChromeCast and not progressing to the next track and wonder if this is related as well.
All help welcomed, thanks.