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Why does my music player keep stopping?

CrimsonToker

CrimsonToker

Android Expert
No matter whether I'm using Pandora or amp music player, when I try to do anything through my browser or internet related apps, it shuts off my music. It's really annoying. I'm a multitasker
 
Well my month old phone has been having weird issues otherwise as well, so maybe it is a battery issue... it's been glitching out for a week or two, so I might be getting an insurance replacement tomorrow..
 
The 1gb ram in the volt is very tight for KitKat and you can't multitask well in it. Chrome takes a lot of memory in use causing android to close anything in the background. This is the number 1 complaint from volt owners.
 
jeffmd said:
The 1gb ram in the volt is very tight for KitKat and you can't multitask well in it. Chrome takes a lot of memory in use causing android to close anything in the background. This is the number 1 complaint from volt owners.
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Is there any way to adjust that? Maybe through use of root?
 
Not really, if you stop android from freeing memory the foreground app needs, then the foreground app is going to shutdown with an out of memory error.
 
Yes there is a way. Debloat the shit out of this phone. Get rid of everything Virgin Mobile. EVRYTHING! The VM Zone thing is everywhere, it has folder called i'min or iton or some shit like that. Fist it. Then the LG stuff. Ohhh so much LG stuff. I like the Qremote and the Qslide so I kept that but the music player - gone, themes - gone, qualcomm location and lg location shite - gone, Google bs like magazines and games - gone. I usually have 200+ mb of RAM free now. Root, debloat, profit.
 
Well I've got boost, not virgin, but im sure the same still applies. Yeah, after I figured out that I can't save or move anything to the sd card on kitkat, I decided that's what I need to do lol
 
I'm debloated and also get around 200+ MB free but still can't keep a music and a GPS app open together. Yet any other phone before this one with a gig of RAM worked fine while running both.
 
I've had this problem as well. Randomly stops the music altogether - even in idle! I've had no other complaints about the phone except for how easily the screen breaks.
 
This is my main complaint about the Volt. Lovely phone, but it apparently can't multitask... I had the Optimus V years ago, and I never had any random closing issues, and that phone is like, old lol.

I guess lets hope development on this phone kicks up and we get some custom roms and kernels soon and hopefully that'll fix the issues.
 
lg set this phone up so only 1 app can run at a time.... they say the music app is the only one that can run in the back ground but it still likes to close..... but this may be because I deleted the stock music app in favor of rocket player because it does so much
 
the constant close I hate very much. I loved all the features of the phone at first, and bought it early after release with at the time many good reviews. now I pretty much hate this underpowered p.o.s., should of realized that adding two cores but keeping the processor speed the same isn't gonna do anything.

Two music apps that i've found do stay alive better the most are slacker radio, and double twist's music player
 
np6s4x said:
the constant close I hate very much. I loved all the features of the phone at first, and bought it early after release with at the time many good reviews. now I pretty much hate this underpowered p.o.s., should of realized that adding two cores but keeping the processor speed the same isn't gonna do anything.

Two music apps that i've found do stay alive better the most are slacker radio, and double twist's music player
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It does help improve efficiency. But I think LG purposefully kept this phone from multitasking, since I have used phones that had a 1.4 GHz single core processor and have multitasked decently.
 
Must be a bloat issue. I have reflashed the stock lg ROM using the lg flash tool and I am posting this through the chrome browser while listening to Pandora with no issues at all. I have developer mode enabled and have the option to have apps force close when exited. Your apps may be open still running after you have exited them.
 
MCF3778 said:
lg set this phone up so only 1 app can run at a time....
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This is completely untrue as I consistasntly multitask.

donjuro said:
I'm debloated and also get around 200+ MB free but still can't keep a music and a GPS app open together. Yet any other phone before this one with a gig of RAM worked fine while running both.
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I have tested this too and pandora runs fine while running gps so does google play music.....


As i said I have flashed the stock lg rom for this phone via the lg flash tool and i use nova launcher and google keyboard . As well as the force close apps on exit in the developer option in settings
 
chucksaysblah said:
Must be a bloat issue. I have reflashed the stock lg ROM using the lg flash tool and I am posting this through the chrome browser while listening to Pandora with no issues at all. I have developer mode enabled and have the option to have apps force close when exited. Your apps may be open still running after you have exited them.
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interesting, does this stock rom not have all the useless virgin apps? and does it require anything special like root?
 
Donj, one and the other have no relation. Yes, you could say it is to much memory use. The browser you are running in the foreground is using up to much memory for the OS to keep the music player in the background.

Installed apps take no RAM.
 
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