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I'm trying to figure out how the "sound to speaker" function works.

Using an Android (Galaxy S3) if I have checked the "Route Sound to Speaker" button and if the phone is communicating with my bluetooth radio will the navigation info "punch through" whatever is playing on the radio? Or is this a radio-dependent issue?

Does it matter what input the radio is set for? The choices are:
- Tuner (the usual as I am an NPR junkie)
- Aux "(which might be what I need but I thought that was just for a mini-plug connector if you're using one)
- USB (I could connect to the Android via USB but I'm usually charging my phone via the 12 volt socket
- XM Tuner

I fear that unless I am set to Aux I'll not hear the navigation. But if so what is the Bluetooth doing for me (other than answering phone calls).

This may be as much an Android question as a Waze query but who knows, maybe someone has the answer.

Thanks.

So my issue is somewhat similar, somewhat different but relates to Bluetooth and speaker so I thought I would put i there. I am using an iPhone 4S with a Jabra Tour Bluetooth speaker and this combo works great for phone calls and for streaming podcasts etc. When I use it with Waze, it sort of of works. Pretty much anytime I launch Waze and choose to Navigate somewhere it starts off working fine, let's go and all that happy stuff. Then at some point in the drive I just stop hearing turn by turn voice commands and even I stop navigating and restart, no luck, turn off and then back on the Tour speaker, no luck, but if I "switch off" and then come back in to Waze and resume navigation it starts up again with the voice prompts. The strange thing is sometimes it will go 5 minutes and then stop the voice commands, sometimes will go 30 minutes before I lose them. Also, I have tried to find a pattern, is it after a call, at a certain point in the route, etc and I can not find any correlation between the times that it stops working, it seems totally random. Has anyone else experienced anything like this with Bluetooth?

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:

gerben wrote:Isn't the Prefer BT an iOS only option?

I honestly do not know. Why would this be an iOS-only option? (semi-rhetorical question)

Regardless of why, it starts to appear it may be. As for hardware, I'm running a Galaxy S3 (T999). The behavior seems to have changed though. Route to Speaker now causes the music - and directions - to suddenly snap to the phone speaker rather than bluetooth speakers when directions are given. Their volume is unchanged.

I've been having some confusion with bluetooth audio myself. When I'm streaming music via BT off of my phone, Waze does the following:

Route to Speakers off: Waze meekly talks through the music without turning it down/pausing it, and is largely unintelligible.
Route to Speakers on: Waze pauses the music to... say nothing at all.
Prefer Bluetooth: Doesn't exist. Route to Speakers is the only thing in there.

This is one of the relatively few things other GPS apps seem to have a leg up on, so it's frustrating to see such minor imperfections chafing at the experience.

Android users; to achieve what you want (hear directions when radio is off/listening radio) you should try an app on Google Play called "AudioBT", this uses the Bluetooth incoming call channel for routing audio from any application.

Thank you! I have been trying for weeks to get Waze via BT on my Samsung S3. As of now, and I am leery of expecting this to be a permanent fix, I suddenly get audio on BT. I am using it with AudioBT TTS. Not crazy about the voice, but at least the audio instructions are finally there.

The new beta version for android lowers media volume while giving directions

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