I, too, am having this problem. When I connect my hero to my car stereo, it automatically starts to stream from the built-in media player, which I do not want it to do. I usually want to listen to Pandora. Even if I have pandora running, when i connect to the car stereo, both pandora and the built-in player play at the same time and I am forced to switch between the apps to find and pause the media player (no way to close it). even worse, when I disconnect from the car stereo, the media player will start playing (un-pauses itself). Very annoying. I would love a way around this. The engineers at pandora were unable to help and actually pointed me here.. anyone have a suggestion??? Pete
On Jan 10, 2:32 am, skyhigh <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been receiving complaints from users of my application that > have the HTCHero. The HTC media player on this phone always > intercepts theBluetoothmedia buttons. I searched the development > forum and found this post: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > which discusses this same issue and was posted in October 2009. > > Does anyone know how to work around this problem? > > Even registering the broadcast receiver at the highest priority still > fails to receive theBluetoothmedia button events on the HTCHero > phone. TheBluetoothmedia button registration code works fine on the > other Android phones that I have tested. > > Apparently this isn't the first time HTC has done something like this, > as I also found a report of a similar problem on one of the HTC > Microsoft Mobile Devices reported > herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=451505 > > It seems extremely short sighted of HTC to code their media player so > that it grabs theBluetoothAVRCP media button events in such a way > that other applications are unable to work with theBluetoothhead > phone buttons andBluetoothin car stereo systems. > > The Android broadcast receiver registration has a nice priority system > to allow sharing of the broadcast events. Unless the user has > actually started the media player, grabbing theBluetoothmedia button > broadcast events at a high priority seems to be very bad form. Users > don't always want to use the HTC media player. In my case, my > application is an audiobook player which provides a very different set > of features than the HTC media player, and when people are trying to > listen to an audiobook they don't want the HTC media player > intercepting all the commands. When it does this there are two > players playing at the same time which just produces an audio mess. > > My application only registers to get theBluetoothAVRCP events while > it is running. When the user exits the audiobook player, the > application unregisters. This allows theBluetoothcommands to be > shared by a variety of different applications. I can see HTC wanting > to leave theirdefaultmedia player registered in the background, so > it gets theBluetoothAVRCP commands if the user has not explicitly > loaded any other media player. But they should have done it at a > priority level below 0 just like thedefaultAndroid media player does > on the other Android phones. > > Does anyone know if there is a way to work around this poor behavior > of the HTC media player on the HTCHerophones? > > Or does everyone that wants to have theirBluetoothheadphones andBluetoothin > car stereo buttons work properly just need to completely > avoid the HTCHerophone? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
