Hey all, I recently received my Gtab and wanted to highlight some issues and see if anyone else had experienced them or had solutions to them. I am running the latest vegan 5.1 or whatever.
1) I popped in my 8gb microSD card, but when I mount it via the notification bar, an 11gb storage device shows up. I am not sure if this is the internal storage or if it is my SD card combined with internal storage. If someone could clarify which one it is, and how to access the other storage device, that would be lovely.
2) When throwing a video onto it, I tried playing it with the stock video player, and there is no audio. I alternatively downloaded rock player and tried playing it through that, but again new audio. Do show and stuff have to be specifically converted for the g tab?
Thanks all
The audio sometimes turns off because it thinks headphones are plugged in. Plug some in an un-plug to get sound back. It doesn't happen to often but I keep a cut off Jack in my Gtab case to remedy the situation if it arises.
Are you sure your looking at sdcard 2? That's what your 8gb should show up under.
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I just bought an Atrix and when I plug it into the USB port on my car stereo it tries to play the audio from the internal card.. Pretty much the notice sounds, I'd rather play from the SD card but the only thing I could think of would be to make a shortcut to the internal memory.
1. I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this on android.
2. If I try will I jack something up?
Any ideas? I've never used android before but I do know a little bit about linux.
Hey all - tried to search for this but didn't find anything... I have a Kenwood car stereo that plays iphone via usb port, but I wasn't able to see how to get it to work by seeing the SR as a media device. On my captivate, you could choose 'media player' as a usb mode, but that wouldn't work either. Any ideas? I like the idea of playing music while being able to charge the phone at the same time. It does charge off of the deck via usb, but just can't get it to find the music on the SR.
That is such a coincidence, I just put in probably the same (or similar) Kenwood stereo into my car (KDC-248U). I was looking around on the website and under the KDC-252U they list an Android app "Kenwood Music Control" it's in the Market. I am going to give that a try later today.
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Apparently the app analyzes your music or something and then puts a file on your device to make it readable, worth looking into.
Also check here http://androidforums.com/android-media/167502-kewood-car-deck-problem-solving.html
Nice call! You have to have the music on the external SD though, in case anyone else has a problem getting it running Then choose 'auto output' in preferences. Also appears that the program stays active all the time... which I'm not crazy about, but it does work!
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Nice call! You have to have the music on the external SD though, in case anyone else has a problem getting it running Then choose 'auto output' in preferences. Also appears that the program stays active all the time... which I'm not crazy about, but it does work!
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That's great news! I gave it the ol college try but came up empty. Maybe you can help me out.
First what model stereo do you have and second, how do you store your media on your external SD , in a folder "music" or under a second level folder? Lastly, how did you get it to recognize did you plug it in and quickly choose USB storage or did you plug it in, choose USB storage and then cycle sources till you landed back on USB?
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So I've been playing around with it and now I can get it to play all the time. First plug USB into phone then into Head unit. When head switches to "Reading" change source to something else (Radio, Portable, etc.). Now enable USB storage and open Kenwood App, while doing this switch to "USB" on the source and it will play.
Now I am having lots of issues getting new music to read, I have tried manually analyzing to no such luck. What options do you have on? I noticed that at one time on reboot it re-did the scan.
It's not very elegant but it works. I wish I didn't have to use an app running all the time.
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I first scanned the music so it was all recognized by the app. Plug it in, and while the stereo is showing 'reading's then turn on the PC storage (and assuming you have auto output enabled). Then it worked. Clunky, but better than nothing for linger car trips. My stereo is the x695 excelon deck.
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I first scanned the music so it was all recognized by the app. Plug it in, and while the stereo is showing 'reading's then turn on the PC storage (and assuming you have auto output enabled). Then it worked. Clunky, but better than nothing for linger car trips. My stereo is the x695 excelon deck.
Kenwood Music Editor Light
After playing around a bit it seems really clunky and I don't like the idea of the app running all the time. However I did find a solution, the Kenwood Music Editor (Light Edition).
http://www.kenwood.com/cs/ce/music_editor_light/english/download.html
You are still limited to music on your external SD card but it does not require the Kenwood app to be running or present to work. It was meant to make music playable on any USB device so it can be used for flash cards as well if you are having issues reading them. You plug your device into a computer (Windows only) and then run a scan and you should be good to go.
After doing this it's the same situation to play for me, plug in and turn on USB storage (it takes long for my phone to get into USB storage so that is why I have to cycle the Sources after it's connected to get the stereo to play). It remembers track position and everything.
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After playing around a bit it seems really clunky and I don't like the idea of the app running all the time. However I did find a solution, the Kenwood Music Editor (Light Edition).
You are still limited to music on your external SD card but it does not require the Kenwood app to be running or present to work. It was meant to make music playable on any USB device so it can be used for flash cards as well if you are having issues reading them. You plug your device into a computer (Windows only) and then run a scan and you should be good to go.
After doing this it's the same situation to play for me, plug in and turn on USB storage (it takes long for my phone to get into USB storage so that is why I have to cycle the Sources after it's connected to get the stereo to play). It remembers track position and everything.
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newer car-stereos usualy suport any file when you put the phone in "storage-device"-mode.
im looking to get controll over the phone from my stereo, yther use the player in the phone or spotify. works great whit an iphone, but cant find any solution to get the same controll from my htc desire hd...
im guessing its not the stereo itself but the phones software thats the problem, not allowing audio out or controlls in from the microUSB
id love a solution to this though
Check out the other apps like kenwood music control for android:
http://www.kenwood.com/cs/ce/
Hi all, anyone having a strange intermittent humming/buzzing sound when playing video (in addition to the video sound) only from the microSD tablet slot? If I put the same video file onto tablet storage, or play through USB or through dock SD slot, there is no sound and it plays great.
It almost seems like the sound comes whenever the tablet is "thinking" - there are times when it is accompanied by a stutter in the video.
Tried this both with Dice and stock video player....same sound.
Just tried different MicroSD cards....all seem to have the issue.
Also just realized I only get the sound when I'm plugged into the headphone jack....Bluetooth headphones don't have the buzz
Yes I got that too. Every 20 seconds or so some weird sound comes up. Haven't tested it in a while to make sure if it still exists though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1806470
Common issue in several Android devices
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Hi all, anyone having a strange intermittent humming/buzzing sound when playing video (in addition to the video sound) only from the microSD tablet slot? If I put the same video file onto tablet storage, or play through USB or through dock SD slot, there is no sound and it plays great.
It almost seems like the sound comes whenever the tablet is "thinking" - there are times when it is accompanied by a stutter in the video.
Tried this both with Dice and stock video player....same sound.
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Noticed the issue back in July. Between the time, I had replaced infinity, so not sure if it was due to different unit vs. different microSD (as I also changed my microSD card). But I no longer noticed the buzz/sound. The new microSD I was using was San Disk 32GB http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Micro...d=1353877861&sr=8-2&keywords=san+disk+microsd
The card: SanDisk 128gb Class 10 MicroSD.
The phones tested on: Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5.
Problem: For some reason, and I know it's not because of the card because it's brand new and works fine otherwise, but when I play music regardless through Bluetooth or headphones plugged in, I get microstuttering in music every now and then. I've also used did reinstalls of Android, formatted the card in both Windows and Android, and still happens. I noticed it seems to happen more when I unsleep and sleep the phone.
I heard something where people were saying to change the player in dev options between AwesomePlayer and NuPlayer or something like that; didn't work. Also, I've tried removing background apps, turning wifi on/off, data ETC, nothing seems to stop these microstutters.
While some may think it's the card because it's the same problem between two different devices, I doubt it's the cards problem, because I used the same card on a Pioneer XDP100R and it never skipped on that device. Is there something in Galaxy devices that would make audio skip when reading from MicroSD's? It doesn't skip from internal as far as I know, either.
I'll take any recommendations.
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Short version:
Recently updated to the latest Hal9k 9.0 from stock 8.0. also updated the MCU. I had a couple USB drives I always used and never had an issue with them. Now I do.
After restarting the car, the USB drive (same with SDcards) says "there is a problem with the drive. Click here to fix" which to fix it, it wants me to format the drive. I did exactly that on one USB drive and still had the same problem.
Long version:
My only real complaint with the stock rom (and reason to update) was a lack of customization. Mainly the music app. I was using Musicolet rather than stock because the stock app is basic at best. But every time I started the car I had to manually click play and it would restart the last song rather automatically continue where it left off. Same with a few other local music apps I tried. Luckily, the upgrade to Hal9k's ROM fixed that problem...
The problem I'm having now is... Everything works fine until I park, turn the car off, etc... I get back in, start the car, and the song comes back on and plays like it should until the buffer is empty. Then tries to skip to the next song. But can't because of the storage error. It says "there is a problem with the drive. Click here to fix" which to fix it, it wants me to format the drive.
If I hold power to completely restart the stereo, it works perfectly fine until the next time I turn the car off and on again.
Tried various different things. Including using the stock app. All had the same result. Same with or without the "Reset USB devices when booting or waking up" enabled in the Mod settings.
At a loss for this. Hopefully someone has an idea.
First I tried a 128GB USB stick that was overheating causing it to drop out while I was driving. (Never had that issue before updating with the stereo but do have that issue on a PC when mass copying data to/from it. Figured it would be fine for the short burst of access required for MP3 playback)
The I tried a 32GB and 16GB USB had the storage error issues described above. And a 64GB and 8GB SDcard also having errors on wakeup.
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Little surprised to have had zero comments. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Found if I pause the music before turning off the car it has the storage issue less. But, that kills the smooth no touch playback I'm hoping to obtain.
Really wanting to turn off the car, have music pause, get back in, start the car, and music picks up where it left off 100% without touching the stereo.
I do doordash, ubereats, etc for side cash and as a result can be in and out of my car a lot in short periods.
Don't be surprised everybody's in isolation watching Netflix instead of at work passing time on XDA Anyway, you should ask your question on the appropriate Hal9K thread. It would seem USB doesn't get properly re-initialized on wake up. I remember a thread where someone removed a resistor to fix a similar issue with USB that caused WiFi to drop but that would only be advisable if the software can't be fixed. This solution might help you until Hal9K fixes it.