I am soon to buy the Magician in one of it's many forms. However noe thing i have been woundering is how am i am going to achieve the in-car setup i desire. Basically I need both a carkit (conversation through car stereo speakers etc) and i also want to run GPS navigation on the Magician. First of all is this possible? What happens if i am using the GPS and i recieve a call? Also what hardware are people using to achieve this as i assume i can't use both a bluetooth carkit and a bluetooth GPS reciever?! any hlp is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
Hi Tom,
I've got an iMate Jam & recently installed a Parrot BTluetooth CK3300 GPS Car Kit into my 1999 RAV4. The installation was pretty straight forward for cars with ISO connection, simply put in the mic, GPS ant & control display, plug into the car harness & HiFi & off you go. The GPS part of the kit is simply & effective, I use Tom Tom Navigator 5 & it's pretty faultless, obtaining a fix in seconds. Here's the bad part, the call quality through the kit using the Jam is AWFUL. Making and receiving calls is accompanied by a loud, high pitched warbling sound which eventually subsides, but is replaced by so much interference that the call is unworkable. I know it's not the kit because my wife's SE T68i works flawlessly. Everything else about the setup works perfectly (pairing muting, upgrading via BT etc etc). This a MAJOR problem which I have sent on to Parrot & am waiting for a reply. I understand they are pretty good at customer enquiries and expect them to come back to me pretty soon. I'll post again when I hear something. Despite all the bad press the Jam gets I think it's the best one I've owned so far (I'm on my 5th) and with the right software is excellent, but the choice of car kit is essential, until these problems are ironed out I wouldn't recommend using the PDA with a BT carkit.
Apart from the poor audio, how does it work when you are being navigated by TomTom and you receive a call? Does TomTom stop talking to you? Does the display show who's calling and then go back to tomtom display etc?
Hi there,
I have a MDA compact with now the QTEK 1.12 ROM, I have a bluetooth GPS Fortuna Clip-on and a Mr Handsfree Genius Bluetooth Carkit and I love it.
As soon as I start my car, there is a bluetooth connection to the carkit and the sound quality is excellent. You can make a call without getting the MDA out of your pocket, just push the button. The only issue is voice dialing, but that is a common problem for the MDA.
Also it makes a bluetooth connection to the GPS and Tomtom works fine. The only minus is that Tomtom doesn't use the carkit speaker, but, since the speaker of the MDA is loud enough, that is no issue. There is no supply with this bluetooth carkit, so I bought a 12 --> 5 Volt converter for the MDA.
I really love this combination. The best thing, that happened to me.
Andre
Hi there,
I have a MDA compact with now the QTEK 1.12 ROM, I have a bluetooth GPS Fortuna Clip-on and a Mr Handsfree Genius Bluetooth Carkit and I love it.
As soon as I start my car, there is a bluetooth connection to the carkit and the sound quality is excellent. You can make a call without getting the MDA out of your pocket, just push the button. The only issue is voice dialing, but that is a common problem for the MDA.
Also it makes a bluetooth connection to the GPS and Tomtom works fine. The only minus is that Tomtom doesn't use the carkit speaker, but, since the speaker of the MDA is loud enough, that is no issue. There is no supply with this bluetooth carkit, so I bought a 12 --> 5 Volt converter for the MDA.
I really love this combination. The best thing, that happened to me.
Andre
so it is possible then to have two bluetooth connections running at the same time? ie. i can use a bluetooth GPS reciever such as the one that is supplied with tom tom and also use any bluetooth carkit at the same time? and this will not cause any problems even if i am making a call and have the GPS running?! If so then i will probably just buy the Tom Tom 5 bluetooth kit and get something like a parrot CK3000? would this setup work?
thanks for everyones help,
Tom
It should work. Mine does. See above. Bluetooth GPS uses a serial profile, bluetooth headset uses a headset profile. No problem to use them both at the same time.
Andre
I used my Jam as phone, mp3 player and GPS all at the same time.
1. MP3 thru my car's aux input
2. GPS thru aux input:
hardware: Tomtom BT receiver
Software: Routis 2, TomTom USA 2004 (can open both if U use GPSGate)
3. Phone thru BT headset or aux input
To answer yr question:
Since I can use both BT GPS and BT headset together. I don't think it's a problem for both BT carkit and BT GPS to works.
Phone call always get highest prioity, all other apps (GPS software, mp3 player) will be mute until U finished yr call.
Phone call is not a problem (see above) but dialing is a big trouble since no voice calling built-in. Third partner software like intellidialer and voice commander (from MS or Cyberon) helps a bit
Ive also got my jam working fine incar. I use a socket bluetooth gps unit http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=119717 with tomtom 5 then I have a SE HBH-600 Akono Bluetooth Headset for calls both work together! When I have a incoming call it mutes tomtom and displays the normal caller id app on top, answering the call (via the green hardware button) results in my jam going to the phone app totally and leaving tomtom minimized in the background. As soon as the call ends tomtom jumps back to the foreground, it all works very well in my opinion. Ive also assigned the camera button to switch me back to the today screen so I can launch any app (with tomtom still running in the background) via a icon.
I bought a new Jabra BT800 for my jam. Is there any way to mirror all the sound from the phone to my headset
No. Only your phone calls will go through the headset.
You'll have to use the supplied wired headset for all sounds to play through [a headset].
Dear All,
I'm pretty new to this forum and to the Wizard as well.
I'm using Navigon Navigator 5.2 on my T-Mobile Vario which works quite well. I do have one issue, well more an incovenience, while using the headset.
When Navigon is active and I accept a call with my bluetooth headset all system sounds, including Paula2 the nice navi lady, is muted. The phone call itself is diverted to the headset.
That make sense as I don't want to have Paula2 on my headset but I would like to have her on the speaker.
Is there any way to have phone calls served by the headset and system sounds, including program sounds, played on the speaker?
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers,
Thorsten
Hi, I am owner of Touch HD and bluetooth headset Parrot MK6100, all works OK (when I paired THD with Parrot I can receive incoming call, music and sound to speaker in my car). My problem is how I can switch sound from navigation (iGO, Tom Tom or Sygic) only to speaker on Touch HD, because when I pair THD with Parrot and listen radio in CAR, Parrot always switch sound from navigation to car speaker for every voice command and it mute listen music and radio in my CAR for few second. (for incoming or outgoing calls it is OK, dont disturb me)
conclusion: I want listen navigation only in THD speaker when i paired it with bluetooth headset (i dont want disable A2DP protocol)
Thanks and sorry for my english
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Hi, I am owner of Touch HD and bluetooth headset Parrot MK6100, all works OK (when I paired THD with Parrot I can receive incoming call, music and sound to speaker in my car). My problem is how I can switch sound from navigation (iGO, Tom Tom or Sygic) only to speaker on Touch HD, because when I pair THD with Parrot and listen radio in CAR, Parrot always switch sound from navigation to car speaker for every voice command and it mute listen music and radio in my CAR for few second. (for incoming or outgoing calls it is OK, dont disturb me)
conclusion: I want listen navigation only in THD speaker when i paired it with bluetooth headset (i dont want disable A2DP protocol)
Thanks and sorry for my english
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I don't think it's possible without exclusive handling for this in the application itself. The reason being that when you activate the A2DP protocol/connection the device routes all audio through the Bluetooth connection and basically disables all audio through the internal speaker.
Is it possible to redirect the navigator voice (for example maps) to a bluetooth headset? im using desire z with ne newest cm7-nightly?
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Is it possible to redirect the navigator voice (for example maps) to a bluetooth headset? im using desire z with ne newest cm7-nightly?
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Not sure about with your Rom, but an A2DP compatible Bluetooth Device will, without any changes on the phone, have the navigation, music and phone through the speakerphone, and prioritizes the audio so nav commands overide any other speaker output. The older speaker phones do not have A2DP and will not be able to have nav/music audio. They will only do phone audio The Blueant S4 and The Jabra Cruiser both did fine when I tried them out. The Blueant is much more mellow, but the Jabra is VERY loud and Crisp. I sometimes do music out, so I chose the Blueant..... E-bay has some for less than $49. Hope this answers your question!
Aloha !
BTMono
Look for BTMono in market. It might help You!
It put all sound over to bluetooth headset profile...