topic Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off.. in Android

Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Silman — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:59:07 GMT

Hello, I just upgraded to Premium. Im on a Galaxy S5 running 4.4.2. If my screen goes to sleep or off spotify stops playing after the current track finishes. I can't find any setting to change this. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

PS I already tried deleting and reinstalling the app to no avail.

Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Liam — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:15:12 GMT

Hi @Silman and welcome to the community 🙂

Are you using Wifi or mobile data? If you're using WiFi, do you have it set to disconnect WiFi when the screen turns off? If so, disable this.

Also, ensure that you don't have 'Restrict Background Data' enabled in your Data Settings menu 🙂

Liam

Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Silman — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:27:04 GMT

Hi Liam, thanks for the reply. I am using mobile data. i checked the background setting and it is unchecked. Would you have any other suggestions to try?

Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Daniel — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:08:25 GMT

Do you have any task managers or data restriction tools installed? Clean Master possibly?

Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Silman — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:02:04 GMT

Hi Daniel, actually I did have clean master installed but removed it yesterday bc I felt like it made my battery drain faster. I do have juice defender still running. I don't have any other task killers running. But I am rooted and running Titanium backup. Can it be any of those?

Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Daniel — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:54:16 GMT

Aha! Juice Defenderby default disables background data when the screen is off (only enabling it every 15 mins). You'll need to run a customized profile to not disable backround data when the screen is off.

Or just stop using JD... I have to admit I used to use it, but if you control your sync settings and make some tweaks to how you're using some apps such as restricting their notifications, location requests etc you can easily get a day out of most phones now. That's all I need.

Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Liam — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:39:10 GMT

@Silman

It is most likely JD. I've never liked that app - too forceful, and practically useless. Don't trust them 🙂

Check the configuration for automatic data disabling, or better yet uninstall it 😉

Liam

Re: Stop Playback After Current Track when screen goes off..

Silman — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:03:22 GMT

@Daniel, just disabled JD and presto! Spotify keeps playing when screen times out. Thanks to you and Liam for pointing me to it!