When playing a podcast over the car's Bluetooth, notification temporarily stops the podcast audio, but the notification is not heard (that is, the phone goes silent during the notification and afterwards the podcast/audio resumes). So far in my experience, any notification will cause this behavior (navigation instructions, email, text alerts).
This issue does not happen with spotify or any app that has an option to lower its own volume (rather than temporarily pause) during a notification.
Interestingly, if the notification is very long (such as a navigation instruction lasting longer than about 10 seconds), you can hear the last part of the notification.
I have tested this with 2 phones ( Galaxy S6 and S8) and tested on 3 different cars. The apps I tested included spotify, Audible-audiobooks and 3 different podcast apps.
Two of the three cars have this issue regardless of the phone or the audio apps I have used, leading me to believe it's android and the receiving car Bluetooth software causing the issue. I am not sure if iPhone has this issue or not.
I am unable to listen to an audiobook or podcast while using navigation app and many time will miss message notification because of this. I have contact the car's support and Samsung and both are acting as if this is the first time they hear of this issues.
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I just received my Epic 4G Touch on Friday, and I'm experiencing an issue where notification sounds will always be played through the phone speaker even though I have headphones plugged in. I am using the stock ROM, and this behavior is happening rooted or unrooted (I just rooted this morning).
Here are the different scenarios where I always have this happen now.
- Listening to a podcast through Pocketcasts with my phone directly connected to my car stereo system via headphone jack. Podcast is playing through the car speakers just fine. I will receive a gtalk chat, and the podcast is silenced briefly to play the notification sound, however the notification sound will be played from the phone speaker.
- Listening to music through the Google Music app with headphones at the gym. I'll be using the C25K app to send a verbal notification for when to run or walk. It plays through the phone speaker and alerts the whole gym. =\
- And then I just tested it right now. With literally NOTHING playing in the background but with a pair of headphones plugged in. I sent myself a gtalk message from an alternate account, and it plays the gtalk notification sound through the phone speaker.
I upgraded from an HTC EVO 4G, so this is obviously bizarre behavior and not a problem I experienced with my previous phone. It worked properly.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Does anyone know how to fix this?
Not sure what is kosher behavior here on the forums, but since this thread hadn't gotten a response yet and had fallen to the second page, I just wanted to give it a little bump back up.
Hopefully others can at least confirm whether or not they are also experiencing this problem.
I actually used to experience this with my Epic 4G
and I literally just tested it (the way you did, with just the headphones in) on my ET4G and yup, I get the same thing
Also, on my Epic 4G, my music would stop playing if 1. my ringer volume was NOT on silent/vibrate and 2. when I got a notification
so I'm more than sure my ET4G does it as well
I have not utilized the new voice features on the ET4G, so I can't comment on that
I don't know if this is a flawed or purposed design, but you are not alone, lol
*I don't know if there are any fixes for it. only thing I could imagine would be some kind of custom rom
has there been any fix for this?
Music + Headphone + Notification = Angry Coworkers
I need to bump this question up (instead of reposting the question). This has annoyed me for a while, but today I was blasting my music with my headphones on, then suddenly I got a meeting reminder. Playing the notification over the speakerphone is one thing, but when the notification is played via the phone's speaker, it also blasts my music via the phone speaker throughout the duration of the notification too!
The only resolution I see for now is to put the phone on silent whenever you want to listen to music via your headset, otherwise if you get a notification, people will get a loud blast of Lenny Kravitz.
Does anyone know if this happens with the more popular custom roms? I'm currently stock. Thanks!
I have this issue also, the silent mode only works sometimes for some reason
Is anyone having problems with their bluetooth locking up? I am getting various issues that all seem to be related to the bluetooth. I routinely connect to a Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth speakerphone in my car and stream music, mostly Pandora but sometimes google music or other players.
This morning I turned on the speakerphone and immediately watchdog told me that bluetoothd and pandora services were both stuck at 40% each. I hadn't even launched pandora since the last reboot. Had to restart the phone.
Other times I will go to turn on the speakerphone and it will not connect. I try to turn bluetooth on and off. It shuts off fine but hangs turning on. Usually about 30 seconds later the entire phone becomes unresponsive and I have to restart it by holding power. Putting it in and out of flight mode does the same thing.
Still other times I will shut the speakerphone off or walk out of range and the bluetooth icon on the phone continues to show connected. Sound may or may not come out of the phone and the volume control says bluetooth audio. Again restarting bluetooth locks up the phone and requires a restart.
Lastly sometimes bluetoothd and/or pandora will randomly go haywire and hang with high CPU utilization.
Anybody else seeing any or all of these symptoms or have any ideas. I am rooted and have the 2.3.6 update. Pretty sure the problems were occuring before the update, not sure about before the root.
Thanks...
Yes I am having similar problems when using bluetooth to connect to my home based panasonic DECT phone system. A reboot of the phone does repair the issue. It seems to occur every 24-72 hours, if the phone is not rebooted. My blackberry connects via bluetooth to the same panasonic phone system without issue. I suppose it could be a problem between multiple bluetooth devices. I suspect it is a SW bug though, because a simple reboot has always resolved the problem for me.
Do you have pandora installed? I uninstalled it yesterday and haven't had the problem yet. Did plenty of streaming with Google Music.
One thing I forgot to add. When the device says that is connected and sending out audio over the bluetooth, such as music, but it is really not, I get a moment of audio out of the built in speakers before it turns off.
eddiert said:
Do you have pandora installed? I uninstalled it yesterday and haven't had the problem yet. Did plenty of streaming with Google Music.
One thing I forgot to add. When the device says that is connected and sending out audio over the bluetooth, such as music, but it is really not, I get a moment of audio out of the built in speakers before it turns off.
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Yes....we do have pandora installed...and now that you mention it; I believe it is quite possible that we only have the problem when we run pandora after a reboot. Because for the past few days there has been no issue. And I believe during this time I have not been using pandora. If it is Pandora...hopefully a future pandora bug fix will repair the issue.
Since I uninstalled Pandora I have not had a single lockup in almost two weeks. I guess I'll message Pandora and see if they'll fix it.
Edit - Looks like they may have fixed it. Crossing fingers.
What's New
What's in this version:
The Search hard key now takes you to the Pandora station search screen
"Now Playing": next track information is shown much sooner
"Now Playing": album art is now always scaled correctly
Fix crash when toggling Bluetooth on/off
Fix display of genre station lists on Android 2.3.4 and above
Many low level bug fixes and stability enhancements fixing crashes and application hangs
I've had the Moto 360 for 5 days now and love it. There is one bug I have noticed and wanted to see if others are having the same issue. When I am listening to music through bluetooth in my car and have the watch connected it occasionally turns the phone volume down to a very low volume. I notice this happen almost everytime I start navigation. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
I'm using the Moto 360 with the HTC One M8.
I just get choppy volume in that situation. There is a Bluetooth bug somewhere with the moto 360.
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I've had the Moto 360 for 5 days now and love it. There is one bug I have noticed and wanted to see if others are having the same issue. When I am listening to music through bluetooth in my car and have the watch connected it occasionally turns the phone volume down to a very low volume. I notice this happen almost everytime I start navigation. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
I'm using the Moto 360 with the HTC One M8.
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Ahhhh. I thought I was going mad. I just got a new Sony z3. Been blaming my phone all along.
That makes sense now. So it's the watch that's causing the volume to randomly decrease the volume to its lowest. I wasn't running any watch apps at all.
Any solution anyone.?
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Is it possible that "OK Google" is inadvertently being triggered by background noise?
When I reply to texts via voice it mutes the streaming music volume on the phone (and also in my car), which I like as it increases the accuracy of my voice reply.
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Is it possible that "OK Google" is inadvertently being triggered by background noise?
When I reply to texts via voice it mutes the streaming music volume on the phone (and also in my car), which I like as it increases the accuracy of my voice reply.
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I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
I have no issues. Nexus 5 connected to my Moto360 and factory head unit (2011 Camaro). I stream Pandora, Google Play, and have spoken notifications.
no issues here either.
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I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
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Ah, I see. This is testable and will do so today.
I use my X with Moto S11 Flex HD bt head set when cutting the grass.
Before the 360, music would get lower on an incoming notification, and I'd hear the notification sound via the headset.
With the 360 On/Connected, I see the music controls on the screen. Now I notice that when the 360's screen lights up(from twisting my wrist), or I get a notification, the music volume drops slightly for a few seconds, then returns to normal. BUT I do not hear the notification sounds via the Headset when this happens.
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I don't think this is the issue. I mostly get this the first time navigation voice directions are given. It turns the volume down on the phone and I can't hear music. I then have to turn the volume back up and don't have issues after that.
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I used navigation while streaming GPMAA and the volume would return to normal on it's own after giving me an audible instructions the entire way home today. Sorry man, I"ll try again tomorrow, but I couldn't recreate it - it might be phone specific.
Nexus 5
Moto 360
BlueTrip BT Audio
Stock Audi BT Phone
I have had this issue for years (nothing to do with Android Wear in my case). It has to do with how an app obeys the audio focus rules. Some apps are more problematic than others. Rdio is extremely problematic while navigating. Google apps seem to be the best. But whenever the audio focus goes all wacky, it will generally go back to normal once the next navigation prompt plays. With Pandora, this often happens when a navigation prompt plays between tracks...the next track will be much lower in volume. At least, until the next audio prompt. Then volume returns to normal. Skipping to the next track also fixes it.
Hi All,
I've noticed that when I'm listening to music or podcasts (via Rocket Player, Pocket Casts, etc. ) over bluetooth in my car, I cannot hear any notifications. The music/audio pauses briefly to play the notification sound, but no sound is heard. The same happens with turn by turn directions via Here Maps (haven't tried Google Maps yet, but I suspect the same issue would occur). Has anyone else run in to this issue?
Try the latest update released today: "Force output to be primary output when using BT_SCO."
Still the same issue even after the update, unfortunately.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix&hl=en
Just thought I'd follow up on this in case anyone else is having this problem. For whatever reason bluetooth notification randomly started working for me a few days ago. No rhyme or reason, but I'm glad it's working now.
I was having issues with my Bluetooth headset not automatically activating with my watch when turned on, so unpaired an repaired it. Now, whenever I hang up on a call on my phone (not even using the watch) my watch starts playing music from the spotify app. This only happens if the spotify is set to "stream over wifi". Another fix is to quit the spotify app and turn on then off power saving mode. However if the spotify app is used again the issue comes back. It was fine until I did the Bluetooth repairing. I have uninstalled/reinstalled/ unpaired/repaired etc and this issue won't go away.
I use the running app on the phone. Shortly after I start running a graphic shows on the screen telling me to wear the watch on the outside of my wrist for the HR monitor. I am already doing this and always having to quit the notification which is annoying. It didn't do this when I first got the watch so I am wondering if an update has introduced it.
When playing music while I run (I now use music stored on the watch due to the spotify issue), sometimes it won't continue on with my playlist. It tends to stop after one song so I have to press play. I doesn't always do this. Even worse sometimes it will only play one song which I then have to keep hitting play to repeat. As I'm recording my run I can't exit the app to restart the music from the music app.
I use the voice memo app on the watch which syncs memos with the phone. For some reason when it syncs a memo it plays the notification sound on the phone about 20-30 times, so quickly some of them play over each other. It's like you've just received 20 odd messages all at once and is ridiculous.
While I like the watch overall I wish these issues could be fixed. Does anyone have any suggestions for any fixes?