Problem with Music widget on lockscreen bug

[fmcc789]

Although it was originally working, the lockscreen widgets for the walkman app and spotify app no longer appear when music is playing. The clock widget is instead always shown, although there is a slight flicker when you first turn on the screen as if it is trying to switch to the music widget, and clearly there is a bug in the software.

Has anyone else experienced this? 

[anxiousfboy]

The flickering is there and there is no Walkman in the widget list to be put in lock screen.. thus I have to unlock the phone just to turn the volume down, pause or change the song. This is more than irritating. Please fix the bug soon. When the widget on the lock screen flickers then I cannot even control it though I can open the camera by swiping to the left.

[anxiousfboy]

yeah there is no flicker when the music is not playing but with music playing it flickers

[zxcvbad]

That's firmware bug. Had it on Z Ultra. It was solved in latest update.

[AD]

I have this problem too..

My lock screen is confuse when I play music and nothing is work without unlock this !!!

Please fix that !!!!:smileygeek:

[Tricki]

Resetting seems to have fixed it on my phone.

[reventon_703]

It seems to be a bug related to SmartKey. I uninstalled SmartKey and the widget worked again. 

[roniel]

The bug is in SmartKey app... no need to unsinstall it just disable the music control and the problem will end. I hope Sony will update the SmartKey app to fix it because its very handy application.

[Xperia_Z1_and_m]

Yes, I uninstalled that smartkey and the walkman widget worked wonders now!! Thanks to roniel and reventon_703

[SleemLDJ]

I had this problem too. After several data wipe, uninstall, I almost formatted the phone coz it bugged me so much. I finally uninstalled smart key app and its normal now. Hopefully they fix the app or release a firmware update. Or better still 4.3 update will fix it.

Also Sony, please put a feature in the walkman app where I will be able to play music by Genre. Its a very important missing feature in a top notch music player such as Walkman. Also if you can bring back "recently added" to playlists. It was in older versions.

[darshan_choudha]

Yup..! It's a bug with smartkey app, just uninstall the app to get the Walkman widget back on lockscreen & SleemLDJ a new "recently added" playlist has been added with the latest Walkman update.