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Music in my car

How can I listen to music and applications from my incredible in my car? Is there a cord that plugs into my headphone jack I can plug into my car?
nowandaway

You need an audio external in... I had one installed at a car audio shop
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I've looking at a few head units to replace my existing stereo. I tried a few units with built in bluetooth at the local big box store.
I set up my phone to play both bluetooth audio and attempted to make a phone call, but the 'helpful' store employee asked me to put my phone away (evidently they're afraid I was amazoning the price). I told the guy I was pairing the bluetooth, but he didn't care. Too bad, because making a phone call would've sealed my sale. I guess I'll amazon it.
I was deciding between a Kenwood & Sony... sorry I didn't get a chance to record the model numbers, but they were ~$175.

They can't exactly forbit you from using your phone you know...that's not legal methinks
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I would've laughed in his face. Maybe I would've punched it.. I get those confused.

br//0k3/n said:
They can't exactly forbit you from using your phone you know...that's not legal methinks
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Actually, they can, inside their store. It's private property and they can ask you to either turn off your phone or leave. If you refuse to turn it off, they can tell you to leave. If you refuse to leave, you're legally trespassing and they can have you arrested.
In any case, they clearly didn't want your money.

RoboRay said:
Actually, they can, inside their store. It's private property and they can ask you to either turn off your phone or leave. If you refuse to turn it off, they can tell you to leave. If you refuse to leave, you're legally trespassing and they can have you arrested.
In any case, they clearly didn't want your money.
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Yeah but they can't physically touch you without getting sued. I have two sales / retail jobs.
I have a Kenwood in my car with BT. It auto connects to my Incredible but only if I have the "phone" option under advanced BT settings set to connect. If I just have media set to connect it wont auto connect. But if you use the hands free BT then you'll be fine. It'll auto connect to both phone and media audio.
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ksidirt said:
Yeah but they can't physically touch you without getting sued. I have two sales / retail jobs.
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Well sure, but where did he say they touched him?

The guy didn't threaten me, he just kind of shrugged and pointed towards the spy camera. I ended up with a Clarion _Z500 (I forget the first letter) for $50 off since it was missing the remote. I didn't need the remote since I sit 2' away. Thankfully everything can be accessed via the panel.
It's nice (though not as good as the one in my acura). Via bluetooth it pauses music, answers calls, accesses my phone book and makes a decent call with the included mic.

gonzlobo said:
The guy didn't threaten me, he just kind of shrugged and pointed towards the spy camera. I ended up with a Clarion _Z500 (I forget the first letter) for $50 off since it was missing the remote. I didn't need the remote since I sit 2' away. Thankfully everything can be accessed via the panel.
It's nice (though not as good as the one in my acura). Via bluetooth it pauses music, answers calls, accesses my phone book and makes a decent call with the included mic.
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Thats good. If you use. PowerAmp as your music player you can start music and skip songs with BT controls. And IMO its the best music player out, period.
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ksidirt said:
Thats good. If you use. PowerAmp as your music player you can start music and skip songs with BT controls. And IMO its the best music player out, period.
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I second the PowerAmp notion, it is THE best. I highly recommend buying full version to help support the dev.
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Jizmodo had this today.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5715932/stream-music-over-bluetooth-from-android-to-car

Yeah, but the problem with FM transmitters in my experience is that if you drive between counties you usually have to change stations and the sound quality is meh.
It also doesn't work well anywhere that FM radio signals have trouble getting to.

Are there any wired solutions to playing music in your vehicle??

androidtrkdr said:
Are there any wired solutions to playing music in your vehicle??
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Sure, if your receiver has an AUX jack. Just plug it in.

RoboRay said:
Sure, if your receiver has an AUX jack. Just plug it in.
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Do I plug into the phone through the headphone jack or what??
Thats mainly what I was wondering about was the phone not so much the
reciever as I now I can plug into there.

androidtrkdr said:
Do I plug into the phone through the headphone jack or what??
Thats mainly what I was wondering about was the phone not so much the
reciever as I now I can plug into there.
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Yeah thats all you do. Then you just need to change the INput settings on your car stereo to "AUX" or "MP3".

ksidirt said:
Yeah thats all you do. Then you just need to change the output settings on your car stereo to "AUX" or "MP3".
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I think you mean "input".
I've yet to find any app that supports control via Bluetooth / Bluetooth controls on a steering wheel. Anyone know of one?
would be nice if bluetooth sent song info over Bluetooth as a ID3 tag

ksidirt said:
Yeah thats all you do. Then you just need to change the output settings on your car stereo to "AUX" or "MP3".
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Thanks man, thats what I wanted to know.
I thought that to be the case just wasn't sure..

NCX Designs said:
I think you mean "input".
I've yet to find any app that supports control via Bluetooth / Bluetooth controls on a steering wheel. Anyone know of one?
would be nice if bluetooth sent song info over Bluetooth as a ID3 tag
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The Clarion I purchased definitely tags incoming calls, but I'm not sure about tagging MP3s or CDs. I'll check it out.

[Q] Distorted Bluetooth

Was curious if anyone else has run into issues with audio over Bluetooth being distorted? On mine, when streaming Spotify to my car (extreme quality downloaded to the phone), there is a very noticeable distortion in the high frequencies. It's really pronounced on cymbal crashes.
I really hope this is just my particular phone and not all of the Ones doing this. I really like this phone otherwise but this is kind of a deal breaker for me. :crying:

Does it sound better (test with same song) when you plug it in with an audio cable? What's the MP3 sample rate?
I thought Google was supposed to have addressed this issue

I just drove around today with streaming from Google music with no issues.
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indiscriminant said:
I just drove around today with streaming from Google music with no issues.
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Hey quick question, if your car is capable, did you get the song/artist/album meta-data transmitted? This version of Bluetooth is supposed to have that in the spec...

c0rrupt said:
Does it sound better (test with same song) when you plug it in with an audio cable? What's the MP3 sample rate?
I thought Google was supposed to have addressed this issue
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No idea what the sample rate is. But it's the highest quality on Spotify. Even when it's on the lowest quality it doesn't sound this bad when using my old Galaxy Note 2 or iPhone.
Just tried it with the Aux jack in the car and it sounded fine. In fact, with Beats on, I'd say it sounded excellent. :good:
indiscriminant said:
I just drove around today with streaming from Google music with no issues.
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Maybe I should load up some music locally and see what happens. Out of curiosity, is yours rooted? I don't think that would have anything to do with it, would it?

I am rooted and running viper rom.
Also, it was both local and streamed from Google music.
On a huge side note, it transmits song data too! My EVO lte didn't do that, pretty happy to be surprised by that with the One as I wasn't expecting it.
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indiscriminant said:
I am rooted and running viper rom.
Also, it was both local and streamed from Google music.
On a huge side note, it transmits song data too! My EVO lte didn't do that, pretty happy to be surprised by that with the One as I wasn't expecting it.
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Awesome. I knew it was in the Bluetooth 4.0 spec, I just hoped it was supported. Wonder if Pandora does the same?

Spotify does not transmit song info...just an fyi
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indiscriminant said:
I am rooted and running viper rom.
Also, it was both local and streamed from Google music.
On a huge side note, it transmits song data too! My EVO lte didn't do that, pretty happy to be surprised by that with the One as I wasn't expecting it.
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Maybe I'll flash the Viper Rom and see what happens. I'm on stock rooted right now.
Pretty awesome that it transmits that data!! That might be enough for me to get a new deck in my car. It's drives me nuts having blanks screens where the music data should be.

Does your car support aptx?
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I have no idea what that means. I have a 2013 VW CC Lux. Maybe you could look it up to see what it has for compatability?
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Support of song metadata is part of the AVRCP 1.3 profile, which this phone supports. That is independent of any Bluetooth core version (2.1 vs 3.0 vs 4.0) specification. There are only a few headsets and even fewer cars that support the AptX codec which this phone also supports. Think of the codec as a way of transmitting the audio from the phone to the headset in a higher quality than MP3.

I am noticing distortion on the highs when when streaming music over BT. I think even my EVO3D sounded slightly better than this How is there a ROM already available for the one? Where can I obtain Viper rom?
jaytv said:
Hey quick question, if your car is capable, did you get the song/artist/album meta-data transmitted? This version of Bluetooth is supposed to have that in the spec...
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I was excited to find out that my One was transmitting song data/text to my head unit over BT! my evo3d didnt do that. this is using PlayerPro

This just reminds me of how much I have to test on my phone before it's too late to exchange it.

Generally best to troubleshoot Bluetooth issues for music with the default player first before looking at alternative players. If it isn't working well on the default as well as your preferred player like PlayerPro, that says a lot more.

Well the info from the music player to the stereo is inconsistent. Using the same app, same songs, etc sometimes it shows music info sometimes it doesn't.
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indiscriminant said:
Well the info from the music player to the stereo is inconsistent. Using the same app, same songs, etc sometimes it shows music info sometimes it doesn't.
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Just tried it again using the Viper rom this time and the same issue.
I'll load some music into the phone and use the stock player and see if it still does it.

Well I experimented with it yesterday streaming music from my Amazon MP3 cloud player and it was great...I was streaming to a JBL Flip Bluetooth speaker and it sounded awesome...BUT....we only have 3G in my area so the few little sounds I heard I attributed to 3Gs slower connection speed. I then downloaded a hard copy of the same song on my phone and played it non-streaming and it sounded better. Maybe its just the streaming that distorted the sound for you.

Loaded some MP3s into the One and tried the stock music player in the car is the same results. Super distorted.
I thought this got fixed with ICS. My Galaxy S2 (after the ICS update), S3 Note 2 and my iPhone 4s and 5 all had no trouble streaming to my car over bluetooth. :crying:

Just to clarify, I have had ZERO distrotion issues with music to my car or computer headset. Thats through google music and pandora, the music sounds great with no issues whether streaming or from my pinned playlists.
My only issue has been the inconsistent nature of if it provided the song info to my car's stereo. I have found that if I am on an FM station and then switch to bluetooth with my car for media that it always provides the information, so I am assuming that it is something to do with starting the car and syncing to the bluetooth immediately where maybe my stereo hasn't fully booted yet that is causing the audio to play but not getting the full music info.

Bluetooth Audio Issue

Today I noticed a bug with BT audio and Navigation.
I have BT in my car so I connected my phone and started up my tunes like I always do and everything worked fine.
I needed to use Google Maps Navigation and on my previous phones using Nav with music playing (google play music streaming) worked fine.
Today I noticed that when ever Nav had an instruction for me, the music volume would drop, but no audio from Nav would play.
On my bluetooth profile on the phone I have phone and media audio running through bluetooth.
Anyone have a solution for me?

Unrelated question. How is the audio quality over bluetooth? Any noticeable difference when it's wired as opposed to over bt?

I can't speak on the potential bluetooth through car issue, but I have no issues with using a Supertooth 'visor' device, and at least in my opinion, the audio is of reasonable quality (though I've not tried to play music over it, just nav, and the occasional notification noises while on the drive).

banq81991 said:
Unrelated question. How is the audio quality over bluetooth? Any noticeable difference when it's wired as opposed to over bt?
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Dude, lol, start your own thread. Don't hijack someone elses.

Nobody? If my replacement does this too the phone will have to go back. I use bt audio and Navigation together all the time
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gunnyman said:
Nobody? If my replacement does this too the phone will have to go back. I use bt audio and Navigation together all the time
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In an effort to apologize for highjacking your thread:
If no music is playing, do you hear the nav instructions?
Maybe try toggling the voice instructions from the menu of the navigation app while it's running?
I don't think this will work, but maybe going into the settings page that has the three volume sliders and try moving those around to see if you get different results?
Maybe there's an issue with text-to-speech, but I'm not positive on how to fix this. I know there's some stuff in the settings section and you can install a third party TTS system, but no idea if that would help.
I think it goes without saying, have you tried re installing google maps?

Nope. Oddly enough the problem went away. Everything is fine now
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I simply rebooted the phone
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gunnyman said:
I simply rebooted the phone
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Awesome! Good to hear. Now about that BT audio quality?

No better or worse than any other device I've had
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[Q] HTC one, disable an audio channel?

Hi,
I recently accidently damaged my htc one bottom speaker and its really quite annoying to listen to. I was wondering if there is anyway to disable one audio channel or using an equaliser change audio balance globally. All of the research I have done and all of the equalisers I have tried has yielded no results I am rooted, unlocked and s-off if it helps in anyway. Thanks

I think Viper4Android would be exactly what you're looking for.

martini1294 said:
Hi,
I recently accidently damaged my htc one bottom speaker and its really quite annoying to listen to. I was wondering if there is anyway to disable one audio channel or using an equaliser change audio balance globally. All of the research I have done and all of the equalisers I have tried has yielded no results I am rooted, unlocked and s-off if it helps in anyway. Thanks
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all you need : MONO output sound
HTC one sounds basically with stereo outputs and speakers
so you need to convert/change the output from Stereo to Mono, you can look for any App to do this
or you can try Poweramp.apk , go to Tone/Vol and adjust the BALANCE to your correct side
hope this help you

Wouldn't mono still use both speakers? And I have heard of poweramp but wouldn't that only affect that app itself, not for example my OS, ringtone etc. I would just like to completely disable the bottom speaker if there is a way.
Thanks

martini1294 said:
Wouldn't mono still use both speakers? And I have heard of poweramp but wouldn't that only affect that app itself, not for example my OS, ringtone etc. I would just like to completely disable the bottom speaker if there is a way.
Thanks
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when you change the Balancer to the (not-damaged) speaker, it will disable the damaged one
if you think you need to disable it without use Balancer app, forget it , you can do it if you can de-assembly your phone

Prophet16 said:
I think Viper4Android would be exactly what you're looking for.
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I tried viper4android and i cann only find the option im looking for, for bluetooth and headphones only, not for the actual phone speakers. =(

martini1294 said:
I tried viper4android and i cann only find the option im looking for, for bluetooth and headphones only, not for the actual phone speakers. =(
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Well there is an option to use one profile universally. So you could set up the Bluetooth profile to have one sided audio and then enable the option to use that profile as the only profile. And when you plugin your headphones you can turn it off.

UHQ Upscaler Help

I just recently noticed this setting under sounds on the setting menu, does anyone here also have trouble enabling it? and does it work?

darweezie21 said:
I just recently noticed this setting under sounds on the setting menu, does anyone here also have trouble enabling it? and does it work?
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You have to have headphones plugged in before you can enable it. Not sure exactly about the results you get from it as i don't use it.

JKLIMES1 said:
You have to have headphones plugged in before you can enable it. Not sure exactly about the results you get from it as i don't use it.
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Yea I'll have my bluetooth speakers connected but the option isn't made available to switch on.

Wired headphones
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JasonJoel said:
Wired headphones
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is it a wired only feature? non bluetooth?

darweezie21 said:
is it a wired only feature? non bluetooth?
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plug in headphones and turn it on. when you are on bluetooth it will likely still be to the "on" position but greyed out. Not sure if it actually does its thing via bluetooth though. Try it out with it turned on and off and see if it makes any difference in sound when connected to bluetooth.

As far as I know you can't actually transfer ultra high quality audio over bluetooth. I haven't seen any bluetooth headphone or speaker that supports over CD quality. (In terms of sample rate, bit depth etc.) but I might be wrong.

cewrld said:
As far as I know you can't actually transfer ultra high quality audio over bluetooth. I haven't seen any bluetooth headphone or speaker that supports over CD quality. (In terms of sample rate, bit depth etc.) but I might be wrong.
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that makes sense.