Hello, this is the my first post on XDA - thanks for a great resource. Been searching and reading the forums for 6 months before needing to post my first questions so here it is.
I would like to pick your brains to see if you can figure out a solution to my problem. I use Waze or Navigation while in my car driving around town. I have my phone connected to my stereo via bluetooth and stream music with the Pandora app. While using a navigation app, Pandora is open streaming music in the background. Anytime I would like to see what track is playing I have to either swipe the notification tray down or swap to the Pandora app.
What I would like to be able to do is to see what song is currently playing in Pandora without having to touch my phone - leaving it in on the navigation app. Does anyone know if an app widget or combination of settings/modifications that would help me out?
Ideally, a popup notification that would stay on the screen for a short time at the beginning of the song is what I am looking for.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for the help
Erik
Samsung Galaxy S III i747 on AT&T
Rooted, with stock firmware
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I was happy to see that Pandora recently released an official app for Google Android. I love Pandora and have been using it on my PC and my old Windows Mobile phone for a while.
Since I've been using Pandora on Android I've noticed a strange bug. After playing a couple songs through Pandora, the stock Music app fires up on its own and starts playing over the top of Pandora. This is extrememly annoying! I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing this problem and if so, has anyone found a solution.
The obvious solution is to switch to the music app and pause the song that is playing over the top of Pandora. However, this often locks up both apps requiring me to power off the phone to get Pandora to work again - then repeat this process over and over and over. Help!
This happens to me all the time, but I've not had the lock up problem. I usually listen on my headphones, and the button on the adapter piece pauses the Music app, so I don't have to switch around. Hope that helps.
Hello,
I am new to the Android world and attempted something yesterday I thought should work. I was using Google Music to playback MP3s and tried running Google Navigation. Whenever, I started Navigation, MP3 playback stopped. If I started Navigation, and then hit the home button to start MP3 playback, Navigation stopped.
Is this not possible? Should I being different apps for Navigation/MP3 playback which would allow this? Are there settings I am missing?
Thanks.
Well, here it works flawless... tried with 2.3.4 version and the new one 3.0...
But, it's kinda weird controlling volume, inside navigation, I can only set navigation volume. If I want to set music volume I need to switch to music app or launcher...
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Thanks for the response - I tried it again and I figured out what I was doing incorrectly. I was using "Car Mode" and if you hit the Navigation button after Navigation is already running, it restarts the Navigation. You have to do a fancy swipe from the top bar to get to an app that is already running.
This leads me to my next question, in "Car Mode" is there a way to get to an app that is already running without a swipe from the top bar? I thought the whole point of "Car Mode" was that the buttons were big and you didnt need to be very accurate?
Thanks.
So as most people know, the spotify app for android is pretty terrible. I've been trying to get it to work as the automatic player when I start my car. I use NFC Task Launcher so it opens spotify when my car bluetooth is connected and the last problem is that spotify opens to that stupid choose your playlist menu and the play command does nothing on that screen.
Does anyone know of a way to make spotify open to a playlist so the play command works and I don't need to pull me phone out every time?
I also have similar problems. I don't care to pull my phone to start the Spotify. But the problem that I have is that it gets interrupted and distorted randomly. When this happens, I have to either wait for the music to come back or I have to push on the power button, then wait few seconds(problem is sometimes it never comes back). I don't know if it is the bluetooth of my receiver or N4 in general, because I had my n4 rma'd and still same problem with the new one. I didn't have any bluetooth problems with my gs3 at all. I have a clarion cx501 on my car, any input to solve this would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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Hello, I've noticed something with the Moto G (It may happen with other KK devices, but this is the only one I have to test) When I play a Netflix movie thru my phone to the chromecast on the TV, the Netflix lockscreen interface shows on my phone, as it should. But when I also turn on another app the uses the lockscreen interface, say Pandora radio, there is a conflict for what to play and what to display on the lockscreen. It happen frequently that I am playing a Netflix for a family member thru chromcast while running around the house or taking the dogs for a walk etc when I would also want to stream music from the phone. The phone will only play music for a couple of seconds then pauses. Also the lockscreen interface frequently switches between Netflix and Pandora. Does anyone know a way around this?
Don't know a way around it other than only running either netflix or pandora at one time, not both.
On a related note, I can't get the navigation (pause,play, fwd) controls on the pandora locksreen widget to work. Any ideas?
is there a way to have the default screen be the music player control screen when the watch wakes and music is playing? ive had this watch now for 17 months and its driving me nuts. I dont play music terribly often, maybe once a day for about an hour or so, but i had flashed android wear on my old gear 2 neo and it had that baked into the tarball. Anyone been able to get something like this working on the S3 Frontier or any of the S3 variants?
From what I've seen so far no. But there are multiple ways to get to the player. Watch face with shortcut to music, quick setting pull down "playing" green bars only shows when playing.. click that will take you to music, a permanent quick setting icon, or make a music widget be the first widget when you swipe left. Hope that helps