I want to ask two things
Firstly when using car mode and listening to music with google maps for navigation, the music cuts out several seconds before any spoken instruction. Is there anyway to fix this.
I think that what's happening is a delay in maps synthesising the speach
Secondly having read other thread I believe the is no way at present to change the default nav app in car mode to a third party solution. Is it likely to be possible in the future that with changes in the config files you could redirect the app to open a third party programme instead.
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Hi all on any of my wm 6.5 phones I could use gps and play music at the same time. When gps was reading instruction like camera warning or directiins it was doing that without mutting music playback. Android mutes the music each time gps wants to pass on message (turn left and the like) is there a way to stop it from doing so?
if you install CM7, there are some extra options in the sound menu that may enable this feature.
Not sure the best place to ask this...when you've got your epic connected to a AVRCP-capable device (like a bluetooth headset with a play/pause button), the play button is capable of having the epic launch an app in order to play something is nothing is open.
My question is, what, in the Epic's software, determines the priority of which app gets launched, out of all the various playback apps you might have?
Some background: I mostly use my BT headphones for podcast listening on the go. I set up Tasker to launch Google Listen on phone startup (and then immediately go back to desktop) so that the app is in recent apps list. Then, if I put the play button on my headphones, Listen will launch and my podcast will start playing. If I want to switch over to pandora, I manually close Listen (using the back button) and launch pandora. Now my headphones control the play/pause on Pandora without trying to launch listen instead, which is what they might do if I had both apps open.
The problem comes in that I installed the Google Music beta app (this is different from the Music app that comes with the Epic, for clarity) so that I could access my music from the cloud. This app seems to take priority over all others. If I launch it, even once, it will always bypass Listen from then on, even if I manually close, it, kill the service, and dump the phone's ram. The only way I can switch the phone back to Listen app mode is to manually freeze Music with Titanium backup.
This is really annoying.
So, yeah, my question is, what on the phone makes it determine that launching the Music app is preferable to resuming the Listen app?
I find this extremely annoying too (because I have to pull over to fix it) so I only have miui player installed, not quite the answer but this sounds interesting would like t know as well
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I just got a motorola mx550 headset and the problem I have is twofold. One is that no matter matter what I do the volume in s voice is always set high. So I wanted to use a different app, downloaded my motospeak only to find out that I cant change the Bluetooth button on my headset to open it, no matter what I do it opens s voice!
And after playing with google voice search i would much rather use that as the default action. Ive scoured all the settings and cant find a way to change the default away from s voice. I went into applications and reset all app actions to default, I even installed Bluetooth launch app with no success. Anyone have any suggestions? I may root my phone if that what it takes.
Azrazel said:
I just got a motorola mx550 headset and the problem I have is twofold. One is that no matter matter what I do the volume in s voice is always set high. So I wanted to use a different app, downloaded my motospeak only to find out that I cant change the Bluetooth button on my headset to open it, no matter what I do it opens s voice!
And after playing with google voice search i would much rather use that as the default action. Ive scoured all the settings and cant find a way to change the default away from s voice. I went into applications and reset all app actions to default, I even installed Bluetooth launch app with no success. Anyone have any suggestions? I may root my phone if that what it takes.
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its not too bad to set up. Go to settings, manage apps, and find s-voice. Then from there disable it. (note this means you cannot use SVoice anymore while its disabled.) From there, when you hit the headphones button, it will ask you to pick a new default app which you can save to always use. To undo the action, simply reenable s-voice, and it will take over the default action again. If you want to change from the new app you selected and still not use s-voice, just find the app in manage programs and clear defaults. I have not found a way to keep s-voice on double home, and use something else for bluetooth. In all honesty, google now voice calling sucks hard. It only allows you to call, not use any other now features. If you force set the activity to use the google now search activity, it wont use the headset for voice input, only the built in mic. The solution I posted should get you exactly what you want to use that 3rd party moto app though.
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its not too bad to set up. Go to settings, manage apps, and find s-voice. Then from there disable it. (note this means you cannot use SVoice anymore while its disabled.) From there, when you hit the headphones button, it will ask you to pick a new default app which you can save to always use. To undo the action, simply reenable s-voice, and it will take over the default action again. If you want to change from the new app you selected and still not use s-voice, just find the app in manage programs and clear defaults. I have not found a way to keep s-voice on double home, and use something else for bluetooth. In all honesty, google now voice calling sucks hard. It only allows you to call, not use any other now features. If you force set the activity to use the google now search activity, it wont use the headset for voice input, only the built in mic. The solution I posted should get you exactly what you want to use that 3rd party moto app though.
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Thank for you this information. I've looked all over and finally found your reply and it worked perfect.
I listen to music via Bluetooth streaming in my car using the factory MUSIC app. I'd like to be able to get into the car, turn on the BT streaming mode on my car audio and automatically begin playing music. However, the factory task manager automatically closes the MUSIC app after I get out of the car and I have to load it manually each time.
Being that everyone recommends that with KitKat one shouldn't install a task killer/manager other than what's from the factory....how can this be done?
Is there any way to put the music on an exclusion list?
Thanks in advance.
If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?
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If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?
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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
Thanks.
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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
Thanks.
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It will continue running in the background, this isn't really a task killer problem but more of an app thing.. For example, I use play music and it resumes playing once I connect to Bluetooth again even if I kill it myself.. I would check the settings if you haven't already and see if there's is a setting for it, I've seen other apps with settings like that, but don't know about the stock music app
it is not in fact running in the background. No such option in setting either. Anyone know of any app that could make it be ignored by the default task manager?
You can do it with xposed if interested
The head unit in your car may have something to do with it.
Factory? Aftermarket?
I have a Kenwood w/7in touch screen and if my BT on phone is enabled as soon as the Kenwood starts up whatever app was running before will start playing automatically, Samsung music app, Amazon music app..
If Milk music or Pandora I have to launch app.
Pp.
there are a few apps on the market with that name.... also do I need root access? As far as the head unit it's a factory stereo Infiniti q50
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there are a few apps on the market with that name....
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It's not on the market and you need root access.. If you are interested do a quick search for xposed on Google and go to the one here on XDA, read about it on the thread and how to use it, install it, open it, and search for a module called app settings, in there you have an option to always keep in memory for whatever app you want so just select stock player. Keeping the music player running may not even be the solution, but it is a possibility.. As the previous poster stated, there are apps that just lack autoplay feature.. It is also possible that some other music app or app that uses Bluetooth may conflict with it, preventing it from auto playing
I have a Dension GW52MO1 500S BT (adds BT media streaming to older german cars) that has play control problems just with Google Play Music. If I listen to YouTube or BeyondPod, Neutron etc it works correctly. What happens with Google Play Music is the first couple of seconds repeat over and over again. Also if I stop the music it immediately starts playing again (repeating first couple of seconds of track). I can get it to work by turning off Bluetooth between one and 4 times, each time waiting for it start playing by itself.
This behavior does not occur in our other car that has the Pioneer DEH80PRS.
This problem is a bug in Google Play Music, there is a Google Product Forum post on it
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?noredirect=true#!topic/play/FKxS7t1W1dA
My question is: Is there any tool I can install on the Pixel 2 XL to help me work around this issue? I tried using Tasker to automate turning Bluetooth on and off but it when I do that the repeat 1st second problem doesn't resolve itself like it does when I do it manually.
The Dension does not appear to have a way to turn off the autoplay (resume) feature which I think interacts with the bug in Google Play Music to cause the issue.
Thanks