I did that man, that really cleared it up, sometimes my ignorance and subconsciously get a bitter taste in my hands

I don't use the S-pen AT ALL, but YYMV. Wife has Pixel 6 Pro, and hands down the S22 Ultra is superior in every way. Samsung used to get lambasted for their UI, but I find it superior these days, it's as close to stock as possible without being a Pixel.

kyley said:

I heard the Pixel phones are much better for this? Any chance you have compared this functionality to the Pixel? I had heard the Samsung doesn't work with speech to text. Maybe it's just that it takes some extra steps to enable it... Thanks,
--Kyle

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The option is htere, but it doesn't work as good as the swiftkey option (what i use) or the google voice to text system.

campingfool said:

Swiftkey basically works the same from my pixel 4XL to my S22U. That is all I can compare to since i have ONLY used the Swiftkey for the past x-number of years. Never had a desire to try another.

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Same, been using swiftkey for 10 years, it got a bit worse after Microsoft bought them out, but it's still my go-to

Madd63 said:

I've never had to increase mine.

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Never had to increase mine either. But then I'm not a customer of Zong(a carrier in Pakistan that's owned by China Mobile).

Top 10 Popular Android Music Player Apps (Streaming & Offline) that every Android user must-have on their Phone

We seem to have been able to listen to music using pocketable devices for ages.

It wasn't always from our smartphones, and we used to have dedicated MP3 players, Ipods, and Walkmans for on-the-go music listening.

But it was something that people did, and it has been since Walkmans were popular in the 1980s.

However, almost any phone nowadays allows you to install your favorite music streaming service and even save some tracks on its internal storage.

But if you're looking for something a little more powerful and advanced than just what comes with your modern smartphone. Then this article is a must-read for you.

I'm here with another curated selection of the popular Android apps to provide you with something that focuses entirely on music playback and streaming. Here are some of our top selections for the popular Android music player apps 2022. This is going to be an excellent one, with anything from simple music player apps or music streaming services that allow you to play your locally downloaded music and even apps that do both.

"I noticed many users comment, ‘I don't enjoy streaming my music over the internet, and I don't want any fancy features that will slow down my phone, take up valuable space or resources, or consume my valuable internet data extremely quickly." "All I need is something to play my Music files.’ that is why I also add offline or local music player apps as well in the list”


#1 Spotify

Spotify is continuously at the top of our popular music player app list, and for a valid reason: it is one of the best music streaming apps available right now.

I have so many good reviews about Spotify that it's difficult to keep them all straight. It's my favorite streaming service for a reason.

You can use the app to play locally stored music as well as stream music from the web, making it the only app most users would need on their phones.

Spotify is available in both free and paid versions and includes a bunch of features as well as simple but effective features such as an incredibly large library, amazing suggestions based on what you listen to and what's popular in your area, and support for podcasts, which very few music streaming apps include.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music

#2 Muzio | Music Player - MP3 Player

If Spotify isn't your thing, one of the most well-known alternatives to other branded apps like Apple Music and YouTube Music is "Music Player - MP3 Player" which might be a better fit.

Music Player - MP3 Player has undoubtedly more beautiful and modern UI and way more unique, powerful and advanced features than Spotify, YouTube Music, or any other music app.

This app exceptionally enhances your music listening experience by multiple times. It allows users to listen to PODCASTS and AUDIOBOOKS as well.

Advance Equalizer and Sound Booster, Reverb Effect, CrossFade Support, and Music Virtualization, Themes, Screens, and Skins customization, Smart Music Cutter and Ringtone Maker, Intelligent Drive Mode, Smart Sleep Timer, Advanced Audio & Video Codec Supports (Play any audio or video file on the go), Smart Live Lyrics and Lyrics Auto Synchronization, LAST.FM Scrobber, Integrated YouTube Player, InBuilt Powerful Video Player (perfect MX player alternative), High-Resolution music playback and sound output,Missing Album Arts Download and many more useful features and tools are available for free in this app.

The only drawdown of this app is that it can only play music or video files that you already stored or downloaded on your android smartphone's local/internal storage. but still one of the most perfect music player alternatives for your default player or any other music player or media player apps. It offers both free and paid versions.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shaiban.audioplayer.mplayer

#3 Deezer

Another option is Deezer, which has a feature set extremely identical to Spotify, down to the number of features available in the Premium version, and it also has an ad-supported free version.

Both are relatively decent, with features such as downloads, suggestions, and a great collection of music and podcasts to choose from.

If you're looking for one of the best music player apps available, this could be a contender to Spotify and Muzio.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=deezer.android.app

#4 Tidal Music

Tidal Music has an advantage that only a few other streaming services have: it offers lossless audio. It will face competition from none other than Spotify, which just announced the launch of Spotify HiFi.

Tidal Music pioneered the concept of streaming lossless music, and getting CD-quality music without owning CDs or downloading FLAC files is quite awesome.

Once we get passed the lossless element of things, Tidal Music remains a tempting package with access to a supposedly 70 million music collection.

We believe it is one of the biggest music player apps on the market due to the lossless quality, which is ideal for audiophiles.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aspiro.tidal

#5 YouTube Music

YouTube, the digital video network, is regarded as "the king of free apps" since it provides access to a massive library of media, including music.

However, YouTube Music, while employing the same platform like YouTube, is entirely different.

The biggest part of the YouTube name is that all of your favourite music from the past is carried over, so you can easily indulge in nostalgia.

The premium tier nullifies advertisements and grants access to features such as background playback.

The free version, however, leaves a few items to be desired, so if you aren't ready to pay, you should choose a different alternative from this list.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.youtube.music

#6 Musixmatch

Musixmatch has long been a well-known app, not just because it functions as a standalone music player for playing back locally downloaded tracks, but also because it provides additional functionality to other apps.

It focuses on live lyrics and does an excellent job of it. It allows you to play locally downloaded music and displays the lyrics to whatever you're listening prominently.

Don't you have any locally downloaded or stored music? Then, using something called FloatingLyrics, you can use it to display live lyrics on apps like Spotify. It's one of the most versatile and excellent music player apps on the market.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.musixmatch.android.lyrify

#7 Apple Music

We're still amazed Apple made Apple Music available on Android after all these years. It's unquestionably among the best music player apps for Android.

To gain access to this service, you must pay a monthly membership of $10 for an individual package, $5 for students, or $15 for a family plan, which allows you to share your subscription and Apple's massive music collection with up to six people.

It even has Apple's new lossless audio function, so with the correct hardware, you can enjoy high-quality audio with Apple Music on your Android phone.

Many people blindly promote Spotify to everyone else, but I tried Apple Music for a few months and found it to be a really attractive bundle as well.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music

#8 iHeartRadio

iHeartRadio is not your typical streaming app; instead, it focuses on streaming something a little different - radio stations!

In this regard, it is more akin to listening to AM or FM radio than to streaming music. So, if you prefer doing things the old-fashioned way, this is it.

It is, as the name implies, a radio streaming app where users may listen to a variety of stations based on their unique preferences. It features radio shows, podcasts, news, and sporting events. AM and FM radio stations are also included.

The best part is that it is completely free!

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clearchannel.iheartradio.controller

#9 Shuttle Music Player

I have another alternative option for users who do not wish to listen to music online.

Shuttle Music Player is a good alternative to your default music player if you have locally downloaded music.

It doesn't get much easier (or, thankfully, any more complicated) than that. It has folder browsing, tag editing (for altering MP3 tags), and, most notably, Modern Design.

It keeps things simple and precise, which is why it's on this list of the popular music player apps for Android.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=another.music.player

#10 PowerAMP

Last but not least PowerAMP. We couldn't do a music app roundup without mentioning Poweramp.

Poweramp is, well, an ugly duck when compared to the other apps on this list. But appearance isn't the point. The whole purpose of this app is to perform above its design.

It supports a variety of codecs, high-resolution audio when the device supports it, and inbuilt 64-bit processing, and that's only a sampling of the things Poweramp offers. It truly is that good.

If you can look past the app's basic UI and pay a one-time fee for the full version.

Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer

Conclusion

If you're into streaming, you can't go wrong with any of the big names.

Spotify and Apple Music provide a relatively similar list of features as well as costs.

Deezer and Tidal are also decent alternatives in this category, while iHeartRadio keeps things old school by letting you listen to actual radio stations.

Don't want to listen to your music online?

Then Muzio | Music Player - MP3 Player is a better choice compared to Musixmatch and Shuttle Music Player but they both are also excellent choices.

Check them all out and let me and others know which one is your favourite in the reply and comment section below.

Microsoft's Edge browser for Android does this.

I'm surprised that Google's App and Web History record doesn't show it. I turned that off years ago so can't check, but when I looked at it last it seemed creepily comprehensive in what it had recorded.

Thank you. This was the problem.

puppykickr said:

Check your developers options settings to see if mobile data is set to remain on at all times.

As far as I know, there is no way to use both at the same time- only one or the other.

Whatever setting you were thinking of is most likely only going to use whichever one has the faster connection.

The setting I am referring to should do the same, but it exists to allow faster transition between networks when moving around.

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Check your developers options.

That wasn't the actual address just my example of how it was formatted. I didn't save the screenshot of it.

There's a similar type of SMS alert but it seems specific to Australia, but the formatting was quite similar to mine. I don't think the USA does SMS-amber alerts like this unless something changed recently:





Unless the U.S. has started doing Geo-Targeted Alert System like AUS, then I'm unsure if it's a scam or the way my quite outdated phone is interpreting emergency alerts.

Why are you restarting your tablet? I only do that on my phone or tablets only when I get a glitch or something is not working right.

Also try just clearing cache for the music app.

t87699 said:

OK
No SD card, lots of storage.
I've factory reset 30 phones, never had a problems.
This is so odd.

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Are you on wifi? Have you tried rebooting the router?

Tried several different keyboard apps... Same problem. I think my phone's touchscreen might be the problem.

Did it! works! Thanks!

puppykickr said:

Professional photographers that use these things in their line of work are the ones to ask about SD cards.
They lose big money if a card crashes with a customer's content on it.
(Think about wedding photographers and such.)

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But no professional photographer is using microSD cards, which is what phones use (and which we often refer to here as SD cards for short). Although they are electrically compatible, they aren't actually identical, and I doubt that their failure rates are the same (I remember reading that microSD is worse, which matches my anecdotal impression, but I don't have hard data on it).

Of course many pros aren't using SD at all these days. Most pro-grade cameras these days use CFexpress cards, and they are increasingly common even in enthusiast-level cameras (my own camera has one of each). Even CFe cards aren't invulnerable, but they are both faster and more robust than SD. But they are also bigger and more expensive, so SD will be around for a while yet (while microSD's only real competition is storage soldered to the motherboard...).

ozonetrooper said:

Is that two UFO's moving to the right after full eclipse ?????????????????

(full screen images shows 4 of them)

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Yes, those are UFO's

ArtminoEbino said:

I think it's because of the updates...

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What, the OP got hacked because of updates? That doesn't seem likely.

(BTW I get updates monthly on my Samsung, with annual major updates. The same was true on the Pixel before it. Never had a problem with updates on either, apart from one month when Google released an unstable update for the Pixel, but that was fixed after a few weeks. Even my ancient Note 10.1 tablet was improved by the few updates it got. There's a lot of mythology about "updates make phones worse", but that's never been my experience).

ArtminoEbino said:

Hi! I love games like this

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Thanks)

Never reply to any of those spam messages, all that does is notify the jerk who sent it to your that your phone number is a valid, in use number. Most of those idiots just use scripts to send out their junk messages in bulk, dozens or thousands at a time, and if they get even a 1 or 2% reply that's all they need.

But if you don't do any text messaging to begin with, there's no need to even have that Messages app enabled. All it's doing is wasting your phone's system resources and needlessly increasing your online exposure. Personally I can't get by a day without text messaging but if you are more disciplined and can simply do without it, go into the Settings >> Apps menu, find and open the Messages app entry, tap on Force stop, then find and then tap on the Clear data button (that wipes the app's config and settings files, and the app's cache). Now tap on the Disable button. That will stop the app from running, actively and in the background. If the Disable button is greyed out and not accessible, you might need to go the Default apps menu and un-select the Messages app, now try to Disable it again.

More recent of versions of Android have stopped supporting a separate, dedicated system cache partition and are now just relying upon a system cache file instead. So at this point, some manufacturers do occasionally implement that 'old school' separate system cache partition, but most now use just a system cache file. Since you don't see that option in the Recovery menu, sounds like your phone simply doesn't have that partition.
So ignore my previous posting, it doesn't apply. That still leaves the charging problem you're having. Hopefully others will continue to chime in with better suggestions while my sluggish brain activity ponders over what might be going on.

MoodyBlues said:

I've searched in vain for an app that sends alerts when there's a car chase being televised in the LA area. I've not only scoured Google Play but I've also checked local TV stations' web sites to see if they have such a creature, but I've come up blank. Before I moved back home to CA I *KNOW* I heard about something that did this--but that was circa 2006, so before Android, before smartphones were everywhere, etc., so it must have been a text message type thing sent to cell phones.

Does anyone know of such an app? (And, yes, I get quite a kick out of watching car chases, marveling at the morons who think THEY'RE going to be the one who actually loses the cops. )

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A few years ago, I'm not super positive if or when it stopped, but on Tim Conways show on KFI640 am station advertised texting "Chase" to the station and my friends and I always received a text whenever a chase started.

Treegirl said:

Why do I have to give a 911 address to access it? .

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When you first enable Wi-Fi Calling, you must provide your service provider with the primary street address at which the Wi-Fi Calling service will be used because, if you call 911 over Wi-Fi, your service provider may transmit Your E911 Registered Address to the 911 Communications Center to use to help emergency responders locate you. If you are somewhere else when you call 911, you will need to provide the 911 operator with your current location. [Check you RW account. I believe they asked for a Registered Address for 911, too.]

Treegirl said:

Does that mean that it only works when I am in that location? I am very mobile, so when I'm not home, can I log into a different wifi?

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Once enabled, you may use wifi calling anywhere you have access to do so.

carolyn318 said:

I have the Motorola Moto G Power 2021. Yesterday I noticed the colors in certain apps were flickering between color and black and white. Like in Google Voice, my contact pictures would flicker between color and black and white. The same with contact pictures in the message app that came with the phone. Most of the apps that had this problem were fixed when I uninstalled then reinstalled them. I can't uninstall the message app that came with the phone. On Gmail, all uninstalling does is set it back to factory settings. To reinstall it, you go to where the apps with updates are listed in the Google Play Store and update it. I've tried clearing cache and data, turning the phone off and back on, turning off dark theme, resetting app preferences, uninstalling apps I've installed in the last month. I've tried everything short of a factory reset or throwing the phone across the room. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem is or anything else I could try, if I haven't already tried it?
Here's a list of the apps that uninstalling and reinstalling fixed the problem. I use Cricket Wireless but this phone didn't come with the Cricket Visual Voicemail app.
AOL
Outlook
Yahoo Mail
Google One
Google Voice
Cricket Visual Voicemail

I've only had it 10 months, plus or minus a week. I don't have insurance. My cousin is going to take me to the local Cricket Wireless store Tuesday. If it's a hardware issue, I'm going to do what I call a "same grade". Same grade is an upgrade where I just get another of the same phone. In this case the Moto G Power 2021. Unless I find another Motorola phone I like better.

My previous phone before this Moto G Power 2021 was the Moto E5 Cruise. I had 4 of it. Moto E5 Cruise #1 developed an audio issue. The only way to get the audio to work right was to squeeze the phone on the front and back side where they earpiece was located. I sent it back and got a refurbished/like new one. It was Moto E5 Cruise #2. It had issues of its own. One was in the now history Google Play Music. I bought a Moto E5 Cruise #3. Long story made short: I lost it. Then I bought Moto E5 Cruise #4. It developed issues. One of which was random restarts. So, August of last year I upgraded to the Moto G Power 2021.
I'm not going to risk another refurbished/like new phone with problems of its own. I'd rather be without a phone while Motorola tries to fix this one or just buy a new one.

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Great news! This thread can now be closed and locked. About 3 hours ago I figured out how to put my phone in safe mode. In safe mode the apps with the flickering colors issue worked properly. No color flickering. When I took it out of safe mode, I uninstalled an app I've had to contact the developers a few times about problems. When I did, no more flickering. I've added that Bird Sorting game by Games Arena to my permanently banned apps list. The only other app on that list is Urban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary caused the random restarts on my previous phone in August of last year. Uninstalling Urban Dictionary fixed my previous phone. I'd had my previous phone 3 years, so I decided to upgrade to this phone in August of last year.

Hello, thank you for this information, I find it useful.

Hello Ocnbrze,
Thank You for taking time to reply. I appreciate your help.

I've tried Firefox, Brave and Safari on the desktop (Mac)
I also tried Brave and DuckDuckGo on the mobile.
So far, no luck.

Paul

ocnbrze said:

keep us posted what has worked for your wifi, once you go Google-less.

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Seeing that no email has ever been received from that Google account (and that it's extremely unlikely that any message will ever come), my wife has agreed to let it be. However, with her permission, I have deleted a "personal" gmail account that she had for very occasional use, so there never will be any of those security messages that bothered her. (I needed to send one message every nine months, just to keep the account alive, and there was always a security alert from Google, afterwards. I could not explain matters to her, and, besides being tech-illiterate, she is easily frightened.)
She can now look on the Google account email as a kind of "password" only, in case her phone ever needs re-installing. She is now OK with that. Besides, seeing that she does not want to do personal emails any more, she is happy for me to delete her user account on the computer (which I am very willing to do).
So, in response to your request, I don't think there ever will be anything to report.

Thanks indeed for your valuable help and advice. You have been instrumental in preventing a divorce!