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[Cos64 <cos64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05.06.2015 07:22, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Friday, June 05, 2015 a las 01:12:58AM +0200, Benjamin Tegge escribió:
> 
>> Are you asking for in-ears or circumaural headphones? I think you are
>> asking for the impossible if you were asking for small in-ears with
>> mechanical switches and a potentiometer. There are headphones though
>> that offer this, you can order the V-Moda M-100 with the BoomPro
>> Microphone for example.
> 
> Yes, I'm asking for in-ears headphones. Have you read, what you are
> top-posting above? Here it is again:
> 
>> Am Donnerstag, den 04.06.2015, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Matthias Apitz:
>>>
>>> Thanks; but I was more thinking in something for doing phone calls and
>>> connected to the BQ with a cable; which allows:
>>> - answer calls and/or drop them
>>> - volume control from the cable
>>> - micro off from the cable
>>>
>>> The company I'm working for gives me an iPhone6 and I tried its
>>> headphone with the BQ; audio works in general even in calls, but the
>>> buttons on a small switch on the cable do not
> 
> 
> The headphoes from Apple which come with the I6 are
> doing exactly this. The volume control is perhaps not done with a
> potentiometer, because they are small buttons for +/- and maybe sending
> impulses to the device.
> 
> 	matthias
> 

I use the earphones from my old Samsung S4 Mini [1].
Just like yours, audio works fine but the buttons do not.

Maybe it's more of a software issue than a compatibility one, and we
just need to open a ticket (but where?).

Or maybe, since BQ doesn't sell earphones [2], there is no hardware support?

Cos

[1]:
http://www.samsung.com/us/system/consumer/accessory/eo/hs/33/eohs3303westa/EO-HS3303WE_DynamicWrap_600_1.jpg
[2]: http://www.bq.com/gb/accessories/aquaris-e4-5-ubuntu-edition