WX-GT99BT and Xperia Z1

[vickyrao]

Hi,

I seem to have an issue when connecting my Xperia Z1 with my Sony WX-GT99BT car audio player. Whenever it gets connected, on my Xperia Z1, it pops up with a "Open With" option. I do not know what is the purpose of this and the number of possible apps/services shown to open with is a lot and i have tried with almost everything and nothing works. Even randomly selecting something and setting it to always, it will still appear again when i connect the phone with the player again.

I have had connected my car player with my previous Xperia Z and did not have such an issue before. And this issue appeared on two Z1 mobile phones which i have. My phone is on complete stock. No modifications. Running on latest firmware. Any one with any clue about this? Any sort of help would be really appreciated.

FYI, no issues with any other bluetooth device such as my SW2 or Samsung Audio Dock. Only issue is with my car player.

[Rickard]

Haven't heard of this before but it sounds like the car player is sending some sort of command to the phone that can be handled by more then one app. The phone will then ask which app you want to use for that command.

What happens if you connect the phone when it's in safe mode? See this thread for information on safe mode: http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/How-to-boot-your-phone-into-safe-mode/m-p/348008

[vickyrao · Accepted solution]

I think I found the reason. I just decided to install Sony app remote. And as soon as my player connect to the phone, app remote opens up. How can i actually disable this? I never had such issue with any other phone or even Xperia Z.

[Rickard]

Glad to hear that you found the cause.

Looking at the manual for your player i don't see any way of disabling this but i suggest that you contact the support for the player for more information as i'm not familiar with it.

I suspect the reason that this doesn't happen with Xperia Z is that Xperia Z uses an older version of some bluetooth profiles like AVRCP.

[vickyrao]

Thank you anyway for your help. This would surely help other users when they have this issue in the future. But now to figure a way to avoid that as the app remote is kinda useless as the features are not helpful. Lol.