[Galaxy S II Android Development] psychlist:
Ok, i tried that with poweramp and i also, with poweramp and the audio players in 3 different file browsers, tried skipping rapidly between different points in a track; and i tried this with mp3s and, with poweramp and 2 of the file browsers, with flac files. The result in all cases was glitch-free with no audible lag.

Something to remember is that the day your i9100 rolled off the assembly line it was not electronically identical to mine the day mine rolled off the line. What i mean by that is that the values of the electrical components were not identical. In fact, you could choose any component - close your eyes and stick a pin in the circuit diagram: that component in your phone did not have an identical value to the same component in my phone. Usually, these differences in values will not be great enough to make a difference to the ways in which the 2 phones behave when responding to the same instructions delivered through exactly the same machine code. But over time, the value of each component will change, and eventually these values will change enough for your phone to behave differently from mine even if they're being run by the same machine code (until the values change so much that both phones stop working altogether, at which point they will behave in the same way!). On top of that, if like me you content yourself with using the usual twrp or cwm wipe precedures prior to installing a new rom, you will leave some files behind, and sometimes these files can make a difference to the way your phone behaves. The files left behind on your phone will not be the same ones left behind on mine because the software we have installed on our respective phones over time will be different. These are some (not all) of the reasons why your phone and my phone running the same rom will not behave in the same ways. All a developer of i9100 roms can hope to do is to make a rom that works well on most i9100s.

As far as i know, the problems you've been having with neatrom are not typical of the music stop bug, and it may be that the problems are caused by something else. I've tried many different roms, and for me neatrom knocks the socks off all the competition, so if i were in your position i'd want to try for a way to get it working on my phone. Things i might consider would be (a) using hawkerpaul's wipe scripts http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2405363 before installing neatrom, (b) trying neatrom with a different kernel or (c) using the last version of neatrom with which i didn't encounter the problem. Before any of that, of course, i'd try uninstalling and redownloading and reinstalling my music player, but i'm sure you already tried that.

Incidentally, i have had problems transferring data via usb between phone and computer with every rom i've ever used - ics, jb and kk (I have fewer problems with linux computer than windows), so i certainly know how frustrating that can be (i tend to use wifi file transfer pro to get round this, but you need a wireless network to use it, so it's not a solution for everyone). Same thing with transferring files from one place on the phone to another, and i find some file browsers do this better than others: for me, fx usually works best on neatrom, but not perfectly (of course).

If you haven't yet tried (a) or (b) above and decide to try them, i'd be interested to know what happens. Whatever you do, i hope you have good experiences, whether with neatrom or with ehndroix.

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pilotn, if you hook your phone up to a car battery, it doesn't count :laugh: