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Receiving a call when unit is cradled

Both my colleague and I use XDA2s and we work in the same office. Today, both of us have had incoming calls, while the unit is in its cradle. I took mine out of the cradle, checked who was calling and hit the green button. The call was answered (according to the display) but I could hear nothing. My colleague had exactly the same happen to him, from a different caller. Has anyone else had this, or is there a technique to answering a call when the XDA is in its cradle?

Hello,
I have had no problem answering calls from within the cradle -
I did exactly as you said - picked up the device from the cradle, but I pressed the "answer" button on the screen, all works fine for me.
Cheers

I have answered lots of times the same way with no problems, I've even put the unit on speakerphone... Very handy when cradled...

Did you use a headset before?
The following happend for me once:
I use the headset for listening music. Phone is ringing. I unplug the headset, because I have a poor quality Hama one, and in a loudy bus, the internal speaker of the PDA is better.
But I hear nothing. The only way to take a phone call, with the headset.
I think the PDA's headset connector switch was wrong. After I plug and unplug the headset many times, my wallaby worked. (The PDA felt the headset plugged, so switch off the speaker but the headset wasn't pluged. Soft reset did not help)
This is my story

Rayan said:
I have answered lots of times the same way with no problems, I've even put the unit on speakerphone... Very handy when cradled...
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Same thing with me, I answer lots of calls using the speakerphone while imate is on cridle... I have no problems at all.

GoldenSands said:
Same thing with me, I answer lots of calls using the speakerphone while imate is on cridle... I have no problems at all.
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There is a setting, to automatically switch on speakerphone when PDA in the cardle?

Thanks!
Thanks, everyone, for the feedback. Neither of us had used headphones, but we both have BT headsets, which we had used that morning - one's a Jabra BT200 and the other is a Bluetrek G2. I don't know whether that is relevant or not.
If anyone out there uses a BT headset and can tell me how they select a number from contacts and ring it so that the headset works - I'd like to know! Mine only seems to work if initiate the call from the headset.

(off topic, sorry) is there any way of getting the phone to answer calls/dial calls in hands free mode? or creating a profile that does so (ie when i am in car and xda is in a (non handsfree) cradle.

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andyb said:
Thanks, everyone, for the feedback. Neither of us had used headphones, but we both have BT headsets, which we had used that morning - one's a Jabra BT200 and the other is a Bluetrek G2. I don't know whether that is relevant or not.
If anyone out there uses a BT headset and can tell me how they select a number from contacts and ring it so that the headset works - I'd like to know! Mine only seems to work if initiate the call from the headset.
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have you tried turning off bluetooth headset from the today screen, that may cure your problem.

Sallala said:
There is a setting, to automatically switch on speakerphone when PDA in the cardle?
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I do not know if this feature is availble. I did a little search on my imate but did not find such a feature! but will be nice to have it!
The only option available is to asnwer received calls after certain rings!

it would be worth cheching how old the rom version is on your xda2 as there is an issue with the very early versions of the rom (1.03.00) for example. In this version nither the cell line or the gprs cant be connected while the XDA2 is in its cradle. current version should be 1.60.00.
hope this helps

Change Bluetooth Headset Ring?

I have the Motorola H500 BT Headset and I swear to Christ if I hear the f*&*ing Flight of the Valkyries song like it's being played by a 6 year old with a 1983 portable casio keyboard one more time I'm gonna start hurting things...
Can this be changed?
I wanna hear my .mp3 ringtone in my headset. OH GOD! ANOTHER CALL! ARRRGGGHH!!!!
Cyb

anyone...
can you set the BT to play the regular ringtone with a registry change???
Cyb

Its down to the headset what it does when a call is recieved.
So unless you can change it on the headset, your abit stuck!

I wanna hear my .mp3 ringtone in my headset.
anybody can help me with this issue? please do the needful as required soultion for this big problem,i am using BA wm5 with AKU rom the bluetooth motorloa h700 just gives beep when incoming call come /but in outgoing call while conneting its rings perfectly.
Why such a advance device doesnt have bluetooth incoming ring facility like other nokia phones /we get this any kind of ringtone sound like .wav,.mid,.mp3 setas ringtone in phone. i am sure there must be some trick or some registery editing has complete this issue ?
If am right this problem i hope every user facing with Ba devices .as the provided earphone works great soultion but unfrotunatly tht is now wireless..
Hope to get some soultion for the same soon....
good luck
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www.jetwaremobile.com is your answer

i have the same question
cyberslinger said:
I have the Motorola H500 BT Headset and I swear to Christ if I hear the f*&*ing Flight of the Valkyries song like it's being played by a 6 year old with a 1983 portable casio keyboard one more time I'm gonna start hurting things...
Can this be changed?
I wanna hear my .mp3 ringtone in my headset. OH GOD! ANOTHER CALL! ARRRGGGHH!!!!
Cyb
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please seriously this is driving me crazy!!!

please if someone has told you, let me know

No Ring Tone when Using A2DP - Bug or By Design?

Greetings,
I'm using a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 stereo Bluetooth headset with my TyTN and so far I have only one gripe - when the headset is connected, the ring tone somes through the handset only, not the phone itself, which means that I'll miss any incoming calls if I don't have the earbuds inserted.
Also, the ring tone sometimes does not start until about 20 seconds after the display has started to announce the incoming call.
I tend to have the earbuds hanging from my neck if I'm not listening to music, and the ring tone is not loud enough to be heard that way.
I suspect this may be by design, because it's assumed that a stereo Bluetooth headset is always in/on the ears when connected to the phone, but I want to use the 970 as my only headset even when I'm not about to listen to music.
Is there any way to get a ring tone from both headset and phone?
/POL

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Anyone figure this one out yet? I have the same problem...

same here, anyone find a solution please post, I think I can change it from the registry I will check it.

Can I ask you folks a question relating to the use of the headset Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 with the HTC Hermes...do you get all the functionality ie caller ID, the ability to accept and reject the call, compatible with mediaplayer etc.
I have a concern that with the headset not being a HTC product, perhaps some of the Sony functionality may not work with the handset.
Thx

From my experience the ringtones will not come to the speaker if you use the headset as wireless stereo. I only use the headset as handsfree, which makes the ringtones go through the phone.

I used the DS970 for two week with my O2 Trion,feature like Caller Display is No any problem,But when using media player sometime it may out of control, like cann't accept call and control volume or stop.
And the sound quality is acceptable,but it will stop few second after 1 or minutes, I have change the regedit.
May I know is there any way to fix it?

Still no solution?
Anyone come up with a solution to this problem? It really bugs me not to get a ringtone from the unit itself, just thru headset... Works just fine with my old mono handsfree, would be great to have it in the stereo heaseat to...

i have the same problem
hello i have the same problem
the ring sound is only on my headset i have tested with 1.13.097fr and now 1.13.234fr if anybody have the ring on the phone with a headset stereo a2dp cang give us is configuration rom and other soft for the bluetooth.
thank and sorry for my english
juste a little frenchy

There seams as if there's no solution in sight, I got the exact same problem, also with HBH-DS970 and with Jetware Mobile's "Hands-free extension" installed.
I'm still running WM5, anyone who have tried WM6?
/Fluff

Same "design feature" here with my HBH-DS970 and HTC S710 WM6 Smartphone, so it's not ROM, device or OS version specific. I would suggest this is by design.

I'm pretty sure this is by design since thats how it works on my BT8010. Its stereo so it seems to make sense all sounds go through headset although it would be nice if it was an option. The BT8010 has a button on the headset to take it out of music mode so then they will go through the phone but I guess that doesn't help any of you out much.
Another option would be to just uncheck wireless stereo in the pairing and just check it back when you want to do wirelss stereo.

Bluetooth Handsfree problem: answering from the handset

HI all,
I got a t-mobile Vario II and have a plantronics 655 handsfree. I have searched the forum but found nothing that answers my problem.
I want to be able to answer a call from the phone and when the handsfree is paired the sound to come through the handsfree. I have tried a few handsfree kits but none seem to work and all the calls come through the phone until i pull the handsfree out of my ear hit answer n put it back in. Am i missing something? I want to be able to answer a call from the phone and talk through my handsfree. When i make a phone call however from the phone it works fine and the sound comes through the handsfree like it should.
I read something about a handsfree profile...where is that? i don't have a handsfree profile option on my phone. Is it an add-on. I tried the handsfree with my ericsson phone and when u answer from the phone it asks if i want the audio through the handset or the handsfree..
hellpppppp...its driving me madd lol

I Take it no one knows the answer to this or has created a patch? Does everyone answer there phone from the answer button on the bluetooth handsfree then? ??

What you are trying to do, is contrary to the feature designed into your dialer. When you answer the phone call from the phone instead of the connected headset, you obviously wanted to talk via the phone not the headset so that is where it routes the call. You can get it back to the headset after you answered on your phone by selecting the menu option and selecting "Turn Handsfree On".

similar issue
I have an ATT branded 8525, and a Motorola H550.
I'm using the built in voice dialer, as I really don't feel like shelling out any more money for voice commander, when I'm paying for the spb products I have (pocketplus, mobile shell, and phone suite).
With other phones, I could use the phone (by hand) to dial a number, while wearing the BT headset, and it would automatically put the conversation on the phone.
This doesn't.
Also, when I receive a call, I don't get the ringtones I have selected for specific callers, just a generic beep.
Morgan

That issue is actually unrelated. The issue that arnie_ahu has is trying to do something differently than the phone design. However, your issue is a real issue. Dialing on the phone and pressing call should send the call to the headset if it is connected properly. The ony conclusion I can think of is that it is not connected properly as a headset.

In my experience, this is Bluetooth device specific. When I use my Jawbone, I can answer on the phone and the conversation will be on the Jawbone. However, if I use a Plantronics 320 and answer on the phone, the conversation will be on the phone.
The reason why I answer using the phone instead of using the Bluetooth headset is out of courtesy to the caller. For some reason, when I answer with a Bluetooth device, the caller hears a very loud sound that is reminiscent of a fog horn. I have experienced this with multiple phones and headsets. I am guessing this is related to the Bluetooth handshake.
edited: spelling correction.

It may be (for me) because I am using mp3 ringtones on a mono earpiece.
From what I have found on line, that won't work with WM5, which sucks, because it worked on my old piece of crap nokia 6230.
Why oh why must this be so hard?
Now I have to try and convert the mp3 ringtones I made from full songs to something the phone will use.

(help) bluetooth headest and x1 not ringing

hi, and thank you for viewing,
when i connect my bluetooth headset my x1 wont ring anymore. it vibrates and rings through the earpiece but not outloud.
i dont wear the earpiece until i get a call as i find it uncomfortable so i get a lot of missed calls.
i have looked through the settings but must be missing somthing can anyone help me?
thank you for your time

never heard about any bluetooth able phone being to direct audio to a headset while still playing it out it's speaker
people seem to use the headset to save other people from ringning apart from the handsfree thing

thanks,
what i mean is i want the X1 TO ring as normal so i know someone is ringing,
at the mo i have a bluetooth earpiece and when someone calls, my X1 is silent and the ringtone is played through the earpiece.
as i dont wear the earpiece until i recieve a call due to comfort i miss many calls when im in the car.
im sure it never done this in R1A but not certain

It should normally ring...my phone and bluetooth both rings at the same time....may be goto bluetooth select the device and only keep a check on handsfree option....

well after updating to R3A the problem is now resolved.
Another one of those "dunno what it was but its working now" things
thank you for your help