The original galaxy s has the ability to transmit and receive fm radio. I also know that the vibrant has the exact and chip but lacks the drivers. If we can get the ffc to work by actually adding new hardware then we should definitely be able to get hardware that's already on the phone working. The question is, of, there a dev that's, willing to do this?
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40$ for this working on my vibrant
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+1 =$40 so far $80!
What benefit would this have over tune in radio app?
Isn't there already a thread about this?
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Isn't there already a thread about this?
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Indeed.
A bit hard to find, due to "fm" being too short. But it is right there on the 3rd page of search results for "fm radio."
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I assume you are being facetious?
Lets say you are not:
There are areas with poor data coverage.
FM Radio uses lets battery than streaming.
Not all stations streams.
Streams often fall off for no reason even on a computer with a high speed connection.
Gyms broadcast tv sound via radio.
TuneIN radio is buggy as hell.
I could go on, but since you couldn't possibly be serious in your question and also non-retarded enough to understand an answer, I won't.
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I assume you are being facetious?
Lets say you are not:
There are areas with poor data coverage.
FM Radio uses lets battery than streaming.
Not all stations streams.
Streams often fall off for no reason even on a computer with a high speed connection.
Gyms broadcast tv sound via radio.
TuneIN radio is buggy as hell.
I could go on, but since you couldn't possibly be serious in your question and also non-retarded enough to understand an answer, I won't.
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x2... Well said!
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Should look through the original thread and ask a MOD to close this one since its a dupe of the original...
I would actually be more interested in transmit then receive, but both working would be awesome.
CM6.1 has an FM tuner app included too. So I can hope for CM and FM transmit/receive
I'll throw down some dolla bills for this.
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The ability to have live fm not some crappy internet app that kills battery. Plus
please use the search bar before posting. there was a thread started months ago about this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=738318
I'll throw some green for this too.
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The ability to have live fm not some crappy internet app that kills battery. Plus
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Truth is the app is anything but crappy and I would speculate you haven't tried it. How were you able to determine this solution drains more battery? Thanks in advance.
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Truth is the app is anything but crappy and I would speculate you haven't tried it. How were you able to determine this solution drains more battery? Thanks in advance.
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he saw saying it would be better to have an fm radio than be forced to listen to internet radio...
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I assume you are being facetious?
Lets say you are not:
There are areas with poor data coverage.
FM Radio uses lets battery than streaming.
Not all stations streams.
Streams often fall off for no reason even on a computer with a high speed connection.
Gyms broadcast tv sound via radio.
TuneIN radio is buggy as hell.
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I am perfectly serious but in a way that would not be considered aggressive, rude or of assuming nature here is my experience and general thoughts.
I have had 0 issues at all with Tune In. I have not found a single radio station in my area I couldn't grab a stream including the AM channels for the sports people. In my city data coverage is a non issue. I have had perfectly good experience with this and threw it out there to help as this topic has already been covered although in length for those that haven't searched. I am still curious about the battery comparison though. Where did you get that information? I have had great battery life experience but haven't jacked with any radio devices on any of my cellphones. As far as gym's broadcasting TV stations via radio that is a huge advantage. I hate the treadmill and bang my cardio outside which is why I like tune in for the AM in case there is a game on. I would never listen to anything TV related in the weight room as I am always there early am or later in the evening and not really a tv person anyway expect for sports anyway. Just my .02 cents.
I hope this alternative will help some people.
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I am perfectly serious but in a way that would not be considered aggressive, rude or of assuming nature here is my experience and general thoughts.
I have had 0 issues at all with Tune In. I have not found a single radio station in my area I couldn't grab a stream including the AM channels for the sports people. In my city data coverage is a non issue. I have had perfectly good experience with this and threw it out there to help as this topic has already been covered although in length for those that haven't searched. I am still curious about the battery comparison though. Where did you get that information? I have had great battery life experience but haven't jacked with any radio devices on any of my cellphones. As far as gym's broadcasting TV stations via radio that is a huge advantage. I hate the treadmill and bang my cardio outside which is why I like tune in for the AM in case there is a game on. I would never listen to anything TV related in the weight room as I am always there early am or later in the evening and not really a tv person anyway expect for sports anyway. Just my .02 cents.
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Well, yes, its true that you can get a lot of stations streamed via internet, but the thing that most of us really want, that absolutely needs fm radi working, is the FM radio transmitter. What that will let you do is play a song from your phone and transmit it through and FM radio band you choose. That way, if you dont feel like listening to music on your crappy phone speakers while driving, you can listen to them on your cars nice speakers.
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Well, yes, its true that you can get a lot of stations streamed via internet, but the thing that most of us really want, that absolutely needs fm radi working, is the FM radio transmitter. What that will let you do is play a song from your phone and transmit it through and FM radio band you choose. That way, if you dont feel like listening to music on your crappy phone speakers while driving, you can listen to them on your cars nice speakers.
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If you have an aux in on your radio, you could connect your phone to that. I'm using a blackberry audio gateway with my car and it works great. Some newer car radios have bluetooth built in. FM is super crowded here and transmitters just don't work well.
Would like it for the rare times I use it.
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Since htc released the kernel source code for the legend why can't we just use that to figure out how the fm radio works?
Maybe because it's a completely different hardware?
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Since htc released the kernel source code for the legend why can't we just use that to figure out how the fm radio works?
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As others have said before, the Desire is closer in hardware to the Nexus.
Why bother. You only get "local" stations with all of the audio avertisements. On an N1? What content are you missing out on?
i listen to npr, not pop buzz radio. i don't get commercials
and for people in the UK, radio is still quite popular
The FM radio on my TP2 worked perfectly inside my office building, but internet is so slow in here that internet radio is extremely hard to listen to it.
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i listen to npr, not pop buzz radio. i don't get commercials
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NPR? You're kidding, right?
Listening to them makes me want to nuke a gay whale for Jesus. And I am all for happy, healthy, prosperous whales, gays and Jesus freaks.
I personally would like to see if someone can port the ability to use it as an FM transceiver. It would be convenient to transmit my audio to an FM station as an alternative to Bluetooth audio since not all car radios support Bluetooth audio.
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I personally would like to see if someone can port the ability to use it as an FM transceiver. It would be convenient to transmit my audio to an FM station as an alternative to Bluetooth audio since not all car radios support Bluetooth audio.
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The OP was suggesting the use of the FM RECEIVER that is know to exist on the board. The Nexus One does not have a FM TRANSMITTER.
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The OP was suggesting the use of the FM RECEIVER that is know to exist on the board. The Nexus One does not have a FM TRANSMITTER.
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Really now? Seems you need to do some more reading.
Here's the first reveal:
1) engadget.com/2010/01/06/nexus-one-teardown-reveals-possible-802-11n-radio-and-fm-transmi/
Here's the chip itself so you can read the numbers off the back of it:
2) i39.tinypic.com/nywxl0.jpg
3) And then here's the datasheet on the chip:
pdf.eccn.com/pdfs/Datasheets/Broadcom/BCM4329.pdf
Straight from Broadcom's product brief on the BCM4329:
SINGLE-CHIP 802.11n/BLUETOOTH®/FM (Rx AND Tx)
The Broadcom® BCM4329 family of single chip devices provide the optimum integration of IEEE 802.11™ a/b/g and 802.11n (MAC/ baseband/radio) handheld device classes, Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), and FM Radio receiver and transmitter features in mobile and handheld Wireless systems.
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4) Here's an excerpt from the bottom with the crucial info:
i39.tinypic.com/30t5qjd.jpg
As for the OP's question. Time will tell.
Thanks for pointing that out. Wish I knew code well enough to implement that. I would be willing to donate money to someone who can.
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now that theres fm radio, on the nexus on the new cm 6.1 and other roms would it be possible to have a fm transmitter? like the one where it plays your music thru the fm in the car or something. if this is possible that would be amazing.
No, it's not supported in the hardware.
wow that really sucks , anyways thanks for the reply
Wrong, the hardware is there.
There is however, no drivers for the chipset on any device to reverse engineer or port or even look at.
Ask cyanogen, maybe he will fix your nexus one.
Code is in the framework. Could work if we added it to FM app
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Code is in the framework. Could work if we added it to FM app
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Where did that code come from? Code Aurora?
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Code is in the framework. Could work if we added it to FM app
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salivates.
So is everyone saying here that there is a chance that maybe in the future it will be unlocked
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Wrong, the hardware is there.
There is however, no drivers for the chipset on any device to reverse engineer or port or even look at.
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I really doubt the transmitter is hooked up, regardless of software it wont work. If it was a working transmitter the Desire would have probably had it with the FM application/kernel.
But we could sit here and speculate all we want, the fact is nobody knows for sure.
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I really doubt the transmitter is hooked up, regardless of software it wont work. If it was a working transmitter the Desire would have probably had it with the FM application/kernel.
But we could sit here and speculate all we want, the fact is nobody knows for sure.
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There's nothing that needs to be hooked up. The FM portion of the wifi/bluetooth/fm all use the same antenna for reception/broadcasting.
FM transmission on devices require alot more legal entanglements that companies don't want to deal with.
The chip onboard is an all in one, it's there, it just needs software.
i doubt the shortness of the waves will cause any legal disputes if so we would have issues with all these kids that USE to walk around with walkie talkies all the time
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i doubt the shortness of the waves will cause any legal disputes if so we would have issues with all these kids that USE to walk around with walkie talkies all the time
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yeah, so you do realize that there's a lot of different frequencies for devices, right? Your "walkie talkies" were likely 38mhz or maybe 43mhz. Not a commercial frequency band.
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i doubt the shortness of the waves will cause any legal disputes if so we would have issues with all these kids that USE to walk around with walkie talkies all the time
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Actually, the FM transmitters that popped up for the early iPods and several other MP3 players were originally illegal to use in many countries since they operated on frequencies that were considered protected or where you needed to register as a broadcaster to be allowed to transmit. This has however now been relaxed in several countries as long as the transmission strength is kept low enough to not interfere noticable with other people's devices.
Hi All
I would like to make an app recommendation. Those of you who miss the FM Radio. To try out this app.
I been having trouble with the LBC app on the NS getting loads of FC's, so I decided to try this one out.
I am lucky enough to have an unlimited data plan, so streaming on this was fine.
I have got to say I use this to listen to my local radio stations (LBC in particular) The quality is superb, much better than the local radio app on the market.
If you have a good data plan give this a try. Available on the Market
Disclaimer I am not affliated to tunein radio..
I've been using this app for a while. I also highly recommend it.
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this is what i use all the time
that's why on the topic of Enabling FM Radio on Nexus S i commented it was not necessary,
as we get better reception with Tunin Radio than with a real FM radio
also the same places you can receive FM radio you can receive 3G
and the best is, you can listen to Radio station from all over the world not just local FM stations using Tunin Radio
I have the paid version, Radio Time. I noticed last night, on WiFi it would it would stop a few seconds after the screen had gone off. The WiDi sleep policy is to never shut off WiFi.
Any ideas what is happening?
its an amazing app,
however, one withdraw, missing WIDGET option
Been using this for a month...great app. Love the sleep time and alarm options!
Very nice app
I've been using this app since have first android phone... Its great, and find local stations too :]
I use the alarm feature regularly. Great app
I agree great app! Been using forever, a widget would be awesome tho...
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Anybody else use this for listening to police scanners? Never knew it could do this.
where is the app?
Yes this is one of the best apps in the market, ive been using this app for a while, lets me listen to hot 97 out of ny anwhere, just wish they had a higher br for their broadcasts.
yeah great app. I was using it when I was in China to listen to some local radio stations from home.
Hello
Pandora used to be great and reliable and for the past few weeks it stops playing songs and skips whenever it wants. I have not done the latest update based off of reviews. Does anyone else have this issue and can anyone suggest a similar app?
yeah, Pandora has been messy as of late (really disappointing to be honest), but there's an alternative app that isn't as "streamlined" in my opinion called "Slacker Radio" which I've tried that doesn't seem to have this issue. But I personally think the interface is poorly designed and not as good a selection in my tastes.
When it works, it works fine. Maybe its there way of getting you to purchase pandora but at this rate if this is how they are going after android users, well then screw them! It works perfectly on my wifes iphone.
i like tunein radio probably the one that works the best
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i like tunein radio probably the one that works the best
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Does it have good randomization?
Why don't you just put music on your phone and randomize that. Pandora and other radio stations personally are a waste of data. Your phone has plenty of space.
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Why don't you just put music on your phone and randomize that. Pandora and other radio stations personally are a waste of data. Your phone has plenty of space.
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Because most people use internet radio to listen to and discover new songs that they couldn't other wise. The fact that these services allow users to recommend/promote/demote songs in order for a user preference to be generated is a significant feature for these services.
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Because most people use internet radio to listen to and discover new songs that they couldn't other wise. The fact that these services allow users to recommend/promote/demote songs in order for a user preference to be generated is a significant feature for these services.
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Good point my friend.
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Because most people use internet radio to listen to and discover new songs that they couldn't other wise. The fact that these services allow users to recommend/promote/demote songs in order for a user preference to be generated is a significant feature for these services.
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very well put my friend haha
yeah. pandora has really been shifty lately. im done with it!
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Does it have good randomization?
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nope its streaming live radio online so you go by stations
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Because most people use internet radio to listen to and discover new songs that they couldn't other wise. The fact that these services allow users to recommend/promote/demote songs in order for a user preference to be generated is a significant feature for these services.
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Exactly. I have 250gbs of music but still looking for new stuff.
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nope its streaming live radio online so you go by stations
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Slacker is good for things like listening to comedy routines, its great for long road trips. I prefer pandora for finding new music or hearing a random playlist of songs I love but haven't heard in a long time. I've used pandora for years, I have faith in their devs, they'll fix whatever problems arise. Don't give up!
Pandora has been really crappy so I switched to slacker, it's been pretty good so far.
pandora just released an update today.
im suprised more people dont use last.fm, works pretty well, i usually use pandora, but i too have issues with it every once in a while, and last.fm is a great alternative, and it actually will give you info about the bands that play as well as if they are on tour or not.. everyone who reads this thread should at least try it. if nothing else, just for the ability to look up bands info
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pandora just released an update today.
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The update solved all my problems! Thanks to the devs at pandora!
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Take it back just stopped randomly. I had to skip current song to get to start again.
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Take it back just stopped randomly. I had to skip current song to get to start again.
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happened to me too on my commute this morning...annoying since I had full 3g signal the entire drive. I have a Pandora One account too, so, even more frustrating having paid for their service.
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Exactly. I have 250gbs of music but still looking for new stuff.
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Just an FYI, two co-workers with iphone 4's are having the same issue with Pandora. They tried to show the superiority of all things Apple, and Pandora started skipping on them as well.
I hope other people are having this issue, and not just me. Here is the pertinent information:
PHONE: Samsung Galaxy S6 G920T, ANdroid 5.1.1, T-Mobile
CAR: 2015 Honda Civic SE
ISSUE 1:
Bluetooth quality seems to fluctuate between "high" quality and low quality. I realize SBC can only achieve so much, but it seems that frequently it switches to something lower than that, and the audio sounds like crap for a minute or two, then switches back to higher quality.
ISSUE 2:
When I connect my phone to my car, calls work fine. Music playback works fine (aside from issue 1). What doesn't seems to work at all is the phone sending track metadata to my car. Instead, it reads back "no title, no album, no artist". It reports being connected to my phone. The funny thing is that this feature DOES work with, and only with, Samsung's Music app. Not Google Play Music, not Spotify, not Plex, not even Milk. It seems that Samsung Music is somehow taking priority on what gets sent for track metadata, and when you are playing something in another player, Music is playing nothing, hence the "no title, no album, no artist" stuff.
Anyone having these issues? I have been lead to believe that Samsung is using the newest and greatest Bluetooth protocols, possibly leading to backwards incompatibility, which would be very unfortunate. Samsung is, of course, playing ignorant, sticking their heads in the sand, insisting that I exchange my phone for a new one, but I've read other people having these problems on other forums, so, I dunno. Anyone able to pitch in?
I've seen the same thing regarding metadata. I've not had the problem with audio quality though.
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Everything is fine for me, no issues with Bluetooth at all, or with different players. I am running 5.0.2 though
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Everything is fine for me, no issues with Bluetooth at all, or with different players. I am running 5.0.2 though
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No kidding? You get track information too?
Also using 5.02 here. My guess is that it has to do with the Bluetooth version on my car radio (factory 2012 Mazda 3 radio). Newer Bluetooth versions are supposed to be backwards compatible, but it seems that there are glitches. I've seen lots of threads around the internet discussing these problems.
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Also using 5.02 here. My guess is that it has to do with the Bluetooth version on my car radio (factory 2012 Mazda 3 radio). Newer Bluetooth versions are supposed to be backwards compatible, but it seems that there are glitches. I've seen lots of threads around the internet discussing these problems.
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I have seen them too. I wish there were an easy way to inform manufacturers about these things, instead of us just talking about the issues among ourselves. Samsung support simply told me that my device is defective and that I should exchange it with my carrier, which will probably put me back in the same boat.
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Also using 5.02 here. My guess is that it has to do with the Bluetooth version on my car radio (factory 2012 Mazda 3 radio). Newer Bluetooth versions are supposed to be backwards compatible, but it seems that there are glitches. I've seen lots of threads around the internet discussing these problems.
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Can you verify that the built-in Samsung Music app transmits this information properly? That seems to be the case with me, leading me to believe, actually, that the metadata issue is not necessarily related to a Bluetooth incompatibility.
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No kidding? You get track information too?
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Yup, I don't even use the Samsung music player
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Yup, I don't even use the Samsung music player
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Haha, neither do I. It was just an observation I had made while troubleshooting.
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Everything is fine for me, no issues with Bluetooth at all, or with different players. I am running 5.0.2 though
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Are you using aftermarket, or stock stereo? If stock, what car do you have?
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Are you using aftermarket, or stock stereo? If stock, what car do you have?
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Stock. Corolla '11
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Stock. Corolla '11
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Goodness, we've got quite the varying combination of tech here >_<
So, I just checked out my phone with my boss's 2014 Ford Fusion, and it worked just fine. Judging by that and the compatibility with your 2011 Toyota Corolla, @serio22, it seems to be an incompatibility with my Honda, which I can hopefully get resolved with the dealer. If not, I will be very sad D:
I've tried to get my setup fixed through my dealer, but they were unable to do anything. I've resigned myself to having to get a new radio if I want all of the Bluetooth functionality working correctly. In my case things are a bit worse because the Bluetooth sometimes fails to connect or may disconnect without apparent cause (much worse with Pandora than anything else). I'll try using the Samsung app to see if it works, though I just froze the thing today to see if that helps with some of my other problems.
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I've had issues with my S6's Bluetooth in two cars. Both are VWs, with essentially the same radio, but one was a 2013, and one a 2015. In both cars, my Bluetooth media will occasionally pause on its own for a few seconds, then resume play, then speed up for a few seconds before slowing back down to normal playback speed. It's been happening across multiple apps, with both downloaded and streaming audio. Doesn't happen when I use speed headphones or listen through the phone's speaker.
I do get track metadata on my car radio from Pocket Casts and Google Play Music, but not from Pandora.
I've also switched ROMs to see if that was the issue. I was using OZOP versions 1 & 2, and am now on XtreStoLite 1.5, and that hasn't made a difference. I don't remember if it happened on pure unrooted stock during the time before I rooted my device, so it still could be a ROM issue, I suppose.
I had the problem with and without root; I don't think it makes a difference. I froze the Samsung Music app and that has helped my phone automatically play music in my car after connecting to the radio, so that is an improvement. However, still no metadata and still getting glitchy controls (press pause and it skips forward in a song rather than pausing; have to double-tap).
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