Audio / Headphone - Music Control through headphones

[ThermoDust]

I am getting my feet wet again in the Android world after leaving it a while back for Windows. Now that I am back I have ran into an issue with my headphones. The headphones have a button built into the cable to control the music. This single button should be back to pause/play, skip/go back track, and activate voice communications.

I have found that only pause/play and voice communications work. Is there a setting in Android that would be preventing it from working? Klipsch is blaming the firmware of the phone but I can only suspect brand might be an issue as I tried it on my friends who is also Motorola but a different model and carrier.

This manual might show you better what I talking about for button control - http://images.klipsch.com/R6m_-_Manual_-_v01PRINT_635604604167218000.pdf

 

[SpookDroid]

Actually, it does depend on the phone. Connections in those headphones might vary and that could keep the control button from working. For instance, iPhone headphones don't usually work with Android devices. Furthermore, Android only implements call, play, pause, voice command prompt, and skip actions with the single button controls. It's up to each app dev to implement other features like backtracking, fast-forward, etc.

 

[pbike908]

Yeah I think it varies from phone to phone and headset to headset. I have the droid turbo 2 and have tried 3 separate headsets with it -- 1 Bose and 2 skull candy's. Each gave behaved differently. Even the two skull candy's behave differently. I also think the audio app also varies. For me I have only tried Spotify and sometimes I think the headset with Spotify crashes my phone. But an off and on fixes it.

I think the best one can hope for on Android is pause and play. And I can't get that to work consistently. I think I have heard folks have more success with Samsung galaxy as that is the Android flagship. Not sure about Google Nexus.

Have to give props to Apple in regards to this functionality as all the vendors can manufacture/code for a single environment.

Good luck. I share your frustration but not a deal breaker for me.

 

[ThermoDust]

Darn - Okay thank you both.

 

[SpookDroid]

Also, Apple isn't that consistent either. Just try an old pair of iPod headphones in newer iPhones and you'll see what I mean. And while Android and manufacturers have done a better job for a while at keeping the hardware standard (with a few exceptions... cough... Nokia...cough), the signal controls that are 'standard' in Android are basic, with 'scrubbing' and further commands left to the app developers to implement.