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[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
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I take that back, music "beta" just did it to me too. Back to miui
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Samsung DriveLink

Is it just me or is anybody else disappointed with this app? I have the Sony XAV-601BT double din head unit in my car and yes it syncs up (albeit after a bit of messing about plugging things in and starting the apps in the "correct" order), and works fine with the Phone/Navigation/Standard music player, but I was expecting more.
The way Mirrorlink was described (or how I interpreted it) was that my phone screen would be projected onto the radio head unit, not having me forced to use Samsung's limited app and nothing more. I know for a fact that I can access the home screen of my phone because the app crashed on my phone once and closed, leaving my home screen showing, but soon rebooted, locking me back into the Drive app again
The main gripe with this I have is the fact I use the Spotify app on my phone to listen to music. I have managed to get it to play through my car head unit through DriveLink, but cannot control Spotify directly through the head unit other than to skip to the next/previous song and pause/play. I cannot select playlists as the Spotify app is not shown on the headunit, just the basic player (which actually shows the wrong/no track name info at all) - all of which I can do through the bluetooth ADCP, without mirrorlink at all.
Does anyone else know of a way to get out of the Drive Link app and onto the rest of the phone menus whilst still connected to the head unit? Or are there any community created Mirrorlink apps similar to DriveLink that would work instead?
Thanks a lot for any input
Raiden2387

You need to remember this is the first release. They've said they will develop it more to include more options.
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djwilliams100 said:
You need to remember this is the first release. They've said they will develop it more to include more options.
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Yes, I appreciate that, but the ability is obviously there (as I've seen it when the app crashed), they just chose to lock you out from accessing your actual phone.

Raiden2387 said:
Yes, I appreciate that, but the ability is obviously there (as I've seen it when the app crashed), they just chose to lock you out from accessing your actual phone.
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Be patient or don't use it... >_>
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New version (1.1.012) is out. Apk. SamsungApps

Try putting your parking brake in. Only the car mode on the cellphone work when the head unit is in driving mode.

Samsung Drive Link & Spotify
Raiden2387 said:
The main gripe with this I have is the fact I use the Spotify app on my phone to listen to music. I have managed to get it to play through my car head unit through DriveLink, but cannot control Spotify directly through the head unit other than to skip to the next/previous song and pause/play. I cannot select playlists as the Spotify app is not shown on the headunit, just the basic player (which actually shows the wrong/no track name info at all) - all of which I can do through the bluetooth ADCP, without mirrorlink at all.
Does anyone else know of a way to get out of the Drive Link app and onto the rest of the phone menus whilst still connected to the head unit? Or are there any community created Mirrorlink apps similar to DriveLink that would work instead?
Thanks a lot for any input
Raiden2387
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Hi Raiden2387,
I am also trying to use spotify via Samsung Drive Link application. I can only stream it via bluetooth, but not via Drive Link.
Could you please explain how you could manage at least to skip to the next song?
Would be great help.
Thanks.

[Q] Media Control card disappearing on load? (Google Play Music)

Hi Gang,
So I start a song playing on google play music. I get the card to pop up with the artist name and the pause button on the bottom of the face.
Then, within a second, it disappears. I can press pause and play on my phone quickly and it'll happen again. If I time it right, I can "catch" the card before it disappears, but if I try to do any media controls it does the control on Google Play Music but then the card disappears again.
Anyone else seeing this? I wonder if I can do a harder factory reset than the "reset device" option, because I've done that twice already?
Thanks!

Nobody on this?
I've since installed Music Boss to help with media controls, but would be nice to know if other people are experiencing issues with the stock music card.
Not sure if media controls are even listed as a feature for the 360. Please someone chime in! Thank you :laugh:

Anyone? I need to know if mine is bugged and if I need to contact Best Buy about this and get an exchange, or try to flash the thing back to factory.
When you press play in Google Music do you get the card? Can you play/pause without it disappearing randomly? Does it disappear on load sometimes? Help a brother out...

I wasn't really paying attention to mine. When I was, the card was always there.

Wafflcopterz said:
Hi Gang,
So I start a song playing on google play music. I get the card to pop up with the artist name and the pause button on the bottom of the face.
Then, within a second, it disappears. I can press pause and play on my phone quickly and it'll happen again. If I time it right, I can "catch" the card before it disappears, but if I try to do any media controls it does the control on Google Play Music but then the card disappears again.
Anyone else seeing this? I wonder if I can do a harder factory reset than the "reset device" option, because I've done that twice already?
Thanks!
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I'm experiencing a similar problem. Every time I re-connect my 360 to my phone, the media card pops up, and it says it's playing a tv show on netflix... every single time I re-connect. I've restored the watch, reinstalled android wear...etc.

Same thing here. Driving me nuts as it's probably the most useful card.

Happen to me today, after update android wear and it is force the watch to reboot.
Media control card will disappear after couple songs, need to pause and replay the song again from my phone to show the card again.
Funny thing is the lyrics card from musiXmatch is still there.
and just curious, anyone feel the last android wear update is affecting the battery life?
before my watch can last for 2 days. (14 hours / day).
now my watch already dead at 9.30PM (unplug from charger at 7AM)

Card disappears as soon as I hit play
I'm having a related issue too, possibly as the result of upgrading my phone to Lollipop (it only started happening since then, and Lollipop has more settings to prioritise notifications). Where I used to get a generic media controls card with the name of the artist and a pause button, with a swipe right revealing a screen with volume and back/next buttons, I now get a card with the Play Music logo and the track name, which only shows when the music is paused. This card doesn't have a play button until you swipe, and swiping right only reveals one control at a time, not all four on one screen (quite annoying to use actually). I'm using a Moto 360 as well, however I doubt that it is in any way specific to that. I'm also using Play Music as my music player. My primary suspicion is that the generic media controls went with the lockscreen widgets that Google axed in Lollipop, and that Play Music offers a fallback which happens to be quite bad. Any ideas?
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After some quick Googling, it looks like my hypothesis was correct! A leaked update to the update to the Wear app seems to fix the issue for Lollipop, see http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...l-makeover-but-only-on-lollipop-apk-download/

Moto 360 Chromecast controls not working

I found a possible bug today using Chromecast. My phone is a Nexus 5 stock ROM, not rooted. I was casting a youtube video to my TV and the controls to pause, next/previous pop up on my Moto 360. Love that feature. However, if the Nexus 5 screen goes dark, the controls stop working. If the Nexus 5 is active, then the Moto controls work.
Has anyone noticed this and/or found a solution?

Just tested with my rooted Moto X, yes same fail on YouTube, BUT works on Play Movies with screen off, so think the bug is in YouTube?
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Further testing: if paused in play movies and phone off, then watch times off, watch loses the play pause control entirely, have to restart from phone. So a few bugs here.

Good to know it is not just me. I hope they iron these bugs out in the next OS update.

Still not working (December 2014)
Has anyone figured out a fix? It was working great then stopped a few days ago. I've rebooted, reinstalled, etc. but still cannot get my 360 to control my chromecast. Volume works but controls ringer, not Chromecast volume (enen when in Chromecast app).

prevent app from automatically closing by task manager in kitkat

I listen to music via Bluetooth streaming in my car using the factory MUSIC app. I'd like to be able to get into the car, turn on the BT streaming mode on my car audio and automatically begin playing music. However, the factory task manager automatically closes the MUSIC app after I get out of the car and I have to load it manually each time.
Being that everyone recommends that with KitKat one shouldn't install a task killer/manager other than what's from the factory....how can this be done?
Is there any way to put the music on an exclusion list?
Thanks in advance.

If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?

serio22 said:
If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?
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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
Thanks.

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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
Thanks.
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It will continue running in the background, this isn't really a task killer problem but more of an app thing.. For example, I use play music and it resumes playing once I connect to Bluetooth again even if I kill it myself.. I would check the settings if you haven't already and see if there's is a setting for it, I've seen other apps with settings like that, but don't know about the stock music app

it is not in fact running in the background. No such option in setting either. Anyone know of any app that could make it be ignored by the default task manager?

You can do it with xposed if interested

The head unit in your car may have something to do with it.
Factory? Aftermarket?
I have a Kenwood w/7in touch screen and if my BT on phone is enabled as soon as the Kenwood starts up whatever app was running before will start playing automatically, Samsung music app, Amazon music app..
If Milk music or Pandora I have to launch app.
Pp.

there are a few apps on the market with that name.... also do I need root access? As far as the head unit it's a factory stereo Infiniti q50

KEVIN88GT said:
there are a few apps on the market with that name....
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It's not on the market and you need root access.. If you are interested do a quick search for xposed on Google and go to the one here on XDA, read about it on the thread and how to use it, install it, open it, and search for a module called app settings, in there you have an option to always keep in memory for whatever app you want so just select stock player. Keeping the music player running may not even be the solution, but it is a possibility.. As the previous poster stated, there are apps that just lack autoplay feature.. It is also possible that some other music app or app that uses Bluetooth may conflict with it, preventing it from auto playing