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Disable A2DP

Is there any possible way on the iPhone 4 to disable A2DP?

I have the Jabra Stone bluetooth headset. This headset allows me to be connected to two different phones/devices at once, which I need since I have a work cell phone and a personal cell phone. It also has A2DP which lets me listen to music or watch videos while listening through my headset. However, I do not want this to automatically happen. In fact, I would rather disable it and then enable it when I need to.

I have a speaker dock on my desk at work and a dock in my car that plays audio through my car speakers. I always put my iPhone 4 into the dock and listen to streaming Sirius XM internet radio or listen to my own music through the iPod application. If I take my headset out of its stone charger, it will automatically begin to play the music on the headset. I do not see any way to select the output source within the Sirius application. I do not want it to play through the headset since I want to make a phone call using my work mobile phone. The good thing is if I am receiving a call on my work phone the headset will automatically pick that as the source when I take it out of its charger.

The only way I can find for this to not automatically happen is to disable bluetooth on my iPhone until I need it...Which I don't want to do, since I can't easily just enable it once I receive a call, only before I make a call.

Posted on Aug 9, 2010 9:45 AM

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Posted on Aug 9, 2010 9:52 AM

In a word, no.
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Dec 18, 2013 8:11 AM in response to Tom Alperin

Tom,


I know your post is old, but I'm reviving it. Just bought a Plantronics M25 (great headset) and all my sounds for incoming mail or audio of almost any kind were coming through that headset (incoming calls were fine and came through both the headset and the phone's speaker). I still need my phone to play music through the head unit of my new truck via blue tooth, but not my Plantronics headset. I now know that you can selectively disable A2DP on each device...so car stereo is good via blue tooth and Plantronics headset is disabled for music and sounds (but works on phone calls). Perfect. Your post was exactly what I needed. Thank you, Sir!

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