Bluetooth with Media Audio Only - fail!

[curiousgeorge]

ICS has a great new ability with Bluetooth to have it use BT for just Phone Audio or just Media Audio, or of course both. I love this 'cause I don't use BT for phone audio.

However if I switch Phone Audio off I get stuttery Media Audio. Seems to only be for the first 10-20 seconds of audio, but then sometimes when I change tracks it does it again. Works flawlessly if I switch Phone Audio back on.

I am bummed as this was a great feature for me. Is the feature just half-baked or is my Motorola T605 Bluetooth receiver add-on to blame? My old Motorola Droid worked flawlessly with BT, of course it had no option to exclude Phone Audio.

 

[dschulman]

ICS has a great new ability with Bluetooth to have it use BT for just Phone Audio or just Media Audio, or of course both. I love this 'cause I don't use BT for phone audio.

However if I switch Phone Audio off I get stuttery Media Audio. Seems to only be for the first 10-20 seconds of audio, but then sometimes when I change tracks it does it again. Works flawlessly if I switch Phone Audio back on.

I am bummed as this was a great feature for me. Is the feature just half-baked or is my Motorola T605 Bluetooth receiver add-on to blame? My old Motorola Droid worked flawlessly with BT, of course it had no option to exclude Phone Audio.

I have the same problem with my Moto T-505 (predecessor to the T-605). I too had a Droid 855 that worked flawlessly with this setup. BTW, you could also disable the phone portion of the bluetooth signal on the original Droid. You just had to longpress on the BT connection to the car audio device and you would have seen two checkboxes, one for media and one for phone. With my old Droid I had the media going to the T-505 and the phone going to the car's built-in BT phone connection, just like I do now with the Nexus. My car doesn't support BT media.

 

[curiousgeorge]

No way! I lived with that small irritation for 2 yrs with my original Droid and I could have solved it from the start! Argh. I can't believe I never researched it.

So this must really be an ICS problem then? I'm hoping for a software fix. I wonder where I might report this problem, or have you already?