So I got my hands on a Samsung Focus and decided to give WP7 a shot. Much to my surprise, I can't put the phone down. I've gone so far as to pull the SIM from my Galaxy Nexus and started using the Focus as my daily driver.
However, as with anything I have a few gripes (which I hope have resolutions). Any help would be appreciated!
Streaming music is dodgy at best. I've used wpFandora, Metro Radio, and Zune Pass and with all of them I get constant drops, song skips due to buffering problems, etc. I don't have these problems on Android or iOS devices. So, is this inherent to WP7 or maybe just the Focus?
Is there any way to prevent screen time out in music apps? I use my phone while driving, and having to wake it and unlock it to change media is troublesome and dangerous.
Bluetooth. When paired to a BT headset, there's no ringtone played on the headset. If I'm listening to music and the phone rings, it mutes the music (but doesn't appear to PAUSE) and that's it. The only ring is from the phone itself, nothing over BT
Really, that's it for me. I really hope these are fixable and/or device specific because I'm salivating to pick up a Lumia 900 once its available!
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Not sure I can help you with the first. I use T-Mobile, so my coverage is poorer than your but my network less saturated, and I almost never have trouple with streaming Zune Pass.
Press the Volume rocker once, either up or down, while at the lock screen. This will show the media controls, and allow you to pause or skip music (and change volume, of course). True apps can also disable the screen time-out (I don't think there's an option in the built-in player), though the effect on battery will be significant.
It takes the phone a second (literally, as in about 1000 ms) to sync to the headset when a call comes in. After that, the headset will either play the ringtone or text-to-speech the caller, depending on the headset and the settings on the phone. Also, on music playback that supports Pause (i.e. Zune Pass streaming, but not radio), the phone will pause music playback when a call arrives.
HTC HD7, build 7720 (quite out of date, by intention; your Focus should be on a newer version). It's possible the problems you are having are Focus specific. For example, there used to be a really bad bug where the Focus would vary the Bluetooth volume continuously while on a call, making it sometimes impossible to hear. I thought they fixed that though...
definately make sure that focus has all the updates installed (including firmware)
Also since you like streaming - check out tune in radio. it finds all the local stations around here and even tells you when shows are on like bob and tom.
Granted, if you have a headset plugged in you can also use the fm radio.
Streaming is normally not a problem at all. Might be the network towers you are on, but then other phones on att / verizon or whatever should have the same issue.
update all your focues firmware to get best experience out of it
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When I listen to music with my Desire S over bluetooth there is a clicking noise in an unsteady interval. I already tested my headset with a HTC Hero and a Dell Notebook Latidude E6410 and it works perfectly.
That is the reason I guess it is a problem with the phone. So I contacted HTC. They recommend to do a factory reset.
What do you think? Is there even a little chance this really works?
As I don't have/know an app to backup my application data (except Titanium Backup, which needs root, which I don't have) I'm hesitating to do a reset of my phone.
Thanks for your help
Same here. I have disconnection of 1-2 sec every once in a while when listning to music with my bluetooth helmet.
Worked great before with my HD2.
Same problem here - on Incredible S, brief click/blip every 30s or so. Logged this with HTC and got the standard reply. Anyway I did try a reset and did not install any apps, still the same problem. Have been watching this forum for similar issues, as the IS does not yet have Gingerbread, I was hoping this might fix it
Do you have the problem listening/watching to video? Aside from a slight delay/sync issue, I have no problem with video, only music playback. Have tried several music players, bluetooth 'fix' apps, you name it.
Had no problem on previous Desire HD, and no current problems with my laptop. Has to be an HTC software bug? Or poor HTC hardware? It's real annoying
yes as you may have noticed, when using a Bluetooth the quality is not the best. I think it has some reason to do with the way those gronks at HTC has programmed the software, as you already know the issue with WiFi.
I have quality issues as well when using a bluetooth headset, but its mainly that the sound warps - even when only moving away a meter from the handset (even though its supposed to be a ten meter radius) Grrrrrr. I would say to try out a different player, probably one that has a bigger audio buffer. try playerpro trial and see how you guys go with that.
Here's to hoping that on of the devs has fixed this bug as htc think that have done a marvelous job on the products they are offering, i could slap them!
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...when using a Bluetooth the quality is not the best
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i can't confirm that. i've been using A2DP with a few different devices, and my observation has always been, that with every device the quality improves dramatically when the device-volume is fully turned up, and then regulated down again at the device used for listening to the music. so for exaple: medaia-volume at desire s full, device-volume at car-radio as desired.
used that way, listening to music via A2DP never sounded bad to me, no matter which device i have used...
i can't confirm the other reports, i do however get a constant noise in the background when using a bluetooth headset. i guess it's best described as white noise, though i'm not sure if that is what it is. back when i had the desire with an aosp rom it worked just fine, so i am guessing htc added their own bluetooth stack along with sense...
@Ep1cF4il
have you tried, as i mentioned, raising the media-volume to the max and regulating the volume at the listening-device? following that procedure the noise i had with low volume disappears.
szallah said:
@Ep1cF4il
have you tried, as i mentioned, raising the media-volume to the max and regulating the volume at the listening-device? following that procedure the noise i had with low volume disappears.
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i did and nothing changed
So no matter what application I'm using on my Radar and how I exit the app, i.e., just pause, back all the way out, etc. the music starts playing again when I turn off my BT headset. I've tried looking through settings to no avail.
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So no matter what application I'm using on my Radar and how I exit the app, i.e., just pause, back all the way out, etc. the music starts playing again when I turn off my BT headset. I've tried looking through settings to no avail.
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That's odd. Music should automatically stop playing when your bluetooth device is shutoff.
It should not automatically start.
Please describe every detail of what you are doing, connected to, etc. Order and timing might be important.
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That's odd. Music should automatically stop playing when your bluetooth device is shutoff.
It should not automatically start.
Please describe every detail of what you are doing, connected to, etc. Order and timing might be important.
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Starting with phone idle
Turn on Bluetooth headset
Verify it is connected in Settings
Back out and go to a streaming app (has occurred in slacker and metroradio)
Stream music for any given amount of time
Either pause music, pause and back all the way out, just back all the way out, etc.
Shut screen/put in pocket
Turn off bluetooth headset
Music starts playing from phone speaker
Bump - happened again tonight. This time I paused from the lock screen just to test. Paused -> Screen Off -> BT off -> 10 seconds later, music starts
does it happen if you shut bluetooth off before shutting screen off?
Does it happen with Zune as music player ? Also does these apps have any settings for this kind of situation.
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Does it happen with Zune as music player ? Also does these apps have any settings for this kind of situation.
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I don't use Zune. The only setting in Slacker is if I want Radio to resume automatically when Bluetooth is connected and that is turned off. Metro has nothing.
BUMP.........
You need the app "Stop the Music!
I had the same problem on my Lumia 800 today.. so awkward.....
I was at work and use a Logitech bluetooth docking station, playing music was fine, no problem at all.. I work a shoppingmall and while on my break I went in the another store just next to mine. A really hot girl works there and this lyrics came on highest volume:
"I'm fat, I'm Single, I'm ready to mingle"
here's a youtube link... Never been so embarrassed in my life, I managed to save my ass but only just! A fix would be superb!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJooV7RrMk
I've had the same issue with the background audio from Podcasts! Pro. It doesn't do this with Zune. I'm guessing its an issue with the way the background api is being implemented.
Another thing i've noticed, when it switches to or from BT, the audio picks up from the last point before BT is connected. Example, if I'm listening to an hour long podcast, and I get 23 minutes into it before switching to BT, even when I listen to another 20 minutes of the podcast, it will revert back to the 23min point once BT is disconnected.
Same issue here
Hi,
I'm having the same issue here with a Mercedes B180 built in Handsfree and Lumia 800.
It happens with Wimp, not Spotify.
As a matter of fact music Streaming is not working at all from any app to this HF.
However: BT with my combination is ok for Contact Transfer and Phone functions so it's not a catastrophy, but....
One other thing: When turning ignition off, ongoing calls are disrupted and not returned to the handset...
Nokia Support said that this is a issue caused by them using the Microsoft BT Stack for Music Streaming while probably Mercedes is using some other (Widcomm, Toshiba...)
BTW: I've used iPhone in this scenario and it works fine with all functions.
Hey guys, I hope you can help me. This site is awesome, BTW.
I have a Citröen C4 and I stream music from my Motorola Atrix to the car's audio system. It works great. I was using Alien ROM (with which it worked perfectly) and I recently changed to CM9 beta. The thing is, sometimes I don't know why, the music comes out the phone's speaker instead of the car's speakers (yes, it is connected to the car. As a matter of fact, the car's screen even shows the artist and song name and I can also skip the song from the steering wheel, but it keeps coming out of the phone's speaker!!).
Disconnecting and reconnecting doesn't work. The only thing that switches it back to the car is rebooting the phone (even though CM9 boots amazingly fast, it's still pretty annoying).
I used to have an iPhone and the music app there gives you the option to stream to the bluetooth device or the phone's speaker (or whatever other device you are connected to). I love my droid and I really don't want to go back to the iPhone.
Is there any app that can do this switch? Any tweaks, configurations, patches... anything???
Thanks and so sorry for the long post!!
Guys,
Slightly obscure one here. I hope that someone can help!
I have a Samsung SM-A405FN and run BBC Sounds. Occasionally the 'phone will start to 'play' BBC radio with no prompting from me - it will spontaneously start for no apparent reason. The most recent time was at 5.0am this morning when Mrs 2B and I were asleep and my 'phone was charging in the bedroom.
More detail:
At home I have a number of ChromeCast Audio devices. I will commonly start listening to a radio station on ChromeCast from my 'phone whereupon the audio output moves from the 'phone to the ChromeCast. I understand that the audio is not playing from the 'phone, rather that the 'phone is instructing the ChromeCasts to hook up to the BBC and play the radio.
Sometimes I will leave the ChromeCasts to play for many days; the amplifiers turn off overnight and when I turn them on the radio comes on instantly. Just what I want.
My suspicion (and this is only a suspicion) is that when the audio spontaneously plays from the 'phone then it is in some way due to this; for some reason it thinks that the audio is no longer playing from the ChromeCasts and hence plays it from the 'phone. Quite often when I leave the house (and hence away from the home WiFi) then the 'phone will start to play R4 in my pocket (i.e the same problem).
So I guess my question is whether anyone else has experienced this and has an explanation? Failing that, how does Android cope with playing BBC Sounds via ChromeCasts and WiFi drop outs? Is a WiFi dropout an explanation for this? (If it is then the next question is why should the WiFi dropout at 5.0am when it has been stable from 11.0pm to that time?)
Of course my suspicion could be entirely wrong.
Three other things which may help:
- I rebuilt the 'phone from scratch last week because it was doing this. And it's doing exactly the same thing again. I DIDN'T import the settings from before when I rebuilt it; it was a clean rebuild after which I re-installed most of the same apps as I had before (including Google Home and BBC Sounds).
- My wife has the same model of 'phone and largely the same software installed (BBC Sounds and Google Home), but hers doesn't do this.
- I have also had problems with playlists played from Amazon Music and iBroadcast stopping half way through when playing on ChromeCast and not progressing to the next track and wonder if this is related as well.
All help welcomed, thanks.
I have a set of Kirkland Signature 10 hearing aids. With my old LG G7 ThinQ I had it set up to send all sounds from the phone directly to the hearing aids (HAs), including calls, music, texts, voice mails, etc. For text messages (SMS), it would speak the name of the caller and then it would read the message aloud. It would also automatically switch over to playing music from the phone Bluetooth-ing it into my car stereo. When I leave the car, it would switch the sound back to the hearing aids
With the P7P things are not so good! It seems every day I have to go into sound settings and switch to the HAs. Then, it may stay switched, or it may go back to the phone speakers. I never know what it will do. Phone messages always go to the phone's speakers. Music stored in the phone may play over the car speakers, HAs, or phone speakers. I never know which it's going to be. The biggest issue is when I'm waiting for a doctor's appointment or similar and I put on a YouTube video, and it may be on speakers or HAs. It's sometimes a bit hard to tell, until I get annoying glances from those around me . Any thoughts on how to force the phone to stay set up to stream to the hearing aids?