UPDATE: ok, ive figured out part of the problem so maybe a solution will be easier. After experimenting, iheld down my menu key and it opened the keybrd, hitting the speak button initiate my call for as long as i talk, once i stop it tries searching and does its job. SO, there is a problem between the voice recognizer initiating when it should turn on....or something like that.
could not find ANYTHING in my settings that would turn this on permanently.
ideas? thx
hey guys, first time poster long time reader.
huge fan of what everyones been doing here so maybe i can get help cause ive been unable to find any solution.
PROBLEM: In car bluetooth handsfree communication for PHONECALLS only, competely not working.
Ok, so i have had my telus htc hero for 2 years now, everything worked fine on stock 1.5 and upgrd 2.1
once i started having trouble with memory and no a2sd, i bit the bullet and flashed CM6.1 and loved it, but thats when my BT trouble began. ever since then, it hasnt worked. It will pair, connect and if i receive a call the music(which works fine) will pause and the phone will ring, but when i answer it.. complete silence from both ends.
I flashed CM7.0.0(maybe 7.0.1?) beta3, thinking it would solve the problem and no luck.
After several weeks of searching i came across ELELINUX last night, read the changelogs and it said BT worked fine. so i flashed 7.1.0 RC1 v3.1 to find the exact same problem persisted.
I am out of ideas and threads to read...if ANYONE has a suggestion they think will work, i am all ears.
Thx so much for any help and sorry for my long first post.
Sounds like trouble with the roms bluetooth stack. I'd test a stock rom and see if that solves the problem. If it does, its probably the roms you're using.
Hmm ok. I just assumed that since the build said "Bluetooth working", that it would! Lol
But ok thanks man, I guess I just search for that with "stock hero rom" right?
Ill give it a whirl and see what's up. I wish someone knew of a working 2.2 Rom for hero, sheesh
167 views and no solutions and you call yourselves developers....shame!
mattprime86 said:
167 views and no solutions and you call yourselves developers....shame!
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Calm down, just because your problem still exists, doesn't make it our fault, or our responsibility. If anything, its your responsibility. If you want it fixed, contact the developer of the rom. If that doesn't work, try developing a fix yourself, and see the time, skill and patience it takes. Until then, quit raging against the hardworking fellows here and let us move on to bigger things. If you truly want bluetooth, you can always unroot and go back to stock to fix your problem. Beggars can't be choosers.
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Sorry, that was supposed to be read in a comical fashion with no actual bitterness :/ prob should have made myself clearer.
Hi, all.
Was a little disheartened about my Charge to find out Samsung won't allow the camera to launch while in a phone call. I thought HTC was bad with not letting me use the FLASH in a call. But the camera altogether?? I've searched and while I found a lot of discussions, I've found no conclusions.... well, no conclusions I WANTED anyway....
Does anyone know of a way thru rooting, an app, hack, or something to stop this from happening?
Thanks...
Any intel appreciated.......
Pretty much what the title says....details:
I ditched my horrible AT&Trash dsl to tether via my TB (faster speeds and saving $20/mo). Problem is, I recently moved and I have to have my phone right next to the window to get solid and consistent LTE signal, so every time I get a text or something I have to get up to go look at it, cause if I move my phone it'll drop to 3G (that's another issue....whenever it hands off from 4G to 3G I almost ALWAYS have to go into Airplane mode then back out or reboot for my TB to acquire 4G signal again...anyone know a quicker way? I have latest radios....) then my tethering all my but dies and I have to start the whole process over.
I am wondering if there is a way or maybe an app I can get where I can control my phone via my PC wirelessly while tethering.......from what I've read you either have to be connected via usb (window is too far away for that) and/or your pc and phone have to be connected to the same wifi network (which, if I'm tethering and my pc is connected to the internet via tethering to my phone, that isn't really true...is it?)
So.....any ideas?
Thanks much!
This may be of some help for texting. I use bluetooth for calls. I almost have the same situation.
Check out this Android Application I'm using "DesktopSMS" on my Thunderbolt. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/qApcgj
I had the same issue, my solution was rather eloquent I bought a tablet so that, while my phone is in my window, I can get my texts on my new happy Motorola Xoom. Not sure if its possible for ya BUT it is well worth the investment. Also, are you PAYING for your tethering?
Cmon lol, no random quips? I actually DO have a solution but SOMEONE has to say SOMETHING lol!
htcdesirezgeorge said:
Cmon lol, no random quips? I actually DO have a solution but SOMEONE has to say SOMETHING lol!
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htcdesirezgeorge said:
I had the same issue, my solution was rather eloquent I bought a tablet so that, while my phone is in my window, I can get my texts on my new happy Motorola Xoom. Not sure if its possible for ya BUT it is well worth the investment. Also, are you PAYING for your tethering?
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"paying".....is a foreign word to me
Hey guys,
I upgraded my MK2 S4 to 4.4 NC5 using Surges method.
I have had zero issues since doing it a couple weeks ago. Everything is going great. I travel alot for work and today I jave been trying to call my daughter via Skype and Hangouts and the video quality is good, but they say my audio is garbled and sounds like a Chipmunk.
The wifi connection is good, and I tested my audio playback on the Skype echo test, and sure enough, I sound like a minion from Dispicable Me.
I recorded a video of myself, and the audio sounded fine.
Dont know what cound be causing it to get garbled over wifi calls.
Any ideas what cound be causing this.
Im completely stock except haveing a few apps frozen and wifi tether enabled.
My data is turned off since I don't have a global data plan. So im 100% on wifi.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im away from home out of the country for 3 weeks and wiuld love to talk to my 3 year old.
Thanks
ymDroid said:
Hey guys,
I upgraded my MK2 S4 to 4.4 NC5 using Surges method.
I have had zero issues since doing it a couple weeks ago. Everything is going great. I travel alot for work and today I jave been trying to call my daughter via Skype and Hangouts and the video quality is good, but they say my audio is garbled and sounds like a Chipmunk.
The wifi connection is good, and I tested my audio playback on the Skype echo test, and sure enough, I sound like a minion from Dispicable Me.
I recorded a video of myself, and the audio sounded fine.
Dont know what cound be causing it to get garbled over wifi calls.
Any ideas what cound be causing this.
Im completely stock except haveing a few apps frozen and wifi tether enabled.
My data is turned off since I don't have a global data plan. So im 100% on wifi.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im away from home out of the country for 3 weeks and wiuld love to talk to my 3 year old.
Thanks
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Can anyone that has upgraded thier mk2 to nc5, disable thier mobile data, and make a Skype or Hangouts video call over wifi to test if this is happening with thier phones as well?
Can the other person hear you clearly, or are souding like a grabled chipmunk.?
ymDroid said:
Can anyone that has upgraded thier mk2 to nc5, disable thier mobile data, and make a Skype or Hangouts video call over wifi to test if this is happening with thier phones as well?
Can the other person hear you clearly, or are souding like a grabled chipmunk.?
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I got my I545 used with nc5 already on it. I installed skype and while on wifi skyped another phone of mine that only has wifi. Sure enough, garbled chipmunk.
bsliv said:
I got my I545 used with nc5 already on it. I installed skype and while on wifi skyped another phone of mine that only has wifi. Sure enough, garbled chipmunk.
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It sucks, but I'm kind of happy I'm not the only one.
Do you know if your NC5 was an OTA, or if it was rooted and forced update? What bootloader are you on? Is ot something related to a mod we've done?
Im really wondering how many people are affected and if its a firmware issue.
I've used hangouts for video back in the states, but my 4g was so good, I never had to use wifi.
ymDroid said:
It sucks, but I'm kind of happy I'm not the only one.
Do you know if your NC5 was an OTA, or if it was rooted and forced update? What bootloader are you on? Is ot something related to a mod we've done?
Im really wondering how many people are affected and if its a firmware issue.
I've used hangouts for video back in the states, but my 4g was so good, I never had to use wifi.
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Well I'm glad someone's happy.
I assume nc5 was an ota, the guy I got it from didn't seem to bright. I've rooted it, deleted some bloatware, but left everything else alone. My old phone, on the same wifi network, is running a non stock 2.3.4 rom and it seemed to work fine (other than making the s4 sound chipmunk-like).
Now find an answer and make me happy too.
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Well I'm glad someone's happy.
I assume nc5 was an ota, the guy I got it from didn't seem to bright. I've rooted it, deleted some bloatware, but left everything else alone. My old phone, on the same wifi network, is running a non stock 2.3.4 rom and it seemed to work fine (other than making the s4 sound chipmunk-like).
Now find an answer and make me happy too.
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Im not really happy, but if it's a NC5/NC2 issue, then everyone should be affected and we can get VZW on the fix.
But if it's just some of us that rooted and changed something that is affecting the phone, its going to be up us to figure it out. But I don't know anything about development.
What I do know is that this wasn't an issue on MK2, so I may be restoring back if this can't be resolved.
Im really surprised that there aren't a few more people on here who are willing to try it out and verify if it's universal, or an isolated incident.
Hopefully, more people who have read the thread will take 2 mins to test thier phones.
Im happy on NC5, but can't stay here if there is no fix.
Lots of people on this forum
Just asking for 2-3 mins of your time.
PLEASE try this out ao we can isolate if its a hardware issue or a software issue, and where in the software chain is the error occuring.
I know many on here have the same setup.
Stock Rooted NC5, with the MK2 bootloaders. These are the people I'd like to be to test thier audio over wifi.
Turn OFF (very important) your mobile data and video call (skype or Hangouts) someone over wifi. Can the person you're calling hear you clearly?
Then I would venture to ask those of us on NC2 with the MK2 bootloader to try the same.
And possibly those still on MK2 stock to try.
For those of us on the board, it'll only take a couple minutes to try this out and post your findings to verify if it's an NCxx thing.
Thanks.
I've also been having a similar issue with Google Hangouts video calls.
I'm on Dan's GPE 4.4.2 ROM using the Dec NC5 modem, before that I was on stock 4.2.2 on the MDK modem. Once in a while I've had an issue when my wife calls me my voice would sound really slow, but then she'd just call me back and the voice would return back to normal. This was before upgrading to 4.4.2 however since I've upgraded to KitKat almost every video call we'd have to call each other back and forth until we can hear each other.
I've tried rebooting, battery pulls turning off mobile data and only using WiFi and vice versa but still nothing really worked.
Was having the issue also with my Mom and brother, but I noticed once I upgraded them to the latest hangouts it worked fine.
Not really sure whats going on with Hangouts.
Try turning off noise reduction in call settings ... I've read someone else having the same problem and another member suggested that... Not sure if it worked but worth a try
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hooligan4 said:
Try turning off noise reduction in call settings ... I've read someone else having the same problem and another member suggested that... Not sure if it worked but worth a try
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I tried with noise reduction off, and tried with voice privacy off, no changes.
Here's the odd thing. I downloaded and have been using "GrooVeIP" to make strictly calls over wifi, and it works perfectly.
So calls over wifi have no issue, just the audio on a video chat over wifi?
So has any of the other 121 people who have read the thread had time to test this?
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I tried with noise reduction off, and tried with voice privacy off, no changes.
Here's the odd thing. I downloaded and have been using "GrooVeIP" to make strictly calls over wifi, and it works perfectly.
So calls over wifi have no issue, just the audio on a video chat over wifi?
So has any of the other 121 people who have read the thread had time to test this?
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Sorry i couldn't help
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Have you guys tried putting your phones in the washing machine to see if it clears out thw microphone or anything? I'll test and let you know.
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Have you guys tried putting your phones in the washing machine to see if it clears out thw microphone or anything? I'll test and let you know.
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Dude don't do that..Samsung Galaxy S4's are NOT waterproof!
scrillakev said:
Dude don't do that..Samsung Galaxy S4's are NOT waterproof!
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It was a joke lol even IP67 phones couldn't survive that
joshm.1219 said:
It was a joke lol even IP67 phones couldn't survive that
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I know you were..ROFL.
I read that turning Google Now off would solve the problem. Didn't work for me tho. Seems to be a problem with desktops too.
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I read that turning Google Now off would solve the problem. Didn't work for me tho. Seems to be a problem with desktops too.
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Didn't work. Same chipmunk voice.
Crazy that i can use grooveIP to make calls over wifi with no problem, but once video /chat is in the mix, it goes to crap.
I finally realized that the chipmunk voice is being caused by the audio being sped up.
So the video chats are speeding up audio over wifi.
Any ideas what would cause this?
Fixed
The problem isn't with Google Now, it's Google Search's new "anytime /any screen" hotword section function..
Go to Google Search, Settings, Voice, Uncheck hotword detection from any screen.
Why this breaks the wifi audio when using a video chat service is a mystery.
I now realize that this wasn't an issue under 4.3, because Hotword detection from any screen is a Kitkat only feature.
I don't know if this a Samsung, possibly or Google Search issue. But I'll submit a ticket to Google under in the play store.
Hopefully, everyone else will too.
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I read that turning Google Now off would solve the problem. Didn't work for me tho. Seems to be a problem with desktops too.
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See the updated fix.
Do you have the anytime hotword detection on?
Turn it off.