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[Q] Problems with playing music, ringtones, etc.

I bought two Charges last week, one for me and one for the wife. Both of us have been having similar issues with music and/or ringtones randomly not playing on our phones. My wife has missed several calls because the ringtone that she downloaded from Zedge mysteriously stopped working, so the phone acted as if it were on silent mode. I noticed several instances where I can't listen to music on my phone due to a "Error playing the requested track" error within the Google Music app. At first, I thought my problem was due to the fact that I was trying to stream music that I've uploaded, but I was given the same error when I attempted to listen to music stored directly on the SD card.
Thinking that my problem was due to some weird issue with the Google Music app, I tried to play the music on my SD card from the built-in Music Player app and I was quickly prompted with an unsupported file type error. Rebooting both our phones seems to fix the problem, but I've had to do this at least two to three times on my phone, and once on my wife's. It seems that the problem always comes creeping back without warning.
Neither of our phones are rooted, and nothing else has been done to the phone that I can think of that would cause this issue.
In short, music/ringtones/etc. will randomly stop playing regardless of their source (SD card, downloaded, stream). Since the problem is on both of our phones, I'm guessing that this is a common issue on all Droid Charges.
Has anybody else experienced this issue? What are your recommendations on fixing it? Should I just take the phones back to Best Buy and get replacements?
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Okay...something is definitely up. I just went to watch a video on the YouTube app, and saw no video. I tried other videos and got the same result. Sure enough, I tried to listen to some music and was given the above mentioned error. What the hell?

I would take them back to Best Buy. Ive never heard of this problem. And if youtube is not playing then there seems to be and underlying problem.

I was having this same problem every so often, typically after having the phone on for a few days without turning it off. I am rooted an running a custom ROM so I thought it might have something to do with that, but obviously that is not the case. I turn my phone off whenever I charge it at night and have not had the problem since doing that. Long story short, I would return the phone if you can, but just turning the phone off and then back on (not rebooting) has fixed the problem for me every time.

Try uninstalling the official twitter app if you have it, reboot, and try again. That usually solves that.

Yankees368 said:
Try uninstalling the official twitter app if you have it, reboot, and try again. That usually solves that.
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Where did you hear about this?

Karma Elite said:
Where did you hear about this?
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Did that solve the issue for you?
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=3ef52f711434ba6d&hl=en

After Reboot, lots of data corruption, stock + root

Seems that my data for most of my wife's apps got corrupted somehow. All the apps are still installed, but about half wont launch. Deleting the DATA doesn't help, I must delete the application then reinstall for them to start working.
I changed the battery in my wifes phone to charge the backup, and now I got constant force closes. I deleted all those apps and reinstalled them and now those apps work. Also the touchwiz launcher lost all her icons, lost the sorting in the app drawer, and reverted back to the stock homepages. Also the newest contacts are missing, but I'm not sure if they were saved to the sim card or to the google accounts.
This is all on the stock software, no custom rom & rooted. The only thing I can think of is I converted from imnuts kernel non-voodoo to voodoo and I didn't flash the SD card fix afterwards. This was about 5 days ago... How can I stop this from happening again, I probably won't be near her to fix this the next time it happens.

I had to delete almost every app and reinstall, but everything seems better today.

It sounds like some app somewhere or some piece/step related to the kernal is your issue. I would suggest starting all the way over. Flash the stock version and fresh download all apps. This way you will not have to worry about her phone. Good luck and let everyone know if you find the bug. I just had a major bug with the new version of skype that includes video chat.

kraisydave said:
It sounds like some app somewhere or some piece/step related to the kernal is your issue. I would suggest starting all the way over. Flash the stock version and fresh download all apps. This way you will not have to worry about her phone. Good luck and let everyone know if you find the bug. I just had a major bug with the new version of skype that includes video chat.
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I installed the leaked skype version that works with 2.2 camera. I wonder if that could have been the cause?

Yep. Gotta reflash.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1

[Q] Absolutely No Audio/Sound

I just received a replacement GSIII from Asurion. After rooting & restoring from my SD card, I booted and all seemed fine.
However, there is no sound from any app, with or without headphones plugged in. Also, to note, when I try to play music from Google Play Music, I get the error "Unfortunately, DPS Manager has stopped", and behind that Play Music says, "Couldn't play the stream you requested".
Ideas? Thanks in advance...

I figured it out. I'll post it here just in case anyone comes across this random oddity in the future.
I connected the device to my Chromecast and disconnected it. Then everything worked.
When I restored my backup it must have somehow thought that it was supposed to play audio to the Chromecast, but wasn't hooked up to it, so it through an error. Or something like that.
Either way, problem solved.

Well unfortunately I have to revive this thread. The issue is indeed NOT solved.
The sound went out again. After a few hours of trying everything I could think of, I re-flashed back to stock. Sound worked again.
Now I've re-rooted and re-flashed CM 10.2 and sound is gone again. I re-flashed about 3 times now and one time sound worked, but the other two it did not work.
What one earth could possibly be causing this? I verified all MD5 sums before flashing. I've don't too many factory resets/cache wipes/dalvik cache wipes to count, yet still the issues persist.
Please, does anyone have any ideas?

Note 2 don't plays videos or music

Hi all,
First excuse me if this is not the good forum for this thread, I'm new to this website.
I have a big problem with my Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
It doesn't play any video or music. Not only in a specific app but in every app I tried.
I tried the youtube app, the stock music app, shuttle music player which I usually use, but it also doesn't work when I go to youtube, dailymotion or any video site with the chrome browser. Videos in my facebook news feed won't play too.
When I try to watch a video or listen to music or simply launch an app like youtube for example, the phone becomes so slow that I must close the app. If I manage to click on a video, it just won't start. Generaly the app crash or the phone shut down or restart.
With the vlc app I can see the video but there is no sound.
It really starts to piss me off, I don't understand what's the problem.
Maybe it a software problem, I thought I could do a hard reset.
But it could also be a hardware problem, specifically something in relation with the speaker or the sound system, because yesterday my phone made strange noises and three days ago it fell on the ground.
Any help is welcome. Thank you for everything in advance.

Hi!
The easiest way to solve the following:
1. hard reset.
2. It did not help, then reflash the firmware on the stock, or better service firmware.
3. It did not help, then contact the service, as it is likely unfortunately hard problem.
Sorry for my english, good luck!

Hello, thanks for your help.
I reset the phone and the problem is still here.
But I noticed something interesting.
When I reboot the phone, it works for a while before the problem come back.
But maybe it's just a coincidence, because this morning the speaker made strange noises right before the problem came back. So I'm more and more covinced that it's a hardware issue.
So I think i will take the phone to a repair storé if thé problem doesn't go away by itself.

It's my pleasure.
But if you reflash the device previously, you would advise to try to flash ... Although, if you can carry in service, it is better there.

Galaxy A8 keeps skipping music on its own

At this point I may have to simply reflash back to the firmware I bought the phone with currently running Android 8.0.0 when playing music regardless of the app my phone skips through the songs may it be via AUX or bluetooth the issue seems to get worse when using bluetooth, the problem started when I first updated my phone and every update since the issue has only gotten worse.. no idea on how to fix, I cleared the cache, reset the phone.. did everything I could think of the issue persists, no idea on what to do at this point apart from reflashing any ideas would be welcomed

Hasani22 said:
At this point I may have to simply reflash back to the firmware I bought the phone with currently running Android 8.0.0 when playing music regardless of the app my phone skips through the songs may it be via AUX or bluetooth the issue seems to get worse when using bluetooth, the problem started when I first updated my phone and every update since the issue has only gotten worse.. no idea on how to fix, I cleared the cache, reset the phone.. did everything I could think of the issue persists, no idea on what to do at this point apart from reflashing any ideas would be welcomed
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You can down grade only if you didn't flash new bootloader.

mchlbenner said:
You can down grade only if you didn't flash new bootloader.
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Gonna assume that the bootloader has been updated since all my updates since the phone was bought has been through the update section in settings... only other route I'm going to assume is either sell the phone or install custom rom

Most likely

Hasani22 said:
Gonna assume that the bootloader has been updated since all my updates since the phone was bought has been through the update section in settings... only other route I'm going to assume is either sell the phone or install custom rom
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i had a similar issue with google play music. it was skipping songs that it had added to an automatically created playlist that i had given a "thumbs up" to. I guess those songs werent available anymore, but the app didnt take those songs out of my playlist, it just skipped them when they were up next to play. No other issues with my A8 skipping songs tho, and all i use is google play music. No pandora-like streaming services. I make my own playlists from the stuff ive uploaded to the google play music cloud