No longer playing any media from sites in background on screen lock

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Description of the issue:
Media won’t play on screen lock.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. open any media website using brave: youtube, twitch, spotify, etc.
  2. let video/audio play
  3. lock screen
  4. media stops playing almost exactly at 2 minutes and 30 seconds to 3 minutes.
  5. opening the phone and going to said page: brave either has refreshed the page, or is stuck on endless loading.

Expected result:
Video continues to play on screen close. (never had an issue until January 2021 and had been using since the end of 2019.)

Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.20.108

Mobile Device details
android 11,

Additional Information:
I have tried clearing the cache and uninstalling/reinstalling.

@enkidu,
Can you tell me what type of device you are using when you see this behavior? On my end, I was unable to reproduce the issue. Video playback/sound continued for me while my phone was locked throughout the length of the video.

Sorry I’m just seeing that there was a response now. I was able to get it fixed after factory resetting the phone.

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