FM Transmitter with Bluetooth Technology and USB Questions & Answers

It will turn the music down automatically so you can talk over the top.

How about sticking a bit of coloured cellophane on the face of the unit? Coloured anything, really, that will stick on the surface? Or, if it's the gooseneck style, which I presume allows the unit to be moved around to suit, simply turn the unit face down a bit? But you don't read the face of it to see what's playing, do you?

BT isn't switchable to my knowledge, it's always on. It might be worth trying pair the transmitter to another phone - if that works it could be the phone/tablet, otherwise take the transmitter back and get the store to pair and test one in the store. I've had no problems with any of ours.

Ta ,found problem just have to clear bt cache, on tablet ,may that help someone else,

yes the question is correct please can you help to get this working diane n

If you bought the FM transmitter new, I suggest you read the manual (under "Bluetooth pairing" and "Bluetooth Hands-free") that came with it. This looks exactly the same as the one I bought; its brand name is "Response", model AR-3140. Might fix your problem.

The car and radio are fine, this thing works in my 20 year old Saab 9-5, you've simply missed making the final mental link in how you use it. The Transmitter is essentially a mini radio station, you have to tune the radio to it to hear it - many people use the phone to play music but not in your case. You have to remember that the car radio cannot play two stations at once.

So... you have tuned a radio station button on your radio to the station the transmitter is broadcasting on (typically 88.2) and you can hear nothing, correct? This is because you are listening to the transmitter and it is not broadcasting any sound. If you set your phone to play some music you will hear it.

Next, you change the radio to play a normal radio station, e.g Triple J or Nova or Classic FM or whatever - you are now listening to a different radio station, not the transmitter, because the radio cannot play two radio stations at once! You cannot hear the incoming call because the radio is on another station but the microphone in the device can still hear you - this is why the caller can hear you but you cannot hear them.

The simple solutions are... - listen to music played by your phone, calls will happily interrupt this and work as expected but you are limited to whatever music sources you have on the phone, or - make sure the transmitter station is set to a preset button on your car radio and, when a call comes in, just press the station button for the transmitter to switch to that station and hear the call and then, at the end of the call, switch back to the original station you were listening to.

It's a similar concept to the DVD or Video and the TV - if you're watching the ABC and you don't change the channel to the DVD/Video when you press play on the player, you won't see the recorded content even though it is playing.

Note: You don't have to use a radio preset to tune to the transmitter but it will be far safer and faster when a call comes in, rather than tuning manually.

Hope that helps.

In a word, no. The radio is used to broadcast the audio from the device, the device is like a mini radio station, playing audio from your phone over BT. How could you hear the call if the radio was listening on another station? There is nothing to stop you from changing the station to the device channel when a call comes in and changing it back when it ends.

Short answer is that I don't know. I just bought it as/use it for a simple MP3 player, using a memory card with the songs loaded onto it. Suits me perfectly.