Prevent phone mic muting when call recieved while using headphones

[Guest shovon]

Hi

This question has been asked before in various ways but I will ask it again just incase someone has found a way or would be willing to consider looking into it.

I use my pulse in the car. It draws power and outputs audio with connections made to the usb and headphone sockets directly to the car stereo via an iPod connection I had previously installed. Things work OK, I can listen to music on the phone and use satnav with sound being sent to the car speakers.

But, because the headphone socket is being used, when I recieve a phone call while phone is connected to car stereo, I can answer the phone and hear the person calling but I can't reply because the phone mutes the microphone. This is a real shame as everything else pretty much works apart from this. Yes I could unplug the headphone connection when receiving a call but firstly this kind of defeats the object of me using the car speakers to hear the person calling and second, it would be dangerous to be fiddling with the wire while driving.

I can't use the 'car mode' app as the phone still mutes the mic because the headphone socket is being used and again the sound from the call being received would be diverted to the phone's external speaker rather than the car stereo via the headphone socket. I can't use a set of headphones with an inline microphone as obviously the headphone socket is being used to send sound to the car stereo.

Do you think there is any setting that could be changed in the registry with adb shell that could stop the mic being muted and call received and headphone socket being used?

I don't have a clue about programming but this parameter I found on the android developers site under audio managers, would it be useful?

public void setMicrophoneMute (boolean on)

Since: API Level 1

Sets the microphone mute on or off.

This method should only be used by applications that replace the platform-wide management of audio settings or the main telephony application.

Parameters

on set true to mute the microphone; false to turn mute off

I really don't understand why there isn't the ability to receive and make calls while using the headphones, surely people listening to music don't want to have to remove them every time someone calls?

Thanks

Shovon

[Guest Fusion0306]

Hi

This question has been asked before in various ways but I will ask it again just incase someone has found a way or would be willing to consider looking into it.

I use my pulse in the car. It draws power and outputs audio with connections made to the usb and headphone sockets directly to the car stereo via an iPod connection I had previously installed. Things work OK, I can listen to music on the phone and use satnav with sound being sent to the car speakers.

But, because the headphone socket is being used, when I recieve a phone call while phone is connected to car stereo, I can answer the phone and hear the person calling but I can't reply because the phone mutes the microphone. This is a real shame as everything else pretty much works apart from this. Yes I could unplug the headphone connection when receiving a call but firstly this kind of defeats the object of me using the car speakers to hear the person calling and second, it would be dangerous to be fiddling with the wire while driving.

I can't use the 'car mode' app as the phone still mutes the mic because the headphone socket is being used and again the sound from the call being received would be diverted to the phone's external speaker rather than the car stereo via the headphone socket. I can't use a set of headphones with an inline microphone as obviously the headphone socket is being used to send sound to the car stereo.

Do you think there is any setting that could be changed in the registry with adb shell that could stop the mic being muted and call received and headphone socket being used?

I don't have a clue about programming but this parameter I found on the android developers site under audio managers, would it be useful?

public void setMicrophoneMute (boolean on)

Since: API Level 1

Sets the microphone mute on or off.

This method should only be used by applications that replace the platform-wide management of audio settings or the main telephony application.

Parameters

on set true to mute the microphone; false to turn mute off

I really don't understand why there isn't the ability to receive and make calls while using the headphones, surely people listening to music don't want to have to remove them every time someone calls?

Thanks

Shovon

The easiest way would be for you to ask someone (or you can do it yourself - if you're familiar with soldering) to make an adaptor out of stock headphones that come with pulse (the ones with the microphone). Cut the headphones off and put the jack adaptor instead. And than just plug it to your sound system. That way you can have the microphone attached to your t-shirt and still hear the person (and everything else) through the car sound system.

Edited July 29, 2010 by Fusion0306

[Guest shovon]

The easiest way would be for you to ask someone (or you can do it yourself - if you're familiar with soldering) to make an adaptor out of stock headphones that come with pulse (the ones with the microphone). Cut the headphones off and put the jack adaptor instead. And than just plug it to your sound system. That way you can have the microphone attached to your t-shirt and still hear the person (and everything else) through the car sound system.

Thanks, that is a possibility but a bit fiddly and not an ideal solution. One end of the lead would be attached to car stereo, the other attached to phone, then the lead would be attached to me in the middle with mic!

Do you think this microphone mute business spans across all android phones or just our pulse and a few others. Afterall, the Nexus can be used in a car phone dock specifically for this purpose can it not?

Is there really no software solution to this problem?