Sooo.. upgraded from the Evo to the Photon mainly due to the international capabilities of the Photon. I'm having a couple of issues but by far the most consistant and frustrating is the problems with streaming media via Ford Sync.
Previously I've used the sync with my Evo (factory OS and various rooted roms) and my wife's Charge with no issues whatsoever. Bluetooth syncs up on the Photon and works just fine. I can make and receive calls without problems, navigation integration works great. The issue is, if I use the vehicle's steering wheel controls to skip songs and the handset is in sleep (ie screen off) the tracks skip and work without problem. But when I unlock the screen, the song I originally started skipping from is 'paused'.. even though an entirely different song is streaming on the stereo. Then if I use any device controls, the song on the device starts playing again.
This is all on a non-rooted device (going to read up on rooting and roms here in a little bit) with the 'default' media player.
Just wondering if anyone else is having similar issues or knows of a fix.
Just tested in my mothers escape and works with mine
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Go on a 100 mile trip and let me know.
This isn't something that happened once, quite a few times in a car I drive more frequently than 'trying out' something in their mom's car.
this happens with my wifes edge and with the head unit ive got in my alero. not sure what the deal is
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I havent seem to run in to anyone with this issue.
I pair my phone to my car stereo fine in the stock GB rom. Play music and talk on the phone endlessly.
But with any ICS version so far, even official. It causes reboots, randomly.
Am I the only one suffering from this?
Not the same, but something similar.
I can connect with my car stereo, have to do it twice (once for music streaming and once for handsfree). Once connected, i can stream music fine. Even the controls on my steering wheel work. When I receive a phone call sound is muted and i can talk fine as well.
After I hang up the phone, the music doesn't come back, only a 0.5 second stutter every 2-3 seconds. On my phone, in the music player I can see that it's my phone that has the problem; the visualisation displays exactly how i hear the sound.
This behaviour also occurs when I turn off my car and turn it on again.. there doesn't seem to be a single thing that i can do to get music to play again, just some fiddling usually gets it to work (but then i have to stop my car first before i can have music..)
If anyone has any ideas for troubleshooting let me know!
I honestly think ics has compatibility issues with certain bluetooth devices.
We can only hope they realize this and take measures to correct it.
Gingerbread is flawless.
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Just a notice that this seems fixed for me now.
I've upgraded to the 4.0.4 Rom found here: Click!
Next to this i'm using the app "doubleTwist"
ICS talks a different language then gingerbread when it comes to A2DP, especially for the play/pause commands, which seem important to me..
A2DP issues
I find I have similar issue. I have a SONY bluetooth deck in my car and my phone will lock up and force restart mid song or mid phone call.
Anyone have any ideas apart from flashing that 4.0.4 Rom
So, I'm having a strange issue with my new Note that I can't quite determine where the root cause may be, or if it's a known issue.
If I register my Note with my car as both a phone and an audio device (how the Infiniti nav/stereo works) I can use the Note as a phone fine UNLESS I start an audio app, such as Pandora. Once a2dp audio starts the Note will no longer connect as a phone device, but it works fine for audio.
I had the phone paired with the stock ATT rom but only used it as a phone, so unfortunately, without a restore to stock, I can't tell if the problem exists with the stock rom.
I flashed to flappjaxxx's rom (which I love) the same day I setup the phone to run Pandora via Bluetooth and that's when I started seeing the problem.
I also see some random connect/reconnects that seem a bit more than usual.
So, I can't say there's a correlation, or if this is a known ICS beta issue or what, but I'm hoping it is and that it's not a design flaw
Way I see it it's either:
1. Flashing to any ICS beta rom has the problem, currently?
2. It's in flappjaxxx's build (doubtful)
3. It's user error...(possible )
4. It's an app issue (ie. Pandora is causing the problem?)
Anyone have any thoughts, suggestions or insights? I've done some searching but haven't found this exact issue yet on any posts.
Thanks!
I have a Kenwood DNX9960 in my Avalanche. It connects also for phone and for streaming media. I can be streaming media from either the stock music player or an internet site like pandora or TuneIn and my calls will automatically come through. When the call ends it goes right back to streaming.
It autoconnects to both as long as my phone is in range when I turn on the kenwood. I did have an issue at first where it would not autoconnect. I deleted the pairing from both my phone and headunit. Then when I repaired I paid close attention to check any boxes to "Always" allow connection and I haven't had any issues since.
I understand the normal pairing process, I've had several phones before that worked fine prior to the Note. So, I'm thinking that it is probably a corrupt bluetooth db... I'm going to be reflashing to Flaps new rom and we'll see how that does
Is there a way to delete the pairing from the nav? I would try that
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There is. I've tried it all, on both sides of the pairing.
I've reflashed the phone to the B6 from FJ, still no joy. The pairing db was new (so no chance of corruption on the phone) and the pairing deleted on the device.
It seems to be a problem with the phone switching between a2dp and phone bt. When a call comes in (while playing say Pandora over bt) the audio cuts out and then the car shows "disconnected" and then "connection failed" if trying to reconnect to the Note as a phone (ie hitting the phone button in the car).
I'm hoping it's the current ICS build. Just have no way to really know. Hoping some other folks will have seen the same issue.
Going to run some tests with different audio sources and see if the behavior is the same.
Well things seem to be working now, for no obvious reason I'll have to assume that the reflash resolved the issue, I just can't tell for sure why it didn't work immediately after. I think it's due to deleting the old pairing on the car and not shutting down the vehicle.
Cheers.
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I have similar problem connecting to van audio system (vauxhall). After some experimentation it appears to be an ICS problem, if I reflash my note with gingerbread I have seamless connections for both audio and phone. As soon as I upgrade even with offical ICS bluetooth connections become problematic, I can pair but not autoconnect. Tried samsung and they just "fob off" with it's an incompatable device. Until a bug fix is issued it appears as though it's a choic of staying with gingerbread and have a working system or ICS and no handsfree.
So I've noticed something about my G3 that I haven't been able to solve just yet. In my car (2014 Scion FR-S), when I start up and the car connects to my phone over Bluetooth, the music player will start up. I don't have any music on my device yet so it doesn't play anything, but the app starts.
I did some reading and found that it might be Google Play Music related so I froze that app in TiBU. However, now the default "Music" app starts up in its place.
Further compounding the weirdness is that it doesn't do this in our other car, a 2013 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Limited. It just connects - doesn't do anything weird, start any apps, etc.
The FR-S display audio is pretty barebones. The only option I found in there that I thought might affect things was the manner of BT connection (vehicle or phone initiated) but it didn't change anything (switching that to phone, the phone would just no longer connect). Obviously I could disable the Media Player portion of the Bluetooth profile in the car and it would just connect as a phone, and I may end up doing that since I rarely listen to music on my phone (or at all) when I'm in my car.
Anyone have any ideas on how to stop this?
This might be your head unit. I have an aftermarket Sony unit that on key off causes the phone to start playing music again instead of stopping or pausing. No issues with other head units in my other vehicles.
I was hoping someone would have a solution for this .. I ahve been searching for the longest while for a fix ... anyone have any idea what we can try to fix this ?
My wife's G2 does this in our 2014 Prius. It does have some demo music it came with, some classical stuff, and it plays it ! Very annoying. We could never figure out any way to get it to not do it, so we removed her connection to the car's Bluetooth altogether. That stopped it.
My G3 acts really strange around the Prius so I generally just use one of my other phones in it. The MotoG works fine with exceptional audio quality, and the N4, N5, and N7 all work as expected.
I use poweramp and that never happens
I checked yesterday and my G3 auto started Play Music as soon as I Bluetooth linked it to my Prius just like my wife's G2 does, except different player. Bad LG ! Don't do stuff I don't tell you to do !
I suspect this has to do with the head unit rather than the phone. My G3, Moto X, RAZR HD, and RAZR M, all auto start music in my 2011 Avalon.
I came from the Galaxy S3 and I have a Kenwood car stereo that I send bluetooth to from my phone. I noticed a couple differences/issues with the setup when I switched to the G3.
1) Connection time - My GS3 would auto connect fairly fast to the car deck but it seems like the G3 will sometimes take twice as long to connect to it. Anyone else have an issue like that?
2) Song display - use spotify to play the music on my phone. With my GS3, the stereo would show the artist name and song title of the song that was currently playing. With the G3 it doesn't show any of that information. I've messed around with the stereo to see if its a setting there but it isn't. It's set to display title and artist. Is there anyway to get it to send that info from the phone?
I realize this is a bit off your original question, but still posting for the sake of continuity of the phone...
I have a Pioneer double din touchscreen unit that has worked flawlessly with my Galaxy nexus, my LG G2, and now my LG G3, on bluetooth and displaying music information from apps on my phone.
I'm having the same issue in my BMW X5. The artist and album and any other information is all "unknown".
I had this issue with both my S4 and now my G3. However, it seems to just be hit or miss. I work for a used car department, and what I've found after switching phones is: Some vehicles proprietary systems that displayed info from my S4 do not display it for my G3, but some that didn't display for my S4 do display for my G3.
As to the X5 comment. Not really sure what to tell you, because I took a 328i on a check delivery last week and my G3 synced up with it, displaying proper information and all.
I came from a gs3 running the latest cm 11 rom. I have Ford Sync in my truck and as I use bluetooth exclusively for phone calls, I cannot speak to the display. However I have noticed that the connection is sometimes just as quick as the gs3 was, but sometimes can take up to a minute. I'll post an update if I get a chance to test out the media display.
Update: I played an mp3 with Play Music through my truck's bluetooth audio and the artist/title displayed on my console. Looks like this is a vendor specific issue.
Also have found this problem. It's kind of disappointing because I rather like being able to see the information. I figured that with Bluetooth 4 these problems would be a thing of the past
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Whats up everyone... I've had this phone for a few months now and can say it's easily the best I've ever had.
The only "issue" to speak of that I've found is when my phone connects to my car bluetooth, it doesn't always automatically play. I've tried clearing/resetting pairing, all sorts of different music players (power amp, google play, android basic, etc), even tried to utilize the Smart Connect native app in the phone to start the music player app when connected. I have all available options checked related to automatically playing music on bluetooth connect.
Bottom line, the problem is intermittent, frustrating, and I can't seem to figure it out. Is anyone else out there have a similar issue or have any tips related to this?
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Whats up everyone... I've had this phone for a few months now and can say it's easily the best I've ever had.
The only "issue" to speak of that I've found is when my phone connects to my car bluetooth, it doesn't always automatically play. I've tried clearing/resetting pairing, all sorts of different music players (power amp, google play, android basic, etc), even tried to utilize the Smart Connect native app in the phone to start the music player app when connected. I have all available options checked related to automatically playing music on bluetooth connect.
Bottom line, the problem is intermittent, frustrating, and I can't seem to figure it out. Is anyone else out there have a similar issue or have any tips related to this?
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What stereo system do you have in your car? I have the Pioneer AVH-X4500BT in my car and each time I start my car up, it searches to auto connect to my phone. Once it does and I have it on Bluetooth Audio mode, it plays whatever song I just had played on my phone.
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What stereo system do you have in your car? I have the Pioneer AVH-X4500BT in my car and each time I start my car up, it searches to auto connect to my phone. Once it does and I have it on Bluetooth Audio mode, it plays whatever song I just had played on my phone.
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Also have a Pioneer head unit BT6400 I believe. Have used it with my past 3 phones... motorola and HTC without issue. The behavior you've described is the way all have worked in the past. Now, for whatever reason, sometimes it does not auto play.
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Also have a Pioneer head unit BT6400 I believe. Have used it with my past 3 phones... motorola and HTC without issue. The behavior you've described is the way all have worked in the past. Now, for whatever reason, sometimes it does not auto play.
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Were there any changes you've applied to your phone? Safe bet is to clear out the BT connection in memory and connect as if new. Also try to limit to just one music player on the phone. Because I think it would automatically run off of Walkman, but other players can interfere.