Help: headphones problems

[WilburNJ]

Hi,

I'm brand new to both the GN and adroid in general (have had iPhones for a few years), so please forgive the newbie question.

I've been trying to figure out how to use the headphones that came with the phone -- in particular the one-button control. When I'm playing music with the built-in player (Google Music, I presume), I can use the single button to pause and start, and a double click takes me to the next song. But, triple click doesn't rewind to the start or (if early in the song enough) to the the previous song. Also, after installing "Headset Button Controller" and trying to set up the single button for volume control (with a "long press"), all that happens is that the music stops and I head back to something like the main menu of the "Music" app.

Now, if I have either "doubletwist" or "winamp" running and it's on the screen, the headset appears to work for the three functions (play/pause, forward, rewind). But, when the phone locks or I'm going something else with the phone (like surfing) and I try to forward with the headset's single button, for example, my GN mutes the song that's playing on doubletwist and opens up a random "recent" song in the "Music" app.

Is there anyway to make sure the headset's single-botton remote always works with whatever audio app happens to be running? I just don't understand this random behavior by the phone/headphone.

Separately, I understand that there's no way at the present to use a three-button remote/mic headset with android phones, or at least not with this one. (I'm thinking about geting the zaggs ear buds that hse the analog in-line volume control, but not sure yet.) Anyone find another full remote/mic ear buds that work as intended by the GN?

Thanks much,

Will

 

[revickulous2001]

Always remember that if ANYTHING on this phone or even the headphones that come with even remotely seem anything like the Apple equivalent, then Apple (being the anti-free-market company they are) will attempt to sue Google. After all, they did try to tell Samsung not to make their tablets black because they (of course) had the patent on black tablets.

I have no idea how to operate this thing. I'm using them right now to listen to some music I purchased on Google Music. But thank Apple if they weren't able to make these things work in any logical manner. Hopefully one day some court somewhere will begin to say that you can't sue somebody over the color black.

 

[ignite023]

I was toying with this myself today.. I don't think the App is compatible with ICS yet, may need to wait.