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Make phone ring when bluetooth is connected?

I've searched, but seems that nobody was able to find the answer.
I got a bluetooth headset that's pretty much always connected, but not always in my ear.
Problem is that phone doesn't ring (there no sound, only vibration) when there's bluetooth connected. Can I make it always ring?

DarkDvr said:
I've searched, but seems that nobody was able to find the answer.
I got a bluetooth headset that's pretty much always connected, but not always in my ear.
Problem is that phone doesn't ring (there no sound, only vibration) when there's bluetooth connected. Can I make it always ring?
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My bluetooth is also always connected to my phone. What I do is that in the bluetooth settings, I uncheck the "Wireless Stereo" checkbox. In this case, my phone rings as per normal and I can still pick them up using my bluetooth.

But won't that turn off my stereo headphone functionality (i.e. stereo music)?
I got Voyager 855 which also acts as stereo headphones.

DarkDvr said:
But won't that turn off my stereo headphone functionality (i.e. stereo music)?
I got Voyager 855 which also acts as stereo headphones.
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Well, you can always check the option when you need to use them as stereo headphones.

that's work.. =)
Isn't there an easier way?

Had this happen to me as well on the Voyager 855, but it started working again. See my post/resolution in thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3579647#post3579647
Let me know if it works for ya!

Anas
worked fine ...
it was my problem with Cyanogenmod Rom.
thanks
: long press on device name to get [options]
- Un-check [Media]
- keep [Connect] and [phone] checked.
enjoy ....
hTc Desire , Cyanogenmod 7.0.3
SonyEricsson MW600 BT headset.

Cyanogen Mod
I have recently had this problem with the Cyanogen Mod
Here is my solution:
Open "Settings>Cyanogen Mod Settings>Sound"
Scroll down to the "Always Play on Speaker" section
Tick the "Ring Tones" check box

p.gogarty said:
I have recently had this problem with the Cyanogen Mod
Here is my solution:
Open "Settings>Cyanogen Mod Settings>Sound"
Scroll down to the "Always Play on Speaker" section
Tick the "Ring Tones" check box
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I had to reboot for these setting to take effect. Other than that, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

I didn't get the phone ringtone in my wireless headphone Redmi note 5, mobile

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Seifer1975 said:
My bluetooth is also always connected to my phone. What I do is that in the bluetooth settings, I uncheck the "Wireless Stereo" checkbox. In this case, my phone rings as per normal and I can still pick them up using my bluetooth.
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Thank u. Ur suggestion solved the problem.

Bluetooth media audio doesn't auto-connect

I have to long-press device, options and uncheck and check use media audio to connect. Anyone else run into this problem or have a solution? Is this a Froyo thing? Or a G2X thing?
My apologies if this has been asked/answered before.
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I am seeing the same thing. Sony Xplod bt radio. I did not have this issue on my N1 when it was on froyo. The phone seems half finished. Hopefully our CM7 guys fix it up...or back to the Costco!

Same exact thing here on Sony exploded by unit. The phone auto connects fine but the media doesn't work for me.
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Did you get an option to enter a passcode when pairing the device? I did not. I will delete the relationship and then re-pair later today. Will update on the results.
Ananth. You using a sont BT radio?

I have no issues at all connecting to bluetooth headphones. Media connects about a second after phone audio just by turning on the headphones. Don't even touch the phone

Just updating, removing and re-pairing the device do not allow media streaming to connect back in. Still need to un check and re-check

ftblstr2319 said:
Did you get an option to enter a passcode when pairing the device? I did not. I will delete the relationship and then re-pair later today. Will update on the results.
Ananth. You using a sont BT radio?
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I am using a Volkswagen RCD-510 head unit. Yes, I did get a "pair" message and 0000 went through fine. It connects fine to phone audio, but not media audio. Once connected it all works good, though.
PS: I haven't tried AVRCP (because my head unit doesn't support it over bluetooth)

OK, so I had no issue with one set of headphones, but had this issue with another. Not sure what is different between the 2 though.

Works fine on my Pioneer head unit.

Same issue here - Kenwood DNX-8120 head unit. Worked fine with the N1, have to disconnect and reconnect (sometimes several times) from phone to get media audio to connect.
Hoping it's a Froyo thing... Very annoying.

Playing music through Mono Bluetooth Headset

I just bought a bluetooth headset today. Just a simple Mono one. I cant get my phone to play music through it for some reason. It will work fine for phone calls though. I can get it to play music through my laptop so I dont think the headset is incapable of playing music through it. Anyone try playing music through bluetooth yet?
Its this one here...
http://www.amazon.com/Plantronics-M100-R-Bluetooth-Headset/dp/B003XDU8OO

I'm not sure it can be done natively by the phone, I stumbled across an app which might be worth a try for you, I can't post links but if you search the market for BTmono you should find it, there's a free version on there.

silentsnow31802 said:
I just bought a bluetooth headset today. Just a simple Mono one. I cant get my phone to play music through it for some reason. It will work fine for phone calls though. I can get it to play music through my laptop so I dont think the headset is incapable of playing music through it. Anyone try playing music through bluetooth yet?
Its this one here...
http://www.amazon.com/Plantronics-M100-R-Bluetooth-Headset/dp/B003XDU8OO
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What are the steps you take to play the music on the M100R?
In the HTC player you can choose which output device you want to use...
In Standard it is "HTC Sensation" - click on it when headset is connected and it should showup there...
M100R is capable of "Headset V1.1 (HSP)" bluetooth profile - so it should work...
- mwie -

Oh yes I found it! When playing music you hit menu, then go to select player and it will show you devices. Problem now is that when I select the bluetooth device nothing happens. I will select the device, click done, and then if I go back into that setting the phone is still selected. Not sure why its not letting me output through bluetooth :-/

Check the Bluetooth settings when connected - maybe you need to activate Audio streaming there...!?
Sent from my HTC Sensation using XDA App

mwie said:
Check the Bluetooth settings when connected - maybe you need to activate Audio streaming there...!?
Sent from my HTC Sensation using XDA App
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Im checking the settings now and all I see are "Connect to phone audio" and that option is connected. Still cant get music through it for some reason :-(

+1 for BTmono. I'm a little biased though

Btmono works well. Just wish quality was a little better. Oh well! Any advantage to the paid app?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

Anyone else stream audio via bluetooth to their car?

I'm having a problem with mine. I have a Grom adapter in my 2004 Volvo S60R. It constantly skips tracks with my One X. It's like i'm holding down the next track button endlessly. Anyone else experiencing this with bluetooth? I'm contacting Grom Audio support when they open in a few hours, but until then I figured i'd check here.

I am using it on my Mercedes and it works fine; no issues.

bimmerd00d said:
I'm having a problem with mine. I have a Grom adapter in my 2004 Volvo S60R. It constantly skips tracks with my One X. It's like i'm holding down the next track button endlessly. Anyone else experiencing this with bluetooth? I'm contacting Grom Audio support when they open in a few hours, but until then I figured i'd check here.
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I have a feeling people will have a lot of BT issues. There was another post here on XDA that I responded to about it. The bottom line is if you can update your firmware on the BT unit you are connecting to see if there is a update. Other wise make sure whatever you want to stream audio/music from or through (AD2P) is the first thing you pair even if it is not the main thing you use as some units (or maybe the hox) will limit streaming to the primary device with is determined as the first thing you connect to.

I've been using the one built into my subaru and it works perfectly.

Valdeck said:
I have a feeling people will have a lot of BT issues. There was another post here on XDA that I responded to about it. The bottom line is if you can update your firmware on the BT unit you are connecting to see if there is a update. Other wise make sure whatever you want to stream audio/music from or through (AD2P) is the first thing you pair even if it is not the main thing you use as some units (or maybe the hox) will limit streaming to the primary device with is determined as the first thing you connect to.
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Interesting, i have a separate a2dp and phone calls device. My car came with the phone bluetooth kit and i had to add one for a2dp.

Duplicate thread. Please use this thread. Thanks. Thread closed.

Howto AutoUse BT Pair for Media Audio?

I've touched on this question before but I may have been using some wrong terminology.
On my S3 I have successfully created a BT pairing with a BT Audio Device use which has a steroe out fed into my car's head unit's Aux In.
So, it is Auto-Paired. That is, when I step into my car and turn on the ignition thus powering up the BT Audio Device the paring is available to be used for Media Audio.
However, in order for my phone to route audio to the BT Audio Device I must enter the phone's BT menu and tell the phone to connect to the Device for Media Audio.
I can either do this through the notification pane to see pairings then tap the pairing to use for Media Audio or I can go through settings->BT and do the same thing.
Either way, it's a huge PITA to do this every single time I get into my car.
There has got to be a way to have the phone automatically route Media Audio through this BT Audio Device upon detection. My previous two phones had nowhere near the ability of my S3 but they had no issues whatsoever with automatically pairing and routing audio to this BT Audio Device.
Is the S3 really this stunted in the BT department? If so, is there an app that fixes this stupidity with grace and non-intrusiveness?

crabapples said:
I've touched on this question before but I may have been using some wrong terminology.
On my S3 I have successfully created a BT pairing with a BT Audio Device use which has a steroe out fed into my car's head unit's Aux In.
So, it is Auto-Paired. That is, when I step into my car and turn on the ignition thus powering up the BT Audio Device the paring is available to be used for Media Audio.
However, in order for my phone to route audio to the BT Audio Device I must enter the phone's BT menu and tell the phone to connect to the Device for Media Audio.
I can either do this through the notification pane to see pairings then tap the pairing to use for Media Audio or I can go through settings->BT and do the same thing.
Either way, it's a huge PITA to do this every single time I get into my car.
There has got to be a way to have the phone automatically route Media Audio through this BT Audio Device upon detection. My previous two phones had nowhere near the ability of my S3 but they had no issues whatsoever with automatically pairing and routing audio to this BT Audio Device.
Is the S3 really this stunted in the BT department? If so, is there an app that fixes this stupidity with grace and non-intrusiveness?
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I feel ya, in the past, all I had to do was toggle BT on and go, now there's two or three extra steps which almost defeats the use of a toggle.
I just started searching for some answers and am honestly surprised no one else has made a big deal about this. If I find something, I'll post it up... For now, going to take a look at some system files and build.prop stuff, but it's not really my department.

Got some NFC tags and NFC Task Launcher hoping I could circumvent the BS with a hardware hack. But no, the best this does is auto toggle the BT radio and open the device selection screen where 2 more taps are required to actually use the device for media audio. Any new insight out there? Considering Tasker app but it is rather expensive and no free version to see if it does the trick.

My Bluetooth Auto Corrects Just fine to my cars Bluetooth... Toggle on and go. Running AOKP currently but it worked properly on stock, stock rooted, and Synergy as well.

I haven't gotten a chance to try this yet but I probably will tomorrow.
Tasker forum post indicating the problem is well known, prevalent and hardly any fixes exist:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/tasker/bluetooth$20audio/tasker/TLsjT9Exle8/ZLlgvEn5vUUJ
An app that forces the connection amongst other things:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=a2dp.Vol
A Tasker plugin leveraging the force connect code which happens to be GPL'd in case any of our fine developers would like to start making ROMs that address this major drawback of using a S3:
http://code.google.com/p/a2dp-connect/

crabapples said:
I haven't gotten a chance to try this yet but I probably will tomorrow.
Tasker forum post indicating the problem is well known, prevalent and hardly any fixes exist:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/tasker/bluetooth$20audio/tasker/TLsjT9Exle8/ZLlgvEn5vUUJ
An app that forces the connection amongst other things:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=a2dp.Vol
A Tasker plugin leveraging the force connect code which happens to be GPL'd in case any of our fine developers would like to start making ROMs that address this major drawback of using a S3:
http://code.google.com/p/a2dp-connect/
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I haven't had any trouble with bluetooth devices reconnecting to my phone as soon as I power them on. I'm running cyanogenmod 10 rom.
Also you can get free trial of tasker from here tasker.dinglisch.net/download.html

zxsix said:
I haven't had any trouble with bluetooth devices reconnecting to my phone as soon as I power them on. I'm running cyanogenmod 10 rom.
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It seems the issue may be primarily with BT Audio Gateways. I don't have this issue with my laptop at all and I'm imagining car head units rarely see this problem.
That said A2DP Volume App fixed this issue for me. Once configured I did have to manually set the device to use media audio one last time before A2DP Volume started doing it for me. I configured NFC Task Launcher to kill wifi, enable BT and launch A2DP volume when it contacts the tag in my car and it works perfectly. Since NFC Task Launcher front ends into Tasker and Tasker has the A2DP force connect plugin available I'm seriously considering getting Tasker for all the other cool features it can do besides scratching this particular itch.

crabapples said:
I've touched on this question before but I may have been using some wrong terminology.
On my S3 I have successfully created a BT pairing with a BT Audio Device use which has a steroe out fed into my car's head unit's Aux In.
So, it is Auto-Paired. That is, when I step into my car and turn on the ignition thus powering up the BT Audio Device the paring is available to be used for Media Audio.
However, in order for my phone to route audio to the BT Audio Device I must enter the phone's BT menu and tell the phone to connect to the Device for Media Audio.
I can either do this through the notification pane to see pairings then tap the pairing to use for Media Audio or I can go through settings->BT and do the same thing.
Either way, it's a huge PITA to do this every single time I get into my car.
There has got to be a way to have the phone automatically route Media Audio through this BT Audio Device upon detection. My previous two phones had nowhere near the ability of my S3 but they had no issues whatsoever with automatically pairing and routing audio to this BT Audio Device.
Is the S3 really this stunted in the BT department? If so, is there an app that fixes this stupidity with grace and non-intrusiveness?
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You can fix this relatively easy by getting the app Tasker. I use it to do things like automatically start the music player I want when headphones are plugged in, to turning up the brightness automatically when I am getting an incoming call, etc. I am fairly certain you could set up the program to do whatever you want via bluetooth if you fiddle with it.
Gluck!

mdt73 said:
You can fix this relatively easy by getting the app Tasker. I use it to do things like automatically start the music player I want when headphones are plugged in, to turning up the brightness automatically when I am getting an incoming call, etc. I am fairly certain you could set up the program to do whatever you want via bluetooth if you fiddle with it.
Gluck!
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LOL, if you had only read the rest of the thread...
Yeah, Tasker cannot do this OTB but with the A2DP Connect Plugin it can. Or you can just run the A2DP Volume app and do the same for free.
That the A2DP Connect code is GPL it would be super sweet if our developers incorporated the magic into the ROMs so that a base install didn't need apps to do something so simple as automatically route media audio to BT gateways.

This happens to me when I use the wrong settings in my cars head unit. My Toyota gives me the option to pair as a multimedia device, a phone or both. If you set it up as just a multimedia device then you won't have some functionality. Check your head unit manual and try to re-pair. You might have to delete the existing pairing for it to work right.

rfmodeler said:
This happens to me when I use the wrong settings in my cars head unit. My Toyota gives me the option to pair as a multimedia device, a phone or both. If you set it up as just a multimedia device then you won't have some functionality. Check your head unit manual and try to re-pair. You might have to delete the existing pairing for it to work right.
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Yeah, it's not a head unit, it's an audio gateway that basically is just a BT receiver with a stereo out and no interface so it is what it is with no configuration options. This issue with the S3 appears to be primarily related to these types of devices.

crabapples said:
Yeah, it's not a head unit, it's an audio gateway that basically is just a BT receiver with a stereo out and no interface so it is what it is with no configuration options. This issue with the S3 appears to be primarily related to these types of devices.
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Oh okay. When I look under the bluetooth menu in CM10 I have a paired connection that I named Car Multi-Media and if I look at its settings I see profiles called Phone audio and Media audio. I'm guessing you just have a Media audio profile. Not sure how to help you there. Sorry.