Got these headphones in and found a few problems, but maybe I was hoping for too much as these are my first bluetooth headphones. I'll break it down to pro's and con's
Pros:
1. ear bud style so no painful or floppy over-ear cans to worry about.
2. paired right up with stereo option available (after running patches of course)
3. built in fm radio for when running evdo and bluetooth kill my phone battery, I can still listen to the radio with RDS display.
4. When call comes in it displays the number on the readout (doesn't resolve to name for some reason)

Cons:
1. Came with euro plug only, 120-240v so american version nokia plug works fine.
2. Sounds quality wasn't as good as I would hope with an in ear design. Sounds kind of hollow.
3. audio controls don't seem to work. but it does pause when a call comes in and plays again when done.
4. Speaking of calls coming in: when a call comes in and you answer via headphones, it blips your audio on external speaker for a second then connects call through headphone. When call is terminated, audio gateway is broken and music plays through external speaker. Depending on location and what you're listening to. This could be pretty embarasing.

Questions:
1. Is there a tweak that will leave the audio gateway open regardless of what's hit on the phone or headphones (obviously power and disable bluetooth buttons excluded)?
2. With this patch, is AVRCP fully functional and maybe my headphones just aren't cutting it? Or is it possible that AVRCP will mature to a point where my controls will be accepted by the phone.

I have this same issue with just my standard mono Nokia bluetooth headset. The audio gateway stops to answer a call, then doesn't resume, resulting in the audio going to the external speaker on the XV6700. Would be nice to find a fix for this. It isn't A2DP releated as I'm on Verizon - "No A2DP for you!".

Verizon AKU2 nazi... Do you have the voice dial software installed? I'm thinking it's the way the voicedial opens and closes the gateway for calls. I use VC to make my calls, so if there was a way for me to just open and keep open the gateway, I'd be a little happier camper.

I'm glad you got the reference! No, I haven't installed anything related to bluetooth or voicedial on the phone.

Ok, playing around with it more. I found that if I only enable the stereo profile in bluetooth manager i get full control of WMP. But lose the ability to make phone calls. I can also pause media, but can't resume as my headphones use the play button as also the phone button which I guess is just the disconnect/reconnect button when only on stereo profile.

There are a couple other profiles in there, handsfree and headset. Should I be using both of these? Or just one?

Handsfree has more features than headset.

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Talk about an online version of sticking your foot in your mouth. I wasn't using the HS-12w correctly at all. I was basicly listening to the music in hands-free mode. which also explains why I had intermittent control over wmp. Now calls come in with no issue and return from paused music when disconnected, and while I have to switch from audio mode to phone mode, I can place a call with no issues.

One thing I've noticed too is that when using wmp it stutters at the beginning and sometimes the beginning of new songs when advanced via headphones.. And of course tcpmp and pocketplayer aren't controllable. Anybody know if maybe it's a reg edit or something we can script to make the bluetooth controls work on other players?

He is correct... 99.99999% OF STUTTERING IS THIS PROBLEM.

You may have to disable some "today" plugins...
cleanup your PPC of internet files...
do a general cleanup with a prog like SKtools...
and finally re-evaluate any cache setting tweaks that soak up memory...
Bottom line is , YOU NEED MEMORY!

EDIT:
No matter how much memory you have free, there is always a bigger file(audio/video) that will have to squeeze thru and make your player stutter. So what played before now stutters?..Add in the memory/processor demand of sending the stereo audio thru bluetooth and there go your CPU stutter.

One solution is to adjust the audio/video file's recorded settings to a smaller size, lower bitrate.
Another mentioned before is to try overclocking, but now you added another prog soaking some memory.. dam it's not easy.
Oh well, I tried

I tired almost eveything. I tried to even overclock and not luck.... I need help. can some make a hack or something to make this work.....

Just to update: I am using the iPhone mini headphones, and got them to work nicely. In WMP they stutter very badly, once in a blue moon they dont stutter, but usually they do, even after waiting a couple of minutes.

I use mortplayer, no stuttering at all. Also odd is that WMP does NOT stutter if streaming music or playing off main memory. Mortplayer does not stutter when playing off the miniSD. So somewhere along the line there is an issue with WMP specifically and the miniSD.

I have tried setting my sound priority to 1. I also did a hard reset and only installed the A2DP, still got the stuttering.

Overall I am VERY happy. The sound output and range is FAR greater than the iPhone BT adapter I had before. I also never gave mortplayer a chance until now, great player.

Will we get AKU 3? Or does that mean htc and sprint are waiting for aku3 for later devices. Or, is AKU3 the big update that we are supposed to get soon? What does AKU stand for anyway?

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did anyone notice that if you change TCPMP to your default media player using the reg hack, the media controls work in TCPMP 50%. IE. Pause and volume up/down all work. I just stumbled upon it by accident. FIrst thought it might have to do with orb. Found out it works via from tracks on SD card too. Im confused now. Did it work before? Track skip does not work however. Heck with shoutcast/internet radio/xm/siriusCE why does track controls matter.

Im interested to hear others feedback on this discovery or oversight.

eyeballz

TCPMP reg hack - Installed to Main Memory in example

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:WMPLAYER
change,

String 1
from wmplayer.exe

to "\Program Files\TCPMP\player.exe"

You need to insert the quotes on the line above.

"Spinedoc:
Just to update: I am using the iPhone mini headphones, and got them to work nicely. In WMP they stutter very badly, once in a blue moon they dont stutter, but usually they do, even after waiting a couple of minutes.

I use mortplayer, no stuttering at all. Also odd is that WMP does NOT stutter if streaming music or playing off the storage card. Mortplayer does not stutter when playing off the miniSD. So somewhere along the line there is an issue with WMP specifically and the miniSD.

I have tried setting my sound priority to 1. I also did a hard reset and only installed the A2DP, still got the stuttering.

Overall I am VERY happy. The sound output and range is FAR greater than the iPhone BT adapter I had before. I also never gave mortplayer a chance until now, great player."

Great news, I am about to work on setting everything up for use with iphono mini.

do the control buttons work with mortplayer?

better yet question to all

what programs do the control buttons work with?

I followed the instructions and it worked immediately. I have had no problems whatsoever.

Casey

I installed tom tom last evening, and while it is taxing on the ppc6700, it runs acceptabley. On another note I am trialing Pocket Player 2.72. It is handling Shoutcast streams over ad2p very well from Radio Free Colorodo and Radio paradise so far. The same streams with TCPMP are choking frequently. I am starting to like pocket player again for music. Orb still kicks but with TCPMP. No suprises there.

well guys...i finally did it.

hard reset my old rom phone and did the install process (copied over the three files, installed the cert cab, installed the regular cab, soft reset...paired the device and same as above...wireless stereo option checked but no "set as wireless stereo" option after right-clicking)

so i finally did it. upgraded the rom without problems, let it install all the junkware etc. and immediately did the same process as above...and it works!

i'm using the iphono mini's (bt450rx) from www.bluetake.com and they sound great...played an audioslave song from my storage card in WMP and for the first 10 seconds or so it sounded like it was slow/lagged etc. but then it cleared up and sounds great now...i'm sitting in my room with about 10 feet and a wall between me and my phone and it still sounds perfect.

as spinedoc said...a great improvement over the range offered by the bt450tx stereo dongle that we've been using.

woohoo! now time to do deal with this new rom...

-jeff

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I also have the iphono headphones bt420rx. I installed the new rom 3 days ago and i also installed the files to pair up my bt headphones. I"m still getting the stupid stuttering. Should i re-install the patches? Should i do something different?
Please help.....

stuttering with wmp? for more than a minute? did you try tcpmp, gsplayer or mortplayer instead? i read mixed results above.

keep in mind you have the bt420rx, i have the bt450rx...so our results may be different.

-jeff

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Yes it stutters with WMP and more than a minute. I did try mortplayer. I have not tried tcpmp or gsplayer.

This was posted on xda. Not sure if it works or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=46811

On a universal or any other hacked device with a2dp you need to go into the registry and add this dword string into the following location. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\BtA2dpSnd

Make a new Dword value and name is Priority256 and then for the DWORD Data value make that 60 save and reboot. Presto no more lag, cuts or audio drop outs. I have attached the modified registry key for ease. To manually mod it the registry location is at the following.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\BtA2dpSnd

Update: If you run wisbar advanced you need to manually launch it. If you have it start up at boot it will cause lagging issues as well. So just disable wisbar advanced from startup and you are cookin.

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