Hi all,
Ok, ive had this XDA2s for a while now and think its about time I put the thing to some use!
I spend a lot of time driving and gave up using a bluetooth headset some time ago because of the sheer bloody uselessness of the thing
So... while I have been driving, I have been using a Garmin Navtalk (a mobile phone with built in satnav). This has been fine, except for the constant uploading of maps and switching of the sim card.
Im sure that some of you have successfully got this thing working in a car with hands free operation and utilising GPS.
Can anyone suggest what widgets (including some sort of mount) I should buy to achieve hands free and GPS nirvana?
I dont care if its bluetooth,wired,subspace or telepathic ANYTHING!! :lol:
I would really appreciate any advice.
Cheers
J
Parrot do one that might fit the bill
http://www.driveblue.com/(v35hykes11duiz3sb0stsq55)/Default.aspx?root=ck3300
I have a Parrot Bluetooth CK3000, and have had no problems. You can even update the firmware easily enough via a laptop.
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I am really pleased with my XDA 2s, that is until today. I purchased a Rikaline 1630 BT gps receiver and have tried all day to get a decent BT connection to Tomtom 3 with the thing. It connects OK, but as soon as I move the unit only 6 inches away from almost direct contact with my phone the connection drops to "Too weak" and eventually drops all together.
I have read various messages in this forum about the flakiness of the XDA 2s' BT. Is it the version of bluetooth which is at fault? Or do I have a duff XDA 2s? Or a duff GPS unit?
Can anyone advise me please? Is there an existing or future planned upgrade path for this version of BT?
Cheers
PAUL
I have the same thing between the PDA2K and the Globalsat GPS. Not so bad as your problems, it holds the connections for about 10 minutes and falls.
XDA 11s
I too have the XDAs11 can you tell me the best way to unlock, currently on O2 and want to use my vodafone sim card
phbar said:
I am really pleased with my XDA 2s, that is until today. I purchased a Rikaline 1630 BT gps receiver and have tried all day to get a decent BT connection to Tomtom 3 with the thing. It connects OK, but as soon as I move the unit only 6 inches away from almost direct contact with my phone the connection drops to "Too weak" and eventually drops all together.
I have read various messages in this forum about the flakiness of the XDA 2s' BT. Is it the version of bluetooth which is at fault? Or do I have a duff XDA 2s? Or a duff GPS unit?
Can anyone advise me please? Is there an existing or future planned upgrade path for this version of BT?
Cheers
PAUL
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have you installed the tomtom updates from their site, this solves com port issues on the xda, also get the latest bluetooth update and rom
im setting one up tomorrow so i will get back to you
Hi all,
I bought my SX66 from Cingular two weeks ago and so far I LOVE IT. Bluetooth, WIFI, PDA, phone, and a QWERTY keyboard all in one slick package.
However, as you all know, the bluetooth audio has MAJOR issues. I have upgraded my radio to 1.13.00 and my bluetooth stack to 3900. The volume level of my bluetooth headset has improved, but one thing remains - the HORRIBLE snap, crackle and pop (noticeable on both ends of the phone call).
Because the radio ROM and bluetooth stack updates have not helped, I am beginning to fear that the problem is a hardware design flaw. However, I'm hoping that some bluetooth headsets may compensate for this better than others.
I have read through all the forums but have yet to come accross a consensus for the best bluetooth headset (the one that has the least crackle and pop interference).
So here's the question - has ANYONE used a bluetooth headset with the Blue Angel that does NOT suffer from the audio problems described above? I would love to settle this once and for all.
I hate to have to spend money on a new bluetooth headset when my Motorola HS820 has worked fine in the past with other phones. However, it would be even more of a shame to turn my SX66 into a glorified $500 PDA and go back to using my Motorola V600 for phone calls.
Thanks in advance for any advice. Also - I am a new member of the XDA Developers forums and I want to say that they have been INVALUABLE to me. The SX66 users manual from Siemens is nothing more than an overview of the Pocket PC 2003 OS. These forums (and the wiki pages) tell me how the SX66 REALLY works.
Cheers,
Warwick
Bad news. I tried with 4 diferents blouthoot head set with the same problems (including the new jabra BT800). I use a cable headset and if I need my hands free I use my Sony Ericson phone.
So from now their is no good option to solve this problem.
FYI - I sent the following e-mail to Siemens customer support, just to see what they'd say:
"I recently bought an SX66 Pocket PC Phone from Cingular.
Everything works great, with one exception - the audio quality on my
bluetooth headset is TERRIBLE. Specifically, there is non-stap crackling
and popping. According to a web site devoted to SX66-like devices
(www.xda-developers.com) there is no known fix for this issue, and it is
a problem with the bluetooth antenna itself. Is this true? If so, the
product is defective and I will be returning it to Cingular for a full
refund. While it is a great device, it is useless to me if I can't use a
wireless headset to talk on the phone. P.S. I have already installed the
latest driver updates on the Siemens Web site."
Their response:
"Dear Mr. Webb,
Thank you for contacting Siemens Customer Care. I would like to thank you
for your trust and support by inquiring about the SX66. I will be glad to
assist you.
I understand that you are having problems with static while using a
Bluetooth headset.
Please understand that there are no settings on the phone that will improve
the function on the Bluetooth on the phone. It either works or it doesn't.
I would recommend trying to pair up another headset to see if the problem is
with the headset or the phone. If another headset gives you the same
problem the phone may be defective. Before taking it in for repair, you
will want to first try a hard reset on the phone. A full device reset
clears memory, deletes all data and restores the SX66 to its default
settings. Programs installed at the factory remain, erasing all data that
you have created and programs you have installed. To full reset the SX66,
press and hold the power button, and then use the stylus to press the soft
reset button at the same time.
**NOTE** Be sure you have backed up all your data in a SD card or on your PC
before performing a full reset!
If this does not resolve your issue and your phone is less than a year old,
then it can be repaired by Cingular. Please take your SX66 to your local
Cingular store for a warranty exchange or repair.
I hope this has brought resolution to your issue and that I was able to be
of assistance. Your case number is XXXXX. If you need further assistance,
please reply to this e-mail. If you reply, please ensure that your reply
contains a copy of this e-mail.
You can visit us on the web at http://www.siemens-wireless.com. We also have
our Customer Care Hotline available Monday through Saturday from 8AM until
7PM Central Time at 888-777-0211.
Thank you for choosing Siemens; have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Siemens Customer Support
"
It either works or it doesn't. GREEEEAAAAAT.
My HS810 set has worked great with limitations. The phone has to be in close proximity to the headset. I have static issues when I have the phone hooked to my belt and am walking briskly. But as far as using the headset in my car with the phone sitting on the passenger seat it is great. I bought a secong set of HS810's and had the same good results.
HBH-300
I'm using the HBH-300 with very little static. The headset has noise-cancellation features which seems to help a lot... according to the folks on the other end of the conversation. Like the previous poster, the SX66 has to be in line of sight to the headset, otherwise I experience static. So for instance, if I carry the PDA in my left hand w/ headset in right ear, I need to make sure my body doesn't block the "line of sight". When the SX66 is on the desk, I have no problems, again as long as I don't block the line of sight.
Shouldn't be this way, but it solves most my problems.... I'm using Radio 1.13 and still 1.40.
Hello,
I've had the Nokia CK-1W Bluetooth hands free kit in my car for a while. I started out with a Nokia 6310i so it seemed the perfect choice when I got it.
Last year I joined the HTC revolution. I got a Wizard and this worked fine with the kit. I'm not a heavy user as I don't drive as part of my work, but didn't encounter any issues the times I did use it.
I lost my Wizard on a train and got the Hermes as a replacement (thanks household contents insurance). Connected it up to the kit in the car and once again I didn't have any trouble. I have only had it a few weeks so the device wasn't really setup, I didn't have voice tags or anything, but I was receiving calls OK and could make calls from the device.
So I took the plunge on Sunday and updated my O2 Hermes to the WM6 Rom from O2. I was really quite pleased with it, seems to be more responsive and generally a pretty good upgrade.
I didn't expect to have any issues with the car kit. Silly me. Connected up fine. When I pressed the button to invoke the voice tags, I didn't hear anything out of the speakers. This was a bit strange as before you would hear either the "Peep peep" noise to tell you to speak or the "You don't have any voice tags set, idiot" noise that you get otherwise. I didn't think much of it. Yesterday it got it's baptism of fire. My friend called me, I hit the button to answer and heard.....silence. The kit was connected, the call was answered and I could hear bugger all. Most amusingly my friend could hear me perfectly and started having a conversation with me until I pointed out that I couldn't hear anything.
So has anyone got any ideas? I am guessing that something has changed in the BT stack between WM5 and WM6 but any ideas what? I know a lot of people have written a lot of threads regarding BT car kit issues but I hadn't seen one quite like this.
Any help would be really appreciated!
Cheers
Ian
School boy error
It seems that it wasn't anything to do with the phone at all.
Coincidence struck and it just happened that the day after I flashed my phone, a wire came loose connecting the hands free kit to the stereo!
I worked this out when I tried my old Nokia on it just to make sure it was a problem with the phone. When I couldn't hear anything on that I knew there was a problem elsewhere!
After I took out the stereo and replugged everything back together it all worked fine again.
Sorry about that!
Hi all,
Had my Desire now for getting on for a year now, fantastic phone.
Two things starting to irk me though, wonder if you kind folks could supply your usual brand of superb comment and advice
Bluetooth
Is this phone really bad at bluetooth or am I just having bad luck choosing bluetooth devices?
Jabra Halo (binaural headset) - Great for music, but cuts out all the time depending on where the phone and the headset are - i.e. if it's in my jacket pocket less than 1 meter away from the headset, and i turn my head in one direction it can cut the music out!). When using it for calls people keep telling me there's loads of interference.
Samsung WEP570 (monaural headset) - Chops in and out of connection regularly, some times (far too often) get a very bizarre pulsing audio problem, some times the phone says its connected but won't send the audio to the headset.
Sony Ericsson Watch - Basically unusable (a lot of the problem with this is probably down to the watch but given the issues with headsets it's made me wonder if i'm blaming the watch for too much...)
Any general recommendations on bluetooth for the desire?
Second issue: Free space
This one is driving me mad. I seem to spend all my time uninstalling more than one app to put one new one on. I did a quick sum of my installed apps last night and it came to about 45mb. Free space? 14mb. I thought the phone had about 130mb of space for apps? Is it leaking somewhere? Contacts isn't using much space (I think it was < 1mb), which seems to be somewhere that people often find is using tons of space.
I've cleaned out K9's email stores multiple times. I've cleaned the various cache's, and of that 45mb of apps, some of them are actually on the sd card and not on the internal store anyway.
I'm running HTC Desire, Orange stock, Froyo.
I'd love to trash it and upgrade to cyanogen or something but the lack of a stock Orange RUU to revert back to if necessary does put me off somewhat...
I used to suffer from ORD when I had my old Touch HD, it's been painful avoiding the temptation for the last year or so on this one but the desire (heh) to run app2sd and get 1gb of disk for installing apps is getting a bit too much to resist
Any thoughts, comments, suggestions and advice much appreciated!
Matt.
I have a galaxy note 4 and a KIA optima... The car always says "pairing failed" and I reconnect, which only lasts a few days if I am lucky...
This post is an attempt to collaborate and figure out a way to "fix" this issue...
Anyone have any ideas or anything that gas helped them not have this issue?
replace the car
here is some solutions for that
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/galaxy-note-4-problems/10/
I really wish I would have known about this. My Subaru Forester doesn't even recognize media over BT. Phone BT fucntionality works fine, but it won't play/connect to media at all. Both on 4.4 and 5.0/5.0.1.
Worked for my GNote 2 over various ROMs/stock, worked for the wife's GS3 and HTC One M8. It's really frustrating.
Replace the car? Its actually a pretty damn amazing car... Thanks for the lack of good input...
Your link was for devices not connecting.... Mine connects just fine...
But, and it just happened again.... I'll restart my phone and the Bluetooth device (the KIA) is gone... Not even listed as a paid device anymore...
Hard to say that's a KIA problem...
I have a 2015 kia optima lx, without the nav package or the upgraded audio. My note 4 on NIE has no problem pairing or staying paired. It pairs automatically everytime i turn the car on (I see the downloading icon on the radio). My gf's note 4 also pairs fine and works fine. The car switches between primary and secondary phones seemlesly.
And i agree. Amazing little car.. sorry i cant offer any other info, except "mine works".
I dont know what year or model you have, but maybe a trip to the dealer and ask about any firmware upgrades for your headunit. or maybe better yet a trip to www.optimaforums.com and see if anyone else is having issues like you describe.
Optimaforums has a wealth of info from fellow optima enthusiests. You might find your info there if none here can be of help.
Only Android phone that fully (messaging) works with my car. Even on Lollipop
So... Going over my issue... And want to see if others have the same issue... I may have a solution/workaround...
Basically I pair my phone with my kia stereo... It will work fine for a few days... Then it will fail to connect... When I go to Bluetooth settings on my phone, the kia stereo is no longer listed...
Do others have this same issue??