Bluetooth headset
Has anyone gotten a bluetooth headset to work with cupcake such that the audio streams to the headset?
It seems that a headset needs to support the a2dp bluetooth profile for this to work. The only earbud type cell phone headset I could find that supports a2dp is the jabra bt8040. I just ordered one so I'll post once I receive it.
I'm curious if anyone else is aware of any other bluetooth headsets that work, or ones that don't.
I listened to This American Life on my Motorola S9 HD headset via A2DP and DoggCatcher yesterday. Works like a charm. The headset pause/play button pauses and restarts the podcast audio.
One thing I've noticed is if I was previously in the Android music player app and then move to DoggCatcher, the play/pause button on my bluetooth headphones is still tied to the music player. I'm not sure how (or if) I can play/pause media in DoggCatcher via my headphones. For now, I have to play and pause from the screen.
jammastercd, you need to go into DoggCatcher's preferences and select "bind the headset button" for play and pause to work. I don't think it's enabled by default.
I too have been using the Motorola S9-HD since I received the Cupcake update a couple of days ago. It works pretty well so far.
The audio for my s9-hd kept cutting until I had to disable auto-sync on my G1 and then it sounded great. I'm still gonna return my s9-hd though since its too small for my head and killing my ears. Trying to find a good a2dp alternative.
Interesting. I have a car stereo that supports a2dp but I haven't been using DC with it because of that cutting in/out problem. I'll try disabling auto-sync and see if that helps. Thanks!
I read a review of the S9-HD which said it was great for music, but rotten for phone calls:
http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Page=2&Id=5722
Have others here noticed that too?
Do people have suggestions for stereo bluetooth headphones that are reasonably priced and work well for both phone calls and music?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Have and Droid and Doggcatcher. Can pair my Motorola H15 (a2dp compliant) for phone calls, but can't get it to play the podcasts. Any advice? Am I missing something? Thanks.
Hmm.. seems that I can't get the Motorola H15 to play music from either the Doggcatcher or the android music player apps. I thought the Android 2.0 fixed Bluetooth issues and was Bluetooth 2.1 compliant, so is it right for me to assume the issue is with the Doid phone itself? Or am I just stupid and not pairing the headset/Droid setting correctly?
Looks like I was misinformed. The Motorola H15 IS NOT a2dp compliant. I went and picked up a MotoRokr S9 stereo headset which is a2dp compliant....works great with the Motorola Droid for phone and music! I recommend it. Problem solved. Thanks Eric.
I went searching for a way to play my podcasts over a non A2DP bluetooth headset. I couldn't find anything, but I did figure out a way to make it work. I'm using a Sprint HTC Hero phone.
I went to the phone and dialed '**' (2 stars) which creates a 'p' for pause. Then press call. This enables the headset without actually placing a call. After this I started doggcatcher and it played through the headset. Everything went through the headset after this point. In order to stop playback to my headset I just called my voicemail and hung up. At that point, audio was routed back to the speaker.
I don't know if this will work on other phones, but it did on mine.
good luck.
Has anyone found an AD2P BT headset that is for one ear only that works. I have the Jabra BT 530 and could not get it to play a podcast thru the headset at the VXN store with the Droid incredible yesterday.
pause/play buttons do not work they activate android music player.and after connecting headset i have to restart app otherwise the sound is cutting in and out. I have to have three media players and pause/play activates other players instead of pausing dogcatcher. It worked on android 2.0 but only sometimes. It would stop working without changing any settings, thats weird. I have Android 2.2 now and it doesn't work at all. Please fix it and put the unsubscribe in preferences instead of delete, it is confusing and make the autodelete only when the new one is available. Other than that i love the app i have not had to connect the phone to my computer in weeks . Z
I'm new to android and Doggcatcher, but It's certainly growing on me.
My remaining issue with DC is that to pause when someone talks to me, I have to
haul the phone out of my pocket and do the voodoo to unlock it, then hit pause on DC.
Sounds like certain BT or wired sets have a working a pause/play button.
Can you please report on which models are confirmed to pause/play with DC?
Moto S9?
Moto S9-HD?
wired units?
thanks!
You can add the Samsung Galaxy S wired headset to the list
One thing I've noticed with the S9 is that I can start and stop the audio, but volume I have to control on the headset. The hardware volume button on the phone doesn't do anything.
Looks like I'm in the right place. I have a Motorola Droid paired to a Icon Jawbone with A2DP. I can't figure out how to get podcasts to play through the earpiece... reliably. It will work, and when it does it's great, but when it stops it seems like no power in the universe will make it work again. Until something happens and it does.
I've *almost* given up on my MP3 player and using my Droid instead, but the unpredictable nature of the headset gives me pause.
Has anyone figured out any tricks with the Droid? Will this continue with the Droid X? Similar experiences?
Thanks,
Leithal
I didn't add any code to handle the pause/play for a2dp but there is code the handle pause/play of the wired headset media button. Android must map the a2dp pause/play event to the same thing as the wired headset.