My phone recently "updated" and now, when I'm playing pandora, every time the screen goes to something different than what's currently playing it shuts off. I have to reopen the app and/or go back to the now playing screen. This is extremely frustrating!!! I can't find in the settings anywhere to change anything back to where it'll work properly and u don't want to uninstall and reinstall because I'll lose all my downloads for offline use. I've had, and been paying for, this app for a couple years now and have accumulated a lot of music. Everyone keeps telling me pandora is junk and I should go to Spotify or another music app but up until now I haven't had any problems. My job causes a lot of frustration already, I definitely do not need any more. Especially from my music app, which where I get 99% of my escape anyways. Someone please advise so I don't have to go to another app. 😫
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Hi there, @Crazylegs1975. 👋
Thanks so much for posting about your experience. Sorry to hear that you're having trouble.
I would recommend trying out the standard troubleshooting steps for Pandora on Android devices. To clarify, signing out of the Pandora app, reinstalling, or being in offline mode for more than 30 days will remove your downloaded content automatically. This just means that you would need to re-download it.
That being said, I completely understand your hesitation about this. We do have an existing feature suggestion that you may be interested in upvoting (click the 💙icon next to the suggestion title): Restore offline downloads after reinstallation
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Troubleshooting:
From your Android Settings, please try clearing the Pandora app data using the following steps (not to worry, we'll keep track of your profile and collection for you):*
Keep in mind that the steps for each Android device is slightly different. If you have a Pixel, you can find helpful steps here.
Please note that you will be asked to log into your account after completing these steps.
*Pandora Premium and Premium Family listeners may need to re-download some of their offline content after this. Pandora Plus users, however, should receive that offline content again automatically. If you have any trouble with your offline stations after this, please let us know.
Hi there, @Crazylegs1975. 👋
Thanks so much for posting about your experience. Sorry to hear that you're having trouble.
I would recommend trying out the standard troubleshooting steps for Pandora on Android devices. To clarify, signing out of the Pandora app, reinstalling, or being in offline mode for more than 30 days will remove your downloaded content automatically. This just means that you would need to re-download it.
That being said, I completely understand your hesitation about this. We do have an existing feature suggestion that you may be interested in upvoting (click the 💙icon next to the suggestion title): Restore offline downloads after reinstallation
++
Troubleshooting:
From your Android Settings, please try clearing the Pandora app data using the following steps (not to worry, we'll keep track of your profile and collection for you):*
Keep in mind that the steps for each Android device is slightly different. If you have a Pixel, you can find helpful steps here.
Please note that you will be asked to log into your account after completing these steps.
*Pandora Premium and Premium Family listeners may need to re-download some of their offline content after this. Pandora Plus users, however, should receive that offline content again automatically. If you have any trouble with your offline stations after this, please let us know.
My app will play in the background, but when a phone call comes in, or I use the keyboard microphone, or my alarm goes off Pandora shuts off.
Hi @Warlock1 👋
Thanks for posting and welcome to the Community!
Usually, when an alert pops up (like a phone call, notification, or alarm) or using the microphone, Pandora will automatically stop playing music and continue once the alert has been dismissed or answered and/or the microphone is not being used anymore.
Does the app crashes or force close after performing any of these tasks?
If so, I recommend running our Android Troubleshooting steps to help with any crashing or playback issues.
Hope this helps, let us know how it goes! 🎧