Constantly buffering and crashes on bad days.

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

streamed three songs and crashed out causing it to buffer constantly with unlimited data even.

Expected behavior

crash after three to five songs with mostly java reports.

Actual behavior

crash and constantly buffering

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxxstCcJlsc
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2025-09-12T13:55:36.184-04:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: Linux motorola/boston_g/boston:14/U2UB34.44-57/d6785-16e500:user/release-keys 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:242)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:362)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timeout
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:392)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.ContainerMediaChunk.load(ContainerMediaChunk.java:124)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timeout
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.Okio$3.newTimeoutException(Okio.java:214)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.AsyncTimeout.exit(AsyncTimeout.java:263)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.AsyncTimeout$2.read(AsyncTimeout.java:217)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource.indexOf(RealBufferedSource.java:307)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource.indexOf(RealBufferedSource.java:301)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.RealBufferedSource.readUtf8LineStrict(RealBufferedSource.java:197)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream.readResponse(Http1xStream.java:188)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.Http1xStream.readResponseHeaders(Http1xStream.java:129)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readNetworkResponse(HttpEngine.java:750)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readResponse(HttpEngine.java:622)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.execute(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:475)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:411)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:542)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.getResponseCode(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:106)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:30)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:388)
	... 10 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:188)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:143)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.readFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:994)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.processDataFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:958)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.readUntilDataAvailable(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:873)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.read(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:846)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.Okio$2.read(Okio.java:138)
	at com.android.okhttp.okio.AsyncTimeout$2.read(AsyncTimeout.java:213)
	... 23 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

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Affected device model

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Additional information

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