Hey Guys,
I have a quick question about headset button controls.
Back in 4.2 I was able to start and stop music with a single click of the button, skip tracks by double clicking, and voice search with a hold of the button. All with the screen off.
After going to 4.2.2 I seem to have lost all functionality except for the single click pause/play.
I thought maybe it was a stock android thing, so I tried a few roms and still, nothing. My next thought was it was a hardware thing, so I tried the same test on my Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.2 and still... nothing (although when the screen is on all the functionality is there)
Is this a known bug? I really want my functionality back as it's very helpful when I bike, I've tried apps like jays headset or whatever and they are just cumbersome and lame, so I'm curious if there's a way to bring this back?
I'm running the latest PA (4.2.2 obviously) with single button skullcandy earphones and the Jays headset control app and I can do a double tap to skip song and triple tap to go back as well as the standard play/pause functionality so I'd recommend reinstalling the Jays app and messing around with some of the settings to try to get it to work. One thing I do know (and it's absolutely ridiculous) is that you can no longer press and hold to perform any functions which just seems quite odd to me.
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Hey all,
I was just wondering if there is a way to control the music player with the headphone button. I am used to stuff like "pressing button twice = next track" etc.
Is there any chance to employ that kind of control on the Blackstone?
Many Thanks,
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Either there is no quick solution to this or it is too simple. In either case, please let me know
headphone button? No headphone button that I know of on the Touch HD! Only buttons are volume control and the power button...:-\
FlangeArtist said:
headphone button? No headphone button that I know of on the Touch HD! Only buttons are volume control and the power button...:-\
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There is a button on the cable for the headphones, right where the microphone is. When I hold it down I access voice speed dial. If I click it several times I think it redials the last number used. During an incoming call it can be used to answer, and a long press will hang up.
It would be nice to be able to skip track with double click, and pause with single click.
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It would be nice to be able to skip track with double click, and pause with single click.
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The way such buttons work is very basic, and the potential solution (this was achieved on another device I used) was substituting whatever program is watching the events related to shorting the contacts. Usually it's the voice dial thingie. So theoretically one could write an application with the same name as the one for voice dial, which would issue relevant commands to the player. It's a pretty straightforward task as soon as you know what are the events, how they are generated, what application is currently watching for them, and last (but not least) know how to code. Unfortunately, I am no programmer.
I come from using many other mp3 players in the past, and I got a G1 to be my "be all" piece of hardware. One area that I feel the phone is lacking is in the music department.
I was wondering if a developer could create some sort of app that allows for track switching from the lock screen.
Or better yet, when I had my Blackberry I was able to hold the volume up button and that would switch to the next track while holding down on the volume rocker would go to the previous track. Just clicking the volume rocker would still adjust volume. Is there any way to implement this into the G1?
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I come from using many other mp3 players in the past, and I got a G1 to be my "be all" piece of hardware. One area that I feel the phone is lacking is in the music department.
I was wondering if a developer could create some sort of app that allows for track switching from the lock screen.
Or better yet, when I had my Blackberry I was able to hold the volume up button and that would switch to the next track while holding down on the volume rocker would go to the previous track. Just clicking the volume rocker would still adjust volume. Is there any way to implement this into the G1?
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There's probably some way to do all you describe above, but Android 1.5 supports AVRCP. If your BT headphones have playback controls they will work fine with G1 whenever music is playing, regardless of whether the screen is locked.
I believe Hero has some controls while in the lockscreen, forgive me if I'm mistaken. I just came off of it, reliability was too big of a trade off.
Double press the button on your headset/3.5mm headphone cable.
I really don't want to put custom ROM's on this phone or anything like that, but the main thing I miss is being able to control the music via the volume buttons, such as holding the volume up button to go to the next song, or holding the volume button to go back, while the phone is locked. I've looked around for a long time now and not sure if the mod is just freely available and whether I need a specific one for the Nexus 4.
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I really don't want to put custom ROM's on this phone or anything like that, but the main thing I miss is being able to control the music via the volume buttons, such as holding the volume up button to go to the next song, or holding the volume button to go back, while the phone is locked. I've looked around for a long time now and not sure if the mod is just freely available and whether I need a specific one for the Nexus 4.
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Use poweramp app from the play store.
I also love this feature, and i found it in the "fusion" music player, It's free on google play!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lt#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sYXZhLm11c2ljIl0.
Yeah neither of these apps really do it. Mostly looking for something that will change the music forward if I hold the volume up button and backwards if i hold the volume down button. I've searched around for this a lot more and I mostly found a few mods that were phone specific, and a lot of ROM's that had this feature baked into it.
Anyone know how to get this mod specifically onto here?
Also interested in this! When using my higher-quality IEMs without inline controls, not being able to skip without pulling out the phone is killer!
Anyone have this figured out yet? I use my phone as my car radio and I really miss this feature as well.
I am just using the default Samsung music app, so maybe a simple player switch will suffice...
I am coming from a iPhone 5. One thing the iPhone does very well is play music. There are a copy of issues with my S4 in this regard that are driving me crazy, I am hoping you guys can help me resolve them:
1. Volume rocker on headphones does not control music volume. As far as I can tell the volume rocker just doesnt do anything at all. Is there a way to make this control music / voice levels? Very annoying having to fish for the phone to actually move the volume rocker.
2. Previous doesnt work. On the iPhone you can triple click the button on the headset to either restart the current song or go back to the previous song that was playing before. I used this quite often as i sometimes like to Binge on a particular soundtrack. This does not seem to work currently, triple pressing the button simply goes to the next song (double tap) and then pauses (single tap).
Loving the S4 so far, I definitely hope the above is something that is possible to fix though. Thanks a lot guys!
Try google play music? The volume thing worked on my s3 however I've yet to test ion s4... Also i use poweramp
sgh-i747(d2att)(sgs3) on latest cm10.1 or ultimatum
my headphones work on the s4 so far... volume and pause/skip tracks also works. single tap button to pause, double tap to skip etc. maybe u got a faulty headset?
Yeah sounds like a faulty headset...mine works
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Or push it further in maybe? It seems to be hard at first to press in the headphone all the way... loosen up over time
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Which headphones are using? Some headphones dont work well with android os ....for example...volume rocker wont work on some beats headphones ....you can download an app on the market that can help somewhat.....
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Cali3350 said:
I am just using the default Samsung music app, so maybe a simple player switch will suffice...
I am coming from a iPhone 5. One thing the iPhone does very well is play music. There are a copy of issues with my S4 in this regard that are driving me crazy, I am hoping you guys can help me resolve them:
1. Volume rocker on headphones does not control music volume. As far as I can tell the volume rocker just doesnt do anything at all. Is there a way to make this control music / voice levels? Very annoying having to fish for the phone to actually move the volume rocker.
2. Previous doesnt work. On the iPhone you can triple click the button on the headset to either restart the current song or go back to the previous song that was playing before. I used this quite often as i sometimes like to Binge on a particular soundtrack. This does not seem to work currently, triple pressing the button simply goes to the next song (double tap) and then pauses (single tap).
Loving the S4 so far, I definitely hope the above is something that is possible to fix though. Thanks a lot guys!
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remember it has to be the s4 headphone not apples they wont work
Hi! Is skipping music tracks with the volume button available in Nougat?
While I love the idea of trying out Nougat on my S7 Edge, the one feature that I CANNOT live without is the Physical Button Music Control - ie skip music tracks with a long press of the volume button (why oh why, Samsung, in 2017 is this not a default feature? It forces me to have to take my phone out of my pocket every time I want to skip a track. Not cool...but that's a topic for another day).
To achieve this in Marshmallow (6.0.1), I use the Physical Button Music Control module for the Xposed framework. This works flawlessly.
Here's my question - is this function available in Nougat? I know Xposed probably isn't and maybe won't be for a long time. If so, and if there's no native functionality to do this, then I'll stay on 6.0.1 for now. I've tried 3rd party apps on from the Play store and none seem to work as well as the Xposed one.
I've been using this feature since my S2 custom rom days. I still can't believe it's not a standard feature. Yes, there are physical buttons on the included headphones, but they're no match for my Grados, so don't even offer a different headphone as a solution to this!
Thanks in advance!!
i miss this too.i have learned that, when using the headphone, if i double press the play/pause button, it skips to next track...
its no a full control, but it is something =D
That's great that you've got that work around. But I don't use headphones that have inline controls. I find it hard to believe that people just accept that they have to take their phone out and skip tracks that way if they don't have inline controls.
I wonder what the percentage is for people who operate this way?
The long volume press is such an elegant solution to skipping tracks. I'm surprised it isn't a standard adopted by Google in general. Maybe I'm missing something. If you're a person who doesn't have an inline remote, please tell me how you cope.