My Hero plays back tunes via BT streaming too fast... - Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

This is a strange one and I don't know whether anyone will have an answer. When connected via BT to my car head unit (a Sony unit), the first 10-20 seconds of the song are played at a faster rate. It's kinda like an old belt driven turntable that hasn't been calibrated properly. You can actually hear the song slow down after the initial period (which cold last anywhere up to 45 seconds) and then it's fine. But jump to another track (and it could be the next track on the album that is playing sequentially) and it does it again. It's a strange quirk, and I can't figure it. There's no problem when played back through headphones so it must be a BT issue. Oh, and I'm running Modaco 2.7 if that makes any difference (I don't think I tried it with a standard ROM, I flashed after having the Hero for only a day). Here's hoping someone can shed some light, or at least convince me I'm not going mad!

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Anyone else having this issue with the included headphones?

The last few weeks I've been using the headphones now since I'm back to working out. However, it seems at random, that the next track button stops working. When it stops working, the Play/Pause button actually skips to the next track.
I use mine a lot and can say that this has never happened to me.
Well, then I hate you. I am gonna file this as an issue due to being rooted I suppose... Won't matter soon anyways as I need to find me a good set of jogging headphones.
I run into the same problem if I use my actually comfortable headphones instead of the crappy huge buds that can't fit in my ear. These have no controls on them and when using Pandora, it will just skip until I reach the 6 skip per hour limit and then it will still do crazy random things like open my notifications and stuff. I have since gotten some even better headphones and rooted (CM Nightlies) and it no longer happens. I think it is a poorly designed headphone connector that catches random signals, but thats just my opinion.
jeremycindy07 said:
I run into the same problem if I use my actually comfortable headphones instead of the crappy huge buds that can't fit in my ear. These have no controls on them and when using Pandora, it will just skip until I reach the 6 skip per hour limit and then it will still do crazy random things like open my notifications and stuff. I have since gotten some even better headphones and rooted (CM Nightlies) and it no longer happens. I think it is a poorly designed headphone connector that catches random signals, but thats just my opinion.
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Hmm, thats an interesting thought. I have been using the stock music player, but am now running CM6 RC1 and have not tested it again, so I'll see how that goes and report back...
So, now that I am running CM6, the headphone buttons do not work at all, and I assume it is because of the different music player being used. Anyone know how I can install the stock HTC Music Player?

Bluetooth Disconnects

Has anyone had issues with bluetooth phone and media disconnecting randomly with the rezound? I have the rezound paired with my 2011 Acura TL, and I've had it just randomly disconnect 4 or 5 times now. Sometimes just media disconnects, sometimes both, sometimes bluetooth shuts off entirely? Anyone else notice weirdness?
I use a blueant t1. When an incoming call comes in, it is fine. Occasionally, when I make an outgoing call, I have to shut off the blueant and turn it back on to make it work even though it says it is connected.
One time I would turn it on and 3 seconds later it would turn itself off. Reboots or battery pull did not fix. I had to do a factory reset. Verizon said was probably some software I loaded, but I have since restored all the same apps and happened once for like 10 minutes, but never again. I looked and it was in performance mode too. Otherwise, I have had mine disconnect but never during a call, maybe only once. I also have an issue with it coming into the middle of a sentance during navigation if using my bluetooth speaker. It works fine without the bluetooth, but not with it.
I don't think so. I used it in my car for 2.5-3 hour trips over the holidays and it has been solid. Used it for calls and streaming music from my phone and mostly streaming podcasts from internet.
I could swear I read something about someone having disconnect problems in his car but I searched and couldn't find it. Something about it disconnecting in his car when he held it a certain way.
Found it!:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20741052&postcount=397
feralicious said:
I don't think so. I used it in my car for 2.5-3 hour trips over the holidays and it has been solid. Used it for calls and streaming music from my phone and mostly streaming podcasts from internet.
I could swear I read something about someone having disconnect problems in his car but I searched and couldn't find it. Something about it disconnecting in his car when he held it a certain way.
Found it!:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20741052&postcount=397
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Thanks. I'll try that out. I always have it in my inside jacket pocket in the car, so it's definitely not the way I'm holding it.
I rarely use the phone over bluetooth, but loves me some A2DP.

Android 7, Bluetooth headset, and auto-resume of media player when phone call ends...

So, I posted a thread about this in the off-topic area, which may not have been the most appropriate place, and I apologize; however, getting to this area of the board is not an obvious thing when you're sitting on the initial page of the board and looking at phone devices as categories as one's only other options.
Anyhow...
Here's the deal. I have noticed the following tendency, ever since Android 5.0 (or maybe 5.1), when a Bluetooth headset has an active connection to the phone, and NEVER if there is no actively connected Bluetooth headset:
When a phone call is disconnected, either by the person on the other end of the call, or by myself, that my phone will open up a media player and start playing a song, a local video, or streaming content. This happens about 25% or more of the time when the call is ended remotely, and 75% or more of the time if I end the call, now that I'm using Android 7 (stock) on my phone.
I ran Android 4.x and 5.x on my Nexus 4, and saw this occasionally. I briefly ran a custom ROM of Android 6 on it. I don't know if I noticed much of a difference between 5.x and 6 on my Nexus 4.
I now have a Nexus 6, on which I have run Android 6.x and now 7.x, and while the behavior was worse than on my Nexus 4, it wasn't too horribly bad (at least, that I noticed). However, I am using a Bluetooth headset on my phone basically 7 days a week now, and I'd say the situation has gotten noticeably much worse on the same hardware under Android 7.
I have used two bluetooth headsets across these two different phones, both of which are Plantronics units.
I tried an experiment this past Thursday in which I turned off the Media option on my phone for the headset, and the behavior seems to have stopped altogether.
The problem is that I also use my phone as a GPS, and as my current job has me driving quite a bit, I need turn-by-turn audio instructions since I will not look at my phone's screen while driving. Turning off the Media option means the voice navigation then plays over the phone's speaker, and with background noise, that's not as good as having it straight in my ear.
So, my point in this thread basically is: is anyone else seeing this same behavior, and is there anything useful one can do to solve it?
There's now a new wrinkle to this.
For reasons unrelated to this thread, I just factory reset my phone. I have my usual apps on it (not much exciting) and I hung up from my headset, without ever having once opened up ANY media player since the wipe. It opened Google Play Music and started streaming music from my account.
This has gone past the point of being ridiculous.
Is there a chance that this is simply a thing related to using a Plantronics product?
I mean, I'm at wit's end here. I have no idea how to proceed because I feel I've pretty much done everything.
OK, I know this has been such an interesting and engaging saga for everyone here, but maybe this will be of use to someone else in the future...
I bought a Jabra Bluetooth earpiece, and now all the problems are gone. Yay!

SGN4 Bluetooth streaming drops after 30mins

Like it says, the bluetooth streaming with my SGN4 drops after 30mins, like clock work(no pun intended :laugh It doesn't matter what I'm paired with, or which app I'm using. I can't remember how long it's been an issue for me, as I usually only use the bluetooth streaming in the car, and my commute used to could be 35min. But I now have a set of Bose QC30s and it is really annoying to have to pull the phone out of my pocket, and turn the tunes back on every half an arn at work.
Since the note 7 is kaput, and the note 8 won't be around until fall I'd like to fix this. My next "upgrade" is 63 days out, and I love my note 4 elsewise. I never had connectivity issues with my SGS3, in fact it could even go 10hrs of music listening on wired headphones and did not have to be plugged in IIRC.
TIA,
Johnny
Almost forgot, I'm on stock rom Android 6.0.1, but the issue has existed for at least 6 months, yeah, I know, I shouldn't have put up with it for this long but I get busy and some stuff falls to the wayside...
You are not the first one to complain about it.
But I would suggest you to factory reset your device after backing up your data.
This solution worked for me though

Automaticly turn off bluetooth/or bluetooth headset after no playback for xxx minutes

Hi.
I've been looking for days, but finally had to make a thread of my own. Sorry, I know I should try and find the answer myself, but in this chase I just couldn't.
Jump to the last paragraph if you don't care for all the backstory.
Anyway, the "problem".
I like to listen to audiobooks when going to sleep. I use bluetooth earpods which I usually just fall sleep with in my ears (they are very comfortable, so it's not a problem..). However, I use a timer on my audiobook app so it automaticly turn off the playback every 20 minutes (or it will continue if I'm not sleepy yet, and press a button on the earpiece when I hear the sound starting to fade out.). This is a neat feature, since when I wake up the next day, I know I fell asleep somewhere within the last 20 minutes of where the book is paused, and it's easy to backtrack to the point before I dozed off.
Great!
However, the earpiece itself doesn't turn off, it stays connected to the phone thoughout the night, and the next day I usually have to charge it before I can use it again (depending on how much I used them before going to bed, they usually work for like 14 hours before needing a recharge).
SO, I was wondering, is there some way to make my phone (Xperia XZ2) tell my earpiece to turn itself off if there is no audio playback for a given amount of minutes? Or simply turn off bluetooth all together? I think the earpiece will turn itself off after a while if it isn't connected to any BT source.
A have bought Tasker, thinking that could help me. But I have no idea what I'm doing.. I'm handy enough with technical stuff, so I should be able to do at least some fancy stuff you guys might come up with. It doesn't have to be pretty, it just have to work.
Thanks for reading and any response.
Regards, donkeyhigh

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