I have a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3. I love equalization when listening to music. It really p--, er, ticks me off that I have so much trouble with equalizers on my S3 with Google Music. It is a stock device with Android 4.4.2.
I've contacted both Google and Samsung support, they don't know.... factory reset the device MANY times.... tried the stock and many other equalization apps --even sideloaded the Cyanogenmod equalizer. I don't have ANY of these problems with my Nexus 7 running multiple versions of Cyanogenmod and the CM equalizer.
When using any of my Bluetooth audio devices (FM transmitter, ear buds) the Google Music Settings for the equalizer is grayed out. It says "Equalizer - Disabled while casting." WTH? This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I guess this means like Chromecasting... which I don't have any Chromecast device associated. I've found only a few references to 'disabled while casting.' Despite the message, the equalizer will enable.... I have to press 'pause' and then 'play' again after EVERY, single, song change.
Not using Bluetooth and using the headphone jack works just fine right? Nope. It does something similar. The equalization option is not grayed out. When working with tech support, we determined that when the equalizer disables after every song using the headphone jack, clearing the app cache would restore equalizer functionality for a period of time. However, there were certain situations that would trip it up and cause the equalizer to disable again after song changes. It was a constant clearing of the Google Music app cache.
I've found a few other forum posts and this seems to be a Samsung problem. I'm almost certainly staying away from Samsung devices for my next phone because of this.
I have a couple questions:
-Has anyone found a fix for the equalizer disabling?
-Now that the headphone jack is broken on my device and it has one foot in the grave... I'm starting to look at a new phone. Do other manufacturers have this problem?
-Any Verizon phones confirmed working with a sideloaded Cyanogenmod equalizer?
Considering: HTC One M8, LG G3, or Moto X.
I've contacted both Google and Samsung support, they don't know.... factory reset the device MANY times.... tried the stock and many other equalization apps --even sideloaded the Cyanogenmod equalizer. I don't have ANY of these problems with my Nexus 7 running multiple versions of Cyanogenmod and the CM equalizer.
When using any of my Bluetooth audio devices (FM transmitter, ear buds) the Google Music Settings for the equalizer is grayed out. It says "Equalizer - Disabled while casting." WTH? This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I guess this means like Chromecasting... which I don't have any Chromecast device associated. I've found only a few references to 'disabled while casting.' Despite the message, the equalizer will enable.... I have to press 'pause' and then 'play' again after EVERY, single, song change.
Not using Bluetooth and using the headphone jack works just fine right? Nope. It does something similar. The equalization option is not grayed out. When working with tech support, we determined that when the equalizer disables after every song using the headphone jack, clearing the app cache would restore equalizer functionality for a period of time. However, there were certain situations that would trip it up and cause the equalizer to disable again after song changes. It was a constant clearing of the Google Music app cache.
I've found a few other forum posts and this seems to be a Samsung problem. I'm almost certainly staying away from Samsung devices for my next phone because of this.
I have a couple questions:
-Has anyone found a fix for the equalizer disabling?
-Now that the headphone jack is broken on my device and it has one foot in the grave... I'm starting to look at a new phone. Do other manufacturers have this problem?
-Any Verizon phones confirmed working with a sideloaded Cyanogenmod equalizer?
Considering: HTC One M8, LG G3, or Moto X.
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