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[Q] G2/Acura Bluetooth audio mess

I recently discovered what a treat it is to play audiobooks while I drive.
And allegedly, my G2 and Acura TL Bluetooth Audio (2011 Acura TL w/ Tech package) makes that a snap, right?
Well, here's my experience.
1. I turn on my Android phone's Bluetooth (T-Mobile G2) and get in the car. The car immediately recognizes the phone. Great!
2. As soon as I switch the car's radio/audio button over to Bluetooth audio, my phone instantly pulls up an MP3 player and begins playing a song.
3. But I don't want a song! In fact, there seems to be nothing I can do to stop my Acura from ordering my Android to play something every single time I switch the radio to Bluetooth audio. Or is the phone itself that wants to automatically play something? Who knows. It's annoying. I thought maybe the problem was an app, because it was always DoubleTwist that would automatically start playing. So I deleted DoubleTwist. Now it's WinAmp that starts playing. So it must be something about the phone interacting with the car. For whatever reason, I now have to dial the Acura Bluetooth menu over to Pause/Resume to stop it.
4. Finally--after all that--I can pull up my audiobook player and start to listen via Bluetooth audio. Bliss.
5. Oops, there's my phone ringing, which my Acura Bluetooth phone function quickly answers. It's my wife.
Wife: "Hi, I just wanted to see if you're driving your car."
Me: "Why, yes. Yes, I am driving my car. Thanks so much for asking."
Wife: "OK, goodbye!"
Me: "Goodbye. Thanks so much for calling."
6. When the phone hangs up, ALL Bluetooth audio ceases. I think the connection remains, because any player app I have will show the seconds ticking off if you ask it play something, but you can't hear anything, neither on the phone speaker nor on the car audio. It's as if the phone is transmitting it to the car but the car has its Bluetooth audio turned completely down? Who knows? But it's a bummer.
7. No button-pushing on the car seems to fix things, so I turn the Bluetooth radio on my phone off, then on.
8. Now, we're all reset. Whoops! There's that annoying song again. Got to turn that off. Then back to the audiobook player. Then back to the book.
9. Five more minutes of bliss until the next call.
10. I dunno. Shouldn't this be easier? Hopefully, I've pulled off the road several times while all this was going on. If I try to deal with it while I'm driving I'm certain to wrap my car around a telephone pole, which is embarrasing no matter who you are.
I'll probably have to cross-post this to both the Acura genius's board and the G2 genius's board since I'm not sure where the issue lies. Let me know if you have any clues.
Thank you!

Okay! I got a little schooled by the Acura guys. I really shouldn't consider it a bug that something starts playing on my phone when I click the car radio dial to Bluetooth Audio. That would be like expecting the FM receiver to stay silent until I've selected a channel. As soon as I select Bluetooth Audio, it sends out the Bluetooth Play command and away my G2 goes. Not a bug. Feature. Got it.
Here's the part where I need Android geniuses to weigh in.
I use the Ambling Bookplayer app. For some reason, even if Ambling is already playing when I select Bluetooth Audio on my radio, my phone will still launch a standard media player (such as DoubleTwist or WinAmp) and begin playing a music .MP3.
At that point then, I have both the audiobook .MP3 and the music .MP3 playing through my car's Bluetooth Audio.
What is behind that behavior?
The only thing I can think of that might be a clue is I've noticed that the same media player always launches despite the fact that I have several on my phone.
For example, it was always DoubleTwist. I deleted that app while troubleshooting this problem and now it's always WinAmp. I wonder if there's some kind of hierarchy in determining which player responds to the car's "Bluetooth Play" command? If I had a music .MP3 playing on the stock music player, would the car still launch WinAmp?
And if there's a way to determine who goes first, can I figure out how to make it the Ambling player?
Anyone who has some insight into the relationship between Bluetooth and Android or G2 media players, I'd certainly appreciate some input.
Thank you!

Closer...
So it occurred to me that since my car is always asking for the same player, there may be a "default player" setting somewhere I can change. Perhaps it's the "default .MP3 player"? I discover that the audiobook player I've been using isn't even listed in the menu of available media apps that appears when you click an .MP3 file.
So I downloaded about every audiobook player app and it turns only ONE of them does (MortPlayer Audiobook).
So I click the box to make this the default player whenever an .MP3 file is selected. Maybe that'll work.
I go back to the car and select Bluetooth Audio. Nuts. WinAmp again.
So that suggest to me that the default player setting I'm looking for is a Bluetooth default media player? Is that the answer I've been looking for? Is there such a setting? If so, how do I change that?

I've worked through most of the problems above, but I'm bumping this because of one unresolved question:
Doesn't anyone here know exactly how the G2 responds when it receives a "bluetooth play" command?
That is, why does it select the player it selects and is that something we can modify?
Thanks for all enlightenment!

[Q] Bluetooth streaming

Hi guys, I did a search and I can't find anything on this, if it's already been answered I do apologize. I've got a kenwood stereo in my car that connects to the phone and streams music over bluetooth. I've used this on my last 2 phones (Samsung Epic, and HTC EVO) with no problems. Now with the Galaxy SII, i can't stream music. It will connect and do voice calls no problem, but when i try to play music, it just skips through every song on the list and then freezes. The only time it worked was the first time I connected it to my stereo. Has anyone else had this problem? Since I use Google Music, all of my music is streamed and I have to do it through bluetooth, this has become quite a pain!

i'm on a clarion CZ 509 no problem streaming from my phone to the car
it does it automatically as soon as the car is in the phone range
which some times is kinda annoying, when you don't want it to auto stream

Yeah, mine will connect automatically and phone calls and dialing work with no issues. It's just streaming music. I'm going to try and delete my phone from the deck and re-connect it, hopefully that works. I'm trying to avoid having to replace my phone or do a hard reset.

my deck can save up to 5 phones pairing
so i just assigned a new profile to the SGS2 when i got it
the other ones registered are my old I9000, XT720 and Nexus S
there is another trick you can use
in the phone in the BT profile after pairing, hold the profile for 2 sec, it will pop up a sub menu, in which you can choose both option or only 1 of them
in which case it's BT audio, or BT phone
so play around with that and see
another thing which i don't know if your deck allows you to do is to Pair the phone as a Media device, or Phone device
so in my deck can can pair the phone to be only as a phone device, or only as a media device, or both

I tried messing around with those options, however it either disconnects the phone completely (unchecking the phone box) or just plays the music through the phone (unchecking the media box). I tried streaming another song through the stock music app, and that worked, so I think it may be google music itself. I had downloaded the ICS version, so now i'm trying to downgrade back to current. I'll have to check to see if works later, as now it won't connect to my account to grab all of my music. Thanks for the replies though, I'll keep this updated incase anyone else has the same issues.

now that you mention it, that might be it
the DRM license thing kicking in
i just found that was causing some random crash on my phone as well, removed music 4.0 and installed another music player, now everything is back to normal
i use jukefox to play music, it automatically creates everything that is necessary, like albums, auto get the missing album covers, etc, etc...
1 button does it all
then you just pick or randomly choose what you want to hear, easy music browsing for when you are driving

Yeah it's definitely a google music issue on my phone. The stock player works fine, but that doesn't help me, I keep all of my music uploaded to the google cloud, and have no way to access it right now. Even with the regular current apk I am having issues. I'll have to wait and see if they can update it for this drm issue I think. For now I'll just use the current stock player and fill up my sd card and play off of that

that's what i do
i play it off my SD card
get a 32 GB or 64 GB and you'll have plenty of space to load all your favourite albums
i keep several copies of 32 GB for different albums / movies

So just a followup to this, I did a hard reset today on my phone and it still doesn't help. Turns out, it only does this when connected through bluetooth, and it's a song that's been "made available offline". If i'm actually streaming a song, there are no issues, but any of my playlists or albums that are saved won't play through bluetooth (they will play normally however). Hopefully this can be fixed in an update through Google Music.

So, i've had this issue as well and it appears to be something to do with "shuffle".
At first I disconnected bluetooth and then started playing the music on my phone and made sure to turn ON shuffle..I then turned bluetooth back on in my radio and once it connected...all was well. I didn't like this solution and decided I needed to find an alternative.
I then downloaded the MIUI music app (which has always been my favorite) and the music streaming is working normally now

Was this an issue that you experienced with the google music beta app, or just the standard music player that came with the phone? Mine has only had issues on the music beta app, and it didn't matter if i had shuffle on or not. I've been using the standard music app that came installed on the phone and have had no issues since. On another note, does anyone know if you can see album art through bluetooth? I'm able to get song , artist, and album info, but I've never seen album art come through yet. I'm not sure if this is something bluetooth can handle or not.

Stock app. I just installed music beta and it seems to work fine like miui music
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA App

I take that back, music "beta" just did it to me too. Back to miui
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA App

[Q] Bluetooth in car phone audio problem

Hello everyone,
I have a stock LG G3 (D852/Fido) with the OTA update to Android 5.01 installed (I had the phone for a week before they pushed the OTA).
I have a Subaru Forester with the Clarion CF625UM radio. My phone connects with Bluetooth every time. The music plays perfectly, and the phone audio the callers/called hear is perfect. The problem is with the in car phone audio. So much chuffing that I cannot hear the callers. I have tried the phone on other CF625UM radios with the same result. Someone tried an iPhone 6 on my radio, worked perfectly so I'm guessing it's my phone.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
V

volpo222 said:
Hello everyone,
I have a stock LG G3 (D852/Fido) with the OTA update to Android 5.01 installed (I had the phone for a week before they pushed the OTA).
I have a Subaru Forester with the Clarion CF625UM radio. My phone connects with Bluetooth every time. The music plays perfectly, and the phone audio the callers/called hear is perfect. The problem is with the in car phone audio. So much chuffing that I cannot hear the callers. I have tried the phone on other CF625UM radios with the same result. Someone tried an iPhone 6 on my radio, worked perfectly so I'm guessing it's my phone.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
V
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I have this problem when playing music through my speakers on my car. What I do every time I get in the car is connect and begin to play music. Then I got to my recents tab and clear everything. This will kill the music and the phone will still be connected via bluetooth. Now everything works fine -- for me.
Seems to me that if you don't kill all the apps the bluetooth gets overloaded and has a hard time pushing information through. I got to this conclusion after scanning for another bluetooth device. While is was scanning the music was skipping non-stop. I concluded that when it skips, it's overloaded -- so I kill every app so only my music is being transmitted (and phone on standby).

ItsJacobee said:
I have this problem when playing music through my speakers on my car. What I do every time I get in the car is connect and begin to play music. Then I got to my recents tab and clear everything. This will kill the music and the phone will still be connected via bluetooth. Now everything works fine -- for me.
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Seems to me that if you don't kill all the apps the bluetooth gets overloaded and has a hard time pushing information through. I got to this conclusion after scanning for another bluetooth device. While is was scanning the music was skipping non-stop. I concluded that when it skips, it's overloaded -- so I kill every app so only my music is being transmitted (and phone on standby).
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Thanks for the reply.
I tried your method, unfortunately it did not work for me. I guess I'll have to wait for 5.1 to be pushed to my phone and hope for the best.
V

Works fine,in my Mercedes, i can play music, videos without any problems, speed camera messages even come through clear and interrupt whatever is playing. Using ChupaCups 4.2 ROM

[Q] Pairs, but no sound in BT headphones

My Sony Smartwatch 3 pairs with bluetooth devices without problems. I've got a Sony Ericsson BT headset (MW600) that it connects to. When I play songs from google Play Music the title of the song appears in the display on the headphones, and everything looks alright. Nothing is muted. But there is no sound, at all. Just silence. The song is playing (says both the watch and the headset) and the volume is cranked up. But nothing. I've tried pairing the watch with my Bose bluetooth speaker, and the same thing happens... Any ideas?

Happens to me sometimes. Usually rebooting the watch fixes it.
Sent from my SM-G925P

Ramlaks said:
My Sony Smartwatch 3 pairs with bluetooth devices without problems. I've got a Sony Ericsson BT headset (MW600) that it connects to. When I play songs from google Play Music the title of the song appears in the display on the headphones, and everything looks alright. Nothing is muted. But there is no sound, at all. Just silence. The song is playing (says both the watch and the headset) and the volume is cranked up. But nothing. I've tried pairing the watch with my Bose bluetooth speaker, and the same thing happens... Any ideas?
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How did you fix it? I got the same problem

IreneDePelle said:
How did you fix it? I got the same problem
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.. When it happens on mine I pause and then resume and it starts working

I am having the same issue. I can connect no problem but I just can't hear anything. I have tried rebooting the watch and when I select google play it asks me if I want to play it on the phone or the device, I select device and click play but nothing happens. I have also tried to pause then play again and still no luck. Does anyone have any other suggestions? TIA

Fix for Sony Smart watch 3 not playing music a cross bluetooth
Hi. I had the exact same problem. I finally sorted it out, even went jogging without my phone and had music playing over my bluetooth headsets.
Your needing to convert the songs to .mp3 and re upload and sync the songs. You'll most likely need to remove all songs of the watch and then re select the songs you want on, making sure those are the converted .mp3 songs.

Car Bluetooth Stutter

I can't get music to play properly with car player. It stutters 100 percent of the time, calls work. Music works fine on headphones and Bluetooth speakers.
I did network reset, cleared cache. Checked and unchecked media, contacts, etc in Bluetooth settings.
Used other phones to see if car player has issues. It works with other phones.
This seems like a OnePlus issue, even other models in past have been marred by this.
Is there any solution to this.
I'm on latest 10.0.6 oxygen. Music never worked with car player.

What car system and is the car system up to date?

autosurgeon said:
What car system and is the car system up to date?
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It's an aftermarket media player, there are no firmware updates from manufacturer.
If you search you'll find this issue in a lot of OnePlus phones. I tried all suggested answers, nothing worked.
Could it be Bluetooth version that's causing this... My other Bluetooth devices are bt 4.0 and 5.0... Car player is bt 3.0... Maybe using an external BT adapter is the only way out.

Āryan-9909 said:
I can't get music to play properly with car player. It stutters 100 percent of the time, calls work. Music works fine on headphones and Bluetooth speakers.
I did network reset, cleared cache. Checked and unchecked media, contacts, etc in Bluetooth settings.
Used other phones to see if car player has issues. It works with other phones.
This seems like a OnePlus issue, even other models in past have been marred by this.
Is there any solution to this.
I'm on latest 10.0.6 oxygen. Music never worked with car player.
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Hi, I've had the same problems myself, but I might found a solution... And it is downloaded music on my phone storage!!!
Yes if I was streaming from YT music as I have premium subscription, most likely I could not listen to anything because I think interferes with the Bluetooth streaming. So I've downloaded a few songs and tried to listen from library on the same app and worked as a charm!
What can I say.. try it and see if works for yourself!
Best of luck!

I stream music all day everyday in my car. I use the play music app to listen to my library. I don't have any issues with stutters. I am also using an after market unit. The other day I did have a problem with my device not playing music when it paired. I got so frustrated since my Bluetooth was pairing with my headphones that I got the manual for the aftermarket unit and found the instructions to reset it. Resetting the unit fixed my problem. Have you tried completely resetting your aftermarket unit?

Sounds like your media player in the car is the issue. With my pioneer head unit I did have to reset it before it would pair and work correctly.

I'll try resetting the HU... Meanwhile I found an aux BT adapter lying around and it's working fine, that'll be my backup option till issue is sorted out.

wargyant said:
Hi, I've had the same problems myself, but I might found a solution... And it is downloaded music on my phone storage!!!
Yes if I was streaming from YT music as I have premium subscription, most likely I could not listen to anything because I think interferes with the Bluetooth streaming. So I've downloaded a few songs and tried to listen from library on the same app and worked as a charm!
What can I say.. try it and see if works for yourself!
Best of luck!
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I've been playing downloaded music already but it Stutters.... Though this thought did cross my mind that streamed music is copyrighted and encryption/codec could causes the issue... But then again it works with headphones...
I'll try some music player app and play from internal storage... Keep you posted

Resetting HU didn't work... Neither did playing downloaded music from internal storage.
I think OnePlus while implementation didn't fully address compatibility issues ... Most car HU are older BT version.