I use my Nexus 7 (2013, Android 6.0) as a car mount. It has been useful for navigation and multimedia. To have internet connectivity, I pair my tablet with my phone (iPhone or Blackberry Classic) via bluetooth.
I am facing an insignificant but tedious problem. When I enter my car, the Nexus does not pair automatically with my phone. I have to go to bluetooth settings and pair manually. I am wondering if this is by-design or if there is a way to make it pair automatically.
On a side note, is there anyway to flag a specific bluetooth connection as cellular/mobile data, the same way we can flag wifi hotspots?
P.S. I am not using Wifi hotspot to reduce energy consumption of both phone and tablet, and mainly because the poor iPhone sends the wifi-hotspot to sleep, if inactive for a while.
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Hi ppl,
I'm having issues with bluetooth on mytouch4g phone.
To connect it to hands free set I have to every time turn off and then turn on bluetooth on my phone.
Anyone have similar issue?
Is there a setting somewhere to set default device?
Thanks
Do you mean "Hands free mode" or do you mean pairing a stereo BT headset?
With the stock OS -- "Hands free mode" can be set by either 1) starting the Car Dock application, or 2) Using the BT headset phone button or the Genius button to enable speech commands, and saying "Hands Free On" once the phone is ready.
With the stock OS -- pairing of the phone occurs automatically whether the phone or headset is powered up first. Pairing of media (for stereo headsets) will only occur automatically with any degree of regularity -- from experimentation and observation by others, reported on forums like this -- if the phone's BT is powered up =after= the headset. One can manually disable and enable media connectivity after long pressing on the device in the BT settings window, and that will establish the media connection -- but it is probably easier to have a BT power toggle on your home page somewhere.
If neither of these answers the question you were asking, please rephrase it. And of course, for a custom ROM (non-stock OS), ask in the appropriate ROM's thread in the development subforum.
I mean bluetooth at car. I'm able to pair my phone with car and connect with no issues.
If I get into the car with my phone and bt on - it will not establish connection. I have to turn off bt on the phone and turn it back on. Then it will establish connection. It works fine with my old Fuze.
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I mean bluetooth at car. I'm able to pair my phone with car and connect with no issues.
If I get into the car with my phone and bt on - it will not establish connection. I have to turn off bt on the phone and turn it back on. Then it will establish connection. It works fine with my old Fuze.
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i have the same exact problem except i can't use any of the bt features on my car.
2010 infinit G37
any help would be greatly appreciated
Wifi connectivity seems to not recover well when waking the device. In fact, i have to keep it from going to sleep when it's mounted on my dash in the car so i don't lose the wifi link from either my RAZR or MiFi while driving. i have WiFi sleep policy set to never and it still does it.
In regards to Bluetooth it's much better than my original Galaxy Tab, where when i tried to do music via BT to the car's stereo (BT FIPO adapter to 30-pin ipod dock adapter on car's cd changer input), plus connection to an OBDII Bluetooth adapter (Torque app) - it would have frequent stutters.
With this 7 Plus, i can be SIMULTANEOUSLY connected to both BT devices and switch between Spotify, Mortplayer, Navigation, Torque w/ no stuttering or lag. Also nice that now my car's steering wheel controls actually work better going through the BT on the FIPO to the ipod adapter (only track next/last toggle).
I wish Navigon and CoPilot didn't crash/lag so much, though.
Also the Stowaway folding bluetooth keyboard i used to use with my old UMPCs works well with this tablet.
My wifi would disconnect constantly when I was in a different room than the router. I used a wifi analyzer to view the channels and had the router use a channel that wasn't as busy. Works a lot better now. But I had no issues before hand with any other device.
I've turned off the power save due to the Linux kernel bug and dealing with the sleep of death bug. Helps wifi too you might want to try it out.
Hi, I would like to use my P3110 as the infotainment central of my car.
I have a bluetooth system which can receive everything.
So, I thought that I can connect the tablet to internet using my phone (nexus 5) as hotspot.
With this basic configuration, I can use the tablet as a navigator, while spotify plays my music.
The only problems are phone calls. Infact, if the tablet is paired to the car bluetooth system I have to pick the phone to answer.
Is there a way to bypass calls to the tablet?
Thanks a lot
I never really bothered to thing about this until recently, but I personally have three ways I use bluetooth.
1) My car, when I get in my car I want my phone to connect to bluetooth
2) My headphones, when I turn on my headphones I want my phone to connect to bluetooth
3) My home stereo, I only want this connection to happen when I initiate it
Is there anyway to manage bluetooth connections per device like this in Android? As it stands my only thought is to have my home Tasker profile disable bluetooth, but that's a hacky workaround and I'm hoping something better exists (also something that doesn't require tasker so I can make it work on my wife's phone too).
Trigger app should do the trick. You can create profiles for each BT connection.
I have updated my car headunit to a sony MEX-N5100BT which is controlled by a nexus 7 tablet install and the sony songpal app, however I can't use the tablet screen to make and receive phone calls which is annoying.
Is there any app which would allow me to control my phone via the tablet (mirror) or even just the phonebook and call functions?
I have a MiFi unit so it could be either by WiFi or bluetooth.
Thanks!
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