My understanding is that there is no support of SPP bluetooth in Win 7 phone currently and we do not know when there may be. Is that right?
Is there any technical hurdle to silverlight accessing low level hardware like that? My understanding was that most things were sandboxed inside silverlight somehow, sorry I am more of a low level asm/C kind of person.
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i know that my rhodium has a program in the windows folder called BTFM.exe however when I launch it, the UI comes up, and it looks like I am getting signal. but no sound...
so here is where the idea came from to ask the following question:
Can we use the hardware to transmit audio to the car?
I know that we can recieve fm stations (which seems useless to me since I have pandora) ; instead I would like to know if I can transmit sound to any car (I use a lot of peoples cars and the cd players outright suck and dammage the disks at the slightest vibration)
any insight on this would be welcome.. I am sure that a lot of people would be interested in this.
I am not sure wither the hardware supports (FM Transmitting) because Receiving FM is not the same as transmitting FM,
(i.e. if a device can receive FM, it is not necessary that it can transmit FM, hardware wise), infact, most of the devices that receive FM can not transmit FM
before asking the question wither we can create a CAB for it, we should ask is the hardware supported for that feature? (and FM Receiving is not considered)
yes, the question was stated on the first post.
perhaps I would have made my self more clear if I had asked:
"is there hardware support for transmiting fm signals"
Hi all,
I am currently looking in the NFC functionality recently added in Android. I am not yet familiar with Android development and I would like to have your advises on what I am planning to do.
My goal would be the following: Performing an automatic bluetooth pairing between a Nexus S and a linux computer by means of NFC. To the linux machine is connected a NFC breakout board (from microbuilder). Once the bluetooth pairing is done, I would like to launch automatically an application on the mobile phone, which will then be used to interact between the mobile phone and the linux computer.
I have read in several websites that this should be possible, but I would like to know is someone already tried something like that, or if an experienced Android developer think that this would be possible to do.
Thank you in advance !
Kind regards,
Guillaume
I have a number of BT headsets which claim to be able to multi pair. But it never works - if I connect to a handset, I'm disconnected from the other one. Manuals have never been clear, support has always been unhelpful on this particular feature bizarrely beyond saying I need to attach one as HSP and the other as A2DP. Well fine, but the question how the heck do I do that never gets answered.
Right now I have a WP7 and a WP8, but it's been equally unsuccessful with Android or iOS. I realise it's likely because both handsets try to grab both profiles, but I'm not aware of any control over this with e.g. WP8 (and certainly not WP7). Is there some sort of trick to getting this to work? Or is there a platform combo or headset (a good one) on which it always works?
I haven't seen many threads on this and I am curious as to why it is not a concern for many Android users. Maybe it is because many Android users did not move from Apple like I did. The fact is, Apple is still superior to Android in terms of vehicle bluetooth connectivity. The more you need to look at and operate your phone while driving, the more dangerous driving becomes.
The difference between AVRCP 1.3 and AVRCP 1.5 primarily is the playlist selections. Since my car supports this, with 1.5 (iPhone 5) I would be able to see the contents of my library and browse/select music. Then I switched to a Nexus 6 and didn't have this feature anymore. Just a couple days ago I got the Nexus 5X and I am surprised they didn't change this with Marshmallow.
Is Apple always going to hover over Android with their updated bluetooth stacks?
Seems ridiculous that this is still a problem. Its as if no one want to shed any light on this. Talking about this and no apps that expose the Bluetooth stack and avrcp versions to the users who don't know any better. I would be nice if this was a separate module that could be upgraded independently so users could get the functionality they needed. Companies like Samsung rolling there own stack and adding feature is not a proper fix. This should be Android standard.
I have always been thinking the same thing, why is the
bluetooth stack from Google missing so many features.. I have tried both Samsung and HTC and their stack is just so much better.. But I always end up with a Nexus phone again and longing for a better BT stack...
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BT overall sucks with the 5X. Hissing, popping, laggy stream kills it for me. It can't keep the connection with my car either while iPhones were trouble free. It's almost 2016. Are we asking for too much?
Thought I would add a way to get some info. This is from android.stackexchange.com/questions/43667/discover-version-of-bluetooth
Turn on bluetooth by going to the home screen, clicking menu->settings bluetooth. Pull that to enabled. Make sure it is on.
On the home screen, click menu -> settings -> applications -> 'running' tab.
An item appears called: "bluetooth share".
A screen pops up with information about the program, but it is sparse.
Also you can go to All tab and "Bluetooth Share" to see its actual version number. Though that might not be very helpful.
Also and old article discussing some of the bluetooth stack changes in Android for what its worth.
lwn.net/Articles/597293/
Sorry for the broken url but I've not posted enough on XDA to be allowed proper urls.
I'm going to try keep posting things I find that might be useful just consolidate more info in one spot. Trying to make this problem clearer for myself.
Is there anything new about AVRCP 1.5 features? May it possible to build and install a custom kernel with bluez support (which afaik has avrcp 1.5 support)?
More info on the bluez stack
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2640723&page=1
Hi everyone!
I’m sorry if this is not the right place to post this kind of question - I searched for this information and could not find anything in others foruns.
I have a Sony Xperia Z3 (D6643) with Android 5.1.1.
I recently bought a SMEG+IV2 from Citroen and installed it on my car (a Citroen DS3). This equipment is MirrorLink (and Apple CarPlay) enabled.
I also found that MirrorLink originally is a “crap” feature because I can use only pre-allowed applications (crap navigation app, crap audio app and so on) so I started to search for a solution.
Here in XDA there are many topics about “Samsung Drive Link” as an alternative but unfortunately (and of course) it doesn’t work with my Sony device.
Does anybody have a way so I can fully mirror my phone to my car (use Waze, default Spotfy and etc)?
Regards,
lzsilva
Nobody? :crying:
Hi izsilva,
similar situation here: new Citroen C5 Tourer with SMEG+IV2 (and updated with your R20 firmware, thanks! ), and multiple phones: Z5 Compact, Z1 Compact, Z and SGS7 Edge.
Am in similar situation, trying and experimenting with MirrorLink. The technology itself I'd not call "crap", it relies on well proven things, like VNC (yeah, that VNC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing) and other things, so essentially is well grounded. The problem with it, is that despite it calls itself "open", the technology is actually very "closed", is hard to get any stuff working with it in other way than initially designed. But, the reasons for that is, well, law and regulations. MirrorLink must obey US, EU and Japan (three biggest "areas" with different regulations, AFAIK, US is most "relaxed" and Japan is most restrictive, and rest of the world is around EU of strictness: ie. you cannot phone during driving without speakerphone, no driver distractions, etc). Hence, MirrorLink has a very tough criteria to make an android application "MirrorLink certified", it is literally being tested for no distractions (among other things), and then and only then is let to be used. But, we are talking about a lengthy process here, and as we know, time in software development is key, not to mention (and am not aware, maybe it's free) is there any other "fee" to have an app certified. If there is, it is definitely not Open Source friendly either. Me as a person, open source developer am actually shot immediately down.
There are "hacks", like the trick with Samsung MirrorLink server, where Samsung (or whoever implemented their MirrorLink Server) left a "backdoor", a SQLite preferences with "whitelisted" packages + root, see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNzXjX4mSog). Unfortunately (or not, who knows), Sony MirrorLink server app is based on RealVNC MirrorLink Server (I guess Sony bought it and incorporated it or just outsourced the work to RealVNC, whatever), all in all, the "prefs" trick does not work on Sony MirrorLink phones.
To better understand the problem, let me explain how MirrorLink actually works: you have 3 components: the client (runs on SMEG+IV2), the server (runs on phone, it seems it must be an Android System Application AFAIK, unsure, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35456209/implement-mirrorlink-on-custom-rom-android ) and the application (runs on phone). The server uses digital signatures to verify is application MirrorLink certified or not (as part of certification you get a digital signature too I believe). So, there is not much to do here, it is not like "flipping a bit": modding a digitally signed app/payload/something in a way that other (unmodified) component does not detect it's changed (and refuse it as invalid), without having the private key is near to impossible.
Still, there are other possibilities: "development mode" of MirrorLink allows to run "development" software, but, it is instead of a certificate, tied to given IMEI number of the phone it runs on. Am still experimenting with it, not there, but again, this means a) someone needs to code something that suits your need b) you need to have MirrorLink developer account c) the app must run on phone having IMEI you registered with your account. Again, not a "simple case".
Stay in touch, will ping here if anything new crops up.
PS: Any new firmwares lately?
~t~