Hi there!
Does anyone here have any experience with connecting bluetooth low energy devices to the GNex?
I'm trying to connect a Wahoo Blue HR heart rate belt to my Galaxy Nexus but its not really working out for me.
I'm currently using a nightly AOKP 4.4 ROM, I think 3 days old. They claim to activate Bluetooth LE on the GNex.
Any input / discussion is very much appreciated!
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Confirmed
Hi!
In case anyone likes to try this:
I can confirm that the Wahoo Blue HR belt is WORKING with Bluetooth Low Energy / Smart.
I'm using the Runtastic App and the AOKP ROM with Android 4.4
So it actually IS possible to connect Bluetooth Smart devices to the GNex!
If anyone has difficulties, i might be able to give some advice, tips..
Headset using Car Audio
I understand you say that AOKP 4.4 has the latest bluetooth stack. I am trying to get the device to use the car's system to act as an input device also:
When using an iPhone 4s (I know, blasphemy!) in my car, I noticed I could press the button and give commands to Siri. The radio would stop and the result would play through the sound system. With my gNex however, I can only use the phone function. There is not way I can find to use the car Bluetooth as an interface. There was a setting in "Language and Input" -> Voice Search -> Bluetooth headset that states "Records audio through Bluetooth headset". But it doesn't trigger the car to go into BT mode and just simply disables regular microphone for "Ok Google" functionality.
I am sure there is a name and Acronym for this behavior, but no idea how to Google it.
Do you know if gNex can be set to behave the same way as the iPhone to use the car as a true device?
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Maybe this should be posted on a car forum (actually tried that and never got a response). But i was hoping someone might know of a way where i can by pass the voice control built into the radio of my kia soul, and instead just use the voice control built into android but using the BT mic and speakers in the car? i.e. have the bt system in the car act like a bt headset
Not entirely sure its possible.
Your BT in your vehicle is trying to use voice commands to control your phone, and you would rather use the IN PHONE voice commands and not allow the KIA to control your phone.. right?
Aside from using the audio input feature and allowing the phones mic to operate.. i dont think its currently possible.
right - i want the car to be dumb and just relay everything to/from the phone without trying to do anything itself. Right now when i connect the phone to the car, it downloads a copy of the phone book and i dial by telling the car who i want to call and it then tells the phone to call them.
Man if there's no way to disable the car's voice controls, that's incredibly short sighted of whoever makes the BT system in the car. I guess it's too much to hope that they even considered making the controls updatable through USB or something huh?
Hi guys, I've searched everywhere I know and found apps like JAYS headset control which has given me volume control and the like on this one button headset but coming from the iphone world back to android I find it extremely frustrating that I can't configure a long press on the wired headset to open up voice dialer or even better Vlingo. I'm on 4.02 stock. I live in China and ride a scooter most places and constantly have the headset on. Bluetooth is not an option here because of the noise. So, is there an app I am not seeing that gives me full headset control and configuration?
Thanks!
OK, have progress, after posting this question I found an app that works! It's called Headset Button Controller, there is a trial version and it successfully starts Vlingo and tells you the time in any number of configurable button presses. Now there is nothing I did on my iPhone 4 that I'm not doing better on my GN...
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When I had a crackberry and had it paired with my Bluetooth on my car I could hit a button on the module in my car and it would launch voice dialing on the berry. With an android phone it doesn't. I am wondering if there was a way or an app that could monitor for the button or give me the same Bluetooth config of the berry so I could gain that back.
I love hands free dialing and I've tried apps like vlingo but they seem too unusuable still.
Any suggestions here would be great!
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Anyone, beuler?
jediman said:
When I had a crackberry and had it paired with my Bluetooth on my car I could hit a button on the module in my car and it would launch voice dialing on the berry. With an android phone it doesn't. I am wondering if there was a way or an app that could monitor for the button or give me the same Bluetooth config of the berry so I could gain that back.
I love hands free dialing and I've tried apps like vlingo but they seem too unusuable still.
Any suggestions here would be great!
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You should check out tasker, it can pick up blue tooth commands and perform what you want.
Swiftkey'ed on my CM9 Galaxy Nexus
Unfortunately that didn't work for me very well.
It seems like the button in question doesn't register on android at all.
Not sure if that's the 'fault' of the car's audio system or a weakness int he btooth apk.
Oh well.
Probably should just get a headset.
jediman said:
Unfortunately that didn't work for me very well.
It seems like the button in question doesn't register on android at all.
Not sure if that's the 'fault' of the car's audio system or a weakness int he btooth apk.
Oh well.
Probably should just get a headset.
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I have Sony MW600 connected to my phone, and when I push the hang up button on that one, voice calling starts up.
Swiftkey'ed on my CM9 Galaxy Nexus
Just created this thread to find out what kind of car setups do you guys have with your Galaxy Nexus?
I just created mine using NFC, BT and Tasker to send all music and calls to car stereo when I enter the car, read out sms while driving, turn up backlight during daytime etc and then go back to previous state when I exit.
Details here: My Android NFC BT Car Audio Setup
What have you done to pimp up your car with your beloved GN?
I have a 3.5mm audio in jack for aux, I purchased a XtremeMac InCharge BT for wireless music. No special "read text aloud" apps or anything, I just try not to text in the car.
shantzg001 said:
Just created this thread to find out what kind of car setups do you guys have with your Galaxy Nexus?
I just created mine using NFC, BT and Tasker to send all music and calls to car stereo when I enter the car, read out sms while driving, turn up backlight during daytime etc and then go back to previous state when I exit.
Details here: My Android NFC BT Car Audio Setup
What have you done to pimp up your car with your beloved GN?
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I have a Parrot MKI9200. I get in the car, it connects and I drive off. No point in turning BT off (very low power in standby) and you can do the other stuff with a BT on-connect event in Tasker. Don't generally bother, TBH. Lazy, me
Daern
Interesting. Right now I just keep Bluetooth on always, and then manually open the Pandora app (for music) when I'm in the car (built-in BT stereo). Leaving the car, it turns off automatically. Eventually I'm going to set up Delayed Lock to turn off lock screen while connected to BT.
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I have a Parrot MKI9200. I get in the car, it connects and I drive off. No point in turning BT off (very low power in standby) and you can do the other stuff with a BT on-connect event in Tasker. Don't generally bother, TBH. Lazy, me
Daern
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I wanted to go that route too earlier but I connect to other BT devices as well through the day . Hope Tasker adds rules for specific devices soon.
zAlbee said:
Interesting. Right now I just keep Bluetooth on always, and then manually open the Pandora app (for music) when I'm in the car (built-in BT stereo). Leaving the car, it turns off automatically. Eventually I'm going to set up Delayed Lock to turn off lock screen while connected to BT.
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Do try out tasker along with secure settings plugin. You will pay just a little bit more but acquire this and lot more functionality.
I'm using a Kinivo BTC8 bluetooth to fm
With the OEM car dock.
NFC key-chain and NFC Task Launcher to change my settings
Works great for music, calls, navigation, etc
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I wanted to go that route too earlier but I connect to other BT devices as well through the day . Hope Tasker adds rules for specific devices soon.
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Doesn't Tasker already do this? When I select a context for "Bluetooth Connected," it opens a dialog where I can choose the name or address of the Bluetooth advice from a list of devices I've paired with. I choose to pair with my Parrot device, and it's always worked for me.
I should admit that I very rarely pair with any other device, so I might not notice whether Tasker is only responding to the fact of the Bluetooth connection, rather than the specific device. But if that's the case, why provide an option for you to select the specific device?
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Doesn't Tasker already do this? When I select a context for "Bluetooth Connected," it opens a dialog where I can choose the name or address of the Bluetooth advice from a list of devices I've paired with. I choose to pair with my Parrot device, and it's always worked for me.
I should admit that I very rarely pair with any other device, so I might not notice whether Tasker is only responding to the fact of the Bluetooth connection, rather than the specific device. But if that's the case, why provide an option for you to select the specific device?
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Ah thanks for letting me know about this. I had tried this very long back when Tasker had just been released and didn't think of seeing again if it had been changed. Will try this.
Just a basic simple question. I am sure most here are familiar with the issue of the mic in a BT headset not working post Gingerbread or at least since Android 4.x.
For those who don't know it's simple the onboard mic does not turn off allowing the mic in the headset to work. So while a stereo headset will give you sound if you want to dictate or use apps that need voice input your tablet has to be in front of you. It's a deflating problem because we buy these devices to enjoy, be more productive and more mobile. The blame seems to lay at the feet of Google (ya just need to slog through all the discussions about this as there are cases where it works perfectly, mostly, on phones but not at all on non-phone tablets.
Anyway, while I sit here trying to be patient and thanking my boss for buying an N5110 for me, I thought I'd ask some questions. My hope is perhaps something about the stack implementation for BT 4.0 LE was fixed to allow out headset mics to work on our tablets again.
My headsets are the LG BHS700 and BHS730. Super headsets BTW with loooong battery life. Around 10-14hrs continuous use on my tabs or phone.
For me the mic works fine with my LG Motion phone (snapdragon CPU, ICS 4.0.4, BT 3.0). Does not work on my Asus Transformer TF300T nor my Transformer Infinity TF700T. I am pretty sure the reports I've read on the Kindle Fires with BT is the mic doesn't work with them either, though that may have changed?
Sooo, anyone tested this out on your Note 8? Even worth asking those with the N5100 (GSM version yes?) or N5120(LTE version right) as there were comments of the mic only working with active phone calls and none of the other uses such as dictation or voice command.
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I would bet your problem is that you are trying to use "listening" type stereo BT headsets, to perform "speaking" functions; those LG BT stereo headsets are ok for music, but suck when it comes to making phone calls, or audio dictation...They just dont have high quality/high performance microphones on them, since they are used primarily for listening to music..
I use a Bose BT2, and a BlueAnt BT headset with all my adroid devices, INCLUDING this one, without any voice or dictation issues.
You should get a mono, voice/phone call type BT headset, and I am certain you wont have any issues making phone calls, or dictating with this tablet...
thanks but you could not be more incorrect here. In fact the issue is not related to brand of headset. It is a well known and documented issue that came about post Gingerbread. And it seems mostly limited to NON-PHONE device though even some phones have issues it voice control and functioning of previously working voice related apps. That and the cessation of a previously working headset mic with the roll out of various versions of 4.x.x
So thanks but well, nope that does not address the question or issue. Though it's nice to know your headsets work on your N8. That is helpful.
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My Galaxy S3 cannot be used with voice dictation, search, S-Voice, etc with the built in mic, especially when in the car (4.0 - 4.1). Using a Bluetooth headset it _actually_ works in both scenarios (quiet room, in car).
Although when combined with TeamSpeak it has a tendency to "Forget" it's hooked up to a headset and instead use the onboard mic and speakers. This normally occurs after a disconnect and reconnect to the TS server. But the new TS app isn't that much less of a piece of **** than the old TS app.
On previous 3.x and 4.x devices, I just did the old test: tap the onboard mic, tap the headset mic. The loud one is the input source.
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Interesting new Slidey...make hopeful Samsung fixed whatever Google busted.
I did chuckle that your headset mic works and the on device dunna work. It made me jealous...
Oh, your testing method us that of Champions...meaning same thing I do. Heck it's all but impossible to muffle the on board mic they are so sensitive.
Can't wait to see if my headsets work...have to remain calm until Thursday. Seems I picked the wrong week to give up IV Xanax...
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