Carma is a fully voice-controlled app to use while driving.
Website: http://Carma.RSenApps.com
Video: http://youtu.be/pzSQPInhlAc
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.InCar
Found this after trying OpenMic (kills my battery)
I ride a motorbike daily and this is just what I need, I have tried others but they fail so this looks good and comes from a reputable source
I have BlueTooth in my helmet and I use TuneIn radio so I get time checks (do you know how hard it is to look at your watch when riding) and local traffic as well as some music etc but when I start Carma it kills TuneIn.
Its still running but Carma pauses TuneIn and when I unpause it stutters for a few seconds then pauses again?
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Hi, sorry if there are already threads on this, but search brings up nothing.
Basically I want to know which is the best sat-nav software for the Touch Pro in terms of reliability, stability and function.
I used to use TomTom 6 with my old iMate, but it crashed a bit and annoyed me how you couldn't run it in the background. Can anyone tell me if you can continue listening to music with the Garmin software?
I don't know for garmin but in tomtom7 you can listen to music while navigating.
I'd go for the iGO8 as I think it is the best Navi software. The reason is it's just too fast , the curser keeps on following you real time, if you turn, the map turns with you immediately.
Why would you Navigate and listen to music on your device ? Don't you have a radio in your car ? BTW most raidos these days allow AUX connection for listening to MP3
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I'd go for the iGO8 as I think it is the best Navi software. The reason is it's just too fast , the curser keeps on following you real time, if you turn, the map turns with you immediately.
Why would you Navigate and listen to music on your device ? Don't you have a radio in your car ? BTW most raidos these days allow AUX connection for listening to MP3
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I use my Touch Pro as an MP3 player and as sat nav. My car stereo supports A2DP.
I would like to be able to have music on when I drive or walk around and be guided at the same time.
Does iGo 8 let you listen to music in the background?
I use Garmin Mobile XT 5, and it has the latest NUVI GUI... and works perfectly.
You can listen to music and run the MobileXT in background. As soon as you got a direction, the nav software goes in front and then goes back, living you with whatever program you where working, all this while listening to music, video or radio.
I was tempted by Garmin. The XT looks great. Really snazzy.
The thing that puts me off is that I play in a band. We have Garmin as our main sat-nav and it is terrible. It'll send us hours out of our way regularly and try and take us down roads that don't exist.
If you make a wrong turn in London it can't recalculate as quickly as you're driving and there's nowhere to pull over.
It is a running joke with a lot of touring bands that if you're late for shows you probably have a Garmin.
I've been using Garmin Mobile XT 5. The application looks nice and has lots of useful features, however, I do have some issues with lag yet I don't know whether this is software or hardware related. I think you can download a trial version from their Website so you could at least demo it.
You should check first the map coverage for your country, TeleAtlas vs Navteq vs Wherever Regional Provider; You can choose the navigation software after, as from my experience even if the interface is nice, if the maps are S***T, there's no use.
As a personal choice, i like Igo8.
Let me start off by saying this is more of a workaround than a fix. I have been hoping that the release of Donut may have fixed the A2DP skipping problem but until late I had rendered my Plantronics Voyager 855 useless for listening to music. I could not listen to anything with out i skipping so bad that it would have been better to turn off bluetooth and hold the phone to my head to listen to media. I have found a fix that may hopefully lead to someone figuring out what is actually wrong.
Step 1: turn off bluetooth and unpair your headset
Step 2: start a song on a media player
Step 3: go back turn bluetooth on and pair your headset
you may or may not have to unpair your headset sometimes it works if you just turn bluetooth off start a song and then go turn it back on again
Once it connects your media will start playing perfectly through the headset for as long as the media is playing. Unfortunately once you stop playing media for more than a few minutes and then try to start it again the skipping will also start again.
Have you also tried using a task manager to kill everything BEFORE you start the music player? That works 60% of the time for me.
Another solution that generally works the other 40% of the time is to go into your bluetooth settings, press and hold on your BT device, at menu pop-up, touch "Options" then just unlink the Media, and then re-link it.
Hope this saves you some time in the future!
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Have you also tried using a task manager to kill everything BEFORE you start the music player? That works 60% of the time for me.
Another solution that generally works the other 40% of the time is to go into your bluetooth settings, press and hold on your BT device, at menu pop-up, touch "Options" then just unlink the Media, and then re-link it.
Hope this saves you some time in the future!
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its funny that unlinking media works for you because i tried that and it does nothing for me. The fastest way i can get it to work is turning bluetooth of and back on again.
I'm having the same problems with my JVC car stereo.. It skips pops etc.. with no way to fix.. i'll try this work around tomorrow but does anyone know what causes this?
I see one of you is running latest Cyanogenmod. I'm not sure what the issue is you are having with A2DP maybe your paired hardware? i typically have Pandora streaming to my car stereo in the background with Telenav running.
EDIT: I use Tunewiki instead of Music player if that makes a difference.
Well actually it does happen in CyanogenMod although its not a skipping issue... Its more of a faint popping issue that I get.
I dont hear it using the aux headphone jack on my htc adapter but i do when i switch over to bluetooth.
Right now i'm running Enomther's ASOP+ADP rom because CyanogenMod has been having freezing and rebooting issues (thanks to the switchrom script for letting me switch back and forth) and this is where i'm really getting a skipping and popping issue big time.
For both I use Tunewiki as well, for m4a's that i buy on iTunes or SHOUTcast radio (gotta love internet radio on the go...)
I thought it was because I was running Google Maps as well as tunewiki (I have a car GPS mount) but even just letting it run only Tunewiki it still has issues (although far worse at times running Google Maps)
I just can't seem to pinpoint the issue.. I could just use the aux headphone jack to my car stereo yes, but then since I have the charger connected I get the annoying ground loop noise which is far worse than the bluetooth popping and skipping issue...
EDIT: This is my Car Stereo: JVC KD-A805
Check out for workarounds in http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2807
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Check out for workarounds in http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2807
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Those workarounds don't work for me. It is good to know this issue is known though and is being reported by more than one.
My Tunewiki still skips either way.. even turing off most background apps do not help.. I was looking into editing the audiopara4.csv file possibly (someone apparently added a line for his BMW and it fixed his issue) but don't know where to start.
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Have you also tried using a task manager to kill everything BEFORE you start the music player? That works 60% of the time for me.
Another solution that generally works the other 40% of the time is to go into your bluetooth settings, press and hold on your BT device, at menu pop-up, touch "Options" then just unlink the Media, and then re-link it.
Hope this saves you some time in the future!
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After intense observation, I realized I experience the skipping only after I place a call. The following two steps always work for me ( I prefer #2)
1. Turn of bluetooth and turn in it back on while the music is playing
2. In bluetooth settings unlink the phone and thats it; you might have to turn off bt and back on and it works until you use the bt for phone again
I also noticed that the skipping is not ROM specific with me; I tried it when my G1 was unrooted, thru XROM. I'm not sure what causes the skipping, I experience no skipping with my S9 (works flawlessly), however my Jabra BT3030 is what gives me all the grief (better headset IMHO)
Just found a really easy way to get a2dp to work perfectly. Once you have what ever you want playing just make a call to your voice mail, once the call gets transfered to your headset hang up and what ever you are playing will play perfect through the headset.
eclair rom.
bluetooth works perfectly on them.
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.
Hi All, I am a Galaxy S5 user and I drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee with the UConnect infotainment package. Both work really well together. However, I am running into scenarios where I only want "some" of my phone media apps to run through the bluetooth. Here is an example:
While driving and listening the the radio AM/FM/XM (whatever), I may also have my phone running waze to alert me of traffic or red light cameras etc . But when Waze tries to send an audio alert, I do not hear it because my infotainment source is "radio" instead of Bluetooth at that moment.
The obvious answer is to only pair the phone for phone function and skip the media pairing, but there are also plenty of times when I do want to listen to phone media through the infotainment (spotify etc). The phone-only pairing would limit that ability.
So I am seeking a phone app that can apply policy to the phone's "media" apps to determine which ones play over bluetooth and which play through the phone's speakers. Does anyone have a suggestions?
I have a 2009 Renault Laguna Sports Tourer
This is equipped with Bluetooth and I can play music from my S6 through the car.
The only problem is the track information is being 'sent' to the car.
It actually displays 'No track information'
Any ideas if this is an android thing or something to do with the car
works fine on my Audi so it;s prob your car
I've noticed with various android devices that it depends on the Android app being used. It seems that native Google apps send Bluetooth Metadata track information better than some third party android apps. Example, Google Play Music works fine, while Samsung Milk Music might not. Luckily, I mostly use my Podcast app which at first had problems sending Bluetooth Metadata, but after an update, it started sending the Metadata fine. It's been hit and miss depending on the Android app for me.