Huawei watch 2. Wear 2.0. When I'm driving and phone is connected to Android Auto and listening to anything from the phone, the watch is showing the chapter / track screen. I don't want to see this. Many times I'm listening to a book on Audible and don't realize the watch is lit up and eating the battery for a long time. I have no desire to use the watch to control stuff. I have the Android Auto interface for that. I have disabled as many notifications and watch apps as I can, but nothing seems to work. This has to be a simple thing that I am missing. Anyone know what it is?
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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
Hi there,
I have an issue which is really coming between me and my sleep.
Here's where I'm at - I have been using an iPhone 6S Plus for a few months which I think is a great phone. But I'm a mobile geek. And I bore easily. And I love Android Wear. I have an S6 Edge Plus which was a loan from Samsung (which they haven't asked back) and I really like the idea of it becoming my daily driver. I'm fully bought into Android as well as iOS as I've been flip flopping between the two OS' for years. And I love the openness of it.
BUT - there is one thing that is stopping me and that is this:
I do a lot of driving for work and I have a great setup with my stereo system, It connects via Bluetooth audio, I can just yell 'Hey Siri' and tell it to, say, 'play music by Louis Armstrong' and with the tight integration with Apple Music and it plays it well. I don't have to take my hands off the wheel and it streams the song within a second or two.
I've always thought Google Now much better, but I have real issues with getting it to play music. I have Spotify installed and I've also added Google Play Music Premium but Samsung appears to have crippled this a bit.. You have to have the phone charging for it to work with the screen off (no biggie - I have a charge in my car), but if I tell it to play music, it says 'OK' and then it does nothing. I have to then unlock the screen before it actually completes the command. Which obviously negates the whole point. I may as well pull over every song and manually do it.
I can't stress how frustrating this is. What I want to do is just be able to say 'OK Google, Play Madonna Holiday' and for it to play the song. Not for me to have to say that, then unlock the phone and repeat all over again.
Some points:
* All voice recognition options in the 'voice detection' settings are enabled.
* When I say 'unlock', I mean get past the lock screen. I have the S6 Edge Plus set up with both my stereo AND Android Wear watch as trusted devices, so the phone isn't refusing to do this from a security standpoint as I just have to swipe the screen to get it to the main home screen, not input a pin or scan a fingerprint.
Any ideas? Would really help me! This is such a small thing, but it really is a killer deal for me in terms of whether I can commit to this phone full time.
Thanks in advance!
So when I go to the gym, I transfer audio files to my watch, for I don't like my bulky phablet attached to my arm. Not only the long podcasts and audiobooks don't start from last position, you can't even scroll to the point you were last time.
This issue renders the smartwatch completely useless when it comes to listening to anything longer than a couple of minutes.
Any solution for this?
I have an unrooted, unmodded Oppo Reno Z running Colour OS v6.0, Android V9. I'm placing this question in this forum because people seem to know what they're talking about.
I have a TORC motorbike helmet that has integrated bluetooth. It worked great with my old phone, a Redmi Note 4 and I was able to make and receive phone calls as well as play loud music to my helmet from my phone.
For nearly two years I didn't ride my motorbike and have started again using the same helmet. I paired it no problem with my Oppo Reno Z.
But every time I connect and try and play music I just hear this brief click noise then really faint music.
I've checked all the volume controls I can identify, the music app, the phone, the helmet, nothing's making a difference.
Weird thing is if I want to make a phone call or receive one, the audio is loud. What gives?
NOTE: I also wear an Amazfit Stratos watch which is connected via bluetooth to the same phone for the purpose of the watch accessing its companion app. Sometimes when I connect the helmet to my phone and try and play music I get this little message and audio playback control message on my watch stating I can control the music from the watch. The play and pause buttons work but there's this tiny volume control slider on the watch face that seems to be stuck far left close to mute. When I touch the slider nothing happens.
PS - I've found a whole bunch of bluetooth/audio settings in the phone's developer options section - any suggestions which should be enabled/disabled?
I have an Atoto S8 G2 and I use a lot of bluetooth streaming from my phone for things like podcasts.
I used to have a more basic touchscreen bluetooth head unit that showed the name of the track, artist, etc, all while sitting on a home screen with the clock and a moving line that showed the playback position in the track/file/song/etc, as well as minute/second marker. This was useful because I could press-and-hold ff or rew to move along inside whatever I'm listening to, much like an old school CD player.
I'm a little bit disappointed at how my Android unit handles bluetooth streaming. The screen just shows the track name and artist name, and then a HUGE MOVING DISTRACTING OSCILLOSCOPE STYLE DANCING BARS. I'm including a picture to illustrate. It's ugly and annoying, and there is no indication of where I'm up to in the track/title, nor is there a way to move the position around with buttons or any other methods. If I don't like looking at that dancing line of audio levels, I can press home but then it doesn't show me anything at all. I'd like to glance at which part of a lecture or book series etc I'm in before I shut off the car. It's silly the way it looks, there must be a better way! Is this how all Android head units handle Bluetooth A2DP / streaming, or just Atoto?
Also, if I use Android Auto (plug in, etc) and then disconnect it, it doesn't go back to Bluetooth mode. I understand if I switch sources to radio or something else, it shouldn't go back. But if I plugged in my phone, then next time I get in my car and decide I don't need AA, but I'm wondering why there's no sound coming out... it's because I'm still in AA mode!! Is there a way to automatically go back to the last mode when AA / Carplay finishes a session, much like a phone call would go back?