Is it possible to listen to mp3's via the bluetooth headset? - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General

I searched the forum but didn't find an answer.

No, But nokia9500 can

There is a possiblity...
I have found a software company that has developed a bluetooth audio redirector that will send all audio to the bluetooth headset (at least that is what they indicate). Unfortunately they are an OEM outfit only, so don't sell retail, nor is their product available thru any normal source. I have made a case to them to allow me to test thier product and if it works, then see how we can make it available to the members of this forum. The salesguy I talked to seemed to think that a way might be found to make this happen.
My desire is to be able to hear my GPS navigation prompts via the bluetooth headset rather than having to rely on the speaker or putting on a wired headset, but the goal is the same...get ALL audio on the PPC to a BT headset.
I will update when I know more
David

Go David!
Make our dreams become tue!

Re: There is a possiblity...
dtidmore said:
I have found a software company that has developed a bluetooth audio redirector that will send all audio to the bluetooth headset (at least that is what they indicate).
David
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I hope this is not an external dongle that is attached to the Audio port. I think there are quite a number of this type of devices out there already.
Personally, I am still hopeful that the BT chip in our device is adequate and all that we need is the software and a good stereo BT headset.

I posted this already in other threads, but thought you might be interested.
I have no idea how this should work.
Atinav’s Bluetooth Audio Driver is also available for Windows CE for use in Pocket PCs and handheld devices. It enables any legacy audio application on the Pocket PC/Handheld device to communicate with a Bluetooth headset, eliminating the use of a wired headset and sound card driver in the Pocket PC/Handheld device
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Works over any SCO-enabled Bluetooth card
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http://www.avelink.com/Bluetooth/Products/AudioDriver/index.htm

Re: There is a possiblity...
dtidmore said:
I have found a software company that has developed a bluetooth audio redirector that will send all audio to the bluetooth headset (at least that is what they indicate). Unfortunately they are an OEM outfit only, so don't sell retail, nor is their product available thru any normal source. I have made a case to them to allow me to test thier product and if it works, then see how we can make it available to the members of this forum. The salesguy I talked to seemed to think that a way might be found to make this happen.
My desire is to be able to hear my GPS navigation prompts via the bluetooth headset rather than having to rely on the speaker or putting on a wired headset, but the goal is the same...get ALL audio on the PPC to a BT headset.
I will update when I know more
David
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Please do let us know if you hear anything.
thanks
nya

Not a dongle
The product is totally software and yes, it is the avilink BT Audio for Windows CE as mentioned in this and another thread. I found the company previously, but like I said, their business model is to OEM the software for integration with other packages, NOT sell retail or a standalone product. They are NOT setup to support the product at a retail level. They don't even have a way to sell directly to anyone. In talking, they clearly indicated that if a market existed then a way would be found to support it, so that was an indication that they might reconsider their OEM only stance. I do NOT have a committment from them to even test the product, but the discussions have been encouraging. I don't think that everyone blasting them with requests will help at this point, especially given the business model they currently employ. We did discuss pricing and all I will say is that they think highly of their product and while not astronomical, it is out of line with other PPC non-application software by a significant amount. I would be curious as to what this group thinks would be a fair price for the capability?
David

their product works only on ipaq.. i installed it on pda2k and it said this is not ipaq~!!!

I have seen that in the Ipaqs, to enable the Bluetooth Headset for the applications, all we had to do was to change 2 registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BtConfig\Services\0005\Auto Change the value from 0 to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BtConfig\Services\0005\Enabled Change the value from 0 to 1
But in the PDA2K, the Services go up to 0004.... any ideas?

Perform a test?
heliod said:
I have seen that in the Ipaqs, to enable the Bluetooth Headset for the applications, all we had to do was to change 2 registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BtConfig\Services\0005\Auto Change the value from 0 to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BtConfig\Services\0005\Enabled Change the value from 0 to 1
But in the PDA2K, the Services go up to 0004.... any ideas?
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What if you include a new service 0005?

zohaer21 said:
their product works only on ipaq.. i installed it on pda2k and it said this is not ipaq~!!!
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Can you upload their product files?

Re: Perform a test?
henrylim said:
heliod said:
I have seen that in the Ipaqs, to enable the Bluetooth Headset for the applications, all we had to do was to change 2 registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BtConfig\Services\0005\Auto Change the value from 0 to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Widcomm\BtConfig\Services\0005\Enabled Change the value from 0 to 1
But in the PDA2K, the Services go up to 0004.... any ideas?
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What if you include a new service 0005?
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The question would be what would be the values of the other keys. All services in the device are groups of registry entries with some 10 different keys and values. I will take a look in an Ipaq to see what are the values they have there for Service 5 and for the other services, to be sure everything fits.
Another question that could bring problems: what would be the level of interference between the phone and the PDA Bluetooth service if each one manages the headset independently.

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Has any one taken this ROM appart yet? It has uptated BT.

It is from an HP 6315 from 3/31/05
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/HandheldiPAQ/us/download/22539.html
I would love to see if we could get this stack and the settings on our XDAII and other HTC devices,,, THAT would be cool.
Bluetooth build 1.0.0.3701:
Corrects inaccurate display of headset icon when a call is in progress.
Adds a check to determine if Bluetooth stack is initialized before accepting messages from phone.
Adds a user interface (UI) change to enable a connected headset to automatically disconnect before attempting to connect to a different headset when the user chooses to connect to a second headset.
Corrects check for invalid device name.
Corrects issue where handheld could not reconnect to remote device after a page timeout.
Corrects Object push profile update so it sends all files.
Updates FTP connection wizard to correct service discovery issue.
Corrects issue with call waiting for incoming call handling while dialing out.
Corrects issue with headset connection icon so it is correctly displayed after power cycling.
Corrects audio to make it compatible with an in-car solution.
Corrects audio issue where the right channel for a headset was unavailable for playing audio and during calls.
Corrects issue where the LED and network status were not properly synchronized.
Corrects issue where the user could not send multimedia messaging (MMS) message.
Hmmmm....a few remarks, correct me if I am wrong:
1. There is already a BT version 1.0.0.3900 available
2. This is not a HTC device, so I doubt the tools developed here will work on it.
HappyGoat said:
2. This is not a HTC device, so I doubt the tools developed here will work on it.
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This is an HTC device. All HPs are designed by HTC.
Well, even though I don't want to stop progress because I would like to have the ROM taken apart for my own personal reasons, the 6315 was actually made by Compal. Bad move on the part of HP in my opinion. However, the bluetooth stack that was taken from an iMate JAM worked on the 6315 and that is how most survived until the update was released. So it very well could work on the HTC's. On a side note, if someone could point me in the right direction, I will take the ROM apart, just don't know where to start.
mamaich said:
HappyGoat said:
2. This is not a HTC device, so I doubt the tools developed here will work on it.
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This is an HTC device. All HPs are designed by HTC.
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Oops....my bad....excuses!
no htc dont make ALL hp's pda's the H5400's was oem'd from LG
and even if the ipaq in question is made by HTC then that dont garentee that the xda tools work as they are not made by HTC
I can tell you now that the XDA tools do not work on that ROM as it stands. However, looking through the HEX, it is laid out a little differently than the XDA ROM's but have some of the same portions, just in different locations. Now if I knew more about what I was looking at, I could take it apart for you. The 6315 uses Widcomm BT and like I stated before the BT drivers ripped from a JAM worked great on the 6315 so I have a feeling the 6315 drivers will work on the XDA's.
I can also tell anyone looking at it that in the first header of the ROM the letters are shifted 13 characters. So when you see RAT it equals ENG and so on. It looks like they don't do that for very long though.
BT
HappyGoat said:
Hmmmm....a few remarks, correct me if I am wrong:
1. There is already a BT version 1.0.0.3900 available
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BT 3900 and 3500 do not support Hands Free Profile or even Headset Profile on my XDAII.. This is important so people can use Caller ID on a BT device and OR a Car Kit with the Hands Free Profile....
Switching stacks is a pain in the but...
Even so, the only OS that even slightly works with Hands Free on the Himalaya, is 2.20 translated but even that has bugs that makes it very frustrating. The 2005 did have a fully functional BT, even having separate serial ports for each BT device, (like GPS), but the other bugs and the limited memory left over from the useless and unerasable Extended ROM from the other OS made it no good..
With this new ROM, I may be tempted to buy the HP again.. When I first bought one, it was DAM slow and the BT SUCKED!!!
Maybe now it is usable.
I love my Himalaya and it's 128 of built in..
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=PDA2&asource=IMATE
http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=PDA2&asource=IMATE
I will just have to keep waiting for one of the above unless someone finds a fix for the BT Hands Free.

Bluetooth Headphones Problem

I have an O2 XDA Mini S and have just purchased a pair of Motorola HT820 Bluetooth headphones. I have paired the two; however, I only get the Hands Free service (which works) but NO Wireless Audio. I have not installed any other software / drives and I am using WMP 10 Mobile to play the music.
Any help with this problem would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Harold Clements
...Ok, I have been on this for about 4 hours now and I am starting to get a bit annoyed.
I clicked on Motorola HT820 and then went ‘Refresh’ and up popped ‘Headset’ so I ticked that and saved. I then clicked (and held) on Motorola HT820. The options that I get are Edit – Delete – Set as Hands Free. I think I should also have ‘Set as Wireless Stereo’ or something, but I don’t.
Please, has anyone any ideas?
Thanks, Harold Clements
Wirless Audio Hacks
I really could do with someone’s help!
I have read about the ‘hacks’ (zoad2p.cab, Tornado asdp, AKU2.6) but I am unsure:
a) if this is a solution to for problem / PDA.
b) what a hack is and why is it needed?
Please can someone help!
I don't know wich kind of PDA you have, as you can see everyone here calls their PDAs by their HTC's code name (mine is a universal), go to look the pictures of all the PDAs, find yours and search directly inside there, it will be much easier for you to find an answer.
One simple comment, your PDA has to have the Bluetooth high quality audio (is called be some PDAs in this way), see if your PDA does contain such feature, you have to activate it if you want to hear stereo audio, generally when you pair your phones for the first time, your PDA will show you the option already ticked, if you haven't see it, chances are that something is missing in your bluetooth profiles, go to your PDA's specific part of this forum and read, with patience and some luck, I'm sure you'll find whatever you need to get your PDA's stereo audio to work.
Most of the cases, are just the lack of the profiles or even installing another BT stack.
good luck
Thanks...
Thank you very much for your advice / reply, it was very much appreciated. It seems that my PDA is a Wizard. I will indeed search that part of this forum.
Thanks again,
Harold Clements
I don't think your phone supports A2DP profile. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Neither do i know if his phone supports it, I use to have an Ipaq 6340, it suppose that it didn't supported A2DP but with an BT stack extracted from another PDA (don't remember wich one) it worked, it didn't worked very well, it dropped audio more or less each 30 seconds for 2 seconds, someone said at that time that was processor lack of power -I didn't agree with this-, but I did no further investigation.
As far as I've understood, the main bottleneck for stereo profiles (or any deamanding profile in BT) is the radio, of course, if We don't have access to the manufacturers good information, good tools, much time and even more will is very hard to find a solution to anything, most of us do not spend lots of time with this things -it's not easy for anyone with a "normal" life-, and I'm not complaining!
It's just fine for me, the whole thing it's quite enjoyable like this, some more time spent in this way and it would become a second work.
So, may us have fun and keep an excellent forum up.
haroldjclements said:
I have an O2 XDA Mini S and have just purchased a pair of Motorola HT820 Bluetooth headphones. I have paired the two; however, I only get the Hands Free service (which works) but NO Wireless Audio. I have not installed any other software / drives and I am using WMP 10 Mobile to play the music.
Any help with this problem would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Harold Clements
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on the front page not 2 rows (at the moment) below this thread in really big bold letters
MOTO HT820 SKIPPING SOLVED! NEW FIRMWARE INSIDE!
which covers the issues and varioius fixes (if any) for most phones.
To be truthful, I know very little about what I am trying to do. All I know is that I can’t get the music side of the Motorola headset working.
As I said in my previous post: I have an O2 XDA Mini S (Wizard) and have just purchased a pair of Motorola HT820 Bluetooth headphones. The two paired but I only get the Hands Free service but NO Wireless Audio. I clicked on Motorola HT820 and then went ‘Refresh’ and up popped ‘Headset’ so I ticked that and saved. I then clicked (and held) on Motorola HT820. The options that I get are Edit – Delete – Set as Hands Free. I think It should also have ‘Set as Wireless Stereo’ but It don’t.
I have read about the ‘hacks’ (zoad2p.cab, Tornado asdp, AKU2.6) but I am a) unsure if this is a solution to my problem, and b) what a hack is and why is it needed?
I just really want to know how to fix my problem.
Thanks for your help,
Harold Clements
a hack is getting a device which dont support a feature to do it anyway
if htc dident make your device to support a2dp == bluetooth stereo
you maybe be able to get it to do it anyway using a hack
if any hacks works for your device
as it differs
bluetooth support is never support for all profiles bluetooth have
plus there are bluetooth version 1 - 1.1 - 1.2 and 2.0
haroldjclements said:
To be truthful, I know very little about what I am trying to do. All I know is that I can’t get the music side of the Motorola headset working.
As I said in my previous post: I have an O2 XDA Mini S (Wizard) and have just purchased a pair of Motorola HT820 Bluetooth headphones. The two paired but I only get the Hands Free service but NO Wireless Audio. I clicked on Motorola HT820 and then went ‘Refresh’ and up popped ‘Headset’ so I ticked that and saved. I then clicked (and held) on Motorola HT820. The options that I get are Edit – Delete – Set as Hands Free. I think It should also have ‘Set as Wireless Stereo’ but It don’t.
I have read about the ‘hacks’ (zoad2p.cab, Tornado asdp, AKU2.6) but I am a) unsure if this is a solution to my problem, and b) what a hack is and why is it needed?
I just really want to know how to fix my problem.
Thanks for your help,
Harold Clements
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The zoia a2dp hack (zoa2dp.cap) is what you need, it will give you "Set as wireless stereo" but be prepared for pretty bad skipping, that has not yet been solved for all of wizards.
Also if you flash to a custom rom (Like Molski's 2.26 it'll have the patch automatically.)

a2dp on Official WM6 (ANZ)

Does a2dp need to be enabled somehow on the official ANZ WM6 rom? or is it enabled by default? I'm thinking about going down to the shops to try out some bluetooth headphones this afternoon and want to make sure a2dp will work on my phone.
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A2dp is enabled by default. You will probably want to change the settings though. Its default as joint stereo ( MONO ) and low quality. Settings are changed in the registry or in a third party app ie trinity hack.
Good luck
Please let us know how you go BT A2DP experience?
Just make sure you try before buy or buy from a retailer who has a no questions asked return policy.
I have tried a few handsets and BT headphone combinations (never tried d810). So far I have found it is not worth the $$$..
I just use the W100 which works very well with the ANZ wm6 release.
try a blueant x5 - got mine from planet wireless- same price as ebay plus free postage it was- works great- and with the new coreplayer i can use it for all functions... sounds awesome too!!
So, do we have joint stereo = to 0 or 1? I have read it should be 1? but are you saying it should be 0?
on SEA works very good with my Sony Ericsson without touch any registry keys
MontAlbert said:
So, do we have joint stereo = to 0 or 1? I have read it should be 1? but are you saying it should be 0?
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Your ears should tell you, shouldn't they?
JointStereo must be set to 0.
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Your ears should tell you, shouldn't they?
JointStereo must be set to 0.
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Wrong! with the new wm releases jointstereo is fixed and you MUST have it set to 1 and remove the bitpool values in order to get high quality sound. Furthermore, you should set samplerate to 48000.
The OLDER roms should have jointstereo to 0. The way you can tell a difference is if with it set to 1 you hear 2 distinct channels.
where to set this samplerate, please?
On my P3600 if i change framerate for an higther 30, the sound cut every 5 seconds
If you are unfamilier with the registry you should use a tool to help make these changes, my HTCustom program can enable these a2dp changes for you. It's located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=307873
With it simply check usejointstereo and set bitpool to none on the comms tab.
In the registry itself you goto HKLM/software/microsoft/bluetooth/a2dp/settings (I think)
And remove the bitpool entries and set a new DWORD SampleRate to 48000. And make sure usejointstereo is set to 1. There are of course still some devices that are not going to work properly, but those are the correct settings for these newer roms.
I have already tried to change the value of the register, but as already said, has 48 that cut
A2DP on the SEA ROM is pure crap. Even with the registry settings it breaks up so often it's unplayable. I flashed back to AX3L 2.08 and A2DP is perfect again with the same settings!
Open letter to Microsoft:
Microsoft, you really need to do something about your A2DP (and Bluetooth in general) implementation. People constantly complain of cut outs while listening to music, amongst other issues. Take a look at SonyEricsson. Their K800/K790 phone doesn't have a 400Mhz+ processor in them, yet their phone can play A2DP perfectly, without skipping, and can even play the music through walls! So please do your customers a favor, contact SonyEricsson on how to properly create an A2DP driver! That is all.
Well, I went down to Organiser World yesterday to check them out (chose this store as their website stated that they had in store demos of several of the headsets). Anyway, the one I was particularly looking at was the Blueand x5 which they didn't have in stock. And just to make matters worse they didn't have any of them available for me to try out and wouldn't open a box for me to test it.
I asked the person would it work with my phone and they said they guarantee it would work. So of course my next question was if it doesn't work with my pda can I return it... no I'm afraid not was their response. At that point I walked out of the store thoroughly disappointed.
the blueant X5 works on my D810 - running Ax3l WM6 2.0.8.
Everything works great- answering calls, increasing volume, next song etc....dunno about with the offical rom though.......not trying the official rom until someone cooks it and makes it better.....
hi,
My config, with WM5 radio 1.41.00.11 :
in HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Bluetooth_A2DP\Settings\ :
bitpool=58
maxsupportedbitpool=40
usejointstereo=0
now with WM6 radio 1.46.00.11
58
40
1
works like a charm, other config make AVCRP unavailable of very slow

Incredible + A2DP on Kenwood kiv bt-900?

Just had the new kenwood deck installed... Should do almost anything. I have my incredible paired up and calls are clear. Problem is A2DP audio streaming. Does not work. No A2DP device is found. Yes, the manual gives directions to play streamed audio once bt is synced. Well, its synced, got my phone book on there, and calls are being made.
Any thoughts or ideas to get streaming audio?
I don't have any help to offer, but I am experiencing the same problem with my Pioneer FH-P8000BT. Pairs for phone calls with no issue and everything is clear, but the radio does not even "see" the device as being available for A2DP.
I previously paired a few different HTC phones (all running Windows Mobile) with this radio with no issues. I'm hoping it's a simple fix, but I can't find a single thing in the settings that I haven't played with to try and get it to work.
I have an Alpine HU with an Alpine KCE-400BT bluetooth add on. My streaming audio is working, although I don't get any song/artist info on screen. I do have an issue where the phone doesn't sync up all the time. It syncs up great in the morning. If I stop for gas or something (turn off the car briefly) and get back in, then the radio won't see the phone until a call comes in or is started from the phone (or I toggle BT on/off).
You might check with Pioneer on any firmware udpates.
My incredible works great with my Ford sync system. It always connects, calls are loud and crisp, and streaming bt audio works great. I use it to listen to Pandora all the time.
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I have an Alpine HU with an Alpine KCE-400BT bluetooth add on. My streaming audio is working, although I don't get any song/artist info on screen. I do have an issue where the phone doesn't sync up all the time. It syncs up great in the morning. If I stop for gas or something (turn off the car briefly) and get back in, then the radio won't see the phone until a call comes in or is started from the phone (or I toggle BT on/off).
You might check with Pioneer on any firmware udpates.
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I have seen other people post issues with having bluetooth on the phone enabled before the car is on. If you turn the car on first and then the phone's bluetooth they said it worked fine.
I have Kenwood HU and my phone won't pair with it. my Blackberry Paired with it fine, and even did A2DP, and worked awesome...now......nothing.
Been looking for some answers as to why, but after calling Kenwood they said it's a software update that is missing.
however, seeing as some people are getting it working fine....I am suspecious.
Kenwood 4160 working, actually better
My 4160 and serveral WM units worked, but the A2DP always had to be turned on by going into the menu every single time I wanted to listen to anything from the phone, but the Incredible does it by itself every time perfectly.
I have a Pioneer AVIC N4 and the audio for both calls and music works just fine out of the box.
I have the kiv-bt900 also, and it is my understanding that it does not have A2DP. I believe the A2Dp in the manual is referring to the KIV-700 with the add on bt module.
From page 67 (of the downloaded manual from Kenwood)
KIV-BT900
Supported Bluetooth Profiles:
Version: Bluetooth Standard Ver. 2.0
Profile: HFP (Hands Free Profile)
OPP: (Object Push Profile)
PCAP (Phone Book Access Profile
SYNC (Synchronization Profile)
I thought it had it too when i bought it. Maybe a future update will enable it though??
What does A2DP mean please?
it stands for Advanced Audio Distribution Profile. In simple terms, it's stereo audio transferred from one device to another via bluetooth. Example: Music from a phone/mp3 player to stereo bluetooth headphones, head units etc..
Thank you.
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I have the kiv-bt900 also, and it is my understanding that it does not have A2DP. I believe the A2Dp in the manual is referring to the KIV-700 with the add on bt module.
From page 67 (of the downloaded manual from Kenwood)
KIV-BT900
Supported Bluetooth Profiles:
Version: Bluetooth Standard Ver. 2.0
Profile: HFP (Hands Free Profile)
OPP: (Object Push Profile)
PCAP (Phone Book Access Profile
SYNC (Synchronization Profile)
I thought it had it too when i bought it. Maybe a future update will enable it though??
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Well damn. The deck was sold to me from car toys (local vendor) under the pretense that it would do zune (works great) and A2DP...
Usb works great too... I was thinking of formatting a laptop drive to the mac file system (hfs) and hooking it up to the usb port to get a200GB drive of mp3 and video since it supports ipods. (works on xbx360, why not here?)
OK so a small fix, but not the end result.
with my Kenwood head unit I can make it work as long as I don't let it download the phonebook. and that is no problem since the phone sits on my dash in the car dock. but the problem is that EVERY time I start up my truck, or after I end a call it asks to re-download the phonebook.
it kinda irks me, but I cannot get it to stop asking, no setitngs on the stereo work.
I emailed Kenwood about possibly releasing a firmware update to include A2DP to the kiv bt900. They responder saying that there isn't enough demand for the feature for them to create a firmware update. So if we get enough people contacting them and requesting that feature, they will release and update. So you guys should all contact them to increase the demand for this feature. Hope this helps.
Here is exactly what they responded:
"I understand that you're inquiring about the KIV-BT900's Bluetooth features. We do apologize for any difficulties that you've experienced with this item. Unfortunatley, we cannot assist you with any firmware updates at this point since this model was just recently released to the market. Our company has not received enough demand for this feature which prevents us from developing or releasing an update for the KIV-BT900 unit. We may release an Bluetooth update in the future, however it's hard to determine at this time."
I'm willing to start complaining and sending some emails out to them. What email address did you send it too? I just got the player and that is def the only thing missing to make it complete for me.
I tried emailing the regular support channels and got the below message.
Thank you for contacting Kenwood USA Corporation. We value you as a Kenwood customer and appreciate the opportunity to be of assistance.
I Understand you are inquiring about any updates to allow the A2DP profile.
There is currently no available updates and there hasn't been information on upcoming updates for the A2DP profile. We ask that you check back at a later date to verify if one is posted through the www.kenwoodusa.com website.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please feel free to contact us again with any additional questions.
I spoke with a rep and they mentioned that A2DP missing from the unit is the most often called in issue about the unit.
I have a KDC-BT948 with the same issue. They removed A2DP and put in Pandora instead..and it only works through iPhone, which then uses up wireless data on a cell phone plan. So Android, MS phones, and any other bluetooth device can no longer be used with a Kenwood Car Stereo. Someone at Pandora really made an impression at someone in Kenwood. It is too bad that they are limiting consumers with their choice which ultimately limits their sales and increases complaints.
Should have everyone go do this and request a fix.
Go to the Kenwood Contact page and send an email
This is what I sent
I have purchased the KDC-BT948HD radio.
Where I am overall happy with many of the features, looks, variable colors, and excellent sound quality of the unit, there are several things that I am extremely dissapointed in and would like to see an update released to resolve them.
1. SMS Received message on the unit: Might be useful to some, but to me it is a dangerous distraction while driving, especially at night. It has me take my eyes off the road to look at the unit and makes me want to look at my phone to read/send texts. Texting and driving is illegal in many states and there should be a way on the unit to allow a selection to turn this feature off.
2. BT Audio (A2DP) is missing. I have an Android phone with my music on it. Alone there are more Android phones than iPhones in use today. I wanted to have Bluetooth streaming audio so I can play my music from my phone to the unit. For such a high technology unit, it should be part of the firmware and flexibility to the consumer to use their device with more options. The previous year units had this enabled and seems to be disabled now replaced by a focus on a wired Apple connection and Pandora. Forcing use of Pandora also forces consumers to use up data rates on their wireless plans. If A2DP were enabled, more consumers could enjoy the product integration with standard BT devices offered by Apple, Android, Microsoft and many others. All could enjoy the music and audio applications on their devices including Pandora. I would like to request that A2DP be added to the firmware and source selection on this device. I should yield increase product ratings and sales as web searches show many complaints about this issue.
I would value your feedback on these points and potential solutions.
Best regards
drtretj said:
My incredible works great with my Ford sync system. It always connects, calls are loud and crisp, and streaming bt audio works great. I use it to listen to Pandora all the time.
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[TRICK] Enable A2DP BT Protocol for video

With this trick i suggest a simple way to enable audio routing for watch video in bluetooth a2dp device.
Needed:
- device unlocked
- wp7 root tools
Open wp7root tools and go in this key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Zune\Playback\Video\A2DP\CapsSet1
Change dword value DisableA2DPPLayback from 1 to 0
Now your device send audio of video like youtube, internet,or stored in memory in a2dp device if connected via bluetooth
Tested on my Samsung Omnia 7 with Vodafone Bluetooth stereo earphone and with my Sony A2DP BT car stereo in my car.
fabcal said:
With this trick i suggest a simple way to enable audio routing for watch video in bluetooth a2dp device.
Needed:
- device unlocked
- wp7 root tools
Open wp7root tools and go in this key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Zune\Playback\Video\A2DP\CapsSet1
Change dword value DisableA2DPPLayback from 1 to 0
Now your device send audio of video like youtube, internet,or stored in memory in a2dp device if connected via bluetooth
Tested on my Samsung Omnia 7 with Vodafone Bluetooth stereo earphone and with my Sony A2DP BT car stereo in my car.
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Hi,
it does not work on htc hd7
Awesome. I just tried with a video podcast and Motorola Bluetooth headphones and the audio did play through the blutetooth headphones. Now why didn't they just make this a setting or change it!?
Important notice!
I see if wifi signal is too low bluetooth not working correctly (my car stereo show disconnected device after few seconds). Suggest to listen video even downloaded in phone's memory. I missing write reboot is needed after change value. Ehm... i think for missing settings function this is commercial strategy. I see more settings implemented in registry but for commercial strategy these features are released over time or because they have not been tested or have a certain advantage in being able to communicate the dates of signatures. Even if enabled tethering works but is not active yet officially. Same goes for the voice search bing. Tomorrow I will create another discussion where I say what keys to edit the search for local bing (3 icons). The one I have not yet found is just to enable voice search of bing. That works by modifying the system language in English, even if all other items are located with your language. I hope google translator work better for my translations. Scuse me for my bad english
fabcal said:
With this trick i suggest a simple way to enable audio routing for watch video in bluetooth a2dp device.
Needed:
- device unlocked
- wp7 root tools
Open wp7root tools and go in this key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Zune\Playback\Video\A2DP\CapsSet1
Change dword value DisableA2DPPLayback from 1 to 0
Now your device send audio of video like youtube, internet,or stored in memory in a2dp device if connected via bluetooth
Tested on my Samsung Omnia 7 with Vodafone Bluetooth stereo earphone and with my Sony A2DP BT car stereo in my car.
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Thank you so much for this. It took me a few weeks later to remember that I had did the registry change but not tested it. I finally tested it a few days ago and it works on my HD7. I was able to listen to the audio from my videos through my BT earpiece.
This missing feature on wp7 was bugging me for while! Nice hack fabcal, many thanks! Not sure why MSFT disabled this feature??
Nice! Will test when I get home.
I presume ChevronWP7 wont be sufficient to enable this?
You did error in:
\C_apsSet1
Need change to:
\CapsSet1
I did this on LG E900 with MFG. Tomorrow I will test this with bluetooth.
zard said:
Thank you so much for this. It took me a few weeks later to remember that I had did the registry change but not tested it. I finally tested it a few days ago and it works on my HD7. I was able to listen to the audio from my videos through my BT earpiece.
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If wp7tools isn't for HTC products how did you do this on your HD7? Please detail so I can follow the way.
please how did it work on htc hd7
i can not get it working on mine
Awesome. I've been b|tching about this issue for awhile.
Just got around to finally testing and it works perfect on my HD7!! Thanks a lot for this. ANd you need to be interop unlocked and use the registry editor from Schaps (touchexperience) to make the change. Flash Dotcompt's rom and then all you need to do is install registry editor.
WORKS!!! Made change on my LG Quantum.
Thanks for this. I haven't really needed it, because my bluetooth device is my car stereo. I don't have bluetooth headphones. But, it still bugged me that I couldn't do it.
I am going to test this when i get in my truck before I leave work.
Oddly, the initial value was not 1. it was 27397520. (Actual original value)
When I first tested it, this did not work for me. I changed the value. Then I tested it. Then I shut down my phone and restarted. Then tested again. It still did not work.
Later that night, I checked the value in the retgistry. It was 1, not 0.
I changed it to 0, like I did earlier. But this time I powered down right away.
After restarting. I checked the value. It was still 0. I tested it.
It Worked!!!
I think the key to this is make the change. Reboot immediately. Check the value (probably not necessary). Then connect to bluetooth.
I think connecting to bluetooth before rebooting resets the value to 1.
So, just apply the change and restart the phone right away.
Thanks again for posting this.
LG phones have a built in registry editor which is in the MFG app. You just need to acticate it and then use the password.
After Software update with Backup are still changed values? Anyone know?
For Samsung Phones, If you get error code 0×81030120 while deploying wp7 root tools, install this internet connection sharing app and then wp7 root tools will be installed easily.
It turns off the flag which is used for interop unlock.
Hi,
Will this tweak force audio to a headset without A2DP; as in with HFP only?
regards
Dave
Works on samsung focus.
efjay said:
I presume ChevronWP7 wont be sufficient to enable this?
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Very good question!
I'll be soon will be getting the HTC Titan and having it Chevron Unlocked but this will not be interop unlocked and so that I can use the registry editor from Schaps to enable this feature, so how do we go around this?
What about trying this method from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10474729&postcount=1 Will this work? anyone tried this with 2nd gen HTC WP7 phones?
Thanks for the trick, work perfect on Lg optimus 7 E900h....

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