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Fring audio through bluetooth headsets

Anyone Fring users out there able to get caller/mic audio through the headset?
My setup is Blueant Q1 (8.21 firmware) with N1. Google listen and other audio apps play to the headset though the new A2DP support (sweet!). Calls though vodafone also works fine.
Could not find help googling around. Great forum. Thanks for any pointers!

No cigar for you or any other Fring user, including myself.
It is one of the outstanding feature reqs with Fring, along with
removing the uber annoying buzz messaging notification.
They seems to move reaaaaally slow, so it is going to be a while,
I am afraid.

Thanks for this. I can't see this as being a complicated thing to add. People with bluetooth car sets must have the same problem right?
I'd use the N1 supplied headset/mic, but it broke after the second week.
Fring if you are listening.. give me an option to get rid of the stupid test call on my friends list and like everyone else I want to be in control of my audio notifications. For the rest,,, great work.

A new Fring software update and still no bluetooth/headset or speakerphone support..... anyone care to venture a guess as to why this is such a difficult feature to add in?

Well,
an app that outputs audio, should not be concerned with just how that audio ends up getting delivered - over built-in jack or BT. All an app should do for that to work is to declare it wants to use BT when it is available.
Unfortunately, the Android doesn't work like that. Enabling app for BT seems to be a fairly involved affair, way too complicated.
As for speaker, same thinking should apply, except we lack a HW speaker button, so app needs to provide a toggle via its own UI.
And like I mentioned, Fring is a very weird app in how its been maintained, with updates barely trickling through, one every few months - which is way too slow.

Amazon Kindle Fire Skype apk

Does anyone have a working Skype apk that works w/ Amazon Kindle Fire?

a1exus said:
Does anyone have a working Skype apk that works w/ Amazon Kindle Fire?
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Haven't you heard the news?
You can't make audio/video calls on Skype yet, no microphone is supported as of today.
You can only use it for IM.
apk is here

killyy said:
Haven't you heard the news?
You can't make audio/video calls on Skype yet, no microphone is supported as of today.
You can only use it for IM.
apk is here
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i think i saw someone said that if your headset has 3 pins that'd work as mic, i use that headset w/ my android phone all the time, so i should be able to use it w/ kindle

a1exus said:
i think i saw someone said that if your headset has 3 pins that'd work as mic, i use that headset w/ my android phone all the time, so i should be able to use it w/ kindle
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It has been said a lot about those mics in that thread, but the OP made 2 different opinions about using skype. The other users only used those mics with Voice Recording(Tape-a-talk app I think), nobody was able to make a call with skype.
Could you please share your experience with the 3 pins microphone? (I haven't got any of them so I can't try)

killyy said:
It has been said a lot about those mics in that thread, but the OP made 2 different opinions about using skype. The other users only used those mics with Voice Recording(Tape-a-talk app I think), nobody was able to make a call with skype.
Could you please share your experience with the 3 pins microphone? (I haven't got any of them so I can't try)
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Crashes for me...
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killyy said:
It has been said a lot about those mics in that thread, but the OP made 2 different opinions about using skype. The other users only used those mics with Voice Recording(Tape-a-talk app I think), nobody was able to make a call with skype.
Could you please share your experience with the 3 pins microphone? (I haven't got any of them so I can't try)
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Crashes for me as well. I was hopeful given the threads about 3 pin mic support. I have extra headsets--if you dm I'll send you one.

I only tried voice calling the Echo / Sound Test Service, and it doesn't crash. However, it does just hang up after it rings.

I was able to launch the Skype apk attached to this thread successfully. It allowed me to make an outgoing call with the Fire and using the Edutige EIM-001 mic, but it disconnected the call a second or two after I picked up the call on my cell. I wasn't able to hear my voice when I called my cell since it disconnected so quickly. Unfortunately this is a mic only with a TRRS connector so the speakers are disconnected when it is plugged in. I am going to do some tests to see if I can rig the mic to work without causing Fire speaker disconnect. I still have to test with Google Voice.

I would be interested to know about it very much. So far I have no luck to make a call using mic

I been working on the mic problem all night. So far I think this tablet is missing something. Skype loads but wen making a call it does not see a mic at all.
Changing settings I have got the mic to work with a recorder for a test done a 20 min voice test no problems at all. But other apps like talking tom so on give error of no mic found.
Still working on this but not seeing what the problem could be.

troydog said:
I been working on the mic problem all night. So far I think this tablet is missing something. Skype loads but wen making a call it does not see a mic at all.
Changing settings I have got the mic to work with a recorder for a test done a 20 min voice test no problems at all. But other apps like talking tom so on give error of no mic found.
Still working on this but not seeing what the problem could be.
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I have a successful call using Google Voice but unfortunately only one direction
I mean I could make a call and the other party could receive this call. The problem is that I could hear what that party talk but I can't get his voice. It looks that it works only incoming direction ... but it looks to me that mic itself is ok.
Anyone has has better experience?

susja said:
I have a successful call using Google Voice but unfortunately only one direction
I mean I could make a call and the other party could receive this call. The problem is that I could hear what that party talk but I can't get his voice. It looks that it works only incoming direction ... but it looks to me that mic itself is ok.
Anyone has has better experience?
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What are the changes that you made? Were you using a standard headset mic?
Sounds promising....

I did no changes. I used mic: Universal 3.5mm In-Ear Stereo Headset w/ On-off & Mic for , HTC myTouch 4G Unfortunately I don't have enough technical knowledge to resolve the issue although it sounds promising

Call from Nexus 7 using phone over bluetooth

So im really lazy and am looking for ways make life even simpler. Is it possible to make and receive phone calls coming to my gnex but answered/ sent from my n7 over bluetooth or something? Also I dont know much about google voice so i know it may be possible through that but id prefer to still use my same verizon phone number.
Thanks

ndeer44 said:
So im really lazy and am looking for ways make life even simpler. Is it possible to make and receive phone calls coming to my gnex but answered/ sent from my n7 over bluetooth or something? Also I dont know much about google voice so i know it may be possible through that but id prefer to still use my same verizon phone number.
Thanks
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tablet talk works great for calls and texts. i've got it on my vzw sgs3 and N7 and it works great. well worth the $3 in the play store

Unfortunately I am currently on an iPhone :-/ is there a way/app to achieve this with the iPhone and Nexus 7?

randroid123 said:
Unfortunately I am currently on an iPhone :-/ is there a way/app to achieve this with the iPhone and Nexus 7?
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I am pretty sure that is going against the laws of the ancients

dbett4 said:
tablet talk works great for calls and texts. i've got it on my vzw sgs3 and N7 and it works great. well worth the $3 in the play store
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But can you make/answer phone calls? I have found plenty of apps that allow you to text but im trying to make phone calls from my N7 but routed through phone using bluetooth

there has to be a way to do this

tablet talk doesn't allow you to actually call with the tablet. it allows you to control calls to and from a bluetooth device. I believe grooveip works pretty well for direct calls but you have to use your Google voice number
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Google Voice and click to call
Using Google Voice, which I use for Text messages, and the click to call feature will have your phone ring, once answered the number you called will begin ringing.

Im looking for something that modern day cars can do. You can answer a call through the cars system using bluetooth and can also make calls through your phone but using the cars system to initiate the calls. So the technology is there for the phone and bluetooth but i cant find a tablet app.

Tablet talk initiates.
Youre not going to be able to use the tablet as a blue tooth device to talk through.
Tab initiates call....phone makes the call...you talk on your BT headset.

I just tried free version of Groove IP initiating and receiving Gvoice calls, and it seemed to work just fine. Thanks for the topic! I'd been meaning to figure this out too.

BT mic connected to the tab
xManMythLegend said:
Tablet talk initiates.
Youre not going to be able to use the tablet as a blue tooth device to talk through.
Tab initiates call....phone makes the call...you talk on your BT headset.
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I guess I don't know enough about how Tablet Talk functions or how BT works so this may sound really dumb, when you use Tablet Talk does the phone call and mic pic up get routed through the tablet? If so is it possible to connect the tablet to the phone with Tablet Talk AND have a BT mic connected to the Nexus 7? The idea would be for me to be able to have the tablet's output go through my car's AUX in and use the BT mic connected to the tablet for tablet voice commands and as the phone pickup when used with Tablet Talk essentially making the tablet the only thing I have to control in the car while driving.

I'm looking to do the same thing. I just installed a Nexus 7 as my "head" unit replacement in my car. Its great, but now looking at using it as other OEM's do in the car world and simply connect via bluetooth to the Nexus 7 to make and receive phone calls through my cell phone carrier. It does seem obvious this would be an existing app. Lets hope someone is watching and comes up with an app for this!!!

xManMythLegend said:
Tablet talk initiates.
Youre not going to be able to use the tablet as a blue tooth device to talk through.
Tab initiates call....phone makes the call...you talk on your BT headset.
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I am looking for a way to do what you just mentioned "connecting android tablet via BT --> DumbPhone which is connected to --> BT headset"
when i press the Call button in my android application it should make a call using the dumbphone .
Do you have any idea whether this is actual possible or not ?

I been using.groove IP works great I have sprint so Google voice is integrated with my sprint number so when I get calls it goes to my nexus 7 and I answer and make calls with it get text there to
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Get tablet talk, works a treat on both bluetooth and wireless
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Nexus 4 hands free problems

First post here, so apologies and let the flaming begin but I am trying to determine if my Nexus 4 "issues" are unique to me or normal for this phone.
1. Issue #1 - Bluetooth functions only for numeric dialing, no voice (say name phonetically) dialing or other voice actions seem to work. You can speak the numbers you wish dialed and that's about it. Maybe others can confirm whether this is unique to me. Android ver 4.2.1. Using with a Sena SMH10 bluetooth motorcycle headset
2. Minor issue, but also related - I can not use a stereo headset with my phone and expect the handset mic to work. Something that simply works in every other smart phone I've owned. You plug in a stereo headset (3 conductor earbuds only, not 4 conductor with mic for example) and the phone ideally recognizes the lack of 4th conductor and sends output audio to headphone while using handset mic. So, if you wish to make a call, you can do so. And if you wish to communicate with your phone using verbal commands you may do so as well. You may get "some" functionality using a 3 conductor headphone, however try making a call to someone and it simply doesn't work.
I don't think my phone issues are unique, but perhaps I got a lemon? Nexus support can't seem to confirm whether or not its a known issue.
Anyone else have these "features"?
Thanks in Advance.

Issue #1. Confirmed hands free dialing works over Bluetooth using blue ant s4. In fact I was excited they actually reworked the voice dialer to be accurate!
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Well that's certainly weird. The headset I am using lists the following profiles:
Key Specifications:
• Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Class1
• Supporting profiles: Headset Profile, Hand-Free Profile (HFP), Advanced Audio
Distribution Profile (A2DP), Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)
The Settings tab of this headset in my Nexus say it is paired for:
-Phone Audio
-Media Audio
I have paired/unpaired and reset bluetooth device to factory.
This headset worked flawlessly with my previous phone, an HTC MyTouch 4G running Android 2.3
When i attempt a call, I get a prompt from the phone "Voice Dialer" that says:
"Say Call, followed by a name or a number"
If i speak the numbers to dial, it works perfectly. If I say the name of any person in my google contacts list, it balks and exits right away, sometimes saying "Sorry, I didn't catch that"

HF Dialing has been horribly broken in Android for some time. You might try disconnecting it from A2DP to see if that helps. For me, since I use a moto headset, I went with Motospeak and it works pretty well.

chas4android said:
2. Minor issue, but also related - I can not use a stereo headset with my phone and expect the handset mic to work. Something that simply works in every other smart phone I've owned. You plug in a stereo headset (3 conductor earbuds only, not 4 conductor with mic for example) and the phone ideally recognizes the lack of 4th conductor and sends output audio to headphone while using handset mic. So, if you wish to make a call, you can do so. And if you wish to communicate with your phone using verbal commands you may do so as well. You may get "some" functionality using a 3 conductor headphone, however try making a call to someone and it simply doesn't work.
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This works fine for me. I've used it a number of times in the car, where I have a stereo cable to an FM transmitter, and I just tested it with a no-microphone set of headphones: my voice went through the phone microphone with no problems.

chas4android said:
Well that's certainly weird. The headset I am using lists the following profiles:
Key Specifications:
• Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Class1
• Supporting profiles: Headset Profile, Hand-Free Profile (HFP), Advanced Audio
Distribution Profile (A2DP), Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)
The Settings tab of this headset in my Nexus say it is paired for:
-Phone Audio
-Media Audio
I have paired/unpaired and reset bluetooth device to factory.
This headset worked flawlessly with my previous phone, an HTC MyTouch 4G running Android 2.3
When i attempt a call, I get a prompt from the phone "Voice Dialer" that says:
"Say Call, followed by a name or a number"
If i speak the numbers to dial, it works perfectly. If I say the name of any person in my google contacts list, it balks and exits right away, sometimes saying "Sorry, I didn't catch that"
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I understand your frustration. Hands free dialing is a feature I don't like to do without. After jumping to jellybean from ICS on my fascinate handsfree was horrible.
When I set up my blue ant with any phone it goes through a "transferring contacts" part of the setup. Perhaps this is why it can recognize the peoples names and not just the numbers.
Does your headset "transfer contacts" like the S4?
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No, the headset is strictly a phone headset as far as that goes. Not a sync device like some cars, etc. In that case, it might work since dialing could be handled by the Bluetooth device?
I'm no expert, but relying on the nexus dialer seems to be the issue. What baffles me is that when not using Bluetooth and using the Google voice search, it actually works. If pressing the "pickup/hangup" button actually launched Google voice actions... It would solve the problem as well as give me further hands free operations such as nav and music control.
Anyone know how to make that action occur with Bluetooth button?
As for #2, I actually called nexus device support, and while speaking to the rep plugged in my skull candy ear buds. He confirmed that mic sounded extremely garbled and not understandable. These same ear buds world fine on my old my touch and my girlfriends iPhone. Both of those phones recognize them as basic stereo headphones and keep the handset mic intact.
I'm going to call them back and just get a replacement today. Screen has done the flicker/vertical lines thing now at least once too.

I'm having bt issues with my car stereo. It's after market that worked fine with my GNex. I can pair it with the N4 and it shows Phone Audio, but then after a few seconds disconnects. Could bt be bad on my N4? I normally have the headphone jack plugged in through aux and can take calls that way, but I'd like to get bt working again.
Update: after powering off the stereo and powering it back on it seems to be connecting ok

Lttlwing16 said:
Issue #1. Confirmed hands free dialing works over Bluetooth using blue ant s4. In fact I was excited they actually reworked the voice dialer to be accurate!
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Just checked... Blue ant uses its own voice recognition to pair contacts with numbers and thereby bypasses phone voice dialer. That's why it works for you.

I just got a SMH10 as well. I am able to voice dial okay as well as use google music, what I don't like is no access to Google Now without handling the phone (which would require me to stop and get my phone out of my pocket). Not sure if this is an issue with the SMH10, or with android 4.2.x.
I know it's been over a month since you posted in here, curious about your usage and if you have found any tricks to get google now to work in place of the voice dialer only. Since google now should handle voice dialing I am hoping to get that to work so I can also use the navigation when needed.
Sending a note to Sena as well to see if they have a solution as well.

Hands free out-calling issue
As of last week the bluetooth hands free calling feature was working fine on my Nexus 4. A couple days ago I went to call out using the hands free, and the display on my car stereo went blank for a few seconds and came up saying 'Not Supported'. I can receive calls fine, but for whatever reason the hands free voice recognition doesn't want to open when I ask it to now. Anyone have a similar problem?

ssj4kevin said:
As of last week the bluetooth hands free calling feature was working fine on my Nexus 4. A couple days ago I went to call out using the hands free, and the display on my car stereo went blank for a few seconds and came up saying 'Not Supported'. I can receive calls fine, but for whatever reason the hands free voice recognition doesn't want to open when I ask it to now. Anyone have a similar problem?
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I've had exactly the same thing happen. Weeks and weeks of working voice dialing through my Blueant S4. Now, it doesn't work at all. Incoming calls can be answered, but I can't dial out by voice.

What is the deal with bluetooth and google voice search?

Is this just broken completely?? The forums are loaded with questions about people trying to get voice dialing or voice search working with their bluetooth devices (headsets, car radios, etc.).
I just bought and installed a new Pioneer headunit for my vehicle and the bluetooth is FANTASTIC with the one glaring exception that I can't do any voice command through my car microphone.
I see a couple of different apps (one is chinese..?) on the play store that seem to imply they fix the problem (see below)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lukasoft.android.voicecontrol&hl=en
I am super confused. Do I need a custom ROM or some special app just to enable the siri/eve/google voice or whatever to work in my car?
Isn't using hands-free bluetooth in your car (asking about the weather, asking for navigation directions, etc.) kinda the whole point of having bluetooth in the first place?
Is this just an oversight by google or am I missing something obvious?

When Google first added voice dialing via Bluetooth a couple of years ago, they said that the data rate over the Bluetooth connection was too low to use with their normal voice recognition algorithms -- while they could handle the limited vocabulary for voice dialing with the Bluetooth data, they needed a higher bitrate for full voice recognition. I don't know if that's still the explanation or not, as I haven't heard anything about it since those early days.

nyvram1 said:
Is this just broken completely?? The forums are loaded with questions about people trying to get voice dialing or voice search working with their bluetooth devices (headsets, car radios, etc.).
I just bought and installed a new Pioneer headunit for my vehicle and the bluetooth is FANTASTIC with the one glaring exception that I can't do any voice command through my car microphone.
I see a couple of different apps (one is chinese..?) on the play store that seem to imply they fix the problem (see below)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lukasoft.android.voicecontrol&hl=en
I am super confused. Do I need a custom ROM or some special app just to enable the siri/eve/google voice or whatever to work in my car?
Isn't using hands-free bluetooth in your car (asking about the weather, asking for navigation directions, etc.) kinda the whole point of having bluetooth in the first place?
Is this just an oversight by google or am I missing something obvious?
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I'm pretty sure the voice commands you want aren't part of google voice/NOW yet as its still in early development. I know it can't play music from your phone by voice command so I don't see it being able to play through bluetooth either. Also you have to use Google Now directly through the phone. Not sure if you can have it start up by voice recognition, there is an app that does that though but its another separate voice recognition app and I believe you need to have the lockscreen turned off to have it actively listening for voice commands. Not sure if Google Now can even do that yet. Its pretty limited to what it can do right now.
http://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-setup-configure-and-use-google-now-98749/
Found the other app its Dragon, from Nuance, they did speech to text apps for windows a long time ago.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLm51YW5jZS5iYWxlcmlvbiJd

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I'm pretty sure the voice commands you want aren't part of google voice/NOW yet as its still in early development. I know it can't play music from your phone by voice command so I don't see it being able to play through bluetooth either. Also you have to use Google Now directly through the phone. Not sure if you can have it start up by voice recognition, there is an app that does that though but its another separate voice recognition app and I believe you need to have the lockscreen turned off to have it actively listening for voice commands. Not sure if Google Now can even do that yet. Its pretty limited to what it can do right now.
http://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-setup-configure-and-use-google-now-98749/
Found the other app its Dragon, from Nuance, they did speech to text apps for windows a long time ago.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLm51YW5jZS5iYWxlcmlvbiJd
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dragon seems like it might work..but i'm not sure about the 'driver mode'. does that use the car's mic or is it still listening from the nexus 4 itself?
iow, i couldn't really have my phone charging in the glovebox and still have hands-free discussions about the weather and tell it to call people

nyvram1 said:
dragon seems like it might work..but i'm not sure about the 'driver mode'. does that use the car's mic or is it still listening from the nexus 4 itself?
iow, i couldn't really have my phone charging in the glovebox and still have hands-free discussions about the weather and tell it to call people
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Not sure on the driver mode but most of these things just work off the phones mic for now. I didn't use dragon too long as it was a battery hog when I tried it. The driver mode I would assume is for when you have the phone in a docking station or cradle in the car and are using it as your navigation device. I don't think it can open too many apps either but just do the basics like Google Now but its been over 8 months since I tried it. I liked it as it had the feature to wake the phone by voice command.