Can anyone tell me why BT Audio works but BT handsfree calling does not? Cannot hear through speakers.. I have aftermarket speakers (w/ external amp).... ?
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In using a Nexus 5 and did not have to change any settings to make hands free calling. Possible error in harness connection.
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There is a phone setting on the headunit for that as well as should be on your phone. I'm using a galaxy s3 and have it installed in a boat. Works perfectly.
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I have my setup as external as well and I don't have an issue with hearing the calls. It may be an issue with the device itself. You can try and do a firmware update to it via Pioneer's site to see if that corrects the issue. Also the MIC could be in a bad position as well..
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It should not have anythi g to do with speakers. The audio broadcasts through the same channels. Its either your phone or the headunit. I know this is simple, but have you installed the hands free mic? May want to also check in the settings and make sure BT hands free is turned on.
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Maybe a phone setting or you got a defective radio, I have BT phone calls that work thru me speakers and I also have an aftermarket amp.
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That is the best marketing point of this BT speaker market! Can you tell me:1. If you have connected other self powered speakers to this unit and a call comes in, what is the behavior of the other connected speakers (can you here the conversation through them as well)?2. Is this unit capable of simultaneous BT pairing (e,g. Smartphone and PS3)?
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I was unable to get the sony headset to work as a Bluetooth player with my bluedio headphones but it works excellent to send music from another Bluetooth device e.g. like a phone to my sony noise canceling headphones which I attach it to. It also works great as a wired player to non-Bluetooth headphones by playing music on the micro sd card. I wish it could work as a bt player to bt headphones but I think it is a receiver and not a transmitter for sounds and that is why it cannot broadcast TO bt headphones on its own but can act as a receiver of other devices transmitting over bt. Hope this helps. It is an awesome device.
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If you want to stream music from your phone (or other BT devices ) through a system which does not have BT, you plug this into any audio in jack and your set! I have mine playing through a Bose lifestyle system. I use the AUX jack. Saves me from having to hardwire the phone using the headphone jack.
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Good question. This is the reason I bought the product. However, it will not work with all factory bluetooth stereo systems. It seems there is a compatibility issue. I tried everything and I was able to get the transmitter to connect to my ford sync system. It connected and even allowed me to control my iPod using the car stereo controls BUT THERE WAS NO SOUND... No matter how hard I tried there was no sound coming from anywhere. It was rather disappointing. I would say take your chance for the price (cause it is low) and if anything, this TX and RX system works amazing with my iPod dock and my bluetooth home stereo system. When you find something that it does work with, the audio is indistinguishable from my being picky at downloads of 320 kbps.
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I would go to the Kenwood site and find out if there is a newer firmware version for the BT300 than your current version. I updated mine a while back and have since sold the car it was installed in. As I recall the update was done using a Bluetooth connection between the BT300 and my Bluetooth capable laptop and the whole process was pretty easy following the instructions they gave. Have no idea if they have a Mac version. There are some setup selections in the head units Bluetooth settings that could be affecting your phone connection and as I remember you have to turn off and not allow the connection to playback audio files on your phone or you will have the problem of sporadic phone call capability connection.
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I couldn't get this to stream calls at all - would stream any music from my phone to anything I plugged into - car stereo, home audio receiver, etc. - but when I would get a call it would not send call audio thru any device??? I bought it more to stream my calls thru my car audio than to stream my music... I wonder if mine is defective or if this is just a limitation on this model? Nothing in the tiny manual that comes with it about streaming call audio at all... ?? Anyone have any info?
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There is an output jack hole that says "speaker out". I've tried to connect another speaker through there as well as another preamp and my attempts were unsuccesful. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but it could also be a cheap amplifier. The bluetooth rocks, though.
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Buy a bluetooth receiver, stereo cable and connect to one of the audio imputs (CD). Pair your phone with the BT receiver and that's it.
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Don - The Connect-to-Cell feature was not engineered with BT enabled hearing aids in mind. It may work with them, but we cannot assure you that it will.
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Kevin, I bought this for my parents. I don't honestly remember if BT is available on this or not. I'm thinking it's not. But honestly couldn't swear to it. Sorry. I will try and check and repost a better answer.
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I don't see why not. I'm using my tvs audio out to play my BT speaker. Good luck!
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Not connected to the same source. Each speaker connects to a BT device independently of each other, in other words if you sync one speaker to your phone the other cannot be connected at the same time. I also tried to connect one speaker to my phone by using the plug and the other using BT, but it only allows one output (either plug or BT not both). I ended up giving my second speaker away.
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I've never updated the firmware on the Bluetooth adapter but thanks for the idea! I'm running the bt300 on a kvt514 deck and the problem I have with my iphone is that I always have to connect to the bt300 from my phone. Never had to shut down the deck though. Try the firmware update sorry for not being much help
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Do not know about Bose since I do not have one... I have several (much better sound & less costly) others. (get yoursef a set of Prodipe 3's!) I have others BT adapters that work in my associated docs but the A2DP only worked in one and only for a very short time... once it finally linked... and a few minutes later died. So I was unable to test in others.
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I've seen many reviews on different bluetooth headsets and the same complaints are with itunes not working right.......evidently it may be something with itunes, not your PC.
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Hey Greg, To answer a call you have to push the button on the top of the right earbud, it disconnects the call as well. If you're saying right now "But I have done that and it still doesn't work"...then THAT is because your phones bluetooth software is not a high enough version (A2DP etc.), so it can connect audio to the headset, but not phone functions....if u can update your phone OS or your bluetooth components individually, that will fix it....IF the top right button isn't controlling your phone. Hope that helps.