Missed call on cell, then msuic started playing.
October 27, 2020 3:03 PM Subscribe
Today for the second time in a month, I got a call on my cell phone that I did not answer. After the usual ring tone stopped, a song started to play.
I went to the phone, there was no active call, and Spotify nor any of my other music apps were playing anything. The music looped. It was a layered 50 Cent song ( In da Club) and some other bits. I had no notifications or any indication what was playing the song. I have never had anything but the built in ringtones on the phone, and it was not any of those.
The only way to get it to stop was to reboot the phone. Some details:
Android based phone.
The caller ID was (928) 223-xxxx (I have the last four of those are important )
Any idea what is going on?
I went to the phone, there was no active call, and Spotify nor any of my other music apps were playing anything. The music looped. It was a layered 50 Cent song ( In da Club) and some other bits. I had no notifications or any indication what was playing the song. I have never had anything but the built in ringtones on the phone, and it was not any of those.
The only way to get it to stop was to reboot the phone. Some details:
Android based phone.
The caller ID was (928) 223-xxxx (I have the last four of those are important )
Any idea what is going on?
I don't have an answer but would like to ask if your phone had its bluetooth enabled and if you have other bluetooth devices nearby. Maybe some weirdness there?
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 3:22 PM on October 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 3:22 PM on October 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
Can you look through your various music/video apps to see if any of them show something in your history? There was a version of the YouTube app earlier this month that seemed to have a bug in the function to resume playing after an interruption (Google Assistant, phone call, etc.) that caused it to resume even if the video had been paused/finished prior to the event. I had a few times where my phone restarted a video that I had finished watching several hours previously, since it was still queued up in the player. I don't think that's a super likely explanation, since even in that scenario, I had all the normal notifications/UI controls for the playing video, YouTube videos don't normally loop, and it appears to have since been fixed, since I haven't encountered it recently.
Maybe it was embedded in a webpage, but then I'd still have expected you to have a notification from the browser. If you are able to find the particular song/video in your history within an app, you'd at least know where it came from.
posted by yuwtze at 4:03 PM on October 27, 2020
Maybe it was embedded in a webpage, but then I'd still have expected you to have a notification from the browser. If you are able to find the particular song/video in your history within an app, you'd at least know where it came from.
posted by yuwtze at 4:03 PM on October 27, 2020
Response by poster: Bluetooth was off.
Nothing recent in Youtube that's music.
Twitter is the only Firefox page I have open, and media is set to not auto-play.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 4:22 PM on October 27, 2020
Nothing recent in Youtube that's music.
Twitter is the only Firefox page I have open, and media is set to not auto-play.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 4:22 PM on October 27, 2020
I would be looking at twitter.. someone probably embedded some weird non-youtube video source, possibly a javascript ad, that somehow thwarted your non-autoplay while triggering the 'resume play' function.. my android phone does the resume play thing with other apps than youtube, so you can prob turn it off in settings. Hmm.. that resume play function might also be switching an autoplay ad from the default 'mute' they usu have.
posted by sexyrobot at 5:27 PM on October 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by sexyrobot at 5:27 PM on October 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Last update, I'll not thread sit. When I say I had to reboot the phone it was because I force closed the obvious choices, like Spotify, Firefox, etc. As soon as the phone stopped ringing the looping 20 second 'song' started.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 8:30 PM on October 27, 2020
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 8:30 PM on October 27, 2020
Was it the same phone number both times? If so, I would send all the info to someone who blogs about phone security.. it might be a new hack.
Would you ever choose to listen to 'in da club'? If so, I miiight suspect spotify, but I think the '30sec layered loop' sounds a lot more like an ad than spotify autoplay.
I would scroll down twitter and unmute ads looking for it, esp. any that look weird/different, if it happens again. You might try it now, but restarting prob eliminated it.
(Some thread sitting is generally ok, IME, with technical/troubleshooting issues, not so much with relationship questions lol)
posted by sexyrobot at 10:14 AM on October 28, 2020
Would you ever choose to listen to 'in da club'? If so, I miiight suspect spotify, but I think the '30sec layered loop' sounds a lot more like an ad than spotify autoplay.
I would scroll down twitter and unmute ads looking for it, esp. any that look weird/different, if it happens again. You might try it now, but restarting prob eliminated it.
(Some thread sitting is generally ok, IME, with technical/troubleshooting issues, not so much with relationship questions lol)
posted by sexyrobot at 10:14 AM on October 28, 2020
Do you remember if it was it the same song both times this happened? Or something different each time? Same song would throw doubt on the theory that it's a random ad somewhere triggered accidentally.
Do you play any mobile games or similar apps that have embedded video ads? Perhaps some malicious app that was doing some form of click-farming, using some sort of hack/exploit/bug to play a muted video (or video ad) in the background, and the call caused the audio to unmute. Since this is inherently shady, I could see the OS not handling this particularly well.
I'm not sure how you'd go about testing that theory, though.
posted by yuwtze at 11:17 AM on October 28, 2020
Do you play any mobile games or similar apps that have embedded video ads? Perhaps some malicious app that was doing some form of click-farming, using some sort of hack/exploit/bug to play a muted video (or video ad) in the background, and the call caused the audio to unmute. Since this is inherently shady, I could see the OS not handling this particularly well.
I'm not sure how you'd go about testing that theory, though.
posted by yuwtze at 11:17 AM on October 28, 2020
Response by poster: It was the same song. The weird thing was...it was not clear...definitely was more than 2 songs. I could just barely ID the 'it's your birthday' bit and that was like a very small part. I did not note the number the first time, it was 2 or so weeks ago.
No mobile game playing. My twitter feed is very thin, I have 21 people I follow, most not even active. My feed updates with new content maybe 3 times a day.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 1:45 PM on October 28, 2020
No mobile game playing. My twitter feed is very thin, I have 21 people I follow, most not even active. My feed updates with new content maybe 3 times a day.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 1:45 PM on October 28, 2020
This is an utter stretch, but did you manage by any chance to accidentally set your voicemail notification to this track?
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 5:42 AM on November 2, 2020
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 5:42 AM on November 2, 2020
Have a friend call you and see if it happens again - could help narrow down whether it's linked to the particular caller, or if it's your phone.
posted by Glier's Goetta at 10:37 AM on November 9, 2020
posted by Glier's Goetta at 10:37 AM on November 9, 2020
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posted by Ragged Richard at 3:09 PM on October 27, 2020 [16 favorites]