Bluetooth A2DP auto connect?

[qoncept]

I had some issues but keeping BT on on the phone seemed to fix it. It'll autoconnect almost all the time now.

[drewfuss]

I have a Blackberry BT Gateway and I'm having problems with autoconnect, sometimes. It's kind of a pain. I love music over BT, I just wish the unit would always autoconnect. It seems to work better if I have BT on on the phone, and then turn on the car (thus turning on the BT gateway). If you turn on the car, then the phone's BT, it doesn't autoconnect. And these rules don't always hold true either. Has anyone tried a higher end model of BT gateway, or at least a Kensington, Motorola, or Schorshe? I'm hoping our supposed savior v2.1 will make mods to the Droid's BT, but haven't heard much about it, other than the occasional rant on voice dialing.

I have the 2 new Belkin BT dongles and 2 Schorshe iPod Dock adapters. They work perfect with the BlackBerry when talking about the auto connect.

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They are pretty much the same as the BB Gateway, I think it takes less of a power draw..

[must_i_register]

I still have XM (I know this is so 2000ish) but stumbled across this topic. I currently have a BlueAnt Supertooth3 for my Droid. It is an awesome unit that I had prior to the Droid and works great with the phone part. Am also a fan of Pandora although Pandora was much better on the Pre as it let you go backwards and approve songs that you liked but were not sitting at the phone to approve, the Droid doesn't that I can see.

Anyhow, will something like this work through my stereo (factory 09 GM stereo with an input thing)? I'd like to not have to use the BlueAnt and just use car speakers without any cords hanging.

Thanks for any info.

[sheriffwoody]

I just got the BB Gateway and hooked it up to a cigarette lighter that was key on only. I can only get the droid to connect 20% of the time. The droid will mute its speaker and show it is sending the music to BT, but no music plays :-( The droid will either show the Gateway as paired but not connected, or paired and connected but still no music. Cycling the power on/off to the Gateway doesnt ever really help. Most of the time It never works, but of course if I manualy connect them using a 3.5mm jack, the music will play, just not over bluetooth.
Did I get a bad gateway? Its so bad its not even useful.

[JimmyD]

I just got the BB Gateway and hooked it up to a cigarette lighter that was key on only. I can only get the droid to connect 20% of the time. The droid will mute its speaker and show it is sending the music to BT, but no music plays :-( The droid will either show the Gateway as paired but not connected, or paired and connected but still no music. Cycling the power on/off to the Gateway doesnt ever really help. Most of the time It never works, but of course if I manualy connect them using a 3.5mm jack, the music will play, just not over bluetooth.
Did I get a bad gateway? Its so bad its not even useful.

How is your BB Gateway connected to your stereo?

[sheriffwoody]

Update... Droid and Gateway are working better today. I did a reboot on my droid, maybe that helped? Sometimes it still doesnt connect and turning off and on the gateway doesnt help, sometimes it does. Weird. I think it works better if I start the car first, then start the music, but not sure 100%

The Gateway plugs into an aux input for your stereo, either 3.5mm plug or 2 rca jacks.

I will report back and let everyone know how well or how bad the setup is working.

[Atook]

My Sony head unit sometimes misses the AD2P connection, but always gets the phone BT connection. I guessed it was an issue with the phones implementation of the AD2P.

I find I have better luck if I have music playing when starting the connection.

[sheriffwoody]

Yea. I think your right, the Droid is quircky with BT.

Update after a week with Gateway, connects about 90% of the time. Other 10% I just turn off then back on the Gateway and it seems to work. Sounds great!

[A.Brooks]

I have a BT A2DP receiver in my car and it works just fine, but it won't ever autoconnect. I have to go in to BT settings and manually connect to it. Is there a way around this?

The other issue I'm having is I have the same BT receiver connected to the stereo in my garage, and both of them are listed in my paired BT devices with the same name. Is there a way to change it at all so I can tell which I'm using?

Here's the BT receiver I'm using
Bluetooth to RCA, Fits ALL Car Stereo AUX IN, IPOD MP3 - eBay (item 270337523490 end time Jan-25-10 02:25:00 PST)

I'd like to know more about this thing. I know it says it doesn't enable handsfree, but I'm wondering if on the Droid it does allow for phone calls to come through the speakers as well. Seems pretty sick to me, and if it works with phone calls I'd be all about buying one and tieing it in to my car.

[mek_man]

I still have XM (I know this is so 2000ish) but stumbled across this topic. I currently have a BlueAnt Supertooth3 for my Droid. It is an awesome unit that I had prior to the Droid and works great with the phone part. Am also a fan of Pandora although Pandora was much better on the Pre as it let you go backwards and approve songs that you liked but were not sitting at the phone to approve, the Droid doesn't that I can see.

Anyhow, will something like this work through my stereo (factory 09 GM stereo with an input thing)? I'd like to not have to use the BlueAnt and just use car speakers without any cords hanging.

Thanks for any info.

It was a bit pricey compared to most other peoples solutions on this thread, but the nice part is I can track forward/back and play pause from my factory 09 GM stereo. This is the install I did. The nice part for me is that down the line doesn't matter which phone I have it will work in my car no matter what.

Here is a write-up on what I did in my 09 Saturn Sky RL.
mek_man Blog Archive no a2dp.. no problem? (part 5)

There are multiple parts to my posts.. feel free to check them all out here.
mek_man Car Mods

I have similar connect issues to the other members in this thread, but I have come to the conclusion it is the DROID sadly..

Hopefully, 2.1 might rectify this or someone will come out with an app to scan and reconnect.