Mobile GPS and Bluetooth Car Stereo - Networking

Any of you use a gps program on your phone? If so, do you also have a car stereo with bluetooth? If so, do any of you know if it is possible to listen to an ipod or a cd while the gps interrupts gives you instructions every now and then. I'm asking because I'd rather not have to always listen to music on my phone, just to have the gps also going though the speakers.

I have Tom Tom 7 on my HTC HD2 and I also have a Sony BT3700 Headunit in the car.
I have used navigation many times when the phone has been ready to receive a call and I have also used the phone many times without the navigation switched on.
The other day I was using tom tom and somebody rang me but at the time I had the voices on mute, so I do not know about the sounds.
I have never had the chace to be on the phone and use TomTom voices as well.
I am pretty sure what will happen, is the sound for the phonecall will come out on your stereo and the sound for GPS will come out of the phone.
I believe that is the best way and I would have no problem with that.
If you want to use the GPS voices over bluetooth, you will need to use the bluetooth overaudio function which you would also use to play a song or watch a film.
Hope that makes sense?

Well I have the Xperia x1i and tom tom navigator 6, as well as a dual xhd7720 with the bluetooth adapter. What I want to do is play my ipod while I have the gps navigation going. The only way I can have the music and gps playing through the speakers is to tune to Bt streaming on my radio and have the music playing from my phone. I would just set my phone to have the gps voice go through the phone speaker, but those with the Xperia should know that the speaker isn't very loud.

I understand what you mean now.
But I believe it is not possible. The problem is not with the phone, but with the headunit. You can not listen to BTaudio mode and ipod or CD at the same time.
It would be like trying to listen to the radio and your ipod at the same time on your headunit, just not possible.
My onyl suggestion is by some cheap speakers to plug into the bottom of your xperia for better sound? and keep using the btaudio mode for the phone.

Just to clarify at bit more. What I'm looking for is a way to trick the head unit into thinking that whenever an instruction is given (such as turn left in a quarter mile) the head unit mutes the music, much like it does when there is a phone call. I figured that would be something software could take care of on the phone.

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The ultimate car stereo for our lil Hermes...

Hey guys..
Basically the cd player in my car broke (it was a nice lil sony thing) and well the car ride home was tooo quite so what I ended up doing was playing mp3 tru the phone speaker and had tomtom connected to an external bluetooth gps navigating me home..
And well I quite liked it Only thing was I wanted better sound quality obviously and I thought it would've been neat to change tracks without having to minimise tomtom...
So I did a quick search and look what I found:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/7-MOTORIZED-...ryZ67772QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Supports A2DP too!!
My question: Can I have my phone connected to an external gps via bluetooth whilst also streaming music to the car via bluetooth??
Also has anyone had any experience with these devices? They are a bit cheap.. but the SD card slot and 7" screen + divx and usb support are also really nie features i'm intersted in... also the bluetooth for answering calls is kinda sweet.
gunigugu said:
Hey guys..
Basically the cd player in my car broke (it was a nice lil sony thing) and well the car ride home was tooo quite so what I ended up doing was playing mp3 tru the phone speaker and had tomtom connected to an external bluetooth gps navigating me home..
And well I quite liked it Only thing was I wanted better sound quality obviously and I thought it would've been neat to change tracks without having to minimise tomtom...
So I did a quick search and look what I found:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/7-MOTORIZED-...ryZ67772QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Supports A2DP too!!
My question: Can I have my phone connected to an external gps via bluetooth whilst also streaming music to the car via bluetooth??
Also has anyone had any experience with these devices? They are a bit cheap.. but the SD card slot and 7" screen + divx and usb support are also really nie features i'm intersted in... also the bluetooth for answering calls is kinda sweet.
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For your specific case i am not sure. But, as an indication, i do not have any problem to connect tomtom on an external gps through bluetooth and to use a stereo headphone to listen to music. When i use tomtom, it is in "mute" then i do not know how it would react if tomtom "speaks" and you listen to music...
Bergerac56 said:
For your specific case i am not sure. But, as an indication, i do not have any problem to connect tomtom on an external gps through bluetooth and to use a stereo headphone to listen to music. When i use tomtom, it is in "mute" then i do not know how it would react if tomtom "speaks" and you listen to music...
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Well.. i think that would cover it then... because it shouldn't be any different between car / headphones... also i'm pretty sure it'll just spit out whatever comes tru the normal speakers too, because when my headphones worked i'm pretty sure i remember hearing menu clicks and stuff too.. so I would assume if tomtom wasn't on mute it would play the voice prompts.. which is what I would like actually too...

BT voice commands with TomTom?

Is it possible to send voice commands from TOM TOM to a bluetooth enabled device?
What are the settings? I can get the voice commands to work with my Jabra headset but not my receiver...
I just got a nifty car receiver that takes A2DP music and phone calls. GPS routing over BT would complete it!
I did some more testing.
It seems that the tomtom signal comes over the A2DP bluetooth signal.
So on my car stereo, the tomtom commands will come through, only if I have the stereo on bluetooth mode. Not the best if you wish to listen to the radio.
Is there a way to force the tomtom commands over the HCP (Hands Free Profile)? That way the voice commands will be forced to the car stereo and interrupt radio play.
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there used to be a registry patch or program that peeps used to use to allow them to listen to music through the BT headset. This was before A2DP existed hence the need, most peeps dismissed it because it was mono and poor quality audio (like listening to your music over a phone line,) but I have a feeling it is exactly what you are looking for !
I have downloaded a couple of programs, but they don't seem to work.
What is needed is some sort of program where you can pick the software to rout the audio either to a2dp or HFP...
the software im thinking of gave the choice of routing ALL system audio (including music) via headset profile bluetooth or not, at your choice !! trust me, it is what your looking for.
Problem is, most of those programs are/were pre WM5 and don't work with WM6, BTaudionav is an example. Regardless, if you come up with a software title, let me know.
ice_coffee said:
the software im thinking of gave the choice of routing ALL system audio (including music) via headset profile bluetooth or not, at your choice !! trust me, it is what your looking for.
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you should search in the forum for the universal, that is where I would have seen it, as that is the phone I had at the time, It shipped with WM5 but was a long time coming with a rom that supported A2DP, in the mean time these programs popped up !
just stumbled accross this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=278778&highlight=a2dp
I am going to read through the entire thread, but the line of code that says:
"UseJointStereo"=dword:00000000
just turns off the A2DP; 00000001 enables.
Further, it routs all A2DP to mono.
Got through the thread, it really doesn't do what I want.
What I am trying to do is to have music port to A2DP stereo of my car receiver as normal, and have TomTom audio commands to the HFP.
That way you can play music over bluetooth, and when tomtom audio starts, it will pause music play and the tomtom command can be heard loud and clear.
As of right now here is what I can do:
TomTom audio commands via A2DP to car stereo (makes for a boring ride)
Music via A2DP to car stereo
Play both music and TomTom over A2DP, but music player is NOT interupted when a TomTom audio command comes through
I am going to search the tomtom forums, but I doubt I will have any luck there.
ice_coffee said:
just stumbled accross this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=278778&highlight=a2dp
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I see what your trying to do, and it is true there is nothing that quite manages it, the problem is that tomtom would have to be written or modified to use HFP when the commands are played, the best you could hope for is to reduce the volume of your audio to ie 70% and leave tomtom at 100%, this will make the tomtom commands really standout when they are played.
That would be a good compromise, thanks.
fwiw, I have the question into tomtom support, but doubt if those monkeys can do anything...
ice_coffee said:
the best you could hope for is to reduce the volume of your audio to ie 70% and leave tomtom at 100%, this will make the tomtom commands really standout when they are played.
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I hope you get a result, but as you already know, their support is useless
I have read a bit about mort script. I have to learn more, and perhaps there might be a way...
Try Teksoft BlueMusic, this routes all audio to headset.
I used to use it with Skype on the Athena, till I found Fring.

Bluetooth Car Stereo

Finally got bluetooth in my car stereo and reviewed some threads prior to posting, but not sure anyone asked / answered the question I have. I'm basically wondering how people are using their bluetooth stereo's. From what I can tell so far I have 2 options.
1. Phone pairs, i listen to my car stereo and if a phone call comes in the stereo picks up the call if i say, and upon completion back to my car stereo
2. Phone pairs, put the car into BT Audio mode and stream audio from my phone including phone calls.
The problem is, i'm looking for a way to combine both. For example I'd like to be able to listen to my car stereo, and if i get a notification i hear it over the radio, not just phone calls. I haven't tried yet, but i'm guessing the nav will be the same way, if i'm listening to the stereo and running nav on my phone i will get no turn by turn like i would if i was listening to music on my phone and running nav.
Is there a way to do this? Am I missing something? I have the Sony Xplōd™ MEX-BT3900U. Is this a limitation of my stereo, or just not how most people use their bluetooth?
I just ordered a replacement radio as well with BT support. I'd be curious wth what other people have to say with experience as well.
I use this all the time.
Both options will work provided the head unit you bought supports media streaming.
Your phone will connect both phone and media over Bluetooth. You listen to your media and if a call comes in you can take it while the media is paused. Media will resume after call completed.
Notifications and navigation will pause and resume media as needed.
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I've found the quality of the audio over bluetooth to be very degraded. Have a rear AUX 1/8th port and run a cable to mount, Then use BT headset for all if need be, but have Pandora playing Excision & Downlink radio the entire time

redirect sound out per application

What i want to do is simple, but i have never found a way to do this. I had heard Google was working on the whole sound subsystem and may address in the future, but maybe someone knows of an app...
Basically, I would like to use BT media, but have Nav sound output from the phone. Otherwise if I switch to radio or some other music source on the radio - Nav is still piped to the car BT and i can't hear it.
I would like to just leave BT on all the time on the phone, and have BT handsfree always on, BT music when i select it on the radio (for an input) but NAV would always play through phone speakers.
Any ideas?

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