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Speaker tends to be on sometimes while using supplied headphones / earplugs?

Here's something that happened a few times already:
Whilst sitting in the train watching a movie using the stock earphones it came with I'd get the impression everyone was looking at me, so I free up one ear from the headphones, appears the audio is also blasting throught the speakers of the TP2. First times I started fiddling with the usb plug of the earplugs to see if it maybe not be connecting right. Didn't solve it; so resrted phone and everything was okay. Last times it happened I made sure not to move the usb plug while restarting, trying to figure out if this is simply a usb problem / broken wire of earplug or software trouble. It then also worked, giving me the impression that this is somehow something caused by WinMo.
Anyone else had this problem and maybe possible sollutions?
Ps: I hate the fact that HTC once again did not use a standard mini-jack connection, using mini-usb to plug in you earphones is the dumbest sollution I can image; placing in the bottom part of phone is logical thinking of cradle connections, but not handy when you need to plug in the earphones with that utterly unhandy straight usb plug. Couldn't they at least have thought of a way to put the hole in such a way that you plug is more protected or not sticking out that much?

[Q] Aux Jack strange behavior

I have a rooted stock SIII... When I first bought the phone everything was working just fine. I would load Pandora, plug in my phone to my car Aux jack and enjoy.
I hadn't actually used that functionality for about a week and during that time I did root my phone ( so not sure if rooting caused this issue ). Anyway, when I am at the gym, I can listen to the music just fine with my headphones. Even receive phone calls and the whole nine.
When I get into my car and plug in my phone to the Aux jack.. Doesn't work.
Here is the strange behavior though. If I take the cable ( unplugged from the car ) and plug it into the phone.. The phone reads "Headset connected". As soon as I plug in the other end... It disconnects.
I have tested the cable on my friend iPod and other Android devices and the cable works fine. Just wondering if anyone has heard of this or knows what I might be able to do.

well if the cable works fine with other devices then i would say try to reflash stock rooted rom... if that doesn't fix it which it should then i would lastly unroot and see if the problem goes away... prolly just the rom may not be reading the headphone jack voltage correctly for some reason...

beng9810 said:
I have a rooted stock SIII... When I first bought the phone everything was working just fine. I would load Pandora, plug in my phone to my car Aux jack and enjoy.
I hadn't actually used that functionality for about a week and during that time I did root my phone ( so not sure if rooting caused this issue ). Anyway, when I am at the gym, I can listen to the music just fine with my headphones. Even receive phone calls and the whole nine.
When I get into my car and plug in my phone to the Aux jack.. Doesn't work.
Here is the strange behavior though. If I take the cable ( unplugged from the car ) and plug it into the phone.. The phone reads "Headset connected". As soon as I plug in the other end... It disconnects.
I have tested the cable on my friend iPod and other Android devices and the cable works fine. Just wondering if anyone has heard of this or knows what I might be able to do.
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Are you also plugging in the USB port to a power adapter? I've found many cars have grounding issues between the Aux audio jack and the chassis ground. Symptoms include odd behavior like you list, and weird buzz or whine in the audio when both Aux in and power adapters are used.
If this is the case and unplugging the usb solves your problem you could get an inline filter /ground isolater that will solve the problem.

beng9810 said:
I have a rooted stock SIII... When I first bought the phone everything was working just fine. I would load Pandora, plug in my phone to my car Aux jack and enjoy.
I hadn't actually used that functionality for about a week and during that time I did root my phone ( so not sure if rooting caused this issue ). Anyway, when I am at the gym, I can listen to the music just fine with my headphones. Even receive phone calls and the whole nine.
When I get into my car and plug in my phone to the Aux jack.. Doesn't work.
Here is the strange behavior though. If I take the cable ( unplugged from the car ) and plug it into the phone.. The phone reads "Headset connected". As soon as I plug in the other end... It disconnects.
I have tested the cable on my friend iPod and other Android devices and the cable works fine. Just wondering if anyone has heard of this or knows what I might be able to do.
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Sounds like a short in the aux cable. It shouldn't show the cable connected when not plugged in to just the aux cable. Try a different aux cable.
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The Ultimate Car Setup

OK. So 2 years ago I saw a thread on the Nexus 7 tablet forums where someone essentially turn it into a car deck. At the time it was complicated, convoluted and buggy to say the least. Since then its been a thought exercise to make this work. How I wanted it to work. This is what I wanted:
Simple plug&play. One USB connection to carry high quality audio out from the device while still allowing it to charge. This is the most difficult. On the Nexus 7 it required a special kernel and plus the accessories had to be connected in the right sequence. Not exactly the one action set up I was going for.
The easy way to accomplish this was to use a standard USB charger and then use the headphone jack to send audio to the Aux input of the stereo. Great in theory! However the phones/tablets I have used always allowed alternator whine into the sound. Not ideal either.
Third common way is to use bluetooth audio. My Pioneer deck does support this. But we all know the quality of the sound from this is OK at best. Play some ripping guitar or something melodic and you can really hear the compression (watery, slurred "S"s sound). Not good enough for me.
Now when I had first read about this concept I started accumulating various adapters and parts to play with. First was a Behringer 202 External DAC. Its low cost but had decent reviews. Perfect for my installation. Plus the added benefit of several output format options, so a deck with an optical input could also be used if yours has one. With this I got a simple USB OTG with the Micro USB charger Y-cable. The one that has a standard female USB, the charger connection and the one to the device. Now this whole thing never worked properly. I ended up using the OTG cable with the DAC, but on my home stereo where I could place a Qi Pad under the Nexus (and my S4 before) to charge and the DAC for audio. At least I was using what I spent money on. Just not the way I wanted.
Fast forward to yesterday morning. I have had my Nexus 5 for a few months but had not tried this set up. The fussing with kernels on other devices and units over the years had me giving up. But I figured why not try with the DAC and standard charger connected (they were just sitting there after all). Low and behold it worked! And I mean perfectly! It was a big light had been turned on and the world was beautiful! Then I tried my M8 and it failed......but the Nexus 5 for the win! Oh, and even when connected to the power the DAC turned off when I disconnected the phone. So it shouldn't drain my truck's battery (though I parked on a hill tonight just in case!).
So! Here is my car installation that I was finally able to complete. I have included photos of the installation and the parts I used. It's in a list format that I hope follows the pictures. it will take me a post or three to get it all in! So bear with me.
Ingredients:
Nexus 5 (I am running Liquid Smooth for my ROM, I have not tested it on other ROMs at the time of this post).
External DAC. Like the Behringer 202 I used, but I would assume most would work.
USB OTG and Charging Cable
RCA to 3.5mm headset adapter.
Standard car charger. I have a Belkin 1A one that works like a charm. In theory you could use the USB on the stereo if included, but you may not charge reliably.
Standard USB to Micro USB cable
iBolt xDockPro for the HTC. This is optional, but i like the iBolt and their right angled USB is the right way for the Nexus. Which made the set up cleaner.
Car Home Ultra from the Play Store
So. The first photo shows all the stuff I used (minus the car deck and truck).
Second you will see I am in fact using the HTC Dock
Next is the DAC I used
Followed by the adapter cable
The the RCA adapter
The before picture. The sticky pad for the mount was there cause I was already using my iBolt with just a charger tucked in.
This one you will see I have taken the y-cable and connected it to the iBolt adapter. My dash had the room for this, you may need an extension as the y-cable is really short!
Dash is coming apart!
To be continued (I can only post so many pics at once!

Part Deux!
So the next photo shows my deck's AUX input. Now I bought this unit because it had a rear jack. So connected the headphone plug into the AUX jack.
These next four pictures are just to show which power supply I used and how the USB cable is run up to the y-adapter. Now it would be possible to use your stereos USB for power if equiped. I didn't for two reasons. First, the phone/stereo may think your connecting a flash drive (both unit could be trying to be the "host"). Second the stereo may not put out enough amperage to run both the phone and the connected DAC. So I just went with the separate supply. Plus its easy to disconnect it should I need too.
This is me connecting the DAC. Now I wanted to show this particular step as you can see the power light is NOT lit even when connected to vehicle power.
RCA cable is now connected to the DAC.
The set up all buttoned up!
To be continued.....

Trio!
This post is more about the proof of concept and the Car home Setup. Here it is!
Basically once the hardware was all set (1 & 2) I fired it up, and used Play Music (and others) making sure Bluetooth was NOT paired yet. Sounds AWESOME! Makes a night and day difference! Then I paired it for hands free while making sure the media wasn't connecting. Now went into Car Home Ultra and just set it to launch with the my stereo's bluetooth connection. My only next goal I need to finish is to get an NFC tag to control Bluetooth on the iBolt. Car Home is set to turn WiFi off automatically when its running, but my set up is reliant on BT running all the time (or have me remember to turn it on/off, but defeats my plug'n'play concept).
That's the gist of it. If you would like more details or suggestions please let me know!

So it's not just my Ford Fiesta that sends lots of noise to the charger? I am a little relieved, but it sucks to find out that this is somehow a "standard"...
Nice setup there!

daniel_loft said:
So it's not just my Ford Fiesta that sends lots of noise to the charger? I am a little relieved, but it sucks to find out that this is somehow a "standard"...
Nice setup there!
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There is a fix. They make something called a "ground loop isolator" that can usually fix the noise generated from you alternator. Here is an example, quick google search brought it up. http://www.amazon.com/PAC-SNI-1-3-5..._sim_pc_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1FEVW0RPFQ5W3V742E6G
You could put a more temporary/portable set up like mine, wouldn't be hard if your still having issues. Put all the parts together, stuff it all in an old cassette or floppy disk case with a few holes for the cables to stick out of.

Yeah, now the challenge is to find ways to make it work on more devices. It's really unfortunate that the M8 doesn't on Sense based ROMs (I plan on trying a GPE ROM in a few days to see if that makes a difference).
And I may now invest in a proper proclip mount so it's not up on the dash like that. But it works like a hot damn as is for now. Even with LTE on, display always on and streaming audio it charges, though pretty slow. Still. Better than not at all. And I can always turn the screen off if I wanted to give it more juice.

I have my Nexus 5 w/o the case using an iBolt mount I already had and a cheap qi charger and works great.

Nice Setup... I was actually looking for something like this. Thanks for posting

There are a lot of microUSB to USB + aux splitters on amazon for the Samsung Galaxy phones. Would these have worked all the same? Or does the Nexus 5 not have a docking capability that would sense the plug?

For those that don't know BlackBerry sells a blutooth adapter that uses power from the usb charging port on your after market stereo. I use it on mine. This thing is crazy small I hide it in the gap behind my stereo and the reception is good you have around a 10ft radius depending on where you hid your dongle.
http://shop.crackberry.com/blackberry-music-gateway/9A172A11438.htm

Nice I see you have a Colorado. I have a Nexus 7 in mine. I can say that after hours and days of troubleshooting ground noise I could not get rid of it. I had to use a ground loop isolator
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Aux cable problem

Hello !
I have problems with my HTC ONE M8 playing music when I use it in my car via AUX cable.
Usually, the first time i plug it in the aux cable is recognized as a headphone and everything is working normally. However, usually the 2nd time I plug it in (or restart the car) it is recognized as a headphone with a microphone and the phone keeps changing the songs and sometimes even starting the google voice search. The problem is the same no matter which player i use.
Any help?
I appreciate it.

My m8 Verizon worked fine with my aux cable for my car until yesterday's 4.4.3 update.. now the stock headphones work fine as well does a expensive aux cable but my cheap retractable cable that worked fine before isn't recognized.. it works on my old thunderbolt fine but also fails on my wife's m7 ... Try a different cable that's higher quality.. mine is a griffen brand that's working..

vapehooka said:
My m8 Verizon worked fine with my aux cable for my car until yesterday's 4.4.3 update.. now the stock headphones work fine as well does a expensive aux cable but my cheap retractable cable that worked fine before isn't recognized.. it works on my old thunderbolt fine but also fails on my wife's m7 ... Try a different cable that's higher quality.. mine is a griffen brand that's working..
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yes, now when you mention it, as far as I can remember I think everything did work fine before the 4.4.3. update.
i will try with the better cable

Type C Port somewhat broken ?

Hello Mi6 Owners
Im quite happy with my Mi6, but ive noticed something which is very bad.. Since Mi6 doesnt have a headphone jack it ships with an adapter.. Well I've lost that original adapter, and then a few days after i lost it ordered an replacement.. That replacememt worked for a few days, but the cable on that one was pretty flimsy, so it kinda broke amd i returned it.. Then i ordered some nice looking cable, and i plug it in, and it doesnt work at all, no headphones recognized and no sound coming from them.. So i thought the cable was trash and i bought one from a quite known brand where i live, in a local store here, and again it doesnt get recognized.. But i noticed (Note that all cabled i ordered said, they were compatible with the Mi6) that when i plug the headphones in the plugged in adapter, i get some weird noises, like when you rotate a 3.5mm jack in its port, some weird sounding noises, but thats all noise i get out of it... So is my port broken ? Charging works completely fine.

janosch2001 said:
Hello Mi6 Owners
Im quite happy with my Mi6, but ive noticed something which is very bad.. Since Mi6 doesnt have a headphone jack it ships with an adapter.. Well I've lost that original adapter, and then a few days after i lost it ordered an replacement.. That replacememt worked for a few days, but the cable on that one was pretty flimsy, so it kinda broke amd i returned it.. Then i ordered some nice looking cable, and i plug it in, and it doesnt work at all, no headphones recognized and no sound coming from them.. So i thought the cable was trash and i bought one from a quite known brand where i live, in a local store here, and again it doesnt get recognized.. But i noticed (Note that all cabled i ordered said, they were compatible with the Mi6) that when i plug the headphones in the plugged in adapter, i get some weird noises, like when you rotate a 3.5mm jack in its port, some weird sounding noises, but thats all noise i get out of it... So is my port broken ? Charging works completely fine.
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That's a weird one.
Hopefully its not broken as it seems to be okay with everything else.
I have no expertise on this but I have two suggestions that won't hurt you.
1.a. If the phone isn't playing music from the speaker then it has detected the headphones. It sounds stupid but on MIUI if you put the phone on silent the volume of music goes to 0.
Double check you have turned the volume up a bit and not on 0.
That's the kind of thing I would make a mistake about....
1. Use something very thin and very gentle (don't scratch anything) to clean out the port. It could be a piece of dust or something.
2. Does the port work for data transfer to a PC? If so then the data pins of the port are working.
3. See if you can borrow someone's adapters. But remember different manufacturers switch around the pins inside the phone and adapter to make only their adapter work on their phones. Its actually really awful they can do this as the whole point of USB C is to standardise everything....
Mine however works with the google pixel adapter so some of them will work

Hello, thanks for your reply
1. Its not getting detected.. So i plug them in, the sound goes through the speaker, as if no heaphones are connected.. The only sound i get from the headphones is when i twist them around in the adapter, a bit, like some weird noises, but definetely not from the music playing (but the adapters ive boight clearly say they are for Mi6)
2. Data Transfer works without problems.. Pc detects it and can copy files in both ways no problem

Those USB-C to 3.5 are a NIGHTMARE, mine was acting like the one you have... if you headset has a detachable 3.5. You can buy a usb-c to 3.5 so you avoid any adapter..... But in the end is cheaper just to get some cheap BT headset. Jbl, Phillips among other sell BT headset for not a lot of money.

Hello, i own a xiaomi mi6, but my model was with main MIC damaged so i have replaced It. Now main MIC works fine and charge working too. The only thing that does not work is the audio output of headphones. Can someone help me please?