Whether I plug in my Aux cable (car) or my earphones (no mic or controls) Google Now voice will become activated. Google Now will think I said something by stating "If you said something I did not hear you." (something along those line). This will interrupt the music playing and I have to manually play the music again.
I'm using the latest OTA and poweramp.
This happens with the phone is in wake or sleep mode.
Google Now is not open or minimized.
The problem isn't very consistent, Google Now is not activated every time, but it happens enough that its frustrating, I'd say over 60% of the time.
Since its not consistent I'm having problems replicating the problem.
I've tried multiple pairs of earphones.
Anybody have this issue or found a solution?
I have this issue, but only when I'm in the car. And like you, it's not every time.
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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.
q426669 said:
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.
I haven't seen too many problems posted about the car dock and I certainly haven't run across this one. So, if you have any suggestions, let me know.
Often times, when I try to use the voice search while docked, I get "Connection Error, Try Again". When it does happen to work, I have to yell in order for the phone to hear me. I am assuming that this is because the receiver is not being routed through the dock's microphone.
Also, when I attempt to play music, sometimes it will play through the dock speaker... but only for a minute or so and then only plays through the phone's speaker. Calls are the same way.
The entire time that the phone is docked the charger is working and the BT connected icon is displayed.
I have done the obvious such as ensuring setting are correct. I have wiped my phone and reinstalled the ROM, CM 5.0.6. multiple times.
Perhaps a hardware issue?
Thanks for any suggestions.
I feel like this would be a common problem but I haven't found any info here or on Google regarding my exactly issue.
It seems that whenever I have a pair of headphones in my HTC seems to recognize them as a bluetooth headset, and with no actual button on either of the headphones I've tried it just activates VC to listen to what I have to say non stop, as you can see, this creates a problem.
If the only solution is to get rid of voice command, I wouldn't mind, I have never ever used it after having the phone over six months.
This is driving me batty. Ever since I upgraded to ICS, my phone will not consistently reconnect to my Soundfly View that I use in my car.
Sometimes it connects automatically, sometimes not. I did completely remove the pairing from both devices and repaired, but to no difference.
Most maddeningly, today, it wasn't connected, so I woke the phone (by pressing power) and unlocked it, then it connected. Almost like it was "asleep" or something???
Anybody else have this issue? Is there any fix?
I don't have a suggestion for you, just saying that my experience has been the opposite. I use two completely different stereo bluetooth headset devices to listen to music all day at work (neither one of them has a long enough battery life to last throughout the day so I have to switch)
I use a sony mw600 and a samsung hs3000. I'm sure they are different than your car thing, but I'm sure they do the same thing. Ie, phone and media sounds go through the headset instead of the phone.
Autoconnect has always worked well. For what it's worth I use poweramp as a media player and in the settings there is an option for a persistent service to always start auto playing when the phone pairs to either device, and to stop playing upon a device disconnect. All I have to do is turn on the power, or turn off the power, the service automates the rest.
So if your intended point of the car thingamabob is to get songs to play from the phone through your car speakers, and to use the car speakers to talk on a phone call, maybe consider a media player that has a similar option to what I'm talking about. I'm sure poweramp is not the only one that does.
Thanks for the reply (and sorry for the late reply...busy, and been experimenting).
I've been using the app A2DP Volume which sort of does what you suggest, to launch any app upon BT connect. It's been working fairly well...but I still have this problem.
After some experimentation, I really believe the phone is going into some kind of deep sleep if I haven't used it in a while (even though it is on). My clues: one, this Bluetooth issue, where it will not connect. However, I've gotten to the point of just hitting the power button (even through the case) when it does not connect, and it will then immediately connect and play just fine. Also, I've noticed that in the mornings I have started to hit the power and swipe, and it doesn't show that I have any new email. So I hit power and put it away, and it will ding in a few minutes with my new mail. So at some point in the evenings, it quits checking email.
Is that plausible? I've looked everywhere for some kind of setting, but don't see any.
Well, I blew that theory...
Left work yesterday, it connected fine, first time. Stopped to get gas, got back in, didn't connect, until I pressed power. So, it could not be a sleep problem, over just a few minutes.
I don't get it. So many use BT in their car, but it's always been a pain for me.
So I got one of the iClever Himbox BT adapters to use with my car's AUX jack. Now that we have the always-on "OK Google" trigger, I want to use it more in the car. A couple times it has worked correctly.
However, most of the time, once I trigger "OK Google", it won't pick up my voice. The mic indicator shows no response when I'm talking, and it just sits there waiting to hear me say something. This would be bad enough. But after this point, I can't even go back to playing music through the BT adapter.
The setup is basically dead in the water until I disconnect and reconnect to the BT adapter (BT icon still shows connected, play/pause button still works, but no audio). Obviously this is not something I can fool around with while driving down the road.
Has anybody ever had this happen?
Anybody else ever have this happen? It's really annoying having to disconnect and reconnect to my BT device just to get the audio passing back through to the car speakers.
Well, some good news... I was trying this out after upgrading to lollipop, and haven't had a recurrence of the issue yet. Hopefully it was just fixed in the upgrade, and I haven't just been lucky the few times that I've tried it since then!
Yes I've had it happen. I haven't seen it on Lollipop yet but for sure it happened all the time on Kitkat. It seemes to happen when it can't connect to Google servers to process. Total PITA
AndrasLOHF said:
Yes I've had it happen. I haven't seen it on Lollipop yet but for sure it happened all the time on Kitkat.
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Yes, it's definitely helpful to have the voice activation... I use torque in my car, and it's great to be able to "OK Google" search something for later, and then "OK Google.... open torque" to switch back when done.
Now, if google can just get a landscape mode for the dialer and the home screen, I'll be all set!