Multitasking Problems
Whenever I have say 5 apps "running" in the background, and they have been sitting there for let's say and hour, when I go to close them out, one (usually Phone.app) will make my whole phone crash. I will press the red X, and within 30 seconds, the phones display will drop out and the phone will crash. Doe this happen to anybody else? this happens to me EVERY SINGLE DAY!
And as for things I've tried, I have restored my iPhone 4 about 4 times to factory settings so far with this last one as setting it up as a new phone. Still isn't working right.
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tonefox wrote:
I guess you have to do what you have to do. But I really cannot understand your need to kill the application +that you use to make or receive phone calls+ when the thing in your hand +is the phone+.
Frankly, I would expect the device to crash. It does smack of sawing off the branch that you're sitting on....
I think you're misunderstanding how some of the native apps on the iPhone are implemented. Things like the phone and such you can never completely stop.
But you can stop the part you're using to interface with that app. So if I fire up the Phone and make a call and then press the Home button to leave I can go back to where I left off if I wanted to. But I can also shut down that part of the app however the main phone app itself is never shut down you just don't see it in the "apps used recently" or things running in the "background" section.
Dave
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Summarized Version of Problems:
5.1 surround works only on specific applications which are robust enough to allow me to manually specify audio output options, and only if ALSA isn't configured at all
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Long-Winded Version:
I have my computer connected over HDMI to an AVR with a 5.1 surround speaker system. At first, I didn't have anything configured in ~/.asoundrc (or its global equivalent, /etc/asound.conf). Neither file existed, so everything was running off defaults. I got the name and device number of my card from aplay, ran speaker-test and played a six-channel test file in mplayer.
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
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null
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pulse
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hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 0
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speaker-test 1.0.28
Playback device is hdmi
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Using max buffer size 349504
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0 - Front Left
4 - Front Center
1 - Front Right
3 - Rear Right
2 - Rear Left
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pcm.!default {
type hw
card HDMI
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type hw
card HDMI
device 3
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MPlayer SVN-r37224 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team
210 audio & 441 video codecs
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mplayer: No such file or directory
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libavformat version 55.33.100 (internal)
Audio only file format detected.
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Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s24le, 6912.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 864000->864000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
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[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1557:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' failed (-2): No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video
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Why the hell is it looking for pcmC0D0p? It should be looking at pcmC0D3p. Did it not get the memo from ~/.asoundrc? Urgh.
I've also tried '-af channels=6' in place of '-channels 6' but the same result happened. It does the same thing without the '-ao alsa' option, I just specified it to trim down the output, so that I wouldn't be copying and pasting all kinds of other errors about not finding OSS or JACK or other things I don't have installed.
If I symlink /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p to /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p, it'll fix the problem, but that feels like one ugly kludge. I'd have to do it again over and over every time I reboot, too.
Not sure if this would help matters or not, but if anyone knows how to change my card's device number from 3 to 0, I'd like to try that as well, but I'm not sure how to do that sort of thing. I'm just guessing it might be worth trying, since everything looks for card0/device0 by default, and that kludge I tried earlier did have an effect, so maybe if we can just switch those device numbers with each other, everything would work smoothly without having to force anything through ALSA's configuration at all. I believe card0/device0 belongs to the Host Bridge... is there a way to have them trade their device numbers for one another's in a safe manner?
I can also get it to play if I specify the device like I did in my first test, using '-ao alsa:device=hdmi', but that defeats the purpose of getting good defaults set if I still have to set everything by hand before I play something. If I try playing the test file without any options, like so:
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... it will play, but only in two-channel stereo, and the parts that should happen in the center, rear and LFE channels get downmixed into the left and right channels.
I can get it to work in aplay, though! All six channels! Not that I plan on using this as my primary multimedia software.
$ aplay -c6 Nums_5dot1_24_48000.wav
The only solution I found so far that allows me to have 5.1 audio by default is to install the PulseAudio server, which is able to find a sink/source named 'alsa_output.pci-0000_00_03.0.hdmi-surround' and lets me choose that as my default. Only problem with this is that PulseAudio has its own problems.
Aside from the crackling sound issues in some Wine games, Pulse also has a much bigger drawback -- a complete lack of passthrough support, meaning I can't use encoded streams such as Dolby DTS and TrueHD with PulseAudio. I have a Harman/Kardon AVR and I'd like to get my money's worth out of it, so I'd really like to figure out a solution in ALSA without using Pulse at all.
Does anyone know how I can have my cake and eat it, too? I just need 5.1 surround, by default, in ALSA without PulseAudio.
HUGE thanks to anyone who tries to help here. This is really making me sad and frustrated, I've been using Arch for quite a while now and this is the first real big stumper I've come across that forced me to post a thread. Otherwise I've been having a wonderful time.
Edited because I tried something different that removed *some* issues, but the above problems still remain.
Last edited by Rybelda (2014-10-27 22:10:24)Well, I thought I fixed it doing this...
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1138
ipc_key_add_uid true
slave {
pcm "hw:0,3"
format S32_LE
channels 8
rate 192000
period_size 9600
buffer_size 38400
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#!/bin/bash
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pulseaudio --kill &> /dev/null
"$*"
rm -f $HOME/.config/pulse/client.conf
pulseaudio --start &> /dev/null
I'm removing the SOLVED tag because technically I didn't resolve any of my original issues, I more or less gave up on what I wanted to do and found another way to satisfy my needs, but it still isn't as elegant as I had hoped for. In any case, I'm done with this issue for now and the forseeable near-future, but if anyone has anything further to add, feel free.
Last edited by Rybelda (2014-10-27 22:32:55) -
How do i fixed my problem with my ipad apps every time i open that apps it takes 10min. to play the games ant its getting LOST MODE and the ipad system is crashing
We are fellow users here on these user-to-user forums, you're not talking to iTunes Support nor Apple.
Have you tried closing all apps via the iPad's multitasking bar and then doing a soft-reset and seeing that helps ? To close all apps :
iOS 7: double-click the home button to open the taskbar, and then swipe or drag each app's screen from there up and off the top of the screen to close it, and click the home button to close the taskbar.
iOS 6 and below : from the home screen (i.e. not with any app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of each app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
Soft-reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot. -
I try to open up a texting app, and now, it won't lock, exit out (or crash suprisingly), multitask, or even power off. I also had auto lock set to two minutes and it has been about a full hour and it has never locked. If there is someone out there who has the same problem as me, and knows how to fix it, PLEASE TELL ME!!! I have a lot of texts that need to be answered... I also use the Assisstive touch and please tell me if that affects anything about these problems.
Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
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