So I could never find an automotive application that really suited all of my needs the way I wanted to. So I started to work on my own fix to this problem. After a couple of days this is what I have came up with for the moment to solve my desire.
I have used Tasker and Zooperwidget Pro to make this happen.
Home Screen: everything here is pretty basic, the connected devices will light up green when they are connected, hitting the large button in the middle will launch the app drawer
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Navigation Screen: the connected devices will light up green when they are connected, when I hit drive home button it will load Waze and start navigating to my home base.
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Music Screen: this screen is where all my Spotify playlist can be launched; loading the playlist and start a shuffle play when they are opened, hitting the small thumbnail of the current album cover will skip tracks
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Weather Screen: this screen will give me weather updates for the next few days
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Hi all,
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here but I was flicking through some of the sample tracks that came with my Hero and then I clicked on one to make it play. Now I cannot get back to the screen where you can flick left and right through the cover-art of the tracks; I can only see the lists of albums/artists etc, not the iphone like cover-flo...
Help!
S.
There is a button in the bottom right corner while the track is playing and the music app is open to switch between cover flow and list view.
Thanks but that doesn't help. I can get the view up so that an album is displayed on the screen, but it says 1 of 1 and I cannot scroll left or rigt to other albums no matter what I do.
How frustrating, I don't get what's happened here? What could have changed?
Lol, can someone please assist, I just know the solution is right under my nose...
Not sure its the same problem but I couldnt search by cover flow either so I tried a few things
I rarely browse by artist and pick the first artist - I have found that this option gave me back the cover flow to scroll across all the albums for all artists
Strangely, album browse only gives the list view as do all the others - hope this helps a little
simcarloc said:
Hi all,
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here but I was flicking through some of the sample tracks that came with my Hero and then I clicked on one to make it play. Now I cannot get back to the screen where you can flick left and right through the cover-art of the tracks; I can only see the lists of albums/artists etc, not the iphone like cover-flo...
Help!
S.
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Go to the music app, use the bottom left button to go to music selection. Select the albums tab (second tab). Menu -> Play all. It will enqueue all your albums and you can now flick through them in a coverflow style in the main music app.
Awesome! Thanks for that. I appreciate I may seem a little stupid for not realising that's what I had to do, but come on - hardly intuitive now is it?
I agree, had the same problem for a while.
Hi,
I installed Winamp Pro on my Galaxy S3 (running 4.0.4), but when I try and use the controls on my Bluetooth headphones it launches the stock music app. Is there any way to set it so that those controls control Winamp instead? I have the relevant check box checked in Winamp, but it doesn't appear to make a difference.
Also, when the stock music app is launched via the icon in the regular app list, you are taken to a view where at the top of the screen it says All, Playlists, Albums, Artists etc. How do you get to this view if you launch the app via the widget?
When I click on the widget it brings up the main screen, but it displays the album art for the current track along with player controls. I can scroll left and right to change tracks, but only for that particular album. If I press the little on-screen button (bottom-right) I get a text based list of tracks, but again, for the current album only. I can't get to that screen that has "All, Playlists, Albums" etc. at the top in order to select a different album or browse my library.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Hi,
For the second part of your query, I believe this is a bug (which I intend to contact Samsung about today).
There is a way around it: from the screen you've described, there should be a button at the right under the album art (next to the shuffle and repeat controls). If you press this it takes you to the "music square" screen. At the top you will now have the menu for playlists, artists, etc.
On mine, in order to not have to scroll across the top, I've disabled everything except Artist and Music Square. Unfortunately you can't disable music square as this also disables the button!
As for the first part, I'm not entirely sure for Winamp but the option to respond to Bluetooth (or headset) controls should be within the Winamp settings (something like "override headset buttons" or something.
Thanks for the reply.
After starting this thread, I noticed that "music square" workaround when watching YouTube vids of people showing off the phone. I had hidden that option, which is why I was finding it impossible to get back to that main menu!
As for Winamp, I've switched to another player now, but I believe Winamp has now been updated to fix the problem I mentioned.
My phone is stock ICS and I've done a reset to fix some issues I was having with accounts synchronizing.
Since then there seems to be a new problem unfortunately. When I open the Music app it doesn't open on the Now Playing screen (the visualization of the cover of the current / latest track with the controls), it instead AWAYS open on the album selection.
The problem is it's very annoying, because even if it's playing a song and I access the shortcut I have on my home screen or the permanent notification by pulling the status bar it opens the album selection instead of the Now Playing. :'(
I don't recall it worked that way before... I remember when I accessed the Music app it'd open on the Now Playing screen either if I exit from it by pressing back multiple times or via the home button. Now it doesn't get back on the screen regardless of what I do (even pressing home and then using the native task switcher to get back into it).
I already force stopped Music and cleared the data, and restarted the phone, but the behavior didn't back to normal. Can someone help? How do your app work?
I noticed this as well, and it's very annoying. However, I believe that's the way it is with ICS. I've flashed 5 or 6 ICS roms, and they all do it.
Hm, I hope I can ask some other things on this topic also...
A minor "problem": Is it possible to make the player to display album art in a per-track basis? I have album art in each track via ID3 but the player gets the one from the first song and spread to the whole album, while I like to switch the covers of the singles and other releases to their own covers on the mp3 files... Doesn't seem possible, never mind...
But I was thinking about how HTC One X Music app behaves in these situations and if I'd be able to get it on my device if I had the apk?
Thanks.
Just so you know, the app is half back to normal. It'll now return into the now playing screen if that was the last one I left the app in (when getting into it via task switcher or status / notifications bar).
Actually it might be interesting to get back in the track selection screen as you can forward just 1 or skip many tracks using the list. But I reported this to HTC anyway.
I'm almost sure there's no way to have per-track album art in the default Music app.
I just got a car dock for my S4 and have been looking at various car apps (car home ultra, etc). I can't seem to find one that has everything I want...
-map showing a 3d view like a nav screen and current media album cover with playskip buttons, roughly like this car radio: http://goo.gl/7NQ6bH
-compass heading
-app launcher buttons
CarHomeUltra seems to be the most popular and it is nice. I find myself jumping back and forth between map and whatever media app I am using (stitcher/pandora/mp3) The UI for it is just a launcher really... could be done with a home screen I think. It has some other nice features I guess. Just looking for more "widget" type things (3d map, album cover) to add to the screen... with more flexibility on placement. With a large screen device like out these days, a few more buttons would still be tapped aesily while driving.
Is there anything like CarHomeUltra but better?
Thanks!
itesla said:
I just got a car dock for my S4 and have been looking at various car apps (car home ultra, etc). I can't seem to find one that has everything I want...
-map showing a 3d view like a nav screen and current media album cover with playskip buttons, roughly like this car radio: http://goo.gl/7NQ6bH
-compass heading
-app launcher buttons
CarHomeUltra seems to be the most popular and it is nice. I find myself jumping back and forth between map and whatever media app I am using (stitcher/pandora/mp3) The UI for it is just a launcher really... could be done with a home screen I think. It has some other nice features I guess. Just looking for more "widget" type things (3d map, album cover) to add to the screen... with more flexibility on placement. With a large screen device like out these days, a few more buttons would still be tapped aesily while driving.
Is there anything like CarHomeUltra but better?
Thanks!
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Hi, I like your idea and will incorporate it into my enhancement list for CarHome Ultra.
Thanks for the idea!
Just got my pace after moving from my old bip but struggling to find a quick way to track an activity.
The only way I seem to be able is scrolling all the way through the Widgets untill I get to a page with the un shown Widgets and select sport.
The manual says to scroll right on the watch face but this does nothing and I see no option to display a sports widget, what am I doing wrong please lol
I am not sure if the layout changed with some uprate... but on mine (latest stock pace rom) sports are one screen to the left of the home screen. all other screens are to the right.
you can change the sequence of the screens and sports in the amazfit app on your phone.
Thank for the reply, I have nothing to the left and can't seem to add a sport widget
I'm on the newest firmware I think as it update as soon a I connected it to the app
Unpaired the watch and re paired and now I can swipe right to access the sport options