I've seen complaints that some bluetooth functionality has been "hijacked" by Voice-Talk. I couldm't figure out how not remap or change that (without root-??), or maybe I didn't dig deep enough to solve the problem. A long-press on the bluetooth call button launches Voice Talk, and that was all you could do with it.
I've been unhappy with the inabilty to hear navigation instructions through my BT earpiece. I have an old loud convertible (top up) and can't hear the directions through the phone's rear speaker. I downloaded the BTmono app, and no more Voice Talk on long-press! It goes into the old pairing mode just like it did before GALAXY S2 took over.
The point is that with BTmono, I now can listen to navigation or music and phone calls seamlessly through my mono BT earpiece. If I want Voice Talk, I just launch it just like any other app, or double tap on the home button. It too comes through the earpiece. If I want to go back to the "long-press to launch Voice Talk", I just uninstall BTmono. Maybe this will help someone.
alexcd2006 said:
I've seen complaints that some bluetooth functionality has been "hijacked" by Voice-Talk. I couldm't figure out how not remap or change that (without root-??), or maybe I didn't dig deep enough to solve the problem. A long-press on the bluetooth call button launches Voice Talk, and that was all you could do with it.
I've been unhappy with the inabilty to hear navigation instructions through my BT earpiece. I have an old loud convertible (top up) and can't hear the directions through the phone's rear speaker. I downloaded the BTmono app, and no more Voice Talk on long-press! It goes into the old pairing mode just like it did before GALAXY S2 took over.
The point is that with BTmono, I now can listen to navigation or music and phone calls seamlessly through my mono BT earpiece. If I want Voice Talk, I just launch it just like any other app, or double tap on the home button. It too comes through the earpiece. If I want to go back to the "long-press to launch Voice Talk", I just uninstall BTmono. Maybe this will help someone.
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I upgraded my XV-6800 to 6.1 using the Verizon ROM and am having a very annoying issue with Microsoft Voice Command 1.6 (it works somewhat).
The issue is this:
Push button on headset to activate MSVC
***Beep*** through headset
Me: Call Home
Msvc: Call Home? (through headset)
Me: Yes
DIAL TONES THROUGH THE PHONES SPEAKER
Bluetooth headphone switches back on once connected
The only way I have found that it works normally is when I have my Plantronics 8010 main headset piece set to "Wireless Stereo" and "Hands-Free" and I have the little icon of the stereo headsets showing on the top (where the start menu is). If that icon isn't there then the phone goes back to behaving the way it was above.
I've tried this with non-stereo headsets (mono only) and it plays the damn dial tones through the speaker on the phone. The other thing is that instead of the ringtone coming through the headset on an incoming call it goes through the phones speaker- when I hit the headset button it connects the call properly.
Can this be a conflict with that garbage software called Cyberon Voice Dialer? Anyone else have this issue and was there a fix?
Thanks!
I wasn't aware this was a bug. This is how it's always operated for me and I thought it was a purposeful function of the software. Besides, I think that dialing sound would get really annoying in my ear.
EDIT: The ringtones play through my headset, though. It's just the dialing sound that doesn't. What are your Phone settings in MSVC?
Ok- just uninstalled MSVC and re-installed (for the the third time) and now the incoming calls play the headset fine but the dial tones play out of the speaker on the handset.
I'm pretty sure this is a bug as it never used to do this on the XV-6700 running MSVC 1.5.
It's honestly been that way on every version I've personally used. It doesn't seem like a bug to me. It's specifically jumping out of the Bluetooth audio bridge to play it, then back in. That seems deliberate to me. Besides, it's an effect of the phone, itself, doing the dialing. Kind of a psychological thing. Besides, I wouldn't want that annoying sound buzzing in my ear.
So I have a bluetooth car kit in my truck that gives me the option to map either the "answer" or "hangup" bluetooth functions to a button on the steering wheel. There is no option to start a call and start the voice dialer, that's why I want this:
What I want to do is first map the "answer" function to the steering wheel and have it work like this when it's pressed:
1. When the phone is not ringing or in a call: Launch a custom app (like a voice dialer app)
2. When the phone is ringing: answer the call (Already does this)
3. When the phone is in a call: hang up
I guess the first step I need to do is figure out if the car is even sending the "answer" key to the phone when it's not in a call.
If someone knows of some docs or sample code on how to intercept these commands, it would be most helpful.
Thanks,
Master Baron
In most of the old Nokia phones, when you press and hold the button on the bluetooth headset, it opens voice dialer when not in a call. I think it has to be a way to do this.
My Galaxy S3 connects to my car's Bluetooth and allows me to make and receive calls. However, notification sounds are not playing via Bluetooth. It seems that the phone is sending the sounds to bluetooth but the car system doesn't play them. The result is that I have no audible indication when I receive a message when my phone is connected to my car's Bluetooth system.
Similarly, if I try to use S-Voice it would seem that the phone is expecting sound input via bluetooth and not from the phone's built in microphone, which means it does not detect any sound. Audio output also does not play on the phone or via bluetooth.
Presumably my car's bluetooth does not support receiving such sounds - only supporting basic phone functions. I cannot find any configuration settings on the car system to enable it.
Is there any way of stopping my phone trying to send notification sounds to bluetooth and to just play these via the phone's speaker but still allowing the phone to be connected to bluetooth for making and receiving calls? Similarly can I force S-Voice to use the phone's microphone and speaker if it cannot be made to work with my car's bluetooth?
S Voice on AT&T Galaxy Note Bluetooth In Car
First off, I am having the same issue, I tried even holding down talk / voice command button on steering wheel, No luck. I have a 2012 Kia Optima GLI full Nav and Voice command options. I have my Note working nicely with Team Perfection ICS R2, S Voice is fully functional except:
When using S voice in car connected to car Bluetooth (pushing search button on bottom of phone face) it tries to accept audio input from car Mic over Bluetooth, but never receives input. Can't find any setting in S voice app to change input setting from car to phone mic. Not sure why the car mic doesn't work other than just not supported by the s voice app? Anyone out there know of a fix or work around?
s voice does not work over any bluetooth
I have tried this on multiple Bluetooth devices. It does't hear anything and it responds with a very feint. Robotic distorted voice. Music plays well on Bluetooth but I have had problems with phone calls.so maybe the problem is the Bluetooth stack rather than s-voice.
I am having the same problem with SGS3. When I was testing s-voice on SGS2 you could set s-voice to use SGS speaker and mic for voice commands and notifications. Now I can't find that toggle.
BT Devices , yes....Car BT, No
It works fine on my headsets. IT doesn't work in my car.
spanout has nailed the problem. It apparently does NOT use the mic in the phone when hooked to BT. The car is not designed to pass voice to the BT. The car BTs typically have their own voice control, and as such is handling the voice itself.
When you think about it, it makes sense. Less chance for outside noise if it takes the input from the mic on your BT device, as likely the phone will not be close to your mouth.
The only way we'll get it to work is to find a way to enable the mic on the phone when on BT. Probably would need help from the DEVs here on that.
im in the same boat!
the real kicker is SIRI can send her voice over the car speakers and utilize the car mic.
so logic says, its purely a BT setting on the software ice cream and s3.
any apps for that? or any dev's want to chime in?
im using a very simple bmw bluetooth (not idrive).
it cant stream music, so i dont know how the fak siri can send her voice over it.
I have this problem with my SGS3, and had it with the SGS2 in my Ford S-Max. The problem is Ford's. Using the phone with a parrot car kit has all notifications fired over bluetooth.
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I have this problem with my SGS3, and had it with the SGS2 in my Ford S-Max. The problem is Ford's. Using the phone with a parrot car kit has all notifications fired over bluetooth.
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same with a jabra freeway with latest v3 firmware and a galaxy s3 i9300xxblfb.
very dissapo9nted, finaly a fast, accurate voice app that understands my music requeats and i cant use it in the car!
Yakumo.unr said:
same with a jabra freeway with latest v3 firmware and a galaxy s3 i9300xxblfb.
very dissapo9nted, finaly a fast, accurate voice app that understands my music requeats and i cant use it in the car!
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so switching the s-voice and nav to MONO works with bluetooth, but the a2dp or whatever protocol it uses normally doesnt work.
however calls are done using a2dp, so wtf?
can someone make a quick app that just forces ONLY s-voice and NAV in to mono?
the apps out there make everything go mono or nothing at all...sucks for voice call quality
I needed to revive this thread as a search for my problem led me to it.
1) Is anyone able to play a video on the S3 (GT-I9300 4.1.2) and stream the sound from the video to the car while connected via Bluetooth?
I am not.
2) S3 notification sounds do not play via the car's speakers when receiving a text message or email etc.
I can make and receive calls just fine and even play music from the S3 via BT by selecting the phone from the list of devices on the car's screen.
Blutooth / Voice App Issue - SOLVED
First of all this does work on my 2009 Highlander, but it's a bit Kuldgy.
BT Mono allows my voice app to work, but by itself it's not a solution. You have to activate it manually before using S-Voice, Google Voice or AVX. It opens the connection and has to be activated each time or it can be set to reconnect automatically…. Killing my radio.
Download the free version (I can’t access the play store to give you the link) and see if it works manually. If it works for your test then the rest should work as well.
Install Tasker:
Create a task to keep the screen from locking when your state is Bluetooth connected to the car device.
Create a Task (you don’t need it in a profile)
- Set bluetooth on (in case it’s off)
- Load BT mono (with auto on enabled in the BT mono app)
- Wait ~400MS
- Load App AVX (or S-Voice, or whatever)
- Wait 9 seconds
- Kill BT mono
- Kill BT mono root (it wasn’t always killing BT mono)
I’ve been thinking about trying to simply reboot the BT (BT off then wait then BT on) rather than kill an app.
You can add the task to your home screen as a widget…. Still not safe to do while driving.
That’s where GMD Gestures comes in. You set a swipe command, I use 2 fingers down, to launch the task.
Seems to work pretty well. I can keep my eyes on the road and still use voice commends. You do need to hang up the phone when you’re done talking, but I had to do that with Siri.
I still wish there was a force mono on all connections app, but I still haven’t seen one. AVX just added the ability to force mono for speech, it’s worked for other people, but I’m still trying to figure out why it doesn’t work for me (he's had reports that the Note 2 doesn't like his solution, Kudos to him for trying to add this).
Hope this helps
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BT Mono may work for me because I'm rooted. According to the app on the store (pro version) Apparently Samsung, in an effort to prevent call recording, blocks the ability to re-route the microphone.
Hello. My phone is an HTC One X, and I have paired it with a BlueParrott Bluetooth mono headset. When I first start Vlingo, btmono appropriately routes all audio to my headset. Then, it just stops, and this is usually preceded by text in the notification bar that quickly flashes BeatsAudio on the screen, and then disappears.
The odd thing, is that the beeps that accompany the notifications in Vlingo continue to work. The voice prompts cease completely.
SO, I exit Vlingo, and enable Btmono again, and the voice prompts in Vlingo work again, until I tell her to do something, then I'm back to square one again. I'm not sure if this is an issue with my headset, which is not A2DP, just mono, BeatsAUdio, Vlingo, btmono, or some other conflict.
I'm a truck driver, so I really need all prompts routed to this headset, to keep me hands free compliant.
Thank you in advance for any assistance!
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Is there a way to make microphone work at arbitrary times (regardless what application is currently running) and output the sound through bluetooth car speakers or headphones?
For example, my daughter is studying foreign language using Anki flashcard program on the back seat of the car. While Anki's questions go through car's speakers, I can barely hear her answers to understand if she is doing it correctly. It would be great to route her answers via phone's microphone to car's speakers as well. Is it possible?
Another example: I am studying a foreign language with headphones (that has a builtin microphone) in a noisy environment using Anki. While I can hear well Anki's questions through the headphones, I cannot hear well myself due to the noise. Routing my answers via headphone's microphone to headphone's speakers would be extremely useful as well.
Notice, that in this case the application itself does not provide a way to talk into a microphone. Is there an application-independent way of doing it? Can something like SoundAbout or AlsaMixer do it?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.bitplane.android.microphone
or search microphone on the play store
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reinaldistic said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.bitplane.android.microphone
or search microphone on the play store
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Works well with headphones with builtin microphone, although there is some noise present (for example, from breathing), it would be nice to suppress it.
Works with car's bluetooth, however, the microphone must be turned off immediately after saying something, otherwise, things will be infinitely repeated (since the microphone would pick up its delayed playback on bluetooth speakers). As a result, one must have to constantly switch between applications. Neither microphone, no Anki seem to work out of the box with S4 multiwindow, as far as I understood, to keep them both on screen at the same time so that the microphone could be easily turned on/off without having to close Anki. Is there a way to temporary configure, for example, volume-up/down or power button to toggle microphone state while running Anki?
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Works well with headphones with builtin microphone, although there is some noise present (for example, from breathing), it would be nice to suppress it.
Works with car's bluetooth, however, the microphone must be turned off immediately after saying something, otherwise, things will be infinitely repeated (since the microphone would pick up its delayed playback on bluetooth speakers). As a result, one must have to constantly switch between applications. Neither microphone, no Anki seem to work out of the box with S4 multiwindow, as far as I understood, to keep them both on screen at the same time so that the microphone could be easily turned on/off without having to close Anki. Is there a way to temporary configure, for example, volume-up/down or power button to toggle microphone state while running Anki?
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are you rooted? if so download multi window manager from the play store and add the microphone to multi window
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are you rooted? if so download multi window manager from the play store and add the microphone to multi window
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Yes, I am rooted.
Wow! Cool! I thought that an application must be specifically written to work with multiwindow.