Hi,
I have been experiencing an issue with my Moto G. (stock OTA 4.4.4) When I have Beyondpod playing some podcast when I open some applications such as firefox or some game, the beyondpod app gets killed and obviously the media stops playing.
My initial suspition was that it was killing the background app to free memory but when I check it has always above 200MB free memory.
I do not recall when did it start, if it was after an uprade or app instalation..
Do you have any hint about what my be the problem? If it is OS related or app related? Which information can I collect to understand the issue?
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I am using a stock rooted US Moto G, and I have had podcasts (through both Pocket Casts and DoubleTwist) and MLB At Bat audio streaming stopping randomly.
Has anybody else had this issue? Any solutions?
rpogorek said:
I am using a stock rooted US Moto G, and I have had podcasts (through both Pocket Casts and DoubleTwist) and MLB At Bat audio streaming stopping randomly.
Has anybody else had this issue? Any solutions?
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I have the exact same problem. Podcasts stop playing suddenly.
This usually happens when using chrome, particularly when scrolling.
A few observations:
- The app doesn't crash - launching it again and pressing play starts the podcast at the exact same spot meaning the app safely shutdown.
- Closing all apps and tabs to free up memory usually helps but is no guarantee it won't stop again within a few minutes.
- Happens with several podcast apps I tried - all of which use about 60mb of RAM when playing
- Happens with downloaded and streamed podcasts. But stopping is more likely with streaming versions (I guess the stream is buffered to RAM meaning it's more likely to be killed)
- Every time the podcast stops I have been using a web browser (I've tried Chrome, Chrome beta, Firefox, Opera and UC browser)
My theory is that android is killing the process to free up some RAM but I'm not sure what can be done to prevent this.
A few things I have looked into are 'nice' and 'minfree'. I tried increasing the priority of my podcast app with nice but that didn't seem to help at all.
Changing the minfree settings did seem to have some affect, but it was still getting killed off eventually.
I don't know much about android to look into it any further ( this is my first android device), perhaps someone with more experience can advise.
I guess this is just one of the limitations of the MotoG and 1gb of RAM
same here had it with the beyondpod ,sound cloud apps
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I think I figured out a solution to this problem, you need to be rooted though.
Install the 'app settings' xposed module, select your music/podcast app then enable the 'resident' option.
This makes sure the app remains in memory and stops android from killing the process.
Seems to be working for me for the past day now
I'm using cyanogenmod and it's music player ''Apollo'' is never running it the background so whenever I clear the recent apps it closes, this didn't happen with the Samsungs music player, so how do I keep it running in the background so that it doesn't closes when I clear the recent apps, all help is appreciated, thanks.
The reason that Apollo closes is because it doesn't create a service to play music like the Samsung player, it just creates a background process that is killed when swiped away. When an app creates a service, it will stay active in the background even if swiped away. This isn't something you can fix on your own to the best of my knowledge.
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Hello everyone
Currently, I'm facing a very annoying issue and I have no idea how to solve this.
I'm running Lollipop 5.0.1 on my device. As soon as the system runs fstrim in the background, my entire Google Play Music cache (12GB) disappears and everything needs to be re-downloaded.
I allowed my Google Play Music app to download even on mobile data because I thought adding ~10 songs per week doesn't strip my entire mobile data volume. I didn't reckon that it would download 2000 songs while being outside, so it ate my entire data volume.
I can reproduce this issue by downloading the whole music library and afterwards run fstrim manually via terminal: fstrim -v /data.
Then I see that it trims 12GB data. If I open my Google Play Music app again, it starts re-downloading everything...
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? Is there a way to exclude a directory from fstrim?
Side note: I've always been using Google Play Music. I also use Lollipop since its release. I never experienced this issue before, it somehow started recently, but I have no idea why or when it started. :crying:
Hello, since the last update the background play option dont work.
I play a video from web (stream) and turn off my phones display, after 4-5 minutes the player close itself.
MX Player Free
1.9.3 ARM V7NEON
Xperia X F5121
Android 7.1.2
The previous version works fine on the same phone and settings.
steve233 said:
Hello, since the last update the background play option dont work.
I play a video from web (stream) and turn off my phones display, after 4-5 minutes the player close itself.
MX Player Free
1.9.3 ARM V7NEON
Xperia X F5121
Android 7.1.2
The previous version works fine on the same phone and settings.
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kindly collect a bug report immediately after the issue & share here.
without it, it will be very difficult to understand the root cause of the issue.
where i have to send it?
Fixing MX player background play issue in Oreo
With the Oreo update every app now has Individual power saving settings. So if an App is using intelligent power saving Android will aitomatically shut down back ground running after a certain period of time or if multiple apps start running at the same time. So if you play Youtube while running MX player, Android power management can shut it down.
To fix the background play issue I tried the following
1. Open settings
2. Go to App Management
3. Find and open Mx player
4. Tap on power saving
5. Change from Intelligent control to Allow running in background
This worked for me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html
Is there an (open-source) app that notifies its users if the camera/microphone/Bluetooth are in use and which apps are using them?
scenarios:
Google Play is currently streaming music over Bluetooth. I want to know that Google Play is using Bluetooth right now.
I'm playing a game right now and it has enabled my microphone. I want to be aware of that.
A website opened in one of the Firefox tabs is currently using my camera (front/rear), I want to be aware of that.
And so on. You get the concept.
Would love to have an app that keeps track of the trackers. If Tasker can do it, even better.