Just found this trick the other day when I was looking for something to do voip with video. I ran into a program called tivi phone. I tried to make a video call. It crashed. No big deal, I wasn't expecting too much. I found, though, that tivi phone had re-routed all of my audio to the earpiece. When it crashed, it never got sent back to the rear speaker. I started skype, had a conversation with the phone the right way around for once, then restarted tivi phone and exited normally. Audio all back to normal now. Seems like if tivi phone can re-route the audio then skype should be able to do the same, but whatevs. now, whenever I want to skype without a headset, I start up tivi phone first, and the audio is in my ear, where it should be.
Hope this helps someone, it's definitely made my life a bit easier.
yep you're 100% right, great find.
Run tivi in background and then skype works as it should.
and coders from Skype watching? we need another app to make yours work as it should.
Thanks for this easy workaround
nice. gonna check it out. thanks
bro
Wow, this has been a dream for long time...
The only problem is that the sound continue to work to the ear speaker even if you close the Tivi Phone application...even ringtones
Nice find. It's working for me as well. I have never been a big fan of wearing a bluetooth headset. For this reason i never used skype mobile. Now i think i will use skype alot more.
Thanks for the tip!
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Something odd was going on with my Kaiser today. I always use my headset for calls and today when I made calls it automatically turned into speaker mode and I couldn't talk through the mic on the headset, but I can still listen. The speaker was on all the time and I didn't even turn it on. After I restarted the phone it was fine.
Has this ever happened to anyone? and what is the reason for that?
I get the same but only on the initial pairing of the device.
Unlike you however, I actually WANT to know how to activate this "feature"
For instance, I have tomtom on it, it would be great to have the voice coming through my car speakers via bluetooth
It's done it once accidently but never could replicate it again
well.. I was listening to music on my phone and the sound was still going through the headset, but I had no idea the speaker was also playing the music.. everyone was staring at me on the train and now I know why..
VERY COOL BT EAR PIECE!
The thing i enjoy about this the most is the ability to listen to music from my phone! I was kinda sketchy to the concept, but it is MONO sound, and sounds very good. The sound quality and volume is nice.
The ear bud fits snug in my ear and doesn't slip out or bounce around when i turn my head.
Since it allows music, you can also hear your ringtones, applicaiton/game noises, and other sounds your phone makes.
Another rad feature is the "MultiPoint" connection that allows you to connect up to 8 devices, and have 2 working at any one time.
It's a small ear piece, but is good quality, sounds great, and works well!
http://www.jabra.com/Sites/Jabra/NA-US/Headsets/Pages/JabraBT8040.aspx?productfamilytab=Overview
i really like the looks of itt nice and small
i was jus wondering i have a HTC TOCUH from bell
and with this bluetooth will i be able to hear songs from my phone
in other words i can use this as a wireless headphones too?
cause couple of days ago i stopped by to look at some bluetooths
and the guy at the store told me tht HTC TOUCH doesnt support that
soo no metter what bluetooth u get it wont work.
and that was disappointing soo then i didnt buy one.
I just bought one of these... they're on sale right now at:
http://www.2daysbargain.com/
It ends today so you need to make up your mind pretty quick.
HTC Touch supports A2DP which is the main thing in supporting stereo music. The BT8040 also supports this (majority of mono headsets won't), so you shouldn't see any issue using the two together.
I hope at least... that what wryun mentions he's doing. It's also what I plan on doing. And from other reading it sounds like there won't be an issue.
I had one of these. In theory it could have been the greatest earbud ever. Unfortunately I had constant issues.
First, you cannot keep it in the traditional diagonal position for an earbud as the microphone rests on your cheek and is thus muffled.
Second, and this is what really pissed me off, the mic eventually stopped working. I would try the voice dial and it would never register my voice. Call after call would come in and I would answer without the caller being able to hear me. Seriously, the only way I could get it to finally work was to throw it at something...i.e., the ground, my dashboard, my windshield, the walls, etc...
I retired it and it has since been lost, possibly in the wash. I currently switch off between an invisio g5 (as small as the jabra with few issues) and a Samsung WEP470. Neither have A2DP and I must admit I miss that, but actual functionality is more important to me.
I was just wondering who here uses Tango to make video calls with their Revo. I use it a few times a week to keep in touch with family I don't see very often. If you don't use it I advise checking it out it's pretty awesome and you can video chat over Wi-Fi, 3G, or 4G.
Ive used it, but i dont like how it echoes. The mic pics up the sound from the speaker or something, and you hear yourself. Pretty annoying, the thunderbolt on the other side did not have that problem.
adrenaline_rush said:
Ive used it, but i dont like how it echoes. The mic pics up the sound from the speaker or something, and you hear yourself. Pretty annoying, the thunderbolt on the other side did not have that problem.
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That is true. I think that has something in the code though.
supposedly the echo issue was fixed in a recent update, but haven't tried it on the new update myself to see if it is really fixed.
Hi Forum,
I orginally posted this topic on the man Q and A board but it was buried quickly with no response. Perhaps this is a better venue to ask.
My phone is roughly a year old, and today I ran into a weird and potentially phone killing problem
I received a few phone calls from my girlfriend today, the ringer rang loud and clear, but I heard no sound from my ear piece. After a few "Hello?"s, I hung up thinking it was a bad connection. Upon seeing my girlfriend afterwards, she said she heard me on my end. So I got her to call me again and I tried to use speaker phone, and I could hear her fine.
Doing some research on google, I only ran across one other person who had this problem, and upon seeing this, I tested my music player, (as theirs didn't work), and mine doesn't work either
This other person said the problem resolved itself a day later.
In short, my ear piece has no sound during a phone call and my media sound doesn't work (though it works w/ headphones.) My notification sounds and speaker phone DO work, as well as my alarms
Do the notification and speaker phone speakers come from a different place than media and ear piece speakers?
Do I have a software issue? I tried the "push the speaker down" solution but to no avail
Should I wait like the other person?
Any suggestions?
Thanks forum!
Codazzle said:
Hi Forum,
I orginally posted this topic on the man Q and A board but it was buried quickly with no response. Perhaps this is a better venue to ask.
My phone is roughly a year old, and today I ran into a weird and potentially phone killing problem
I received a few phone calls from my girlfriend today, the ringer rang loud and clear, but I heard no sound from my ear piece. After a few "Hello?"s, I hung up thinking it was a bad connection. Upon seeing my girlfriend afterwards, she said she heard me on my end. So I got her to call me again and I tried to use speaker phone, and I could hear her fine.
Doing some research on google, I only ran across one other person who had this problem, and upon seeing this, I tested my music player, (as theirs didn't work), and mine doesn't work either
This other person said the problem resolved itself a day later.
In short, my ear piece has no sound during a phone call and my media sound doesn't work (though it works w/ headphones.) My notification sounds and speaker phone DO work, as well as my alarms
Do the notification and speaker phone speakers come from a different place than media and ear piece speakers?
Do I have a software issue? I tried the "push the speaker down" solution but to no avail
Should I wait like the other person?
Any suggestions?
Thanks forum!
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I had nearly the same issue, except mine got to the point where the speaker phone didn't work either. Music played fine, phone calls stopped working. I went through a lengthy process of accidently deleting everything I had on my phone, which lead me to buy a USB Jig, install the stock ROM and it worked perfectly. I would suggest trying this before you try and physical fixes on your phone.
Thanks for the suggestion SGT_Watkins
I am an absolute noob when it comes to this stuff. So it took me a while to even figure out what you were saying
BUT, after a whole night of reading and flashing it WAS FIXED!!!
I am quite tempted to phone Samsung and give them a piece of my mind after they told me some hardware was defective even though they clearly weren't listening to what the problem was
Thank you again!
How did you solve this?
I have the EXACT same problem on my Galaxy Nexus. I've wiped it, tried different ROMs, kernels... Nothing solves it! It's like there's a persistent software problem that survives flashing and even battery pulls.
My phone had this same issue not long ago. It was after I had used some headphones for about an hour. I work in a paper converting factory, so I assume some dust was packed in the headphone jack and made the phone think something was plugged into it. I turned my phone upside down and used a paper clip to scrape it all out (compressed air may have been safer). After a few tries, all sounds were working properly again.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA
so i have a microphone problem. In calls (only in) calls the person whom im speaking with won't hear me. It's not a hardware problem, cuz the microphone works in recording sounds/movies, even in services tests the both microphones seems to function. It hapened first time when i pluged out my headset. Seems that the phone forgot to get bag to its internal mike. So i pluged in again the headset and after pluging them out everything worked perfect. But now hapenned again i tried pluging in and out the headset in million ways the mike wont turn itself on again. As i Said i searched on google, i deactivated the noise reduction and i installed soundabout apk. With this apk it works a little bit, i mean the one whom i speak can barely hear me (better than nothing i guess), but i want to fix this crap. I mean its a PHONE, i should TALK with it. Thank you in advance
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with my tx on ics this happened with me but not the mic it was the speakers the phone kept recognizing that that the headset is still pluged in
so here is the advice i read here in xda JUST PLUG IT IN and OUT realy fast while you playing a song on walkman keep doing it realy fast for 5 times maybe +- once the song stop workin stop doing it you are fine to go now hope that will help you