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Lithoman you are the best. So I have an actually 3G doggle from Sprint to connect to the Internet . Now I don't know if this is what you are wondering but, my Bluetooth works perfectly on the iPhone 4s so I cannot say I am having any Bluetooth problems. (cross my fingers) but I am having all of the other problems. I hope this helps.
I agree with that. I think a select few of us are really pushing these forums forward and generating great new ideas. I would love a little thank you from parrot(JK). And thank you so much JEFF for helping us resolve these problems! Keep posting guys. A solution is on the way
My phone is rooted and I'm now running Cyanogen. This is the only way I have been able to tether internet through bluetooth, and it works perfectly. I don't have issues with pairing AT ALL. Today was the first time I saw a problem and I don't think it has anything to do with the radio but here is what I found and can duplicate. If the radio is turned on, and set to auto connect, but the BT is off on my phone, and then I turn the BT on, it does not connect. I have to turn the radio off by holding the off button,
OK...the sim card pull seems to fix the bluetooth issues which on my unit was causing the freezing.
I put this unit through every test I could think of. I turned on BT tethering, then ran all the apps at the same time. Also turned on USB music and bluetooth streaming music. Switching back and forth and I could not get it to freeze.
Have an issue with the internal voice audio. It is full blast and i tuned down every volume level i could find, even on my phone.
Could not adjust it. It made me jump when she gave the weather forcast.
Only time will tell ...but it does look promising. I will keep updating.
Keep posting my friends
-lithoman
One more thing...we have over 1000 views on this thread..
Lets make it a sticky
Great litho! Glad that fixed the problem. You should try the line in like I suggest in a previous post on this thread. See if you can duplicate it, or if it's just me!
The only issue I have is sometimes my phone reboots while streaming BT to the radio. It NEVER reboots except for then, so it could be the radio, or the phone connecting to the radio that does it. Being a Rom, I'm not sure there is much that can be done about it. If only Google forced updates we would all have ICS and no issues with BT!!
First lock up since, well, the last lock up!
Was just listening to the radio and driving, didn't connect or disconnect anything, and I noticed the station and time was not changing info. Tried to change the station and sure enough the radio was locked up!
One thing I noticed was that the station info that scrolls at the bottom was all "hieroglyphics" and not something readable. It dawned on me that the same thing happened the last time the radio locked up while playing a radio station in "Tuner" mode. Maybe there is something conflicting with the info it is streaming and something else in the radio? Hope this helps the Parrot guys figure this out!
Hey X,
Boy you are right with the line in issues, real buggy. Not only does it show up as line in and it is playing the radio (after you turn off and back on the HU), it also would bring up voice search on my phone, if i plugged it when it it showed it was running. Also it dialed the last number i called which i could not end on the phone because voice search was up. ( just wasn't fast enough)...
Good find X....Houston we have a problem
Fix Fix?
Gotta say. when this radio works. it is the best thing ever. Is anyone running across the problem where you click on a song and it plays a different song other than the song you selected. A lot of times my iphoe will be plugged in. I will go to recently added playlist and click on a song, instead of playing the song i want it to play it plays a different song. Usually the first or second song under all of my songs. Please help!
Gotta say. when this radio works. it is the best thing ever. Is anyone running across the problem where you click on a song and it plays a different song other than the song you selected. A lot of times my iphoe will be plugged in. I will go to recently added playlist and click on a song, instead of playing the song i want it to play it plays a different song. Usually the first or second song under all of my songs. Please help!
I dont have an iphone...but on my android phone i have the default stock music player and another downloaded music player. When i play music via bluetooth its grabs songs from the default player i had to delete the downloaded music player or i would end up with two different songs playing at the same time. After deleting the second music player it stabilized. My point is that more then one music app or player on your phone can cause some strange issues.
Let us know if you find a fix
Cheers!!
Thanks lithoman. Also, there needs to be a fix soon that stops the radio from making that loud POP noise and then shutting off. It scares the hell out of me!
I can confirm the alternate media players causing problems. There are certain settings that help, but no matter what player u use, if u start the radio to play from BT then it seems to turn on the default player... Unfortunately I had to do the same and stop using an alt player so that it works properly.
Thanks lithoman. Also, there needs to be a fix soon that stops the radio from making that loud POP noise and then shutting off. It scares the hell out of me!
Hey brubenstein did you try pulling your sim card and battery? I dont have an iphone so not sure if you can do that. I will say it has made a 100% improvement (not one freeze since doing this) on my bionic. The loud pop is the hard shut off of the unit thru the amp. Remember too unpaired the phone first then pair after the pull.
let me know
Ya I can't take out the battery of the iPhone. But I can take out the sim card. I'll try this. Interesting solution. Thabks!
Ok, so my playback is acting up again. This time with the SD card mode. I had it on SD when I turned off the car, then when I got back in after the standby time, it started with the Tuner mode.. Another time, earlier that day, it was on the SD card, and I know what song it was on, and when I got in and the radio turned on it was still on SD but on a different song... Kinda weird.. HTH with the bugs and such!
Oh and this thread has more views than the stickie *cough* make sticky *cough* 
I would like to see the ability to "shrink" the size of the album art, so that you can view more of the txt info without watching it scroll. Taking your eyes off the road for more than a quick glance is hazardous!
Oh and this thread has more views than the stickie *cough* make sticky *cough*
funny.....and true. sticky time
To do a softreset (Battery pull) on an iphone
Press and hold both the HOME button and the POWER button together until you see a silver apple ignoring the message to slide to turn off.
More SD card troubleshooting. So it seems that I can't reproduce the SD card issue I had previously. Maybe it was a fluke. One thing I have noticed more now with using the actual radio to control what I'm listening to, as apposed to using my phone with BT streaming, is that the way that you have to navigate the music is a real pain. I know I've mentioned it before, and it's detailed in my #9 Media Player section, but the more I use it, the more it seems poorly designed for an interface. One thing that strikes me right off the bat is that if you choose to play an album, there is no way to choose play all from the album level. You have to go into the album and then pic the first song. Once that album is done, it stops playing.. unless you have it on repeat. Why doesn't it jump to the next album automatically? For me it goes to the clock/standby mode and I have to hit source, and then traverse back into the SD card (which again, is not intuitive, #9) and then pic another album in the same way because I don't want to listen to the whole list of albums that I have already listened to. So the only way to make it play continuously is to either play all songs? Please update the media player aspec, it is VITAL!
Kind of piggybacking on that: The app for Tunein radio in the non-Asteroid world has been updated to include voice searching. This brings me back to one of my old questions: How do apps get added to the radio? And how can the installed ones be updated, which happens quite frequently?
The problem with the updated apps is that they sometimes won't work with older versions of Android. The Asteroid has an older version on it. I would assume Parrot needs to update these apps and either push them with a system update or standalone update. I've seen that others have installed apps that are not made for the Asteroid but there are going to be issues because they aren't built for the Asteroid interface.
SD card: so I can't place what is causing it, but I can confirm that this morning it happened again... I turned the radio off while listening to SDC and got the goodbye screen. Turned on this morning and it booted all up, connected to phone and said all drives were ready, then I pressed source and expected the SDC to come on, but it was the tuner! Aaaaaaah! So I'm not sure if it has something to do with timeframe of booting, or what. Hope thishelps to figure it out.
This has happened to me before. Try pressing the source button again and it should take you to the SDcard input. Hope this helps
I'll try the workaround, but the bug is still present.
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