Here’s why your Android phone keeps pausing music and videos and how to fix it: Most of the time, video or music will pause because your internet connection is too slow for the stream. Other sources of pausing can come from splitting phone resources across too many apps, software issues, hardware issues, and having an out-of-date phone. If you want to learn all about how to fix your Android phone that keeps pausing music and video, then this article is for you. Keep reading! What Is Buffering and Why Does It Matter? (4 Remedies) One of the most common explanations for a paused stream (whether video or audio) is buffering. This isn’t quite right, but learning about buffering can help explain what is happening. Buffering is when your device downloads and then preloads some of the video or song that you are streaming. It does this because internet connections can be volatile. So, to ensure smooth playback, the device gets well ahead of where you are in the video or song. If there’s a brief disruption, it can play the already downloaded content while it waits for the connection to catch back up, and you never know anything happened. If a device can’t buffer far enough ahead because the connection is too slow, then the video or song has to pause so the device can download the next piece of the content and then play it. What this boils down to is bandwidth. Bandwidth is a term that describes how much data your internet connection can handle. It’s usually measured in Megabits per second (Mbps). If you have a slow connection with an app or a site, then you have less bandwidth to use for downloading and buffering. Similarly, your internet connection itself has limited bandwidth. Now, modern streaming doesn’t really work on the old notion of buffering. Technically speaking, the content is still buffered, but this is done in