So I recently got a 2011 Subaru Impreza and it came with built in bluetooth and music controls on the steering wheel.
The first time I pair my thunderbolt with the car everything works fantastically.
I can hear my music and I can control songs with the steering wheel buttons.
After I leave the car or turn off/on the bluetooth, the music will still play through the speakers, but I lose the steering wheel controls.
The only way I have found to fix this is to completely un-pair and re-pair the device.
Has anyone else had this issue, and does anyone have any idea how I can fix it?
I only have 1 media player installed (winamp, and well the default music app) so I don't think its a problem with handing off bluetooth control (again, winamp plays the music fine, the steering wheel controls just stop working).
I have tried this with Songbird and PowerAmp (uninstalling the others while the other is installed) and the issue still persists.
I am on OMFGB 1.30 nightlies 7-20 with imoseons most recent lean kernel
Never used OMFGB specifically but I've definitely had times I had to un-pair/pair bluetooth housephones.
In your case though, first question I would ask is if your device is still playing music @ the time the connection is broken. If so, try to stop playing and close the music app before leaving the car or turning off bluetooth. Perhaps it's screwing up because of this sync loss while the app is running. Just a guess for you to check out.
Yea, I've tried just about everything.
I am thinking it might be an OMFGB issue.
I don't recall if it happened on bamf 1.8 or not.
Guess I should see.
We've got twins on the way, so we just bought the wife a new minivan. It has bluetooth audio, which is a pretty slick feature. Up until now, I haven't used bluetooth on any of my phones.
She has an EVO 4G, and I have the 3D. I've noticed that when we're playing music in the van using her bluetooth, you can skip songs with the car's controls, and they'll skip on her phone.
But with the 3D, music plays fine, but to skip a song I have to use my phone's touchscreen. The car's stereo won't control the phone's media player.
I'm on CleanROM 2.5.
Does anyone know why I can't control the phone's media player through my car's stereo, but it works fine on the older EVO?
Thanks!
Hmm very weird.... I don't have built in bluetooth with my car but I use a bluetooth to fm transmitter that has music controls on it and the controls work fine. I use subsonic to play music. I also have a Motorola s9hd and the music controls on that work fine as well..... Have you tried to unpair and then re-pair the car to your phone?
rtmeikle said:
We've got twins on the way, so we just bought the wife a new minivan. It has bluetooth audio, which is a pretty slick feature. Up until now, I haven't used bluetooth on any of my phones.
She has an EVO 4G, and I have the 3D. I've noticed that when we're playing music in the van using her bluetooth, you can skip songs with the car's controls, and they'll skip on her phone.
But with the 3D, music plays fine, but to skip a song I have to use my phone's touchscreen. The car's stereo won't control the phone's media player.
I'm on CleanROM 2.5.
Does anyone know why I can't control the phone's media player through my car's stereo, but it works fine on the older EVO?
Thanks!
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Try connecting to media only. If that doesn't work try manually selecting the media player in the music app, and switch it to the car. If it still doesn't work, check the settings in the car's stereo, maybe there is a setting in there. Also, EVO 3D runs BT 3.0, not sure what EVO 4G has.
Do you have a stock kernal...cause my bluetooth controls work just fine with a stock rom and kernal
Janker5050 said:
Do you have a stock kernal...cause my bluetooth controls work just fine with a stock rom and kernal
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So this would be kernel related, as opposed to rom related? I'm probably going to update my ROM soon anyway, so we'll see if that helps.
Do any ROMs/Kernels support track information being transmitted over bluetooth?
Thanks!
rtmeikle said:
So this would be kernel related, as opposed to rom related? I'm probably going to update my ROM soon anyway, so we'll see if that helps.
Do any ROMs/Kernels support track information being transmitted over bluetooth?
Thanks!
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Track information over bluetooth is a app thing I believe.
I can say I have used CleanRom 2.5 with bluetooth controls and I have no issues. Right now I am using Myns Rls1 and I have no issue with bluetooth controls.
Try a different music app.
OR, what other audio apps do you have? Something else, for example, like an audiobook reader, may have "hijacked" priority control of the bluetooth controls and that's why they're not working for you on the 3D.
I use them all the time, but sometimes I've had some apps take control of them and I had to delete them or try to not make them have priority.
I'm currently on Neutrino's v2.5p2 ROM and my phone doesn't allow any application other than the built in music player to stream any audio to my car stereo through bluetooth. I used to hear Tune In radio on a daily basis without any problems with the stock GB roms but ever since I unlocked my phone and started playing with different roms (Ba2tF, Nightly's, Neutrino, Dorian's Red Pill) I've been unable to listen to any streaming audio app through my bluetooth connection. No power AMP, no youtube, not even video audio from the built in media player. I can sometimes hear about 2 seconds from Tune In if I start the app while hearing audio from the music player: the music player audio would stop while the audio from tune-in starts to sound through the car speakers but after about a second and a half the audio gets cut out (but the app screen shows that the audio is still playing). Anyone else has had this issue?
Anyone? anyone?
Canr say i have had this issue cuz i dont use blue tooth for anything but have you checked in the dsp manager and blue tooth settings to see if there is something preventing it? not sure if thats any help buy best of luck.
got the problem solved. I installed Turl's CM9 V9 ROM.
I use my MotoCardock Alot and find issues with CM7 Based Rom (Mainly Use Neutrino) .
Audio Output in calls/media player needs the phone redocking all the time to use the usb audio output and not the Atrixspeaker. CM9 Seems to do the same but only needs a redock if a call comes in while playing music. Anyone incountered this problem???
I switched on the Dock Insertion sound and when i orginally dock it it works fine and the notification works on my car speakers.
I am seeing the same thing. I was running stock or blur based for a while and am now running CM7.2. The CM7 car dock app will not play anything out the USB/wired audio output. The Car Dock Ultra will play out the wired output upon insertion, but a call hangup does not reset the audio to wired from bluetooth as you noted, it goes to the phone speaker.
If you use bluetooth (why?) for audio playback, it does return to the last audio playing.
It is annoying.
keithspg said:
If you use bluetooth (why?) for audio playback
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Why? Because some of us don't have aux inputs on our car radios, so we use hands-free Bluetooth devices with an FM transmitter to play music from the Atrix over an FM channel. Works just fine.
have the latest 4.3 official rom rooted but since upgrading to 4.3 I cannot stream audio to my bluetooth speaker, it seems to connect and I can skip tracks etc but have no sound from the speaker it continues to come from the phone speaker. I have un-paired and re-paired so anyone have any ideas. Thanks