vetdoctor Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Reboot phone 1. Start Poweramp and play music 2. Press powerbutton to lock screen- it works fine 3. Press powerbutton to unlock screen- it works fine Wait three days or so 1. Start Poweramp and play music 2. Press powerbutton to close screen- Poweramp stops playing (I can pull down the notification shade and hit the Poweramp play button without unlocking the phone, or, if a bluetooth is connected, use that to restart) 3. press powerbutton to unlock phone, on unlocking the phone, Poweramp stops Reboot phone- it all works as expected. Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Sounds like your phone is being too aggressive with its background usage power saving. Check that PA is exempted from any Android settings that could be causing this (which may vary a bit from device to device). Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vetdoctor Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 Thanks, That seems likely. In Samsung battery settings, it was set to optimize, so I changed it to unregulated. Still took a reboot to get it to work, but I'll bet it'll continue to work. MJT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vetdoctor Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 Oops, not that. With battery savings on the Samsung note 22 set to unrestricted, it did it again. I did find a setting to allow changing system setting but another three days before I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 If Poweramp is not being force-closed when this issue occurs (which would clear the log) could you use PA Settings=>Get Support=>Send Log to email a logfile to gpmaxmpz@gmail.com. Also send a message to @maxmp to say where you've sent it from so he can watch for it. I'm assuming nothing else is sending commands by the way, which you could check by looking at PA Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Last Processed Commands after the issue occurs. But it does sound very much like some over-zealous optimisation happening. Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vetdoctor Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 Thanks. No BT commands while the issue is happening. I appreciate the help. MJT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 @vetdoctor player stops (or lags) when screen is off is indication of dumb "optimization" done by firmware (dumb as it can't understand it's a music player which should run in background). See https://dontkillmyapp.com. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution vetdoctor Posted February 23 Author Solution Share Posted February 23 Thanks. I would have never downloaded this w/out someone telling me it's safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Silly question by the way, but just wanted to check that you haven't accidentally enabled PA Settings=>Misc=>Pause on Screen Off. Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprille Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Had the same problem on a Samsung S20 FE, solved with Settings -> Apps -> Poweramp ->Battery -> Unlimited Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vetdoctor Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Andre, thanks for checking, I looked and it's default. Sprille I tried that and I thought it worked but then just back to cutting off. Mpmax I tried the app but it was just to ensure that the battery settings were not cutting the app off. It showed that it was running at 100%. With some other checking I realized that none of the other music apps on my phone have the same problem: Pocket cast, Spotify, Samsung music player, VLC player, all of them work. I don't know if it's relevant to note that Poweramp shuts off when I unlock the phone also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HariSingh Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Try: Settings > misc > use wakelock. You may need to update Poweramp to the latest version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 @HariSingh Wakelock (and Keep Service) is not really used in modern Androids (certainly 12+), but probably won't do any harm to try it. Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vetdoctor Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Thanks, but I did check that a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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