Upgraded my turbo to lolipop and have noticed that none of the equalizer apps work like they used to. Of the dozen or so I've tried, half have no effect at all and the other half work at first, but then it seems they stop working after an hour or so. Disabled stock audio effects. Using mainly for pandora over bluetooth. Anybody found one that is reliable?
Any luck? Haven't found anything yet.
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Unfortunately most EQ apps don't work with Bluetooth Audio, regardless of whether you are on KitKat or Lollipop.
The only option that seems to work correctly with Bluetooth is V4A, however it requires root and is EXTREMELY buggy on Lollipop, causing multiple reboots a day.
I am in the same situation. I use Bluetooth streaming to listen to Pandora and my GPS through the car stereo.
This is my setup:
I use Waze for GPS
Pandora for music
Triger to automatically start Waze and Pandora on bluetooth connect (also used with an RFID tag in my other vehicle that does not have bluetooth)
Overlays to float the Pandora widget over the top of other applications so I can control my music without having to switch from Waze.
I've been using the stock one and it's OK so far.. works on BT as well. I wish we had more control, but we don't. That said, I keep a lot of music locally on my phone, and use poweramp. THAT EQ actually does some damage, in a good way.
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I have tried three different headsets on two different Incredibles and the music skips when walking or running when listening to music on the headset. Has anyone else had this happen and is there a fix?
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Might defeat the purpose but use the headset blocker widget in the market. Just search "Headset blocker" and put the widget on one of your homescreens then activate it.
It may defeat the purpose of saying commands and such, but it should let you listen to your music without problems.
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I have tried three different headsets on two different Incredibles and the music skips when walking or running when listening to music on the headset. Has anyone else had this happen and is there a fix?
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I have the same problem with my Motorola H9s. That was with my Blackberry Storm.
After much searching on the internet, it seems the position of the source is important. I get a minimum of skipping if I carry my phone in my back pocket.
I had skipping before I had to keep the phone above my waist to avoid it.but it was better indoors
same here. if i keep it above my waist it works better. doesn't seem right though!
If you are running a 2.2 rom, there seems to be some issues with bluetooth in general for the leaked build. My friend has had problems with music stuttering in his car connected thru the Sync thingie, and said there were a bunch of reports of shoddy bluetooth connectivity.
Just something else to consider.
I've been curious about this myself (if there's a bluetooth issue) - I have a motorolla t505 in the car, and bluetooth to it has been flaky to setup since SR2.5 and there have been random skips during playback.
I truly think it is a bluetooth issue. I'm on stock 2.1 and it has occured on two seperate phones and I have also tried 3 seperate headsets. Of course HTC says they have never had this problem.
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If you are running a 2.2 rom, there seems to be some issues with bluetooth in general for the leaked build. My friend has had problems with music stuttering in his car connected thru the Sync thingie, and said there were a bunch of reports of shoddy bluetooth connectivity.
Just something else to consider.
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Its not just Htc, friend runs cm6 nightlies on droid 1 and has bluetooth issues. I haven't looked into it much because I don't use bt, but he was saying there were lots of people having problems.
Not that that's necessarily what's going on here, however.
This is typically a headset issue. I have the moto s9's and the skipping happens when a good line of site to the device isn't present. Kind of defeats the purpose if you have to hold your phone while using the headset. I have noticed though that single mono headsets dont have this problem when running the audio apps.
I ran across this thread while trying to find a similar thread about the Samsung Captivate. I had the same issue and was going to post what I did to fix it. I'm sure the problem is phone-specific, but I figured I'd post it here anyway. I use my Motorola S805 headphones with my Captivate at work on a daily basis. I typically leave my phone on the charger and stream music through Rhapsody via my 3G connection (unlimited, thankfully...we don't have wifi at work). I regularly walk up to about 40 feet away from my phone, with no skipping or sound-quality issues whatsoever. I had a lot of issues with skipping when I first got the phone, and I figured out what was happening. If I leave WIFI turned on, but I'm not connected, the music skips. If I'm connected to a router, it doesn't. I believe the phone was polling for WIFI connections every so often and possibly causing a CPU spike or something similar. If I'm out of WIFI range, and simply turn my WIFI off, my music will play great all night long.
I'm using phiremod's latest CM7 - love, love, love it. So easy to install. I got BT working, but with some strange issues:
1) The range is horrible when in portrait mode, but when I flip to landscape, and keep the line of sight between the Nook and the ear-piece that had the BT receiver/transmitter in it, I can have more than arms length range with no issues. (!!!) There must be an issue with the accelerometer!!
2) When I play mp4 clips I've made from my HD camera, they might start OK, but quickly freeze up and go into ultra slo-mo, or whatever. Totally useless. But these clips play fine on regular headphones or without headphones. Why BT has an impact on video playing - using the stock player or any other player - I don't know.
With this phiremod build on the Nook, I'm happy enough to ditch my plkans to get a Samsung or some other "real" tablet. The ONLY thing keeping that alive is this issue.
What I'm wondering, is if there's any way to possibly use my cellphones BT to pair with my headphones, and have the Nook tethered to the phone, such as with GPS tethering and WiFi tethering. Seems somewhat logical to me that you could. I know there is a BT tether on the market, but that's just for data and not for actually using a BT device on your cellphone to control some app on your Nook. I'm thinking like GPS tether does with WiFi tether and Google Nav.
Love to hear your experience here. Thanks!
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I see there are few threads with headsets with music player controls but I didnt see any thread about the question I have, so here it is.
I can break my requirements actually :
1. Headset with controls for internet radio (say Pandora) on your phone. I think all I am looking for is pause/skip track since volume will be default.
2. Pandora is widely used so there might be one, what about other lesser known radios (Indian music radios). Will this pause/skip track controls work with them? Or does the answer depends if these radios allows used to have controls through phone buttons?
3. I am looking for these on use on ski slopes for 8 hours so I am afraid that using bluetooth stuff might kill my Note 2 battery. Is that correct?
4. If 3. is correct, then I would need to find a wired headet with
- above mentioned internet radio controls
- capable of taking calls and without the need to take the phone out of pocket.
- Prefferably clip on/behind the neck style/Over the head types since my ears hurt with in-ear/earbuds.
- Bluetooth if its not going to kill my battery.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !
From my experience, I can say, BT headset gives you more freedom in movement. The Note's battery can last about 16 hrs of bt streaming. It is the BT headset that needs to be recharged more often.
I use the Sony Smart Wireless Headset, wich last about 8 hrs. It has answer/end, skip, previous and play/pause button, wich works fine with the default music player and Kiescast.
In other players, such as Zplayer and or Ubermusic, only the skip and previous button works. Don;t know why that is.
The headset also has a micro SD an built in FM radio.
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From my experience, I can say, BT headset gives you more freedom in movement. The Note's battery can last about 16 hrs of bt streaming. It is the BT headset that needs to be recharged more often.
I use the Sony Smart Wireless Headset, wich last about 8 hrs. It has answer/end, skip, previous and play/pause button, wich works fine with the default music player and Kiescast.
In other players, such as Zplayer and or Ubermusic, only the skip and previous button works. Don;t know why that is.
The headset also has a micro SD an built in FM radio.
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Thank you for the response. So at least I know now that bluetooth might be a way to go (if I can find behind the neck/Clip on design).
But as I mentioned I am not worried about "music plyaer" controls. I am wonderinf if there is any way to control Pause/Next track buttons on Internet radio apps on the phone. Does it depend from app to app?
Edit : Searching more for the solution, I found that there is an app called "Music Control" by Phoenix3200 that allows your to control Pandora and other radio apps with headphone controls. Is there anything equivalent for Android?
I have been having an interesting issue with my Bionic post-JB update, and hope someone here can give me some pointers of where to start.
Before the JB update, I was able to connect to my factory head unit (Toyota FJ Cruiser) without issue. I could stream anything via Bluetooth, and often listened to Pandora while on trips. I updated to JB, and now Pandora will not come through the speakers. a few useful tidbits of info.
1) Pandora thinks it is playing on the phone, but no sound comes out from the car stereo.
2) Google Music and PowerAmp both work flawlessly (even hve track data on head unit now
3) I have verified the basics (Bluetooth volume is up, Bluetooth enabled in Pandora, cycled the Bluetooth setting in Pandora, rebuilt connection to head unit, R&R'ed the app, etc.)
4) I have frozen the volume notification warning they added in JB.
5) Sound WILL play for about 3 seconds if I launch another music app and Pandora opens over it. Once the other app stops, so does the sound.
6) I have not been able to test this in another vehicle as my other car does not have Bluetooth connectivity.
I am at a loss. I can't find anything about anyone else having this particular problem, but it's driving me crazy. I may have to explore other options for music, which would be fine in a couple of months anyway, as a) will be eligible for an upgrade and b) my Pandora One subscription will be ending, but would rather not have to worry about it right now.
If anyone here has experienced anything like this, I would LOVE to have some help.
Have a little info, but no real help.
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I have been having an interesting issue with my Bionic post-JB update, and hope someone here can give me some pointers of where to start.
Before the JB update, I was able to connect to my factory head unit (Toyota FJ Cruiser) without issue. I could stream anything via Bluetooth, and often listened to Pandora while on trips. I updated to JB, and now Pandora will not come through the speakers. a few useful tidbits of info.
1) Pandora thinks it is playing on the phone, but no sound comes out from the car stereo.
2) Google Music and PowerAmp both work flawlessly (even hve track data on head unit now
3) I have verified the basics (Bluetooth volume is up, Bluetooth enabled in Pandora, cycled the Bluetooth setting in Pandora, rebuilt connection to head unit, R&R'ed the app, etc.)
4) I have frozen the volume notification warning they added in JB.
5) Sound WILL play for about 3 seconds if I launch another music app and Pandora opens over it. Once the other app stops, so does the sound.
6) I have not been able to test this in another vehicle as my other car does not have Bluetooth connectivity.
I am at a loss. I can't find anything about anyone else having this particular problem, but it's driving me crazy. I may have to explore other options for music, which would be fine in a couple of months anyway, as a) will be eligible for an upgrade and b) my Pandora One subscription will be ending, but would rather not have to worry about it right now.
If anyone here has experienced anything like this, I would LOVE to have some help.
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I have a Droid Bionic and drive 2009 Tundra. Had no issues connecting and listening to slacker radio before JB update. Currently can only play Google play music or anything that I have on my SD card. I have searched and found that it is most likely the updated Bluetooth from AVSP? 1.0 to 1.3 which toyota vehicles dont fully comply with. Sounds like the stereo head units are being left behind with the new blueototh updates. Dont know if there is a way to fix this, but it really sucks. I just bought the truck too. Should not have updated to JB. Maybe I will have to get a new head unit.
I would just use an aux in instead of replacing the head unit. My bionic acts odd when connecting Bluetooth to my 2013 civic. Poweramp always cones on automatically. I usually listen to Xm app. There are apps in the market to help control what apps will play through Bluetooth automatically and I assume those that won't play. I'd search for an app like that was well. I wouldnt replace an OEM head for that. You might have the same problem. I think its fixable through apps if you reseaech enough
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I have basically the same problem with my bionic and Lexis CT200. Apparently it is just the 4.1.2 version of JB that is the problem. If you use a 4.2.2Rom out will work. CM10.1 has worked for me. YMMV
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Yes, I've had this happen. I can't help MUCH, I'm afraid. All that works for me is to turn off Pandora, turn off BT, start over. But I *am* able to get Pandora to play through my BT usually. It will get confused and only play through the phone at times, but restarting the two seems to help.
I am rooted but still running the stock ROM on my Bionic (4.1.2). I experience this issue with my 2010 Camry. Can anyone verify that a 4.2.2 ROM will alleviate this issue?
Hi peoples!
I recently got my pebble and installed the app, but since I installed the app I've noticed something odd with my phone. When any bluetooth device connects, media playback will switch from the speakers to the earpiece, and bluetooth headsets wont play/control music anymore. When connected to wired headphones itll play, but the default audio buttons will change the call volume, not media. After 10-30min it reverts to how it should be...at least until a new bluetooth connection is made. This persists whether pebble is connected or not, or if the app is installed or later uninstalled. Is this something to do with the pebble's connection to the phone, and if so is there any way to fix it? I've tried a full system reset on the phone and it's good for awhile, then changes again. Is it possible to just reset the audio drivers?
For some background information, I'm using a Galaxy S4 (Verizon) running 4.3 and no custom/root software. Both the Pebble app and firmware are up to date (as of 12/10/13), and accessibility services are turned off.
I'd appreciate any help I can get, thanks in advance!
What media apps are you using? Some apps such as BeyondPod have a setting on whether they send the song info to the bluetooth device or not...turning this setting off will correct some issues.
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I got my Pebble two days ago and I've used it twice so far in my car with no problems. I use a Bluetooth receiver which I plug into my cassette adapter since I don't actually have a car system that has Bluetooth. I've also been able to control the music from the watch with no problems. I use a N5.
I got a N4. No problems over here. I would look over the settings of whatever apps you use! And play around with those.
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