HELP, Media Player and Phone Support through Headphones - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General

Okay,
Maybe it's just me but I started off with the Pocket PC Phone SX-56 and when listening to the Windows Media Player through the headphones and a call came in the phone would ring in my earphones, the Player would pause, and after I hung up the phone the Media Player would start playing again. Pretty straight forward, it worked the way it should.
Then I got the MDA II, and then when a call came in while I had on the headphones, the phone would ring in the headset but after I hung up the call, I had to go into the Media Player and manually press play again. Step backward number one.
Now I have the XV6600 (XDA IIs, SX66) and guess what? Now when I get a call and I have on the headphones with Media Player plaing, the phone doesn't even ring in the headset. I can tell a call is coming in because there's a pause in the music. I still have to go into the Media Player and unpause it when I hang up the call. Step backward number two.
Does anyone know how to change setting to get it to work as it did in the SX-56. The folks at Audiovox are clueless.

I have the XDAIIs and it does ring in my headphones when I get a call. Though I have the same experience with Media Player not playing again afterwards. I understood this to be a feature of Windows PPC.
There is a music player that does offer this facility (called something like betaplayer) but, after I installed it on my ppc and played some mp3s from the SD card, the card got corrupted so I uninstalled it and haven't had the problem since.

Hi,
give Mort Player a try, http://sto-helit.de/freeware/pocketpc/mortplayer/en/index.pl
Great program, the programmer has an xda2s too, and the program is freeware !!!
To my mind the best media-player on the market!
have fun!

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Has anyone tried these bluetooth headphone

Hi
Has anyone tried these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3274&item=5751802602&rd=1&ssPageName=WD2V
as they also have a microphone in them
John
RE
Yes, I'm using it with my O2 XDA II.
Sound quality is fantastic especially when you're using another player like GSPlayer which allows you to adjust the effects such as 3D, surround, bass, echo, reverb, equalizer etc etc
Search for other threads here and you'll see other comments
Thanks FOSA for your reply
I will search and see what i can find.
If you are useing your to listern to music, and the phone rings can you easly answer the phone useing the headphones, than after the call return to listning to the music
Thanks
John
RE
Hi!
Yes, you can.
However, depending on which software player you're using the music may not resume from the last location after you end the call ie. the music could be continuously playing in the background while you're talking.
So, if you want to resume the music from its last location after ending your call look for music player that supports this feature. I think MortPlayer supports this.
http://www.ppcsg.com/forums/viewtop...t=iphono&sid=6d3d546329a09353b6817f1c28cdca86
http://www.pdacorps.com/default.asp?key=pages/iPhono.htm

Disabling the native media player on the Touch Pro 2

How do you disable the native media player on the Touch Pro 2 so that you can use your Bluetooth headphones controls to play another media player? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!
I've never disabled the native HTC media player, I just installed another app (Nitrogen in this case), and I've had no trouble listening to that and controlling it through my BT stereo headphones
Thank you - will try Nitrogen & see it that does the trick.
Hey master, I was actually playing around with Nitrogen some more last night, and I discovered a few things. First....when I hit the "pause" button on my bluetooth headphones, it doesn't actually pause the player (like it does when I use windows media player on the phone), it just interrupts the audio stream going to the headset, the player actually keeps playing. And, for some reason, it also causes the HTC Media tab to pop up.
I'd never realized these behaviors until last night, but I thought they might influence your search for a media player. I know the BT controls on the headphones will directly control all functions in WMP just fine, but that's obviously not the best (and definitely not the "leanest") media player available and I'll be checking out other replacement options for it today too. I'll post back here when I confirm which one(s) work the way we want for the BT controls (aka "AVRCP" profile)
Sirphunkee, That's the issue I have with the HTC media player using Bluetooth. If I press ffwd or rew, the HTC player starts playing over the 3rd-party player (i.e. Core Player, Pocket Music, etc.). I would use the native player - if it had an equalizer (maybe I'm asking for too much, LOL) & WMP is "okay" at best in sound, but is a battery hog. Thanks again & now you know my pain,
Also, for some reason, my playlists don't show in Nitrogen.
Yeah, the reason I didn't realize at first that the HTC media player was kicking in is becasue I don't have any music in it's default folder, it's all on my SD card, so the HTC player pops up but just continuously shows "searching...", so it never started playing anything over the music I already had on.
But yeah, I'm sure there's registry keys somewhere that tell the phone what to do (i.e. calling up the HTC player) whenever AVRCP commands are received...if they can be routed to activate/control the HTC player, they should be able to be redirected to the player of choice.
Keep looking, I'm doing the same (well, whenever my boss isn't walking by lol)

BT A2DP Only works with Windows Media Player?

So I've been playing around with my Touch Pro 2 that I just got a few weeks ago. Having lots of fun, except for one thing: I can't get my Bluetooth controls to work for advancing or repeating tracks or pausing play with ANY media player except for Windows Media Player. I've tried at least a half dozen other players and every time I try to change tracks or pause play nothing happens with the music player and my phone just returns to the "home" screen.
What's worse, when I trying to use it with Media Player it seems to lock up some of my hardware buttons and I can't use the start to back key until I reboot. Anyone else experience any issues like this? Did I just screw something up by playing around with too many other programs?
I'm on Verizon running Win 6.5.
Just an update... I just loaded Pocket Tunes from NormSoft. This program works with BT buttons right out of the box. This was the program I used to use on my old phone, but I didn't think they had a 480x800 skin. Just found one and I'm a happy camper.
I just use the player built into sense and my controls work fine with my bluetooth car kit. I can advance, pause play etc etc

[Q] Bluetooth Issues

Well I've got the Omnia 7 and love it, although I do have an issue with it regarding the use of bluetooth headphones.
Anybody else experienced issues with the handset not sending the sound to the headset when switching from movies to music and back again.
I can get the phone to pair with my headphones almost instantly (A big improvement from my blackstone) and if I listen to music straight away the music streams perfectly. If I then goto watch a movie, I get zero sound. I go back to the music and press play ... nothing again. Even with bluetooth off.
I have to restart the phone in order to properly re-establish the connection to hear sounds over the headset.
It appears to me that due to the fact that you can't properly exit out of zune, whatever your doing gets paused and "keeps" the link for itself.
SO my question is - Has anyone else come across this and how do you properly exit from zune?
I have the same thing on my HTC 7 Trophy. Music plays just fine on the headset, but video is always played over the handsets speaker. Switching back to music seems to work fine for me though.
Anyone know why this is? Is this a shortcoming of the first release of these phones or is there a setting we forgot to tweak?
also, if you headset/headphones have a play/pause button, the music can play at the same time as the video, kinda weird sometimes
rlatarche said:
Well I've got the Omnia 7 and love it, although I do have an issue with it regarding the use of bluetooth headphones.
Anybody else experienced issues with the handset not sending the sound to the headset when switching from movies to music and back again.
I can get the phone to pair with my headphones almost instantly (A big improvement from my blackstone) and if I listen to music straight away the music streams perfectly. If I then goto watch a movie, I get zero sound. I go back to the music and press play ... nothing again. Even with bluetooth off.
I have to restart the phone in order to properly re-establish the connection to hear sounds over the headset.
It appears to me that due to the fact that you can't properly exit out of zune, whatever your doing gets paused and "keeps" the link for itself.
SO my question is - Has anyone else come across this and how do you properly exit from zune?
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Thats a little different from what is happening to me. As I stated in my thread I have no sound through bluetooth for video files at all. After trying to watch a video I can go back to music and it will play through my bluetooth headphones just fine. Video sound comes out of the main speakers always.

[Q] G2/Acura Bluetooth audio mess

I recently discovered what a treat it is to play audiobooks while I drive.
And allegedly, my G2 and Acura TL Bluetooth Audio (2011 Acura TL w/ Tech package) makes that a snap, right?
Well, here's my experience.
1. I turn on my Android phone's Bluetooth (T-Mobile G2) and get in the car. The car immediately recognizes the phone. Great!
2. As soon as I switch the car's radio/audio button over to Bluetooth audio, my phone instantly pulls up an MP3 player and begins playing a song.
3. But I don't want a song! In fact, there seems to be nothing I can do to stop my Acura from ordering my Android to play something every single time I switch the radio to Bluetooth audio. Or is the phone itself that wants to automatically play something? Who knows. It's annoying. I thought maybe the problem was an app, because it was always DoubleTwist that would automatically start playing. So I deleted DoubleTwist. Now it's WinAmp that starts playing. So it must be something about the phone interacting with the car. For whatever reason, I now have to dial the Acura Bluetooth menu over to Pause/Resume to stop it.
4. Finally--after all that--I can pull up my audiobook player and start to listen via Bluetooth audio. Bliss.
5. Oops, there's my phone ringing, which my Acura Bluetooth phone function quickly answers. It's my wife.
Wife: "Hi, I just wanted to see if you're driving your car."
Me: "Why, yes. Yes, I am driving my car. Thanks so much for asking."
Wife: "OK, goodbye!"
Me: "Goodbye. Thanks so much for calling."
6. When the phone hangs up, ALL Bluetooth audio ceases. I think the connection remains, because any player app I have will show the seconds ticking off if you ask it play something, but you can't hear anything, neither on the phone speaker nor on the car audio. It's as if the phone is transmitting it to the car but the car has its Bluetooth audio turned completely down? Who knows? But it's a bummer.
7. No button-pushing on the car seems to fix things, so I turn the Bluetooth radio on my phone off, then on.
8. Now, we're all reset. Whoops! There's that annoying song again. Got to turn that off. Then back to the audiobook player. Then back to the book.
9. Five more minutes of bliss until the next call.
10. I dunno. Shouldn't this be easier? Hopefully, I've pulled off the road several times while all this was going on. If I try to deal with it while I'm driving I'm certain to wrap my car around a telephone pole, which is embarrasing no matter who you are.
I'll probably have to cross-post this to both the Acura genius's board and the G2 genius's board since I'm not sure where the issue lies. Let me know if you have any clues.
Thank you!
Okay! I got a little schooled by the Acura guys. I really shouldn't consider it a bug that something starts playing on my phone when I click the car radio dial to Bluetooth Audio. That would be like expecting the FM receiver to stay silent until I've selected a channel. As soon as I select Bluetooth Audio, it sends out the Bluetooth Play command and away my G2 goes. Not a bug. Feature. Got it.
Here's the part where I need Android geniuses to weigh in.
I use the Ambling Bookplayer app. For some reason, even if Ambling is already playing when I select Bluetooth Audio on my radio, my phone will still launch a standard media player (such as DoubleTwist or WinAmp) and begin playing a music .MP3.
At that point then, I have both the audiobook .MP3 and the music .MP3 playing through my car's Bluetooth Audio.
What is behind that behavior?
The only thing I can think of that might be a clue is I've noticed that the same media player always launches despite the fact that I have several on my phone.
For example, it was always DoubleTwist. I deleted that app while troubleshooting this problem and now it's always WinAmp. I wonder if there's some kind of hierarchy in determining which player responds to the car's "Bluetooth Play" command? If I had a music .MP3 playing on the stock music player, would the car still launch WinAmp?
And if there's a way to determine who goes first, can I figure out how to make it the Ambling player?
Anyone who has some insight into the relationship between Bluetooth and Android or G2 media players, I'd certainly appreciate some input.
Thank you!
Closer...
So it occurred to me that since my car is always asking for the same player, there may be a "default player" setting somewhere I can change. Perhaps it's the "default .MP3 player"? I discover that the audiobook player I've been using isn't even listed in the menu of available media apps that appears when you click an .MP3 file.
So I downloaded about every audiobook player app and it turns only ONE of them does (MortPlayer Audiobook).
So I click the box to make this the default player whenever an .MP3 file is selected. Maybe that'll work.
I go back to the car and select Bluetooth Audio. Nuts. WinAmp again.
So that suggest to me that the default player setting I'm looking for is a Bluetooth default media player? Is that the answer I've been looking for? Is there such a setting? If so, how do I change that?
I've worked through most of the problems above, but I'm bumping this because of one unresolved question:
Doesn't anyone here know exactly how the G2 responds when it receives a "bluetooth play" command?
That is, why does it select the player it selects and is that something we can modify?
Thanks for all enlightenment!

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