USB Audio with Lollipop - Xperia Z1 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys,
I've been having problems connecting my DAC's to my Z1 Compact after the Lollipop update. I've tried various distributions for it, including HK, Bulgaria and Russia: none of them had a functional USB audio output. What's worse, USB Audio Player Pro doesn't work any more on it, giving me a 'Android cannot detect the USB audio, but the kernel can' message.
Also of note is that USB OTG works fine, and USB audio worked fine in KitKat, so it's not a hardware problem. Any solutions?

dazzerfong said:
Hey guys,
I've been having problems connecting my DAC's to my Z1 Compact after the Lollipop update. I've tried various distributions for it, including HK, Bulgaria and Russia: none of them had a functional USB audio output. What's worse, USB Audio Player Pro doesn't work any more on it, giving me a 'Android cannot detect the USB audio, but the kernel can' message.
Also of note is that USB OTG works fine, and USB audio worked fine in KitKat, so it's not a hardware problem. Any solutions?
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Hi i saw your problem in another thread, now i see it doesnt helped much, but you can go to developer options and on media see you have NuPlayer or Awesome player, down you have Disable USB audio routing, if you didnt try to play with this settings try them, and USB settings at general, sorry for giving you not exactly precise info but if this doesnt work, you can always email xperia care, they response in one day normally.

dimitarbv said:
Hi i saw your problem in another thread, now i see it doesnt helped much, but you can go to developer options and on media see you have NuPlayer or Awesome player, down you have Disable USB audio routing, if you didnt try to play with this settings try them, and USB settings at general, sorry for giving you not exactly precise info but if this doesnt work, you can always email xperia care, they response in one day normally.
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Yep, first thing I tried actually. Neither option worked unfortunately.
Gonna try and email their support, see what's up. It's not a huge problem now, more of a curiosity thing now.

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Leefordss said:
I've searched around to different forums and haven't really gotten a clear answer for this. I used to be able to play my music from my iphone simply by connecting it to my usb plug in my car. the sgs3 doesn't do that. I've read it is because it uses mtp instead of ums for data transfer now because there are no partitions in the drive. Supposedly there is a way to use ums by an app that was created for the i9300, but I have the US sprint model and I wonder if that would work on my phone. Plus I would like to know if I use this app, will it even solve my problem? Will I be able to listen to my tunes in my car without connecting the audio aux plug?
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I would like to know this too, My car radio doesn't have bluetooth support, so it's not an option for me and it doesn't work when I plug the phone in. This is the only thing keeping me from getting rid of my iPod!
I'm curious about this too. I just bought a Sony for its Sirius capabilities and it has Pandora support but I would like to listen to my phone's MP3 catalog too.
sent through the third galaxy
I just replaced my car stereo thinking I could use the USB in, I couldn't get it to work by default.
I'm left with using the aux in, which is nothing more than a stop gap solution.
Hoping that I can get it to work with usb too
Edit :
I forgot to try system >accessories >usb audio
I'll try when I get out of work.
2nd edit :
Didn't work
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Wrong section dude, you want the international forums, this one is for the sprint variant only
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Cazteclo said:
I had a similar problem with the device not recognizing the OTG cable, it went away after I installed the Nexus Media Importer.
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I tried with Nexus Media Importer as well, no success there either, it doesnt detect the drive. Thanks for the tip anyway
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gmfirebird said:
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paeminem said:
Same here, maybe somethings wrong with the nexus' usb port?
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mine usually recognizes the cable, it is the thumb drive attached to it that it usually dosent see
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gmfirebird said:
mine usually recognizes the cable, it is the thumb drive attached to it that it usually dosent see
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I have the same problem and have just tested that connecting a mouse or keyboard to the otg works without problems, what doesnt work is a flash drive. ( I have tried different flash drives to no success)
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paeminem said:
I have the same problem and have just tested that connecting a mouse or keyboard to the otg works without problems, what doesnt work is a flash drive. ( I have tried different flash drives to no success)
Does anyone know what the problem might be?
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I uninstalled and then reinstalled it again and now it is working again. I think it might have been slow to update
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