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AVRCP bluetooth not working?

Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) is not working on any app. i tried it with my headphones to play/pause and skip a song and nothing. same thing on my car. so its definitely the phone causing the problem. anyone else?

Same here - tried two different devices. No play / pause.

OK, it looks like Google Music has a strangle hold on AVRCP. It works in that app (which I don't use) and nowhere else.
This is one of the reasons I ditched Google Music on my last device. The minute you install it, no other app works with AVRCP.
I tried disabling it in Applications (I am running stock w/o unlock or root ATM), but that does no good. Also tried re-enabling and FC, but again, no joy.
Hopefully someone more skilled that I has a suggestion...
EDIT - there don't appear to be any settings in Google Music to turn off their control. Tried a couple apps in the market like Headset Interceptor, but they did not help.

no google music isnt the problem. it doesnt work on any app. plus on my old phone google music didnt cause any problems and worked just fine.

qman66 said:
no google music isnt the problem. it doesnt work on any app. plus on my old phone google music didnt cause any problems and worked just fine.
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Hmm... I guess we have two different problems.
On my GNEX, AVRCP (I only care about playing and pausing via BT) works on Google Music, and nothing else.
On my old DINC, I had AVRCP working until I installed Google Music (only change I made), at which point all my other apps' AVRCP capabilities stopped working (Audible, Subsonic, etc.). I then uninstalled Google Music (again, the only change I made), and my AVRCP started working again.
To me, that experience makes it pretty clear that Google Music was causing me grief on my old device, and is mysteriously the only thing that works with this feature on my new device.
Like I said, maybe you have something else going on.

so noone else has this problem?

Try Power Amp
The Power Amp player seems to work on my Senheisser MM450 BT Headphones

I have the same issue.
AVRCP on my bluetooth headset (Plantronics BackBeat 903+) stopped working when I started using Galaxy Nexus.
On my old phone I was using BeyondPod and Player Pro with my headset and play/pause worked from the headset. Now, I cannot stop or play music in those apps.
I can confirm that this has something to do with Google Music.
I found that if I start Google Music then AVRCP works with the headset. If then I go and start Player Pro, the AVRCP stops working, and pushing play/pause button does nothing. Then, when I go back to Goolge Music, everything works fine once again.
So existence of Google Music somehow hampers the ability of other apps to claim bluetooth headset remote control fully. They claim it partially, because Google Music is not starting music on pushing play button, but the player does not start music as well.

Spotify on Nexus S stopped responding to BT Play/Pause after ICS update
I am encountering the same issue after updating my Nexus S to Ice Cream Sandwich via an OTA update.
Using Seinnheser MM450s, I was previously able to fully control Spotify (Play/Pause/Next/Previous). However since updating to ICS, only Next/Previous work. The main button (Play/Pause) has no effect.
However, when I launch the factory Music app, it responds to all controls.
To try and 'debug' the issue, I downloaded a trial of "Headset Droid" app, and used its BlueTooth command monitor debugging facility. As expected, it correctly intercepted and confirmed the Next/Previous button pushes, however failed to acknowledge the Play/Pause functionality.
Has a bug report been filed regarding this issue? Can anyone suggest a workaround?
Thanks - Anj

I have the same issue. Previously - my Nexus One running stock/unrooted 2.3.6 worked perfectly for play/pause/next/previous/start|end call on cheap Chinese Bluetooth headphones. Been using them for weeks with Subsonic, flawlessly.
Moved to Galaxy Nexus, 4.0.1 (apparently .2 hasn't rolled for my geography yet) - same headphones, only next/previous/start|end call work. Play/Pause does nothing in either state, whether I am in Subsonic or not. Haven't tried Music yet as I never use it (lets face it, its of limited value outside the US!).
But I did notice that if I press and hold for quite a while, the play/pause button, it seems to stop the music in some way that isn't quite pause, but nothing else works after that, you have to manually restart it from the app.
(anecdotally, I have the unsubstantiated feeling that some/all system sounds are not piped to the headphones as effectively as Gingerbread. But I haven't tested this yet)
Finally, I note I have occasionally used these headphones on my Honeycomb tablet - Asus Transformer, 3.2.1(?) and it behaves the same as the Nexus One, not the Galaxy Nexus so this is definitely an ICS issue.

I have reported this fault on code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23172 - please add to the comments so that it gathers momentum as an important issue.

I hate to post a me-too, but me too :-(
I'm using doggcatcher on a rooted verizon galaxy nexus on the stock 4.0.2 firmware. My headphones are a sony MW600. Play/pause/ffw/rew don't work in doggcatcher.
I started up google music and went through the setup wizard. the AVRCP buttons work for google music only. Enabling/disabling doggcatcher's "bind to headset forcefully" option has no effect.
I used Titanium Backup to make a backup of Google Music, and then uninstall it. Now Doggcatcher responds to AVRCP button-presses. Anyone else want to give it a try?

Thanks daoist,
Can you confirm that you have to be root to use that particular functionality of Titanium Backup?
Thanks again - Anj

Interesting. Now it seems like google music and Pandora both respond to it. But google listen does not.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

I'm having the same issues with my Galaxy Nexus as well. I starred the link mentioned above. I'm using a Plantronics Voyager Pro HD and none of my music controls work. I also can't tap the call button to engage a voice search or anything. I hope Google fixes this sometime soon...This makes my headset quite a bit less useful...

I can confirm the issue on my Gnex LTE running 4.0.2. Google Music works fine. I don't know why, but Doggcatcher is also working fine (Play/Pause works). I noticed that there is a setting in Doggcatcher for "bind to headset" and "start application" - both of which are checked on mine, so maybe that's why it's working.
However, both Pandora and Mog are not working with Play/Pause and there are no headset options in the app settings. So either 1) apps just need to be updated for ICS, or 2) something is amiss in ICS that prevents other apps from using the headset controls. Most likely the latter...

Apparently the developers of Media Button Router have "fixed" this issue.
See here: code.google.com/p/media-button-router/issues/detail?id=10#c5
Download from here: market.android.com/details?id=com.harleensahni.android.mbr&hl=en
I can confirm that after installing Media Button Router and configuring to send all BT commands to Spotify - I no longer have the Play/Pause problem.
Thanks - Anj

qman66 said:
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) is not working on any app. i tried it with my headphones to play/pause and skip a song and nothing. same thing on my car. so its definitely the phone causing the problem. anyone else?
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I use beyondpod for podcasts - and avrcp works fine.. worth mentioning that I'm not using google music.
-m

anj747 said:
Apparently the developers of Media Button Router have "fixed" this issue.
See here: code.google.com/p/media-button-router/issues/detail?id=10#c5
Download from here: market.android.com/details?id=com.harleensahni.android.mbr&hl=en
I can confirm that after installing Media Button Router and configuring to send all BT commands to Spotify - I no longer have the Play/Pause problem.
Thanks - Anj
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that works but EVERY time i hit the play/pause button on my mw600 the prompt comes up, freaking annoying, can we have the app that just does the play pause, i dont wnat it to come up asking me what to play pause.

Sorry to revive but i've got an in-car bluetooth and the AVRCP doesn't seem to work with ICS either.. the first time I click play and the first time I click "next track" on the car after the phone connects, the phone will respond correctly, but will not respond to any subsequent buttons until I press the power button on my phone... It's almost like ICS is sitting on all the commands sent to it's AVRCP like a stack, and when I power the phone (either on or into standby), the next click is executed (without any clicks on the car at the time)..
eg: if I hit "Next" twice and "Rew" once on my car, then every time I tap the power button (between on and sleep), it would execute Next, Next and Rew in that order. I have a lock pattern on my phone too, not sure if that's hampering the AVRCP commands either... only way to get out of this is to turn the BT off on the GNEX then on again.. but it does the same thing after the first succesful AVRCP command again.

Unwanted music plays automatically on bluetooth audio connection

Hi folks,
New D851 running 20G stock (but rooted).
I paired it with my car (late model Toyota) and as soon as it connects every time I get in and start the car, it starts playing music. Something about LG Life is Good themes. They are in the default Music app.
I don't use my phone to play music, and had never opened the music app before this started. I use the paired audio for streaming apps (This American Life, in the current situation). Anyway, I manually stopped the music and got my TAL streaming. As I was driving along, I got a text message. The car read me the text message (my son found his homework, yea), then reconnected the audio player, and started playing the MUSIC again, not my This American Life.
It has done this repeatedly, even after a reboot.
My prior phone (running stock android 5.1.1) didn't have this problem... it would pick up in whatever app it left off, and wouldn't START playing something if nothing was running already.
How do I stop this aberrant behavior?

FWIW, I deleted all those stock LG songs and the problem "went away" but I'm sure if I put other music in there it will start up again with automatic play.
I haven't tweaked anything in the phone to cause this, and it's the stock ROM, so someone else has got to have seen it... Anybody?

Frankenscript said:
FWIW, I deleted all those stock LG songs and the problem "went away" but I'm sure if I put other music in there it will start up again with automatic play.
I haven't tweaked anything in the phone to cause this, and it's the stock ROM, so someone else has got to have seen it... Anybody?
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What folder was the music in that you deleted? I have a major issue with bluetooth pairing with my 16 Honda Accord. Bluetooth has stopped occurs over and over when phone and car are trying to connect to eachother. Seems to connect then phone bluetooth drops. Only time it seems to work is when the music app starts automatically. That on happens once in a while, maybe twice in the week that I have had the car. It's really frustrating, but think it has something to do with the automatic start of music.

officialsavage said:
What folder was the music in that you deleted? I have a major issue with bluetooth pairing with my 16 Honda Accord. Bluetooth has stopped occurs over and over when phone and car are trying to connect to eachother. Seems to connect then phone bluetooth drops. Only time it seems to work is when the music app starts automatically. That on happens once in a while, maybe twice in the week that I have had the car. It's really frustrating, but think it has something to do with the automatic start of music.
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I believe the music I deleted was simply in the "music" folder ... it was the stock music LG puts there as part of the stock ROM. I don't store music on the phone; my Bluetooth pairing is for phone and streaming various radio shows, so I never put any music into that folder. I'm quite certain if I put my own music there, it would auto-play as well.
I usually leave Bluetooth on (on the phone) all the time, and when I turn on my 2015 Toyota, the phone and audio player (or whatever it's called) pair as soon as the car is finished booting up. (that sounds weird, describing a car as booting). If my car is in Bluetooth audio mode (instead of FM radio for example), nothing much happens now that I've deleted those song. I simply go into my streaming app, start it, and it works.
What I have found, is that that if I get a text while I'm driving and streaming something, if I press the button on the car dash to read the text to me (in the car's soothing feminine voice), after it's done reading it aloud, I have to mess with stuff to get the streaming to pick up again, which sort of defeats the purpose of "hands free." So I pull over, mess around, and get back on the road.
It's possible that the car's defaults are conflicting with the phone's defaults, in a way my prior phone/rom didn't trip over. I will try to sort it out, and report back here.
Would you be willing to start a thread over in the LG G3 main forum (not this T-Mobile one)? I hesitate to cross-post, but maybe a wider audience would help us. I doubt this is a T-mo specific problem.

Frankenscript said:
I believe the music I deleted was simply in the "music" folder ... it was the stock music LG puts there as part of the stock ROM. I don't store music on the phone; my Bluetooth pairing is for phone and streaming various radio shows, so I never put any music into that folder. I'm quite certain if I put my own music there, it would auto-play as well.
I usually leave Bluetooth on (on the phone) all the time, and when I turn on my 2015 Toyota, the phone and audio player (or whatever it's called) pair as soon as the car is finished booting up. (that sounds weird, describing a car as booting). If my car is in Bluetooth audio mode (instead of FM radio for example), nothing much happens now that I've deleted those song. I simply go into my streaming app, start it, and it works.
What I have found, is that that if I get a text while I'm driving and streaming something, if I press the button on the car dash to read the text to me (in the car's soothing feminine voice), after it's done reading it aloud, I have to mess with stuff to get the streaming to pick up again, which sort of defeats the purpose of "hands free." So I pull over, mess around, and get back on the road.
It's possible that the car's defaults are conflicting with the phone's defaults, in a way my prior phone/rom didn't trip over. I will try to sort it out, and report back here.
Would you be willing to start a thread over in the LG G3 main forum (not this T-Mobile one)? I hesitate to cross-post, but maybe a wider audience would help us. I doubt this is a T-mo specific problem.
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Downgraded from lollipop to kit kat and bluetooth is no longer dropping. However I did have music start automatically playing as you posted here. I will follow the same steps you outlined to stop that from occurring.

i get it where if i've changed the battery(i use the free charger and extra battery) and get in the car, it'll play my ringtones i downloaded from zedge, unless i've started/paused the music before hand...one thing that's irritating to me is that it'll start track that was playing when i got out of the car over when i get back into the car...so if i'm making a bunch of little trips, i hear the same song, over and over and over and over again, unless i skip to the next track each time

Sony SBH54 with MI 6 issues.

Hi,
Its hardly 2 days, while I'm using Sony SBH54 with Xiaomi Mi6, and up till now, it worked very well, except for two major issues:
1. I can't receive notifications from any app, despite of giving full permissions on phone to its assistant app, and apps sending notifications.
2. I can't dial the number from call logs, although call logs are displaying and I can navigate them.
One minor issue is, if I play music from Pulsar music app, SBH54 can't display the track details, it only shows MI6 playing. But if I shutdown its assistant app from Mi6, while Pulsar is still playing, device starts displaying the music track information. However, when I changed my music player to Media Monkey along with its assistant app running, device worked fine and displayed the music track information. So it looks like, its assistant app is not cooperative with every music player.
However when I used it with LG Nexus 6, SBH54 was able to receive and display notifications. I tried with Google+ and Google Play.
So, I guess, it might be some issue with Mi6.
Can someone please through a light on these issues with Mi6?
Note: I used both phones simultaneously connected...
I will update if I find anything else...
Thanks

Android Auto

Anyway to get Android Auto installed on this Tab S4?
I drive a Ford Escape and the crappy Sync 3 system that Ford uses causes BT lag. Both for audio and video. I don't watch videos whilst driving, I'll explain.
So when I discovered that whilst using Android Auto on my phone (Note 9) the sound that I'm listening to comes in perfect, no lag and when I change tracks via the button on my steering wheel (or volume buttons on my phone) there is no lag, unlike when I'm only using Sync 3.
So, with video the BT lag is bad. Like almost two seconds. I get to campus super early because of construction on a new parking garage. So typically, I'm chilling in my car until the library opens. That's when I'm sometimes watching stuff on my phone so the BT lag gets super annoying. Android Auto relieves this issue perfectly so I'd like to be able to enjoy that benefit on my Tab S4.
But when I try to install it I see the message saying this device is not compatible. Kinda makes sense since this is a tablet. But as you can see, being able to enjoy lag-free video (using any video app/service on the tablet) would be super duper cool on this tablet whilst inside my car.
Anyone know how I can bypass this restriction?
By the way, there is no aux input in this car. It's a 2018 Escape. I'm assuming Ford removed this useful feature the year before? If I had an aux input this would be no issue. But BT is my only option if I can't get Android Auto to work on this Tab S4.
Thanks!

Odd. Installs (and runs) just fine on my Tab S4 directly from Google play.
You can always try to install from other sources, apk mirror for example.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-auto/

So I tried it out and it doesn't seem to work. It installed just fine on its own but when I connected the tablet to my car the tablet started vibrating from the notifications of AA. Like crazy. It just kept flashing the notification icon and vibrating but nothing showed up on the infotainment screen.

I don't know if this is the same as you are talking about, but I've got a couple apps that "aren't compatible with your device," being my Tab S2 or S4. The Jetblue flight app is one. I found that if I install them on my S7 Edge phone, back up the app, I can copy and install it on the tablet. Of course, they need to be manually updated. The Android Auto gives me the same message as roadardo, plus it says "the app may not be optimized for your device." That could explain the bugs when running. I know for chromecast it says my Tab S4 is not optimized for casting and it is a disaster.

Help troubleshooting Sony X950G video and audio streaming problem

Hello,
Long story short, I have a Sony X950G with Android 9, and for some time, usually every day, randomly, when playing an stream the video and audio pauses on the TV.
I can browse back to the homescreen again, but the system will lose its navigation sound, and if I try to open another app, video won't play (eg, YouTube) or video will play breaking up and without sound (eg, CW app), and the system will feel under stress.
The only way to mitigate the problem is restarting the TV, but the next day will happen again.
I believe this not a networking problem, because I have 100mbps up/ 100mbps down, and it's a reliable connection.
Using the analiti app, the network ttl (round trip) was around 47, 55, 65, is this acceptable? Could this be an issue? I have an Xbox One, and I don't have this issues using streaming apps.
Anyone having a similar issue or ideas on how to fix the problem?
Thanks,

What application is this happening in, or is it on the OTA tuner?

Note10.1Dude said:
What application is this happening in, or is it on the OTA tuner?
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Usually, this happens when I'm watching videos, such as The CW, NBC, Plex, Sony Media Player app, etc. However, yesterday for example, I got the issue as I finish installing the NBC app. Though, I couldn't say if it actually started as I tried to open the Google Play store.
When I sound went off, I was able to navigate, but it felt that the system was using a lot of resources, because moving around and starting apps took a long time.

Disable any/all apps that you don't use?
Factory reset would be next suggestion.