LewZephyr Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Does not happen all the time, so not a show stopper by any means. I do not have it optimized in the battery optimization area, and I am not running any special apps that do that. Not sure what else to look for, or what to do. Didn't find any further suggestions from the FAQ or Google search. Thanks for your time and assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Titor Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Are you running it on an emulator? (Just out of curiosity,I'm not a support staff) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Does this happen when you turn the screen off? I very occasionally (maybe once in one or two months) get this message when I turn the screen off at night. When I turn the screen back on, PA is still there but with the Killed message in front of it. I just need to tap Play (or press the equivalent headset button) to resume listening where it stopped. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewZephyr Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 On 1/23/2021 at 5:12 AM, Someguyonline said: Are you running it on an emulator? (Just out of curiosity,I'm not a support staff) No, running on Samsung S10e. On 1/23/2021 at 6:30 AM, andrewilley said: Does this happen when you turn the screen off? I very occasionally (maybe once in one or two months) get this message when I turn the screen off at night. When I turn the screen back on, PA is still there but with the Killed message in front of it. I just need to tap Play (or press the equivalent headset button) to resume listening where it stopped. Andre It happens when I am going to sleep usually, so the screen is off... and maybe I manually turned the screen off. Not sure. Doesn't happen all the time, but enough to make me double check myself that I had it removed from battery management. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 1 hour ago, LewZephyr said: It happens when I am going to sleep usually, so the screen is off... and maybe I manually turned the screen off. Sounds pretty much the same as for me. My evening routine is to put my headphones on and start playback, turn the Sleep timer on, and then press the power button to turn the screen off. Very occasionally playback immediately stops as soon as the screen turns off. I can restart playback by tapping on the cabled headset button - but if I turn the screen back on first to check, I see the 'PA was Killed' message superimposed over the player interface. Next time it happens (it's pretty rare) I'll see if I can save a log. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Titor Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Just a suggestion,have you tried setting up wakelock? In Settings >. Misc? Not sure if it would help but no harm in trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 On 1/26/2021 at 12:27 AM, andrewilley said: Next time it happens (it's pretty rare) I'll see if I can save a log. It happened again last night: I plugged my headphones in and started my usual night-time shuffled playback, set the Sleep Timer to 30 minutes, and tapped the Power button to turn the screen off. At that point, the music immediately stopped. When I turned the screen back on, it was showing the "Poweramp detected it was was killed during active playback" popup. PA was still running behind this though, and playback could be restarted by tapping on the headset button. Nothing helpful in Last Processed Commands, just the messages from when I plugged the headset in: I grabbed a diagnostics log and will email it to @maxmp. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 @andrewilley received the log, thanks, but in the case of process killing, Poweramp won't collect the log from the previous run. It's only possible to do that via Developer settings / Bug report / Full, ASAP after the issue as that log contains only last couple of minutes or less. Btw, the wakelock option won't work on recent Androids and not recommended esp. on Samsung Android 11 which is very restrictive about wakelocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 I wasn't sure if the log contained anything useful, but the timestamps did show from around when I plugged in the headphone cable, right though until after the audio was killed, so I hoped there might have been something useful. Next time I'll try to remember to get a full dev bug report (if I'm awake enough to remember ). Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 @maxmp It just happened during the daytime for once. Exact same scenario as happens at night: inserted headset plug, started PA playing normally, tapped the power button to turn the screen off and the audio immediately stopped. When I woke the screen again, there was a message saying PA had been killed (as per the first post of this thread). I requested a bug report and will Dropbox it to you as it's probably too big for email. Hope it helps. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokey Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 Going to renew this subject as I have been getting this error message since I re-installed the app. I have since tried checking every box that is recommended but am still getting the message and the audio is stopping. I have Poweramp installed on a Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite 5G and this occurs when I am using it via Bluetooth either through some external speakers or earphones... cheers col Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 @brokey As far as I was aware, this issue went away quite some time ago - i.e. the specific problem of pressing the power button to turn the screen off and music stops immediately, and when you re-wake the screen there is a message saying that PA has been killed. I've not seen it for a year or more anyway. Is that the exact same scenario that you are seeing? Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokey Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 Nah, its when the music is playing and the screen is off...it could have been playing several songs and then stop or just one, there is no pattern to it... I should have said that I am using the latest beta version... cheers col Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 Then is it down to Android on your device. PA can't kill itself - a rare bug could cause it could crash, but being 'killed' is something the device does to apps to optimise power/battery performance. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bencherished Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 @andrewilley do you know if android 12 has any changes relating to sound improvement? I just got it on Samsung galaxy m51, the sound over Bluetooth, I feel has changed, more detailed and sharp. I changed no sound settings in Poweramp, but I can tell it sounds different. Bencherished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 @Bencherished No idea, Max might have some insight. Could just be a placebo effect of course, or some default setting in the Samsung audio processing is different now? Not relevant to this thread though. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 @Bencherished bluetooth code is constantly changed between major Android releases, so BT quality can actually change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokey Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 21 hours ago, andrewilley said: Then is it down to Android on your device. PA can't kill itself - a rare bug could cause it could crash, but being 'killed' is something the device does to apps to optimise power/battery performance. Andre Thanks for that...will have to look in another direction for a solution... cheers col Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotleyG Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 On 5/18/2022 at 1:05 AM, brokey said: I have Poweramp installed on a Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite 5G and this occurs when I am using it via Bluetooth either through some external speakers or earphones... I just recently noticed on my device that there is a separate setting in the "Battery optimization" setting just for Bluetooth. I changed this today to "Not optimized" but can't confirm if this has made a difference, so far so good though. Worth a try if it works for you @brokey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokey Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 7 hours ago, MotleyG said: I just recently noticed on my device that there is a separate setting in the "Battery optimization" setting just for Bluetooth. I changed this today to "Not optimized" but can't confirm if this has made a difference, so far so good though. Worth a try if it works for you @brokey. Nup, I don't have it on my phone...Android 12 with MIUI 13... cheers col Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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