Connecting to Bluetooth automatically starts music player?

[smccaldin]

I've recently brought a new car stereo and bluetooth gateway - both of which connect to my G1 fine, however...

When I connect them (e.g. when they switch on, as both connect automatically), it starts the music player on my phone playing a random track!

This is becoming very annoying, as I typically listen to Podcasts, not music. So my question...

Is there anyway to stop this happening?
And/or automatically start BeyondPod to be the app that launches on a bluetooth connection?

Note: Am running Cyan 4.0.2 on G1, with JG-Cyan theme (default music player, with slightly different skin).

 

[Markley02]

I am wondering if there is a way to stop this also. I have a Ford with the Sync system and when I call someone there will be music playing in the background until I shut off the music player. lol.

 

[supremeteam256]

Mine is straight with the JVC KW-NX7000BT head unit. What are your guys spec? Are you rooted? What rom? And do you have the newest radio?

 

[smccaldin]

Mine is straight with the JVC KW-NX7000BT head unit. What are your guys spec? Are you rooted? What rom? And do you have the newest radio?

Not sure what you mean by 'Mine is straight'.

My head unit is a Clarion FB289, connecting to a rooted G1 with Cyan 4.02 Rom (with JG-Cyan Theme). As far as I'm aware I have the latest radio.

As the problem/action happens with two different BT devices, gotta be something to do with the phone/ROM (?)

 

[supremeteam256]

Not sure what you mean by 'Mine is straight'.

My head unit is a Clarion FB289, connecting to a rooted G1 with Cyan 4.02 Rom (with JG-Cyan Theme). As far as I'm aware I have the latest radio.

As the problem/action happens with two different BT devices, gotta be something to do with the phone/ROM (?)

When I said mine is straight just meaning mine doesn't act in the way you guys are having. Go to your settings on your phone and go to about phone and look what your baseband says. Most likely you prolly do have the newest radio but you just wanna check. Without having the newest radio you can run into BT problems.

 

[Markley02]

It has done it not rooted, rooted with JF 1.5, cyan's 3.6.8.1 through 4.02, Hard and the 1.33.2005 SPL, always the latest Radio.

I guess it is the BT device.

 

[smccaldin]

New Development

I'm mainly using BeyondPod to listen to podcasts (go figure...).

But was playing with the settings following the last update, I realised that the 'enable headset buttons' wasn't 'on'.

Since switching it on, when I connect to bluetooth devices, it starts up BeyondPod, rather than the music player...

... better for me, would be nice if nothing happened!

 

[bobblack]

+2 year old thread - same problem. Still. It's kinda funny, but then again it's really, really frustrating.

On the same token, cars usually request access to the contact list - and I've found that the phone allows this even if I don't explicitly allow it. If I happen to look at the phone right when the car system makes this request, I can see the notification and I get to "Allow" or "Cancel". But if I don't do anything, it automatically allows it. What gives?

This has to be a flaw of Android. It's a HUGE security risk too. I use rental cars frequently when I travel and I really don't want to give all my contact data to a car that has a new driver every other day or so.

I have a Motorola Atrix btw, not an HTC Dream. Maybe a mod could move this to a general Android forum.

 

[timsmooth]

I've recently brought a new car stereo and bluetooth gateway - both of which connect to my G1 fine, however...

When I connect them (e.g. when they switch on, as both connect automatically), it starts the music player on my phone playing a random track!

This is becoming very annoying, as I typically listen to Podcasts, not music. So my question...

Is there anyway to stop this happening?
And/or automatically start BeyondPod to be the app that launches on a bluetooth connection?

Note: Am running Cyan 4.0.2 on G1, with JG-Cyan theme (default music player, with slightly different skin).

If this does not work try the solution below. I just went out and trouble shooted with my radio. Seems like when I make the pair from the phone to radio I have the problem. When I make the pair from the radio to the phone its a non issue. The first phone I paired was my Galaxy note I went into the radio settings and searched for my phone; paired the phone and it maintains the connection perfect. When I switch between cd, aux and BT audio the phone stays connected. Calls come in voice switches to speaker and then after call if music is playing it resumes via what ever method it was playing pre call. ie CD, FM/AM or media app (pandora).

On my GS2 I tried making the connection from the phone first. ie making the phone seek the radio's BT signal. This is where I had problems. The stock music app would start after every call. ie send or recieve. I also got the annoying music starting everytime the device reconnected. ie the phone would dissconect everytime I switched the radio's input method between cd, aux or bt.

Soulution 1) Make the pair from your head unit and not the phone. Temporairly set your phone to visible and make the pair that way.

Solution 2) Headset block. Stops unwanted headset controls. In this case play on connect. Just remember to open app and hit the toggle button to on on your first use. found in the Play Store.

Solution 3) More of a work around. Media Button Router : App that lets you select what app you want to auto open on BT audio connect, or you can have it just display choices and cancel them out when you turn on the screen.

Both work well with the first being the better of the 2, but the second addresses you secondary criteria "or automatically start BeyondPod to be the app that launches on a bluetooth connection".

 

[timsmooth]

I think its solved now my this thread RIP. It frustrated the heck out me, but nowhere actually had a solution. Hope it does not come back in 4.0.

 

[ghatothkach]

hi
Well Dec 2012 and I am still struggling with this...

I have a Subaru and a Subaru Factory radio with BT streaming. I cannot do "solution 1" as the car stereo does not have option to search for available devices.

The problem I have is not only the above but more...
0. I have the XXLSJ based Neatrom (Jelly Bean) on my galaxy S2
1. It automatically launches either "Power Amp" or the default JB music player. (earlier it used to do Power Amp, but lately it is doing the JB player)
2. I have switched off bluetooth controls in PowerAmp.
3. There is no option for switching off bluetooth in the default JB music player.
After I start the car, I usually switch on "google listen" and the try to play the podcast I want to hear,
next it starts playing and in a secon or two gets muted, (as some music app tries to autolaunch I guess)
then I do vol+ or vol- on the car stero and it starts playing the podcast, and then the phone freezes (hence it mutes again)
and I get a message "poweramp force closed" at this time if I am luck the bluetooth connection stays or sometimes
it resets, and then I have to go through the procedure again!
If I am lucky the bluetooth stays and I am able to listen to the podcast...
If I use the seek+ or seek- buttons on the car I can switch podcasts which is fine, but the Meta-tags shown on the screen are
not of the podcasts, they are still comming from poweramp. If I hit vol+ and vol- on the PHONE (not the car) then the meta-tags
switch to the next or previous song. Note that as the metatags switch I am still listening to 'google listen' and not poweramp.

I would have liked this to work cleanly.. but well...

G