Total Commander for Android • Re: No media player controls on Android 15 lock screen

The way things work is totally fine for me now. I just wanted to give you a bit more feedback, which might be helpful:

I did eventually find out that the new notification style was not visible because my Android 15 had "Medienvorschau" (media preview!?) disabled by default in the "Sperrbildschirm" (lock screen) settings. With that one (i.e. "Medienvorschau") switched on, the lock screen behaves as follows:

"Use new notification style" disabled:
- the fancy little window (with the picture of what I'm listening to in the background) and the main controls are directly visible
- additionally, underneath the new style media window, lock screen also shows the single "play" button with the additional small symbols once I click on it (similar to the old style in Android 11)

"Use new notification style" enabled:
- the fancy little windows (with the picture of what I'm listening to in the background) and the mail controls are directly visible
- the single "play" button is NOT visible

So basically what I interpret to be the new notification style is always visible - and switching that option off in TC results in that traditional button being added. That might be a slightly strange behavior, but for me it works totally fine.

Statistics: Posted by tc2025 — 2025-02-03, 19:33 UTC

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