martloaf

I've found a solution – enabling the "Keep Screen On" setting in the Look and Feel menu. I have a suspicion this might drain my battery, but I'll see how it goes! Thanks again for your help. Martin

Thanks Andrew. Would you mind elaborating on the whitelisting process, or is that something that will be specific to my device? I applied the other settings you suggested, but it didn't make a difference unfortunately. I've now disabled the HiBy Music app, so it no longer activates. However, I still can't control Poweramp with the physical buttons unless the app is on the screen. Thanks for your help. Martin

So after a couple of days using Poweramp on my HiBy player, I'm fully a convert – it's immensely better than HiBy Music, which I was using up until now. The issue I'm having at the moment is with the physical buttons on my player – they will only control Poweramp playback if the app is on screen. If the screen is locked, or I'm on the home screen of my device, the physical buttons will trigger the playing or skipping of music on the native music player, HiBy Music (even when I've closed the HiBy music app). I suppose the default HiBy Music app has special priveleges and permissions, which makes sense. It might be a device-specific question, but I wondered if anyone knows how to change these settings on Android, or whether Poweramp has settings that mean that it becomes the default app for physical control responses. Cheers Martin