Sony Ericsson HBH-DS980

[rakh1]

Hi all,

I have this and can confirm call qulaity is good but there are a couple of niggles:

- cannot browse phonebook from it.
- voice-dial button works intermittently (not sure why)
- music plays well from WMP but video will not

Anyone know of any fixes to these issues???

Rich

[rakh1]

I have just found that the stereo audio allows skype calls to be taken on the headset - nice!

[adelamare]

I have a DS980 on a hermes and its not good there either.

I tried using the jetware OBEX push application from http://www.jetwaremobile.com/ but I couldn't get it working. You have a go though... its free to trial and there is voicecommand support too.

Microsoft need to sort out their bluetooth stack though. I tried a Nokia with this product and I tried a Sony Ericsson phone and that was good too.... Real shame it takes some enterprising people to sort out what I feel is a bad piece of product. Lets hope we can get a new Stack on the Kaiser that actually works this time and does everything a Bluetooth stack should do e.g: Not cut out when playing audio, allowing names rather than numbers (SAP actually working), track/artist name) proper call handing etc.

[nezz]

I installed jetware, configured it(it said it isn't compatable, etc), soft reseted the device, uninstalled jetware, soft reseted the device again and i got caller id, call list working. Phonebook(and caller id as names) still not work with now playing informations.

[benmorris]

I believe that the BT stack of Sony/Symbian phones is different than the Microsoft BT stack. I don't believe that we'll have all the information (Artist Song,etc) transfered. Not sure if it's a special A2DP, bluetooth profile.

"Use it to view the title of the song playing on your phone, the battery status of your headset or the details of the caller trying to reach you." --Sony Web

[nezz]

The packet structure is the same. The diffrence is in the players, WMP has no built in bluetooth package structure while the players on newer SE phones automatically send the song informations. The phonebook should work, but i don't know why it doesn't. It accesses my pda and tires to grab the informations.

[benmorris]

Hmm. So the player needs to send the Song Info over A2DP or AVR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2DP

PocketPlayer is good with A2DP. Maybe their or HTC's Audio Manager...

http://www.conduits.com/products/player/

"Bluetooth Remote control and headphones support"

[nezz]

The track informations are transfered via AVRCProfile. I use CorePlayer and it's volume can not be controlled on the unit. It has a volume setting unrelated to PPC. That's really strange because I turn on blank screen, so the screen doesn't wake up on play, pause, stop, etc but it does on volume change. When I try to assign the volume +- keys using the CP's built in key binder it doesn't detect it. Volume, phonebook and track infos, I want 'em!

[datacrime]

Hey,

When i am listening to music on my headset and receive a call.... as soon as the call ends the music starts playing from the phone not headset??? Any one having this issue or know how to resolve it?

Thanks