I'm having problems using my Raphael in combination with a JVC KT-BT1 car stereo.
When, for example, I'm running TomTom, and the phone is connected to the car stereo, all sound is sent to the car stereo through A2DP. No problems there, BUT: the start of each route description is cut off. It looks like the connection has to be set up every time TomTom says something.
One way to solve this is to keep for example a media player running in the background, so that the A2DP connection 'stays alive'. This is however obviously not a nice way to fix this.
I must say that I've had the very same problem with my previous phone (N95), so I'm kind of suspecting it to be a stereo's problem. However, I do hope someone else has come across this issue and knows how to fix this.
Is there a 'A2DP_keep_alive = true' setting somewhere?
Thanks!
There was a setting for this afaik, it is somewhere in the Hermes section. I tried it, but it has a downside as well (although maybe there's a fix for that as well). It has to do with redirecting sound over bluetooth and keeping that connection open.
Having a carkit myself, I wanted to use it like this: the radio plays and whenever a direction is needed, tomtom would announce it via the car speakers. However, in my case, when tomtom announces via the speakers, the radio mutes as the carkit takes over.
When using the hack where the "connection" is kept open, the carkit takes over all the time, which basically means no music from the radio.
If your carkit can work alongside the radio at the same time, then maybe this is a solution for you.
Check out (in hermes forum, so not 100% if it works for Raphael):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=278778
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=300268 (which refers to BTaudio: http://www.davidmays.com/blog/?postid=6 )
If there's a better fix I'd like to know as well.
Thanks, but unfortunately it didn't change a thing.
If there's so few people having this problem, I'm really suspecting my car kit...
I have a parrot CK3100 btw, so it happens with a different carkit as well.
Hi, sorry if there are already threads on this, but search brings up nothing.
Basically I want to know which is the best sat-nav software for the Touch Pro in terms of reliability, stability and function.
I used to use TomTom 6 with my old iMate, but it crashed a bit and annoyed me how you couldn't run it in the background. Can anyone tell me if you can continue listening to music with the Garmin software?
I don't know for garmin but in tomtom7 you can listen to music while navigating.
I'd go for the iGO8 as I think it is the best Navi software. The reason is it's just too fast , the curser keeps on following you real time, if you turn, the map turns with you immediately.
Why would you Navigate and listen to music on your device ? Don't you have a radio in your car ? BTW most raidos these days allow AUX connection for listening to MP3
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I'd go for the iGO8 as I think it is the best Navi software. The reason is it's just too fast , the curser keeps on following you real time, if you turn, the map turns with you immediately.
Why would you Navigate and listen to music on your device ? Don't you have a radio in your car ? BTW most raidos these days allow AUX connection for listening to MP3
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I use my Touch Pro as an MP3 player and as sat nav. My car stereo supports A2DP.
I would like to be able to have music on when I drive or walk around and be guided at the same time.
Does iGo 8 let you listen to music in the background?
I use Garmin Mobile XT 5, and it has the latest NUVI GUI... and works perfectly.
You can listen to music and run the MobileXT in background. As soon as you got a direction, the nav software goes in front and then goes back, living you with whatever program you where working, all this while listening to music, video or radio.
I was tempted by Garmin. The XT looks great. Really snazzy.
The thing that puts me off is that I play in a band. We have Garmin as our main sat-nav and it is terrible. It'll send us hours out of our way regularly and try and take us down roads that don't exist.
If you make a wrong turn in London it can't recalculate as quickly as you're driving and there's nowhere to pull over.
It is a running joke with a lot of touring bands that if you're late for shows you probably have a Garmin.
I've been using Garmin Mobile XT 5. The application looks nice and has lots of useful features, however, I do have some issues with lag yet I don't know whether this is software or hardware related. I think you can download a trial version from their Website so you could at least demo it.
You should check first the map coverage for your country, TeleAtlas vs Navteq vs Wherever Regional Provider; You can choose the navigation software after, as from my experience even if the interface is nice, if the maps are S***T, there's no use.
As a personal choice, i like Igo8.
Okay, I have searched and cannot find anything on this exact topic, so hear I go. Has anyone used a bluetooth handsfree car kit with the Diamond while using the internal GPS? I realize that you should be able to but with all of the issues people are having with the GPS and having to uncheck "receive all incoming beams" and all I thought it a good idea to check. I tried to use a bluetooth hands free with my bluetooth GPS on my Touch and realized that when a call comes in it looses satelite signal. I am hoping that I can use a bluetooth hands free with the Diamond (waiting for Rogers in Canada to get it) because I hear the built in speaker sucks.
Thanks in advance, Wayne>
Wow, 68 views and not one person has used a bluetooth hands free car kit with the GPS
Hi I have used GPS and bluetooth hands free at the same time no problems. Only issue I have had is when using Duttys rom with the experimental bluetooth drivers, and using gps, and on a phone call both me and the person on the other end of the call have heard the directions. I have moved to another ROM and don't have any problems.
I have connected the Diamond to my bluetooth radio and it works in hands-free mode without problems.
Navigating with TomTom and receiving or making calls at the same time is absolutely no problem.
EDIT: I use the official O2 1.93 German rom
Can you please confirm something for me - when i use TOMTOM with my bluetooth car unit there is a lag off a few seconds. E.g. instead of hearing you have reached your destination, it cuts off the first bit and all i can hear is destination. There is also a delay in the ringer. Is this ROM related? If i switch ROMs will it resolve this for me?
I have connected my phone via bluetooth to my car radio, but TomTom uses the phone's internal speaker, as my radio does not support A2DP, but only hands-free. Through the internal speaker the directions are without any lag.
Incoming calls are signalled on my radio after a short lag (1 second or so). I guess that is normal behaviour though.
what a bummer that is - it renders tomtom useless via a bluetooth device. my unit is a JVC AVX-33 which supports A2DP. So basically when tomtom says turn left in 100 yards etc, because of the lag i dont get to hear it. I have more like a 4 second lag
Is that also the case when you're streaming music over bluetooth to the radio while using TomTom?
Because I was also thinking about getting an A2DP capable radio for my car for this scenario. But if there is such a lag, TomTom would be completely useless over BT.
I have no problems with music at all. No lag what so ever. Looking back now, it just appears to be system sounds, which includes tomtom. When I change ringtone and click play, there is also a lag at that point
That's strange.
You could try Advanced Config and change some of the BT settings to see if that helps, though I don't see why system sounds lag and music does not.
Maybe someone else can shed some light on this problem?
I'd be grateful!
I have tried this solution without any luck
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=262119
Have you perhaps tried connecting your Diamond to another radio or other device that supports the A2DP profile?
Perhaps a PC or notebook with bluetooth?
You could then verify that it is indeed a problem with the phone itself and not with the radio.
I have the Supertooth Hands Free Kit, and it works pretty fine. I pair it, then start a connection, click two time on the Supertooth Button, and I even get the sounds of all Apps over the Hands free kit (GPS too).
For me it works fine.
I had no trouble with my Parrot kit and the Diamond running TomTom both with the Vodafone rom and 3rd party one from here. I have the trimmed voice commands using my Touch Dual but no such issue on the diamond. Navigation prompts come from the phones internal speaker and not my car kit.
That's interesting Blackfear gets GPS prompts through hands freee but wseed does not. The only reason I am considering getting a hands free unit is because I have heard the Diamond has a bad speaker. I was hoping to get all sound through the bluetooth speaker phone.
Dhatw.
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I tried to use a bluetooth hands free with my bluetooth GPS on my Touch and realized that when a call comes in it looses satelite signal.
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Exact my problem with the diamond. I get a call and no satllite reception on the internal GPS.
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Exact my problem with the diamond. I get a call and no satllite reception on the internal GPS.
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Really, that is not what I wanted to hear. Are you using a bluethooth hands free, and if so which one? How can it affect the internal GPS? My problem was because I was asking the phone to communicate with the bluetooth GPS, and the bluetooth hands free while announcing turns and phone conversation. I was hoping the internal GPS of the Diamond would not be affected at all by a bluetooth hands free.
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Really, that is not what I wanted to hear. Are you using a bluethooth hands free, and if so which one? How can it affect the internal GPS? My problem was because I was asking the phone to communicate with the bluetooth GPS, and the bluetooth hands free while announcing turns and phone conversation. I was hoping the internal GPS of the Diamond would not be affected at all by a bluetooth hands free.
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I'am using a bluetouch handsfree set and as navigation tomtom 7. When a phonecall comes in, i have no satelites till i drop the call. Maybe this is a problem with my not standard skippy rom, but i don't know if this happens with the standard rom.
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Really, that is not what I wanted to hear. Are you using a bluethooth hands free, and if so which one? How can it affect the internal GPS? My problem was because I was asking the phone to communicate with the bluetooth GPS, and the bluetooth hands free while announcing turns and phone conversation. I was hoping the internal GPS of the Diamond would not be affected at all by a bluetooth hands free.
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I just tested this, because i was curious - i never noticed this.
And i can confirm, answering a call with a BT handsfree while navigating. It doesn't affect the GPS. I can even stream music via A2DP to my car stereo at the same time, i hear the music and navigation instructions loud and clear without lag trough my car speakers.
So this problem might be ROM-related, not hardware... I hope this is good news
The ROM i use is the official one from HTC website : "_HTC Touch Diamond_QMR_RUU_Diamond_HTC_NLD_1.93.404.1_Radio_S igned_Diamond_52.29.25.12_1.00.25.05_Ship.exe"
The BT headset i use is a Jabra BT350
I stream A2DP to a small BT audio receiver, Sony MBR-100
I hope this helps!
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I read somewhere in this topic about a lag trough the A2DP connection.
I actually can tell how much lag there is : 400 msec. Totally acceptable for Tom Tom i think..
I know this, because sometimes i use TCPMP for watching video's in the car, e.g. at McDonalds and i have to set the audio delay in TCPMP to -400 msec to get it lipsync
Thanks, Aldo it's not a big problem for me with my build in navigation system, it's nice to know that it's rom related.
Hi guys, I don't know if this is the right forum to post, but I can't make Google Maps Navigation to play voice on my phone.
I've searched for this issue and found some people complaining that the app won't play voices when connected by bluetooth to a car hands-free adapter, but in my case it NEVER does, either by phone speakers or the handsfree bt adapter.
I have installed TTS Service Extended... but no luck...
Can anyone give me a hint? It's impossible to use a Navigation app without voices, since it makes you look more at the phone's screen than paying attention to the road... and that's really dangerous.
Thanks!
Android Froyo, HTC Desire HD with Navigon Mobile Navigator.
I can connect the phone to my car stereo through Bluetooth. Everything works fine. I can receive and make calls and music routed through to Bluetooth perfectly. When I use Mobile Navigator the turn-by-turn instructions come through the phone speaker, then a second later they also come through the bluetooth connection to the car. The beginning of the bluetooth instruction is also cut off. I can't find anywhere to explicitly disable the phone speaker when audio is routed to Bluetooth, although other apps don't seem to suffer from this. Anyone know a hack?
Same Problem here. sound is routed through bluetooth and phone speaker while bluetooth is cut off. I assume the Navigon software has a bug here. I hope they fix it soon
unfortunately I did not find any workarround or fix till now
anyone?
I had a workaround using car UI by beemer. Unfortunately after upgrading to android 2.2.1 I can't make it work anymore but am not sure where the problem lies as even downgrading again through backup-restore left the same problem. I'd be interested to hear if anyone has a magic trick for producing the right combination of settings as I know this was working before with a 2.2.0 based rom and car UI.