[I'm running a stock 7.1.1 without root or any other mods]
BT doesn;t work with 2 BT devices which can do phone...
Example:
1) BT watch, Huawei Watch connected - this watch can receive and make phone calls... It has a microphone and speaker, so it works like a full-fledged phone device. It is basically **** Tracy device... look it up ...
2) When the watch is connected, another BT phone device, like a car kit, doesn't connect. You can go to BT settings and manually click on the BT device to connect. Sometimes, it connects w/o extra help. And sometimes, clicking doesn't connect at all. Sometimes it connects automatically. Bugs!
3) When both devices seem to be connected (even though only one is shown to be connected), both can make calls, but only the "active" one receives them...
The active being the one that was connected last.
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------ This was not a problem in 7.1.0. Whichever device (watch or car kit) initiated or answered a call, would be used to do the complimentary function - If you make a call on watch, you get audio for the call on watch. If you receive the call on BT car kit, you answer on it. Without fail this worked just fine. Both incoming and outgoing calls. It made sense and it worked beautifully.
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Until 7.1.1.
---- Now, if a watch is connected (Huawei Watch, which can act as a phone itself), the BT car kit will not connect. If you connect it manually by clicking on it in BT settings, it will connect, but all phone actions, even initiated from the watch will only work on the phone.
In other words, 7.1.1 killed BT functionality with several BT phone devices.
Why can't they fix it?
UPDATE after 7.1.2
So, 7.1.1 killed phone functionality when both a phone capable watch and another BT phone device were connected simultaneously - both wouldn't work correctly at the same time.
7.1.2 didn't fix this at all.
What 7.1.2 did was introduce new bugs: 1) Weather built-in app no longer works on my Huawei watch, it just spins the circle retrieving weather data and then just goes back to watch face, 2) The watch no longer displays some notifications, for example, SMS.
I played with all of the settings in the watch, phone, and android wear app. Nothing.
I have a theory... Google has two android development teams. Let's call them Team A and Team B. Team A works on a yearly cycle developing new android OSes, for example, they are probably working on Android O right now. Team B picks up development and maintenance duties after Team A makes the initial android release. Team B would be working on Nougat right now. Team B is comprised of rejects from Team A; they have very little talent, attention to detail, or even skill. They may fix 1-2 bugs in an incremental android version, but they introduce 5 more new ones.
This is why Android 7.1.0 was less buggy than 7.1.1, and conversely, 7.1.1 was less buggy than 7.1.2.
Me with my powerbeats it seems to work but eventually it will stop playing music so I turn off headset turn back on and music starts playing again and then the music will start skipping because it hears background noise. It drives me nutts.
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Worked for me.. I could connect to my headphones but yet it acted like it was not connected. Connected to my truck yet it acted like it was not connected.. I for the hell of it wiped dalvik/cache and now it all works with no problems. Headphones instantly worked after doing it. Truck worked just fine this morning..
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I'm on stock like the OP. My bluetooth issues are similar and I have one more.
Devices I'm paired to disappear from the BT list. I got in my car yesterday and was surprised the screen needed me to enter my PIN as I had my car in Smart Lock. Go look and sure enough not connected to the car and the BT list doesn't have my car listed as a device. I had to re-pair to the car. Then I had to readd to Smart Lock. This has happened with other BT devices (primarily headsets as that is really the only other things I use with my phone). This happens frequently and almost daily that I lose one or more BT paired devices from the list.
Other times, primarily with my Bose QC35 as I frequently turn it on/off, it will be in the BT list but the phone says I need to pair the device again. This only happens about every 10th time I turn the headphones back on.
Unfortunately, I've only had 7.1.1 on this phone as it is only a few weeks old. So I don't know if stuff would have worked in 7.1.0.
djr4x4 said:
Worked for me.. I could connect to my headphones but yet it acted like it was not connected. Connected to my truck yet it acted like it was not connected.. I for the hell of it wiped dalvik/cache and now it all works with no problems. Headphones instantly worked after doing it. Truck worked just fine this morning..
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I'd like to know what you did to make things work.
Updated op with 7.1.2 info.
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Hi all,
Has anyone experienced any weird Bluetooth issues after installing the latest May OTA update (OPM1.171019.011-RZR-180509.5038)? I've realized that the BT controls on my 2015 Nissan Sentra no longer work properly. It doesn't automatically connect to BT anymore and no track information shows on the head-unit. The weird thing is that I CAN get music to play, at least.
I just wanted to know if I happened to be losing my mind after numerous reboots and re-pairing between the car and the phone.
Same for me. I can delete it. Pair it again and it works. Next time I get in the car it won't reconnect.. worked fine before the update at the weekend.
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It's a fire an miss actually. Sometimes it reconnects automatically with the car's unit (alpine aftermarket) and sometimes it doesn't. I had noticed that if I get in the car for the 1st time today (for ex), it won't reconnect back and i have to cycle around the input in order to "kickstart" the reconnecting process. If I make a stop along the way, stop the car, get out (thus interrupting the connection) and getting back after a while, it will reconnect automatically without any issues. I'm not even taking it out of my pocket. But this scenario is happening since day one, not necessarily from the last update.
On the other hand, I got a smartband (coincidentally after the last update) and now, while the smartband is connected via BT, when I turn on my BT wireless headphone adapter, it won't re-connect anymore (simultaneously with the smartband) and if it does, it's without media playback. As a workaround, I have to 1st turn off the smartband, clear the BT of any active connection (And also any other device with media playback capabilities), turn on the BT adapter so it will connect full, then turn the smartband back on. And not always works like this.
So, I do have on an off issues with the BT stability and connections with various devices, not just car unit.
Strangely though my smart watch connects no problem and the stereo in my motorhome was connecting at the weekend. It's just the car ( a Vauxhall Astra) that refuses to connect unless I delete and re pair....
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I can't get music to play with Spotify or YouTube. The phone connects fine, shows song info but just won't play no matter what I try.
The weird thing is that calls work perfectly. Sound through car speakers and mic works. Just doesn't want to play music.
I've tried unpairing, re-pairing, deleting, even factory reset on both phone and stereo. Worked fine before the 8.1 Oreo update. (I'm on 3 UK handset).
Im having issues as well, it will connect the first time when I manually connect the phone and stereo to MyLink. It will say connected but (No Media) so i try to pair the media and it disconnects my phone from BT and then i have to delete device and re connect device manually. As well if i leave the vehicle or turn it off then it will disconnect. Not just my vehicle but the other showroom vehicles do that as well. Can someone let me know if there is a bluetooth upgrade or a firmware upgrade that can fix this problem? is there anything that we can do for this let me know. Thanks!!
I am having the same issue in my bmw.
I can delete the phone and re-pair... But it sucks having to do that every thing.
also having issues as well. It connects to my headphones and the after market HU in my truck but it will not connect at all to the factory HU in Genesis Coupe. I have tried to delete and re pair and still nothing.
So currently it all works for me with the latest update. It definitely takes a little bit longer than normal though. Not sure how long some of you waited, but compared to my old phones it feels like an eternity during the time it doesn't connect. I also use a smartwatch and it is always connected to that. If you guys need or want any files, let me know. I'm currently waiting for a usb-c to usb-a cable in the mail, so once that is here I can try to help.
I think this is all more of an Android issue. I was having most of the exact same issues mentioned here on my LG V20 on Oreo.
I just for a Razer Phone 1 off eBay this week. I did the Pie update and within a day, the bluetooth issues have returned. Sometimes phone won't connect to car stereo - sometimes reboot stereo, sometimes toggle phone bluetooth off/on, or sometimes just wait 10-30 seconds. Doing the same showing info on car stereo display, but no audio transmitted. I also had similar issues using a OnePlus 3 with both Dirty Unicorns and Resurrection Remix Pie ROMs. I was beginning to think it was my car stereo until I read the comments on this thread. Seeing so many others having the exact same issues on factory and aftermarket stereos (mine is an aftermarket), and knowing it's happening on different devices and both Oreo and Pie , I'm thinking it's an Android 8 and 9 issue.
So, somewhere in May I received the automatic update to Oreo 8.0. Hurray! Sadly though, that's when my bluetooth problems started:
It connects to my car, as normal. And I can make and receive calls, as always. But during the call my bluetooth connection with my car would just drop. If the person on the other end of the line is patient enough, I can just reconnect while driving and continue. But it will drop once each minute. It's very frustrating. This worked flawlessly before the update.
Funny thing is there are no issues at all when playing music of a portable speaker. I can even play spotify through my car's speakers without problems. The problem only presents itself during calls on the carkit. To make sure it's not the car, I tried some other phones. My wife's samsung, also with 8.0, worked perfectly. So does my daughters Iphone with IOS. My car is a Volvo C30 from 2012. It has built-in phone connectivity.
What I tried:
- Unpairing and pairing again.
- Hard reset. In combination with re-pairing.
- Using the developer options to use Bluetooth AVRCP 1.4. In combination with unpairing and re-pairing.
- Using the developer options to use Bluetooth AVRCP 1.5. In combination with unpairing and re-pairing.
- Disabling automatic bluetooth/wifi scanning in the location settings.
- It even went to the repair center for a different issue (unresponsive touch-screen) and the repair notes stated that they also installed the newest software. So I had hopes that this would resolve my carkit issue, but it didn't.
Do you guys know any more tricks for me to try?
I have an XA1 ultra with Oreo 8 as well (build 48.1.A.2.21) and I'm experiencing the same problems, but adding that mine disconnects also when streaming music. Other problem I'm experiencing after the Oreo update is that,when using my watch (LG G Watch R) paired with the phone, the sound streaming is just crap, with lots of jumps and bad audio quality. This is so frustrating that I'm seriously considering buying a new phone ( not from Sony, of course)
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Anyone?
Hi all...need some help with Bluetooth issues on my pixel 2 XL. I updated to the official Android pie today and noticed that my jbl Bluetooth earphones are having issues with calls. I cannot hear anything thing from the other side and the person on the other side can only hear some weird distortion. However I tried playing music on it and it works fine. Issue is only with calls. Anyone else facing this? I tried unpairing and pairing it again, restarted the phone, tried safe mode too but no luck.
Also I had sound echo issues with wired earphones (connected through dongle) on Oreo so I bought the jbl Bluetooth earphones and the echo was gone...and now after updating to Android pie my Bluetooth earphones don't work
Please help!
wazza1991 said:
Hi all...need some help with Bluetooth issues on my pixel 2 XL. I updated to the official Android pie today and noticed that my jbl Bluetooth earphones are having issues with calls. I cannot hear anything thing from the other side and the person on the other side can only hear some weird distortion. However I tried playing music on it and it works fine. Issue is only with calls. Anyone else facing this? I tried unpairing and pairing it again, restarted the phone, tried safe mode too but no luck.
Also I had sound echo issues with wired earphones (connected through dongle) on Oreo so I bought the jbl Bluetooth earphones and the echo was gone...and now after updating to Android pie my Bluetooth earphones don't work
Please help!
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I have no issues wtih LG HBS730 BT headphones on calls or music with Pie. I've had four calls total, incoming and outgoing. I listened to music for about five hours too, no glitches.
I've had issues with the anker brand ones.
I have the same issue
Having issues connectingy to my car Bluetooth which has always worked before updating. Also experiencing WiFi drops.
Edit: went to stock Pie unrooted, and not as many wifi disconnects but my phone doesn't even see my car's Bluetooth connection . Fitbit connects just fine though. Weird..
Android Bluetooth is flakey as hell. Everyone gets a turn with incompatibility. P fixed my car with the first Dev preview. On O it was crud. There is a massive ongoing thread about it.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/forum/AAAAb4-OgUsiJeDphsoOJ4/?hl=by
I had the same issue on my pixel XL on dp4 and dp5. Bluetooth worked fine for music but only crackled a little bit for phone calls. Both headsets and car were affected. Troubleshot it with Google rep and they told me my phone was broken. I also had multiple sensors stop working so auto brightness was broken and auto rotate was also broken (And a few other features like tap to wake screen). I ended up buying a pixel 2 xl and sending the other to Google as a trade in yesterday. Now I'm wondering if it wasn't just the software. I actually reset the phone and everything worked for a day or so before it failed again. I then exited the beta and everything worked on 8.1 Oreo for about a day before it all broke again. At that point I concluded it must be the phone. Hopefully the software didn't burn something up. I'm going to be ticked if this phone starts giving me trouble.
Are there any troubleshooting steps I can follow to see if solves the issue? Because it only happens on calls but music seems to be fine.
You can try rebooting in safe mode (long press the power off icon when you press the power button). I will restart with only minimal apps to see if it's being caused by a non Google app.
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You can try rebooting in safe mode (long press the power off icon when you press the power button). I will restart with only minimal apps to see if it's being caused by a non Google app.
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I tried this on my device but even in safe mode i faced the same issue
Ever since upgrading to PIE, I can no longer connect my my pioneer appradio head unit.
Phone works, but media Spotify or Pandora does not
Having the same issue, also, my "disable absolute volume" in developer settings doesn't work. I guess this is what to expect for early adopters.
I have had no issues with connectivity to my bluetooth headphones or to my car's bluetooth
However I have noticed that twice when I had phone call before entering the car and I connect to the car's bluetooth and the call is transferred to the car's audio, I get disconnected for a couple of seconds (after initially connecting correctly) and then it automatically reconnects and call continues normally ..
Android pie broke bluetooth for calls
abidhill said:
I tried this on my device but even in safe mode i faced the same issue
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Stock Pixel XL: All bluetooth devices worked for all purposes on Oreo. After updating to Pie none of my bluetooth headsets will connect for phone calls. Bluetooth music broadcasting to speakers is unaffected. I'm going to call them about it tomorrow.
williamgrahamiv said:
Stock Pixel XL: All bluetooth devices worked for all purposes on Oreo. After updating to Pie none of my bluetooth headsets will connect for phone calls. Bluetooth music broadcasting to speakers is unaffected. I'm going to call them about it tomorrow.
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Are you having any other issues. My original pixel XL had the same issue show up on the beta but it also affected some of my other sensors as noted in previous post. I now have a pixel 2 xl with no issues whatsoever.
williamgrahamiv said:
Stock Pixel XL: All bluetooth devices worked for all purposes on Oreo. After updating to Pie none of my bluetooth headsets will connect for phone calls. Bluetooth music broadcasting to speakers is unaffected. I'm going to call them about it tomorrow.
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Do let us know what they say
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Do let us know what they say
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Well, they seem to think that the problem is an app from the play store that doesn't play nice with Pie. Frustratingly, the problem corrects itself sometimes (but not all the time) after a reboot. They had me reboot into safe mode and this time it worked. After 20 minutes our support call was over. 30 minutes later one of my three headsets (with the oldest bluetooth version) didn't work, but two of the three did.
The tech (Jen, who was super nice but sounded like she was overseas and had to repeat herself a few times for clarity) said they only have 2 support options for this issue: 1) boot into safe mode and blame one of the apps from the play store or 2) FACTORY RESET THE PHONE! Once I explained that the phone was my google authenticator she suggested that to further troubleshoot I should turn off two factor for my google account (Ummm, no thanks. And that is why you should always PRINT OUT the QR code and put it in a fire-proof box in case you need to recover it)
I'll post back if it breaks again, but right now at least I can live with it.
Only "issue" for me is my wife's ILX doesn't seem to update the music information anymore. With the betas it did for a fee songs then seemed to stop. Now it's nothing at all but will double check today since I only drive it on occasion. Other than that, playback on our cars, Bluetooth speakers and headphones has been just fine. Love that it remembers the volume set per each device. No super low or super loud volumes on the start of playback.
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I also have Bluetooth issues with Pie when connecting to my car (2017 Audi A4 with MMI+) I never use Android Auto by the way:
- Music playback is flaky: I have to start Play Music before connecting to the car, otherwise it cannot stream anything. Sometimes even this doesn't work and I have to repair again. This sucks, you always have to spend some time to check if everything works!
- My Radar trap warning app blitzer.de only works when streaming Audio from the phone to the car, even though I set Audio to HFP. With Oreo, the app started a phone call, it looked exactly like an incoming call. Now it only adds the warning to the phone's Audio Stream, so when listening to radio or streaming from a HDD I get no warnings.
- Phone calls work flawlessly, though
Try removing or 'forgetting' paired device and add it back again. It worked with my AirPods.
Hello since I made the last update I have noticed that there are problems with the Bluetooth. I always keep it active to keep it connected to the smartwatch. I have found that often the phone no longer recognizes it and there is no way until I restart the phone. The problems are accentuated when using the wifi hotspot.
Yep the whole coms system on the 6 is poor. I have disconnection issues with headphones and wahoo cycling computer. Just no fix despite resets .
Alef_0 said:
Hello since I made the last update I have noticed that there are problems with the Bluetooth. I always keep it active to keep it connected to the smartwatch. I have found that often the phone no longer recognizes it and there is no way until I restart the phone. The problems are accentuated when using the wifi hotspot.
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Yep, my 6 Pro Bluetooth connection to my car has gone backwards in quality in the latest 12.1 stable build
Mine will be fine for an hour and then suddenly disconnects all devices. Then it reconnects on its own. It's not fun when you are on a call or virtual meeting.
Mine is staying connected to my watch without any issues, and when connected to either my car or earbuds I don't get any drop outs at all.
This is on the March update, but I don't use it with a hotspot on the phone though.
I am hearing impaired and have my 6 Pro paired with hearing aids, my car, and my smartwatch. When the phone rings, it is anybody's guess where the phone's sound is going to go. It is so frustrating. In my OnePlus 7 pressing the volume up or down would let you pick where to direct the audio but the pixel doesn't see that as necessary. Boy is it ever!
No issues with the connection to either car, but here's an odd one.
I have a connection to my Samsung Galaxy Watch4 & my Plantronics 5200 headset.
From time to time, if my phone rings, I put on the headset & turn it on, it will connect,'
answer the call, then anywhere from 20-45 seconds later, disconnect the headset and
put the connection back on the phone. Doesn't do it all the time.
Everything is up to date, stock, not rooted.
My Bluetooth in car works great until I either get a phone call or try to make a call. It only comes through the phone. I've deleted both profiles, car and phone, reconnected, still nothing. When I pick up the phone there is no option to use the cars multimedia system. I'm on the pixel beta program, maybe that's the issue, I don't know. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. 2011 Toyota Camry.
Welcome to Google fixing bluetooth issues, ever since they said they fixed the bluetooth issues (I never had any) they broke them for me, since Feb update my bluetooth connections to every device I own drops the connections. I have repeatedly removed and readded, even at one point my phone lost every connection anyways and had to add them again.
THe call issue you raise happens to me on any bluetooth device, I generally have to switch bluetooth off and on again, or just switch to the phone no bluetooth. My car also looses all the information on the display from bluetooth, music will drop and if I press play it will start to play again with no info until I disconnect the phone and connect again, this happens in two of my cars
My Bluetooth has been fine all along, since the end of October when I got my phone, and is still fine now in the car or with anything else I've paired it with.
I wish I could offer some helpful suggestions. I hope the issue gets fixed for you. On a side note, I wonder which old Bluetooth standard your car is based on and if that has any impact on whether someone has an issue or not.
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My Bluetooth in car works great until I either get a phone call or try to make a call. It only comes through the phone. I've deleted both profiles, car and phone, reconnected, still nothing. When I pick up the phone there is no option to use the cars multimedia system. I'm on the pixel beta program, maybe that's the issue, I don't know. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. 2011 Toyota Camry.
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You could try changing AVRCP to v1.4 (in Developer options), then re-pair phone.
Last option would be to reflash Android using AFT (back to public stable)
That's what I was afraid of, I'll try the first and most likely end up doing the second.