Running an avant4 avinusa bmw e39 unit, Android 9.0.
Probably a faq:
I’ve installed power amp, and want that to launch instead of the stock music player when hitting the music button. Power amp is working ok.
Don’t see a way to add new actions in button key study factory settings.
Don’t see a way to over-ride the behavior of the existing music action listed in the button key study.
Beyond that question, seems the builtin music app needs to be left running (background) in order for steering wheel button presses to trigger track forward/etc in power amp. How to fix to no longer need the default music app?
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To increase the volume of Pandora on Windows Mobile:
1. Open Pandora
2. Wait for music to start playing
3. Press the OK button (you should now hear an audible increase in the playback volume)
4. Bring Pandora back into focus, repeat steps 1-3 and enjoy your preferred level!
Why this works:
Let's concentrate first on the number of levels of fail in play here...
Level 1:
Windows Mobile utilizes some pretty funky key-mappings. As can be seen here:
http:[slash][slash]msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb431750.aspx
the key for 'volume +' is actually 'F6'. Since most Windows Mobile phones do not have the F-key row, the only way to do this is if you have a hard button.
Level 2:
The Pandora programmers decided to give Pandora an independent volume control at all based upon the same button configuration used by Windows Mobile to detect hardware button presses.
This also works the same way in the browser-based version at pandora.com! Try using your hardware 'volume -' button (if you have one) on your PC while you have the browser window running Pandora in focus - you'll see what I mean...
Level 3:
The Pandora programmers decided to not expose the above control to the user in the GUI
Level 4:
The Pandora programmers decided to utilize Windows Media Player mobile for their backend. Unfortunately for us who do not have a hardware volume control, they initialize the Windows Media Player ActiveX control's (Those of you who have ever programmed in Visual Basic should know what I mean here) volume value to BFFF (hex) or 49151 (dec) - equaling about 74.6% - every time you start the Pandora player, instead of 100%.
This is a 32-bit value, so the max value is FFFF (hex) or 65535 (dec). It is also written to the registry at the location \HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\Volume and it's horrid results can be observed by starting Media Player after Exiting the Pandora app.
Level 5:
Those of us suffering from a lack of hardware buttons may have thought they were really smart after discovering the above and tried a button re-programming application for Windows Mobile, to attempt to bestow upon ourselves a volume +, volume -, or both hardware buttons. This simply does not work for one reason or another - I am guessing because the programs may only send the key-down event and Pandora may only look for the key up event.
I spent the last two days trying to bring forth fruit from this method.
And the best part...
When you press the 'OK' hard button, it doesn't correspond to just one button in the Operating system. It is actually a combination of WINKEY + F6. Those of you who have hardware button controls can try this, or the rest of us can get the 'cerdisp' program and try this with our Windows computers. It should close whatever program you have in focus. Since Pandora is not really looking for the WIN key, I'm assuming it ignores the WIN key press, instead looking only at the F6 key press alongside it, this time most likely along with it's associated key-up event.
Please let me know your results. This was tested on an HTC PPC-6800 with a cooked WM6.5 rom.
On a side note, it's been a long year of searching for a solution, but at long last I can listen to Pandora at full volume through my Ford SYNC-capable stereo using A2DP!
This is probably the most useful feature for me. I really miss it coming from cyanogenmod. Basically with screen off, you can control next and previous songs by long pressing the volume buttons. It is not available in stock of course. I tried several music apps but no luck. Anyone know of another way?
=.=...not I know off ATM.....
wait...Perfect CWM.....WAIT for AOSP.....WAIT FOR CM9.....WAIT FOR AOKP...
Lmt launcher. Set gesture or pie button to activate back/forward key. Going to do this now
Make sure to set min gesture score/path length lower (50 and 5 work well). Device input 2 is what works for our phone.
Right now I have:
square and diamond for pause/play (key 85)
rightDouble for next song (key 87)
leftDouble for previos (key 88)
updownDouble and downupDouble for wifi toggle
works very well outside of chrome. you'll need to hit the omnibar and then the gesture for it work in chrome
I use Jays headset from the Play store and it works great for me
nephipower said:
I use Jays headset from the Play store and it works great for me
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do you know of an app that let skips song just with the volume buttons ??
In ICS, long press on the only headset button would go through to PowerAMP and it would handle it appropriately.
In JB, long pressing toggles Google Now.
How can i let PowerAMP handle this input? (i've already set "Increase priority" in PowerAMP)
Are there other music players/apps i could use?
Folks,
Please suggest me a music player for my international Galaxy S3 running stock everything, that supports long press volume button feature. Basically I am looking for a music player that will let me change tracks by long pressing volume up/down button.
The feature must work when the phone is in locked state and even otherwise.
Thanks.
CM9/10 has this feature. Settings > Sound > Volume rocker music control
Works with the universal API, so any music player that normally accepts inline controls will pick up the signal.
i have my other apps posted on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182431
And this is my little latest app, would like to share with you all:fingers-crossed:
C Volume Rocker:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ccs.cvolumerocker&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jY3MuY3ZvbHVtZXJvY2tlciJd
Details:
Take control of your device Volume Rocker with SCREEN OFF if there is Media Playing by:
__1)PRESS 1 TIME on Volume UP/DOWN to Skip Next/Previous song
__2)DOUBLE PRESS to Increase/Lower Volume
Please consider to do the followings if you like my apps:laugh::
:good:HIT the [Thanks]...OR
:good:RATE in Google Play as many [STARS] as you can..
This was exactly what i was searching for, but the vibration on triggering is a deal-breaker for me. If you can remove that i could use it. Also, it doesn't disable the long press volume control, and instead it thinks it's a lot of two-presses, hence it skips a lot of songs in one go.
I'm using a Galaxy S3, stock rom, with Android 4.1.2 and the stock music player.
It doesn't work with my brand new S4. I have 4.3 stock ROM using Power Amp