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Pandora

I have noticed that after I upgraded to the official 2.2 update and have the phone docked in the car dock, if I get a call or navigation voice kicks in pandora shuts all the way off and when I'm done it stays off. When I had 2.1 when I was done with a call pandora would start playing again. I thought it was the new battery manager, but I turned it to performance mode but it still turns pandora off and it disappears from the notification bar. Any ideas how to fix this?
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I did a factory reset and it seems to have fixed the problem
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gobbles23 said:
Any ideas how to fix this?
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I tried to post a link to my fix at Androidforums, but I don't have the permissions yet. Go there and search for "Froyo Pandora" and you'll find links to the v1.2.1 of Pandora which doesn't have this problem.

seems like pandora has gotten worse in lots of ways. it used to also show up in lock screen =\

Last.fm

MrDanger said:
Last.fm
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Seconded +1

Motion control in music app?

I just updated my phone the new CM 7.1 RC1 and now when I play music with the head phone jack on every time the phone moves just a little the tracks skip/pause/misc stuff happens. Is there any way to disable this function it is really getting on my last nerves?

never mind second issue fixed after reboot. But still need help with music app issue. Thanks!

TimSykes said:
never mind second issue fixed after reboot. But still need help with music app issue. Thanks!
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i was having the same problem.it woulf skip every 1minute or wen i unlocked. go the market and download "block headset" its a widget. this should solve ur problem it did for me

thanks that seemed to work for me.

So now that I installed a ICS based rom "block headset" does not seem to work any more. Anyone know how to kill it with Android 4 OS?

Bump anyone?!

what music app are you using? Have you attempted looking through settings to see if there's a "shake to change song" option?
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I am using the built in Google music app, and no there is no option in it to turn it off.

Spotify on the Fire

Hey guys,
I just got my Fire and I love it (besides the fact that I feel like I have to sideload EVERYTHING). I installed the official Spotify app, and it ran alright aside from some screen formatting problems (the navigation buttons for the Fire get in the way). The main issue is that the Fire doesn't realize it's a music app for some reason and puts the wifi connection to sleep when the screen goes off so my music shuts off... Very frustrating. Anyone have any ideas for a fix for this. I thought about installing Spare Parts Plus, but I can't find it anywhere to sideload it and it's not in the stupid Kindle App store...

Anyone? I may return my Fire if I can't get this to work...It's THAT important to me that I can stream without the wifi turning off...

you might want to look into apps that keep wifi on since the settings page for wifi is gone in the Fire. I'm sure one of those must exist somewhere. If not it seems like a very trivial app to write. Some sort of wifi lock toggle.

https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5rbWFuLldpZmlNYW5hZ2VyIl0.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hogdex.WifiRuler&feature=also_installed
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mdsoftware.wifipowermanager&feature=also_installed
Try any of those apps, I'm pretty sure WiFi manager will be able to do whatever you need and more.

The screen formatting problems make it impossible for me to pause playing music without exiting the app - am I missing a way to do that?

paulm13 said:
The screen formatting problems make it impossible for me to pause playing music without exiting the app - am I missing a way to do that?
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I have the same trouble. I haven't figured out a way around it.

see if changing the lcd density helps. btw has anyone tried using Spare Parts on this thing?

orangeagent said:
I have the same trouble. I haven't figured out a way around it.
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It's silly, and really, really less-than-ideal, but using the spotify widget works for this. Toss in a volume control widget on the same screen, works great.
(This, of course, assumes you... have a normal launcher installed >.>)

mewshi said:
It's silly, and really, really less-than-ideal, but using the spotify widget works for this. Toss in a volume control widget on the same screen, works great.
(This, of course, assumes you... have a normal launcher installed >.>)
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Nice tip! Thanks. With ADW installed, being able to use a widget really is a life saver! The app is really crippled with the Kindle bar over the top. I hope they come up with a fix soon, but seeing as they don't officially support it, and Amazon probably won't allow it in the store, I won't hold my breath.

I can't get the buttons to show up correctly on the Spotify app itself. I can't tell if it's something to do with the tablet, or something to do with the fact that it's on a modified version of Android. I guess once the custom ROMs are out we'll know for sure.

Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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gigaorg said:
Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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Man I hope so.

gigaorg said:
Giving the numbers and spotify strategy, my guess is a fire friendly version is not far off..sound like we have a workaround for now.
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Even if it *is* a silly workaround
I also told Amazon they should try to get it working properly, since, hey, I pay for Spotify, I'd like to use it on here.
Also, the music app that comes on it tends to be a bit... stuttery.

i have been having the same issues. Does anyone know if Spotify works on any tablets?

[Q] Screen display for Spotify

Hello wonderful people of xda, how are you doin'?
Just a quick question,
Does spotify display the album info and media controls on your note 4 lockscreen? mine doesn't and it's annoying to unlock the phone in order to change the song.. I'm specifically talking about those with stocks roms only. Any help or opiniom about this would be great thanks

drmodify said:
Hello wonderful people of xda, how are you doin'?
Just a quick question,
Does spotify display the album info and media controls on your note 4 lockscreen? mine doesn't and it's annoying to unlock the phone in order to change the song.. I'm specifically talking about those with stocks roms only. Any help or opiniom about this would be great thanks
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My Spotify shows up on lock screen. I use Fingerprint unlock for the screen. I did not change any settings in Spotify for such screen.
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psycovirus said:
My Spotify shows up on lock screen. I use Fingerprint unlock for the screen. I did not change any settings in Spotify for such screen.
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Hmm looks like somethings wrong with my version. I'll have to see it. I have the N910C. Thanks dude!

How to play youtube videos/music in the background.

As from the title you can see that I found the easiest way to play background YouTube's videos or music which doesn't require for you to download external apps that allow that. This allows the listening while the screen is off and while using other app (not sure didn't test on every app).
Note: I'm not sure if if there is a another post on this but just incase if someone don't know about it...
1) First of all chose the YouTube video/music you want to listen in the background while doing other stuff.
2) once the video/music is playing go to home screen and after going to the home screen press the power button once to lock your device.
3) then wake up your device again this should take you to the lock screen page as shown in the picture below
4) once you can see the lock screen that has notifications on it, then swipe the clock to the left which should show the name of the YouTube title.
That's it hopefully this does work forever as I am not sure if the android would potentially close YouTube after a while but yeahhhhhh. You lot probably already know about this but just wanted to share if somebody doesn't know it.

You need to have lucky patcher and adaway youtube. Don't let it update or you'll lose ad free.
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Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.

Masterfellow said:
Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.
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TheUndertaker21 said:
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Hmh. Unlucky me then lol.

Masterfellow said:
Hmh. Unlucky me then lol.
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You need lucky patcher so root as well.
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OGYouTube will let you play in background without any workaround

Masterfellow said:
Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.
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Wallpaper? Looks nice

TheUndertaker21 said:
You need lucky patcher so root as well.
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For this you don't need it. My galaxy s8 isn't rooted

AndroiderM said:
OGYouTube will let you play in background without any workaround
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Read the text the point of this post is to allow background YouTube to work without any additional apps. Read

Masterfellow said:
Just tried, didn't work. It is greyed out. What still does work though is when you open the video in youtube, lock, and press play button on your headphones. It starts playing and will even continue going when you're playing from a playlist for example.
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Could it be something related to Vodafone WiFi calling?

TheUndertaker21 said:
You need to have lucky patcher and adaway youtube. Don't let it update or you'll lose ad free.
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Who told you that to do this you need root??

kimple_john said:
Wallpaper? Looks nice
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Thanks, I'm not sure but I think it's from backdrops. I have many apps with wallpapers lol.