[Q] Car Home Ultra - Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I had a Galaxy Nexus with Sprint and was using Car Home Ultra with my car dock. The app worked great and one of my favorite features was the giant media buttons I could use to control play music. I have now switched to a Razr M through Verizon. Everything works with Car Home Ultra except the media buttons. I have downloaded a few of the other apps out there that give big media button widgets (but don't intergrate with car home) and they do not work either. It doesn't matter if I go into play music and start a song playing or not, they buttons just never do anything to control it.
I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and found a fix? I am rooted but running the stock rom and have uninstalled a few of the built in verizon apps. I tried uninstalling the native car dock app and still nothing.

I liked Vlingo (now Dragon) when I had my Charge:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuance.balerion
give this a try.

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Motorola S9 stereo bluetooth with Vibrant?

Does anyone know if the features on my bluetooth headset should work with the music player on my Vibrant? With the default music player all it does is play but i can not control any of the functions (stop/play, skip forward, skip backwards), with mixzing, stop and play work but skip backwards will only restart a song and skip forward wont do anything. I also noticed when i had doubletwist installed it would start automatically playing when i pressed play on the headset no matter if i was using one of the other 2 music players, this also happened with the ear buds that came with the vibrant when i accidently pressed the little answer button on them so I unistalled doubletwist for right now.
My S9's work great. Everything works.There is no lag or skipping on the Vibrant. With my G1,it was almost impossible to use them outdoors.
I've got three different pairs of bluetooth headphones, and they all work as expected w/ my vibrant. The Plantronics Pulsar 590A, Sony DR-BT100CX, and the Motorola S805.
doubleTwist has a setting called "Headset Controls". It sets doubleTwist as the default app for headset controls. I think its on by default. Launch doubleTwist, press menu, tap settings, and uncheck "Headset controls".
so all the functions work for you guys? did you have to do anything other then pair them?
If you haven't, make sure you enable the "Media" profile for the headphone. After pairing, long press your headphones and select "Options". Make sure the "Media" checkbox is checked.
i didnt do that so maybe that is it, ill test it at the gym today
Thanks
Still does not control any functions in the default music player, any suggestions?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Do you have another pair of bluetooth headphones you can test with your phone? We need to cancel out the phone as the problem.
Sent from my Samsung Vibrant
No but my roommate and gf have a captivate and a vibrant so ill try it on there phone
just tried on my roommates captivate, worked perfectly, so any ideas short of resetting the phone as it took me forever to set it up
Yes first pairing took a while for me also.
just tried it on my gfs vibrant, worked perfectly on hers as well, something must be wrong with my phone, time to get a replacement...wonder if i have to go through costco or if i can just go to t-mobile
reformatted the phone and it worked, so then i spent a better part of 2 hrs putting all my apps on and just tried it and it didnt work again! I only installed one music app, tune wiki, that turned out to be the culprit, it basically overrides the buttons on the headset even when its not on, so you just have to turn off the option on it and all works great now

Bluetooth issues

I have some really weird and annoying issues with bluetooth audio on my Note 3:
1 - Basically whenever the screen turns on or off, the blutooth audio will cut off for few seconds then come back.
2 - When I use it for google map turn by turn navigation, the first seconds of the voices always get cut off, so if the direction is long, I'll hear the end. And if it's short, I won't hear anything.
Anyone else has similar issues? If so any solutions? It's driving me nuts and I'm not even sure if it's the Note 3 issue or Android 4.3. My Note 2 has been working flawlessly with the same setup for the past year. My note 3 is running AT&T stock ROM, rooted and unlocked, froze some bloatware with TB, my bluetooth headset is Jaybird Bluebuds X. thanks for any suggestions!
I had this with my old HTC EVO 3D and my pluggin BT FM Radio device. I thought it was that but my Note 3 works perfect. Nothing like what you described for me.
ItsMeOk said:
I had this with my old HTC EVO 3D and my pluggin BT FM Radio device. I thought it was that but my Note 3 works perfect. Nothing like what you described for me.
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Which version of the note 3 are you using? is it rooted with custom rom or everything stock?
I just deleted all system & user app cache from Titanium Backup, this seems to have solved the first issue. But I still miss first few seconds of spoken direction from google navigation with my bluetooth headset. I'm tempted to do a factory reset now...
UPDATE: I did more testing and have found out more. it seems to only occur during audio stream switching. If no music or audiobook(I use different apps for them) is playing, there is no sound cut off. but if either the music or audiobook is playing, first few seconds of audio from any notification or google voice navigation is cut off.
shinew said:
I have some really weird and annoying issues with bluetooth audio on my Note 3:
1 - Basically whenever the screen turns on or off, the blutooth audio will cut off for few seconds then come back.
2 - When I use it for google map turn by turn navigation, the first seconds of the voices always get cut off, so if the direction is long, I'll hear the end. And if it's short, I won't hear anything.
Anyone else has similar issues? If so any solutions? It's driving me nuts and I'm not even sure if it's the Note 3 issue or Android 4.3. My Note 2 has been working flawlessly with the same setup for the past year. My note 3 is running AT&T stock ROM, rooted and unlocked, froze some bloatware with TB, my bluetooth headset is Jaybird Bluebuds X. thanks for any suggestions!
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Well, that's better than the Bluetooth on my Note 3 LoL. On my Note the voice on the other end is muted every now and then when calling with a Mercedes carkit. (Comander). And... when streaming music to a high end apt-x dongle (HTC car A100) I get some gaps in the music
Never ever had any problems with the same configuration with a gazillion other Android phones
Firmware: international J7
For my note too, MJ7 rom , I have BT- streaming music and sometimes is starts jitterining and cut outs some times, it note my bt car radio that was problem, cause my friends xperja j work flawlessly. Shame with mi6 rom too before it got updated.
This is very annoying for the most expensive and best phone available!
Same on you samsung!
please if you find a solution contact me!
Thanks for this info. I'm choosing between the Note 2 and Note 3 and will go APTX exclusively. Worrying that it cuts out like that.
When it works, what about the actual audio quality with APTX? Have you listened to high resolution FLAC files, and can you tell a difference with the Note3 and APTX on?
having the same problem, really sucks
hi, i having same problem where when i play native default music player and google map at the same time, first seconds of the voices always get cut off, here what i try using apps
music player
MX player, Poweramp player, and native default music player
map navigation
google map and waze
so if try it with native music player, or Poweramp, and google map or waze, first seconds of the voices gets cut off. all the combination would not work,
but if i try mx player and google map or waze, it works fine, but no songs information will display on the car screen, ie singer, alubm, etc wrong show on the car screen, and music control on forward and back etc, but it work, i don't know how to fix this? anyone have find solution ?
shinew said:
I have some really weird and annoying issues with bluetooth audio on my Note 3:
1 - Basically whenever the screen turns on or off, the blutooth audio will cut off for few seconds then come back.
2 - When I use it for google map turn by turn navigation, the first seconds of the voices always get cut off, so if the direction is long, I'll hear the end. And if it's short, I won't hear anything.
Anyone else has similar issues? If so any solutions? It's driving me nuts and I'm not even sure if it's the Note 3 issue or Android 4.3. My Note 2 has been working flawlessly with the same setup for the past year. My note 3 is running AT&T stock ROM, rooted and unlocked, froze some bloatware with TB, my bluetooth headset is Jaybird Bluebuds X. thanks for any suggestions!
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I have the EXACT same problem...no solution yet unfortunately...Ive never had it not working on any other device...my Galaxy s3 it worked flawlessly!!!!!
yan1000 said:
hi, i having same problem where when i play native default music player and google map at the same time, first seconds of the voices always get cut off, here what i try using apps
music player
MX player, Poweramp player, and native default music player
map navigation
google map and waze
so if try it with native music player, or Poweramp, and google map or waze, first seconds of the voices gets cut off. all the combination would not work,
but if i try mx player and google map or waze, it works fine, but no songs information will display on the car screen, ie singer, alubm, etc wrong show on the car screen, and music control on forward and back etc, but it work, i don't know how to fix this? anyone have find solution ?
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Dirtylarry11 said:
I have the EXACT same problem...no solution yet unfortunately...Ive never had it not working on any other device...my Galaxy s3 it worked flawlessly!!!!!
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I've tried both custom & stock rom based on several variant of the 4.3 roms, they all have this issue so eventually i just gave up.
The good news is that I'm running on Kitkat 4.4.2 now, both rooted and stock seem to have fixed the issue, bluetooth audio switching is extremely fast(along with everything else) and no cut off.
hope the new kitkat will fix it
hope the new kitkat will fix it, i'm waiting for the t-mobile to release it, hopefully soon, also i tested on the samsung mega 4.2, it works perfectly, so it just 4.3 version , thanks for the information.

RK3066 4.4.4 Small Bugs

HI Guys,
I've recently installed the PumpkinAuto 4.4.4 unit,
I am using Nova Launcher instead of the standard one.
Not rooted (yet)
I'm also using Doubletwist as my media player as it syncs perfectly with iTunes over WiFi
I Use the Tasker app to achieve most things that were bugging me. Like the radio app stays on when you play media,
so It now is closed when the media player starts. and the media player pauses when the RAdio starts.
The main bug is that the unit and tasker will not send the media command to Doubletwist to pause music when you key-off.
I've tried all things I can think of with Tasker, "Event" or "State", display off, display not on, power off, power not on, daydream, sleep, etc
but nothing will send a pause command when you key off or hold the Off button on the unit.
I assume it's due to the machine actually sleeping before the command can be sent?
Any help would be appreciated.
The other small issue is I'd like to be able to change is the Text size, as due to the smaller resolution of the unit (800pix) you do a lot of scrolling up and down.
I've previously had 7" tab 2's installed and am happy with the small text.
thanks in advance

Tablet Talk issue

I was hoping someone could help me. I have a 2013 Nexus 7 rooted w/Timur's kernel 5.1.1 Deb and I'm having an issue with Tablet Talk. I have a Satechi Bluetooth media button the controls the music player. I'm also using Car Home Ultra as dashboard. If I wake up the Satechi it automatically launches tablet talk. If I go back to Car Home Ultra, within 20 seconds it will relaunch Tablet Talk and keep launching Tablet Talk until I restart the tablet. I've uninstalled/reinstalled all my apps and it still returns. It sometimes happens with Poweramp as well. I've asked the Tablet Talk developer for help but they never got back to me. Any suggestions?

Spotify on Bliss Rom

I'm running the latest version of bliss and Spotify will not stay in the foreground when connected to my car through bluetooth. when using headphones everything works great, but when connected to the bluetooth in my car the music will play, but the spotify controls will not stay in the task bar, and the widget on my home screen goes blank. I also can't control the music from the controls on my car when it does this. Everything worked fine while I was on stock yesterday. the issue didn't appear until I switched to bliss last night. I'm assuming there is a setting I need to change somewhere, but i'm not sure.
any help would be appreciated.
I guess it was just the app being stupid all morning. I just tried again and now it works. the problem solved itself.

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