3.5mm Headset with Mic

[crump13]

i have a corded headset with mic and the mic has a button on it. When I press the button it launches Astro player beta (which is what I use to listen to podcasts or audio books) and this happens even when an incoming call. Is there a way to change the setting for what happens when I press that button?

Some background info....

I had to recently so a master rest (8/8/2010) because the facebook update corrupted my contacts and anything I tried to open that pulled from the contacts would not work (dial pad, messages, email, people...) and after messing with it to no avail I had no other choice but to do a master reset which started a very fustrating series of events. I'm a former Alltel customer and I am still on an existing Alltel phone plan and the over the air activation process didn't not complete as it should. (much longer story that I will spare you).

The long and short of it is, after doing the master reset and setting up my phone again (using Launcher pro instead of Sense) when I press the button on my headset mic it launches Astro Player Beta but before my master reset when I pressed the button on my mic it would pause the song I'm listening to via the stock music player or if an incoming call came in it would answer it or if I was talking on a call it would hang up. Now it the mic button only controls Astro player beta. I had Astro Player Beta before the master reset and this didn't happen.

Now here's what I don't know, even though I had Launcher pro before my master reset, I had just installed it two days before I had to do the master reset so I don't believe I used my headset during that time. So is this there a setting I'm missing on the phone that will assigned an action to a corded headset button press or is change in action the result of Launcher Pro?

Anyone else out there use Launcher Pro and a corded headset with a mic that has a button and if so what happens when the button is pushed? Will it answer an incoming call or pause music when listening to it from the stock music player? Or is it something with Astro Player Beta that is over riding the mic button function to use for that application only?

 

[Revolutionary]

You can try finding Astro player in your applications list. See if the button for "clear defaults" is highlighted. If so, that might delete the default action. It probably isn't, but you can try. Otherwise, I have no idea. The whole OS does not seem to play well with headsets with inline mic...

 

[crump13]

You can try finding Astro player in your applications list. See if the button for "clear defaults" is highlighted. If so, that might delete the default action. It probably isn't, but you can try. Otherwise, I have no idea. The whole OS does not seem to play well with headsets with inline mic...

I checked the Astro Player Beta app to see if there were any defaults set and there wasn't (the button was grayed out), thanks for the suggestion. I think uninstall the app and see what my headset mic button does and if it answers the phone or pauses the stock music player then I might not install Astro player beta again, even though I like the app, I don't like losing the option to answer the phone or pause music with that button more.

 

[crump13]

Astro Player Beta is the culprit. I uninstalled it and the button on my headset is functioning as before, pausing the music for the OEM player and answering the phone on an incoming call and while on a call hanging up when finished.

 

[Revolutionary]

It's not just Astro. I had Doubletwist installed for a while and they did the same thing (trying to answer a call while the OEM player is running would pause the OEM but launch Doubletwist (and Pandora). This is definitely a bug with how the system deals with inline mics and aftermarket media players.

 

[crump13]

It's not just Astro. I had Doubletwist installed for a while and they did the same thing (trying to answer a call while the OEM player is running would pause the OEM but launch Doubletwist (and Pandora). This is definitely a bug with how the system deals with inline mics and aftermarket media players.

I also have Doggcatcher for my podcast and they have a seeting in options on what action to do when the headset button is pressed. it is checked to launch app by default so when I unistalled Astro Player Beta and tested it Doggcatcher launched but when I changed that setting in Doggcatcher preferences now the headset button press works like I would expect (pause music on OEM player and answer incoming call).

I think Astro Player Beta needs this option instead of forcing you to accept default action for the button press. They could also use a shuffle option for the music part of their application. If they had that and the headset button setting option I would install it again and use it as my default music and audio book player.