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Bluetooth A2DP now on Jawbone ICON earpieces

So sweet. Jawbone now has an update for the Jawbone ICON which allows it to pair as an A2DP device. This means I can route all sound to it: music, movies, navigation, FartDroid, Robo Defense, etc.
There has never hasn't been a fix for this since the 1.5 ROMs. I'm on Fresh 2.0d
This awesome earpiece can be had for around $75 if you look hard enough.

Happy he posted... I am very happy, since I already have an ICON but didn;t know this

maybe not a big issue with people on this forum but this was a huge android issue in general. pissed a lot of people off.

HeroMeng said:
And, this was important enough to post a new thread about? Sorry, but it's cluttering up our tiny forum.
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Holy ****. This just cluttered up this thread.
This was a huge deal with Android and Jawbone just solved it for me.

Good to know. Knew I got my Icon for something. Thanks for the info.
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Can the ICON connect to the phone and allow voice dial ? Thats one feature I miss. All the crazy advances and this is one feature that hasnt been fixed. Oh well. By the way the Q1 does the ad2p thing and also allows 8 presets that allow the unit to at least connect and call out which is handy. It also allows you to connect hands free with just your voice. Not too big of a deal if your driving but if your a biker it's a pretty awesome feature ;-)
I wonder how hard would it be to program an app to wait for the button press on a headset and set it to use the voice recognition on the phone that is used by google search/nav etc...

jcf304 said:
Can the ICON connect to the phone and allow voice dial ? Thats one feature I miss. All the crazy advances and this is one feature that hasnt been fixed. Oh well. By the way the Q1 does the ad2p thing and also allows 8 presets that allow the unit to at least connect and call out which is handy. It also allows you to connect hands free with just your voice. Not too big of a deal if your driving but if your a biker it's a pretty awesome feature ;-)
I wonder how hard would it be to program an app to wait for the button press on a headset and set it to use the voice recognition on the phone that is used by google search/nav etc...
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Maybe it was a multi phone pairing issue, but I found that the Q1 didn't reconnect automatically if I walked away from the headset with the phone or vice versa. Also didn't like that the buttons were easy to press and hence a lot of pocket headset redials...
I am very stoked with the a2dp on the icon as that's the headset i had just before being convinced by someone else that the q1 was the way to go and since having gone back to the icon
Thanks for the info, I forget that the icon is updatable and haven't checked in a while...
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seeing as this is a relatively active bluetooth-related thread, i was wondering if someone could answer a q for me.
im on fresh 2.0d and whenever I tried to play anything via A2DP in my car, the audio was sped up and always skipped about every second...has anyone else experienced this? if not, could you tell me which ROM you are using so I could give it a try?
appreciate any info anyone can offer...thanks

jcf304 said:
Can the ICON connect to the phone and allow voice dial?
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Here's a bit of info on the Jawbone ICON website: "To encourage Google to support voice dial via Bluetooth on the Android OS, vote at Google product ideas or post a reply on Motorola's DROID forum."
I have found that the Voice Search app works a little better than the Voice Dialer app on the Hero. I just place a shortcut on my home screen. If I open the app and say, "Call Dennis at Home," it will dial home right away. Not quite "hands free" dialing, but as close as I can get for now.

WTF is the point of all these voice search apps

I swear none of these apps are good for anything...
Lets see what we have..
Vlingo... I love it, but its for show and thats about it..
Use it with your bluetooth and it will reset your phone after turning off bluetooth or leaving the area of range...
It will listen and think 3 times out of 10 .. The other 7 times out of 10 it just gets stuck in listening mode.. Seriously, its designed to be used for hands free operations... But obviously not.. Just a show off app and not a good one most of the time..
Ok so now.we move on to googles voice search..
It works imo pretty damn good.. Except for calling or texting contacts...
"call dads mobile" it calls father and sons moving.. Lol
No biggie because for telling it to navigate to "xxxxxxx" place it does, for doing internet searches it does a great job (though there is now way to set it to use dolphin as my default browser) and calling business's
BUT WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!! It doesn't allow you to talk through bluetooth... I mean is this the biggest f'ing joke... How the F can they make a hands free program and not allow it to work through the only hands free communication device!!!!!
I use the Blueant s4 which is a visor mounting speakerphone, i also mount my phone in the cd player mount of my car.. Which is right in the center of my dash, i can only imagine people that use a earpiece bluetooth device and keep their phone in their pockets.. IT WONT WORK.. My s4 has a great mic and googles hands free program doesn't work with it.. Are they seriously that retarded???
My old ass htc touch worked flawless, you would think with these great new phones( i have the evo ) they would get things right..
So now i currently use car panel and when i use my wake up phrase "blue ant speak to me" " phone commands " it pulls up bluetooth dialer and calls my contacts 9 times out of 10 perfectly with windowx down doing 70mph (no lie) but thats because of the awesome s4 bluetooth.. If i want to press the voice search button while in car panel i have to roll up the windows, turn off the radio, slowndown, take my eyes off the road, my hands off the wheel press the button, and SCREAM my search, multible times...this is really pathetic!!!!
Well in anycase its just a sad situation... As for vlingo if they could just fix the listening problem it honestly would be by far the best program made.. Then fix the resetting of a phone after disconnecting bluetooth.. Its a known problem and you think they would fix it, in the 5 months they have know about it..
Btw, does anyone use a bluetooth headset/speakerphone? What programs are you all using?
Sorry but im just ranting as this issue pissed me off so bad..
When it comes to games and little hacks and fun ****, android does a great job.. When it comes to business or functionality it fails..

Google Voice Actions suck. I haven't been able to get it to work once.

[Q] ROMS that support BT Voice?

I just finished installing all the stereo parts in my car only to find out that my Captivate won't work with the voice dialing of the stereo. I guess it's the phone's fault as my wife's Focus works just fine as did my old HTC Pure. She won't trade phones with me so I'm stuck trying to find a ROM that has this.
With Samsung stating it will be fixed (added) in 2.2.1; does that mean only the 2.2.1 ROMS will have this feature? I'm currently running Cognition 4.3.1 and it does not have it; but would like to only try new ROMS that have it. What ROMS do have the feature?
Thank you for your input.

Firefly supports voice dialing. You have to start the Voice Dialling app and then say the command.

What I'm looking for is what the Droid Incredible has. I paired it to my stereo and when I hit the call button on the stereo; it launched what appeared to be a bluetooth voice dialer application that allowed me to speak into the stereo.
I just tried firefly and it did have that app, but it crashed as soon as I tried it. It also crashed the music app, failed to mount the storage drives, crashed when trying to put it in debugging mode and pretty much was unstable since it booted. I then tried to use one click odin and it went to a blue screen half way through the process. It'll be a fun night.

Probably not what you want to hear, but my BT in the car works great on my 'stock' set up. I think it has more to do with the kernel/ modem configuration than the ROM though.

dragon has this. many people are pairing it with choice dialer.

Dani897 said:
dragon has this. many people are pairing it with choice dialer.
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I can't get Choice Dialer to work well at all. ONe example: "CAll Tom Jones", it says "CAll Tom Jones?", I say "Yes", it says "Try again". Argh...
ANd most of th time it just doesn't understand me at all.

I believe this is the apk you need. I know cog doesn't come with it. This is an old one so I don't know if there is a newer version available but when you pair your bluetooth and hit the voice command on your stereo or bluetooth set, make this the default app when the prompt shows up. It won't give you a voice prompt but if you wait 2 secs and then speak it should dial for you. Only problem is that your phone has to be awake but at least you can use voice commands from your bluetooth set. Just leave your phone plugged in and awake while your in the car. This is the only option I have found.

That worked.
Thank you for the apk. That works.

ewingr said:
I can't get Choice Dialer to work well at all. ONe example: "CAll Tom Jones", it says "CAll Tom Jones?", I say "Yes", it says "Try again". Argh...
ANd most of th time it just doesn't understand me at all.
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It's not unusual to be called by anyone
It's not unusual to have a text from anyone
but when I try to use voice dial for anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry
Roflmfao!

studacris said:
It's not unusual to be called by anyone
It's not unusual to have a text from anyone
but when I try to use voice dial for anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry
Roflmfao!
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Boy, ain't that the truth. It really chaps me that the one thing that should be solid on a Cell now-a-days is voice dial. Can't believe that OLD OLD technology from Microsoft on Winmo SHINES so much better than Android. Maybe that's the only thing that does, but in my opinion, one of the most important things for a cell phone...at least if you anticipate wanting to use it while driving.

That was a tom jones joke ...

I'm glad the Voice Dialer apk worked. I couldn't get it to work on any Captivate ROMs. Most reoriented i9000 ROMs have a working version, but I find all of the i9000 ROMs to be severely lacking in performance compared to KB1 ROMs.
My preferred solution in either case is to use Bluetooth Launch and Voice Search. Bluetooth Launch can be found here. Run it from the app drawer, it brings up a full list of installed apps and available activities. Choose Voice Search, and then the "VoiceRecognition" activity (must have Google's Voice Search installed first of course). Then, hit your call button, and set Bluetooth Launch as the default activity when it asks. From then on, your call button will launch Voice Actions, which support not only "call <contact>" but also a ton of other commands, including controlling music, text msgs, etc. I love sending texts without touching my phone, and it works flawlessly for me so far.

Bluetooth Voice Dialing [FIX]

So after realizing that my brand new $650 phone did not have bluetooth voice dialing, I decided to do some work.... good news.
HTC did not include the VoiceDialer.apk with the Sensation. Why? No clue!
After getting it here...
http://download615.mediafire.com/m4f6kpd3g06g/mdh1m1x0dzh/VoiceDialer.apk
I was able to prompt my car stereo's Voice Dial button, but the Voice Dial still did not want to work correctly, but... just get ChoiceDialer+ from the market, and all is good.

How did you install the apk I would like to try this before I return the phone. Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable, and switch to Disk mode or Mass storage mode or whatever you call it.... drag it onto your phone. Use Astro or Root explorer to navigate to your phones folder, and just open the apk to install, and then restart.
Again, I dont think the voice dialer itself will give you prompts, so get a third party app like ChoiceDialer+

I can't get the voice dialer to repeat what I say for confirmation.
After I press my bluetooth, voice dialer opens up, I say my command, and then a pop-up comes up asking me to press ok or cancel.
Anybody got any luck with this?

I have been using vlingo since launch for bt dialing and works great. The app even has an in car mode and can read texts and emails. Of course you can turn that off as well.
I just use vlingo as my default app when long pressing the search button. So upon a long press, vlingo launches and listens via bluetooth and you can say your command from searching whatever to navigate to wherever to call whomever in your address book. Try it out, it's free. You can always uninstall if you do not like the functionality.

Is there an option for me to press the button on my bluetooth to trigger the app? It is illegal to use the phone while driving up here in Canada.

Make sure voicedialer.apk is installed, and then install a third party voice dialer like Vlingo or Choice Handsfree. You need that voicedialer.apk installed to trigger the prompt when you press the Bluetooth button on your headset... When you press it, it should bring up a prompt asking you which program you'd like to use.
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my voicedialer Force closed
after i installed choice dialer, i got the same menu still.
I press my bluetooth, say something, and then on my phone screen, it gives me a prompt as to what to do (in this case, who to call).
I don't want to touch my phone while driving.
The voicedialer app worked perfectly fine with my nexus one with the same bluetooth headset, no idea why it's not working on my sensation.

I think HTC needs to do something about this. I just bought the Sensation yesterday and didn't realize this issue till this morning. I am using the BlueAnt Q2. Call recognition works fine. But using the voice commands on the Q2 is a bust cause the device is no compatible. WTF.

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I think HTC needs to do something about this. I just bought the Sensation yesterday and didn't realize this issue till this morning. I am using the BlueAnt Q2. Call recognition works fine. But using the voice commands on the Q2 is a bust cause the device is no compatible. WTF.
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I have the same situation, Q2, Sensation, hopefully a rooted ROM will fix this issue.

Sorted
I have a HTC Desire and have long been frustrated at its inability to voice dial via bluetooth. Last week I was annoyed by HTC's attitude to a Gingerbread update for the Desire, so I took the plunge and rooted my phone, installing Cyanogen mod 7.
Wonderful change, it's like having a new phone! One bonus is that, just today I decided to try voice dialling in my car, and it works perfectly! Paired the phone with my Alpine car radio, pressed the phone button on the radio and up came the message 'voice dialling', I said 'call John' and a female voice replied 'calling John' and there I was speaking, totally handsfree. Miraculous I thought, why couldn't HTC manage that?
So, all credit to Cyanogen for a superb update to my phone and I'll be donating, although it's free.

Same issues here. HTC seems to have rushed this one out the door. Besides the lack of BT voice dialing, I'm seeing hangs/crashes in the phone dialer app, and rapid battery drain when playing games. I wish there was a way to turn off Sense; it really adds nothing to the Android experience and usually gets in the way.

installs fine but keeps force closing and does not work with bt and no confirmation prompts. found vlingo but it does not work with sensation.in fact,the app will lock your phone and you will have to restore phone if you can even manage to get it installed in first place. so please stop telling people to use this app. you should be ashamed of yourself.

kpjimmy said:
I have been using vlingo since launch for bt dialing and works great. The app even has an in car mode and can read texts and emails. Of course you can turn that off as well.
I just use vlingo as my default app when long pressing the search button. So upon a long press, vlingo launches and listens via bluetooth and you can say your command from searching whatever to navigate to wherever to call whomever in your address book. Try it out, it's free. You can always uninstall if you do not like the functionality.
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you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.

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you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.
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Its too bad you don't know what you're talking about fattexan. I downloaded VLingo from Android Zoom the first day I had my Sensation and have used it everyday since with a blackberry bluetooth speaker. It has not bricked my phone, caused a force close and anything but work beautifully. And please, don't call me a liar like you've done before. I'd be happy to post pictures to get it through your fattexan head.

thefattexan said:
you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.
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I've been reading through the threads and have been most interested in voice dialing. I had it on my HD2 and it was quite useful as I use a bluetooth headset as my primary means of talking on the phone. I just hate holding the phone up to my head. In any case, voice dialing IS possible without using BT. I'm sure most of you know this as all you have to do is hold the search button on the phone for a second to get a voice command prompt pop up where you can simply say "call <contact name>" or "dial <phone number>" and it will do as told. I have no modifications on my phone, it is as stock as stock can come.
With my headsets, it used to be where I held the activate button for a moment, a tone would play in my ear, and a voice would say "say a command". Keep in mind, that was on my HD2. The sensation doesn't come with BT voice dialing by default, it seems, and it does appear that there are work-arounds to it like the apk listed above. In fact, I've seen some relatively talented people figure out how to make things work, that weren't supposed to work in the first place. Also keep in mind that voice dialing and other functions are software based, and simply writing the proper code can overcome pretty much anything.
With that being said, thefattexan, I've seen you call other posters and responders liars, and in this thread alone, you've told someone that they're "full of crap". In all honesty, those comments are not appreciated, and at least one thread was closed by a moderator because of attacks like that.
Let me submit to you, that just because you've never seen or heard of something, does not mean that it doesn't exist. Simply because you could not make it work, does not mean that someone else wasn't able to. Calling someone a liar based only on your own experiences is pretty much out of line, and your behavior is somewhat disgraceful. So I am asking you nicely, to please refrain from that sort of behavior. Maybe if someone says they can do something that you are not able to, rather than call them a liar, ask them how they accomplished it and you may learn something in the bargain. Obviously, they tried something that you didn't, and voila. Otherwise, don't say anything, because carrying on like you do will only result in the moderators banning you.
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I have had the same problems with the voice dialer apk. It installs just fine but it force closes when trying to use from the bluetooth headset.
I tried vlingo and some other apps but they are too complicated and usually require some interaction with the phone.
I want it to work just like my Thunderbolt. When my phone is in my pocket I can press the bluetooth call button and be prompted to speak now. The say "call John" and then prompted, "calling john" and the phone dials the number. Very simple and easy to work without any interaction.

thefattexan said:
you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.
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I have seen your past posts and I can see you do not play well with others. Man, are you a native Texan? You are the most....well how can I put this...ignorant person here. This is XDA. A place where developers and users help each other troubleshoot things here.
And your great additions to this community? Just badmouthing everyone that does not share your view. Name calling really got you where you are today /sarcasm.
I do not know what your problem is and why you resort to name calling literally everytime you post.
Back to topic and to simply replying to you. I have been the early adopters of vlingo. I even paid for the app when it was first released. I have to say I did indeed install this via market when I got the phone because a week ago the in car setting kept fc'ing on me and I uninstalled and reinstalled the version I found in the market.
The funny thing is I tried looking again on the market and I do see that it is marked incompatible with the Sensation like you said, but I did uninstall the app and reinstalled fresh from the market and not use any restores.
I am done sparring with words with you and you can keep calling me and every one else here names....I don't know maybe you were bullied as a child, not given enough attention as a child, or maybe you found out that the Easter Bunny is a myth *gasp*....
I part with this: Get that stinking cross off your back, use the wood to build a bridge and get the hell over it.....

caliber177 said:
So after realizing that my brand new $650 phone did not have bluetooth voice dialing, I decided to do some work.... good news.
HTC did not include the VoiceDialer.apk with the Sensation. Why? No clue!
After getting it here...
http://download615.mediafire.com/m4f6kpd3g06g/mdh1m1x0dzh/VoiceDialer.apk
I was able to prompt my car stereo's Voice Dial button, but the Voice Dial still did not want to work correctly, but... just get ChoiceDialer+ from the market, and all is good.
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downloaded installed both but when i press the voice dial button on my bluetooth it does nothing, only works when I open the program directly from the apps section in my device, any suggestions?

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Make sure voicedialer.apk is installed, and then install a third party voice dialer like Vlingo or Choice Handsfree.
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You are d'bomb!! Worked exactly as you stated. I now have a completely hands free dialing experience using only my bluetooth headset.
Just a tip for anyone watching... I had to restart my phone after installing the voicedialer.apk in order for it to respond correctly. THEN I installed the Hands Free Voice dialer.

Default BT action (via headset)

Hey guys,
I upgraded my wife to the SkyRocket for Christmas, but I'm having a problem using the Bluetooth with our motorcycle helmet headsets.
Everything pairs just fine, but once connected a push of the BT button on the headset should initiate Voice Dial (at least that's what happens with my DINC2). However her SR will go straight in to the dialer, and dial one of her contacts. Its always the same contact too (and not even someone she really wants to talk too lol)
Is there anyway to change/set the default BT Action on the SR??
Unrooted - completely stock ROM.
Thanks
Ed

Hey Ed,
I am working on the same thing. I have a Cardo Scala Rider G4 that I used with my iPhone. I was quite disappointed in the BT performance. I have gotten some voice dialing to work on it. It's not 100%, but it's certainly better than what is going on.
Get the Galaxy S2 voice 2 go (from the orig GS2 - check this thread) - It's basically a rebranded Vlingo, but has a couple more commands (like play music).
The Dial button still didn't work with it, but now does with the Bluetooth Launch app. Thankfully it's free. Make sure you reboot the app after installing it. It seems like the app just needs to be there, and you don't have to configure it to run the Galaxy Voice 2 go / vlingo.
Some things still not great for bikers like us:
- Can't initiate voice dialing / actions with screen locked (there is a bypass setting from what I read in other threads, but it doesn't seem to be in our ROM)
- haven't tested voice initiated answer, but I am not holding my breath.
Let me know how you make out!
-- Steve

radon222 said:
Hey guys,
I upgraded my wife to the SkyRocket for Christmas, but I'm having a problem using the Bluetooth with our motorcycle helmet headsets.
Everything pairs just fine, but once connected a push of the BT button on the headset should initiate Voice Dial (at least that's what happens with my DINC2). However her SR will go straight in to the dialer, and dial one of her contacts. Its always the same contact too (and not even someone she really wants to talk too lol)
Is there anyway to change/set the default BT Action on the SR??
Unrooted - completely stock ROM.
Thanks
Ed
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You upgraded your Wife, to a skyrocket?? Just sounds unnatural..
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necrotaur said:
Hey Ed,
I am working on the same thing. I have a Cardo Scala Rider G4 that I used with my iPhone. I was quite disappointed in the BT performance. I have gotten some voice dialing to work on it. It's not 100%, but it's certainly better than what is going on.
Get the Galaxy S2 voice 2 go (from the orig GS2 - check this thread) - It's basically a rebranded Vlingo, but has a couple more commands (like play music).
The Dial button still didn't work with it, but now does with the Bluetooth Launch app. Thankfully it's free. Make sure you reboot the app after installing it. It seems like the app just needs to be there, and you don't have to configure it to run the Galaxy Voice 2 go / vlingo.
Some things still not great for bikers like us:
- Can't initiate voice dialing / actions with screen locked (there is a bypass setting from what I read in other threads, but it doesn't seem to be in our ROM)
- haven't tested voice initiated answer, but I am not holding my breath.
Let me know how you make out!
-- Steve
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Thanks for the suggestions Steve!
We're using the Sena SMH10 headsets and have pretty happy with them, even with my wife's old Iphone 3GS. I'd just like to avoid the odd behavior that she's had with the SR.
Voice dial with my DINC2 works ok as long as I'm stopped. Once I get moving however, the helmet/wind noise confuses the voice dialer and I never know who I'm going to get lol
You upgraded your Wife, to a skyrocket?? Just sounds unnatural..
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If only!!

We're using the Sena SMH10 headsets and have pretty happy with them, even with my wife's old Iphone 3GS. I'd just like to avoid the odd behavior that she's had with the SR.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I find the Scala performs better when moving. The noise cancellation is pretty good. I usually use the voice command to play a play list or an album, not really to take calls. Are you using an open face helmet or full face? Mine is a full face, which might be the difference.
I'm hoping that once some official CM ROM or something else comes out, that this gets fixed. I can say that even though I like Droid better for everything else, the 3GS voice control worked really well.

We both use Modular Helmets (me a Shoei Multitec and her a Shark Evoline) so they are bit noisier than a standard full face. Neither of us are organized for things like play lists... that's what Shuffle All is for!!
Actually I have a Zumo 550 with XM and I control my tunes through the GPS. Unfortunately the Zumo doesn't do BT stereo...so I'm hardwired to it.
Oh and I just loaded her up with VtoG and Bluetooth Launch....so far it looks promising. At least she's not calling Phil anymore . It's going to be a few days until we field test it.

We both use Modular Helmets (me a Shoei Multitec and her a Shark Evoline) so they are bit noisier than a standard full face. Neither of us are organized for things like play lists... that's what Shuffle All is for!!
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I use a Fulmer modular. It's not terribly noisy, but then again the ventilation is horrible. I am not super organized about playlists, but I found that my iPod incremented playcount only when a song ended. I travel a lot for business, so on the plane I would shuffle all songs and then skip ones I didn't like. I then built a smart playlist in iTunes where all songs with a playcount >1 where in it.
I'll have to do a field test at some point, but it's damn cold right now. It might be high 40's by Friday, so I might get out.
BTW - I did find the the Scala's A2DP play/pause function works well with the stock music player and winamp, even when locked. I can probably live with setting music on before leaving and just using the controls if I want to stop it.
I have considered wiring in my Sirius radio, but that's one of many projects I am working on