video pauses again & again in samsung s5

[AC Question]

When I play any video in my new samsung s5, it keeps on pausing again & again. Even if I am staring right on the screen...still it keeps on pausing again & again.
Need a solution.

 

[Epoen2012]

I dealt with mine pausing for 3 to 4 months. I finally figured it out (with mime anyway). It's a third party app. Mine was either GO SMS PRO or a third party keyboard. Start deleting third party apps one by one and test your music player or youtube or whatnot. It may take some time but you will eventually find the culprit! I hope I saved some people some headaches lol.

 

[Richard Birdsall]

When I play any video in my new samsung s5, it keeps on pausing again & again. Even if I am staring right on the screen...still it keeps on pausing again & again.
Need a solution.

Every app I tried to listen to, audible, YouTube, podcasts, etc., Would pause every other second. I used the developer options to view running apps and closed one by one, then would hit play. The only app that I would close that resulted in no more pausing was the chrome browser app. After stopping it's services, all was smooth sailing!

 

[TrillyReign]

Not sure if anyone's still on this post, but this happened to me qhen i deny a app the "audio focus" permission

 

[Linda Steele1]

I had the same problem with videos and YouTube pausing constantly. This solved the video and the Google maps minimizing problem:

How to turn off Google Maps popup mini map
Open the Settings app.
Tap on Apps & notifications.
Tap on Advanced.
Tap on Picture-in-picture.
Tap on Maps.
Turn OFF “Allow picture-in-picture”

 

[favcolorblu]

For me All live streaming apps (except YouTube) are pausing every few seconds. When someone tells you to clear cache, updates, etc not an issue. All I can think of that the issue could be is I noticed when I watch real tv versus watching the same show on my Samsung Galaxy s9 phone is the type of connection where TV is on a stable connection versus watching it through Wifi there would be no way a company could stream 100 % of the packets to your phone everywhere you go in the city.