[Q] headphone jack is hijacking my bluetooth

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My droid would use whatever BT headset (stereo or not) for the phone when my headphone jack was also in use (to use car stereo) for audiobook player.

I have new Fascinate and I swear it did the same until I rooted it. Regardless, it will be close to a deal breaker if I cannot find a solution to this.

Even if the headset indicator is ON, the sound still goes to the headphone jack, RIDICULOUS

In my opinion, plugging into headphone jack should only take over media type output (music, audiobook player, video) and LEAVE PHONE ON BLUETOOTH. We should at least be able to chose this behavior in a setting.

So is this a Samsung screwup? do other Samsung devices behave this.

How hard would it be for a dev to build an app to FIX this on Fascinate.

I thought I was the only one with that situation... I would love to know the answer/fix, however I have a feeling someone will be by soon to move this to the general forum...

I actually wanted the opposite. Overall, I liked how bluetooth was handled on my old chocolate and was surprised by the differences in eclair. I expected my bluetooth to be able to grab all audio, regardless of what apps were running. For instance I wanted to use my BT with a fring call. Seemed sensible!

Anyway, I went searching, and the prevailing opinion was that bluetooth was locked up until Froyo (and tightly tied to actual calls).

Does anyone know if audio is handled in a gracefully way in current AOSP or CM?

Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.

Originally Posted by soba49

I actually wanted the opposite. Overall, I liked how bluetooth was handled on my old chocolate and was surprised by the differences in eclair. I expected my bluetooth to be able to grab all audio, regardless of what apps were running. For instance I wanted to use my BT with a fring call. Seemed sensible!

Anyway, I went searching, and the prevailing opinion was that bluetooth was locked up until Froyo (and tightly tied to actual calls).

Does anyone know if audio is handled in a gracefully way in current AOSP or CM?

I believe that my Droid 1 behaved my desired way on 2.1 and 2.2, can't remember if I used this way on 2.0...

I was assuming this was a 'problem' on Fascinate or Samsung, not android OS in general.

I thinj its a problem with fascinate. I was driving for 5 hours last week and I had bluetooth connected to my garmin and used one of those cassette thingies to play music from my fascinate. Sometimes I were able to talk without unplugging the headset.

Another reason I suspect its fascinate is cuz when I use my old blackberry headphones I have unplug and replug to use it for conversations.

Btw whats good stereo heaphones with mic that works with the fascinate?

Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

I have a friend with a Vibrant and his apparently does NOT have this problem, so I am wondering if a Bluetooth file from his system might work on my phone.

There are 3 BT files in system dump:
BT OPP
BT services
BT test mode

so is one of these the file that would determine what path audio would take in any given situation? (e.g. headphone jack occupied while BT headset connected, desired paths media>headphone phone>BT)

I REALLY need to fix this before my 30 days are up or phone probably going back.

I got my hopes up when I discovered the 'secret menu', but I don't see any setting in there that seems appropriate.

I've tested with the superclean 0.7 DL30 rom and this same problem still exists

Please let me know if anyone finds a solution.

Originally Posted by thandester@gmail.com

i've tested with the superclean 0.7 dl30 rom and this same problem still exists

please let me know if anyone finds a solution.

stupid ass samsung friggin morons!

It looks like this is a problem on other Samsung Galaxy S phones as well, see a thread and app someone made in the Epic forums.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842571

it is just the phone app

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this problem is extremely frustrating. if i have headphones plugged in the mic works just fine. the mic is only turned off when i use an AUX cable. It would be nice to be able to drive and not have to worry about unplugging the AUX cable everytime I wanted to use my phone.