PowrDroid
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OK, I've had this problem, or something like it. After extensive testing and troubleshooting here's my story.
When playing music stored on my SD card via headphones I would get split-second pauses in the volume output. That is, the sound output would temporarily mute, but the song would continue playing normally. There isn't any skipping or choppiness, just abrupt dropping of volume to zero, then almost instant resumption of volume. Duration of lost volume is less than a second. Is this what others are experiencing?
It rarely takes me more than five minutes of listening before this problem occurs and it seems to happen completely at random. Sometimes it will happen multiple times during the same song, sometimes it doesn't happen for five minutes or more. But it does happen.
I also noticed this happening in my 2012 Ford F150 when playing music via bluetooth. It also happens if I play music using the phone's speaker. Since it happens with every sort of output I figure I've eliminated the headphone and bluetooth as culprits.
So now I think I'm running low on RAM and check the available RAM. It's around 270 MB, so I doubt that is the problem. Still, I stop a few apps from running and try it again. Problem is not resolved.
I now turn to thinking it's a problem with the SD card. I put an album worth of music on my phone's internal memory storage card. Problem is not resolved, I still have abrupt, split-second loss of volume.
OK, now I suspect the stock Google Music Player is causing the problem. To test this theory, I play music via the file manager, not via the Google Music Player interface. Interestingly, I don't seem to have the problem, at least not for the 10 minutes worth of music I listened to as a test. But isn't playing music using the File Manager simply the Google Music Player with a no-frills user interface? In any event, now I'm thinking it's the Google Music Player. I download the free version of PowerAmp and try it out. Nope, problem persists with PowerAmp. So now I'm thinking it's hardware related and I'm screwed.
Reaching the end of my rope here, not enjoying listening to music on my phone anymore and that's A BIG PROBLEM. In desperation I perform a simulated battery pull--hold down power button and volume rocker for at least 10 seconds until the phone powers off/on and VOILA, no more problem! Fingers are crossed, but it's been 3 days and I'm still playing music without the volume suddenly dropping, then resuming.
When playing music stored on my SD card via headphones I would get split-second pauses in the volume output. That is, the sound output would temporarily mute, but the song would continue playing normally. There isn't any skipping or choppiness, just abrupt dropping of volume to zero, then almost instant resumption of volume. Duration of lost volume is less than a second. Is this what others are experiencing?
It rarely takes me more than five minutes of listening before this problem occurs and it seems to happen completely at random. Sometimes it will happen multiple times during the same song, sometimes it doesn't happen for five minutes or more. But it does happen.
I also noticed this happening in my 2012 Ford F150 when playing music via bluetooth. It also happens if I play music using the phone's speaker. Since it happens with every sort of output I figure I've eliminated the headphone and bluetooth as culprits.
So now I think I'm running low on RAM and check the available RAM. It's around 270 MB, so I doubt that is the problem. Still, I stop a few apps from running and try it again. Problem is not resolved.
I now turn to thinking it's a problem with the SD card. I put an album worth of music on my phone's internal memory storage card. Problem is not resolved, I still have abrupt, split-second loss of volume.
OK, now I suspect the stock Google Music Player is causing the problem. To test this theory, I play music via the file manager, not via the Google Music Player interface. Interestingly, I don't seem to have the problem, at least not for the 10 minutes worth of music I listened to as a test. But isn't playing music using the File Manager simply the Google Music Player with a no-frills user interface? In any event, now I'm thinking it's the Google Music Player. I download the free version of PowerAmp and try it out. Nope, problem persists with PowerAmp. So now I'm thinking it's hardware related and I'm screwed.
Reaching the end of my rope here, not enjoying listening to music on my phone anymore and that's A BIG PROBLEM. In desperation I perform a simulated battery pull--hold down power button and volume rocker for at least 10 seconds until the phone powers off/on and VOILA, no more problem! Fingers are crossed, but it's been 3 days and I'm still playing music without the volume suddenly dropping, then resuming.
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