I have the Nexus 5 stock. When streaming Pandora (45-mins) with headphones only 3-5% battery is used.
Going the exact same route to work using Play Music streaming music (45 mins) with headphones it uses 10-12% battery.
Also I notice something called Media Sever is also at a high % of battery usage.
Both Apps are on Normal Quality
Google Music is streaming music that I have uploaded. (None of their subscription)
Can anyone explain why there is such a difference?
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hey everyone,
i'm thinking of getting this phone, but could someone tell me about its music player?
- hows the sense music player?
- battery drain?
- audio quality with headphones?
also, i read on some threads about getting a call while listening to music. (with the original desire)
(when you're listening to music and unplug headphones to receive call, the music starts playing again through loudspeakers after call has ended)
does this problem still exist?
thanks a lot!
im not sure about the answers for your other questions
but the audio quality with headphones is quite good & without headphones it is somewhat average
isdfoa said:
- hows the sense music player?
- battery drain?
- audio quality with headphones?
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It is a decent player with equalizer (for Headphones only) and several presets, but no custom possibilities I am aware of...
I am not sure about the battery drain (I have no comparison), but I don't think it will be worse than 3rd party players (I run my DS for an average of 3 days with around 1 - 2 hours of music/day) But I play around with the phone quite a bit as I only have it few days
isdfoa said:
(when you're listening to music and unplug headphones to receive call, the music starts playing again through loudspeakers after call has ended)
does this problem still exist?
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Nope, this has been fixed, the music pauses even if not getting a call...
You could invest in power amp. Lovely media player that one.
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Is there a music player or codec substitution that draws less current?
When listening to MP3s with the stock player (or any player), I'm guessing it's probably the CODEC that drains the battery. I had a 2nd gen MotoRzr (W490) that I'd play MP3s with, and send audio with a2dp to bluetooth headphones. I could play music for hours with no noticeable impact on battery. When my G2x is behaving, the stock music player drains more than the Bluetooth or WiFi radio - the music player is the biggest single drain on the battery. A little disappointing...
Any suggestions to reduce current draw while listening to music?
Stock 2.2.2.
namklak said:
Is there a music player or codec substitution that draws less current?
When listening to MP3s with the stock player (or any player), I'm guessing it's probably the CODEC that drains the battery. I had a 2nd gen MotoRzr (W490) that I'd play MP3s with, and send audio with a2dp to bluetooth headphones. I could play music for hours with no noticeable impact on battery. When my G2x is behaving, the stock music player drains more than the Bluetooth or WiFi radio - the music player is the biggest single drain on the battery. A little disappointing...
Any suggestions to reduce current draw while listening to music?
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SetCPU with a screen off profile of 312/216.
I promise you'll be amazed at your battery draw
I listen to my mp3s with Voodoo controls amp powering my Beats By Dre headphones and there is very little battery drainage.
Over time I noticed that playing music drains the battery like crazy. Is that normal? Just listening to music at moderate volume with in ears kills my battery. 2 hours really take it down massively. Are they fixes for this? I usually listens to flac files, occasionaly mp3's.
This occurs regardless of the ROM. Also I usually use PowerAmp, but I'm pretty sure the Google Music app drains my battery just as much.
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I've noticed this too..only post 4.x
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It's due to a mediaserver bug, I'm not sure about the details but the mediaserver is responsible for music playback among other things and it can get stuck in a loop while processing a file or album art causing massive drain, you should search the xda threads, there are already other threads discussing this problem
i face this problem too for me skype makes this. if you use skype just do not use it. until you reboot your phone media server will not stop.
Let me start off and say this was not an issue when I first got my Pixel on 10/20/2016. During my lunch hour I enjoy browsing the web while streaming BT audio to my car. This past week however I have noticed my Pixel getting warm while doing this and my battery taking a huge hit with 1% dropping every 1 to 2 minutes. I then brought up my battery info which I’m listening below and I notice that Google play music is consuming more battery then my screen is during that time frame. I can see this being an issue if I was streaming music over LTE but that’s not the case. All of my music is downloaded through the Google play music app so there’s no streaming involved.
I then figured it might be because I’m rooted and I’m using Viper4Android which will eat some of the battery. I then did some testing and I monitored my CPU usage with 3C Toolbox Pro. Turning Viper4Android on and off during my tests I can figure it’s adding another 4% or 5% while playing MP3’s. That in itself should not eat battery like I listed above.
I then paused the music and swiped away the notification only to find out that Google play music was still running in the back ground and using a good 20% of the CPU……. Once I killed Google play music my CPU dropped down to 5% usage from a constant 25% to 30% while it was running in the back ground.
In the last screen shot please note I have paused the music over a min before I took this screen shot. During that min the CPU Consumption was 80.30%
Anyone else having issues with Google play music?
I've had the same issue from approximately the same time as you, I'm using a Note 4 though. Haven't found any fix yet unfortunately, have you?
My fix was to download all of my music and play it with black player. Since then no issues. There's no reason Google play music uses that much CPU.
Is anyone having battery drain issue with music streaming apps?
The screenshots are with like 30min of music playing.
I'm using Bluetooth buds and the eu ROM
Seems about par for the course for streaming music and using Bluetooth. Phone can't sleep and Bluetooth does uses a decent bit of battery.
No way this is correct, almost no screen power consumption