I just got stereo bluetooth headphones, and I'd like to be able to turn off the screen and lock all the buttons when playing music.
Is there anything I can do or any programs what will allow me to do this?
I've found deltaLock to be quite useful. Available from http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/deltalock.shtml
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I've been having a problem where if I connect my phone to my car audio via bluetooth, and use both the music app (MIUI to be exact) and navigation, the navigation sound is EXTREMELY low. And yes, I did turn up the navigation sound to max.
In order to work around this, i have to turn my media volume really low, and then pump up the car audio volume.
I searched through the forums, but did not find a solution to this problem.
Have anyone ever seen this? Is there a fix for this?
Navigation volume is separate, have you tried turning the volume up while the navigation app is in the forefront?
The same thing happens to me on CM7 using Google Listen while connected to my car stereo via the headphone jack. The odd thing is that it's usually normal for the first 1 or 2 instructions and then it goes all weird. I have the nav volume maxed out... No idea why it happens. I've given up and just muted the nav sound and look at the screen periodically.
I use my head unit in my car to stream music from my phone to the car and have been loving it. I have been using it since I had my OG droid and never had any issues. The only thing that i have noticed since getting my galaxy nexus in december is that it seems as if ICS changed the way the pause/play function works with bluetooth audio.
My Pause/play button on my head unit doubles as the head unit's menu button and in the past it was no big deal. The only thing is, I have read that people hold down their pause play button to get music to pause with ICS, but when I hold that button down, it goes to my head unit's menu.
I can play music fine, as I just tap the button and it works, but I cannot pause it. I have tried 6 different music apps and have had no success with pausing music via my head unit.
Has anyone else had this issue or found a way to change the way the bluetooth button actions work? Like is there a way to change the reaction time so I can just tap the button to pause it?
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All you Smarties or there! He's anyone found a way to get Bluetooth, specifically voice command to work with the screen off?
I have a sena MC Bluetooth headset that works flawlessly in GB roms but ics won't respond when the screen is off. The phone works plays music through the headset etc. but it won't respond to the headset buttons.
has anyone found a fix to this?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
Not yet, we hope this will be fixed in the final release.
Still an issue
I have made sure that, in the the security options, the phone is allowed to accept bluetooth commands while the screen is locked. However, ICS has really messed up the way the phone manages bluetooth stacks. If the screen is off, it's a 1/10 chance it will accept commands from my BT headset. However, if I leave the app in focus, change the song with the headset while the screen is on, turn the screen off, turn the screen back on without unlocking the phone, change the song with the headset, then turn the screen off, it will usually work. BUT, this is a gigantic P.I.T.A. and I don't think my expectations too high that this should just work. I really hope someone hops on this.
indycross said:
I have made sure that, in the the security options, the phone is allowed to accept bluetooth commands while the screen is locked. However, ICS has really messed up the way the phone manages bluetooth stacks. If the screen is off, it's a 1/10 chance it will accept commands from my BT headset. However, if I leave the app in focus, change the song with the headset while the screen is on, turn the screen off, turn the screen back on without unlocking the phone, change the song with the headset, then turn the screen off, it will usually work. BUT, this is a gigantic P.I.T.A. and I don't think my expectations too high that this should just work. I really hope someone hops on this.
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I can't even do that... I can change the song just fine from my bluetooth headset while the app is in focus or behind, but once I turn the screen off and the phone is locked, it stops responding. Has there been any progress with this issue over the past few months?
I have a Verizon G3 but figure this forum gets more eyeballs, and perhaps this is a universal Bluetooth issue.
I use the LG Tone+ HBS-730 headset with my phone. If I go into a music app and start playing music through my headphones with the app, no problem. But, let's say I pause music for a while, or turn the headphones off for a bit. I turn the headphones back on, press the play button on the right side, and nothing happens. The headset is still on - I can long-press a button and get the double-beep, but my music won't play. Sometimes it does, but most of the time, it doesn't. I switched from the stock Music player to Rocket Player, which has proven to be a little more successful.
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere, or is this a common BT occurrence? Control is through the AVRCP BT profile, I believe. I know on my G2 I'd sometimes lose control sync with my phone, where I couldn't skip or pause the track through my headphones. This new problem seems like a magnification of that problem.
Overall, I do find the BT performance a little worse than the G2. I get more audio drops when the phone is in my pocket, but this is when I'm outside and BT is not great outside in general.
Thanks everyone - I have five days to decide if I want to return this phone, between this and some signal problems.
bluetooth connects. calls ok. media plays on device.
WheresTrent said:
I have a Verizon G3 but figure this forum gets more eyeballs, and perhaps this is a universal Bluetooth issue.
I use the LG Tone+ HBS-730 headset with my phone. If I go into a music app and start playing music through my headphones with the app, no problem. But, let's say I pause music for a while, or turn the headphones off for a bit. I turn the headphones back on, press the play button on the right side, and nothing happens. The headset is still on - I can long-press a button and get the double-beep, but my music won't play. Sometimes it does, but most of the time, it doesn't. I switched from the stock Music player to Rocket Player, which has proven to be a little more successful.
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere, or is this a common BT occurrence? Control is through the AVRCP BT profile, I believe. I know on my G2 I'd sometimes lose control sync with my phone, where I couldn't skip or pause the track through my headphones. This new problem seems like a magnification of that problem.
Overall, I do find the BT performance a little worse than the G2. I get more audio drops when the phone is in my pocket, but this is when I'm outside and BT is not great outside in general.
Thanks everyone - I have five days to decide if I want to return this phone, between this and some signal problems.
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I come from the philippines and i have the g3 also. my bluetooth connection was fine it connected to my car and headset but now it only receives calls but does not play music through my bluetooth headphones. when i press the play button on my headset it plays on the device itself. checked under bluetooth setting and call and media and audio was checked.
my device is rooted. i did a factory reset but the problem remains unfixed. please help. i have installed g3 tweaksbox but i dont see any mods that is related to music apps. i dont know what to do. i have considered unrooting and flashing stock rom.
Also interested in this, as I have the same issue but my car.
Op, did you ever find a fix, or work around?
OP
Do you have any other BT programs loaded? I had something similar when I had the Sony app and a Garmin app loaded. Both use BT to connect to their devices and they were interfering. I removed the Garmin one and my play/pause button started working again
Alan
Running a bone stock OP3, non-rooted, no mods, on the Community Build. Since the latest update, my BT audio is weird.
I pair my phone to my motorcycle helmet. Its a Shoei GT Air with a Sena 20S Comm system installed. It's a very nice unit.
So what happens is that when I push the button on the comm to activate Google Now, so that I can speak to my phone and tell it to dial, get directions, play music, etc... No matter what volume level I set my phone to, or the headset, the "beep" and "Ok" that Google Now speaks when you activate it, blows out my eardrums. It is like WAY high volume, 5x as loud as the music or anything else. I have gone through the comm system settings and there is nothing in there to mess with. I also notice that the volume of Google Now only goes that high when the screen of the phone is off. If the screen is on, then the tone is the same level as whatever music is playing, etc...
If I turn the screen off and the music is at a normal listening level and I hit the button to make a call or fast forward to the next some, that damned Google Now tone is back to ear shattering levels...
I am convinced that it isn't the comm system, because a google search shows similar issues with Android phones and BT over the past few years...
Another weird thing, is that when I turn on and pair the comm system and I hit the button to activate Google Now, if I do it 5 or 6 times in a row, it will eventually revert to normal audio levels, the same as the music or navigation... But when I turn off the comm, then the next time I turn it on I have to do it all over again...
Very annoying but I an convinced that it isn't the comm system. It seems to have started last week when the new Open Beta came out and I installed it.
Now, I have unpaired, deleted and repaired the connection, I have wiped cache and stuff, but I can't seem to get this to work right.
Any ideas?
It has to do with how Bluetooth handles its datastream.
Bluetooth has very limited bandwidth, so it has to allocate based on the situation. When streaming music from your phone to the BT device, it can dedicate the entire bandwidth to the unidirectional stream. However, if you need to use the helmet's mic, then BT has to use the same limited bandwidth to stream data in both directions. This is why BT devices have notable audio quality degredation when used to make calls.
When your screen is on, Google Assistant/Now will acutally use your phone's mic to listen for commands rather than your BT's mic, which means that it does not have to change protocols and reduce audio output bandwidth.
To address your issue with Google Assistant/Now's increased volume, try to place a call while your helmet is connected to your phone and reduce the volume while in call with your phone's volume buttons. Hopefully, the volume change will stick when your helmet uses the same two-way protocol when using the voice assistant.
Try:
Developer options -> disable absolute volume
Tried that Developer Option, made no difference. It's clearly something else going on under the hood. Other Android phones have had it over the years when connecting to BT devices... I guess I will have to just live with it.