Notifications cause audio playback problems

[hiro11]

Did a quick search and nothing seems obviously applicable here...

Since Jellybean, my Evo has had fairly constant catching/ momentary droupout / glitching audio playback whenever a notification of any type comes in. This happens when playing over the headphone jack. Audio drops out with an audible static / pop sound and then comes back in a fraction of a second. In general the phone seems like it is stealing audio focus for a fraction of a second to play a notification sound but never actually plays the sound. Putting the phone on silent profile does not solve the problem. Since I get notifications every few seconds and rely on my phone for podcasts and streaming music, this is extremely annoying. I can solve the problem by turning off auto-sync, it allows the phone to keep a data connection but stops the notifications. Audio problems disappear with auto sync off and material plays back smoothly. This is obviously not a real solution.

Anyone else have this issue? Solutions, if any?

Overall, I'm pretty fed up with all of the bugs in Jellybean. This is one of many issues.

 

[petern23]

I have noticed this too. Not sure if it's happening during updates. I didn't notice it at all while playing audio over Bluetooth. It seems to stop if I turn off Beats, though.

 

[petern23]

I just ran a PRL update and I haven't noticed it once in the past half hour of listening.

 

[petern23]

Nope, still noticing it. I had it plugged into a headphone amplifier and noticed crackling when I wasn't playing anything at all. Someone else mentioned turning off Wifi would help. It did - I hear it less, but still every once in a while.

 

[Andras]

It does it over bluetooth or headphone jack when Beats Audio is turned on for me. Navigation directions will glitch for a quick second, timers and alarms won't sound either over bluetooth with Beats Audio on.