This isn't necessarily a Nexus S problem as it happened on my G1 running Froyo as well... before Froyo though, if I turned off my truck while playing music via bluetooth it would pause the music player (Pandora, Winamp, etc). Ever since going to Froyo though (and now Gingerbread) if I turn off my truck, then my phone will start playing the music through it's speaker.
Is there a way to restore this feature? It can be incredibly annoying when this happens because then I have to unlock my phone, go into said application and pause the audio manually (especially in the winter with having to take your gloves off, unless you use your nose to navigate the phone which I have done before). I am hoping it is some setting somewhere I have just been missing every time I look into it.
No setting I can find. I use tasker to end music player when bluetooth disconnect.
Pause it before you turn the car off. =P
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Pause it before you turn the car off. =P
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That is what I am doing. If you read my post though, you'd know how annoying it is to me having to take off my gloves to unlock the phone then open pandora and hit pause
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No setting I can find. I use tasker to end music player when bluetooth disconnect.
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Thanks. I wish there was a trial to try before you buy. I hate how Google limited refund to 15 minutes after purchase. Some apps you need more than 15 minutes to try out to make sure you are completely satisfied with them.
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That is what I am doing. If you read my post though, you'd know how annoying it is to me having to take off my gloves to unlock the phone then open pandora and hit pause
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I meant from the radio. (I'm assuming your pairing the phone and the stock truck radio?)
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Thanks. I wish there was a trial to try before you buy. I hate how Google limited refund to 15 minutes after purchase. Some apps you need more than 15 minutes to try out to make sure you are completely satisfied with them.
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There's a 7 days trial directly from the dev.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/faq-ov.html#g3
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I meant from the radio. (I'm assuming your pairing the phone and the stock truck radio?)
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i don't think i can pause pandora from the radio, i can't even goto next song from the radio with pandora. i can however with winamp.
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There's a 7 days trial directly from the dev.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/faq-ov.html#g3
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thanks! 10char
Related
I'd like to take a moment to thank Froyo, Adobe, and Google for allowing me the possibility to have Adobe Flash if i so please. I can now listen to MANY live radio stations without having to worry about buying a radio app (ESPN Radio for $2.99).
Go Deutschland!
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I'd like to take a moment to thank Froyo, Adobe, and Google for allowing me the possibility to have Adobe Flash if i so please. I can now listen to MANY live radio stations without having to worry about buying a radio app (ESPN Radio for $2.99).
Go Deutschland!
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I do love flash, but weren't you able to just use an app like aonlineradio? Just find the url and it streams most online radio stations for you.
who wants to go through that step? I'm thrilled that flash lets me listen to This American Life without paying a premium for older content.
tanman1975 said:
who wants to go through that step? I'm thrilled that flash lets me listen to This American Life without paying a premium for older content.
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well I assume the battery savings would be significant. I know streaming the soccer game isn't doing me any favours.
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well I assume the battery savings would be significant. I know streaming the soccer game isn't doing me any favours.
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Well, if you set the flash to run only run when requested it isnt that bad. Plus i had it plugged in, which mitigates the battery drain. Strange that the phone consumes faster than it can charge..
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Well, if you set the flash to run only run when requested it isnt that bad. Plus i had it plugged in, which mitigates the battery drain. Strange that the phone consumes faster than it can charge..
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The whole point is running flash to get the audio stream. What he meant is that streaming through one of the market apps will take a LOT less power than streaming through a flash page. If you turned off the flash plugin you couldn't stream the audio in the first place.
And it must be using a lot of power if your charger can't keep up.
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Well, if you set the flash to run only run when requested it isnt that bad. Plus i had it plugged in, which mitigates the battery drain. Strange that the phone consumes faster than it can charge..
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Are you charging via computer usb? If so, that is likely your issue. It is a slow charge and cannot keep up.
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The whole point is running flash to get the audio stream. What he meant is that streaming through one of the market apps will take a LOT less power than streaming through a flash page. If you turned off the flash plugin you couldn't stream the audio in the first place.
And it must be using a lot of power if your charger can't keep up.
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The online problem with listening to audio via flash is:
you can't turn the screen off
you must have the web window always in focus
so it can become a large battery drain, compared to an app which would run in the background.
artesea said:
The online problem with listening to audio via flash is:
you can't turn the screen off
you must have the web window always in focus
so it can become a large battery drain, compared to an app which would run in the background.
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Ding! I'm hoping someone will eventually implement a workaround because there are many WMA streams I'd like to access online. Streaming audio apps don't work because none of them have apparently licensed the WMA codec.
I've been watching World Cup games on my phone using the flash video player on http://www.cbc.ca/sports/ here in Canada. It plays full screen and works amazingly well, even over 3G! I'm now a flash believer.
I like having the flash plugin for certain situations, but it's bugging me that probably 9/10 times I want to see some flash content it's actually a youtube video that plays much better using the youtube app or m.youtube.com. But embedded videos still require me to load the plugin then click on them twice to get to the page (assuming you have plugins set to 'on demand').
Is there any chance of someone creating a way to filter those embedded videos? Will youtube figure it out at some point and just serve up the mobile html5 version? Given that it's all google, I'd hope they could do that.
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I'd like to take a moment to thank Froyo, Adobe, and Google for allowing me the possibility to have Adobe Flash if i so please. I can now listen to MANY live radio stations without having to worry about buying a radio app (ESPN Radio for $2.99).
Go Deutschland!
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I agree 100%. There is SO much content that I didn't have access to on my Nexus that thanks to Flash, I now have.
Just for instance there is a Dallas Cowboys Radio Talk Blog that I had to get to a computer if I wanted to listen live, since it uses a Flash player. Now, I can listen ANYWHERE.... LIVE!
I use Flash as "always on", and I love it.
Battery drain? Who cares. It's like complaining that driving a car uses gas.
Flash has changed my entire mobile experience for the better.
Thank you Google, and thank you Adobe!!!!
The best Flash does for me, is using maps in sites (which are completely inaccessible without it, being all Flash-based), and being able to preview music online before buying it on sites that don't have mobile apps made for them. Actually, it does tons more, including navigation in flash-heavy service sites etc, but there are really too many things to mention.
maps are flash based? Which ones? Google maps has been ajax/html from the beginning.
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Just for instance there is a Dallas Cowboys Radio Talk Blog that I had to get to a computer if I wanted to listen live, since it uses a Flash player. Now, I can listen ANYWHERE.... LIVE!
I use Flash as "always on", and I love it.
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Just to clarify, are you saying that you can listen to this flash radio stream even with the screen off?
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Just to clarify, are you saying that you can listen to this flash radio stream even with the screen off?
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No, the screen dims but does not fully shut off when listening to the stream.
Here is the site:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dcfanaticradio
If you have a Nexus you can try it for yourself.
Be aware tho that this is the slow time of year. After a big game I can promise that this kind of content is just fantastic while mobile. I used to have to be at a computer for this.
If you are worried about burn in from the screen being on just scroll down the page and fill the screen with a white background, and then the screen will dim significantly and you are good.
EDIT: you actually make a good point tho: we need to be able to put the screen to sleep when streaming .
Hey everyone. So I find I have an annoying issue that is kind of pissing me off. I guess a majority of car makers have this wonderful "feature" that sends a "play" signal to the phone while connecting. This would be nice IF I could pick the app it would play with but the epic and other phones like to pick the defauly music player.
The downside is that I tend to stream pandora or slacker while on the road so each morning I get 2 songs playing at once lol.... rather annoying. I then need to load the music player and stop it. There are some good parts to what the cars do....like if an incoming call is answered it pauses the active player (usually slacker for me) while on the call.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to change any of this behavior? I guess that would have to be a kernel change or possibly a bluetooth apk if there is one? I would love to try to find a way to leave the pause portion there for calls but maybe like a check if there is a active player on top then play or pause is OK, but if in background, dont do anything.
I have searched a lot on this and it seems to be a common issue. But I just wanted to see if anyone has any ideas. I tried the app "autostarts" but it complains about not having root access even though the phone is rooted so that isnt an option it seems. It's probably wishful thinking, but was hoping maybe someone has an idea.
Or is there something I could use to kill Music Player for example "if" it was auto started and not run by me directly?
I suppose you could use a task killer and set it to kill the music player whenever it starts up. You could always disable it when your not using it. I wouldn't use it for anything else besides the music player that you wish to kill.
The problem I see with that is with most task killers they use a timer... unless I am missing one that will kill it automatically when it opens? The downside to that is if I use another app to monitor that app I have a feeling I am going to kill my battery life if it constantly monitoring.
You may be able to do this using tasker. It's not free (five bucks) and it's a bit complicated, but there is a week's trial on the developer's website.
I'm not allowed to post links, but just google tasker for android. The version in the market doesn't have the trial, though.The one on the developer's website is a buck cheaper and offers a trial.
If you aren't familiar with it, you can basically use it to take any input the phone uses (phone, sms, location data, gesture, bluetooth data, whatever) and make it output any event, so you could have it give a media all stop command every time you connect it to bluetooth. You could even have it automatically bring up a little menu with pandora, music player, last FM.. whatever media players you use.. after that. You could probably even get it to perform different behaviors depending on which bluetooth radio you connected to (so you could have it do something different in your car than in your friend's car for instance).
It's really a lifesaver of a program, well worth the five bucks I dropped on it, it's replace multiple other apps in my life. Not trying to sound too much like a commercial, but I have every reason to think it would do what you want. It is a bit complicated until you get the hang of it, though.
megabillzilla said:
You may be able to do this using tasker. It's not free (five bucks) and it's a bit complicated, but there is a week's trial on the developer's website.
I'm not allowed to post links, but just google tasker for android. The version in the market doesn't have the trial, though.The one on the developer's website is a buck cheaper and offers a trial.
If you aren't familiar with it, you can basically use it to take any input the phone uses (phone, sms, location data, gesture, bluetooth data, whatever) and make it output any event, so you could have it give a media all stop command every time you connect it to bluetooth. You could even have it automatically bring up a little menu with pandora, music player, last FM.. whatever media players you use.. after that. You could probably even get it to perform different behaviors depending on which bluetooth radio you connected to (so you could have it do something different in your car than in your friend's car for instance).
It's really a lifesaver of a program, well worth the five bucks I dropped on it, it's replace multiple other apps in my life. Not trying to sound too much like a commercial, but I have every reason to think it would do what you want. It is a bit complicated until you get the hang of it, though.
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+1... was just about to say, Tasker can do it. Tasker has been the best $5 I've spent in a loonnnng time.
I got tired of getting up in the morning for my 1.5 hour morning commute (gotta drop the kid off to daycare in another county) and getting to work late because it had been rainy and terrible. Setting the alarm crazy early just to check and see if the weather was any good was not a pleasant prospect, and with winter on the way, I needed a solution.
So I spent an evening with Tasker. I had it perform an HTTP GET at Accuweather.com after passing my zip code to the website. I then had it search the returned text for words such as "rain", "snow" and storm". It runs this search at about 5:00 AM, and dependent upon the result, sets an alarm (with a snooze function that I programmed in). After the initial alarm, since I knew I'd be too tired to pay much attention to WHY it had woken me up early, I have it speak out loud "Good morning, you have been woken early today because it is [X weather] and [X degrees, after performing a Celcius to Farenheit conversion]. It is currently [time].
I plan on posting the Tasker profile to my blog in a couple days after I'm sure it contains no bugs (it'll probably snow in the morning so I'll be able to test that scenario).
Anyhow, this just gives a taste of what Tasker can do. I have it launch a list of apps when I plug into the headset jack, silence my phone if I get within 300 meters of work, or sound an alarm, vibrate, flash an LED, take pictures, and redirect outgoing calls to my girlfriend's phone if I send it a certain text message, to name a few very useful profiles I've got set up.
Tasker does everything without forcing you to learn any syntax or do any coding at all. It would be a matter of minutes to set up a scenario where, if you connect via Bluetooth, it waits a moment and terminates the default video player application and then launches the other application you want to use. One of the profiles I've forgotten to mention is one that, when I launch Navigation with the GPS off, closes Navigation, enables GPS, and loads Navigation back up. When I'm in the car I just want to touch Navigation, not screw with GPS settings.
Anyhow, enough of my gushing about Tasker. Seriously, best $5 app you'll ever buy. Trust me.
That might be pretty nice... wonder if it can tell the difference between a bluetooth headset and AD2P. I'll have to try it. Wonder if it could start my car with its application too like 30 min after my alarm hehe.
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I've been playing with Tasker and it will do what I need Thanks! I ended up setting up a profile that when it connects to my vehicle only, it will kill music player, wait 3 seconds and then kill it again... it took that due to the fact the car doesnt send the play signal for a few seconds.
OK so yesterday I hooked up my tablet to my stereo and pulled up the siriusxm website and was streaming from there. So everytime the screen shutoff so did the stream. I tried the app but I cant get it to work it keeps saying checking for updates. So my question is, is there someway to make the browser continue to stream with the screen off I had to set it to never turn off and it worked great but it does do a number on your battery. Any help would be appreciated.
try with dualweb, maybe.
mine streams from ghosttown with the screen off and docked and closed.
Online streams do this to me, though oddly with upnplay from my own servers, never a problem. Perhaps its a power/bandwidth setting devs put in for smaller devices need to save battery, by default.
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No such problems using TuneIn Radio for Android. Continues to play, regardless of whether I tap the power button to sleep, let the sleep timeout elapse, or close the screen when docked. Also happily wakes up from sleep to play an online stream as an alarm clock.
http://tunein.com/mobile/android/
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OK so yesterday I hooked up my tablet to my stereo and pulled up the siriusxm website and was streaming from there. So everytime the screen shutoff so did the stream. I tried the app but I cant get it to work it keeps saying checking for updates. So my question is, is there someway to make the browser continue to stream with the screen off I had to set it to never turn off and it worked great but it does do a number on your battery. Any help would be appreciated.
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Do you have your WiFi sleep policy set to never?
If you have it set to shutoff with screen off that might be it, not sure.
EDIT: OK I missed that you are accessing XM through the browser, yeah I think when screen goes off or when you're out of the browser
everything shut down.
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OK so yesterday I hooked up my tablet to my stereo and pulled up the siriusxm website and was streaming from there. So everytime the screen shutoff so did the stream. I tried the app but I cant get it to work it keeps saying checking for updates. So my question is, is there someway to make the browser continue to stream with the screen off I had to set it to never turn off and it worked great but it does do a number on your battery. Any help would be appreciated.
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I have the same issues with SIRIUS Their app fails.
Works great on my phone but wont work on my tablet.
Brandon
Yes everytime that I have to minimize the browser for some reason the stream stops is there some kinda of work around for this. I just want to start the stream and then shut off the screen and have it still run. Yes my wifi policy is set to never
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Wdustin1 said:
Yes everytime that I have to minimize the browser for some reason the stream stops is there some kinda of work around for this. I just want to start the stream and then shut off the screen and have it still run. Yes my wifi policy is set to never
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I beleive the issue is with SIRIUS. Their app is not made for honeycomb and does not work.
If you do the webpage honeycomb is set to turn off the inactive page. I noticed that I even lose audio if I switch to a different tabed browser or application. To me it appears to be a honeycomb featured mixed with a sirius application bug.
Thank God I can listen NP on my EVO 3d
Brandon
The application itself must tell the device not to sleep.
Have you ever noticed how when you install certain apps one of the permissions required is "Keep your Device Awake"?
This is why some apps keep playing when you turn the screen off. The browser however, cannot keep your Asus awake and when you turn the stream off it will stop.
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I had this issue with Music, and now have it with Music Beta.
When listening to a song, when the screen timeout engages, the player will never go to the next song (but it will at least finish the current song). Probably a feature, but would be extremely nice to override that.
Changing the Wifi settings didn't seem to fix it; only removing the screen timeout did.
On the same topic, I guess, but is there a way to keep the Youtube app running in the background while using another app?
I guess another thing would be if theres a way to keep flash videos running while browsing another tab in a browser, but Opera and the stock browser don't allow that.
Well I use my phone as my music player and I listen to like a good two hours meaning. The wake lock is on for two hours meaning the battery drains so fast, is there anything I can do to prevent this?
holomusic player seems to do this but unfortunately the developer has passed away and I can't get hold of the latest apk anywhere, I'd appreciate it if anyone had it
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Well I use my phone as my music player and I listen to like a good two hours meaning. The wake lock is on for two hours meaning the battery drains so fast, is there anything I can do to prevent this?
holomusic player seems to do this but unfortunately the developer has passed away and I can't get hold of the latest apk anywhere, I'd appreciate it if anyone had it
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This is why I have a wireless charger so I can listen to music for a couple hours every day at the gym. I just keep it on the charger when I'm not using it.
am trying hard to avoid that at the moment lol if theres nothing that really can be done i may just get a dedicated mp3 player. the media server is cause 2 hours of wakelock yet the music player only has an 1 hour wakelock so there maybe a different issue, but ill see
m4r0v3r said:
am trying hard to avoid that at the moment lol if theres nothing that really can be done i may just get a dedicated mp3 player. the media server is cause 2 hours of wakelock yet the music player only has an 1 hour wakelock so there maybe a different issue, but ill see
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mediaserver will always be higher as its used for all media not just music, i.e videos, notification sounds, etc. Basically anything that plays any type of media will call it up.
m4r0v3r said:
Well I use my phone as my music player and I listen to like a good two hours meaning. The wake lock is on for two hours meaning the battery drains so fast, is there anything I can do to prevent this?
holomusic player seems to do this but unfortunately the developer has passed away and I can't get hold of the latest apk anywhere, I'd appreciate it if anyone had it
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http://www.plusmobiles.com/holo-pad-and-holo-music-for-android-you-can-download-it-from-here.html
Not sure if that is the latest one or not. GL
Cheers kpkimmy that's the one. This will replace stock and see how battery life changes from there
I just set up my phone to cast itself to my car stereo when my car turns on.
http://youtu.be/Ii2GebpoWjE
I hate listening to the radio commercials, and I don't want a navigation mounted in my window. Now I have streaming music and nav right in my car dash.
Cool. How does the car receive the cast?
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Cool. How does the car receive the cast?
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The Appradio has an HDMI on the back, and I just put the chrome cast on my wifi hotspot.
Cool.
That's sick. I was just thinking the other day what the hell I was going to do with my $400 AppRadio I haven't been able to use with either of my last two phones, the MotoX or the N6 . Great idea, throw a Chromecast in it. Idk how hard casting the screen is on the battery but it has to be better than MHL was, and none of that static nonsense either.
Thanks man.
Nice work OP!
I've been looking to do something similar in my '11 STI. I'd love to incorporate the Android experience into my car's dash. I previously looked at the App Radio but people were reporting the annoying delay in the touch screen. Then I started looking at the new Ca-Fi Dashlinq4 Android Car Stereo, which seems to be a perfect solution. But at $500+, I just can't justify it.
NASIOC thread on the Ca-Fi Dashlinq4 Android Car Stereo:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2650504
Alternatively, permanently installing the Nexus 7 still seems to be the best option. But it requires some custom modification, which I really don't want to do.
NASIOC thread on the Nexus 7 install:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2459432
I've been looking into this for over a year now and I still can't figure out which direction to go.
I had an AppRadio 3. Hated it. To get app mode working was a huge pain, then I needed a parking brake bypass. It kept costing more and more. I ended up buying an AVIC and got rid of it. The AppRadio was so lacking in features for the price it was sickening.
Bluetooth anyone?
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I just set up my phone to cast itself to my car stereo when my car turns on.
http://youtu.be/Ii2GebpoWjE
I hate listening to the radio commercials, and I don't want a navigation mounted in my window. Now I have streaming music and nav right in my car dash.
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Have not listen to a radio in over six years, welcome to the age of hands free. And if you use bluetooth and Enhanced Caller ID from app store, it will read your mail and text to you and allow you to respond with your voice and read what you said back and ask you if it's okay to send. So uh, seems like your doing things the hard way. Plenty of great sounding receivers out there that will give you a hell of a sound that include bluetooth and have built in mics along with USB ports and HDMI so, get one that gives you great sound and power and a mount that goes in the radios CD slot and you are set to go with a touch screen a moment away and hands free everything else. There is also an assistant app you can get at the play store to do many commands that are phone related with just your voice. Personally, I get in my car, put the phone in its wireless charging dashboard mount, The NFC sticker on the mount turns bluetooth on/off for me automatically and stream to my hearts content. Easy and affordable. What cost me the most was good speakers and some power amps to push the sound through.
wow, sweet! I I have been looking into how I could get my appradio 2 up and running again since getting the nexus..
Looks like a chromecast is on my shortlist again! thanks!
BTW, would you mind posting your tasker setup/file?
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wow, sweet! I I have been looking into how I could get my appradio 2 up and running again since getting the nexus..
Looks like a chromecast is on my shortlist again! thanks!
BTW, would you mind posting your tasker setup/file?
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I will update the OP with my tasks, but I am using the app AutoInput in conjunction so it might not work for you directly. I will see if AutoInput will export as well.
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Have not listen to a radio in over six years, welcome to the age of hands free. And if you use bluetooth and Enhanced Caller ID from app store, it will read your mail and text to you and allow you to respond with your voice and read what you said back and ask you if it's okay to send. So uh, seems like your doing things the hard way. Plenty of great sounding receivers out there that will give you a hell of a sound that include bluetooth and have built in mics along with USB ports and HDMI so, get one that gives you great sound and power and a mount that goes in the radios CD slot and you are set to go with a touch screen a moment away and hands free everything else. There is also an assistant app you can get at the play store to do many commands that are phone related with just your voice. Personally, I get in my car, put the phone in its wireless charging dashboard mount, The NFC sticker on the mount turns bluetooth on/off for me automatically and stream to my hearts content. Easy and affordable. What cost me the most was good speakers and some power amps to push the sound through.
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I leave bluetooth on all the time because I have a lot of devices. I have not listened to the radio for 12 years, and I don't have any intention of starting. My previous phone had to plug in and I had a little dock made where I could hide my phone away. I am going to get a magnetic Qi mount I think now that I am completely wireless, I just mostly wanted to show people how it works with a chromecast in this video. I also use hands free and voice for everything.
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Nice work OP!
I've been looking to do something similar in my '11 STI. I'd love to incorporate the Android experience into my car's dash. I previously looked at the App Radio but people were reporting the annoying delay in the touch screen. Then I started looking at the new Ca-Fi Dashlinq4 Android Car Stereo, which seems to be a perfect solution. But at $500+, I just can't justify it.
NASIOC thread on the Ca-Fi Dashlinq4 Android Car Stereo:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2650504
Alternatively, permanently installing the Nexus 7 still seems to be the best option. But it requires some custom modification, which I really don't want to do.
NASIOC thread on the Nexus 7 install:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2459432
I've been looking into this for over a year now and I still can't figure out which direction to go.
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I personally don't notice a huge touch delay. It is there I guess, but I don't notice it. I really like my setup, even more so now that it is wireless. I usually use voice commands for navigation, text, and music, so I never touch the screen to notice the slight lag anyhow. It all depends on how you use it though.
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I had an AppRadio 3. Hated it. To get app mode working was a huge pain, then I needed a parking brake bypass. It kept costing more and more. I ended up buying an AVIC and got rid of it. The AppRadio was so lacking in features for the price it was sickening.
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It was a little spendy, but 100% mirror on my phone makes it have every feature I could ever want. Putting my phone on the dash, I can't think of anything it doesn't do.
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That's sick. I was just thinking the other day what the hell I was going to do with my $400 AppRadio I haven't been able to use with either of my last two phones, the MotoX or the N6 . Great idea, throw a Chromecast in it. Idk how hard casting the screen is on the battery but it has to be better than MHL was, and none of that static nonsense either.
Thanks man.
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If it is plugged in it charges faster than it drains, haven't tried Qi yet, but will figure out how I will do it and get a cool magnetic dock. I cant kill the battery over a day anyhow so I don't even plug it in most of the time while I am driving.
I'm using the Microsoft Miracast wireless display adapter on my AppRadio2. Works rather well. I had to edit the build.prop to enable Miracast though. Next up is a wireless charging mat to go 100% wireless on mine. Thanks for the tip on AutoInput, will be nice to fully automate the connection process.
there also needs to be a process that lets you turn off the screen
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Sweet, right now there is a promo to get the chromecast for 23 bucks from target and google will give you $20 in google play credit.
http://slickdeals.net/f/7484988-google-chromecast-wireless-hdmi-streaming-dongle-23-free-shipping
Connecting Chromecast to a device with a touch screen allowed you to control your phone this way, or is that a feature of the device you used?
tsy87 said:
there also needs to be a process that lets you turn off the screen
---------- Post added at 10:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 AM ----------
Sweet, right now there is a promo to get the chromecast for 23 bucks from target and google will give you $20 in google play credit.
http://slickdeals.net/f/7484988-google-chromecast-wireless-hdmi-streaming-dongle-23-free-shipping
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If you turn off the screen then it wont cast. That is why I have brightness set to lowest when it runs. Still charges faster than drains, so I just set it upside down and forget about it.
rustid said:
If you turn off the screen then it wont cast. That is why I have brightness set to lowest when it runs. Still charges faster than drains, so I just set it upside down and forget about it.
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I know, but there were apps for other phones that would cut the power to the screen but trick it into thinking it was still on... Granted they never worked perfectly, but that would be ideal if they did.
SymbioticGenius said:
Connecting Chromecast to a device with a touch screen allowed you to control your phone this way, or is that a feature of the device you used?
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Yeah it's the AppRadio, the Chromecast is just used for displaying the screen. The AppRadio sends the coordinates of the touches it detects to the phone via bluetooth.
tsy87 said:
I know, but there were apps for other phones that would cut the power to the screen but trick it into thinking it was still on... Granted they never worked perfectly, but that would be ideal if they did.
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When I did this with my galaxy nexus I used Screen off #ROOT or something, but it hasn't worked for a phone since that one. I haven't found a good one that does it since then, but to be honest I haven't really looked in a year or so.
I'm wondering if it would be possible to have the display output with the phone "locked" since it will show the clock on an external display when off and locked.
I just confirmed that "Screen Standby ♯ Root" does work for turning off the N6 screen while still mirroring to AppRadio.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nkahoang.screenstandby
Or u could just stream it through Bluetooth?
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