I have 7 speakers in my car. I noticed the radio will play over all speakers, but apps like Spotify will not. (only using the front). Are there any software options that don't involve hardware modifications?
Noticed on my unit that if you have FM/AM active you will only get in front speakers. so open up Bluetooth and then launch spotify and you should get it all around
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does anyone know if you can send the google navigation voice over BT to a BT speaker/car kit?
Yep, works for me - it interrupts any music you may be playing from the phone.
And how do you do it? I have a Nokia Bluetooth carkit which works fine for phone calls but I don't know how I can play music or have the navigation voice speaking through the car speakers?
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What make of car kit do you have thewebface? I suspect a lot of the bluetooth features depend on the carkit.
thanks
LM
It's an original Nokia CK-7W.
I've got a Motorola T505 bluetooth carkit / FM transmitter and Desire does work fine with it for both navigation and music. Out of the box configuration, no parameter setup needed.
The feature I liked most was that I could set up individual volume levels for each application running in parallel (i.e. max volume for calls, 2/3 for navigation, 1/3 for music) and then control the general volume from the car stereo.
I've got Bluetooth built in to my car, will this do the same thing?
Didn't even know you could do that! I bought Co-Pilot, is it possible with that too?
Would be great if it was as at the moment Im using Front Aux on the head unit which is cutting out all the music!
Hi all, i'm about to /buyfit a CK3100 but does anyone know if the satnav apps like copilot will route the audio instructions through the stereo ? And if so, does it mute the stereo each time it does?
Unfortunately, it doesn't. The parrot just handles audio related to phone calls. It doesn't work for navigation instructions, music and other sounds. (EDIT: Read your other post.. I've only tried navigation with Google maps so far, so I wouldn't know about any other navigation apps)
Whenever I use my Desire in the car, I hook up a cable between the headphones jack and the car stereo. This results in:
- Music from the Desire plays on the car stereo
- Navigation instructions pause music playback (in car mode)
- Traffic information broadcasts on the radio mute music playback (but do not pause it)
- Phone calls mute and pause music playback
The Parrot still has a lot better audio quality than the HTC car dock, so it has some added value. But I haven't found a way to play music or navigation instructions on the car stereo without usig a cable.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't. The parrot just handles audio related to phone calls. It doesn't work for navigation instructions, music and other sounds. (EDIT: Read your other post.. I've only tried navigation with Google maps so far, so I wouldn't know about any other navigation apps)
Whenever I use my Desire in the car, I hook up a cable between the headphones jack and the car stereo. This results in:
- Music from the Desire plays on the car stereo
- Navigation instructions pause music playback (in car mode)
- Traffic information broadcasts on the radio mute music playback (but do not pause it)
- Phone calls mute and pause music playback
The Parrot still has a lot better audio quality than the HTC car dock, so it has some added value. But I haven't found a way to play music or navigation instructions on the car stereo without usig a cable.
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I had the same experience, however have found a workaround. I have added a plugin xCarLink iPod CD changer adaptor with an optional bluetooth module.
This allows me to connect my Desire using it for both handsfree and also A2DP bluetooth music playing. This does then pause my music or podcast if I receive a call.
I also have Copilot - this is flakey as to how it uses the bluetooth module - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Hope this helps...
hmm shame.. I'm guessing then that the only way to get sat nav through is to buy an A2DP enabled bluetooth car kit. Shame as i've got a CK3100 just sitting here which i've had for a while but never installed. The problem is if i buy another car kit, plus a charger/holder, its going to cost a small fortune.
Thanks for the info.
Having trouble trying to figure out how to stream music to my Jabra Stone bluetooth headset. Any suggestions? Also having problems with my audio dropping in an out during a phone call; looks like the headset will disconnect in the middle of a conversation and then randomly re-connect again. Rooted running Myn RLS5.
Thanks.
For the streaming: To my knowledge, unless the headset declares to your phone that it has BT A2DP profile (aka, headphones/stereo audio), it won't work for anything other than voice commands and calls (aka, Handsfree or Headset profile).
Disconnecting: Put your phone on the same side of your body as the headset. If you're outside, it'll probably cut in and out due to ambient RF interfering. Believe it or not, your body has enough water in it to block the relatively weak BT radio.
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For the streaming: To my knowledge, unless the headset declares to your phone that it has BT A2DP profile (aka, headphones/stereo audio), it won't work for anything other than voice commands and calls (aka, Handsfree or Headset profile).
Disconnecting: Put your phone on the same side of your body as the headset. If you're outside, it'll probably cut in and out due to ambient RF interfering. Believe it or not, your body has enough water in it to block the relatively weak BT radio.
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Jabra Stone Product features:
An entirely NEW SHAPE for headsets
Also available in white
Portable charging unit (doubles as carrying case)
Dual Mic. With Noise BlackoutTM Extreme
Touch volume control & Ergonomic Design
MultiuseTM - connect to two devices at the same time
StatusDisplayTM - check battery level and Bluetooth® status at a glance
Enjoy your tunes – stream music from A2DP enabled phones
It streamed music fine to my previous iPhone but not finding an easy way to stream music to it via the EVO. Navigation does work thru the headset if I have it connected but that's it.
lostsoul77 said:
Jabra Stone Product features:
An entirely NEW SHAPE for headsets
Also available in white
Portable charging unit (doubles as carrying case)
Dual Mic. With Noise BlackoutTM Extreme
Touch volume control & Ergonomic Design
MultiuseTM - connect to two devices at the same time
StatusDisplayTM - check battery level and Bluetooth® status at a glance
Enjoy your tunes – stream music from A2DP enabled phones
It streamed music fine to my previous iPhone but not finding an easy way to stream music to it via the EVO. Navigation does work thru the headset if I have it connected but that's it.
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When I look under bluetooth settings/bluetooth devices it shows:
Jabra STONE
Connected to phone and media audio
surprisingly....its now working at least using powerAMP, I'll try a few more apps such as Pandora and Youtube...only thing I did is re-charge the headset.
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surprisingly....its now working at least using powerAMP, I'll try a few more apps such as Pandora and Youtube...only thing I did is re-charge the headset.
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Odd. Might be that the Sense music player just doesn't like it for some reason. I have had zero issues with A2DP-capable devices on CM6 or 7.
Wondering if there's a secret. It's like everything below 200mhz has been removed, both through headphone jack and bluetooth.
Sound quality for me both on Bluetooth and headphones is great
Sounds good to me
Same here. Good quality in car whether i use my bt adapter or through audio jack.
Using Vanilla Player to play local mp3s sounds good on my headphones. Maybe a little "small" on my BT speaker, but its a small cheap speaker. Haven't noticed poor quality in my car.
I do use bluetooth pretty much exclusively in the car. I have a pair of headphones that sound really good with the phone. Dont use anything else to play music but I do sometimes have problems with the headphone jack when I move the cable around.
The sound quality when connected via cable to my car stereo or headphones seems to be fairly decent, though a bit noisier than the audio I get from my iPhone. I still have the problem of losing audio on calls after disconnecting from the audio jack (I can't hear callers on incoming calls and sometimes callers cannot hear me when I call them) and then having audio not re-routed back to the audio jack the next time I connect. Because this has happened on more than one Fire phone, I just use a cheap Bluetooth USB adapter connected to my stereo which does degrade the audio quality somewhat however.
Do you guys use any sound processing apps at all? I seriously have no bass coming out of my phone. I turn the bass up almost all the way on my car stereo, and in an EQ app for the phone (tried without the app too), and it's still not quite what a normal mp3 playing directly on my car receiver sounds like.
I'm on fire OS, are any of you on cm11?
Also this uses dolby or something doesn't it? I worry that something I've disabled has messed it up, but don't know what it would be.
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Do you guys use any sound processing apps at all? I seriously have no bass coming out of my phone. I turn the bass up almost all the way on my car stereo, and in an EQ app for the phone (tried without the app too), and it's still not quite what a normal mp3 playing directly on my car receiver sounds like.
I'm on fire OS, are any of you on cm11?
Also this uses dolby or something doesn't it? I worry that something I've disabled has messed it up, but don't know what it would be.
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No sound processing apps for me. I'm usually on Fire OS 4.6.3 rooted with no Google Play services. Now I'm on 4.6.5 unrooted (trying to resolve a GPS issue) and it sounds the same over BT.
Works fine for me too. Hardwired through AUX or with Bluetooth. Headphones/earbuds sound good too. I mainly use Amazon Music player, Google Music, and Pandora.
I've had no problems with BT connection from my Fire OS Fire Phone to my Sony receiver. Bass response is good whether or not I am running "Equalizer FX." I use Equalizer FX because the bass on the car stereo (and my headphones) rolls off below 60Hz.
I have learned from other phones that running the volume at max level can cause clipping and sound degredation.
Has anyone noticed something similar with their LG G4?
When playing music, or podcasts, using different apps (eg CloudPlayer, GMusic, Pocketcasts) via bluetooth in our newest car (Honda Civic '14) I get a noticeable scratchy electric noise now and again - sounds a bit like an old jack cable that needs some cleaning.
Weirdly though, when I use the G4 in our other car (another Civic but this time a '10) which I don't have bluetooth set up for - but rather use the headphone jack and AUX on the car. This also has some weird noise issues on the left channel too. Not like the sound on the other car - but this is amore obvious distortion/static/crap. It's not a continual noise like an out of tune TV (like you'd get in the old days), but it's a frequent intermittent noise.
Do you think this is due to the G4 - or what?
It seems weird to me that in the two cars there are similar audio issues, via different input sources.
Coincidence?
I haven't tested either car with other devices yet - but before I do, I just wondered if someone on here had experienced similar.
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Has anyone noticed something similar with their LG G4?
When playing music, or podcasts, using different apps (eg CloudPlayer, GMusic, Pocketcasts) via bluetooth in our newest car (Honda Civic '14) I get a noticeable scratchy electric noise now and again - sounds a bit like an old jack cable that needs some cleaning.
Weirdly though, when I use the G4 in our other car (another Civic but this time a '10) which I don't have bluetooth set up for - but rather use the headphone jack and AUX on the car. This also has some weird noise issues on the left channel too. Not like the sound on the other car - but this is amore obvious distortion/static/crap. It's not a continual noise like an out of tune TV (like you'd get in the old days), but it's a frequent intermittent noise.
Do you think this is due to the G4 - or what?
It seems weird to me that in the two cars there are similar audio issues, via different input sources.
Coincidence?
I haven't tested either car with other devices yet - but before I do, I just wondered if someone on here had experienced similar.
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Had the issue on g3 my fix was when i use music i had to turn off all other sounds even screen toich sounds
"i had to turn off all other sounds even screen toich sounds "
I don't understand. I don't have any other audio on as far as I know when the bluetooth is on.
Are you saying that the phone needs to be set to silent, in order for bluetooth streamed audio not to be affected?
The thing I find weird is that it's only the left channel which has issues - right channel seems perfect.
And this is both for when using bluetooth, or minijack cable.
Why should only one channel be affected?
I've got same issue with sound via bt in my car with a parrot receiver. Scratches for a few secs after connection, then it stops. But continuous scratchy sound when using gmaps or waze