Bluetooth A2DP auto connect?

[qoncept]

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.

It doesn't. Call audio still comes through the handset. I have Settings Profiles set up to default to speaker phone when it's in the car dock. Eventually I'll probably bite the bullet and get the hands free addon for my stereo but for now this works for me.

[Wasson101]

I chose this headunit:
Sony MEX-BT5700U Radio / CD / MP3 player / digital player

PROS:
It covers pretty much everything bluetooth wise, A2DP, AVRCP, Handsfree, phonebook transfer...

-Within 10 seconds of starting my car, both handsfree and A2dp are connected, once in awhile, (maybe once a month) it will connect only handsfree, but all I have to do is push the play button on the strereo and it usually reconnects A2DP almost instantly.

-Shows an onscreen display of your phones battery life and cell signal strength.

-Having hard buttons on the headunit to start/stop/fwd/reverse music is excellent*

-When a call comes in, you hit one button to answer, once the call is done, it goes back to whatever you were listening to before.

-You can transfer the phonebook from your phone to the headunit for permanent storage

-Stereo comes with an internal and an external mic, both of which are VERY GOOD, I've had NO ISSUES with people being able to hear me when placing calls through the stereo

-With this setup, I don't even have to take my droid out of my pocket if I don't want to, just get in the car, hit play, and I'm good to go

CONS:

-I do wish that my stereo would display track information on its display, I believe it is capable of it, but I don't think the droid outputs track info via bluetooth

-If you wish to dial from the headunit, you have to change the source from BT Audio to BT Phone, which means that you won't be hearing your music (Which is the desired effect, you're placing a call, you don't want to hear your music) the problem comes in after the call is disconnected, the stereo doesn't automatically switch back to Bt Audio. (I believe if you start the call from the phone itself it autoswitches)

-The backlight behind the volume knob is VERY bright, and there is absolutely no way to adjust it, even if you have the dimmer wire connected. I was getting blinded by this at night so I covered the offending led with blue fingernail polish and it solved the problem (and still looked good)

*Depending on which app you use to listen to media on your droid. After talking with some developers, I've learned that android has an issue of sorts with bluetooth controls, it doesn't always know which app to send the play/pause etc commands to. So alot of times you will hit play and you will have 2 media players respond to it. I use doggcatcher for podcasts, and they have circumvented this issue by having an option in the menu to "Bind to headset controls" which works great until I need to use another media player... then I have to go into the settings in doggcatcher to "unbind" the controls so other players will respond to the commands.

[jefbystereo]

Does anyone know if there are any threads submitted to google's or motorla's site about this? I am still having huge issues with auto connect to my stereo. This seems to be a droid problem and not a BT reciever problem since it sounds like people with different types are having issues.

[Dooley Noted]

May I ask how you got the phone book to sync?

I have the Motorola Droid and the Sony MEX-BT5700U (just got the head unit recently)

Everything works fine EXCEPT the PB sync.

(Moto Droid, Android 2.1 OS)

When I try to sync the phone book (selecting the option from the Sony unit to receive PB) -- The Bluetooth connection closes (I watched the Bluetooth status screen. It goes from "XPLOD: Audio & Phone" to "XPLOD: Paired but not connected" as soon as I initiate transfer)

Thanks for any help!

[Wasson101]

May I ask how you got the phone book to sync?

I have the Motorola Droid and the Sony MEX-BT5700U (just got the head unit recently)

Everything works fine EXCEPT the PB sync.

(Moto Droid, Android 2.1 OS)

When I try to sync the phone book (selecting the option from the Sony unit to receive PB) -- The Bluetooth connection closes (I watched the Bluetooth status screen. It goes from "XPLOD: Audio & Phone" to "XPLOD: Paired but not connected" as soon as I initiate transfer)

Thanks for any help!

Select "bluetooth phone" as the source on the stereo, hit the search button, you should have two options, bt browse and bt download, select bt download, and you may get a message on your droid asking for permission to send the phonebook... let me know if that helps

[Dooley Noted]

As I mentioned, when I try that - the bluetooth disconnects. There's no message on the Droid, because it's no longer connected to Bluetooth... :-(

Maybe I'll just manually put in the most common numbers I call....

[Wasson101]

I think you are using the wrong menu option, in a previous post you said you were using the "receive phonebook" menu item (which is accessible by pushing the main jog dial) when the menu I was talking about is "pb download"