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[Q] JH2 Lost bluetooth audio controls (A2DP)

I just used kies to update my firmware. I have a Bell (Canada) gt-i9000m (vibrant). The update left all my settings from the old FW and in no time at all my phone was force closing apps. Did a full reset and it runs nicely had to put back all my apn settings and stuff. The only thing that's changed with the new FW is that I cant change songs from my bluetooth car deck and I cant even play or pause anymore For me its kinda a huge deal cuz I put all my music on the phone to play in my car and it was all working so nicely i could even fast forward in the track that was a one up on my old iphone (with the old FW). Now none of my bluetooth deck controls are working I do see the 2 touch buttons light up on the phone when i push buttons on my car deck so the phone is getting the command its just not responding. Any Ideas would be most helpful.
The only thing that's different is that I haven't re-rooted the phone yet or applied the lag fix because I was having a lot of force close problems and did 4 resets so far (i assume due to the lag fix). I was hoping the new FW would fix more problems that it made... I didn't take note of the stock FW on my bell i9000m at the very least I would flash that back on to get my bluethooth controls back if anyone knows the stock firmware or how to make it work with the JH2 FW?

do a factory reset/format
then start with new settings, it will work after you pair the devices again

I did a factory reset when i upgraded the FW because of the force close error's but I didn't format. So I did another factory reset followed by a format of both internal and external. Took over 3h's to get all my stuff back on the phone and the bluetooth controls are still not working in the car.
From all the trouble shooting I've done its one of two things;
1. The firmware JH2 changed something with the A2DP profiles.
OR
2. I haven't rooted or done the lag fix.
Those are the only things that are different from before.
If anyone knows the stock FW for the i9000m (bell vibrant) and/or a link to download it. It would be most helpful.
I will try re-rooting and applying the lag fix but i have a hunch that's not going to make my car deck start working with the phone any better.
The car deck i have is a KD-BT1 (made by JVC). Just to be clear I was able to control my phone via the controls on the deck & its remote with the old firmware. I have deleted my paired phone and re-paired before and after factory reset & format.

that's very strange.
i've had that problem before, but that was expect of every new flash i made.
i always had to make the Car Deck (Clario CZ509) forget the old Galaxy S, then pair it again with the flashed Galaxy S, then it works all good.
else i get really weird behaviour on both phones and Car Deck
I can stream excellent audio quality to the car, with nice sub (no loss) and be able to control remote both phone and/or car from either the Car Deck, the SGS Phone, or the Remote control that came with the Deck
it automatically switch between phone calls and music

Sounds like i should reflash my fw. Do you have a link to where you got yours cuz kies is no longer seeing my phone... just hangs trying to connect. Its happened many times i know the uninstall drill to make it work but i've invested so much time into my sgs i rather use odin this time over kies.
I've un-paired and re-paired them agian and agian the pair up no problem and i make sure to check off the box that pops up to always allow my bt device to access contacts, ect. It all sync's up flawlessly just dont have control. The music streams very clearly for me also (2x10s subs).
Btw thanks for your very helpful responses!
I'm still thinking it might be cuz yours is rooted and mine still isnt. trying that before i jump the gun on another re-flash.
are you using the stock "Music Player" (w/ ugly pink icon)??

Update...
I rooted and did the one click lag fix. A2DP controls still don't work. I was able to use the car deck to answer, hang up, dail a number it got from my contact list! I'm not sure if those were or weren't working before... I was only really conserned with the music controls and they still dont work.
I also tried calling Samsung to see if they could help me out with why I always get the force close errors. No luck they told me to call my carrier i told them I bought the phone from a differnt carrier... I'm on Fido with Bell phone. Samsung said Bell has to get the RMA if i need one.
I've herd the lag fix helps bring to light any memory problems and creates those force close errors. This is one of my big underlying issues with my i9000m it crash's all the time. I've factory reset at least 5 times and once it crashed from google maps looking for an address and it got stuck on the boot logo. I had to wipe from the recovery menu just to call my friend when i was out side of his building for like 30mins (didn't know the buzzer #) I thought the instability was due to the root and lag fix but the phone runs a lot worse with out them...
(never dropped banged or any kind of water/wetness)
sorry if i got a lil' off topic but the phone is running worse over time...

The stock music player app (called "Music Player") doesn't respond to the standard AVRCP controls (A2DP is phone-audio-to-bluetooth, AVRCP is remote-control-to-phone). Most other music player apps will. Are you sure you were using the standard music player previously? Anyway the solution is to use a different music player app.

Yes i was using the stock player before it worked fine.
I will try another one. I have been thinking that maybe something was changed with the stock music player with the FW update or maybe i need to go settings->apps->Musicplayer and clear the data... Going to try both and post my results tomorrow morning. Getting to late to go out to the car... LOL
I had a look at forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7980935 and thing maybe something did change with my AVRCP version.
I cant "1.0—Basic remote control commands (play/pause/stop, etc.)"
My stereo also has a phone mode that is working that lets me make calls and answer calls using the car stereo. I dont know if that is also AVRCP or just like a reg bluetooth ear piece controls.

Well I couldn't sleep till i tried it. I installed MixZing mp3 player and some of the mp3 controls work now. Play and pause and rewind track but It wont skip to next track. So it looks like you hit the nail on the head and something changed with the Music Player when I updated the firmware.
Does anyone have a rip of the stock Music Player apk from the old firmware?

4u2nvinmtl said:
My stereo also has a phone mode that is working that lets me make calls and answer calls using the car stereo. I dont know if that is also AVRCP or just like a reg bluetooth ear piece controls.
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That will be handsfree profile (HFP).

So its safe to assume something changed from my stock firmware to the one kies put on JH2 with the MusicPlayer app with regards to the AVRCP controls. I have yet to find a link of the stock firmware that was on my phone when I bought it, on the lunch date in Montreal.
Anyone got a link to the stock i9000m firmware from bell?
Thanks for all the help getting to the bottom of the problem.

Went to Bell store today to see if they could flash the old FW like Samsung told me they would. Guess what... they said they couldn't help because I "hacked" the phone even tho its Samsung's firmware. Apparently the use of Kies has voided my warranty.

4u2nvinmtl said:
are you using the stock "Music Player" (w/ ugly pink icon)??
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I was until i changed it to "Player" that is the name of the app.
the Stock MP3 player that came with JH2 was really good, it had 5.1 sound, which other players app does not support yet.
the only reason i ditched it was due the annoying way how to add music to the play list, the new app is just Point to the folder you want, and click on select all/play all, done
when you are in the car driving, you have no fricking enough time to go select which album or artist or genre.
but playing off the Folder structure, you know where you put which songs, so you can quickly skip folders, fast forward, or reverse to reach the songs you want
all that aside the stock music player works well with the Bluetooth remote control options
i was using the stock music player for about a week in my car via bluetooth until i got annoyed of not being able to quickly pick from the SD card the songs i wanted to play

4u2nvinmtl said:
Anyone got a link to the stock i9000m firmware from bell?
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I flashed mine via Kies JH2

4u2nvinmtl said:
Went to Bell store today to see if they could flash the old FW like Samsung told me they would. Guess what... they said they couldn't help because I "hacked" the phone even tho its Samsung's firmware. Apparently the use of Kies has voided my warranty.
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i think they meant the SIMs unlocked or the phone Rooted
since you are already on JH2 which is legit

Moving on to something more Vibrant
Update...
I got my phone back from repairs 2 weeks ago. They flat out replaced the phone for a new one. This was a huge headache for me because the new one wasn't unlocked. Took Bell 2 hours to get the new one unlocked wile my wife waited out side double parked downtown! (I thought it would be a quick pick up and I would be out) The blue-tooth works flawlessly again!!
Much to my dismay the replacement phone has started acting up much like my first one did. It gets several force close errors a day and has gotten to the point where it no longer can send or receive text messages (using Handcent). The stock Music Player app also force closes at random with more frequently. It looks like I got another Lemon. This time around I did NOT root, lag-fix, or flash firmware. I will be sending it for repairs as soon as I can afford to buy another phone to use wile this one is off at repairs. My back up phone is a 3~ year old Iphone3g that my son has made his... (cracked screen, vol rockers dont work, power button is jammed in, the LCD screen it self is bleeding on the top edge)
The Vibrant never let me down other than as a phone. As a divx player or using all-share it rocks! I use these features A LOT to play my 720p divx movies on any TV or the projector in the bedroom .
with that being said I might keep the phone just as a portable movie player to bring from place to place and put my sim in something more stable.

[Q] Car hands free - problems

Hi guys,
I am having problems with car BlueTooth hands free and Samsung Galaxy S:
With Eclair 2.1 it was working flawlesly, connected automaticlay after paired, I could make phonecals, receive phonecals, no quality issue, phonebook worked fine etc... The only problem was that once I did not swithced the BT on my SGS before starting to drive, for some security reasons the car was not searching for phones while driving, so I had to turn the BT in car off and on again and then it connected well. But overal problem free...
With latest 2.2 Froyo (i9000xfjp7) and also previous Froyo distributions (i tried JPA if I remember correctly), the phone can be paired, it connects to the car but after one phonecall it looses connection and works no more. The strange thing is, the BT icon on the phone shows brackets (like when connected) and also the car shows the phone is still connected. But phonecalls cannot be made via car HF and also cannot be received through it. Only by manualy accepting or dialing on the phone. And naturally the sound goes only via the phone, no HF.
The strange thing is, when I turn off the car and leave it, the phone says it is still connected to it, which is impossible.
Any ideas?
Thank you!

czechmate said:
Hi guys,
I am having problems with car BlueTooth hands free and Samsung Galaxy S:
With Eclair 2.1 it was working flawlesly, connected automaticlay after paired, I could make phonecals, receive phonecals, no quality issue, phonebook worked fine etc... The only problem was that once I did not swithced the BT on my SGS before starting to drive, for some security reasons the car was not searching for phones while driving, so I had to turn the BT in car off and on again and then it connected well. But overal problem free...
With latest 2.2 Froyo (i9000xfjp7) and also previous Froyo distributions (i tried JPA if I remember correctly), the phone can be paired, it connects to the car but after one phonecall it looses connection and works no more. The strange thing is, the BT icon on the phone shows brackets (like when connected) and also the car shows the phone is still connected. But phonecalls cannot be made via car HF and also cannot be received through it. Only by manualy accepting or dialing on the phone. And naturally the sound goes only via the phone, no HF.
The strange thing is, when I turn off the car and leave it, the phone says it is still connected to it, which is impossible.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
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Had exactly same issue I changed to Doc Rom JP8, for last 3-4 days didn't face any issue.

Monu123 said:
Had exactly same issue I changed to Doc Rom JP8, for last 3-4 days didn't face any issue.
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That is weird... When I switch back to Eclair, it works OK, back to Froyo, no HF after one phonecall...
I dont know how to work with ROMs, I managed to find out how to flash firmwares, I even handled many problems with Odin and its moods, incomplete flashes, etc... But I dont know how to use these custom ROMs...
Anyway, i would appreciate if someone told me how to resolve it without custom ROMs, as I plan to use offical Froyo when it becomes available, but with this issue, it is useless for me, as I travel a lot...

No one else?

I'm having a related problem.
I'm getting music stream cut outs (1 sec max) when streaming bluetooth to caraudio WHILE wifi on.
If i disable wifi, bluetoothaudio works fine. I know they share range bt/wifi, but this is unacceptable. They should negotiate. Everytime wifi scans, i get cutouts. Unusable. Only workaround is disabling wifi (and thats annoying because i have to be constantly activating/disabling it everytime i enter somewhere with wifi etc.
Using Docrom xxjpo v8 with voodoo.
Anyone has some software fix that makes wifi behave better when bluetooth musictream on?

[Q] Bluetooth Issue

Hi guys, i am currently using Rocket Rom v23 and abyss kernel. At first my bluetooth device (wp 250 creative headset) is working just fine. But after several days the bluetooth is not working anymore even though it can recognize the device but when i connect it there is no music playing.
i tested my bluetooth device and it works on my sgs and itouch
i tested my galaxy note bluetooth to pair with sgs and it works
-what i did to resolve it before was to go back stock rom then v22 to v23 but it is hell of a work.
can u pls help me to work around this issue? thank u

kwelito_88 said:
Hi guys, i am currently using Rocket Rom v23 and abyss kernel. At first my bluetooth device (wp 250 creative headset) is working just fine. But after several days the bluetooth is not working anymore even though it can recognize the device but when i connect it there is no music playing.
i tested my bluetooth device and it works on my sgs and itouch
i tested my galaxy note bluetooth to pair with sgs and it works
-what i did to resolve it before was to go back stock rom then v22 to v23 but it is hell of a work.
can u pls help me to work around this issue? thank u
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I remember I had this problem with Sennheisser MM100 headphones a while back. From memory I unpaired and removed the device, then re-paired the phones. I may have done a reboot of the note after I unpaired the device, can't remember as it was a long time ago. I have not had a problem since.

I have the same problem as kwelito_88. I managed to use my Creative WP-250 headset for just 3 weeks before it decided to stay mumb on me.
I "unpair" the headset with my phone but now my phone just couldn't see this headset when it scans for devices.
Any one out there know how to get both gadgets working again? Thanks.

Do you have a BT laptop you can try pairing your Note with? If it works that will rule out the Note as the problem.
You've probably already fully charged the headset and checked that they are definitely in pairing mode so that the Note can see them? My Sennheisers are bit touchy and didn't go into pairing mode properly until I pressed harder on the switch button.

TempusFudgeIt said:
Do you have a BT laptop you can try pairing your Note with? If it works that will rule out the Note as the problem.
You've probably already fully charged the headset and checked that they are definitely in pairing mode so that the Note can see them? My Sennheisers are bit touchy and didn't go into pairing mode properly until I pressed harder on the switch button.
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Thanks! I can now confirm the Note is not the problem.. it pair & connect to my BT laptop easily.. So the Creative wp-250 headset is where the fault is. Guess I won't be looking at Creative products for a while.

Thanks for the tip
Hmm. I have a duff/non-compliant Jabra headset too. That tip with pairing with "known good" worked a treat.

[Q] Help - Audiojack switching not working

I know I'm not the only one having this problem, but past solutions don't seem to work anymore.
For some reason my phone does not recognize if I plug a headset into the audio jack, so the audio keeps playing through the speakers. I have to reboot the phone with my headphones plugged in to be able to listen to music using my headphones. I f I want it to switch back to speakers, I need to reboot once again with the headphones unplugged.
In the past the solution was to delete the "alsa" folder, but that folder does not seem to exist anymore. I'm using Omar's rom from August 2014 I think. When installing it I did a factory reset, so I'm not sure what else to try. Does anybody have any suggestions?

I have the same problem and it existed on 4.0.4, 4.1.2 (both stock) and now on 4.4.4. (Hazou's CM11) so I'm not sure it's ROM-related, as like you i did a clean flash.

I also had the same issue with ICS and JB stock. I was convinced it was a software issue because it always started to work when I restarted with the headphones in. I know it sounds crazy but have a dig around in the headphone jack for fluff, I picked a few bits out and I *think* that mostly solved the problem. Also try different headphones, I found some fit tighter than others.

Hello,
I am having the same problem on my RAZR i. I am under Android 4.4.2. I installed this: susomena.headphonesindicator (apps Play store) (in french : Indicateur de Casque)
and everything works perfectly. . I am new user and I can not post outside links.

[Q] Bluetooth audio problem

Hello,
I just started having problems playing audio from my 2013 Moto X (XT1060 stock KitKat 4.4.4 on Verizon) to my car (2010 Ford Escape with Sync). Bluetooth is working, because I can make and receive a phone call through the car. I just can't get any audio to play, from apps like Google Play Music and BeyondPod. It looks like it is playing in the app because the time slider moves through the track. But no sound comes out of the car speakers or the phone speaker. Headphones work fine, and out of the car when not connected to bluetooth, the audio will play through the phone speaker. It also works with a little bluetooth speaker I have, so I know bluetooth audio does work.
Things I've tried:
Unpair the phone from the menu in the car, then re-pair.
Unpair from the phone, then re-pair.
Reboot the phone (multiple times).
Checked the bluetooth settings for Sync. Under "profiles" both "Phone audio" and "Media audio" are listed and both are checked.
The only recent change that I can think of that might have affected is that I paired my phone yesterday to my new Amazon Echo. Then today no audio in the car. So I also un-paired the Echo, and even removed the Echo app from my phone. But still no audio working in the car.
Any ideas of anything else I can try? Is there some system app that needs to have it's cache and/or data cleared? The only other thing I can think of would be to factory reset my phone, but I hate to go there. It would be a major PITA to get my phone set up again. When I get back home tonight, I'll try it in my wife's car, which also has Sync.

dirtysox said:
Hello,
I just started having problems playing audio from my 2013 Moto X... <snip>
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Update: I tested it with Sync in my wife's 2014, and it works fine. Makes me think it's more a problem with the Sync system in my car, rather than my phone.

dirtysox said:
Update: I tested it with Sync in my wife's 2014, and it works fine. Makes me think it's more a problem with the Sync system in my car, rather than my phone.
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Yes it was something to do with Sync. I went to syncmyride.com, and found an update to the Sync software in my car. So I went through the process of downloading it to a flash drive, and updating the system. And now I can stream audio over bluetooth again.
After the update loaded, it said it was rebooting the system, which took a long time, like 10 minutes. Which makes me wonder if I had been able to force it to reboot, if that might have solved my problem without the need to update. I'm pretty sure it has never done a full reboot like that since I first bought the car back in '10.
Oh well, it works now and I'm a happy android again. Just thought I'd leave this here in case it helps someone else in the future.