Dummy Media Player

Dummy Media Player captures media button events and ignores them. It might well succeed where the Disable AutoPlay app won't.

Attention: Quite some apps like Armamp already use (bluntly) the maximum broadcast priority possible in Android, thus may still capture the media buttons before this app can. You can then only hope that the app has an option of its own to disable media button events (Armamp does).

This app can be used to work around a limitation of the android system that persists until this day (Kitkat 4.4.4). Headset media buttons still cannot be configured (or disabled) by the user and will always be forwarded directly to the next best media application. Thus, if media button events are sent erroneously (e.g. if you wiggle the headphone jack "the wrong way" on quite some phones, if you have a pair of headphones with a button stuck or if they simply have a loose contact), you will have no means to bypass the unwanted behavior and random super-annoying playbacks and pauses.

Use the Dummy Media Player to work around this problem. It will capture the media buttons and keep them from reaching your real media player(s), essentially disabling them.


You might need to reboot the phone.