Only One Complaint

[y0himba]

I LOVE this phone. I only have one issue. It seems that the HTC folks have done everything they can to cripple A2DP.

I just got off the phone with HTC *support*. I listen to music on my phone a LOT. I have a BT8040 headset for when I am on the road, and on every other PPC I have had the BT stereo audio service runs at the start of the phone. I just hit play and poof, I have music.

Not so with the Imagio. According to HTC, the ROM is configured so that the hands free profile starts, but the stereo audio profile doesn't. You manually need to drill down through Start-->Settings-->All Settings, tap the bluetooth icon, hit the second tab, and tap Stereo Audio to start it up.

This just plain SUCKS.

When the PPC first starts, right before it loads TF3D, for a brief second I see the icon indicating the Stereo Audio profile has started, then it switches quickly back to the hands free profile icon.

Now then, using Memmaid, I see that the BTAGSVC (Bluetooth Audio Gateway) is there and set to automatic, and I also see that the dll referenced is on the Windows directory (btagsvc.dll). However, when trying to start the service it tells me that the system cannot find the file specified. I am sure it is something that HTC has placed to prevent it.

A search for "btagsvc" brings up hklm\services\BTAGSVC and a few hklm\software\microsoft\bluetooth\services entires that are numbered with big long strings that my old hands can't type due to the cold.

I found this AutoA2DP - supware.net by asking around, but whatever HTC has done prevents it from working. The Stereo Audio (BTAGSVC) starts briefly after this runs, then something kills it. The icon will change briefly from Hands Free to Stereo Audio, then right back to Hands Free.

There is a file in startup called BTTrayCE.exe. If I remove that file then Bluetooth doesn't start at all, and errors out when I try to start it manually.

Here are my questions:

When I tap "Stereo Audio" in the location above, what does it do? What does it start? Can a shortcut be made to that command line or whatever and put in startup? Can the service be added to startup by getting around how ever HTC has prevented it from starting? A registry edit?

Can we find what HTC has done to prevent it from starting and running?

Any help is appreciated, I have hit the limit of my knowlege.