Xperia Sola how to stop Walkman playing audio book automatically

[TonyW]

I have recently paired my Sola to a new car via bluetooth.  The pairing went well and all contacts downloaded after a false start.  The phone performs as it should for hands free calling and receiving but there is one annoyance that I cannot seem to find a solution to.

For some reason when the phone is connected the Walkman app is triggered and starts playing an audiobook through the car system.  I cannot find a way to disable this permenantly and have to resort to opening the Walkman app and manually stopping the playback.  The app will then restart after the phone has been used.

I am sure there must be a simple explanation and hope that someone can point me in the right direction

[Samuel1 · Accepted solution]

Sounds great. SmartConnect is an updated version of Liveware manager which I believe was pre-installed on Xperia Sola, so it won't mess with anything :smileyhappy:.

Looking forward to see the results, would be great to know it it works, for future questions regarding the same issue.

Good luck!

[TonyW]

Well it seems that SmartConnect did the trick as my phone and media work as expected after the download

I will list what I did as accurately as I can remember hoping that this may be of some help to others in the future.

• After install of SmartConnect Livewire has vanished from my phone - I guess this is to be expected as it is the replacement?

• I decided to revert my phone and car settings back to the initial state of phone and media being enabled i.e. the problem scenario I first experienced

• I took a slightly different route to your suggestion after installing SmartConnect that is did nothing no event setting leaving the app and phone to do its thing.  I imagined that I would probably have to then alter SmartConnect to change how it started music.

• On establishing BT connection no autoplay of music via Walkman - only on demand :smileycool::smileylaugh::smileyhappy:

• All now working as should BT media does not start unless I have previously been playing via BT and left the car set to BT reception.  Previously BT would automatically overide any other audio playing.

• I think that the issue must have been with the Livewire app (sounds obvious I know after making a change!).  When I was trying to solve the issues originally I went into Livewire and saw nothing that related to the car and neither did I think that this was particularly relevent at the time.  All Livewire displayed was Headset, Headphones, Charger and Bluetooth headset.  Now in SmartConnect the Device tab shows Mazda (my car) at the top of the list.  No events associated with the device

So once again many thanks for your help on this

[Samuel1]

I'm glad to hear! Yes, SmartConnect is replacing Liveware manager so that's all in order.

Thank a lot for the feedback, it's always nice to know if the solutions worked or not. Many people don't posts after you've replied with a possible solution so you never know if they gave up or your solutions did the trick :smileyhappy:.

Have a nice weekend!

[Kalleu]

Hi,

I found a SmartConnect to be a nice app that autostarts Night mode when I connect my charger in the evening - really cool!

But when go to drive my car, the same issue that is described here appears (3 years later, still unsolved). I found a place where Walkman is listed in mu car BT device list, but there is no place to remove Walkman from that list or disable autostarting a (random?!) music file when I start my car.

Is the only solution really to completely disable the Walkman app (its not possible to uninstall it as it came from factory setup)?

Kalle

Xperia Z3 Compact

[Rafo82]

I have the same problem as Kalleu in the post above. I don't want Walkman to autostart when the phone connects to my car Bt. No option to remowe walkman from carBt in the list in Smartconnect app.

Z3 compact

[Rafo82]

My solution is to deactivate Walkman in Programs. I don't use it anyway.