Hey everyone I've been searching for a tweak that does this for months. Also just bought Flex and have been playing around with it to attempt to make the adjustment myself.
Basically I have a bluetooth adapter that's plugged into my car's cig lighter for power, with an audio cable going into my stereo's aux input jack, with a cable coming off that ending in a big bluetoothy button. You press this button to enter pairing mode / connect to your device. I use this adapter to play music wirelessly from my iPhone through my car stereo. It works great!... for that.
The problem? The adapter's big singular button also acts as a mic. And so every time I connect the adapter to my iPhone, my iPhone starts playing music and that's dandy... but it also configures itself to route all voice input through the bluetooth adapter button-mic, and I hate that. It's absolutely useless for voice input as it's terrible at picking up my voice where it's placed in the car (I've tried moving it to no avail. It's just a bad mic).
The solution? You can hold your iPhone's Home button to bring up Siri, and a new (as of iOS 6) button appears to the right of her. Tapping this button allows you to choose "CarAudio Adapter" or "iPhone" for voice input. The adapter is of course chosen by default every time you connect to the device, but if you tap "iPhone" it routes all voice input through the iPhone's mic instead of the bluetooth adapter which is immeasurably better for me as I'm usually holding my iPhone to invoke voice dictation anyways which means it's close to my face.
However this setting is not saved! (I can't fathom the logic behind not saving it personally). It doesn't save my choice between sessions. I would gladly buy a tweak that 'remembers' my choice for this. I am in and out of my car (at least) 10-20 times in a day, solely listen to music through bluetooth, and invoking Siri to tap and change this setting is such a huge frustration and chore.
Anyone have any ideas?
tldr: I would really love a tweak that always prefers / defaults to the iPhone for voice input, even when connected to a bluetooth device that has a mic.
Basically I have a bluetooth adapter that's plugged into my car's cig lighter for power, with an audio cable going into my stereo's aux input jack, with a cable coming off that ending in a big bluetoothy button. You press this button to enter pairing mode / connect to your device. I use this adapter to play music wirelessly from my iPhone through my car stereo. It works great!... for that.
The problem? The adapter's big singular button also acts as a mic. And so every time I connect the adapter to my iPhone, my iPhone starts playing music and that's dandy... but it also configures itself to route all voice input through the bluetooth adapter button-mic, and I hate that. It's absolutely useless for voice input as it's terrible at picking up my voice where it's placed in the car (I've tried moving it to no avail. It's just a bad mic).
The solution? You can hold your iPhone's Home button to bring up Siri, and a new (as of iOS 6) button appears to the right of her. Tapping this button allows you to choose "CarAudio Adapter" or "iPhone" for voice input. The adapter is of course chosen by default every time you connect to the device, but if you tap "iPhone" it routes all voice input through the iPhone's mic instead of the bluetooth adapter which is immeasurably better for me as I'm usually holding my iPhone to invoke voice dictation anyways which means it's close to my face.
However this setting is not saved! (I can't fathom the logic behind not saving it personally). It doesn't save my choice between sessions. I would gladly buy a tweak that 'remembers' my choice for this. I am in and out of my car (at least) 10-20 times in a day, solely listen to music through bluetooth, and invoking Siri to tap and change this setting is such a huge frustration and chore.
Anyone have any ideas?
tldr: I would really love a tweak that always prefers / defaults to the iPhone for voice input, even when connected to a bluetooth device that has a mic.
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