Hey guys,
I have a question regarding android 4.3 and bluetooth streaming to a car stereo.
With cyanogenmod on my HTC One, when ever a song changes on the phone, the track is updated on the car dashboard. This never happens with the Nexus 4. Both phones are using apollo.
I'm wondering if there's a little added bonus for the HTC One that isn't implement with the Nexus 4, and if not, is there a way for me get the nexus 4 to update the information on the car dash automatically?
Does no one know?
Hey everyone,
Im hoping this is the right section but I have a simple question.
I went to bmw.com/bluetooth to see if the Note 3 was compatible with my new 2014 BMW 5 series. It has the BMW apps and features included in the car.
Now I know Apple and BMW are in bed together and figure that phone may work better for my car, but when I have my bluetooth on, the BMW page says my car should at least acknowledge the playlists from my phone. I run doubletwist and the normal music app loaded on my phone, both have many playlists on them (the same).
For some reason I can only select next or previous on my media function in the car when attached to bluetooth instead of the entire music playlist section and artists etc. but Online it says that i CAN do this, I just cant reverse or forward, and that it depends on which App im using.
Is there any trick to this, what can I do to show my playlists via bluetooth, or is that only when plugged in?
Thanks!
Hi,
I have recently switched from an S4 with 4.4.2 installed to the new note 4. When connecting to my car stereo with the S4 via bluetooth the track names of songs playing in the music app and pandora would show up on the deck.
On the Note 4 i have no issues connecting to the deck but now theres no track names.
Is this to do with android 4.4.4?
Any ways to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
Seems to be so many variables in getting this to work. Always had problems with my Note 2... Works perfectly with Note 4 and Ford Mytouch Sync.
Try deleting the pairing on both sides and recreate it.
I thought i tried that but ill give it another go.
No one else have this issue or can say it definitely works with pioneer car stereos?
rcobourn said:
Seems to be so many variables in getting this to work. Always had problems with my Note 2... Works perfectly with Note 4 and Ford Mytouch Sync.
Try deleting the pairing on both sides and recreate it.
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Didnt work
my pioneer head unit was the same, also i couldn't control it with the head unit.
I ended up updating the firmware on the head unit and it solved the problem, check to see if there is a firmware update for your headunit.
audiobookman said:
my pioneer head unit was the same, also i couldn't control it with the head unit.
I ended up updating the firmware on the head unit and it solved the problem, check to see if there is a firmware update for your headunit.
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None that i can find for my unit. Funny thing is it works perfectly except for the track names. i can control the music app and pandora.
ghampton10 said:
Hi,
I have recently switched from an S4 with 4.4.2 installed to the new note 4. When connecting to my car stereo with the S4 via bluetooth the track names of songs playing in the music app and pandora would show up on the deck.
On the Note 4 i have no issues connecting to the deck but now theres no track names.
Is this to do with android 4.4.4?
Any ways to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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The problem is actually with the car stereo. It probably still runs Bluetooth 1.2 or something. I have the same problem in my 2012 Mazda 3. It has a dated Bluetooth. All I see is BT Audio, however it works fine on Ford sync and cars with more recent BT versions.
I have... inconsistent performance with this. If I am using the Play Music radio functionality, everything seems to work well. If I'm playing through an album though, it seems to get "stuck" on the first track played. The track duration updates but the track name does not. Pausing and resuming will get it to update.
With the same car and my Nexus 5 running the same Play Music version I do not run into this issue.
I've got a 2012 Honda Civic EX with the factory iMid (not navigation) system.
Was using an HTC Evo 4g LTE with a custom 4.4.3 ROM and was able to get track names and control music from steering wheel and connected via bluetooth.
Got Note 4 and lost abilty to see track names / artist info. I can still control the phone via steering wheel.
Unfortunately, Honda issues no updates for my factory stereo. If I go 3rd party unit, I loose steering wheel and bluetooth integration with the onboard mic, etc.
I am hoping that Lollipop will correct some of these things or that Samsung will issue a fix. I've seen a lot of posts around the web where people are having the same issue: prior phone worked fine. New note 4 phone lost track names. This was affecting lots of car manufacturers, factory stereos, 3rd party stereos, etc. Hard to narrow it down to one issue, other than all new notes having a new BT stack.
Just throwing my experience in the mix.
Dannon
dlitwin,
Take your car to Honda, some Civics/Accords/CR-V, etc have an update for the Handsfreelink module.
raptir said:
I have... inconsistent performance with this. If I am using the Play Music radio functionality, everything seems to work well. If I'm playing through an album though, it seems to get "stuck" on the first track played. The track duration updates but the track name does not. Pausing and resuming will get it to update.
With the same car and my Nexus 5 running the same Play Music version I do not run into this issue.
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Well, a quick update here. My T-Mobile Note 4 received a system update yesterday, and after that the Bluetooth works as expected with my car.
mrnovanova said:
The problem is actually with the car stereo. It probably still runs Bluetooth 1.2 or something. I have the same problem in my 2012 Mazda 3. It has a dated Bluetooth. All I see is BT Audio, however it works fine on Ford sync and cars with more recent BT versions.
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Not really a stereo problem if the thing that changed was the phone. It should be backwards compatible.
Hopefully theres an update in the works to make it come back. Its illegal here to touch your phone while driving and showing the track names on the deck helps with not having to touch it.
Might have to look at using NFC on my cradle to make the screen stay on, turn on bluetooth and connect the music app.
raptir said:
Well, a quick update here. My T-Mobile Note 4 received a system update yesterday, and after that the Bluetooth works as expected with my car.
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Awesome! In australia we get updates late usually so maybe by the time you have lollipop ill get that update
Still nothing. I got an update but it didnt work. pandora has updated and no good.
Anyone found a fix?
First off I apologize for bringing up an old thread. I recently purchased the Pioneer DEH-4800BT head unit so that I could leverage the Bluetooth capabilities. Everything works great, with the exception of the unit reading my music library via Bluetooth. If I restart my Note 4 and then connect it via Bluetooth to the Pioneer head unit, it reads the library and allows me to browse my music as it should. However, if I turn off my vehicle thus disconnecting the Bluetooth connection, the unit will not read my library without me having to restart my Note 4. Has anyone ever encountered this? I have a feeling there is something on my Note 4 preventing the unit from reading the library a second time without restarting. Unfortunately hours of Google searches on this subject have left me with no solutions. What can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance!
Hey guys, I usually just lurkj the forums but I figured it is time to ask the pros. First off, this is the unit I am installing today: Seems i cannot post the link but here is the title. from amazon Pumpkin Quad Core 7 inch 2 DIN Universal Android 4.4 Car Stereo Radio HD 1024*600 Muti-touch Screen GPS Navigation Without DVD Player Support WIFI/3G/Bluetooth/OBD2/DVR/Mirror Link
I am running a t-mobile service on my phone and I get free data for certain streaming apps. Its pretty cool. Anyway, I just learned that using the phone as a hotspot and then using one of these streaming apps on the device, in this case the new stereo, it does use my data plan... bummer. Anyway I am wondering if there is a wireless mirroring solution that would work and have control over the phone using the touch screen on the receiver? If there is not, how about a wired solution? I have looked into things like android auto. Does that actually work descent and on our receivers? Thanks everyone and a little nudge in the right direction would be awesome :good:
The pumpkin deck has a really basic bluetooth audio interface. I guess that would be the main thing I would like to change. I use Pandora alot and the interface on the deck is really basic. It gives me the option to skip track and play/pause. If I could at least get a similar interface to my old pioneer deck (id3 tags, thumb up/down) that would be cool. Or even a front end app, now that would rock.... Thanks again.
Hi friends,
The head unit I have right now does not support stereo sound, and when I play any music from my iPhone the sound comes from both left and right speakers at the time!
But when I play from the usb using the music app, the stereo sound coming from the right and left speakers with HD sound that means the Bluetooth apps don’t work correctly in my head unit.
Also, when I checked the developer option, I found that the setting sets in another option not as stereo sound, I tried to solve this issue from the developer settings, but when I change the voice type to stereo, the setting returns to the original.
Cpu:allwinner 8-cores
Ram: 4GB
rom:32GB
resolution :1024x600
MCU: stm32-20190622-11-kc1-26
OS: ST1C01D1-ON1-1.0.4.8.1 -BLINK-NETWORK -20200724
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Anyone can help me here
Did you already take in account that the issue is not on the head unit, but in your iPhone?
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Did you already take in account that the issue is not on the head unit, but in your iPhone?
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Really thank you for your attention.
No, for one reason I have another car, and the Bluetooth working smoothly in the factory head unit. supporting stereo sound and HD sound. Meantime I opened the development options and I saw that in the Bluetooth Audio Codec setting the sound is not stereo. I tried to change it to stereo but the system didn't allow me. also, no build number and I opened the Dev options using a shortcut app in the store. it is really Stuped Headunit.
Allwinner-8-cores said:
Really thank you for your attention.
No, for one reason I have another car, and the Bluetooth working smoothly in the factory head unit. supporting stereo sound and HD sound. Meantime I opened the development options and I saw that in the Bluetooth Audio Codec setting the sound is not stereo. I tried to change it to stereo but the system didn't allow me. also, no build number and I opened the Dev options using a shortcut app in the store. it is really Stuped Headunit.
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FYI
Well... OEM unit may work different, because they are completely different.
It´s a known fact, that those iPhones have problems with most of the Android head units.
You should contact the seller and ask him for a solution. May be there is one.
...btw: This is a quite old unit with Android 8. May be you can update your unit.
Look for STM32 thread in here.