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HTC Audio Manager: BT Play/Pause stopped working (Blackstone)

Hello everyone,
I have a somewhat cryptic and annoying problem here. I use an HTC Touch HD (Blackstone) with a hama BSH-240 BT stereo headset. The headset is a four-button one (play/pause, stop, vol up, vol down) with long presses and dual-presses serving as extra keys. It's about one year old, and I used it with my iPAQ rw6815 before switching to Blackstone. Always worked perfectly.
Call me a perv, but I rather like TouchFLO 3d, and it, too, worked for me just fine for two months. Then, SUDDENLY.
Well, not so suddenly, actually, because I did a few things with my phone the day before I ran into the problem: uploaded a few more tracks onto my card, built a new playlist in WMP, and tried a wired headset (since I wanted to listen to a certain radio show).
The first sign of trouble (not sure if it's related at all) was that HTC Audio Manager didn't see my new WMP playlists - I tried it building a new one a couple of times to no effect. I simply started playing from the All Music list (fine by me, that's what my primary playlist is anyway), but then I noticed that the Audio Manager no longer responded to the Play/Pause button on my headset. All other buttons worked fine, and I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem, since the long press on the same button works okay (it's 'repeat last call').
The usual rain dancing didn't help at all (remove/add the Audio Manager tab, re-pair the headset, soft reset) and looking through the TouchFLO/WMP/WM options gave me no clues either.
I googled for hints and searched the forums as well, but didn't find anything of relevance.
I do not expect a magic solution for this, but perhaps someone has run into this problem before me and can give me some hints?
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, could be a dumb moment on my part.
Thanks in advance

Sorry for bumping this, but I have some new information about my problems.
First of all, I made sure the hardware is okay by digging up my old iPAQ and pairing my headset to it. Everything works top-notch.
Moreover, when WMP is running on my Touch HD, all the headset controls work in it. (This means the device is fully usable after all, but I really like the Audio Manager a lot more.) I have a weird feeling WMP somehow hijacked AVRCP from HTC Audio Manager.
Any ideas on how to fix it, perhaps?

Bluetooth A2DP warble with 2010 Toyota non/nav radios.

I'm looking at buying a new car and I tried playing music through a couple 2010 Toyota non-navigation radios. All the Android music/video players I tried would sound great for the first few seconds and then start a subtle warble/echo that continues until you pause/resume or switch tracks.
I've got an ADP1 currently running Cyanogen 4.2.11.1, but I saw the same problem with 4.2.9 and 1.6 (don't know about all the other various builds). I have several A2DP headsets and they always work fine (no warble).
I believe this Toyota radio is running Symbian OS from what I found on the web; and I'm going to try to see if Toyota has a software upgrade tomorrow. (I doubt it) Toyota does mention that most Bluetooth features are supported for the MyTouch, but doesn't mention A2DP either way. http://toyota.letstalk.com/brands/toyota-bt/home.htm
I'm downloading the whole Cyanogen tree and preparing to build it and then sniff through the code for buffer sizes and other likely suspects.
I just thought I'd pop this on XDA and see if anyone else has seen the same problem and found a solution.
Or does anyone know specifically where to look in the source to adjust buffer sizes and other things that might cause a warble with Bluetooth audio.

You should test before getting the car, ask the dealer if you can test the BT with the car when you get there.

I have been running A2DP on my Sony headunit for some time now. I have never experienced a warble on any of the roms I have used. I do get another issue however and maybe they are related. I can not stream stereo audio over BT to any device it seems, IF I also have my phones wifi enabled. As stated I do not get a warble, I get an audio drop for a few seconds every 30secs or so. This does not seem to happen if the headset is the only part connect, as soon as I connect the A2DP portions it starts up. Disabling wifi is my work around at present.

I have tried A2DP with/without WIFI enabled. No difference; still warbles.
Nothing interesting shows up in logcat.

I run A2DP through my ford focus with the microsoft sync system with no issues. Although the AVCRP does have issues. The control won't work after the phone goes to sleep.

The warble or echo may be due to an active system used to reduce road noise when using the phone hands free via bluetooth. Might check and see if there is a way of turning that off. Some of the foreign cars have active mics placed in the car that might cause this.

try an eclair rom (like manup456's 1.3)
BLUETOOTH IS IMPECCABLE ON THESE ROMS
it will work.

I tried turning off/on the auto volume; no help.
I'm not sure how to check/disable any bluetooth feedback; but it doesn't sound like that.
My friends Blackberry either worked fine (no warble) or was very very jerky (played quarter second, cut out a half second). And split its time about 50/50 between these modes.
I should mention the "warble" is not very pronounced, I can listen to most music without it making me crazy; but it bugs me.
Finally got all the stuff from git; now compiling the kernel.
I will try the compiled kernel tonight and if no luck there I may try the eclair rom mentioned; but I thought Steve's build already had most of the eclair stuff; maybe he is waiting on his experimental branch.
Edit:
oops, looks like a2dp stuff is not in the kernel....

I run A2DP on my kenwood deck. The only issue I experience is if I turn off the car and kill the stereo before killing my BT on my phone, my phone goes into freak out mode. I can't enable or disable BT untill I give a 3 finger salute and it just runs really slow. No warble, actually from CM 4.2.11.1 it sounds pretty damn decent.

I'm still trying to figure out how to compile the code from git; got the kernel and main tree compiled; but not the external apps (like a2dp).
Toyota gave me phone #s for Panasonic and somebody else who make the head units. So I am still pursuing a software update from that end as well. I'll call them next week after the holidays.
I've read thru the liba2dp.c code and have a couple ideas to try if I can figure out how to compile it (haven't really tried that hard, just looking for the official directions so I don't waste hours on something that is already known)

dude your doing too much work just try the eclair rom!!

[Q] google navigation volume/hidden audio tuning menu

I cant find any info on successfully accessing the audio hidden menu.
I have a problem that when I use a 3rd party music player and google navigation at the same time (i play the sound through the car stereo) then the volume of the navigation directions is reduced to almost zero when a headset/lead to car stereo is plugged into the headphone socket.
I've had a really goof look around and the fix mentioned in post 8 here looks to be the most educated and likely fix that I cant try as I cant find out how to access the hidden menu which leads to the audio tuning menu mentioned.
Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated
Acne

Bump.
I'm having this problem too. The only way I know that I'm coming up to a turn is that the music goes quiet for a few seconds.

This problem seems well documented across most phone platforms but fixes are few and far between, with most either waiting for an android or navigation update to fix the problem.
From my testing it shows that the problem only occurs when the 3.5mm head phone jack is being used so it seems sensible to try and access the volume control to control how the phone outputs audio to the jack for different apps.
Trouble is I cant - does anyone know how to access these hidden menus or perhaps just edit a config file or suchlike with the phone?
Thanks
Acne

This problem also occurs over bluetooth audio. I've tested it on the BT Audio in my car and my Jaybird bluetooth headphones.

Google Code issue, bug tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15690#makechanges
Get on it and let them know

old thread but i am having the same problem on a sensation using the standard audio player over bluetooth headtset when using copilot sat nav.
anyone found a solution?

smartecosse said:
old thread but i am having the same problem on a sensation using the standard audio player over bluetooth headtset when using copilot sat nav.
anyone found a solution?
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hi guys, just wanted to share, i had been quite bothered with bugs like these... and have been searching the web for a long time... i found a solution apparently (cant remember the site name... but some official google guys replied or something) said that u need to check ur phone tts (text to speech) settings to make sure google tts is selected
apparently, if u are using things like v-lingo or samsung powerewd by v-lingo, it becomes soft... i tested this out... was very very surprised.. apparently it got way louder.
before this i tried a volume booster which did nothing but waste space on my phone. oddly ppl swear by those apps, all i could do was swear at it...
anyway.. enough rambling... hope this fixes ur issues

[Q] Google Navigation Over Bluetooth Car Kit

Trying to to get Google Navigation voice instructions to come through my bluetooth car kit but no joy - Phone is paired with the kit and phone calls come through the kit great ..... Am I missing a setting somewhere in the Car Panel settings I have car kit options as follows: Aito Connect ON and the car kit is selcted as the deault device ...

won't work if the car radio offers just the headset protocol. a2pd must be supported too soll all sounds from the droid will be relayed, like to normal headphones.

Thanks, how can I check if the car kit supports a2pd ??

Ok just checked a bit more about the car kit, it's supposed to sream stereo music so I'm assuming that means it supports A2PD ??

it should. when you connected, go to the bluetooth settings, find the car radio, long tap on it and look in the options if there are 2 checkmarks. 1 is for using as headset, second for media. make sure both are checked, that should do it.

Hello, you should need to put your car kit into audio stream mode... I've got Pioneer radio with BT and when I want to listen music from phone through BT I have to change the source on the radio to BT media stream, otherwise I won't hear the sound. If call is coming radio switch to phone call mode automatically.

thanks got it working, there is a button on the CDPlayer/Bluetooth Unit to switch to A2DP, the moral is always read the manual properly !

i guess i have a reason to continue within this thread:
i don't get the directions vom google navigation too. but, and that's the difference, it work's great with music - which i use all the time - und other apps like sygic. only the google navigation causes trouble.
to be more precise: the directions ARE played, but at such a low volume i can't really hear anything. all the volume-sliders are up to max, but that doesn't show any effect.
so i guess for some reason there's more of a software-issue in my case, since all this worked flawlessly on my former moto milestone.
i do remember it worked in the beginning. maybe rooting the device (and s-off via xtc-clip) started all that, but since i don't use it that often i can't really tell if that's really the case.
so, any ideas?

szallah said:
i guess i have a reason to continue within this thread:
i don't get the directions vom google navigation too. but, and that's the difference, it work's great with music - which i use all the time - und other apps like sygic. only the google navigation causes trouble.
to be more precise: the directions ARE played, but at such a low volume i can't really hear anything. all the volume-sliders are up to max, but that doesn't show any effect.
so i guess for some reason there's more of a software-issue in my case, since all this worked flawlessly on my former moto milestone.
i do remember it worked in the beginning. maybe rooting the device (and s-off via xtc-clip) started all that, but since i don't use it that often i can't really tell if that's really the case.
so, any ideas?
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You'll need to increase media playback volume when you hear the voice prompt. Just press + volume button on the side and bring it to desired level.
I also have some issues with my Parrot 9100 kit. Beginning of the words are cut-off and then you can hear the announcement. I had the same problem with my Desire (not a Desire S) and I solved the problem by installing custom Ginger Villain Rom.
Now I have the same problem with the Desire S.
I guess there must be something with the HTC radio or Sense.

@aenis
thanks for your reply... but since i'm experienced in using g-navi i have already thougt of that, and media (and navi-) volume is, as i've said before, up to max...

problem with music on headset

Hello. I have headset: creative fatality hs-800, in computer work without a problem. When attaching them to HTC One S and listen to music on the phone about an hour automatically rewinds the music stops or changes to another. The same thing was happening on hd2 with android. Please help or clarification

Same thing was happening to me when I was on the HD2, now on One S with no issues. If I remember correctly there were a few things I tried.
1. Downloaded wxMP3val, just google it, its a free download to clean up MP3's. (windows)
2. Used a 4-conductor (TRRS) type phone connector, look at wiki page (phone connector audio), Looks like yours would be this type, not sure about that. This seemed to work for me on HD2 running WM6.5.
3. Could also use "Sound About" app from Play Store to set the audio path to, Speakers, Headphone with Mic, etc. there is an option for to the app to decide, but did not work for me, had to set manually each time I plugged in and out, kinda a pain but a work around for 4.2 based Roms for One S.
Hope this helps, Good Luck!

Go to the marketplace and search for: "Headset blocker" by roadkill. It will prevent you from changing tracks using the controller on the headphone wire, but at least your music won't change randomly.
Hope that helps!
my HD2, HD7, and OneS all had this problem with my seinhieser, klipsch, and generic headphones... I think there's something up with HTC