Finally got bluetooth in my car stereo and reviewed some threads prior to posting, but not sure anyone asked / answered the question I have. I'm basically wondering how people are using their bluetooth stereo's. From what I can tell so far I have 2 options.
1. Phone pairs, i listen to my car stereo and if a phone call comes in the stereo picks up the call if i say, and upon completion back to my car stereo
2. Phone pairs, put the car into BT Audio mode and stream audio from my phone including phone calls.
The problem is, i'm looking for a way to combine both. For example I'd like to be able to listen to my car stereo, and if i get a notification i hear it over the radio, not just phone calls. I haven't tried yet, but i'm guessing the nav will be the same way, if i'm listening to the stereo and running nav on my phone i will get no turn by turn like i would if i was listening to music on my phone and running nav.
Is there a way to do this? Am I missing something? I have the Sony Xplōd™ MEX-BT3900U. Is this a limitation of my stereo, or just not how most people use their bluetooth?
I just ordered a replacement radio as well with BT support. I'd be curious wth what other people have to say with experience as well.
I use this all the time.
Both options will work provided the head unit you bought supports media streaming.
Your phone will connect both phone and media over Bluetooth. You listen to your media and if a call comes in you can take it while the media is paused. Media will resume after call completed.
Notifications and navigation will pause and resume media as needed.
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I've found the quality of the audio over bluetooth to be very degraded. Have a rear AUX 1/8th port and run a cable to mount, Then use BT headset for all if need be, but have Pandora playing Excision & Downlink radio the entire time
I just received my gv18 smartwatch and other than struggling with the on screen keyboard I'm liking it so far although the vibrate is very weak. Could someone tell me how I could use this with a bluetooth headset as at the moment when connected to my smartphone all audio comes through the watch. I hope this is possible as being able to use a bluetooth headset is one of the main reasons I got this but if I cant control the phones music to play by bluetooth or connect watch to headset I might have to sell it. EDIT I have worked out how to do this it has to be done in the google music app but question remains how do I connect the watch to bluetooth headset? Lastly I don't need Nfc so is it possible that a 22mm straight end strap will fit?
Watch straps are changeable and I can confirm that there does not seem to be a way of connecting bluetooth headset to the watch
Ive managed to get my watch to find headphones but pairing fails
Hi all --
So my 6p, Pure Nexus Rom, is Bluetooth connected to my 2014 Cadillac SRX. Everything is checked off in the settings for the connection -- phone audio, media audio, and contact sharing. I make and receive calls fine. I can play music over the Bluetooth connection. But I have a program called "Out Loud" that is supposed to read my texts and messages over the Bluetooth connection, and it doesn't seem to work. Waze directions won't read over the connection either. However, if I'm streaming music from the phone to the car, out loud and Waze DO work. It interrupts the music to read texts, etc. But if I'm listening to the radio or an SD card plugged into the car's SD card slot, nothing. So clearly the notifications are working if I'm streaming music, but otherwise, no go. Shouldn't the "Media Audio" connection cover all my phone's media audio, not just streaming music? Does anyone have any idea why it's not and what I might be doing wrong? Thanks so so much for any help in advance, I truly appreciate it.
Not sure if it's supposed to work any different from mine (2008 Ford Fusion), but the only time I hear anything is if Bluetooth is connected and my radio source is set to Bluetooth or if I receive a call and my phone is paired to the vehicle, then it'll override anything that I'm listening to allow me to answer the call through my car. I'm assuming this is still similar in nature to your vehicle. Maybe the app has an option whether you'd like to route sound through Bluetooth or your phone speaker instead (just like in the Waze app)? If it doesnt, maybe the dev could consider adding this feature.
Yeah, it's odd. I was on a diffeent ROM (had to switch because I was getting a lot of hot boots), and the texts were read aloud through the Bluetooth no matter if I was listening to the radio, or streaming music from the phone. So I'm confused why it's not doing the same on Pure Nexus.
It's all about the different bluetooth profiles. The music streaming portion of bluetooth has no real priority, it's up to the radio to decide if you're going to hear the stream. Now phone calls, on the other hand, is a different portion of the connection. The radio allows the phone to interrupt whatever you're listening to. For me also, if you hit the google voice search on your phone, it'll interrupt the radio to use the car's built in mic and speakers to interact. With that in mind, we know it doesn't just have to be phone calls per se., the voice search interrupts the radio (or whatever other source) just fine. The question becomes that of figuring out what apps you can utilize to cause the bluetooth connection to recognize an interruption. Personally, I'd love to see it for Maps given the scenario of my listening to the radio and not hearing the turn-by-turn prompts since I'm not streaming from the bluetooth source and the phone obviously won't play it out loud. I've done some research (of course as a non-developer) and have found that it's such a low-level operation that most developers don't bother with trying to make work. The only reason you happen to hear notifications while streaming is because you've actively preselected the option on your radio to hear whatever the phone wants to push out in its entirety.
Yeah, I just can't figure out why, with one rom, all my apps seemed to have the capacity to have the Bluetooth recognize an interruption no matter what I was listening to, while on Pure Nexus, as you said, I have to have selected streaming phone music in order for those notifications to play through the Bluetooth. I wish I could figure out how to give Out Loud that same priority. In theory, it lets you pick the audio stream you want to try ("Music, Voice Call, Alarm, or Notification"), but none of them work for me. Very frustrating.
From my research it appears:
1) it's a recognized quirk that has something to do with incompatibility with one of the protocols that Android uses.
2) when using BT & 'Radio' setting (i.e. listen to radio in car): the nav voice commands will either be mute or fade-in.
3) when using BT & the 'Streaming Media' setting (i.e. play streaming music from your mobile): the nav voice commands will work as expected
4) This or this may or may not help.
5) IOS has this issue also[/QUOTE]
Hello.
I use an Android multimedia system in my vehicle. I bought this system online. A Chinese-made CarPlay system for vehicles that do not support CarPlay. I think it has some flaws because it is a system that has not been developed very carefully. This system came with a CarPlay clone application called QLink. Everything was going well, but when the phone call came in, things changed.
The system turns off the playing music and shows the incoming call. That's nice. When I answer the call, when the voice of the other person comes, the music that has been stopped starts playing again. Likewise, at a time when I have stopped the music in the car, if I turn on Siri, the stopped music starts to continue with the first beep of Siri. In short, every sound triggers other sounds that have stopped. I'm so tired of this situation. I disassembled the hardware. I couldn't find any port to connect to PC. I decided to tamper with the software.
There is a situation like this; my car has a bluetooth module and also the hardware i bought has its own bluetooth. But when I want to connect to this Android device via bluetooth, no option about sound is seen in the details. Only "contact list" and "internet sharing" options appear. Permissions such as "music" or "call" do not appear in the bluetooth options. I think it's because this "tablet" has access to the car's multimedia tools, but doesn't have any sound devices like microphones or speakers on its hardware. This is my guess of course. If a tablet does not have a microphone and speaker on it, then the sound-related permissions should not be visible when connected via bluetooth.
I want to bypass everything like QLink on this system and turn it into an Android tablet only. Then I will create a vehicle system as I want by installing my own applications. Here is the problem. While I understand electronics in general, I'm a total alien when it comes to mobile gadgets and Android. That's why I have a few questions for you and I will follow a path accordingly.
1- Can I fix this bluetooth audio permissions problem on tablet? With tricks like virtual microphone, speaker. Or is it something else other than my guess?
2- If I clean the tablet and connect directly via bluetooth, will the music and calls playing on the tablet play on the car speakers through the connections of this hardware to my vehicle? The service that installed the system brought the air conditioner, media and ECU connections of the vehicle together with a connector and connected them to this tablet. Will this link continue to work the way I want it to?
3- Did I explain my problem clearly? I dont know but if you need to know anything that I didn't mentioned then you can ask me every detail.
I really need every bit of information. Thank you so much for everyone's help so far. I'm looking forward to your answers.
Android Ver.: Android 10
In stock there's a feature called music share, you can connect the tablet to Bluetooth speakers(including headphones) and a device with the same feature can connect to the speaker VIA the tablet, effectivity allowing multipoint on speakers that don't support it, you can play music on one device or the other without disconnecting anything.
What can we do to enable this feature on non Samsung devices?
Thanks in advance.