When purchasing Z1 compact I was surprised the headphones which comes with it doesn’t have volume control on remote. Really strange for 2014 and phone of such level. Well, perhaps this is some kind of marketing stuff.
For some time I borrowed a headphones from LG with remote control. And it did not work properly. I decided that this is some kind of incompatibility. Then I decided to get my own headphones and went to a shop. I bought a sennheiser MM 30G from Samsung Galaxy S3, S4 and Note 2, hoping it will be compatible with Z1 compact as both samsung and compact uses android.
However, I came up with the same problem as before. Once started listening music, remote control works good. But after few minutes it start to work completely incorrectly or stop working at all. Buttons start to change their meaning(volume down instead makes it louder, or middle button start to change the volume up or down).
At the shop consultant explained me that android can't recognize electronic command from remote control to change the volume. That's only possible on Iphone.
So, can anyone from sony confirm that information or advice what to do to make headphones work properly...always? Or at least provide a list of headphones with full remote control which will work with Z1 compact? Or may be a fix coming in new update?
Kind regards
Alexander
