Frustrated with Car Dock - Thunderbolt Accessories

Is anyone as annoyed with the car dock as I am. Maybe I just have a bum unit but here is my experience:
When I first got the car dock, I got in the car, fired up a song in the music plater and then dropped it in the dock. This made the music stop. I went back into the player but now that it's in landscape the stock music player is useless.
I went ahead and moved to WinAmp to get around this but now I'm finding that I drop the phone into the dock and it fires up CarDock. I exit car dock, go into WinAmp and play my music.
Then as I'm driving around (and it's very random) the phone will start to go to sleep, then wake back up, then flip back into CarDock, then back out of CarDock, then everything goes mute and I get an icon in the notification bar that looks like a music icon with a slash through it. I press the volume buttons and it says the volume is all the way up but I hear nothing. If I leave the phone alone, sometimes 5 mins later all of a sudden audio comes back.
I decided to give another dock app a chance today. I got Car Dock Home v3 and put the WinAmp widget on the main screen...so I wouldn't even have to close the Dock app. After 5 minutes of driving it went to sleep, then it woke back up....then for some reason LogMeIn fired up and told me I had been logged out (haven't used LMI for weeks), then the audio stopped again.
This is making the device useless for me....I use my phone as music in my car and this is making it worthless.
Any thoughts? Could it be the power supply being too low a voltage? Could it be the magnet in the car dock that's causing this behavior? Or worse, could it be the magnetic switch in the phone?

Thats weird. I am running VirusROM and switched from the HTC car home app (which sucks bigtime IMO) to the Google Car Home. I have had no issues - I increased the screen timeout to 30 minutes, no weird app launches at all. I use DoubleTwist for the most part, sometimes WinAmp.

go to settings > applications > development > stay awake. this will keep the screen from going to sleep as long as it's plugged in to a power supply.

BzBz,
Thanks for the tip but it seems to have corrected itself....sorta. I've taken 3 15 minutes car rides and it's working as it should now. The only difference, the window mount came off the window and I reapplied it.
I'm wondering if I had it to where my dash was bumping the back of the AC cable, causing it to disconnect and reconnect power....thereby causing the unit to do odd things.
Since then, it's been working perfectly, been playing music via WinAmp with no audio drop out, even switch into Navigation for a bit, it did all the pausing and unpausing of the music.....I just may keep it. =)
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Oh, I was even trying to cause it to happen by taking a few speed bumps faster than I should...really bouncing the phone around and I can't seem to recreate the problem anymore.

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Songs auto skipping with headphones plugged in

So I am sure others have this problem, but when rooted with Toast's any rom causes the music player to keep skipping songs when headphones are plugged in. And if you just plug them in it starts up the music player and does this.
It sometimes stops and doesn't do this, but it seems to do it a lot more when you are walking with the phone, maybe something with the sensors?
Anyone else have this problem?
BUMP.
Anyone ever figure this out? Seems like a hardware issue but I have no idea. Just bought a new pair of the same model headphones and it started with my new pair. I can hold the phone in my hand smack it around, shake the phone, shake the cord and nothing. The very moment I drop it in my pocket it skips the song.
I was working out yesterday and while actively doing chest press my phone was skipping songs every 2 seconds, VERY hard to concentrate with that crap. Just wondering if anyone figure this crap out.
The OP is right when its sporadic because it skipped nonstop, then I took it out reattached the headphones and back into my pocket it went. A good 15min went by without any skipping. Soooo I don't understand it. Only thing I can think of is the static electricity in the pocket or something.
Download the free Widget "Headset Blocker" from the market. Enable it and fixed!

Resume play with headset in Google Music?

How do you resume play using the headset button instead of having to turn the screen on and tapping play? This is super annoying how I have to take my phone out of my pocket every time I want to resume.
It works if I pause, then play in a few seconds, but if I wait a few minutes, I have to turn the screen on....
Seems to work with me on stock 4.0.2 and the included Samsung headset. Today I stopped listening to music for over 2 hours, then just put the headphones in, hit the button, and it started playing.
I just timed it, I paused for 3:30 and tried to resume but it doesn't work unless I tap the scteen
I get that, too. I think it has to do when the phone goes into deep sleep. I don't remember if it happened in stock roms as well. I've been on custom 4.0.3 rom since practically the day I bought the phone.
You don't really have to tap on the screen to resume. Waking up the phone via the power button will make it respond to the headset button input. So instead of whipping out the phone every time, you can just reach into your pocket and press the power button then press the headset button. It's a poor workaround, though.
thereddog said:
I just timed it, I paused for 3:30 and tried to resume but it doesn't work unless I tap the scteen
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Still don't have to. It can be sitting on the table for 20min and I can put the headphones in and start music. And its not like I'm doing anything fancy. Set up Google Music normally and haven't messed with it. Just works.
martonikaj said:
Still don't have to. It can be sitting on the table for 20min and I can put the headphones in and start music. And its not like I'm doing anything fancy. Set up Google Music normally and haven't messed with it. Just works.
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Try this, pause the music, DO NOT unplug the headphones and let it sit around for 30 secs or so, then press the headset button to resume playback. If I unplug the headset while paused then plug it back in, headset button will work.
I has this happen.. I hit the button two times and it responded finally. I was using poweramp though.
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j.go said:
Try this, pause the music, DO NOT unplug the headphones and let it sit around for 30 secs or so, then press the headset button to resume playback. If I unplug the headset while paused then plug it back in, headset button will work.
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1) headphones in
2) started song, turned off screen & listened for a couple minutes
3) pause with headphones
4) sit for ~3 min screen off
5) screen still off, headphones in, hit button
6) music starts playing instantly.
martonikaj said:
1) headphones in
2) started song, turned off screen & listened for a couple minutes
3) pause with headphones
4) sit for ~3 min screen off
5) screen still off, headphones in, hit button
6) music starts playing instantly.
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Well, it doesn't work for me. It might be a custom ROM or 4.0.3 thing.
I typically run into this when I use the bluetooth audio in my car. With my Nexus One running CM7 I was always able to just sit down, wait a couple seconds for bluetooth to connect, and hit play, all without having to take the phone out of my pocket.
With Galaxy Nexus running stock 4.0.2 the bluetooth still automatically connects when I turn the car on, but play/pause doesn't work until I open up Music and manually hit play. Will try just powering phone on briefly tomorrow.
For those who say they can't reproduce this: have you disconnected your phone from power? The phone doesn't appear to ever enter deep sleep while on a charger, so if it has something to do with deep sleep as someone suggested, that would prevent this.
Mine is not on power when this happens. I am away from my desk a lot at work and I pause/resume frequently to talk to coworkers. So this is very frustrating for me.
thereddog said:
Mine is not on power when this happens. I am away from my desk a lot at work and I pause/resume frequently to talk to coworkers. So this is very frustrating for me.
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Mine works the same whether plugged in or not, I should add.
Same thing happens to mine. I have a single button inline mic on my headphones. One the Nexus One, I could hit the button at anytime to play and it worked just fine. Now I have to double tap the button to get it to work. And it's not completely reliable. I sometimes have to spam the button to get it to come alive.
This is odd because according to my battery usage, my phone hardly ever goes into deep sleep, yet the headphone controls have trouble waking the phone.
I've tried this with UberMusic and Google Music using my headphones and Bluetooth receiver in my car, where it struggles even more. It just doesn't readily respond to the button input. Basically the same problem as this guy: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24364
Anyone come up with a solution
hello.
I thought I had a hardware problem with my Galaxy S2 and posted a thread about it in the i9100 forum.
but some googling brought me to this page. I have the same problem, and seeing how you guys are on different hardware makes me suspect (hope for) a software solution.
any help would be greatfully accepted, this is really annoying.
a better work around for the moment is to install Jays Headset Control from the market, it's free. there is an option somewhere in there that 'beeps' whenever you press the button. so now when the phone is in my pocket i can press and hold until i hear the beep, which means i can then press again to continue playing.
hope that helps a bit.
currently running android 2.3.6

List of bugs for SPH-L710

First bug is the audio bug when listening to music and a call comes in music stops and music is set to resume after call and audio basically dies i have to unplug whatever is in either headphones or mp3 and play the Music then reconnect while playing it is so annoying
Second bug i encounter sometimes when i answer a call it sometimes auto ends call instantly
Third not really a bug but its difficult to take a screenshot with buttons and sometimes swiping the palm moves the page
Everybody post bugs within the phone here hopefully if it gets enough replies maybe Sprint/ Samsung will see this :0
Wifi bug in which the wifi comes back on even if turned off.. it comes on on its own..
Kalihiboy89 said:
Wifi bug in which the wifi comes back on even if turned off.. it comes on on its own..
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actually thats a feature not a bug go into settings into network>more settings then uncheck sprint optimizer connection
Ha the beauty of the internet. Thought it was a bug too. I don't have any problems with the music coming back on.
I did have scenario where i used a charger and the screen would freeze. Then when I unplug the charger the screen would unfreeze.
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Happy to see this posted. I was riding my road bicycle today and use Map My Ride for my biking stats while listening to music.
Well I I just got my Sgs3 and was assuming everything would go fine on my ride. Nope, didn't happen after a few miles and songs into my ride my music stopped and all audio for that matter. When I was finally done I unplugged my headphones and couldn't even get sound to come through my external speakers either using the music player or Youtube.
Finally, I tried making a phone call and my ear speaker was ringing so I switched over to my external speaker which then started working. This in turn seemed to reset the problem.
I was freaking out cause I've only had the phone for 2 days. I did read over in Androidforums.com that people are having problems with sound going out particularly in phone calls and have had to have the mother board replaced. Many users seem to be international though so hopefully this isn't the case for us and our is software related.
Also I feel like my back button lags somewhat. Not sure if anyone else notices that.
Edit: Forgot the bug that when I press home button it doesn't always take me to my main home screen, it takes me to the next one over and I did check to make sure the main home screen I want is set in the Edit home screens option.
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Popping sounds in headphones after podcast or other background audio stops in standby

So, i recently started listening to podcasts when going to sleep or when i wake up at night. I finally have a 5X with a good display since a week and i recognized this problem because it always wakes me up.
I still couldn't figure out what causes this bug(?), maybe some of you could test it as well:
I use Podcast Addict, but i tested a few other apps as well, the problem occurs there too.
I listen to the podcast and, with screen off, when the podcast stops because it's finished or the sleep timer stops it, a regularly popping sound comes out of the headphones until i activate the screen.
Sometimes it doesn't happen when i unplug and plug the headphones in again, i use some cheap 3-conductor sony in-ears.
I found additional 3-conductor earbuds in a drawer, same problem.
It seems that it doesn't occur with the 4-conductor iPhone earbuds/headset of my wife. That also seems to be the case with another 4-conductor In-ear headset i found.
I'm on the march build MHC19J and can't tell if the problem only occurs in this build.
Posted on reddit as well: https://m.reddit.com/r/nexus5x/comments/4c4zco/popping_sounds_in_headphones_after_podcast_stops/

Music has been pausing randomly.

I have the Koodo Mobile (I think Telus Variant) and I just got Marshmallow a few weeks ago. The only problem I have been having is my music pauses randomly sometimes.
I use google play music solely, and it would pause without fail if it's in my pocket. I know it's not my headphones because it also did it when my headphones were unplugged. If it pauses, I can open the case (which by the way is a smart case with the circle) or just press the power button, it would continue. It has done it in 5 seconds of going in pocket and then sometimes a few minutes later. I am at a loss, because I thought it was either gesture settings (Which I can't find in settings any more) or the new battery optimization settings (Same thing). Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

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