I have been looking for several weeks for a way to pull this off now, to no avail. What I am looking for it a way to make the Epic's camera button be a play-pause toggle while the screen is off.
I have tried every app I have come across including Music Button and Music Control (neither will run on Bonsai 4.1.3).
I finally caved and bought Tasker and can not get it to work either. I set it up as:
Hardware Event: Camera Button -> Media Control PlayToggle
...but it will not work with the screen on or off. It's tests OK but the profile will not load for some reason.
Anyone have any ideas? I listen to audio books without headphones using the Ambling Player and unlocking my phone to start and stop them is quite a pain.
For anyone that wants to do this manually, see this thread.
I would still love to find a way to do it with Tasker or an app so that I can show less-technical friends how to do it.
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Hey guys
Can you not skip tracks using the controls on the headphones in Zune? Just seems to pause/resume on my HD7.
Headphone controls as far as i know them:
- press once: Play/Pause
- press twice: Next track
- press 3. times: Start again from the beginning of the current track
- long press: Start voice command
Thats what I thought but neither the 2 or 3 button presses work. the hold and single press work though.
Dunno if theres some setting I am missing.
would anyone be able to check this works on their phone, as I contacted HTC and they say WP7 doesnt support skipping etc from the headphone remote.
yea, as far as i can tell it doesn't at present. the fastest way is via the lock screen.
its really an annoying thing taking from pocket everytime mobile jsut to skip track
Ps. 1st post so hello to everybody
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yea, as far as i can tell it doesn't at present. the fastest way is via the lock screen.
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Cheers for testing that Gate Keeper, hmm hope they add that feature or theres some hack work around.
Use it for running, and trying to skip tracks using the lock screen is a pain, not to mention ive sometimes unlocked the screen and closed the running app I needed open by accident.
"Controltalk" on Diddybeats and iBeats work although I've never tested them in a call.
Strangely they don't seem to work on a Zune HD.
Focus
All of the presses work for my Samsung Focus. Maybe it's something with presets and EQ HTC added to their phones.
Working fine on LG Optimus 7
Anyone have any suggestions for controlling music/pandora/etc when the screen is off? Ideally I would like to be able to double or long tap on volume to next/prev songs, and use the camera button to pause. I know CyanogenMod's music player apparently offers this ability, but I am using a different firmware.
Ideally I'd like to be able to map buttons functionality myself, but basic controls would be adequate. "Just Shake" in the market has the functionality to change songs by double tapping volume buttons when the screen is off, but is a paid app, or limited in the trial version. Ideally I'd like a free solution, but if anyone know of a paid option, I'd be interested also.
I am not looking for an app to control music from the lockscreen, but from the hardware buttons available on my phone.
Thanks for the help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048287 read that someone using tasker too do that not sure If it'll work for epic
On the market there's a program called music control lite. The camera button play pause skip songs
Nothing happens when I press the play/pause button, or the skip to next track, or the skip to previous track button. I tried this with Winamp playing in the foreground. I'm not sure if this is possible with Winamp. So I also tried it with MortPlayer Music which is what I have used previously and I know it supports this feature. But still nothing. Usually Mort will start playing as soon as I press the play button on the remote, even when it's not in the foreground or not even launched. But now... just silence.
I have SuperNova ROM with Data2SD and Android 2.3.3. I have S-OFF, root, and stock HBOOT.
Is there some service or process missing? Or not running in the background? What else could it be?
Just for clarification, the headset is working, I mean I can hear the music, it's just that there is no way to use the buttons to control it (except through the app).
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Also, is there something like a menu option or control panel, some means of controlling which app gets to use the headset buttons? Or a way of setting which app is the default music player? Or which one is the default browser for instance? Is this possible in Android? Some centralized place where you can set all of these things, a little bit like Windows style?
not tried it myself, but does this app work? it's a trial, so you can see if it works, and have to pay later. or might be other apps which are free and work, have a browse
(as an aside some roms allow long pressing of volume buttons to skip tracks, but i believe this has to be the stock music app, and probably has to be on the system partition)
Jack is the culprit!
I have found the culprit. It's my headset jack! You can check out the picture below.
I think some leads have broken inside the sleeve at the jack. That's why it bulges out like that, you can see that it's a little thick at that point. If I press and hold the cable at this point the remote control buttons work again, more or less, it glitches sometimes. If I let go it stops working, or it works sometimes if I move the cable around like when having the phone in a pocket.
For the record, this is the original HTC headset, I think it's RC-E160. The earbuds are still working though. So it's pretty much just a headphone right now. I haven't used it very much because, almost nothing at all, because of the poor sound quality. I started using it only like three months ago as as a temporary replacement when my Sony got broken. Now these are broken too. My Sony lasted much longer.
I still wonder how you can control which app gets priority and things like that, when you have like two or three different apps that respond to headset buttons. Is there no option in Android from where you can control this? Is your only option to uninstall the apps you don't want to be interfering? This doesn't seem well thought through.
Dont know if the title makes sense!
Trying to set this up for everyday use now, using Malaysk rom.
Installed poweramp, but noticed that if i am playing the radio, then open poweramp & play something, the radio does not stop.
I have to go back to radio app, then press back button.
Is that normal/correct or is there a way to configure this sort of thing.
Also, when pressing mode button (as configured on SWC), can you choose which apps are cycled through?
It currently goes through things like AVIN, and Video which i do not use.
Another thing (!), i've hads a couple of times when its gone to black screen and i cannot do anything about it, pressing power button just beeps, there is still power as there is illuminated buttons, but just a black screen and only a complete power down using ignition reboots and restores screen.
Think its like when the power button in the top right status bar is pressed (which i also need to disable!)
Thanks, and sorry for all the questions, keen to get this set up nicely now
Took me a bit to find this. You have to use the My Music shortcut not the power amp shortcut. Then setup PowerAmp as your default music player.
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Took me a bit to find this. You have to use the My Music shortcut not the power amp shortcut. Then setup PowerAmp as your default music player.
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Thanks for that
Where do you set the defaults?
Could just find it in MTCmusic I think it was. Playing around with that at the moment, still not quite got things how I want then though, taking me ages this is!
Been playing around with the settings.
Come across another problem
When using Nokia here maps, I can use SWC to skip tracks playing in Poweramp, but when I skip, the Poweramp audio doesn't return until I press a volume up or down button.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
actually, its not related to navigation
Noticed it does the same even when in Poweramp app
Skipped forward a track using SWC, then no audio until volume pressed...
anyone?
Hello.
So I had a lot of experience with previous Zenfone devices but this seemed pretty awkward for me. I'll explain the issue and list all of the troubleshooting I've done so far.
Here's the problem, the headset button (I got those cords with volume and play/pause buttons). Seem to activate something else besides just pause or play music. When I press it, it pauses but at the same time audio quality changes to a "Phone line call" Quality... I have to press it a couple times more in order to rotate to the default audio quality... Sometimes it even changes the audio output, I've noticed that even with the headphones plugged in, it seems to change to speakers...
Observations/troubleshooting:
It looks like this problem happens only when the device is locked. The play/pause button behaves normally if the screen is on. During Asus cover screen does the problem too.
It definitely is not the music app (Tho I found weird that it didn't come with a built in music player, BTW Google play is more a store than a music player, so I don't use it... I've been using Black Player for a month now, it's s amazing). I tried messing with the Audio Wizard app, but no matter the settings or the mode I put it, it seems to not fix it.
I tried downloading the Headset Button Control app, it still seems to do something else besides what I assign the button to do...
This didn't happen with my zenfone 2 Z00AD... I love this phone but this issue is important for me because I live in a pretty dangerous country, so I use every tool I have in order to not show my phone outside...
Pls halp.