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[radhoo]

Version 1.1 here:
http://teksoftco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1885


Older:
A2DPTOGGLE RC-2

Installation
Visit http://www.teksoftco.com section Freeware and download A2DPToggle. You will find a .zip file, that you need to unzip, and there a .txt file with further installation instructions. Please read them carefully.

Configuration
After A2DPToggle is installed, you will need to pair your A2DP Wireless Stereo Device (Headset, Loudspeaker) to your Windows Mobile device.


The A2DP Device must support the service called "wireless stereo" or "audio/video". Make sure you select one of these services when pairing.


With the A2DP device paired, you can use the Play and the Stop buttons in the plugin interface.

Next to the Stop button there is a signal indicator that will show your bluetooth link status. At the very beginning this will calibrate automatically, so wrong indications might appear: to simplify this process, after the A2DP device is paired, simply move away from your device until the signal gets as low as possible. We need this to be able to determine the minimum value for Bluetooth Signal (Unfortunately the BT driver doesn't provide the same values on several device we've tested: -128..127 on Universal, -32..0 on Imate Ultimate 8150).

Next to the signal indicator, there is an icon showing the status of the A2DP device: OK (when the pairing is correctly completed and the headset is connected to the device), Err (when the headset is not yet paired) and Off (when the headset is out of the device's Bluetooth coverage radius, or when the headset is turned off/disconnected).
To be able to use "Start/Play", this status indicator must show OK.

The second indicator shows the Bluetooth status.

Next to it, there is a toolbox icon, that opens the settings screen:

"Handle Bluetooth automatically" would turn bluetooth on when you press start (play), and off when you press stop.
"Execute file after start" would run the specified application when you press "Start/Play", by default this is set to Media Player.


Details regarding internal functionality
The devices that support A2DP (most wm6.0 bluetooth devices), come with 2 audio drivers installed:

1) The "Audio Output" Driver (supported since ppc 2002)
2) The "Bluetooth Advanced Audio Output" Driver, that is responsible of sending audio data over a L2CAP Bluetooth connection, as per A2DP protocol

When the user connects a Stereo A2DP headset, and selects the "Wireless Stereo" profile, the Bluetooth Adv. Audio Output becomes the nr. 1 audio output route, and is indexed as the First audio driver. Any application will output sound by using that driver.

The problem is that sometimes we are already listening to audio in the device's speakers, and then suddenly we want to switch the output to our a2dp headsets - this is sometimes problematic, as the First audio driver changes from "Audio Output" to "Bluetooth Adv. Audio Output" and the applications currently playing audio need to be restarted.

For such issues, we've provided a tool, as freeware, that will install as a today plugin and offer the user the possibility of instantly switching the audio between Device Speaker and A2DP Stereo Headset.

It is designed for WM6.0, Microsoft Bluetooth stack, please download it and let us know how it works for you.

Command line
You can use A2DP.exe in \program files\teksoft\A2DPToggle
The supported parameters are:

[driekus]

Seems to work beautifully. Thanks a lot, before installing this app I had to manually connect everytime which was a pain in the *ss.

Device: HTC Touch dutch rom
Headset: Sony DR-BT10CX

[mgray]

A2DPTOGGLE seems like a great utility. Any chance of a Smartphone version coming any time soon?

[Albert]

Most of the users agree that using a Mobile Device is fun, but sometimes entering large amounts of text can prove to be a painful experience.

The small screen is the biggest issue, and unless someone comes with a innovative idea, the default software keyboard is barely usable.

To overcome some of these issues, you can use Fingertouch PRO. For your convenience, I've attached the CAB file here.



Just to name a few of its features:

fT9 predictive text input capabilities

Multilanguage support English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish including built in autocomplete dictionaries for all.

Configurable layout, including keyboard Skin, text font, size and color

Works with various screen heights, square, qvga, vga, etc

It supports 96x96DPI and 128x128DPI. TrueVGA compatible

Can be installed on SDCard to save storage space

And much more, NOW you can try it yourself.

[chiccomb]

Hi I'm chiccmb from Italy.

I have same problems.

I had installad A2DPToggle.signed.arm.cab. I had installed my headset but when I press Play appares a massage:
No Wireless Headset founf. Please pair your headset first.

The status is:
No bluetooth signal
Headset icon: Err
Bluetooth icon: On

P.S.: With the A2DPToggle.arm.cab it's all OK

I use HTC TyTN II and HTC S100 Bluetooth Stereo Headset.

Best Regards
chiccomb

[radhoo]

Hi chiccmb, welcome to the forum.

Try to delete your headset from your BT devices, then Re-pair it with your Tytn and press Start again.


Any luck now?

[chiccomb]

[radhoo]

[Neo]

I've heard it's possible to use a bluetooth Mouse with my PDA?
I've found some info here regarding Blueinput, did anyone test this?

Thanks!

[chiccomb]

A new version is available.
Download version 1.0.RC-2 from www.teksoftco.com -> Freeware.
It comes with a fix to this problem.




radhoo good work

Now with new version 1.0.RC-2 it's all OK!!!!!!!

Bluetooth segnal: work OK
headset icon: OK
Bluetooth icon: On

I prefere:
Handle bluetooth Automatically: disable
Execute file after Start: disable

Thank You Very Much fot your interest and scuse me for my english!

Best Regards
chiccomb
Massimiliano B.
Italy - Bologna

[Surur]

Thank you. The software has made my life a lot easier.

I have only one (hopefully simple) feature request- Its not clear when a button is pressed on the today screen, and the system is often slow to respond, so one has to press repeatedly.

If the colour or picture of the button could change once its pressed and working it would make life even easier.

A further, less important request is if it may be possible to make a non-today screen version of this software, e.g. an icon which would serve as a toggle. I have a HTC Touch, and after the HTC Home screen today screen space is pretty limited.

Either way, thanks again for this great software, which I have been waiting ages for.

Surur

[driekus]

Really like the plugin, works well on my Touch (as I already stated above), except for one thing that's getting a little annoying: an ever growing file named A2DP_plugin.txt in the root folder of my device (My Device\). I use my headset extensively, and it looks like this file grows by the minute. So every couple of days I have to crop or delete this file in order to free up main memory (it grows and grows to become several mb's big). Is this normal with this program? Or is this a HTC Touch or headset related bug?
I've attached a copy of an old file (had to crop it in order to be able to upload to this forum, but you get the jist).

[chrisdk]

This works really well, but I have a "feature request"!

Would it be possible to have a version to toggle the A2DP state that doesn't have to run as a today plug-in, or a command-line version that I can trigger from PhoneAlarm when I want A2DP turned on? While driving, it's not ideal to have to go back to the today screen and hitting the button.

thanks

Chris

[Neo]

I've heard it's possible to use a bluetooth Mouse with my PDA?
I've found some info here regarding Blueinput, did anyone test this?

Thanks!

[radhoo]

[radhoo]

[radhoo]

[radhoo]

[Neo]

I've heard it's possible to use a bluetooth Mouse with my PDA?
I've found some info here regarding Blueinput, did anyone test this?

Thanks!