Has anyone had experience of these?
I was looking at a blaupunkt hamburg car stereo and whilst I can always use USB or 3.5mm aux jack to connect with my kaiser, I would like, if possible, the full bluetooth experience - with the stereo playing music off my kaiser and handling calls as well. I know it will handle the calls part, but what about the music part?
I guess the Kaiser supports BT "headphones", but I wondered if it was possible for a car head unit to pull track listings via BT from a phone, select which track to play etc.
I would really like to be able to have TomTom on the kaiser screen and select what music I want via the car stereo's controls.
Is this possible via BT? I know this unit does that via USB, but I can't seem to work out if track selection is possible via BT. I spoke to some salesmen, but all they quoted at me was "It has Audio Streaming" - I looked that up, but all it said was you could skip track etc - I want to be able to browse playlists on the head unit as well as play, pause etc.
Does BT degrade the quality too much? Would I be better off using the USB port?
depends on if the car stereo supports Stereo over Bluetooth. Go to the bluetooth on your pda, click and hold on the paired stereo and if it gives you the option - you're good otherwise you may need to find another solution.
It's not just stereo over bluetooth (A2DP) I want, it's the ability to browse playlists via the bluetooth device
I don't know of any BT unit that supports playlist browsing -- as I understand it, the AVRCP profile that supports skip, rewind, etc. doesn't support playlists. AFAIK, there's no BT profile for that.
I have a JVC (BT1)unit that can control the music player and stream the music from the Kaiser ,browsing the songs is mot possible
OK, so hard wired it is then.
I am thinking now that maybe BT isn't so wise anyway, I have an active holder, so wires are not a problem really and wires don't cut out randomly or get interference.
Mind you, I just realised that for it to work over USB, the device has to present itself as a mass storage device, which I don't think pocketpc phones do, do they? You need activesync...
Does anyone know if it is possible to run an app on a pocketpc that makes it present itself as a standard usb mass storage device and not an activesync device?
my motorola a2dp bluetooth stereo headphones worked with my unit just fine - they had play/pause/next/prev/volume buttons that worked too - decent sound quality also
evilc said:
OK, so hard wired it is then.
Mind you, I just realised that for it to work over USB, the device has to present itself as a mass storage device, which I don't think pocketpc phones do, do they? You need activesync...
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You don't necessarily need activesync for this, but you might try Softick Card Export or WM5torage (when someone gets it working on the Kaiser).
I tried the demo of Softick Card Export II and it works, there also appears to be one called WM5Storage on Modaco, but it won't let me download it, I think I need a subscription or something. What is the license on WM5Storage? Can someone send me a copy?
[Edit - heh, was writing this as you posted. So WM5Storage doesn't work on the Kaiser yet?]
This should provide the best possible audio quality - an error corrected usb link to the stereo and also the best functionality - the stereo can browse the phone so you can scroll through lists of your music on the stereo head unit whilst tomtom displays on the kaiser screen
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the stereo can browse the phone so you can scroll through lists of your music on the stereo head unit whilst tomtom displays on the kaiser screen
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One problem I see with this is that AFAIK, Card Export, when in use, prevents all other access to the card from your pda, therefore your maps on the card would not be accessible to TomTom while you are playing music via USB.
Surur
order of contacts displayed
Does anybody know how I can change the order contacts are displayed on the screen of the car? After I have sync the Kaiser with the BT car device all cantacts were sorted first name / last name. I do want to change that?
Any tip?
surur said:
One problem I see with this is that AFAIK, Card Export, when in use, prevents all other access to the card from your pda, therefore your maps on the card would not be accessible to TomTom while you are playing music via USB.
Surur
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You seem to be right on the money mate I got the stereo today, fitted it and got memory access violations when using tomtom and pulling tracks via USB
This is highly annoying, is it not technically possible to overcome this?
You could use smaller regional maps and store them in main memory?
Surur
Yeah, I could I suppose, but annoying - I paid for Western Europe and would like the whole thing on there all the time. You never know - you may go to a stag do, get drunk and wake up in France somewhere!
Persuing other angles at the mo - not got a word back from softick yet as to whether it is technically possible to access SD card via USB and phone at same time, and I have another thread exploring the possibility of an activesync to Mass Storage Device dongle.
We shall see.
I've got a Sony bluetooth unit and (MEX BT2500 or something) and use my Trinity for handsfree, TomTom and streaming music over Bluetooth - Kaiser turns up tomorrow but should be the same.
I use Coreplayer for music, it works great. You choose the music from the phone, but then you can skip tracks from the head unit. Sound quality is similar to using the aux port on the front - never had problems with interference or cutting out.
yeah, at the moment I just use the 3.5mm AUX input on the stereo and use pocket music.
I use "Double Launcher" to remap the internet explorer button - 1 press for tomtom, double press for pocket music - that way I can quickly switch between the two whilst driving by touch alone.
It's pretty good, but I would rather not have to take the map from the screen to select music, especially if you have a passenger who wants to browse available music. Plus the car head unit display is in big glowing letters which are easier to read at a distance. Also, it cuts down on a cable as the USB would cater for charge and audio.
Unfortunately the head unit only does audio for calls not audio streaming anyway, but I wasn't buying it for this as I figured bluetooth audio involved a lossy compression and so degraded quality - not an issue for phone calls but not the best for music, especially when it is already been through MP3 compression.
I got an answer from softick today, and it seems the limitation is imposed by their software. I have argued the case against the limitation, and they seem to be swaying towards giving something a go. Fingers crossed for a solution here.
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Sorry to bring this back from the dead . .
But I am in the middle of purchasing a stereo for my car and want to be able to do a few things . .
1) More than anything i want to be able to stream my Iguidance or TomTom turn by turn directions over my stereo through bluetooth.
2) I want to be able to take calls while still having my directions being played. ( Ie. while driving and being told where to go, if I get a call it will silence the directions and the call will take over. )
3) I want to be able to switch from BT to CD or radio. So if say TomTom tells me, drive for 10 miles, I can switch to radio for a while so i can listen to music and then switch back after some time to get back on track with my directions. What would be even better is if it treated the directions just like a call and allowed me to listen to the radio or cds, and when TomTom decided to talk, it would mute or turn down the radio/cd and play TomTom over it for the moment of " In 2 miles, exit on the right ".
If this is not possible then it isn't really worth it to spend the extra $100 or so on a good headunit with bluetooth. please give me some info or ideas.
(On a side note, if I were to use a BT headset, and had tomtom running, would the commands for turn by turn directions be fed through my BT headset? And would I be able to take calls while still doing this? ) If yes, I may just end up getting a good BT headset and just a nice CD player because of cost.
anyone have any ideas?
please, someone? help me help me
First I would like to say thanks to everyone on this site I have found helpful info on everything so far....
The problem I am having is as follows, I use my phone for almost everything, as I am sure most of y'all do too. But I also use it for everything in my car, I only have a A2DP stero in the car, no cd etc etc... I stream all my music thru the phone (AT&T Fuze) run TomTom etc... the problem I am having that I didn't have with the Tilt is that when I press the next/back etc buttons it automaticlay brings WiMP to the front and hides TomTom, or other Media Players I may be using. This is really annoying, I mean going 75mph down the highway I can't just reach up there and click close everytime n the switch back to TomTom.... any help would be much appriciated.....
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I hate the way media player hijacks my bluetooth a2dp headphones when I want to use it with pocket music or coreplayer
pocket music has a plugin that overrides wmp's ad2p control. found this through dr. google
http://www.conduits.com/products/player/plugins.asp
I am having the same exact problem. It is extremely frustrating! This is the only thing i have not been able to fix on my Fuze and it is driving me nuts! I have tried the stock ATT rom, various cooked roms, and am currently using HTC rom 5.05.405.1 WWE with radio 1.11.25.01. I have also tried multiple BT Stereo devices including Moto T505 and Gold Lantern mbsh-c3.2 having same results on both. However, i have noticed that occasionly it will function correctly allowing me to play/pause prev/next without tomtom losing focus. This is completely random and i am unable to reinact this on demand. If you find out anything else, please let me know.
Also having this problem
Also having this problem.
I'm using "A2DP Toggle" in combination with "auto a2dp manager" to auto connect my HTC touch HD to my car stereo. This works fine.
Then, in a perfect world I would like to start pocket player instead of media player when i press "next" on my car stereo.
Then once I've started tomtom and I press next again to go to the next track TomTom should stay on top. Or even better show my pocket player playlist for 5 seconds and return to tomtom.
Donwload: Conduits WMP Plugin Adapter 2.31
After installing, check the "Intercept WMP" and "HTC WMP" boxes on the Menu > More > Options > Plugins > WM Adapter > Configure screen.
This is what you want:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=545737
Capt. T's BT driver! Works for me!
Hi Guys,
Got WMWiFiRouter and MochaFTP work together (0ver wireless, offcouse) so that now MochaFTP allows me to browse my device and WMWiFiRouter allows me to browse the net. Please note that I am not using MochaFTP to transfer files via internet, that would've eat up my data allowance unnecessarily, although it can be done. In this mode, I browse net and send / receive downloaded media or programs to my Xperia. In sort, I planned and almost there in using X1 as Network Share (NAS), got 16GB card to enhance the capacity. Don't need to connect to different laptops but X1 now acts sort of my cental download hub and whatever laptop I use (I got 3 in total), I always access a single and up to date download for all of them. Sounds good.
What I am trying to achive but couldn't is,
(1) Stream media from X1 over wirelss, so I can put enough audio & video on X1 and listen it over wireless to my laptops, anytime and anywhere (over local wireless). This is just opposite of things like Orb and etcetra, as there are too many solutions which allows you to access media on your PC. This is about accessing (and streaming only, as I can always download from X1 via MochaFTT but wouldn't want to do that. It is same as having files on your PC) media on X1 via wireless. No I am not asking for A2DP over Bluetooth because than, I need to play it on X1 atleast and then use A2DP as wirless bluwtooth headset, but yet a sort of headset. So I want pure streaming of media files from my X1 which I will access on any of my wireless networked PC via http, rtsp or whatever protocol.
(2) Once above it achieved, I would want to stream FM Radio on my X1 over the same above wireless network. X1 can be plugged in and FM will be streamed all over wirelss so I can listen it on any PC on local network. Dont want record it and then stream it via net. In all above scenarios, net is not going to be used at all, as it will need data connection and I dont want to pay bothways. I want to listed to free FM chanells via wireless only.
(3) And ofcourse, if we can run a pure real infrastructure SoftAP server on X1 (or WM 6.1) it will be great as it will allow me to route my HAVA player via X1 over local WLAN and so I will get rid of my mains consuming 3G Router. Save energy as you can by unpluging one more energy eating thing.
(4) Any at last, something like Virtual WiFi for Wm 6.1 platform, allowing X1 to connect to at least two wireless networks simultaneously without any apparent lag while WM 6.1 hogs two or more wirless networks.
I spent a lot of time searching a piece of native WM 6.1 streaming server (there are a lot of FTP ones, but these are copy & paste things in their root concept) but couldn't find any.
Any luck?
Cheers
mmbika said:
(1) Stream media from X1 over wirelss, so I can put enough audio & video on X1 and listen it over wireless to my laptops, anytime and anywhere (over local wireless)
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I mainly mean to listen to music rather strteaming videso from X1
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(2) Once above it achieved, I would want to stream FM Radio on my X1 over the same above wireless network.
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Again, not anything over A2DP, as BTFM poorly tries to do that, but I need to keep volume for FM radio application up on my X1, else it I will not be able to listen it. If I mute device (X1) volume than BTFM steams but no volume whatever you set on receiver device. If you select wired headset (alothough we need to connect wired headset to receive FM, we can still listen it on device speaker) than BTFM can't stream FM radio over A2DP, instead it streams device microphone over A2DP, so a sort of A2DP Bluetooth Microphone.
And I forgot to mention one more wish,
How about enabling USB Host on X1, I know it can't almost be done or is possible, yet a wish! Or maximizing storage capacity on X1 to say 32GB or 64GB would be awsome. I woill wish to put 1TB Micro SHXC in it and it will rock as NAS.
Cheers
Anyone know of a way to use a standard blue tooth piece as a head set? I'm not worried about it being in stereo or not, Id like to figure out how to do it. I mostly listen to AM stuff on my phone anyways. I would assume its possible as its glitched and done it after a phone call once before , I can not find an app or setting that will allow this. Any ideas? Im running Cyanogen 4.2.15.1 if that makes a difference.
Any ideas?
Hell yeah...just bought a bluetooth....plz...anyone?! is it even possible?
As long as your headset supports A2DP bluetooth profiles it should just connect automatically to 'phone and media audio', meaning you can stream music or whatever to your BT device. As far as I know most non-stereo headsets dont support A2DP.
You can try the BlueSoleil.
There is a Hardware Check tool. It is used for checking whether your Bluetooth adapter supported by BlueSoleil 6 before using BlueSoleil.
I've recently figured out that I'm able to make and receive calls from my Windows 10 PC, using my Note 9.
Requirements:
Bluetooth Connection (little did I know, I needed to plug an antenna into my Desktop PC for this)
Windows 10 (Sorry, I'm not a MAC user, so I'm no help, here on if there's a way to get it to work for MACs)
On Windows 10 - Your Phone app
On Note 9: Your Phone Companion app
Once the above requirements are satisfied, open up Your Phone on your Windows 10 PC. It will then attempt to find your Note 9 and once connected, just like connecting to any other Bluetooth device, you'll have to enable permissions, probably on both sides.
What does work:
Calling/Receiving Calls
Call notifications (audio as well)
Texting
Controlling your Phone screen
What does not work: As far as I know, any other app that plays sound, such as a music player Facebook audio or Snapchat snaps, will still play out to your phone's speakers. I'm currently trying to look into this and see if there's a way to fix this such that all audio is sent to my Desktop PC. Is there a way to get these other sounds to play to my computer via the Bluetooth connection as they would when connected to a Bluetooth Speaker or some other bluetooth car dock?
Clipboard and File Drag and Drop does not work for me although it should on OneUI 2.1.
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Clipboard and File Drag and Drop does not work for me although it should on OneUI 2.1.
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I'm on T-mobile, usa 960u, still don't have UI 2.1. Any idea when we'll get it? Do you have it yet?
When I examined the Bluetooth connection on my phone, the connection said Use For and only Calls was listed, not Audio, which explains why other sounds are not played to my computer. Is this the extent of what Your Phone does in terms of audio, only audio related to calls?
Oh neat. I can't receive or send call audio on my macbook pro (windows 10). I guess its a driver issue, the ones i got from apple through brigadier don't work so i have to use the generic drivers. guess i'll buy a BT dongle then.