I have seen a lot of car radio's that have the option for Pandora Radio. As far as I can tell this only works for iPhones. The radio uses a USB cord and uses your phone to connect to Pandora. Does anyone know if this will be available to Android also or any workaround?
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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.
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I'm trying to buy an after-market car audio deck/receiver. After having spent a few hours at a car stereo shop, nothing I saw there seemed to work 100% with my Android phone (Samsung Vibrant running 2.2 custom froyo).
My first pick was an Alpine IDA-X303 which is intended for iPhone/iPod but has USB input, so I tried with my Vibrant with no joy either in mass storage or media player mode. The deck doesn't support BT so moved onto the CDE-103BT. On that one, it pairs with BT but supports only phone function and no BT audio. It picked up the Vibrant over USB but reported back "no files" yet I had placed mp3s in root of both internal and external sd. So despite it having USB and BT, it would be down to mic jack. I looked at a few other Alpines and they seemed to all have some sort of brutal shortcoming like these when connected to my Android.
I tried a JVC and the USB worked as expected, although track information didnt get displayed on the deck. And I perused the Sony's but really, I was after an Alpine and ultimately I want BT audio with the USB option just to charge if needed. Nice to have is support for streaming apps eg Grooveshark and Subsonic.
So I thought I would ask fellow XDA'ers: Has anyone had success with their phone over BT audio (or even just USB) with a car deck and not suffered major shortcomings? Can anyone recommend a car deck, Alpine or not, that supports BT audio properly and whether it works for streaming apps or what solutions people have found for running this combo? Whats the best deck out there right now for supporting music on Android?
Thanks!!
I'm looking at these head units with some features in addition to Bluetooth version 5.0
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android-auto/android-head-units/looking-list-android-car-stereo-head-t3899651
I have a JVC radio that works with an iPhone. Is there any SW that would allow it to work with a android?
This is the second thread you have started on the same subject. What are you expecting to do with it? As mentioned before if your phone is in disk drive mode you should be able to play mp3 files from the card. Have you tried that? Works fine on my kenwood like that.
thanks
I was actually hopping to be able to pump out audio like phone calls etc.. The iPhone can can do it. I thought the other post was removed becaues I put it in the wrong section.
My kenwood does both. But it is actually done by bluetooth. There are 2 channels, phone and AD2P that my headunit has settings for. I myself have never heard of using USB for this phone. I don't think the micro usb port is capable of handling that. If you expect your headunit to handle calls it will either have to be done by bluetooth or by auxillary headphone cable. What way are you trying to make the connection? What make and model of headunit do you have in your car?
You are correct. I was to cheap to pay the extra $ for the BT. I put a spliter on the AUX port and all works. Just had to hide a few cables. The reason I can not use BT is, I use SKYPE for long conf calls. IT works great but it does not pump out audio out of BT.
I connect one side to my XM portable and the other to the audio port on the phone. Seems to be working ok. I get a little feedback from Phone when it is plugged in to a power source. I am working on a fix for that.
I paired my phone with my car's bluetooth radio and noticed the following behavior:
- If I turn on my car radio and then turn bluetooth on on my One X, it will auto connect and start playing music.
- If I turn on bluetooth on my One X, get in my car and turn on the radio, my One X will not auto-connect. I have to go into the bluetooth settings screen and select my car's device name (CAR M_MEDIA) and then it connects and starts playing music.
I can turn on and off my One X's bluetooth repeatedly while in the car and it will connect each time, but it doesn't ever connect if I turn on and off the car's radio.
I tried a bunch of roms, including Stock, CleanROM and others in the development forum and finally I tried CM10. They all behave the exact same way.
Seeing that CM10 also has the issue caused me to give up and come here for help, because my Atrix 4G with CM9 never had this issue. I might try CM9 on my One X as a last resort.
Any help on this one?
What model/year car, and is it a manufacturer stereo, or a 3rd party head unit? Every stereo head unit and phone is a bit different, and some combinations simply don't play well together.
I have had the same issue with my 2012 Subaru Impreza, with factory stereo (non-nav version). Tried any of a variety of things (different ROMs, editing some of the BT config files), and nothing worked. Also have the issue that even when i manually connect it, it doesn't connect maybe 20% of the time. And when it does, the steering wheel controls to change the music track only works maybe half the time.
I called HTC support, had to escalate the issue to get anyone to listen to me, and they tried the usual (update phone firmware, safe mode) with no luck (not surprising). They said all they could do was log the issue, and hope that it gets addressed in a future update. Probably the most you can do is call HTC also, so they at least start to get the message that its a known issue. The HTC tech also mentioned it may be a feature that is disabled on purpose, due to a known security issue.
I think its a fault of the BT stack, which is HTC proprietary. On my old HTC Desire Z, newer versions of Sense seemed to work better with my car stereo BT. Unfortunately, with the One X, it seems they have taken a step backward. I also noticed on my old DZ that AOSP based ROMs worked better with my car stereo BT, and also displayed the track info (artist, title, etc) on my car stereo which is something that the HTC Bluetooth stack never does. So I assume it was a different non-HTC Bluetooth stack. So therefore, like you, I thought an AOSP ROM might fix the problem. I tried AOKP (ICS) but not CM9, and AOKP didn't help. Not being a dev, I'm not sure where the BT stack comes from in AOSP ROMs. On AOKP, the track info was not displayed on my car stereo, and the config files were the same as HTC stock, leading me to believe it was the HTC stack. Maybe somebody with more knowledge can shed some light on the matter of AOSP ROMs and the Bluetooth stack, as I've been wondering this.
My car is a 2011 Subaru Impreza. Coincidence? Probably not. I know the car does something different than my other Bluetooth headset because music starts when it connects to the car but not when it connects to my headset. I have to press play on my headset for the music to launch.
Also the headset auto connects reliably to my One X, no matter which one I turn on first, unlike my car. Perhaps a hint is there? Maybe some logs would shed some light on the problem?
Edit: just tried CM9, same result. I never did logcat so I'm not sure if that would help, would it?
So a little (not at all) touted feature of the EDGE is that it contains an active FM tuner in it that can be used to access radio stations over the air. It is very weird that this is a capability that wasn't promoted as, even though this seems like old technology, the beauty of it is that it is built into the EDGE.
Why would I be so excited about this? Because, when you use iHeart or other radio apps to listen to the radio... it is delayed 30 seconds to 5 minutes or more. Not a big deal if listening to music or even talk radio... but a HUGE deal if you are wanting to listen to the radio announcer of a sporting event.
I like to listen to the radio while attending a college football game. Makes it even more interesting and now I can! BUT! The EDGE (and my home tuner) require that there is a wire connected to act as an antenna... otherwise the reception sucks.
I don't want to use a regular wired headset. I HATE wired headsets.
So the question is: Is there a dongle of sorts that could be plugged into the headset jack, that could act as the antenna without routing the audio through it? Next Radio App allows for rerouting the audio through the speaker but it doesn't also include allowing it to be routed to the Bluetooth.
I guess in writing the above I answered my own question with who I should ask next... Next Radio... but thought I'd still throw this out in case y'all know of another app that can use the internal FM Tuner AND send the audio to bluetooth.
Thanks in advance for indulging this question.
beejmeister said:
So a little (not at all) touted feature of the EDGE is that it contains an active FM tuner in it that can be used to access radio stations over the air. It is very weird that this is a capability that wasn't promoted as, even though this seems like old technology, the beauty of it is that it is built into the EDGE.
Why would I be so excited about this? Because, when you use iHeart or other radio apps to listen to the radio... it is delayed 30 seconds to 5 minutes or more. Not a big deal if listening to music or even talk radio... but a HUGE deal if you are wanting to listen to the radio announcer of a sporting event.
I like to listen to the radio while attending a college football game. Makes it even more interesting and now I can! BUT! The EDGE (and my home tuner) require that there is a wire connected to act as an antenna... otherwise the reception sucks.
I don't want to use a regular wired headset. I HATE wired headsets.
So the question is: Is there a dongle of sorts that could be plugged into the headset jack, that could act as the antenna without routing the audio through it? Next Radio App allows for rerouting the audio through the speaker but it doesn't also include allowing it to be routed to the Bluetooth.
I guess in writing the above I answered my own question with who I should ask next... Next Radio... but thought I'd still throw this out in case y'all know of another app that can use the internal FM Tuner AND send the audio to bluetooth.
Thanks in advance for indulging this question.
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Do you have the sprint model? Usually every carrier in the US except Sprint removes the FM radio to force people to stream instead. Sprint was the only carrier to have an FM radio on the Note 3 as well.
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To actually answer your question though, there is an app on the Play Store called SoundAbout. It allows you to force various audio (media, notifications, etc.) to be played through a specific output (Speakers, Bluetooth, etc.). You might give that a shot.
jooniloh said:
Do you have the sprint model? Usually every carrier in the US except Sprint removes the FM radio to force people to stream instead. Sprint was the only carrier to have an FM radio on the Note 3 as well.
EDIT:
To actually answer your question though, there is an app on the Play Store called SoundAbout. It allows you to force various audio (media, notifications, etc.) to be played through a specific output (Speakers, Bluetooth, etc.). You might give that a shot.
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Yes. I have the Sprint model. I'm going to have to now check to see if my Note 3 had the FM active. I didn't think that it was... Hmmm....
I'm going to try out SoundAbout. I just bought the PRO version as it has the BT functionality. Need to run by Radio Shack on the way home to get a short audio cable to plug in as the antenna... will report back... Thanks... again.... jooniloh.
hahahah, glad I ran across this thread. I had no idea my phone had a built in FM tuner. Just plugged in my headphones and used the NextRadio app and BAM!! there it was. Thank you