i downloaded this app and it's pretty good...damn good in fact...the voice recognition is great and the directions are pretty accurate...
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does anyone know how to make the map follow the car, where the arrow is always facing up...??? it kind of confusing if im driving in a certain direction and look at the map, only to see the arrow facing the opposite direction...
that may not be the best description in the world but i gave it a shot...lol
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i downloaded this app and it's pretty good...damn good in fact...the voice recognition is great and the directions are pretty accurate...
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does anyone know how to make the map follow the car, where the arrow is always facing up...??? it kind of confusing if im driving in a certain direction and look at the map, only to see the arrow facing the opposite direction...
that may not be the best description in the world but i gave it a shot...lol
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You mean you want it so that the direction you are driving is always facing up. As it is on the map when you drive the map stays with north always facing "up" So when you are driving south it shows you driving down on the map etc etc.
I looked I couldnt see a way to change that so the driving direction faced "up"
yeah, that's it exactly...it seems like a fairly obvious feature to have...lol...it is a small issue and the app is pretty good other than that...
I kind of doubt that they have the feature where screen will rotate with your direction, because that puts a huge load on cpu and graphics.
I agree about the nav. It's a great app, and the text-to-speech for the voice is even more accurate than my TomTom Go! I've been testing out both the Google Map and the Bing apps for navigation; the voice nav makes a huge difference! While they're no match for a dedicated GPS nav like TomTom or Garmin, it's an incredible amount of functionality that'll let you get around in an area you're not famililar with.
One quirk that I've found: If I bring a music player or the SPB shell into the foreground, then the Bing loses it's link to the internal GPS; it has to restore the link when it is brought to the foreground again. Not a huge problem.
GPS works well, except that it crashes sometimes.
When I plug the phone into my car's audio 3.5mm jack, the sounds quality is very poor. This might be a phone issue. Does anyone know how to get clear sound coming out of TP2?
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GPS works well, except that it crashes sometimes.
When I plug the phone into my car's audio 3.5mm jack, the sounds quality is very poor. This might be a phone issue. Does anyone know how to get clear sound coming out of TP2?
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Same issue.... I have it being played wireless via bluetooth A2DP.. The music that I have playing through the phone to the stereo sounds flawless as it usually does then when the voice directions play over that it's all crackly, like the phones too far away or theres interference MEANwhile... the music is still playing fine. It's odd.
I know with tomtom I just set the voice volume to be a little lower then the music cause it usually sounds like the voice is screaming if I leave it set on 100%. Obviously... there's no volume control for the voice nav in this. I'm sure that would fix the issue though.
I tried lowering the volum of the sound even on the phone as a whole and it still crackles when the voice goes to the stereo.... odd indeed.
it would be nice for the music play back to stop when the voice nav speaks through my speakers...when the music is off the voice speaks clearly...
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I was just wondering if anyone else has come across this issue or heard about it...
I am running CyanogenMod 2.2 Nightly (7-31-2010) with SnapV3 Kernel. I was just out driving while listening to Pandora through bluetooth. I happened to try out google navigation whilst doing this and I noticed that I couldn't get a GPS lock. The navigation app just kept saying that it was looking for GPS.
After some playing around I realized that if I turn off Pandora the navigation app works perfectly, but every time I turn on Pandora I either get the looking for GPS message or my position will not update.
Thanks for any input!
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I was just wondering if anyone else has come across this issue or heard about it...
I am running CyanogenMod 2.2 Nightly (7-31-2010) with SnapV3 Kernel. I was just out driving while listening to Pandora through bluetooth. I happened to try out google navigation whilst doing this and I noticed that I couldn't get a GPS lock. The navigation app just kept saying that it was looking for GPS.
After some playing around I realized that if I turn off Pandora the navigation app works perfectly, but every time I turn on Pandora I either get the looking for GPS message or my position will not update.
Thanks for any input!
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It's been known for a while that you can't listen to music (over speakerphone speaker using any app) and use GPS perhaps bluetooth suffers the same flaw?
If you download GPSTest then start it and open pandora, last.fm, local music player, etc and then hop into GPSTest really fast you'll see the phones unable to find GPS satellites.
Ok, I'll give that a try. Thanks for the info!
I've been working in other cities where I need the gps to get there and want to listen to pandora, so after I ran into this problem, I started keeping a nandroid of a 2.1 rom....
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I was just wondering if anyone else has come across this issue or heard about it...
I am running CyanogenMod 2.2 Nightly (7-31-2010) with SnapV3 Kernel. I was just out driving while listening to Pandora through bluetooth. I happened to try out google navigation whilst doing this and I noticed that I couldn't get a GPS lock. The navigation app just kept saying that it was looking for GPS.
After some playing around I realized that if I turn off Pandora the navigation app works perfectly, but every time I turn on Pandora I either get the looking for GPS message or my position will not update.
Thanks for any input!
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Just came back from jog and yours was the 1st post I came across, strange because this is EXACTLY what happened. Listening to pandora in the back ground Endomond gps tracker kept pausing, this is the 1st time that program has ever had an issue so there is conflict somewhere.
Well, I have played around with it a bit more and found that playing pandora through bluetooth does not cause a problem. I only run into the issue when using the phones speaker. I'm not sure about headphones though, I havn't tried that yet as I dont really have the need for them.
Of course there is still a problem with the navigation app turning off pandora every time it gives you audible directions. To stop this I just mute the navigation app and everything works well together.
I just run into a similar problem this morning
I'm running the leaked 2.2 build from last weekend.... before froyo, I could listen to pandora and use google nav all while plugged into my car stereo via aux jack.
now, when navigation gives a direction, it pauses pandora and you manually have to go back to it and press play
sooo annoying... anyone else run into this?
Order of Operations Counts, I think
I ran into this issue both with 2.1 and now 2.2 on my Evo. I'm not sure who the culprit is, but I've found that starting navigation, letting it acquire the GPS signal, and then launching Pandora works fine. If I do it the other way around my GPS signal basically dies.
Another interesting quirk I've noted is that if I start GPS first, but then Pandora.. my Nav voice will play through the speakerphone while Pandora plays through the headphone jack. If I start Pandora first, then Nav, they both play through the speakers.
I think what it may be is if Pandora starts/is caching while the phone is trying to startup GPS and acquire a position. I'll test it more during my drive home tonight. This has to be a software bug on side or the other. (Maybe it's google's ad software in Pandora trying to grab GPS for location specific advertising lol)
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I just run into a similar problem this morning
I'm running the leaked 2.2 build from last weekend.... before froyo, I could listen to pandora and use google nav all while plugged into my car stereo via aux jack.
now, when navigation gives a direction, it pauses pandora and you manually have to go back to it and press play
sooo annoying... anyone else run into this?
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I was directed here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9569 yesterday when I brought up the same issue on a different thread. It's an issue with android itslef. Looks like it kicked in at the 1.47 ota, prior to that, the audio would go right back to playing pandora or whatever after nav told you to take a left.
I used my HOX today for the first time with the Google Navigator software and first impressions were that the voice instructions were not loud enough. I had the volume set to full and the phone was in a car cradle which may have impacted on the sound slightly. I found that I had to virtually turn the car radio off in order to hear the instructions.
Can anyone suggest how to improve this sound as it was fine on my Desire? I am running the stock rom and do not want to root the phone in order to achieve this.
Thanks in advance.
I've notice this, as well. Is it possible to download other - louder - voices, perhaps?
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I've notice this, as well. Is it possible to download other - louder - voices, perhaps?
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I use my HOX as a sat nav whilst playing music / podcasts and have noticed two main issues, which mean I'll probably have to go back to my Garmin.
1) The sat nav volume is too low compared to the music. I wire up the HOX to my car speakers and when listening to music at a nice volume, I can't hear the sat nav. Turning up the sat nav (media) also turns up the music to a volume which is too loud. It seems strange as this is via the stock CAR application that came with the phone.
2) The directions are way too late. You get the usual direction approx 1 mile before but the actual instruction to turn occurs almost as you are upon the road. I have to rely on the map more than the voice, which really negates the point of having the voice.
I'm really disapointed with this issue as I tend to have a lot of weekends away with the family and would rather just having to worry about he one sat nav, instead of having to charge two.
Any idea's solutions would be most welcome. I've read on other forums that this appears to be a known issue but no-one has found a solution.
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I use my HOX as a sat nav whilst playing music / podcasts and have noticed two main issues, which mean I'll probably have to go back to my Garmin.
1) The sat nav volume is too low compared to the music. I wire up the HOX to my car speakers and when listening to music at a nice volume, I can't hear the sat nav. Turning up the sat nav (media) also turns up the music to a volume which is too loud. It seems strange as this is via the stock CAR application that came with the phone.
2) The directions are way too late. You get the usual direction approx 1 mile before but the actual instruction to turn occurs almost as you are upon the road. I have to rely on the map more than the voice, which really negates the point of having the voice.
I'm really disapointed with this issue as I tend to have a lot of weekends away with the family and would rather just having to worry about he one sat nav, instead of having to charge two.
Any idea's solutions would be most welcome. I've read on other forums that this appears to be a known issue but no-one has found a solution.
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I've actually moved to Sygic Navigator now. Although it costs more than the free Google Navigator, the volume is much louder and it comes with speed camera notifications which is also a bonus.
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I've actually moved to Sygic Navigator now. Although it costs more than the free Google Navigator, the volume is much louder and it comes with speed camera notifications which is also a bonus.
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I'll take a look, thanks
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ok so stupid question, I have a Garmin with europe maps which are now outdated. Does Sygic need to download anything to run abroad? It says the maps are updated free of charge and downloaded to the phone, so this seems perfect. I don't want to incur large data usage charges in driving in Europe so switch off the data options until I'm in a wifi zone. Will this still work?
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I'll take a look, thanks
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ok so stupid question, I have a Garmin with europe maps which are now outdated. Does Sygic need to download anything to run abroad? It says the maps are updated free of charge and downloaded to the phone, so this seems perfect. I don't want to incur large data usage charges in driving in Europe so switch off the data options until I'm in a wifi zone. Will this still work?
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Sygic runs purely offline (unless you have subscribed to traffic information). If there are any map updates, do these over wifi before you travel abroad. Also, please note that you will need to purchase individual countries maps separately unless you purchase maps of the entire region as a bundle. This info is all on the Sygic website.
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Sygic runs purely offline (unless you have subscribed to traffic information). If there are any map updates, do these over wifi before you travel abroad. Also, please note that you will need to purchase individual countries maps separately unless you purchase maps of the entire region as a bundle. This info is all on the Sygic website.
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Thanks I'll download the trial and give it a go.
sadly the volume situation with google navigation is a known issue that google has been ignoring and refusing to do anything about for quite some time. shame really as otherwise it is a good app. i suppose it makes you buy other apps
Download 'Volume+' app works great with headphone and speaker volumes!
I'm having the same issue and it is extremely annoying. On a road trip this weekend I had music playing through my phone connected to my car stereo via Bluetooth at a fairly low level - enough to hear the song but quite enough so I could talk to my passenger. However, when the voice prompt came on it was far softer than the music and the only way I knew something was happening was because the music cut out. I also have an issue with the Navigation voice rotating among three different voices for no apparent reason; which I describe in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28868997.
Pretty weird and annoying stuff going on with Navigation on this phone.
Hey I hope somebody who didn't already knows this finds it useful. I'm talking about the button in Play Music that switches the audio output from the phone's internal speaker to the headset/bluetooth output (car for me). Over the years I've had repeated issues with Bluetooth audio particularly media audio, sometimes it just doesn't go out any speaker no matter what, until a reboot of either or both the phone and the Motorola T505.
Currently using the AOKP Milestone 1 ROM (amazing) and Google's own Play Music (pretty alright), I'm back in control of my music while driving.
I'll post a screenshot of the button in the app once I'm off my work network as I can't upload the picture right now.
hey, where;s the button? I'm going crazy why bluetooth out sounds like dog doo. (new gs3)
It's in the top right hand corner on the Now Playing screen.
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It's in the top right hand corner on the Now Playing screen.
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thanks, im looking for it but i don't see it. I'll find it eventually
Hi all.
I was wondering if you may be able to help with some advice regarding the G3.
Here's where I'm at.. I've been using a loan g3 for a week and I love it.. That screen just blows my mind. I've tried the Xperia Z2, the. htc M8.. Neither of them match or even come close.
What I am finding though is there is one issue that really irritates me. The lack of being able to call up the voice mate software using the headset. It is impossible. To give you an idea of where i was before.. I used an iPhone 5S and A Galaxy s5.. I used Siri all the time and find S Voice to be brilliant. I drive a lot and also walk around a lot listening to music and I hate walking worth my phone in my hands in London. Total muggers target.
With the S5, you just press the headset call button for a few seconds and it brings up S Voice which then allows me to play music without looking at the phone. I can't believe the same functionality has been left out of the g3. I've been through all the menus and tried saying the keywords to bring it up and it doesn't work. Am I totally missing something or has LG dropped the ball here?
The only thing I can find that is close is to press the unlock button while the phone is in my pocket to unlock the screen and then use the headset button which does bring up Voice mate. But it then doesn't do anything until I press the onscreen button to complete my command. If I press the headset button again, it doesn't do anything.
Similarly, the S5 features a car mode which just works. It audio connects to my Bluetooth stereo and then opens itself and plays tunes just by me saying Hi Galaxy. I can't seem to find anyway of achieving this with the g3. It's a big thing because having to unlock the phone then find the software key then swipe up to voice mate means I take my eyes off the road which really isn't ideal.
Can anybody help? It may sound like an insignificant thing but this is a big thing to me and means I'll have to plump for the s5 even though my heart tells me I really want the g3 more.
Oh and how do you guys find battery life? Is there a way of emulating the extreme power saving mode brought to us by the likes of the s5 and HTC One m8 rather than the pretty paltry built in battery save app?
Thanks in advance.
Phil
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Hi all.
I was wondering if you may be able to help with some advice regarding the G3.
Here's where I'm at.. I've been using a loan g3 for a week and I love it.. That screen just blows my mind. I've tried the Xperia Z2, the. htc M8.. Neither of them match or even come close.
What I am finding though is there is one issue that really irritates me. The lack of being able to call up the voice mate software using the headset. It is impossible. To give you an idea of where i was before.. I used an iPhone 5S and A Galaxy s5.. I used Siri all the time and find S Voice to be brilliant. I drive a lot and also walk around a lot listening to music and I hate walking worth my phone in my hands in London. Total muggers target.
With the S5, you just press the headset call button for a few seconds and it brings up S Voice which then allows me to play music without looking at the phone. I can't believe the same functionality has been left out of the g3. I've been through all the menus and tried saying the keywords to bring it up and it doesn't work. Am I totally missing something or has LG dropped the ball here?
The only thing I can find that is close is to press the unlock button while the phone is in my pocket to unlock the screen and then use the headset button which does bring up Voice mate. But it then doesn't do anything until I press the onscreen button to complete my command. If I press the headset button again, it doesn't do anything.
Similarly, the S5 features a car mode which just works. It audio connects to my Bluetooth stereo and then opens itself and plays tunes just by me saying Hi Galaxy. I can't seem to find anyway of achieving this with the g3. It's a big thing because having to unlock the phone then find the software key then swipe up to voice mate means I take my eyes off the road which really isn't ideal.
Can anybody help? It may sound like an insignificant thing but this is a big thing to me and means I'll have to plump for the s5 even though my heart tells me I really want the g3 more.
Oh and how do you guys find battery life? Is there a way of emulating the extreme power saving mode brought to us by the likes of the s5 and HTC One m8 rather than the pretty paltry built in battery save app?
Thanks in advance.
Phil
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You have to activate voice recognition on the lockscreen within voice mate settings and the app starts listening with the "LG Mobile" or "Hello Genie" hotword (whatever you've set from these two).
My battery life is pretty solid, around a day and a half with moderate (web, streamed music, some casual games,...) and through the whole day with heavy (web, music, high demand games,...) use.
LG's implementation of this is horrible on all of their phones; I have been trying to get this to work on my LG flex for 6 months and it just wont..
I might be confused but can't you just press the dedicated button on your earphones to start playing music? Why do you need to go through Voice Mate? Also, Google Now now supports voice commands for music playback as well. I believe that can be activated by long pressing the headset button.
I wanted to use voice mate to make calls, but, its absolutely worthless on the LG flex; it never recognizes a word you say..
Hope its better for you folks on the G3
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I might be confused but can't you just press the dedicated button on your earphones to start playing music? Why do you need to go through Voice Mate? Also, Google Now now supports voice commands for music playback as well. I believe that can be activated by long pressing the headset button.
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Hi Japultra,
This is the thing.
There are three buttons on the headset. The main one just stops and starts music. Long pressing it starts nothing. It just sits there. Long pressing the volume down button launches the camera, and the same with the up button launching the note taking software. These are no changeable.
They don't launch VoiceMate OR Google Now.
I like to talk to my phone and tell it to play particular songs, then to call someone, then maybe play a song by someone else. Rather than having to walk down the street with my phone in my hand like a mugger's target doing it all the old fashioned way.
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Hi Japultra,
This is the thing.
There are three buttons on the headset. The main one just stops and starts music. Long pressing it starts nothing. It just sits there. Long pressing the volume down button launches the camera, and the same with the up button launching the note taking software. These are no changeable.
They don't launch VoiceMate OR Google Now.
I like to talk to my phone and tell it to play particular songs, then to call someone, then maybe play a song by someone else. Rather than having to walk down the street with my phone in my hand like a mugger's target doing it all the old fashioned way.
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Is there no way to set Google Now to be the default on the long press of the button? Also, which parts of London are you walking through that's so dangerous? I live here and have never had an issue with my phone.
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Is there no way to set Google Now to be the default on the long press of the button? Also, which parts of London are you walking through that's so dangerous? I live here and have never had an issue with my phone.
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Not that I can figure out - but if you know a way, please share.
I walk through a lot of London. Granted, mostly between Knightsbridge where I work and Surrey - but that's not the point.. It just takes once for a phone to be snatched out of a hand and I switch between songs that often, it's so easy with S-Voice or Siri to just hit the cable. I can't believe the G3 has left this out. Seems potty.
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Not that I can figure out - but if you know a way, please share.
I walk through a lot of London. Granted, mostly between Knightsbridge where I work and Surrey - but that's not the point.. It just takes once for a phone to be snatched out of a hand and I switch between songs that often, it's so easy with S-Voice or Siri to just hit the cable. I can't believe the G3 has left this out. Seems potty.
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Have you tried activating Google Now? I'm pretty sure this is possible on all Android handsets - just gotta figure out how....
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Have you tried activating Google Now? I'm pretty sure this is possible on all Android handsets - just gotta figure out how....
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Yes, I have tried that. It makes no difference
I've had the Moto 360 for 5 days now and love it. There is one bug I have noticed and wanted to see if others are having the same issue. When I am listening to music through bluetooth in my car and have the watch connected it occasionally turns the phone volume down to a very low volume. I notice this happen almost everytime I start navigation. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
I'm using the Moto 360 with the HTC One M8.
I just get choppy volume in that situation. There is a Bluetooth bug somewhere with the moto 360.
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I've had the Moto 360 for 5 days now and love it. There is one bug I have noticed and wanted to see if others are having the same issue. When I am listening to music through bluetooth in my car and have the watch connected it occasionally turns the phone volume down to a very low volume. I notice this happen almost everytime I start navigation. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
I'm using the Moto 360 with the HTC One M8.
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Ahhhh. I thought I was going mad. I just got a new Sony z3. Been blaming my phone all along.
That makes sense now. So it's the watch that's causing the volume to randomly decrease the volume to its lowest. I wasn't running any watch apps at all.
Any solution anyone.?
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Is it possible that "OK Google" is inadvertently being triggered by background noise?
When I reply to texts via voice it mutes the streaming music volume on the phone (and also in my car), which I like as it increases the accuracy of my voice reply.
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Is it possible that "OK Google" is inadvertently being triggered by background noise?
When I reply to texts via voice it mutes the streaming music volume on the phone (and also in my car), which I like as it increases the accuracy of my voice reply.
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I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
I have no issues. Nexus 5 connected to my Moto360 and factory head unit (2011 Camaro). I stream Pandora, Google Play, and have spoken notifications.
no issues here either.
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I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
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Ah, I see. This is testable and will do so today.
I use my X with Moto S11 Flex HD bt head set when cutting the grass.
Before the 360, music would get lower on an incoming notification, and I'd hear the notification sound via the headset.
With the 360 On/Connected, I see the music controls on the screen. Now I notice that when the 360's screen lights up(from twisting my wrist), or I get a notification, the music volume drops slightly for a few seconds, then returns to normal. BUT I do not hear the notification sounds via the Headset when this happens.
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I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
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I used navigation while streaming GPMAA and the volume would return to normal on it's own after giving me an audible instructions the entire way home today. Sorry man, I"ll try again tomorrow, but I couldn't recreate it - it might be phone specific.
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I have had this issue for years (nothing to do with Android Wear in my case). It has to do with how an app obeys the audio focus rules. Some apps are more problematic than others. Rdio is extremely problematic while navigating. Google apps seem to be the best. But whenever the audio focus goes all wacky, it will generally go back to normal once the next navigation prompt plays. With Pandora, this often happens when a navigation prompt plays between tracks...the next track will be much lower in volume. At least, until the next audio prompt. Then volume returns to normal. Skipping to the next track also fixes it.