Hi!
I've been having this issue with my earlier LG G4 after Marshmallow update (worked fine with Lollipop), and now with my new V30.
No metadata is transmitted over bluetooth to my car stereo (Kenwood). Doesn't matter what player I use (spotify, Tidal etc.) I can't even change songs or play/pause.
I've been searching about this and many others have the same problem. It seems that it's related to AVRCP version.
Earlier versions seem to work just fine. So my question is, how do I change the used version in V30?
Many phones have the option under developer menu, but not V30.
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Does anyone have this issue? I'm a little new to Android as I just dumped my iPhone.
Basically, when streaming music to my car radio, my iPhone would provide artist information, album, etc ... everything about whatever is playing. On the One however, album, artist etc displays as UNKNOWN and the ticker for the length of the song counts 1 second, 2 seconds and after 3 it starts over again at 1. I've checked through the bluetooth settings on the phone and don't see any check box specifically for A2DP or something similar. I've also checked this against other radios with the same capability, and on another radio it won't display any artist information, or even the words UNKNOWN. The time never stops ticking either, even when I change tracks. It just goes on and on forever.
Any help is appreciated.
now that i've played with it a little more, it seems to be a Pandora only related issue .... anyone else experience this?
Spotify as well .... seems to be any kind of streaming service. I have files on my phone that play through bluetooth and all of the information displays properly on screen.
Am I really the only one?
With Android, song metadata won't be sent over a Bluetooth A2DP connection unless someone has modified both the Android OS and whatever music app you want to use to both support AVRCP 1.3 (since stock Android still does not support AVRCP 1.3). The HTC One does support AVRCP 1.3, as HTC has modified the Bluetooth stack on the phone to support it. HTC also added support for AVRCP 1.3 in their HTC Music app on the One, so music you play with that particular app has the capability to stream song metadata to a Bluetooth device that supports that function.
The Spotify Android app does not currently have support for AVRCP 1.3, so it will not send the song metadata to a BT device. (And I'm betting that feature won't come anytime soon because the devs for Spotify seem to be pretty pathetic, IMO).
I'm not currently aware of what other Android music apps have built-in support for AVRCP 1.3, sorry. But it's not a majorly-supported feature, so I can say there won't be many of them. :crying:
I just installed CyanogenMod 10.1.2 Stable (via SafeStrap 3.11), everything went perfect. A couple days later, I finally went to re-sync my phone to my PriusV's Entune system to play music via Google Play Music (with playlists stored locally on the phone).
Music plays back OK, however my issue is that no song details (Track title, artist name, disc name, playback position) will display on the Entune screen, and none of the car's control buttons (play/pause/next track/prev track) will do anything. I don't want to have to pull out my phone to change tracks or see what song just came on while i'm driving when this is what the details and controls on the car are supposed to do for me.
Anyone out there have any thoughts/ideas/suggestions/possible fixes?
neoramasay said:
I just installed CyanogenMod 10.1.2 Stable (via SafeStrap 3.11), everything went perfect. A couple days later, I finally went to re-sync my phone to my PriusV's Entune system to play music via Google Play Music (with playlists stored locally on the phone).
Music plays back OK, however my issue is that no song details (Track title, artist name, disc name, playback position) will display on the Entune screen, and none of the car's control buttons (play/pause/next track/prev track) will do anything. I don't want to have to pull out my phone to change tracks or see what song just came on while i'm driving when this is what the details and controls on the car are supposed to do for me.
Anyone out there have any thoughts/ideas/suggestions/possible fixes?
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I have a Highlander without Entune (Stock Stereo), so it's not a direct comparison but here's what I found. Music details don't display on the stereo. I've tried countless apps/hacks but nothing has worked. They spent all their dev $$ on getting it to work on the iPhone and left Android users in the dust. So I'm not sure music details have ever worked with Android.
The steering wheel controls however work fine for me, so that's strange. In the bluetooth settings on the phone, when connected to the stereo, is 'media' connected? It should be.
I wonder if an updated bluetooth controller for android would fix this issue for everyone?
I suppose I should clarify a bit - when i mentioned this being after installing CyanogenMod 10.1, I was assuming that one would take it things were working under stock, which was the case.
So: Stock - bluetooth playback showing track/artist/disc information, position in the song, and car controls worked (though stock had an older version of Google Play Music, so this could also be a source of conflict)
CyanogenMod: bluetooth only plays music, does not display any of the other information, and controls do not work. (Cyanogen 10.1 comes pre-built with the newer version of play music, so downgrading would be.... difficult and i'd rather try and make it work without doing so)
I guess what I want to try and find out is if it is CyanogenMod or Google Play Music's new version that is next to incompatible with Entune. With Stock, I had near 100% functionality (only shuffle/repeat toggles did not work - but even those don't work right with my wife's iPod, so i'm not worried about those functions).
Since i'm essentially dual-booted through SafeStrap, I may try going back on Stock, updating Play Music, and testing - if updating Play Music causes Stock to loose functionality equally, then i guess i'll have my answer - obviously i'll post back with results.
If functionality is still present on Stock after updating play store, then that traces it back to being something with Cyanogen, and the bluetooth driver it uses.
OK - sorry for the back to back posts, but I got lucky on some digging and found my answer.
CyanogenMod does not have something called AVRCP (Audio Video Remote Control Profile) revision 1.3+ built into it's bluetooth stack. This is because that is not something that is included by default under AOSP 4.2.x. So unless you want to build your own bluetooth stack and put it into Cyanogen, you're not going to get track info/controls.
Google has announced that under AOSP 4.3, they will be building Bluetooth version 4 support into Android, and version 4 supports AVRCP 1.3+ natively, thus Cyanogenmod's next version based off of AOSP 4.3 will then contain AVRCP support.
So, the short of it is, hang in there for the next major release of Cyanogen and all will be resolved!
Most manufacturers build AVRCP support into the bluetooth stack for their devices, hence why stock worked and now CyanogenMod does not.
Huh good to know. I knew that Android 4.3 included an upgrade to BT, but I didn't realize it would fix this issue. I wouldn't even know how to build my own BT stack, but it would be useful in the long run.
+1 on this
I have a Nexus 4 with CM 10.1.2 connected to my Skoda Octavia built-in bluetooth. I play music with Apollo (Cyanogenmod's music player) and I get to hear the songs and can skip to the next/previous songs with steering wheel controls but don't get to see the song title/artist info.
My Nexus One with CM 7 however does play music fine and shows all song details and steering wheel controls work fine.
So based on 1.) the fact that my 3.5 year old Nexus One (with CM 7 - Android 2.3.7) shows song details fine and 2.) the excellence of the CyanogenMod team, I think this can be resolved with some coding rather then waiting for Android 4.3 or CM 10.2 with an updated bluetooth stack.
Unfortunately I can't say if this issue only started appearing after the 2 security updates (10.1.1 and 10.1.2) since CM 10.1.2 was the 1st ROM I flashed on my Nexus 4. Although in this post goo.gl/KQ6J7H some guy who encounters the same issue, also experienced the issue on CM 10.1 (so before the security updates 10.1.1 & 10.1.2).
Apart from the song details not showing, I also noticed that sometimes I can't enable bluetooth at all and need to reboot my phone for it to work again. When tabbing the bluetooth icon in powercontrol widget or even directly in Settings it simply won't enable bluetooth. Also experienced by the guy from post goo.gl/KQ6J7H
I'm hoping to see this annoying bluetooth issue resolved asap.
I started to get audio dropouts over blue tooth when I upgraded to 5.0. The dropout were quick just like a record skipping. I have tried on several different programs Spotify, google play, and internal phone audio. All were same result. Skipping audio. At first I thought it was the ROM I was on. So I went back to stock, and same issues. I also tried NU player and awesomeplayer in dev settings. Same result. I am pairing with a flexsmart x2. I have not tired any ASOP based roms so I suspect Samsung may be the culprit. Do you guys know if they changed any of the code in lolipop in bluetooth after kitkat? And perhaps did not make something backward compatible?
Let me know if you are on lollipop and having similar issues with note 3 sprint.
I'm having the same issue, I just thought it was my headset.
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Anybody tried Rocket Player, and enabling "Double Buffer" under Settings -> Sound?
The only times I've had problems is when downloading over Wi-Fi and trying to use Bluetooth as well, since they seem to use the same subsystem.
I'm stock rooted 5.0, although I'm now two updates behind...
I've experienced this problem, but not to the severity of you. I think other factors may have influenced my issue. I regularly use a bluetooth headset and heart rate monitor and I don't experience many issues. Are you sure its not the bluetooth device at fault? You could possibly have some dying hardware in the phone too.
i have gone back and forth between lollipop and kitkat the problem with the Bluetooth starts at 4.4.4 and increases with lollipop. 4.4.2 is fine.
Have you tried with a different Bluetooth device? I have one in the car that skips for approx. 2 minutes when I first turn it on, regardless of what phone is connected to it, but then it's all good. Same phones on the home stereo and zero skips.
Dan
Have you tried AOSP based ROMs? Obviously you'll lose Touchwiz features and S-Pen integration- but I have personally used the builds by Jdelano (both PAC ROM and Resurrection Remix) and the bluetooth has worked 100% fine on my car stereo (but that's all I've tested it with).
I just bought the Honor V10 as an upgrade from old Oneplus One - it was 50/50 between V10 and 1+5T.
On the 1+1 the AudioFX app worked on cabled or bluetooth with Google Play Music but on V10 Histon only works with cabled headphones. I tried a few equalizer apps but they just cut the sound out on V10 bluetooth. The AudioFX app doesn't appear to be available any more. Is it not possible to get a sound app for V10 to work on bluetooth?
(sorry wrong forum, can it be moved to Q&A?)
I found that AudioFX can be installed by downloading 'Cyan Apps' from Google Store. The graphic equaliser works on bluetooth with Googles Play Music (but not with Honor's Misic playe) but the bass boost doesn't. it actually makes the sound worse.
Since Cyanogen was the a brand of Android used in early 1+1's, I'm assuming that the entire issue is Android related and should in fact be fixable?
Hi,
I'm having lots of trouble controlling music from my car (headunit is skoda amundsen mib 2.5 in skoda kodiaq). This only works after I start playing from my music app on the phone and only until app is active.
On my prevous phone (pixel 4a) this worked flawlessly. I've had no problems selecting music app (PowerAmp, TuneIn..) and starting music from my car. None of this works on nord 2. I even tried changing AVRCP version in developer settings and still no luck.
Sadly it looks like AVRCP profile on nord 2 is very poorly implemented and almost unusable.
Not sure if this helps but in developer settings it allows you to switch between avrcp profiles (1.3-1.6)
I have already tried different avrcp profiles. No luck.