I like stock Android and I am buying a new phone now and it is either Nexus 6 or a Note 4... They both have their pros and cons but I was wondering about one thing...
The stock bluetooth stack from Google is kind of poor in respect to what features in the standard is supported... So I was wondering if the BT stack som Samsung is better covered? I.e. showing caller pictures on my car stereo using BT, all meta data for songs playing, including time remaining, etc?
What is your experience?
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BTJ
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Alright so I picked up my N7 yesterday as a more portable alternative to my Transformer Prime. I'm using it primarily for entertainment and social networking where as the Prime will be my productivity tablet. My question is if I'm walking around listening to music with the N7 in my back pocket, will I be able to use a pair of headphones with built in audio controls for the music? If so does anyone recommend a particular pair? Looking for in-ear ones and preferably ones that won't hurt my College student wallet. Personally I'm not a fan of the big Beats headphones primarily because of the fact that most kids that wear them all the time are tools and I don't want to be associated with that stereotype. Haha pun.
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Bluetooth headphones are your friend.
A bunch can be found for $30-70. Get at it!
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Unfortunately, the headphone jack doesn't have mic support, which is needed for headset control support. I can't understand why they would leave this out, and mic support was even advertised as a feature on Asus' product page. I'm not sure if they've changed the page since the last time I've looked at it.
Is it something that a firmware update will fix? I know with the TP there were a lot of things that were added with firmware updates. I looked into the Bluetooth headsets on amazon and I think I found one I would use, but I'm still not crazy about the size of them. Even the smaller in ear ones.
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This isn't the kind of feature that a software update can add. The Nexus 7 doesn't have the necessary hardware.
Ah I see. Well I guess I'll just trap a pair of BT headphones off Amazon. Any one have a suggestion on which ones to go for or to avoid?
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is anyone experiencing popping/disturbances in their bluetooth streaming? My bluetooth headset and radio sound terrible! There is this odd popping sound that occurs intermittently. This sound occurs on two different blue tooth receivers, so I'm confident the issue lies within the phone. I know other Nexus devices are having bluetooth issues, but from what I understood no one has reported an issue with a nexus 4. Anyone else out there with the same problems?
Negative. No issues with Bluetooth audio here.
Bluetooth works fine when I stream music to my headset.
Nothing wrong on my end either.
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This seems to be a general Problem. Every phone with a Qualcomm SoC / Bluetooth Chip has problems streaming to my car radio (JVC) and to my headset (Sony Ericsson MW600). This was the case with: HTC One S, HTC Desire S, HTC Sensation and now also with Nexus 4.
I never had any issues with: Samsung Galaxy S2, S3, Galaxy Nexus and other phones.
Got the HTC car stereo Bluetooth adapter and there is static. Wife's iPhone is fine with it. Sweet.
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I'm having the same issue. Audio cuts out every few seconds. I've only tried it in my car so far with pandora and tunein radio. I will try with moto headset at work on friday but im sure its an issue with 4.2. Never had it happen with my gs2. Seems to be a common issue with new bluetooth stack in 4.2, with more occurrences on gnex and nexus 7. Google is aware of this and many other bugs in 4.2
Bluetooth was working fine until I dropped my headset into the dog's water dish this morning.
I've got the Sony Ericsson MW600 and have not had any problems with it using WinAmp. In fact the audio quality on this is much better than I was getting on my HTC Sensation XE on full volume
Small query
Any chance you could tell me if the CLI functionality worked with the Nexus 4 & MW600? Does it show the name or only the number?
marshalex said:
I've got the Sony Ericsson MW600 and have not had any problems with it using WinAmp. In fact the audio quality on this is much better than I was getting on my HTC Sensation XE on full volume
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I wanted to get some community feedback on the Bluetooth drivers for this phone.
I've noticed several times that my jawbone icon will "cut out" for 5 to 10 seconds periodically. Doesn't seem to happen at any consistent interval with no consistent trigger. I've tested the same headset with a nexus s, and a blackberry bold 9300. It works fine with the other 2 phones.
I've also seen my Nexus 4 exhibit the same behavior with my car stereo, a clarion CX 501. It acts like it's buffering a song, no audio, but it definitely isn't my network connection because it's doing it with local content and the song doesn't actually pick up where it left off, it clearly just keeps playing on the phone with no Bluetooth output.
It's probably worth noting that it doesn't actually lose the Bluetooth connection, it just stops transmitting out of nowhere. It still stays paired and connected.
Also mostly unrelated... It doesn't seem to hold a Wi-Fi connection very well when Bluetooth is active.
Anyone else seeing similar behavior?
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snowmanwithahat said:
I wanted to get some community feedback on the Bluetooth drivers for this phone.
I've noticed several times that my jawbone icon will "cut out" for 5 to 10 seconds periodically. Doesn't seem to happen at any consistent interval with no consistent trigger. I've tested the same headset with a nexus s, and a blackberry bold 9300. It works fine with the other 2 phones.
I've also seen my Nexus 4 exhibit the same behavior with my car stereo, a clarion CX 501. It acts like it's buffering a song, no audio, but it definitely isn't my network connection because it's doing it with local content and the song doesn't actually pick up where it left off, it clearly just keeps playing on the phone with no Bluetooth output.
It's probably worth noting that it doesn't actually lose the Bluetooth connection, it just stops transmitting out of nowhere. It still stays paired and connected.
Also mostly unrelated... It doesn't seem to hold a Wi-Fi connection very well when Bluetooth is active.
Anyone else seeing similar behavior?
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works quite well for me on Stock. Are you using a custom ROM?
No issues here. CM 10.1 with Franco's kernel. Never had issues stock either. Using through Microsoft Sync in my car.
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I'm 100% stock. Wondering if it's related to hardware at all. I figured it was software based on the symptoms but if no one else can reproduce it I might start to pursue an RMA
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This device has better Bluetooth than stock gs3 and note 3 drivers. It always skips on Bluetooth while playing music with Samsung devices. While in this device, its flawless!
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I currently use a LG-HBS700 bluetooth headphones with the N4 and so far, it's been working great, I've noticed its not so much the bluetooth thats the problem, but certain podcast apps that have trouble responding to the bluetooth controls on my headphones. So far, connection has been really good, I used to get occasional dropped connections with these earphones when connected to my iPhone, but no such issues with the Nexus 4.
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This device has better Bluetooth than stock gs3 and note 3 drivers. It always skips on Bluetooth while playing music with Samsung devices. While in this device, its flawless!
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That's really interesting. Your experience was the opposite of mine. My nexus s was really great with Bluetooth.
I find it interesting that this was moved to the Q&A section... Just because I asked for impressions and people answered doesn't really mean it's a Q&A thread. Hopefully it'll still get enough traffic here to get accurate impressions.
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Stock, but rooted and unlocked. BT at first was not stable. Had to pair and unpair all my devices for it to stick. Only had to do that once and from that point bt have been stable. Using Parrot Neo Minikit speakerphone, also my jabra pro 9470 at work, and using the HTC Stereo clip to stream wirelessly via aux port. No issue now.
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Stock, but rooted and unlocked. BT at first was not stable. Had to pair and unpair all my devices for it to stick. Only had to do that once and from that point bt have been stable. Using Parrot Neo Minikit speakerphone, also my jabra pro 9470 at work, and using the HTC Stereo clip to stream wirelessly via aux port. No issue now.
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot after repairing
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http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39633
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632
Catchpen said:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39633
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632
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Thanks for digging those up! That's awesome. Hopefully there will be something in 4.2.2 that corrects this issue. You really brought some hope to me for this phone. Honestly bluetooth was the biggest complaint I had... I can live with the non SAMOLED screen and mediocre battery life... but the bluetooth has been driving me nuts!
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Hi all,
Got my nexus 4 last week - very impressed with it (then again (as my username says) i came from Sony X10/Arc land so a big improvement was easy!)
Having problems using handsfree on the phone - i'm using my existing handsfree cabled (3 bands on connector).
If i plug in the headset before making a call and dial someone, the call instantly ends and goes to google now
If i make the call and then plug in the headset, the quality is genuinely terrible.
Anyone else have any experience with this? Call quality without handsfree is genuinely perfect...
Ta in advance.
I am also unable to use my sony headset with n4 and was searching for problem.
whenever I connect it opens googles now and sound quality is clear only if I keep the button pressed on my headset. Can you check if the same case?
I am finding someone with same situation. I want to know if this is problem with sony n4 match up?
Hi Ksavai,
Thanks for the response. I don't have the headset with me now but will check later...
I also have a sony headset (MH-500) so maybe should test with another. Would like to know that no one else has this problem though before i spend money on another brand/model!
ksavai said:
I am also unable to use my sony headset with n4 and was searching for problem.
whenever I connect it opens googles now and sound quality is clear only if I keep the button pressed on my headset. Can you check if the same case?
I am finding someone with same situation. I want to know if this is problem with sony n4 match up?
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Checked my phone tonight.
With the sony mh-500 headset, i now get volume through the earphones ok but the audio level is very low; when i press the handsfree button the audio level increases dramatically.
Really is a crazy problem!
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Hi Ksavai,
Thanks for the response. I don't have the headset with me now but will check later...
I also have a sony headset (MH-500) so maybe should test with another. Would like to know that no one else has this problem though before i spend money on another brand/model!
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Samsung headsfree have same problem.
Do anyone knows which one works?
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Hey,
Is this just a problem for some users? I would imagine that it would be a much more reported problem if it was the case with every phone. Or maybe everyone else is a blue-tooth-er
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Samsung headsfree have same problem.
Do anyone knows which one works?
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There are only us 2 makes me think that way too hopefully not
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I am having the same problem with samsung handsfree. Actually I tried two sets. One had this issue and the other one just didnt work.
Is there a list of tested handsfree headsets?
After lots of searching I found out headset prior to 2011 won't work as it was different standard now it is updated standard. (I forgot the name but if you are interested I can look that up for you)
Newer galaxy s2 onwards or 2012 and later will work.
Newer one comes with grey or white circles on on pin while older ones have black.
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After lots of searching I found out headset prior to 2011 won't work as it was different standard now it is updated standard. (I forgot the name but if you are interested I can look that up for you)
Newer galaxy s2 onwards or 2012 and later will work.
Newer one comes with grey or white circles on on pin while older ones have black.
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I 've read about a ctia standard, but none of the products in eshops says whether they are compliant or not. There are also headsets with green circles in the pin...
I guess I should look for sony and iPhone compatible headsets.
2012 Sony line up was compatible
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I was having the same issue and I found this: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41860 I've used three different headsets: Samsung, Skullcandy, iPod headphones (newer model and the low mic problem persists throughout all of them).
I'm a total noob when it comes to Audio:
But I am wanting to retain my radio (plus have the options to use CDS and other such)
What I'm thinking about (correct me if I'm wrong)
Use Stereo such as: JVC Arsenal KD-A845BT (hidden in glove box)
Nexus 7 (in the double din factory location)
Powered by completely remove completely the Li-Ion Battery, and power the tablet directly from a 12V->3.7V DC converter, connected to cigarette lighter.
Run from a DAC from Nexus 7 to rear of head-unit
Head-unit will retain all functions for FM radio while the Nexus 7 will have a laptop hard-drive connected to it (needs to be rooted)
Bluetooth OBII paired with the Nexus
Cell phone paired to Headunit for audio and use app on Nexus to see who's calling
am I missing anything? any suggestions or such?
How do you plan on transferring files to/from tablet?
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How do you plan on transferring files to/from tablet?
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That's a good question..... was hoping for suggestions from someone with more experience than myself.......
I have never done anything of this magnitude (heck right now don't even own a nexus 7..... hopefully tomorrow will be buying a cracked screen Nexus 7 (2012) 16gb cheap to mess around with, that way if anything does not work out..... I'm out the 25 bucks..... I'm just trying to learn from others before I do my own....
Seeking Wisdom from those that been there before so that I may learn how to do things