Video Player No Background Play Option - Huawei P20 Questions & Answers

Hi! Just recently switched from Samsung Galaxy to Huawei P20 and it seems like video player wont do "background play". I want to let the audio continue to play while I multi-task or while screen is off.
What are your recommendations?
I'm new to this. Thank you for you patience and help in advance.

Coming from a S7. The Huawei P20 sadly does not have the floating apps bubble/instance. The only thing you can do is by using the Multitasking View (2 apps only) by Going to the Recent apps then hitting the Left most icon next to the "Lock app".

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[Feature request] Some suggest

Hi, i bought your app and it's fantastic but i have some suggest.
1) We display the last watched movie and finished movies in*different color.
Would be nice to enable or disable it or set the colors.
2) When i close the app and it keep going play audio if i go on the notification panel i can pause and play, go to next video or close the app.
Would be nice go to previous video too.
3) I open the app, i choose a video and i play it. I go back to the list and i have 3 button on top: refresh, play and search.
If i want to stop the video i have to press the play button (it take you to the video) and stop from there.
Would be nice if the play button would pause and play the video and create a new button than take you back to the video.
4) I use your player to play video music in car.
Would be nice slide next or previous video by air gesture (just moving my hand left or right above sensor of my Samsung S4 in landscape and portrait mode).
Thank you
Regarding #4, since that's a feature of the Samsung TouchWiz launcher, I don't think it can be included in external non-Samsung apps.
CDB-Man said:
Regarding #4, since that's a feature of the Samsung TouchWiz launcher, I don't think it can be included in external non-Samsung apps.
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Yes it can:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351974
And others 3 points?
I definitely don't think the developer would develop Air gestures directly into the app; that's just asking too much of him. In terms of making it somehow compatible with that Hovering Controls app, I don't know if that's possible and will let the developer answer.
The other 3 points, up to the developer. I'm just commenting on point #4 as it's the least straight-forward. @bleu8888
Hi,
1. It will be improved on MX 2.0
2. It is already possible if you switch screen to portait mode. Let me think about changing UI to show "previous button" even on landscape screen.
3. Let me think about this option.
4. Let me try it. If it works, it will be supported on MX 2.0
Thanks
djdavid said:
Hi, i bought your app and it's fantastic but i have some suggest.
1) We display the last watched movie and finished movies in*different color.
Would be nice to enable or disable it or set the colors.
2) When i close the app and it keep going play audio if i go on the notification panel i can pause and play, go to next video or close the app.
Would be nice go to previous video too.
3) I open the app, i choose a video and i play it. I go back to the list and i have 3 button on top: refresh, play and search.
If i want to stop the video i have to press the play button (it take you to the video) and stop from there.
Would be nice if the play button would pause and play the video and create a new button than take you back to the video.
4) I use your player to play video music in car.
Would be nice slide next or previous video by air gesture (just moving my hand left or right above sensor of my Samsung S4 in landscape and portrait mode).
Thank you
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bleu8888 said:
Hi,
1. It will be improved on MX 2.0
2. It is already possible if you switch screen to portait mode. Let me think about changing UI to show "previous button" even on landscape screen.
3. Let me think about this option.
4. Let me try it. If it works, it will be supported on MX 2.0
Thanks
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1. Thank you.
2. Yes, I just advice it, thanks.
3. Ok.
4. Thank you very much.
Thank you CDB-Man too.

[No Root] Youtube Background (Trick)

Hello ,The trick works on the galaxy s8 and s8 +, with any official youtube version.
To be able to do the youtube trick in the background without root, do the following:
● Open the application in the normal way.
● Select the video of your choice.
● leave the video playback.
● Go to the beginning, without closing the multitasking.
□ Here are two options to activate youtube in the background:
1-Through the play button of the headphones that we have connected to the phone.
● Close the default music player on your phone, since it is activated; When you press the play button on the headphones, the music player will be activated and youtube will not be activated.
2-Lock the screen and move the clock widget to the left, the youtube widget appears on the play button and ready; This option works without headphones or headphones.
◇Important never close youtube in multitasking.
□Luck ^-^.
Issei Aono 17 said:
Hello ,The trick works on the galaxy s8 and s8 +, with any official youtube version.
To be able to do the youtube trick in the background without root, do the following:
● Open the application in the normal way.
● Select the video of your choice.
● leave the video playback.
● Go to the beginning, without closing the multitasking.
□ Here are two options to activate youtube in the background:
1-Through the play button of the headphones that we have connected to the phone.
● Close the default music player on your phone, since it is activated; When you press the play button on the headphones, the music player will be activated and youtube will not be activated.
2-Lock the screen and move the clock widget to the left, the youtube widget appears on the play button and ready; This option works without headphones or headphones.
◇Important never close youtube in multitasking.
□Luck ^-^.
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Or you can just use an app called NewPipe
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yamato047 said:
Or you can just use an app called NewPipe
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Yes (⌒‿⌒), but it is more comfortable, do it this way, than downloading another app .
Issei Aono 17 said:
Yes (⌒‿⌒), but it is more comfortable, do it this way, than downloading another app .
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Not really, app is very lightweight and is way mkre convenient to use without relying on any bugs in the system. It also lets you download the videos in multiple qualities.
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Issei Aono 17 said:
Hello ,The trick works on the galaxy s8 and s8 +, with any official youtube version.
To be able to do the youtube trick in the background without root, do the following:
● Open the application in the normal way.
● Select the video of your choice.
● leave the video playback.
● Go to the beginning, without closing the multitasking.
□ Here are two options to activate youtube in the background:
1-Through the play button of the headphones that we have connected to the phone.
● Close the default music player on your phone, since it is activated; When you press the play button on the headphones, the music player will be activated and youtube will not be activated.
2-Lock the screen and move the clock widget to the left, the youtube widget appears on the play button and ready; This option works without headphones or headphones.
◇Important never close youtube in multitasking.
□Luck ^-^.
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Thanks that was useful
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yamato047 said:
Not really, app is very lightweight and is way mkre convenient to use without relying on any bugs in the system. It also lets you download the videos in multiple qualities.
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I will try the application thanks .
yamato047 said:
Not really, app is very lightweight and is way mkre convenient to use without relying on any bugs in the system. It also lets you download the videos in multiple qualities.
Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
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This is not a bug. It has been there ever since the Galaxy S6 It's also there on Windows Phone and on the latest iOS ^^ It's a basic feature that is enabled in the exact way on all major smartphone OS'
tuk1maar said:
This is not a bug. It has been there ever since the Galaxy S6 It's also there on Windows Phone and on the latest iOS ^^ It's a basic feature that is enabled in the exact way on all major smartphone OS'
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Never used this on my s6
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tuk1maar said:
This is not a bug. It has been there ever since the Galaxy S6 It's also there on Windows Phone and on the latest iOS ^^ It's a basic feature that is enabled in the exact way on all major smartphone OS'
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If it wasn't a bug, why would Google make it a paid option included in youtube red subscription? Windows phone doesnt even have an official app for youtube so developers have implented it into their apps long before it was a thing on Android. I havent had an iOS device but a friend of mine confirms that the official youtube app doesnt support background play either so he has to use either Safari or some third party app.
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why not youtube red. i havent paid for youtube red since it started. they always offer 4 month of googlemusic which include youtube red. just switch to different email. i have 3 gmail and i have been rotating everytime one expires. it says is for new user but if uhavent use the same email for over 6 month it will let u reuse it
YouTube red is not available in most countries.
It doesn't work on latest update S8 stock ROM...EU

Background Play Bug

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.

Music control with squeeze

Hi, can i activate "next track" on music app with squeeze when the screen is off? By default play and pause are possible. The beta mode function works when the screen is on and the app is open. Thanks
With stock Edge Sense, you can go as far as open default music player and play/pause, currently no next track function., but maybe you want to check Edge Sense Plus (you can find it in Play Store), it add some functionality to Edge Sense.
From the review it seems good, but I don't use it so I don't know how far it can go.
Well, that's why Jan create Edge Sense Plus, try it out!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.duong.edgesenseplus&hl=en

[Bug] PiP button doesn't work when background play is enabled

Hello,
I've been using MX Player Pro for years and often listen to videos with my phone's screen off using the background play functionality. In the most recent update (MX Player Pro 1.46.10) the background play options in the settings were changed to either background play or picture in picture. Once I figured this out and selected background play I was able to listen to videos with the screen off again, however the Picture-in-Picture button no longer works while playing a video. In previous versions when I had background play configured, the PiP button in the on-screen controls during playback still allowed me to use the PiP functionality on the fly.
Can you please fix the PiP button so that it still works even if I have background play configured as the default in the local player settings? Otherwise it seems like the only option is to revert to 1.42.13 and never update the app again.
Thanks!
having the same issue, this on top that since like a year ago, the headset Bluetooth buttons don't work for forwarding or rewinding 5 seconds as it used to (it works only when video is playing in background or PiP) this is extremely frustrating
newest version got it solved.
ComunixtaAteuzinho said:
newest version got it solved.
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I'm still only seeing 1.46.10 on Google Play. There is no newer version available for me.
The lastest beta version is 1.48.1
dhruvdave said:
The lastest beta version is 1.48.1
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Gotcha. Sorry, I wasn't aware of the beta program. I'll look forward to its forthcoming release on the Play store.

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