I have a wifi only Nexus 7 with 16GB. I also have an Atrix 4G that can't be tethered.
Is there a way to use my Nexus 7 as a BT-connected speakerphone with the Atrix?
I have been using the Atrix as my medial player (docked) in my car. Also receive and make calls.
I want to replace it with the Nexus, but keep the phone in my pocket with BT on and control it with the Nexus.
Does anyone know what I am talking about?
Can it be done? What app would you use?
Over 200 people have read this and NO ONE has any idea?
I don't know about the other 199, but I really have no idea.
Try tablet talk in the play store.
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Don't think that is what he had in mind. I thought I'd be able to do this too on my train commutes but BT doesn't support it for some odd reason. It's a shame but I hope someone found a solution.
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Try tablet talk in the play store.
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Thanks but I saw that one. That only uses phone's SMS capabilities (according to the website)
I cannot think of any way to make this work, unfortunately I think it's beyond the capabilities of BT. It would be awesome to make it work though!
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AW: Using Nexus 7 as a BT speakerphone
It's certainly not beyond the capabilities of Bluetooth. There's support for using your Linux PC as an A2DP sink in the Bluez BT stack. But alas, the Bluez stack has been replaced with a Broadcom stack in Android 4.2. And even with Bluez you would still need to port pulseaudio or find another way to feed the audio data into the sound system.
I have been looking for something like this for a while, I found an app that was being developed called Phone Link, but nothing looked like it came of it. In my head this sounds like something simple, but I don't know enough to know if it really is.
Would love to be able to use the Nexus as a bluetooth speakerphone though, I feel like it's the main missing piece from my car install.
It is a bummer that this isn't simpler to do. I'd love to dig into what makes bluetooth stack tick in 4.2-4.4 OS and get this functioning.
It is sad that I was able to see text messages pop up on my screen in OS/x 6 years ago, reply to them, answer phonecalls using my macbook, and play music to the theater system from my phone to my mac and with a new platform, we're back to square-one to get functions like this working again.
Enabling bluetooth SINK mode on android devices would be radical.
Cool, it's nice
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Anyone tried the S2 with this bluetooth device?
Satisfied?
Other suggestions?
Thanks in advance /Voz
I have and its an absolutely brilliant headset well worth the money plus its got multi-point so you can connect 2 phones to it
Dave
Sounds, good, prob means I can have it connected to PC as well then, will order one tonight.
Very strange I have much worse sound quality in d975 than directly through the phone. However this might be a general bluetooth issue rather than specific d975. Eg with my 3gs it was impossible to use a bt headset.
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Edit: A bug in S2 - turn of WiFi and it works much better. However, not very satisfied with soundl quality but probably more a problem with S2 bluetooth. Se further thread "crappy bluetooth..."
According to here: http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/google-nexus-7-teardown/ there is an
AzureWave AW-NH665 chip which is endowed with an FM radio tuner. It would be really awesome if some talented soul could develop an app for that!
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It depends on whether or not the bcm4330 chip actually sends power to that module. I haven't seen that module fire up in dmesg. That could mean that we simply need a driver for it. The fm framework is already out there. I'm not really a hardware guy but just some thoughts.
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It depends on whether or not the bcm4330 chip actually sends power to that module. I haven't seen that module fire up in dmesg. That could mean that we simply need a driver for it. The fm framework is already out there. I'm not really a hardware guy but just some thoughts.
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On another note, I have been playing with Samsung & HTC modules & drivers for the 4330 (Vivid & Captivate Glide) & I am getting 5Ghz wireless-n working sporadically. Just as HTC has added the capability to newer roms, it would also be possible for it to be supported quite easily by Asus as well. Would be great for streaming.
I would love to see this as I'm sure many would who wish to use the FM Radio for and N7 in a car install, I would gladly pay into double figures for this feature, any devs wishing to take it up there is a big market for getting fm radio working on the n7, do it and watch the £££ fly in ........
I doubt if a driver without an antenna would work - and I saw no sign of an FM antenna in the teardown.
5GHz support would be sweet... Antique adapters in the house really keep me speed limited on 2.4GHz (54MBS)..
That really sucks about the antenna. sometimes I like to listen to the football games out in the yard. Guess I'll have to use my phone.
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haz3lnut said:
That really sucks about the antenna. sometimes I like to listen to the football games out in the yard. Guess I'll have to use my phone.
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I think perhaps the most definitive answer to this would be from Mike Reed, who I believe has a Nexus 7 and is also the author of the Spirit FM app. In this post it looks like he thinks it'll never happen.
Too bad... I use the FM Tuner in my phone all the time as well.
I just use Tunein Radio Pro. Was a FAOTD on Amazon. Used the free version before that. Gets the local stations I like...
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Thanks for that info. again, very disappointing.
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I use tunin sometimes too, but tunin radio is NOT a replacement for FM radio.
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always wonder why people want FM radio...
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always wonder why people want FM radio...
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Are you serious? No data use. Good for emergency situations. Easier on battery. List goes on... Always wonder why people don't want fm
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Are you serious? No data use. Good for emergency situations. Easier on battery. List goes on... Always wonder why people don't want fm
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Exactly. We got a hurricane bearing down on us right now. The last time this happened, We were without power for 3 weeks, and 3g was a laughable dream because all the cell towers were down. We NEED FM radio.
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Exactly. We got a hurricane bearing down on us right now. The last time this happened, We were without power for 3 weeks, and 3g was a laughable dream because all the cell towers were down. We NEED FM radio.
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Your Nexus battery isn't going to last 3 days. If this is for disaster situations, just get a regular FM radio or one of the ones where you can power it with a hand crank. Either way we don't NEED to have FM on the N7. It would just be a nice perk.
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rmm200 said:
I doubt if a driver without an antenna would work - and I saw no sign of an FM antenna in the teardown.
5GHz support would be sweet... Antique adapters in the house really keep me speed limited on 2.4GHz (54MBS)..
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Most mobile devices utilize a headset as the antenna. I wonder if this could be as simple as porting a FM tuner app from a device that has the same chip set with working FM tuner app?
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I was wondering if anyone had any success? I was thinking about integrating a Nexus 7 as a car stereo replacement. Mount it in the dash (trimmed to make my GM Double DIN space a little wider), and route a line out into an EQ, which then would feed into a couple amps. ~$50 for a used 7-11 band EQ, ~$200 for the Nexus = a pretty kick butt deck if you don't need CD. But I would still like FM for traffic, news, games, radio contests, etc....
Last time I checked there need not be an internal FM antenna, most devices with tuners in them actually use the ground lead of your headphones. This is also why radio apps often fail without headphones or powered speakers attached.
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Your Nexus battery isn't going to last 3 days.
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Lol, are you serious? I don't know about you but I had my N7 under clocked at 900mHz with WiFi on, bluetooth off, and display all the way down, and I got a week on my battery. A Nexus 7 is a tank when it comes to battery you could EASILY get 3 days off a N7 battery.
You can have FM on your Nexus 7 now
Just get one of those cheapy RTL2832U based USB DVB-T dongles (they can be as low as £5.60 from eBay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?LH_BIN=1&_fcid=3&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_clu=2&_nkw=RTL2832U&_sop=2)
Then download SDR Touch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marto.androsdr
You don't even need to root your Nexus 7.
You might want to have a powered USB OTG cable in order to make it last for longer, since the tuner and the SDR decoding on the CPU is quite a battery eater. Another downside is that you can't charge your tablet while having something plugged in the USB port.
FM Stereo and even possibly RDS are features that will appear in SDR Touch soon enough
An added bonus is that you can now also listen to police frequencies or analogue TV sound while you drive as well
martintzvetomirov said:
You can have FM on your Nexus 7 now
Just get one of those cheapy RTL2832U based USB DVB-T dongles (they can be as low as £5.60 from eBay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?LH_BIN=1&_fcid=3&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_clu=2&_nkw=RTL2832U&_sop=2)
Then download SDR Touch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marto.androsdr
You don't even need to root your Nexus 7.
You might want to have a powered USB OTG cable in order to make it last for longer, since the tuner and the SDR decoding on the CPU is quite a battery eater. Another downside is that you can't charge your tablet while having something plugged in the USB port.
FM Stereo and even possibly RDS are features that will appear in SDR Touch soon enough
An added bonus is that you can now also listen to police frequencies or analogue TV sound while you drive as well
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Tried that, not working, maybe because i do not have powered usb hub. But does anyone know what is the problem when device freezes and restarts whan plugging out otg?
Go for spirit radio on google play.....
I have read that gnex has hardware that supports Bluetooth 4.0, is there a rom or kernel that has enabled it to work or is it even possible?
Thanks in advance
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I'm sorry man but i think it's impossible according to the samsung specs, it only has bluetooth 3
http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/consumer/mobile/mobile-phones/smartphone/GT-I9250TSATGY-spec
Thanks. The reason I ask is that I saw this on Wikipedia. It states that it is Bluetooth 4.0 hardware compatible. 2nd reason is I bought those Bluetooth speakers with Bluetooth 4 and apt-x support. I just want to maximize it to it's full potential.
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Thanks. The reason I ask is that I saw this on Wikipedia. It states that it is Bluetooth 4.0 hardware compatible. 2nd reason is I bought those Bluetooth speakers with Bluetooth 4 and apt-x support. I just want to maximize it to it's full potential.
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Yes. The hardware is bluetooth 4.0 compatible but there's no software support yet. Star the issue to add your vote! ->
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=33371
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Wait wait wait, one moment, i don't understand. The hardware inside GNeX is bt4 but it has driver that doesn't support that but only bt3, is this what are you saying? It sound really strange to me, maybe that statement on wiki means that GNeX can use other hardware with bt4 even if it's bt3 but not at full power, am i wrong?
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Wait wait wait, one moment, i don't understand. The hardware inside GNeX is bt4 but it has driver that doesn't support that but only bt3, is this what are you saying? It sound really strange to me, maybe that statement on wiki means that GNeX can use other hardware with bt4 even if it's bt3 but not at full power, am i wrong?
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It'll be clearer if you check out the link in my previous post. Gnex contains a Samsung SWB-B42 BT 4.0 Dual Band Wlan FM Tx/Rx chip so the hardware is there. The thing is the driver that is currently installed on our gnex only has BT3 coded in. And even if the driver utilizes the phone's BT4.0 capabilities, Android in itself doesn't have native APIs to allow developers to take advantage of the new features.
Sorry if i didn't read the whole link but i was at work so, you can understand... Thank you for the very clear explanation, however it's really really strange this behaviour by google...
Will Google/Android ever get BT4/BLE working on the GNex? Or shall we move on to another device if we need/want it?
Hey all I've had my 360 for a few months now and just started noticing a problem. When I have my watch connected to my phone my phone has a hard time connecting to my Chrysler Uconnect in my stereo. I can't tell if it's a phone problem, Uconnect problem or the watch. It'll drop connection from the car on and off and sometimes not connect at all. I'm pretty sure the watch stays connected the whole time. Once I disconnect the watch, the car connection works just fine.
Anyone else run across this?
These issues are seen with lollipop on phone....
or some people whose phone is moto x or one plus one
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It's a Bluetooth low energy issue. Same exact problems with my nexus 5 and my pebble, also exists with my nexus 6 and moto 360. It's very very annoying as it appears to be an issue with android itself somehow. I'm hoping with more Google engineers using wear and a nexus they'll get annoyed and finally fix it...
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i have no such issues with pairing a nexus 6 connected to a moto 360 in the ride.
i mainly use poweramp and the connection to the HU is a few seconds SLOWER than i noticed on the htc one max i used prior, but it connects and displays the music data on the ride with no issue. steering wheel buttons also work normally.
stock and not rooted. both devices.
It seems to be select car kid or a2dp devices. My car has the issue but not my Bluetooth speaker. So the Bluetooth device also matters somehow
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Never had the issue on my Samsung Galaxy note 2 even on any custom ROM... But had this issue when I flashed CM12 lollipop
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Never had the issue on my Samsung Galaxy note 2 even on any custom ROM... But had this issue when I flashed CM12 lollipop
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Were the other Roms aosp or TW? Maybe it's an aosp specific issue
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Just got a Moto 360 this week-end and in the car on the way home, my phone calls over bt to my BMW dropped repeatedly. Would connect and disconnect. Rebooted my phone, same issue. Did not happen with original galaxy gear. This is a deal breaker from me. My phone is a stock Samsung Note 4. No car phone issues with a Striiv Touch.
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Just got a Moto 360 this week-end and in the car on the way home, my phone calls over bt to my BMW dropped repeatedly. Would connect and disconnect. Rebooted my phone, same issue. Did not happen with original galaxy gear. This is a deal breaker from me. My phone is a stock Samsung Note 4. No car phone issues with a Striiv Touch.
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Unpair them and pair again.
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I have an older TomTom Toyota Head-Unit on my Toyota Yaris, and it doesn't support Bluetooth Audio. But bluetooth phonecalls are working exactly as before pairing the Moto 360 to my HTC One.
I just disconnect my watch when I get in the car. Annoying that I have to do that.
Just curious why Bluetooth on this phone doesn't display the streaming information across the radio (Uconnect if it matters). My sons s8+ does it as well as my previous Note 8. Just curious if theirs something I'm not doing right.
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Just curious why Bluetooth on this phone doesn't display the streaming information across the radio (Uconnect if it matters). My sons s8+ does it as well as my previous Note 8. Just curious if theirs something I'm not doing right.
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I've got the same issue. Its not just you.
I'm connecting to a Honda bluetooth system, if that makes a difference.
After 8.1, it works better with my BMW at showing the data, but it's hit or miss. It also stops working if you switch music apps, so only the first one works.
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It's because everyone implements Bluetooth items differently and there isn't a "standard" that everyone uses for even basic stuff. Since phone manufacturers implement things differently, device & car manufacturers also need to try and accommodate all the various implementations.
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Well I'm still waiting on the Verizon OTA. But i definitely don't like the lack of info on the screen. I have the note sorting beside me... Test driving both... And send like such a simple thing.
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It's because everyone implements Bluetooth items differently and there isn't a "standard" that everyone uses for even basic stuff. Since phone manufacturers implement things differently, device & car manufacturers also need to try and accommodate all the various implementations.
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Actually, for this kind of thing there is a standard called AVCRP, and the Pixel should support 1.4, but it seems to be the buggiest implementation ever since Android 7
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I've noticed in developer options there are numerous settings for Bluetooth... Should i change these for display information?
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I've noticed in developer options there are numerous settings for Bluetooth... Should i change these for display information?
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Try adjusting the AVRCP version.
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I have the same issue connecting to a Honda. For what it's worth, it never worked with my 6P, either.
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Try adjusting the AVRCP version.
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Nothing worked. Just don't understand this, everyone else does it, why can't Google!