So I have the following question:
I just bought a new car with full bluetooth integration. It works great! I was wondering if I could do the following:
Have the phone synced with the car, but have the navigation sounds still play over the phone speakers.
Would this be possible to do with a hack? Are there third party programs that allow this? From what I found this isn't possible to do in base android.
The navigation does play great through the car speakers if I have the bluetooth audio stream selected as my audio input on the stereo. The problem is that if I don't have that selected, or I'm on a call, it doesn't play anything.
Thanks in advance!
I've read that some newer bluetooth headphones can be paired with two devices at once. I'm curious if the following scenarios are possible:
1) While listening to music on my Prime with the headphones, a call on my phone will ring through on the headphones. I can then use the headphone controls to answer or drop the call, after which the music on my Prime will continue.
2) While listening to music on my phone, I can start a Youtube video on my Prime, which pauses my phone's music and begins the Youtube audio on the headphones. Once finished the music on my phones resumes.
Is anyone using their bluetooth headset with both their phone and Prime?
Yes you can it os possible
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What your looking for is commonly called MULTIPOINT. Most higher or even mid end bluetooth headsets will let you connect to two or more devices at the same time. Consider if you are paying more than, say, $50 for a half decent headset it SHOULD have it. If it doesnt have at least multipoint 2 i wouldnt get it.
To stream music you are looking for A2DP or AVRCP.
A2DP is your basic music streaming. Much higher quality than your standard voice protocols, keps the music from sounding too tinny.
AVRCP is more fancy, my car stereo has this where i can use media buttons (forward, back, pause, etc.) to control the music. Depending on the device it may also display track information.
Now that we got the hardware side down, lets move on to your scenerios.
You can have media connected to ONE device and voice connected to ONE device for most quality bluetooth headsets. You can play music and if you get a call it will PAUSE the music to notify of the incoming call. Easy.
The second scenario is a bit more complicated. You can only stream music from ONE device at a time. If i have my bluetooth connected to my phone and my computer at the same time for audio i can play movies from my computer to the headset then play audio from my phone to the headset but if i have ANY audio coming from the computer the headset wont accept music from the phone. In most cases i find it easier to turn off bluetooth on my laptop when i want to hear music from my phone, or at least turn off all media players and wait ~30 seconds before switching devices.
In all, yes it can be done, much how others have said, but now hopefully you know what to look for. I remember how difficult it was for me jumping into this blind, maybe my information can help you buy the right hardware. Good luck!
Additionally, which headset are you going with?
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Additionally, which headset are you going with?
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Through research I believe the Samsung HS3000 is a good option. It has a new bluetooth music codec called Apt-X which is supposed to be higher quality than A2DP if both the headset and phone/tablet support it.
If I go that route I'll try to upgrade my phone to a Samsung SIII or HTC One X which both support Apt-X. The Transformer Prime unfortunately does not, but I'll only use it to watch quick internet videos while browsing in this case.
for primairy use of listening to music / movies, that should be decent. The mic placement makes me think that it would not be as good for calls as a headset you wear on your ear but it depends how often you use it.
Never heard of Apt-X, will have to research it probably part of bluetooth 3.0, different frequency, more bandwidth. should be interesting!
I am preparing my phone as the ultimate in car utility. I have uploaded all my music to Google Music and recently got on a sim only contract that gives me truly unlimited data.
Now my issue is which car stereo should I get. I have never bought a bluetooth stereo before so am fairly ignorant as to the various bluetooth standards and what to look out for. I would like the following features to be available;
Bluetooth streaming music from my phone to the stereo.
Controlling the music via my car stereo
Having the track name and other ID3 tags display on the stereo display
Being able to answer calls through my stereo and have the audio play through the car speakers and the steros microphone
Access to my contact list via the stereo interface and make calls from here
Are these all possible and are there any other nice features that would be possible?
I've been considering either of these Clarion Stereos, stereo 1, stereo 2. How would either of these match up to my requirements?
Also of note is that I'm running CM10, and also I will likely upgrade to a Nexus4 in a few months incase this makes any difference to which stereo I should buy.
I got a rig that lets me connect my phone via bluetooth to my stock stereo in the car. Slight problem. No phone audio. Media only.
Alas I need to talk too. So I connect my iclarity speaker. This works great after I turn off media audio on the iclarity I get music to the car bluetooth and phone audio to the iclarity.
Problem. I have to manually do this every single time. Because the iclarity takes both phone and media audio links when it connects.
Is there an app that will let me assign profiles to bluetooth devices so I can limit my iclarity to phone audio only permiting my car adapter to take media audio so I dont have to do it manually each time?
Does anyone know of a way or even an App that will route audio from separate source on the device to different outputs? For exampe, when i have my S4 in the car dock, I'd like to have phone audio get routed to my Bluetooth headset and any other audio like Pandora or GPS directions to go to the car speakers?
thanks
You should be able to go into bluetooth just press and hold the bluetooth to ogle and it will take you there you should be able to hit your paired devices each time you push each one it will change your audio output to each paired device. I do it every day with mine, I use headset for phone and wireless headphones for media I.e music Netflix Pandora etc etc