Connecting to a bluetooth stereo for audio/calling
Didn't see this mentioned yet.
For those who have a car stero that supports bluetooth and want to stream audio, or have their phone transfer calls to the car mic/speakers, do this:
- Turn on bluetooth and pair the phone with the correct password.
Calling:
- When the stereo tries to get the phonebook to transfer it over, the phone will display a message in the status bar at the top that says phonebook access request (or some reasonable facimile).
- When this happens you have to (and pretty quickly mind you) pull down the status bar, and push the notification to allow access to the phonebook.
- When you do this, make sure you check the checkbox that comes up that says always allow access for this device...then you don't have to worry about that again.
- The phonebook request appears to timeout pretty quickly, so if you don't get to it fast enough the first time the phonebook won't come down. So just start over and repeat the process.
NOTE: I know there is some type of phonebook/bluetooth bug with 2.0..and google is working on it. I'm not sure exactly what that problem is. But i thought that was my problem. Then I realized I wasn't getting to the menu fast enough to allow access to the phonebook.
Audio:
- If your stereo supports a2dp or whatever the profile is, you should be able to stream audio over bluetooth to your stereo from apps like pandora, or A-Online Radio.
- The Google Nav App will transfer the speech from the directions over bluetooth as well...and it works correctly. If you're streaming audio from AOR or Pandora, and the Nav speaks, the audio pauses, and you hear the nav speech...then the audio resumes again.
It's all genius.
- Joe
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