I switched to the GS6 and I'm not having that problem like I did on my Note 4. Do you think that means it's a hardware issue?
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Could still be a software issue. Different kernel
I took the extra memory card out and hey presto.. The skipping has stopped. My music was on the card so I had to move it to the internal memory. This seems to have done the trick. I have used the card in other devices and it seems to be fine so I do not think it is the card its self.
Transcend Class 10 UHS-1, 64GB for me. I don't think it's the card. I think it's the reader. It's been something I've dealt with on all my phones since they started accepting external cards back in the dumbphone days. Not until the G2, which didn't have an external card, did I ever have enough internal storage on my phone to keep the music on it so I'd never tried, just dealt with the drops.Those of you seeing positive results moving from an external card to internal memory - are any of you using high-speed memory cards like the Samsung EVO Pro series?
Interesting find but problematic if you have a large music catalog and can't move it all to internal storage. I have 10GB of music and 6GB of free space. And music storage was a big reason for using the SD card.
Transcend Class 10 UHS-1, 64GB for me. I don't think it's the card. I think it's the reader. It's been something I've dealt with on all my phones since they started accepting external cards back in the dumbphone days. Not until the G2, which didn't have an external card, did I ever have enough internal storage on my phone to keep the music on it so I'd never tried, just dealt with the drops.
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Leaves me wondering though as to why leaving the screen on prevents the skipping from occurring.
I carry my phone in my left chest pocket and it happens consistently. Also have tried pants pockets (both left and right) and no change. Motorola buds and LG headset.Want to know a crazy possible fix? My phone was in my right chest pocket. Moved it to the left chest pocket and it stopped happening by like 80%. I doubt this will work for anyone else, but I was shocked and annoyed this actually worked.
I was unable to find any decent information on the net for this long going problem other than
1. Leave your screen on all day (ridiculous, but it does work FWIW)
or
2. If you are a rooter, then root the phone and get an app that will let you overclock your CPU while the phone is asleep.
The theory seems to be that the problem is that the CPU slows down too much in sleep to consistently push the BT.
I'm not a rooter and the screen fix is unacceptable to me so.....
This is how I fixed the problem:
I thought I would look for an app that would continuously prod at the CPU by running to keep it from deep sleep, yet not pull too much battery drain.
I already had an app on my phone called simply "Stopwatch & Timer" by Jupiter Apps.
It can be downloaded from Play for free
Download it
Install
Open
Use the timer feature
Set the timer to about the amount of time you will be using BT audio (the max is 9 hrs and 59 minutes on the free version) You can set the alert of your choice when the countdown is complete or choose no alert, whatever works best for you.
Start the countdown and enjoy skip free music for the duration, all while saving your beautiful screen from burnout.
I haven't been using this fix long enough to determine just how much battery the timer uses but one would think it would be much, much, less that leaving your screen on all bloody day?
I was unable to find any decent information on the net for this long going problem other than
1. Leave your screen on all day (ridiculous, but it does work FWIW)
or
2. If you are a rooter, then root the phone and get an app that will let you overclock your CPU while the phone is asleep.
The theory seems to be that the problem is that the CPU slows down too much in sleep to consistently push the BT.
I'm not a rooter and the screen fix is unacceptable to me so.....
This is how I fixed the problem:
I thought I would look for an app that would continuously prod at the CPU by running to keep it from deep sleep, yet not pull too much battery drain.
I already had an app on my phone called simply "Stopwatch & Timer" by Jupiter Apps.
It can be downloaded from Play for free
Download it
Install
Open
Use the timer feature
Set the timer to about the amount of time you will be using BT audio (the max is 9 hrs and 59 minutes on the free version) You can set the alert of your choice when the countdown is complete or choose no alert, whatever works best for you.
Start the countdown and enjoy skip free music for the duration, all while saving your beautiful screen from burnout.
I haven't been using this fix long enough to determine just how much battery the timer uses but one would think it would be much, much, less that leaving your screen on all bloody day?
Disclaimer: This was done on a my GS5 and works perfectly. The problem is so similar across so many Galaxy devices that I can't imagine this so called 'fix' not working almost all the same devices. What would be nice though, is a REAL FRIGGIN' FIX, but obviously that is not gonna come so I guess a crumb is better than hungry.
I wish rooting was an option, cuz I would do that. But unfortunately the Verizon version has not been rooted yet. Except for the developer edition