App Excemption or UI crashed in the latest release.

[mysyncoloco]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

I just want to play the video in the background but suddenly, an app or UI was crashed.

Expected behavior

App/UI crashed when I'm playing a video in the background.

Actual behavior

You need to optimize the app.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: PH
• Content Language: fil-
• App Language: en_US
• Service: none
• Timestamp: 2025-11-14T11:07:22.312+08:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: none
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: Linux Android 13 - 33

Crash log

android.app.RemoteServiceException$ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{13c0d9a u0 org.schabi.newpipe/.player.PlayerService}
	at android.app.ActivityThread.generateForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException(ActivityThread.java:2114)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2088)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mthrowRemoteServiceException(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2350)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:204)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:291)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8168)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:601)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1136)
Caused by: android.app.StackTrace: Last startServiceCommon() call for this service was made here
	at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:2050)
	at android.app.ContextImpl.startForegroundService(ContextImpl.java:1995)
	at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:822)
	at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:822)
	at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat$Api26Impl.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:1128)
	at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:700)
	at androidx.media.session.MediaButtonReceiver.onReceive(MediaButtonReceiver.java:120)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:4521)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleReceiver(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2262)
	... 7 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 13 Go

Affected device model

Infinix Smart 8 Pro

Additional information

No response