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New method to continuously redirect sound to mono bluetooth

I've read/tried a few methods to get sound to redirect to a mono (non-A2DP) bluetooth headset. Anyway, I've come up with my own quick fix to the problem. It's a slightly ugly, brute force method, but it works.
So you need installed:
1) vijay555's VJVolubilis (v0.41)
http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJVolubilis
2) MortScript (4.0)
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=view&entry=65
VJVolubilis -agon works almost perfectly, but after a phone call, the audio is re-routed back to the mobile (on my AKU 2.2 Prophet, anyway). So that's where MortScript comes in. I've written a script that runs continuously in the background to use VJVolubilis, keeping the sound redirected to the BT headset.
I've attached the scripts and a shortcut file. Put the scripts in \Program Files\Tools, and put the shortcut in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs. Or put the scripts wherever you want and make your own shortcut.
Note: It's TWO scripts now. One to activate the program, the other to run in the background. This is changed for MortScript v.4.
How it works
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The script runs VJVolubilis every 4 seconds, which should be frequent enough to switch the audio back before another phone call. Be careful if you edit the script and lower the delay, as it might cause a race condition.
To enable BT audio redirection, turn on your BT headset and then run the script. To turn it off, re-run the script to cancel it (give it a few seconds), then turn off your headset. It's as simple as that.
FYI, I measured the CPU usage (using TCPMP), comparing just enabling VJVolubilis vs. running the script. The difference was about 0.2%, so given the margin of error, it's not much in any case.
Notes:
1) Please make sure to cancel the script when you turn off the headset, otherwise your PPC might become unstable.
2) The script keeps BT audio gateway open, which sucks back a lot of power. On my S200, an average day's use is around 50% battery usage, and the headset running out of power (6 to 9 hours, depending on the headset).
3) Argh!!! I made some MortScript v4 syntax mistakes. I hope it's all fixed now.
Cheers!

I downloaded your zip file,un-zipped it and i t contains only 1 cab file(btaudio),installed on my device,but i didn't see any files in the \\Program\tools folder and where is the script file you mentioned located?how to make it to work?thanks.

2kmy477 said:
I downloaded your zip file,un-zipped it and i t contains only 1 cab file(btaudio),installed on my device,but i didn't see any files in the \\Program\tools folder and where is the script file you mentioned located?how to make it to work?thanks.
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Get and install mortscript; start it so that the file associations (mscr) are set. After this, just start BT Audio.lnk in Programs.

BTW, nice stuff; I'll link it from my "official" article on all these q's.

Where to get the MortScript file?I thought it was included in the BTAudio.zip file.Thanks.

Sorry for not being totally clear... I thought I had written way too much already.
Get VJVolubilis from here:
http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJVolubilis
Mort's site is under renovation, but you can find MortScript from his download site:
http://www.sto-helit.de/downloads/pocketpc/
Both are very small downloads. My zip file only contains a script file and a link to that script.
Anyway, I hope it works...
Edit: BTW, please make sure the BT headset has been turned on *before* using the script. Otherwise cancel the script, turn off the headset and start over.

Okay, thanks Menneisyys! It's not exactly extensively tested, but hopefully it will work on other devices.

Hi everyone, just an FYI, I updated the script so it should work a bit more reliably.
Also, MortScript 4.0RC4 (was RC3) is available (see above).

Which OS(s)?
Does any of this run on WM5 Smartphone edition? More specifically, the Samsung i607 Blackjack? Thanks!

I believe both apps support WM5 smartphones. Just a matter of copying the scripts over after that.
I don't have a WM5 smartphone, so you're gonna have it to try it.

Did you ever find a solution for this on the BlackJack? I was thinking about purchasing one, but it's worthless to me unless I can find a way to route all audio to a mono bluetooth headset.

can not download VJVolubilis. It is a dead link.

chip677 said:
can not download VJVolubilis. It is a dead link.
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Yeah, right. How come everyone else can? at least try browsing the site - http://www.vijay555.com/

http://www.vijay555.com/ can not browse too.

Hi guys, I've updated the script and links to the programs (see first message). Vijay's site works for me, so maybe it was just down for a bit.
BTW, I've made a new script to only redirect BT audio when the phone rings, but I'll post it to a new thread.
Edit: Sorry, I messed up the script yesterday... I hope it works okay now.

I am using a Dopod D810 (HTC mobile device) and a Plantronic Discovery 640 bluetooth headset. I have tried many times your new method here. Still, I could not listen to the mp3 music via the bluetooth headset! Please help to solve this problem.

Blueplayer could = better A2DP sound

If anyone here has tried to use an i.tech stereo headset (like the R35 or S35) or other A2DP headset and has been dissapointed with the sound quality (commonly referred to as a "ringing" distortion or hissing over the sound) using the A2DP for tornado hack, its because the MS Bluetooth Stack isn't 100% compatible with all (most) headsets. Its particularly noticeable on i.tech, but the reduced quality is true on many others as well.
In case you didn't know, Blueplayer is a standalone app that streams music to A2DP headphones even if the phone doesn't support A2DP in its own stack! That means any phone with bluetooth (some even claim older 1.1 devices as well) can bypass the usual MS stack in our devices and stream stereo sound directly to a compatible headset!
The software was written for Nokia S60 devices initially, but there have been Pocket PC and java versions (only compatible with specific phones) released since then as well.
I'm very annoyed by the sound quality of my itech R35 paired with my imate SP5. I'm 100% sure that software such as blueplayer would solve this problem. However, the PPC and java versions don't seem to work on my device.
Can anyone help me figure out how to make this work? I tried extracting the files from the PPC cab file, but its complaining about missing libraries. The install may add some things to the registry that I'm missing.
Better yet, does anyone have anything like this for WM Smartphone?

what are you missing? I got blueplayer running with my S35 and the quality is excellent and range good(for me)...
Unfortunately I am using a Wizard...

I wish I could get it working!
I can't figure out what it is, but I'm having trouble.
Normally I can make any app work (even if its for PPC) by pulling the files off of a PPC installation, and run the .exe on my smartphone and it just works.
But I keep get errors about libraries not existing or being in the wrong place. I need to figure out exactly what happens when the app is installed- what files go where, any registry changes, etc... There's gotta be a way to make it work on smartphone!

From memory,
There are a few files and registry settings that I can remember but barely, but if you want I can try to install it again. I removed it because I don't use MP3s anymore..

Yeah, if you don't mind helping me out, that'd be amazing (also for the smartphone community as a whole).
Why don't u use mp3's anymore?

I can just look up the settings for you, you got to do the work ;-)...
I find them too large for my 1Gb MiniSD, using AAC+ now... nice quality and file size.
Just PM me what you want to know...

Well, I don't know what kind of entries this will place in the registry. To be honest, I'm not sure how to check myself either. Is there a way to tell EXACTLY what a .cab does?

Found it!
Interesting program for those in my situation:
http://thinkabdul.com/2006/12/20/ms...nformation-from-windows-mobile-cab-xml-files/
lets you see exactly what steps a cab installation goes through. Any reg. items, what the actual filenames are, what directories they are placed in, etc...
Amazing little tool.
However, I still haven't gotten blueplayer to work on my sp5... I wonder why?

thanks for the link, I needed something like that as well, going to compare the differences in the Widcomm bluetooth hacks...
BTW, how do you get blueplayer to work on a smartphone anyway without the touch screen?

Oh, simulating a touchscreen is easy... most apps let you navigate using the joystick, but it gets annoying and sometimes a touch is needed to click (for example an ok button).
There's a great little app call SPhelper that places a mouse pointer on your screen that can be navigated using the directional joystick, and "clicked" like a screen tap.
Its pretty cool.
Anyway, the problem is that I can't get Blueplayer to operate, even with all the .dll files in the right places. It says its missing something.

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I can just look up the settings for you, you got to do the work ;-)...
I find them too large for my 1Gb MiniSD, using AAC+ now... nice quality and file size.
Just PM me what you want to know...
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Here's all I know:
I poked around in the .cab installation and found that there are 4 .dll's that go in the \windows dir (msibtstk.dll, msibtapi.dll, CHS.dll and TW.dll), and two .exe program files that go in program files\msi\blueplayer (STLoader.exe, and MPOBCE.exe). AFAIK, there don't seem to be any registry entries that it inserts.
Now, I've done this with PPC apps before, normally all I have to do is run the .exe after all files are in place, and it will work (obviously with some minor annoyances due to missing the touch screen).
However, every time I hit MPOBCE.exe, all I get is:
"Alert
Can't find MPOBCE or one of its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all the required libraries are available."
There's gotta be something I'm overlooking... Anyone?

No man, there are some(I found some) entries, but I thought you were set and removed them already..
will reinstall and get back to you again...
BTW do you do a full backup of your phone? I use SPB backup and it is good..

oh, cool, I couldn't find any... let me know!

entries but not sure if working...
Here are the two registry inputs(rename to *.txt) I found on my system.. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work this time as I am using Widcomm bluetooth stack... wonder why.... Last time I used this was with MS Stack on...

new2city said:
Here are the two registry inputs(rename to *.txt) I found on my system.. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work this time as I am using Widcomm bluetooth stack... wonder why.... Last time I used this was with MS Stack on...
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No, that makes sense. The Nokia one is designed to operated by tunnelling through the s60 stack, and the WinCE version was most likely designed assuming the MS one.

No go... I entered all this stuff exactly like you said, and I get the same errors.
Interesting to note is the drivers reg keys already existed!
It appears that the other exe (stloader.exe) did run and I think entered those keys. The actual program tho, seems to not run (and therefore never entered the proper keys, I'm guessing).

Sorry man.. to get your hopes up..
Right now, I got Axim Widcomm Stack running on my Wizard, but still get the memory issue after a long time powering off bluetooth.
oh well, back to waiting and testing new stacks..

Hey, I've got another idea if you wouldn't mind helping me some more...
Could you try to manually install it the way I've been doing on your pocket PC device?
The reason I ask is because it will determine if there's some sort of PPC-specific code (which I don't think I've ever encountered or even heard of before).
I attached the files and directory structure that I extracted from the cab. If you could, please try uninstalling BluePlayer and tell me if you can get this to run by manually copying the files here.
If it doesn't work for you either, than its because my method is flawed and I'm missing something here... and I shouldn't give up yet!

ok, I will give it a go, but most probably I can only go as far as getting the program to run... Feel comfortable with the widcomm stack, don't feel like disabling it..
just give me a few hours.. my stupid SD USB card reader not working properly... got to look for my cable.. damn!!

good news is, the program starts with the exceptions
1)at first start after putting the files in place, the program starts a few times with the L2Cap error...
2)After a few failed restarts, followed by a softreset, the registry settings in drivers(L2Cap..) are in place and the program runs without error.
3)Now it's up to you to test it with MS stack bluetooth on, as I cannot confirmed this for you.. good luck buddy...

First Time WM user - need desperate help with questions about HTC Touch Pro...

Hi Guys, and pleas bare with me since i'm new to WM phones, i've always been a Nokia Symbian and Sony Ericsson user.
I got the HTC Touch Pro (I'll call it it TP for short) and i have a buncha questions that I'd appreciate if you guys would help me with.
1) When receiving an MMS message, why does the picture appear as a small icon instead of the full picture, i would have to click it to view it. IS there a way to automatically view the picture/video as soon as i open an MMS message?
2) Do WM phones have shady/crippled Bluetooth? i have used the TP, Omnia, imate Jam, imate Jammin and they all have funky blue tooth when transferring pictures to PC. I used multiple Bluetooth USB dongles on my PC and same problem, the device searches for the Pc, then i get a "Device Found" message forever, for like 5-10 minutes(literally) then it changes my PC name(if i'm lucky, that's like 1 times out of 10) ....so eventually i tap the PC name transfer the picture and *most* of the time the trasfer/process failed! I've used Jabra and Belkin BT USB dingles
3) When taking pictures, i know you could email them and MMS them, but why no Bluetooth option? why can't i do it right away from the camera utility/gallery? it's so inconvenient......i have to go to "Pictures" and Videos" application to bluetooth the pictures/videos....and the worst part is that i can only transfer 1 file at a time!
4) when sending files from PC to TP (which works perfectly fine btw), where does the file end up? where in file explorer? and is there an easier way to locate it?
5) when recording video, which is better MPE4 or H.264? i'm guessing H.264? ....i can't tell since the files won't transfer over BT! yes and both BT are on on both devices and discoverable.
6) Where can i get theme's for the HTC TP?
7) any recommended programs? i'm looking for media and games....i'm not interested in business application.....oops, one more thing, does Blackberry work with the HTC TP?
sorry for the too many question, but im a WM convert and new to the OS and need the help to answer my questions, i appreciate you're help guys!
thanks!
marwan,

I will try my best!
You are asking very hard and perhaps impossible to answer questions, but I will try my best to answer them for you!
marwan74 said:
1) When receiving an MMS message, why does the picture appear as a small icon instead of the full picture, i would have to click it to view it. IS there a way to automatically view the picture/video as soon as i open an MMS message?
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I dont use MMS, but "why" I think would be better to ask microsoft!
However I think there are many other programs to choose from if you dont like the standard one in WM 6.1! Maybe someone here can give you some alternatives?
marwan74 said:
2) Do WM phones have shady/crippled Bluetooth? i have used the TP, Omnia, imate Jam, imate Jammin and they all have funky blue tooth when transferring pictures to PC. I used multiple Bluetooth USB dongles on my PC and same problem, the device searches for the Pc, then i get a "Device Found" message forever, for like 5-10 minutes(literally) then it changes my PC name(if i'm lucky, that's like 1 times out of 10) ....so eventually i tap the PC name transfer the picture and *most* of the time the trasfer/process failed! I've used Jabra and Belkin BT USB dingles
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I dont have any problems with bluetooth transfers, have you tried using "Resco explorer"? Or maybe you should check if your PC is at fault?
marwan74 said:
3) When taking pictures, i know you could email them and MMS them, but why no Bluetooth option? why can't i do it right away from the camera utility/gallery? it's so inconvenient......i have to go to "Pictures" and Videos" application to bluetooth the pictures/videos....and the worst part is that i can only transfer 1 file at a time!
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"Why" ask microsoft again!
But you should try Resco explorer, there is a option so you can transfer/manage several files at once!
marwan74 said:
4) when sending files from PC to TP (which works perfectly fine btw), where does the file end up? where in file explorer? and is there an easier way to locate it?
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If you mean sending files via bluetooth then it should end up under \my device\My documents. However that can be changed, if you go to settings/connections/Bluetooth/FTP you will be able to set another default folder! (SD card recommended!)
marwan74 said:
5) when recording video, which is better MPE4 or H.264? i'm guessing H.264? ....i can't tell since the files won't transfer over BT! yes and both BT are on on both devices and discoverable.
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I am not sure about this one, but I have found that H.264 does not play in all devices!
marwan74 said:
6) Where can i get theme's for the HTC TP?
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Search this or the HTC touch diamond forum!
marwan74 said:
7) any recommended programs? i'm looking for media and games....i'm not interested in business application.....oops, one more thing, does Blackberry work with the HTC TP?
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There are so many programs to choose from, but for media I would recomend either TCPMP (Free) or Coreplayer (Comercial)! A good way to find programs is to look at handandgo´s website!
How do you mean does it work with TP?
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I hope this helps you a bit, and welcome to WM´s world, I think you will find that once you learn what this is all about you would never want to go back to Symbian again!

I don't know if you'll get your questions 100% answered, but friend, it sounds like you picked up the wrong phone for you. I myself have come from a long line of Nokia's and their S40 and S60 OS's but I'm glad to say that I love my TP and all it's little qwerks, don't really think that you can get everything to work like everything else. Each OS is a little different. Kind of like saying, "Can anyone help me? I want to be able to right click in MAC OS Tiger!" it's just never going to happen [and I know you can ctrl+click to get another set of options, but you know what I mean]

Making Camera button Play/Pause

Is there a way to somehow make the camera button play/pause my music? There has to be a way, this is Windows Mobile.
Any suggestions?
Elfin
WinMo 6.1
Music in HTC Audio Manager.

VJKeyPress might do it for you. I'm not sure if you can edit the registry to add an argument to the program ran by the hardware button, (can someone confirm yes/no), or whether you'll have to use VJBrisk to get it working.

you don't mention which player most players got a long list of functions you can tie to the hardware buttons of your device

@Rudegar: I did mention actually.
@jez: Thanks, I'll try that out.

@jez: I don't see how that would work. Can you give me a brief explanation how to make any of those apps do what I want to do?
Thanks.

Install VJKeyPress then edit the registry, (it looks like its HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shell/Keys on my Hermes), so that the button points to "VJKEYPRESS.EXE 179", where 179 is the argument to play/pause your media.

Okay, so in it looks like its HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shell/Keys/4-C2 there is an entry:
Name: Icon
Data: \windows\camera.exe, 0
I should change this to "\Program Files\vijay555\VJKeyPress\VJKeyPress.exe" 179
Am I right?

I think it would be the default string rather than the icon.
However I just installed HTC Audio Manager, (I normally use Conduits Pocket Player), and tested and it doesn't seem to work.
VJKeyPress 179 works for WMP, but you can map buttons anyway in that. Unfortunately AudioManager must work differentely.
Sorry I couldn't help.

Hmm, thanks for trying . Does anyone have any other solution?

Issue with Whiskeybro's SRS WOW HD on my i920 Omnia

Hey everyone,
I recently purchased the i920 from Verizon and I love the phone so far. I have only had one issue with third party applications so far, involving Whiskeybro's SRS WOW HD for Omnia II application.
forum [dot] xda-developers [dot] com/showthread.php?t=629382
I was under the impression that only the standard media player could take advantage of the installed SRS and that a third party version should be used for third party players. Upon installing whiskeybro's app, I found that the standard player would initiate a device.exe error report. His app apparently does not support the CDMA i920, but only the GSM i8000. A report would be generated when starting the player, attempting to access the sound settings within the player, changing a sound profile or loading WOW HD and closing the player. The song being played when loading or changing the sound profile would skip much like a compact disc for about 5 seconds while the profile was loaded, then an eror report would be generated.
I don't know what my options are for restoring the standard player to its original state. I would prefer not to hard reset and lose all my apps. Has anyone encountered a similar problem and found a resolution? Anyone have any ideas what might be causing the problem with device.exe?
Any help here is really appreciated.
~Japazo

Moved as not software release.

This has gotten unbearably more frustrating...
There is a serious issue with the mobile development scene, primarily with documenting intended operating systems and specifications. I have scoured dozens of versions of srs wow hd for "omnia 2" and so far have not been able to find a resolution to my problem. In many cases there is no way to tell what operating system and device developers apps are intended for!
The SRS WOW HD was causing so many problems that I uninstalled it. The phone later crashed for unknown reasons and when I rebooted there was no sound at all. WMP wouldn't play music, I couldn't hear voices from incoming calls and they couldn't hear me, no ringtones, etc. I decided to do more research and reinstall another SRS WOW HD cab. After soft reset I again had sound but the entire phone was so labored that I couldn't reasonably use it for anything. I noticed that device.exe was using 99% ram for around 10 minutes straight after startup. Since device.exe handles the .dll files used on the device I checked the registry values for the WOW HD settings. They were as follows...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Drivers\BuiltIn\WaveDev
Dll = WOWHD_ARM_WCE_PPC2005_Driver.dll
IClass = {A32942B7-920C-486b-B0E6-92A702A99B35}
OldDriver = wavedev.dll
Prefix = WAV
R2VS Driver Version = 3.1.11n (2009.06.26)
R2VS Target Model = GT-i8000(Qubic37)
This is after the installation of whiskeybro's cab file.
forum. xda-developers .com/showthread.php?t=629382
There are some obvious problems here, though I don't know which are causing issues. First, why is the program using a .dll file from windows mobile 2005 when apparently versions from 6.1 and possibly 6.5 exist? wavedev.dll should be correct unless the cab file is somehow corrupting the original wavedev.dll when it installs. I installed r2vs to see if I could use the wm6.1 .dll file it uses but had no luck. I uninstalled both managers and reinstalled SRS WOW HD but have the same problems as before. Im not sure if the two strings in the registry are leftovers from the uninstall? In any case, it appears that it was trying to install the software for use on an i8000, not an i920.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this damn problem? I currently have to deal with no sound, including no call functionality, or burn up half my battery every time I restart my phone while device.exe sits there and thinks. Does anyone know where I can get the newer version of the wowhd .dll file for wm6.1 or wm6.5? Is there some way to fix the installation I have? Do you need more info?
Hopefully someone has an idea that will help. I'm currently using a very unreliable phone!