Having had so much help from this forum and being a non programmer thought I would try to give something back.
Recently bought the Sony MEX BT5000 car stereo. The install was really easy. I bought a cable to convert from my existing pre installed car stereo to a standard iso fitting. It is then just a matter of plugging the cables in and replacing the stereo. Due to the integrated bluetooth no problems with having to tap into speaker cables to mute the radio for calls.
I also ran a standard red/white phono cable from the back of my stereo via the AUX IN connection to plug into my MP3 player. The stereo has built in A2DP if you wanted to stream via bluetooth on your phone.
Call quality appears to be very good in both directions, no complaints so far. The mic is built into the stereo with no option on an external one. This did slightly concern me before buying but all is well. I had done some research and some people had experienced problems. I think this is due to the position of your stereo. mine is high up in the centre console. If yours is at the bottom you may experience problems.
There is no "talk" button similar to a earpiece. On pressing the talk button you get various dialing options to use presets, phonebook or dial a number. If you want to use Voice Command you just press the button on the phone and then it transfers the call to the stereo when it starts dialing. To receive a call just press the button on the strereo or set it to autoanswer.
Tom Tom works with no problems. All instructions come out the phone though if a call is received it will mute Tom Tom. I like it working this way as I wouldn't want TT to keep interrupting the stereo. It could be possible to make it work through the speakers but I haven't tried.
Stereo sound is good but I am no audiophile. It is way better than the standard stereo that was in the car before.
In all I would recommend it. Easy install with no messy wires involved and easy to pull out and transfer to my next car when required. most importantly the call quality is good.
Only downside would be the lack of "headpeice" talk button but the workaround works well. (I did read on xda somewhere somebody had it work that when using voice command after pressing the phone button the notification messages went straight to the speakers and used the stereo mic. after installing a cab upgrade this stopped working. I may try re-installing VC to see if I can get this to work.)
To install to the stereo phonebook uses a bluetooth transfer. haven't worked out how to this yet as only IR transfer seems to be allowed from the phone. Obviously using VC this doesn't really matter.
I just installed the MEX BT5000 in my car, too. My experiences with the BT phone are roughly the same as yours -- the mic works really well, considering it's hidden behind the faceplate.
I've gotten the phonebook transfer to work. Just select the contact, then tap Menu/Beam Contact. It'll try IR first, then Bluetooth. I have the Sim Access Profile (SAP) hack installed -- that may be the factor here.
The one issue with phonebook transfer is that the phone numbers don't display properly on the Sony -- I just see +1 with no areacode/phone number. The numbers dial properly, however.
I have the official Fascinate car dock, which works great, generally speaking. However, I have noticed a particularly annoying issue. I was previously on ComRom 2.1, and now am on jt's CM7, with the dock audio fix and the Galaxy S dock audio redirector app. In both cases, even though audio for most things comes through my car's speakers, in-call audio absolutely refuses to transmit via the USB connector. I have to manually press the speakerphone button and use it that way, which is really lame.
Before I had the dock, I hooked the cable directly to the phone's headphone port, and when a call came in, it would route the audio through the car speakers, and activate the speakerphone mic, as it should. I don't understand why the USB dock will not route the in-call audio properly. Is there a technical reason preventing it, or is it just a design deficiency?
Also, there is a Dock Audio setting in the Android OS settings that claims the phone must be plugged into a dock before you can access the settings, but when I actually do plug the phone into the dock, this option becomes grayed out entirely. Are the settings only available a desk dock or something?
Nobody? Am I the only one that uses the car dock or something? I can't believe I'm the only one that's frustrated by this lack of functionality in an official accessory.
First off I have this mount. My Rezound is Stock. I can stream music through a cable but not voice calls. I cannot get the Bluetooth to work while it is in the dock. I can tell it to send it to BT but no sound comes through. I would really like to get Voice to come through my car speakers but I can't find any settings.
You said you've tried headphone jack plugged into car stereo via cable? Works fine for me using the same dock , stock and rommed, both before and after i uninstalled the dock program that was annoying. Has on all 3 of my android phones, usually with no dock. Have music or podcasts going, call comes in, shoots right through stereo. Bluetooth may be funky depending on how its setup with the car, stereo, or other device.
If a cable is not working, i'm baffled. Your stereo would need to be set to the "aux" input of coarse, and the cable plugged into to stereo/phone.
But how about the BT setup, what are you using for that?
That dock should have no impact on your BT connection. When you connect to your BT device, go into Settings, Wireless & Networks, Bluetooth Settings, find your device down at the bottom you're connecting to, hard press on it and select Options..., make sure both phone and media are checked under Profiles.
Yeah, for Bluetooth music streaming in my car I also had to tell my car to connect portable music player. Then I got the music working through my stereo in addition to the phone calls.
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Hey all,
Ive tried about a dozen "mono" apps and have found nothing that will do what I want. I have also tried the Droid Incredible and my current phone the GS3. I have a 2011 BMW and for some reason they didnt include a2dp in their stereo system. Nothing I do will force the stereo to play music or notifications, or read out lout texts through the car speakers. The only thing that will go through is phone calls.
HOWEVER, Ive accidentally discovered something interesting. If I am on a call through bluetooth in the car and navigating at the same time, the navigation voice will come through the cars speakers as well.
So what I need is something to trick the car into thinking my phone is on a call, thus triggering the bluetooth to transmit phone sounds through the speakers, this way I can use a text message reader, music, whatever.
So the app/hack would need to emulate whatever the phone does with bluetooth signals when it starts a call. All sounds the phone makes should go to bluetooth.....which it seems like its already doing while on a call.
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winks99 said:
Hey all,
Ive tried about a dozen "mono" apps and have found nothing that will do what I want. I have also tried the Droid Incredible and my current phone the GS3. I have a 2011 BMW and for some reason they didnt include a2dp in their stereo system. Nothing I do will force the stereo to play music or notifications, or read out lout texts through the car speakers. The only thing that will go through is phone calls.
HOWEVER, Ive accidentally discovered something interesting. If I am on a call through bluetooth in the car and navigating at the same time, the navigation voice will come through the cars speakers as well.
So what I need is something to trick the car into thinking my phone is on a call, thus triggering the bluetooth to transmit phone sounds through the speakers, this way I can use a text message reader, music, whatever.
So the app/hack would need to emulate whatever the phone does with bluetooth signals when it starts a call. All sounds the phone makes should go to bluetooth.....which it seems like its already doing while on a call.
Thanks to anyone who responds. Mod: If there is a better place for this, feel free to move it.
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I have a lexus that also for whatever reason doesnt have A2DP supported, there is a app called BTMONO that will make your radio think your phone is in a call and will transmit sound. However it is mono tone so if you are doing it for music it will not be your best bet.
I am still looking for something that will play music in stereo without the A2DP
winks99 said:
Hey all,
Ive tried about a dozen "mono" apps and have found nothing that will do what I want. I have also tried the Droid Incredible and my current phone the GS3. I have a 2011 BMW and for some reason they didnt include a2dp in their stereo system. Nothing I do will force the stereo to play music or notifications, or read out lout texts through the car speakers. The only thing that will go through is phone calls.
HOWEVER, Ive accidentally discovered something interesting. If I am on a call through bluetooth in the car and navigating at the same time, the navigation voice will come through the cars speakers as well.
So what I need is something to trick the car into thinking my phone is on a call, thus triggering the bluetooth to transmit phone sounds through the speakers, this way I can use a text message reader, music, whatever.
So the app/hack would need to emulate whatever the phone does with bluetooth signals when it starts a call. All sounds the phone makes should go to bluetooth.....which it seems like its already doing while on a call.
Thanks to anyone who responds. Mod: If there is a better place for this, feel free to move it.
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I am working on this now for the SoundAbout app.
Tried searching and I could not find any other threads relating to this topic. I am trying to trick my car (Lexus) bluetooth into playing music. It does not have A2DP. Has anyone come up with a way to do this? Has anyone been able to do this with the SoundAbout app ?
It worked !!! I just tried an ap called "blue2car" on my iphone . .... I own a 2006 Bmw 530xi . ... damn , I wish I would have found this app 8 years ago ... it cost 10.99 but it is worth it ......
Ok with any other phone I have owned in the past I have been able to plug it in my aux jack in my car to stream music but use my BT to make/take calls. The music would pause during the call and when the call ended it would resume playing through the headphone jack.
The S4 refuses to do this, it is extremely a special kind of retarded.
I have researched CSC feature.xml and others/xml codes and build.prop
What is needed to make this work?
I dont want to use LINK as I feel it is just another layer added to what is not needed. I just want it to work like the GNex, N4, DX, Dinc, D1, D2, Charge, and all the other android phones I have owned in the past running both stock (rooted/unrooted) and CM based roms.
Anybody have an idea on what is needed?
What exactly is it refusing to do? Pause when you get a call? What music player (the player must respect the media intents to pause/mute and that has nothing to do with the phone/ROM in that respect).
If something is plugged into the headphone jack and I have a bluetooth device paired and on. When a call comes in it goes through the headphone jack and through bluetooth. If I unplug the cable from the headphone jack then it allows me to use bluetooth to take our talk on the call.
This is the only phone I have owned that does not allow me to pay music through the headphone jack and take calls through bluetooth without having to unplug the cable from the headphone jack.
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I have the exact same issue with my Samsung S4 and have previously used the HTC Thunderbolt without any issue in my car the same manner.
Somehow the BT audio and mic becomes disabled during calls while the headphone jack is plugged in, if there is a way to enable this and disable audio from the headphone jack that would be the solution. So far I have not found a way to do this through any of the settings, very disappointing. It may need a programmatic solution unfortunately...
The sound quality from aux to bluetooth is minimal....why not just use bluetooth? Your making more work for yourself. You'll get calls...the audio will mute...then resume when calls end. I do this in my car...sounds and works just fine.
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chrishoyt2012 said:
The sound quality from aux to bluetooth is minimal....why not just use bluetooth? Your making more work for yourself. You'll get calls...the audio will mute...then resume when calls end. I do this in my car...sounds and works just fine.
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Guessing they don't have Bluetooth built into their cars. They are using a headset for calls and an aux jack for music.
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Exactly... If u wanted my calls to route through my car I would not mind this. I take my calls privately and thus why I do it this way. I know I can setup multiple bluetooth devices and disable phone on one of them. But I have not found a bluetooth adapter to my liking yet.
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This is definitely a bug on the s4. In the car I have Bluetooth and an aux Jack. The phone connects fine to Bluetooth and works as long as I'm not using the aux to play music in the car. If I'm listening to music through the aux/headphone jack and I get a call. Bluetooth recognizes the call, music on the phone stops playing, but when I answer, I cannot hear anything. If I unplug the headphone jack I can hear the call. This has been tested on different cars, different roms including stock, and always worked fine on previous phones. Can anyone help? It's easy to reproduce, not sure why more people haven't noticed.
Unfortunately, from what I read somewhere, this isn't a bug, it was intentional by Samsung.
I'm in the same boat, I use BT for my calls in the car, but the headphone jack for music out. If there's a cable plugged in, you can't even manually force a BT connection, it's grayed out and unavailable. Unplug the jack, and BT kicks in and picks up the call. Very inconvenient to say the least.
Any way around this?
I also have a question about how the Samsung will work with this in mind. In the past I have used a Motorola cable that has a micro usb plug on the phone end, and a full size usb and a 3.5mm aux out jack on the other. It allowed me to charge the phone and take the music out when docked in the car. Would this work with this phone? Has anyone tried it yet?
Here is a link to the cable I'm talking about.....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorola-Ca...c-3-4-Atrix-Photon-Q-/360549195891#vi-content
MonkeyTime said:
Unfortunately, from what I read somewhere, this isn't a bug, it was intentional by Samsung.
I'm in the same boat, I use BT for my calls in the car, but the headphone jack for music out. If there's a cable plugged in, you can't even manually force a BT connection, it's grayed out and unavailable. Unplug the jack, and BT kicks in and picks up the call. Very inconvenient to say the least.
Any way around this?
I also have a question about how the Samsung will work with this in mind. In the past I have used a Motorola cable that has a micro usb plug on the phone end, and a full size usb and a 3.5mm aux out jack on the other. It allowed me to charge the phone and take the music out when docked in the car. Would this work with this phone? Has anyone tried it yet?
Here is a link to the cable I'm talking about.....
Sorry,I haven't tried that cable. Do you know why Samsung is doing that? I've had multiple phone including the galaxy nexus by Samsung abd never had this issue.
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Can't just deselect the "media" (a2dp) profile for your vehicle?
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I just noticed the same issue with my aux plugged in for music and BT for phone and received a call but could not hear anything. Could make and end calls but no sound in my car.
Seems like both get disabled when a call comes in and the phone is paired. Unplug the aux and BT works for calls fine.
I did some research and ending up purchasing Sound About Pro from the market for $2.99 and it solved the problem. It lets you force the calls to BT or AUX for that matter.
And yes, it still pauses the music and resumes when call is done.
$2.99 to fix a Samsung problem stinks but it works now
NilsP said:
I just noticed the same issue with my aux plugged in for music and BT for phone and received a call but could not hear anything. Could make and end calls but no sound in my car.
Seems like both get disabled when a call comes in and the phone is paired. Unplug the aux and BT works for calls fine.
I did some research and ending up purchasing Sound About Pro from the market for $2.99 and it solved the problem. It lets you force the calls to BT or AUX for that matter.
And yes, it still pauses the music and resumes when call is done.
$2.99 to fix a Samsung problem stinks but it works now
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i know this is an old thread but i first want to say THANK YOU! ive been looking for a solution for this issue for a long time..
if you dont mind...could you tell me what your settings are?
i got it playing through bluetooth with headphones plugged in but sometimes, later on when plugging head phones in again, it will play through speaker unless i turn soundabout off via its widget
djcyph said:
i know this is an old thread but i first want to say THANK YOU! ive been looking for a solution for this issue for a long time..
if you dont mind...could you tell me what your settings are?
i got it playing through bluetooth with headphones plugged in but sometimes, later on when plugging head phones in again, it will play through speaker unless i turn soundabout off via its widget
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I took all the defaults and just turned off A2DP
NilsP said:
I took all the defaults and just turned off A2DP
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so with the defaults and A2DP turned off you can make your calls without unplugging cable...and do you use widget to turn it on and off or does everything else work normally with it on as well? i had phone call audio set to force bluetooth and sometimes after unplugging aux cable then going to headphones it would play through speaker until i switched widget off...will try with defaults when in car again, just curious how it works with you..
thanks
djcyph said:
so with the defaults and A2DP turned off you can make your calls without unplugging cable...and do you use widget to turn it on and off or does everything else work normally with it on as well? i had phone call audio set to force bluetooth and sometimes after unplugging aux cable then going to headphones it would play through speaker until i switched widget off...will try with defaults when in car again, just curious how it works with you..
thanks
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Correct. All works like it should until you force something. As a matter of fact just try it without changing anything. I let app decide
NilsP said:
Correct. All works like it should until you force something. As a matter of fact just try it without changing anything. I let app decide
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thanks bud...will try
update...seems to be working great with default settings...didn't even have to purchase premium, think i might just because i was about to buy a bluetooth transmitter to fix this
I tried sound about and one problem I'm having is when using headphone jack for music and bluetooth for calls it won't play audio for voice dialing through bluetooth but once you make the call it goes to bluetooth. I use Google for voice dialing much faster than svoice. Seems like the first time it works then later after playing music it doesn't. Any setting I should change in sound about
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I updated to oc1 with nk4 boot loader and now the headphone jack doesn't disable Bluetooth. Sweet.
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