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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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Robert Cote

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Posted on Jun 3, 2011 7:26 AM

Not sure if this is still valid.

Tom A had the right answer. If the problem is that your iPod music (on your iPhone) is playing through your A2DP device (I have the blueant s4) you simply have to go to your "Now Playing" screen for the song you are playing and you will see an "AirPlay" button in the lower right.

Click on that airplay button and choose the device you want to send the music too.

I searched everywhere, for settings, called blueant etc. Finally found it after reading Tom A's answer and then looked for settings in the iPod application.

Good luck!

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djvibe

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Jan 13, 2011 9:28 PM in response to hshmhashemi

Is there a way to disable A2DP yet? I just got a Blueant headset and the music is tryin to play from it instead of my car speakers... wish I could just turn it off. C'mon apple get your ish together. Cmon steve stop rolling around in your money pit and give us some new Bluetooth features 🙂 Please and Thanks.

Dankobe

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Mar 19, 2011 10:23 AM in response to Barry Porter1

Hi Barry,

Sorry if this discussion is in the wrong thread.

Jawbone "era" does have a feature where A2DP can be switched off using the advanced settings on their website. This is a temporary fix for anyone who is having the same problem. You will loose the A2DP feature until you connect the jawbone to your computer and change the settings back.

Dan

Mar 26, 2011 8:26 PM in response to yrrePydnA

well, if you know what I mean, you can try to go to
var/mobile/Library/Preferences and find com.apple.MobileBluetooth.services.plist
I am posting this because i am worried about your personal safety:) not for other reasons haha.

Anchovis

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May 3, 2011 4:10 AM in response to yrrePydnA

Here the same. before i could edit the com.apple.MobileBluetooth.services.plist but now changes that are made vanishes when the Iphone reboots.

really dissapointing.

It was a not really nice way but usable way to disable A2DP funktion.

is there a way to make changes to this file permanent?

What is the reason that apple dont make a choosebox for the bluetoothprofiles to disable some services that we dont whant to use? in every other smartphone this is possible.

Really dangerous to change the audiooutput of the iphone wile driving the car.

Dec 20, 2011 3:14 PM in response to yrrePydnA

Adding my .02¢ to this thread. I have a Plantronics Voyager Pro+ Headset. Works like a charm with the phone, but I don't want my music playing through the headset.

Other funky scenarios:

1) Music playing through a wired connection from Audio Jack on iPhone to Audio Jack in car: Call comes in, I take the call on my BT. Upon completion o the call, music begins blaring in my ear.

2) No music playing at all: upon completion of a call with BT, music being playing if "music" app is open

3) All audio is funneled throught BT if it's connected - alerts, chats, emails, etc.

Feb 1, 2012 10:15 AM in response to yrrePydnA

Having the same problem. I just picked up a Motorola Finiti (which is a great headset btw with the latest firmware) but I don't want to listen to music through it! I just want to make calls through it and listen to my music through my car stereo.

Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

Apr 10, 2012 3:18 AM in response to Gnavicks

This app may work but I also want to use music apps like pandora and iheart to listen, and this (from what I read) on does your music.

I do have a BT stereo headset but I forget it a lot of mornings, just like today, that's why I was looking for this. But I'm not seeing anywhere that I can disable A2DP on my phone. I tried looking as others have suggested double tapping. I don't see it. Any suggestions?

mvish86

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Aug 7, 2012 9:58 PM in response to Gnavicks

I'm having the same issue with my VW GTI. I went to the dealer and they're stumped. I'm confident now it's because of this A2DP setting.

Gnavicks -- Thank you for the app but are you working on making it work in the background? i.e. Apple's multitasking.

Ideally, I'd like not to have to sit in my car, start the engine, and turn on the app, and then continue on my merry way. If I had the app already open and it's still "running", I don't have to worry about my bluetooth silently playing in my pocket but I can still make/receive voice calls.

Thanks.

mvish86

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Aug 11, 2012 12:50 AM in response to Gnavicks

awww, maybe there's a way you can host the install file online and users with an iphone can use safari/chrome to access the url and install the package for the app? either way, thanks for working on it still! i'm sure you understand everyone's frustration with this silly issue 🙂

jdlarsen

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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!

yrrePydnA Author

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Sep 15, 2010 7:15 AM in response to Jim VanLeeuwen

Thank you, I will suggest this feature. (:

Gnavicks

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Sep 12, 2011 7:00 PM in response to yrrePydnA

Try A2DPblocker in the App Store 🙂

stisev

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Mar 2, 2012 8:34 PM in response to yrrePydnA

Well,

The new iPhone worked for a while,now problem is happening again. I am not sure what to do. 😟

Gnavicks

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Mar 8, 2012 4:39 PM in response to stisev

Stisev, what do you mean? Are you using A2DPblocker?

Gnavicks

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Apr 11, 2012 11:13 AM in response to onefast96svt

onefast96svt,

Pandora and iHeartRadio can play music in the background so just make sure A2DPblocker is running in the foreground with the Playback Queue turned down.

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