How to setup an audio gateway AKA cell phone on your car's speakers - Page 3

Hazza · 05-29-2008, 12:18 AM

Sorry for spamming this thread. But I have one more little teething problem.

When my CarLaptop now tries to standby, the Widcomm software is bringing up a message saying Bluetooth Headset is connected, click OK to disconnect? Is there a way to suppress this message and just standby automatically? If I hit OK, then it disconnects the audio gateway and on resume from suspend it does no connect automatically.

Injector · 05-29-2008, 07:14 PM

i had that same problem, the only solution i found around it was to buy a targus bluetooth adapter

Hazza · 05-29-2008, 10:00 PM

Thanks Injector. How does a targus adapter manage to get around that problem?

PS - I was having a play with the Laptop back in my car and it seems to stop the gateway connection and standby automatically (probably when I get out of the car and the phone goes out of range). So now I just need something to reconnect the gateway service when the phone comes back in range. I think there was a utility floating around for that so I will try that.

Injector · 05-29-2008, 10:21 PM

i don't know how it does it, i initially bought it because my old unit had the crappiest signal ever.

tracker64 · 06-09-2008, 12:47 AM

i would say because it's usb that windows suspends it during standby which is why it doesnt give the error

tony

Hazza · 06-18-2008, 06:26 AM

Interesting you say that tracker64, but that is not the reason it works. It seems if standy in initiated by the lid switch it ignores the message box, if its via the power button or the suspend command in windows it wont budge until message box is clicked.

But anyway since I have moved to the widcomm stack I now have another problem. So during suspend/hibernate the USB ports (and hence the bluetooth dongle) are suspended/closed and it seems Widcomm does not reinitialise the dongle fast enough before Centrafuse starts, so Centrafuse errors and exists almost everytime I resume. This didn't happen with the Blue Soliel stack so it must be the extra time Widcomm needs to enable the bluetooth stick that is causing the problem. Any ideas as to how to fix this?

qbunnie · 07-29-2008, 04:05 PM

I've been using the Widcomm stack with a trendnet USB dongle, so I've been using the headset/hands-free profile for a while
My problem is that the audio is too low. My amp gain is maxed, the volume controls are maxed on the PC and the phone, but its still pretty quiet. OK if I'm stationary, but barely audible over normal engine whine. Anyone have a solution to this? Would a new bluetooth dongle even fix this?

Jayorich · 08-05-2008, 09:19 AM

i have a new problem. i tested my bluetooth connection with my home pc and it worked. now i installed everything on my carpc and i tried to connect my phone to the carpc. everything went fine, until i made a call. after i dialed the car pc sends a message on te tft, "bluetooth connection failed" and my nokia phone switches to phone mode. any ideas?
i'm using the widcom software 4.1.....

Jayorich · 08-07-2008, 11:47 AM

i bought a belkin bluetooth stick and tried the widcom driver 4.1. but the belkin stick doesn't work on the 4.1 driver. hardware manager says: no driver found!!
only works with the 5.1 driver which was included. but the 5.1 driver disconnects my phone making a call. any ideas?

rizaydog · 01-06-2009, 11:11 AM

Before finding this post, I installed the BlueSoleil that came with my dongle. After not be able to get it to work with freefone, I found this post. So I tried to follow the instructions in the first post and tried to remove the BlueSoleil software. However, even after installing widcom with the patch, as soon as I plug in the usb dongle, it reinstalls the microsoft software. When I go to device manager, it shows two bluetooth devices. One is a radio?? Under network, it has two more. If I try to change the drive to the widcom in device manager, it tells me that no better driver can be found.

Any idea's?

Injector · 01-06-2009, 12:23 PM

do you get an icon like this? when you plug in you thumb drive it should install drivers and the icon should turn green

hairyMerkin · 07-06-2009, 02:44 AM

Turn off windows automatically installing driver softare.

Wolvers · 09-05-2009, 01:19 PM

The latest available driver is 5.5.0.7600 from here and is free;

http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php (it's a downloader/installer app)

My phone, HTC touch diamond, auto answers with it though which isn't ideal.

mcfly · 10-20-2009, 01:38 PM

Hi all,

At this point I'd like to remind you the way an OEM bluetooth carkit (car infotainment system with BT) works: it's passive, just like a BT headset, and your phone looks for it, and connects to it. Not the other way around, like all of us seem to try. Reconnecting after leaving/reentering BT range, also, is the mobile phone's job.
Bluesoleil gives you this opportunity: right click on the tray icon, device properties and change the value of the "my device type" dropdown list, from Desktop to Headset.
This way you can search from within your phone's menu, and find ...CarPC... as a headset device and connect to it.

Now... can someone tell me, how to change device type to Headset, in Widcomm? as Widcomm only offers Desktop and Laptop in the device settings.

My other problem with this method is, that my phone (K800i) connects to the PC thru A2DP. This is fine for streaming audio, but when I place/receive a call, it doesn't switch to the Handsfree Audio Gateway, instead leaves the A2DP connection open and transfers audio to the phone.
I tried disabling the A2DP service from within BS. This results in the phone connecting to the PC thru Mono handsfree audio gateway, but this doesn't seem to work, as whenever the phone needs to play a sound (music, phonecall) it alerts "...CarPC... disconnected".

So, anyone took the other way around, and played with the "Headset" -device type?

bratnetwork · 11-07-2009, 09:55 AM

Has anyone gotten this to work successfully with a Windows Mobile? I've been trying for a long time to get Audio Gateway to work properly on my HTC Touch Pro 2 and before that my PPC6800.

Making calls I have no problems. When I'm in range it connects and when I make a call its flawless. The problem is when I get a call. When a call comes in it rings once then answers without me doing anything. And no its not the auto answer feature on a headset (i know that would be the first reply if i didnt say that). The issue is that even though there is a BT link to the PC the voice gateway doesn't connect until in a call. When i make one it connects when i hit send to dial, when i receive a call it connects when it starts to ring and once there is a connection it answers. It would be bad if im driving and someone calls i dont want to talk to or something and it just answers without me knowing.

I tested this theory with my regular BT headset. I had the headset off and I called the phone and once it started ringing i turned on the head set and sure enough it answered.

My question is how do i get it to hold a solid connection all the time like a normal BT headset would? Or make it not answer once a headset is connected?

I tried using the BlueSoleil BT stack also. This one worked ok once everything was connected but every time I came back in range of the PC or turned the PC on I would have to manually connect the voice gateway again.

I had the same issues with my XV6800 (Titan) and never got it to work right either.

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