Comments on: Put More Teeth Into Your Bluetooth

By: Will

Will — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:51:15 +0000

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By: Will

Will — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:42:17 +0000

there is other programs that will force the headset to work as a stereo headset so that you can listen to music still called BTAudio look for it

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:37:26 +0000

No the jawbone doesn’t let me listen to music, so this wouldn’t help then, huh.

By: jimski

jimski — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:03:17 +0000

OK, so I tried BlueStarter again but this time I waited several minutes between power down/wake up and it worked. You have to turn your headphones (or other device) on before waking up the phone as the software polling period is only about 3-5 seconds.

I tried it with the screen lock active and it seems to work even if I don’t turn the lock off within the 3-5 second polling period (WMP appears to open in the background). When I do unlock the screen, WMP is open and waiting.

FYI, when setting up the application to run at discovery, you need to use syntax like; \\windows\wmplayer.exe to point to the executable that you want to launch.

By: David K

David K — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:03:40 +0000

Does the jawbone let you listen to music over it? When you connect in bluetooth settings if you see ’stereo headset’ then it does. All this app does is trigger it. Of course, you can also use the other app to autolaunch the phone dialer for example when it connects…

By: jimski

jimski — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:57:56 +0000

@DavidK – I use the built-in screen lock/unlock to lock the screen before I tap the Power button, but in my testing I didn’t bother to turn on the screen lock. I turned off the screen and then woke it up 30 seconds later. Would this screen lock interfere with the Blue Starter functionality?

Maybe there needs to be a longer interval before I wake the screen up. I will test it again tonight, this time giving it more like 5 minutes or so. I would like to get this to work.

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:31:22 +0000

I’m sure this is a stupid question, but with I have the new jawbone. Would I see any benefit to using the app that will connection my headset as a stereo headset?

By: David K

David K — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:10:54 +0000

jimski- are you using a screen locker?

By: jimski

jimski — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:14:56 +0000

Interesting, but I must be missing something. I setup the application to open WMP when I turn my stereo Bluetooth headhpones on. Running the test from within the application works fine, but when I turn the headphones on, nothing happens. I have the Interval set to “on Power Button Pressed (wake up)”, so I tried powering phone down and up again, with the headphone connected and nothing. Also tried powering up headphones right after wake up (assuming there is a time interval) but no go.

I would expect the application to poll for new Bluetooth connections, but that does not seem to be the case. It may need a little more work.