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Bluetooth Hands Free Working?

has anyone with a bluetooth handsfree kit having problems dialing out with it?
I have a Pioneer Nav deck in my car and while bluetooth handsfree works, I cannot use the deck to dial any numbers? The deck looks like it's trying to dial the number, but the phone doesn't respond. However, I can dial from the phone and converse over bluetooth... The deck says it's connected and shows the carrier information on the screen, but can't get the phone to dial any numbers.
I've done some testing and it looks like if the phone goes to sleep, bluetooth doesn't wake it up.
I'm using the latest voguimg-240x320-04-03-10.nbh.

I thought DZO fixed something in the latest version regarding bluetooth falling asleep when the phone locks, but if you have the latest nbh I guess that's not it.
I have a Ford with Sync, and it is able to dial out contacts but I haven't tried direct dial. It uses voice dialer though, I don't know if that matters... I'll try dialing a # directly and let you know if I can.

berardi said:
I thought DZO fixed something in the latest version regarding bluetooth falling asleep when the phone locks, but if you have the latest nbh I guess that's not it.
I have a Ford with Sync, and it is able to dial out contacts but I haven't tried direct dial. It uses voice dialer though, I don't know if that matters... I'll try dialing a # directly and let you know if I can.
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I've tried both direct dial and with the transferred contacts from the deck and still no go.
Have you done the a2dp hack where you had to go into some file in the root area and add 4000000 to a line or something like that?
Also, when you are in the car, is the phone plugged in?
Thanks.

ckl_88 said:
I've tried both direct dial and with the transferred contacts from the deck and still no go.
Have you done the a2dp hack where you had to go into some file in the root area and add 4000000 to a line or something like that?
Also, when you are in the car, is the phone plugged in?
Thanks.
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Yes I did the AD2P change.
I don't plug my phone in at all anymore, just power charger

berardi said:
Yes I did the AD2P change.
I don't plug my phone in at all anymore, just power charger
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Thanks. I'll try the a2dp hack today and test on the way home tonight to see if it makes a difference.
Your Ford Sync has A2DP profile on the deck to stream music from the phone right? Mine doesn't, it just has the phone capability I wonder if that's another factor to consider.

ckl_88 said:
Thanks. I'll try the a2dp hack today and test on the way home tonight to see if it makes a difference.
Your Ford Sync has A2DP profile on the deck to stream music from the phone right? Mine doesn't, it just has the phone capability I wonder if that's another factor to consider.
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Well I don't know if the AD2P hack will make a difference - try it but mine worked before I did the hack - only the music wouldn't play properly. It still isn't perfect but now music does play. Yes the Sync plays streaming bluetooth media.

berardi said:
Well I don't know if the AD2P hack will make a difference - try it but mine worked before I did the hack - only the music wouldn't play properly. It still isn't perfect but now music does play. Yes the Sync plays streaming bluetooth media.
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It's still not working after the hack. What I've also found out that even after I unlock the phone, the deck still cannot get the phone to make a call. However, if I phone a contact from the phone, hang up, then use the deck to call another contact it will work. Then when the phone locks, I'm back to square one again. it seems like something is happening when the phone locks.

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It's still not working after the hack. What I've also found out that even after I unlock the phone, the deck still cannot get the phone to make a call. However, if I phone a contact from the phone, hang up, then use the deck to call another contact it will work. Then when the phone locks, I'm back to square one again. it seems like something is happening when the phone locks.
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I've experienced a lot of weirdness like that too.. Personally my initial connection is the hardest part like when I get in the car in the morning or home from work.. i always have to reset bluetooth to make it work.
DZO has DEFINITELY improved bluetooth support, and it's pretty good but it's not quite complete yet. I'm just being patient and hoping for the best

berardi said:
I've experienced a lot of weirdness like that too.. Personally my initial connection is the hardest part like when I get in the car in the morning or home from work.. i always have to reset bluetooth to make it work.
DZO has DEFINITELY improved bluetooth support, and it's pretty good but it's not quite complete yet. I'm just being patient and hoping for the best
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Yeah, there's no doubt DZO has done a great job with Android. I hope he keeps up the good work!

Focus S: BlueTooth Icon will not go away

Got the Focus S on Saturday, 5 days ago. Love it. Connected flawlessly with my Jabra in the car. When I turn off Bluetooth, the icon will not go away without a reboot. Thats not a huge deal except, while connected to the Jabra, I get all the voice actions associated with a handsfree device. With the Jabra turned off, I still get those actions. With the Bluetooth turned off, I expect those actions to go away. But, the icon stays displayed, and the voice actions still remain, even though Bluetooth is off in Settings.
Am I missing something??

That's odd, have had none of those issues
Have you deleted the pairing, and repaired them?
Does it behave the same with another Bluetooth device?

jjmorgan64 said:
That's odd, have had none of those issues
Have you deleted the pairing, and repaired them?
Does it behave the same with another Bluetooth device?
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Yeah, I've done that. In fact, I just reset the device. I like the voice actions....cool....but not if bluetooth doesn't turn off...my phone started talking to me in Carl Jr.'s today.

Have you tried another Bluetooth device?
If it still does it then I would prolly take it back. Only a week old, you should be able to swap it for a different one. The Bluetooth should work flawlessly.

jjmorgan64 said:
Have you tried another Bluetooth device?
If it still does it then I would prolly take it back. Only a week old, you should be able to swap it for a different one. The Bluetooth should work flawlessly.
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Ok...try as I may, I can no longer reproduce this problem. Which leads me to believe, I was full of sxxt.
I'll keep an eye on it. AT&T has a 30 day buyers remorse...so I have until april 4 I believe....but I'm believing this might just have been a user error. Darn users...always get me in trouble.

[Q] Moto X, Touchless Control, and UCOnnect hands-free.

So, this may have been brought up already, I did try to search, but didnt come up with much.
So, i bought a Moto X, even after hearing the lenovo/google news. I figure that they cant ruin the device quickly enough to justify second-guessing my long and painstaking decision process.
Anyway, touchless control is pretty awesome. Ive been tinkering with it since i got it. I'm a long time android user, and have been using google now for some time. The problem is this.
I drive a 2013 Jeep, with a UConnect bluetooth hands-free system. It works for what its supposed to work for, i can make calls, stream audio, all is well. In fact its working better than it did on my old GNex. However, once I connect my motox to UConnect (that is, i get in, turn on the Jeep, and bluetooth associates), touchless control becomes unresponsive. In fact, it seems that even if i try to manually initiate a voice search, google now cant hear me. I can use the voice input for the keyboard, just not voice commands. It's almost like as soon as i'm paired to a bluetooth input, google now voice input/touchless control get turned off. Which to me seems odd.
I tried looking around in my settings, i cant seem to find a setting that tells the phone to do this. It just doesnt work.
Also, if i turn off bluetooth while the Jeep is still running, touchless/voice input starts working again.
I havent tried pairing it to another bluetooth headset to see if it does it then too, i'll update this thread once i've had a chance to try that.
Is this something others are experiencing? Is it supposed to do this for some safety feature, and I dont know it?
Thanks!

I don't have a vehicle with bluetooth, you may have better luck posting your question in the "Question and Answer" area.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/moto-x-qa
Good luck with finding a fix!

Apparently the various signs and warnings telling me to post questions in the q&a section dont apply to me.
Thanks, I'll post over there.
Mods, feel free to lock/delete/destroy with fire this thread.

[Q] Lumia 930 - No Voice Guidance in Here Drive

I picked up a Lumia 930 over the weekend and so far I'm loving device, except for 1 small issue. I'm not getting any voice guidance at all in Here Drive. I get the speeding warning tone just fine, but no voice guidance at all from either the device or over my car's BT connection.
Everything else comes over the BT connection fine... Cortana's voice, music, phone calls... Just no voice guidance...
Anyone come across that at all?

FloatingFatMan said:
I picked up a Lumia 930 over the weekend and so far I'm loving device, except for 1 small issue. I'm not getting any voice guidance at all in Here Drive. I get the speeding warning tone just fine, but no voice guidance at all from either the device or over my car's BT connection.
Everything else comes over the BT connection fine... Cortana's voice, music, phone calls... Just no voice guidance...
Anyone come across that at all?
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Yes, having the same problem. I have an unlocked Lumia 930 bought in Singapore

Did you install a voice?

Yes, of course I installed a voice... Tried both recorded and synthesized. Nada.

FloatingFatMan said:
I picked up a Lumia 930 over the weekend and so far I'm loving device, except for 1 small issue. I'm not getting any voice guidance at all in Here Drive. I get the speeding warning tone just fine, but no voice guidance at all from either the device or over my car's BT connection.
Everything else comes over the BT connection fine... Cortana's voice, music, phone calls... Just no voice guidance...
Anyone come across that at all?
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Did you actually downloaded any voice guidance in settings, as by default it's set to "none" , though on first start the program asks to download voice an maps, maybe you omitted this step ?

Yes, as I just said above you. Of course I downloaded the voice, both UK English voices, in fact. I'm not a dummy.
I can get voice guidance from other apps, just not Here Drive, which is annoying.
There's also another issue, which is WP's fault and bloody annoying. No control over the individual BT profiles, so I can't shut off the regular BT Audio profile (I don't want voice guidance or music to cut off my car stereo, just phone calls). It's the one big thing about WP that annoys the hell out of me.

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Yes, as I just said above you. Of course I downloaded the voice, both UK English voices, in fact. I'm not a dummy.
I can get voice guidance from other apps, just not Here Drive, which is annoying.
There's also another issue, which is WP's fault and bloody annoying. No control over the individual BT profiles, so I can't shut off the regular BT Audio profile (I don't want voice guidance or music to cut off my car stereo, just phone calls). It's the one big thing about WP that annoys the hell out of me.
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Have you tried downloading other than UK voices and see if it's the same ?

Yes, makes no difference. There's no voice guidance. It's not a corrupt voice causing the issue, it's something else.

FloatingFatMan said:
Yes, makes no difference. There's no voice guidance. It's not a corrupt voice causing the issue, it's something else.
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So to be sure i got your point, voice isn't working at all, i mean not even when not connected to car's bluetooth ?

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So to be sure i got your point, voice isn't working at all, i mean not even when not connected to car's bluetooth ?
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Correct. With or without bluetooth, there's NO voice guidance whatsoever from Here Drive.

FloatingFatMan said:
Correct. With or without bluetooth, there's NO voice guidance whatsoever from Here Drive.
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If i recall corectly ( as at the moment i can't test) there is a Driving Mode in the phone's settings, and you need to turn it ON .
Also you may want to take a look HERE for some more useful information on Here navigation features.

VSparxx said:
If i recall corectly ( as at the moment i can't test) there is a Driving Mode in the phone's settings, and you need to turn it ON .
Also you may want to take a look HERE for some more useful information on Here navigation features.
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Ah HA!! Thank you for that link! Looks like it identifies the issue. I'd only tested it on my drive to/from work, and apparently, it doesn't use voice guidance for My Commute routes. I shall test that out next time I'm in the car.
It would have been nice if there was somewhere on the bleedin' phone that -told- you that, though!
Oh well, at least that's answered... Now, if anyone can tell me how I can control the BT profiles, I'll be completely happy!

FloatingFatMan said:
Now, if anyone can tell me how I can control the BT profiles, I'll be completely happy!
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I think Car Mode has you covered here, at least partially ))

VSparxx said:
I think Car Mode has you covered here, at least partially ))
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Nope, there's no capability to disable specific profiles for specific devices. Android's been able to do this for years, but not WP, it seems.

FloatingFatMan said:
Nope, there's no capability to disable specific profiles for specific devices. Android's been able to do this for years, but not WP, it seems.
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Indeed...for now it's impossible to set different profiles for different devices, maybe in a future update, as of lately Microsoft has been pushing updates at a really fast pace.

Bluetooth to car no track ID

Just got my pixel 5. When connecting to the car via Bluetooth it's not coming up in the car display what track it is and I'm unable to skip to next track using steering wheel controls. Worked perfectly fine on my Mate 20 pro. Any ideas please? It's driving me mad.

Have yours all connected correctly those that are trying it in cars? This is a deal breaker for me so if not a simple fix it's going back.

Same thing happened here, using Spotify. Weirdly it works on my Pixel 2 XL but not on my Pixel 5.

I've reached out to Google to try find out why. Glad it's not just mine at least.

I have just come across this thread before I posted my own. thank God I'm not the only one who is annoyed as I started to think I was going crazy.
This is an absolute deal breaker for me as well. OP what have you done in the meantime? Have you found a workaround? I have even tried downloading 3rd party bluetooth "manager" apps from the play store but had no luck.
Skip, restart, steering wheel functions don't work and options are greyed out on cars infotainment touch screen.
Didn't have this issue on Pixel 2 Android 10.

Yes i found a work around today after reading through many other forums about other phones.
Basically enable developer mode and then change the AVRCP Bluetooth version to 1.3. Turn off Bluetooth then back on again and hopefully yours will work like mine.
I'm not sure what this does or the disadvantage to doing this but I've found connection better this way also. Let me know how you get in.

You can thank android 11 for that.

I think that what is happening here is that some apps haven't yet caught up with changes and advances in the underlying subsystems in Android 11. One that has is VLC. It is working perfectly for me. (I've tried others that didn't so I'm sure this isn't a bug per se)
It's a little disappointing that more effort wasn't put into maintaining backwards compatibility. However, that can often be very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to achieve.
Personally, I don't think that reaching out to Google about this will do any good.
Sent from my Pixel 5 using XDA Labs

Tcukcufc said:
Yes i found a work around today after reading through many other forums about other phones.
Basically enable developer mode and then change the AVRCP Bluetooth version to 1.3. Turn off Bluetooth then back on again and hopefully yours will work like mine.
I'm not sure what this does or the disadvantage to doing this but I've found connection better this way also. Let me know how you get in.
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I have done this and it had started working. Massive relief, thank you.

Tcukcufc said:
Yes i found a work around today after reading through many other forums about other phones.
Basically enable developer mode and then change the AVRCP Bluetooth version to 1.3. Turn off Bluetooth then back on again and hopefully yours will work like mine.
I'm not sure what this does or the disadvantage to doing this but I've found connection better this way also. Let me know how you get in.
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You are my absolute saviour! I didn't realise there was a way to revert the Bluetooth version. I thought I was just going to have to wait for a patch!

Tcukcufc said:
Yes i found a work around today after reading through many other forums about other phones.
Basically enable developer mode and then change the AVRCP Bluetooth version to 1.3. Turn off Bluetooth then back on again and hopefully yours will work like mine.
I'm not sure what this does or the disadvantage to doing this but I've found connection better this way also. Let me know how you get in.
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Thank you for this info. I'm not sure it's necessary, but I'd also recommend after changing this setting, reboot your phone and delete and re-pair the phone to your radio.