I have a radio app for my website working in my EVO and other devices that works great, but a user tells me that in his Samsung Galaxy S it freezes the app (he send me a video in witch I can see that the media player service gets call and starts, but no sound comes out and the app freezes no crash screen to send a report or nothing it just freezes), I don't have a Galaxy to test on, so what can I do? have anyone else had a similar problem? I try pasting my code here but someone decided to close my question with out any suggestions. all my app does is from the main activity a button calls the media player adds the url of my mp3 stream and starts the payer.

Button canal1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bcanal1);
        canal1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View view) {
               mUrl = "http://67.212.165.106:8161";
                   textRadioName.setText("you are listening to VARIADO!");
                       Intent i = new Intent (ChevereMovilActivity.this, PlayerService.class);
        startService(i);
        PlayerService.setSong(mUrl, "Temp Song", null); 
        start();
        }});

start method

@Override
public void start() {
    if (PlayerService.getInstance() != null) {
        PlayerService.getInstance().startMusic();
    }
}

in the manifest

<service android:name=".PlayerService" 
            android:label="@string/app_name"> 
            <intent-filter>
        </intent-filter>    
    </service>

like I said it works in my eve but not a Samsung Galaxy S I'm using Android 2.2

• android
• service
• media-player
• galaxy

The service is frozen because Samsung Galaxy S can't prepare the stream and you are probably using mediaPlayer.prepare() instead of mediaPlayer.prepareAsync().

I think it's an undocumented "quirk" in some Galaxy devices. The problem is the stream format. If you write in a console:

wget -S -O stream http://67.212.165.106:8161

and them:

head -n 12 stream

you can see something like:

ICY 200 OK
icy-notice1:<BR>This stream requires <a href="http://www.winamp.com/">Winamp</a><BR>
icy-notice2:SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server/Linux v1.9.8<BR>
icy-name:My Station name
icy-genre:Various
icy-url:http://www.radiokolergan.com
content-type:audio/mpeg
icy-pub:1
icy-br:64

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I think the problem is this header. If you try with others urls (for example: http://195.55.74.213/rtve/radio4.mp3?GKID=804c9f24cb4811e1af4600163ea2c743) you doesn't obtain this header and it reproduce fine in Samsung Galaxy Tab and other devices.