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I just bought a new car recently and when I try to pair my Fascinate with the car bluetooth, my phone slows down considerably, won't successfully complete calls, and eventually locks up, forcing me to do a hard reset. My car's bluetooth program locks up as well. One time I got an error message on my phone saying services.exe had to force close. At first I thought the problem was with the car, but my dad's Droid Incredible works beautifully on it.
My phone is rooted w/o lagfix, and has launcher pro. It's also been de-binged and has other basic bloatware removed. I don't use taskillers either. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
I have been having this issue for a while now. I'm currently on stock ED01 and it is almost consistently happening when I end a call. After the call is over and I hang up, the phone does a silent FC with bluetooth being the cause (silent FC = 1 vibrate followed by 2 short vibrates).
When using the stock kernel, the FC is hit or miss. I can maybe get a FC after a 2nd call. When using ANY of the custom kernels built by the devs here, bluetooth will consistently crash after a call is over.
Just like the OP said, the phone will crash and will become very unresponsive. If the phone is responsive and I manage to turn bluetooth off then on again, it MIGHT connect back to the car.
It seems like no one else is experiencing this? Or maybe not a lot of people use bluetooth calling with their Fascinate? I went back to stock just to see if it was a kernel or ROM issue and while it works a bit better, it's still not 100% working. I'm hoping there is someone out there who has working bluetooth calling with their car. I had the T-Mobile G2x for a week and that phone worked perfectly (as far as bluetooth was concerned).
Anybody?
Bluetooth Crash After 1st Call is Ended
DeezNotes said:
I have been having this issue for a while now. I'm currently on stock ED01 and it is almost consistently happening when I end a call. After the call is over and I hang up, the phone does a silent FC with bluetooth being the cause (silent FC = 1 vibrate followed by 2 short vibrates).
When using the stock kernel, the FC is hit or miss. I can maybe get a FC after a 2nd call. When using ANY of the custom kernels built by the devs here, bluetooth will consistently crash after a call is over.
Just like the OP said, the phone will crash and will become very unresponsive. If the phone is responsive and I manage to turn bluetooth off then on again, it MIGHT connect back to the car.
It seems like no one else is experiencing this? Or maybe not a lot of people use bluetooth calling with their Fascinate? I went back to stock just to see if it was a kernel or ROM issue and while it works a bit better, it's still not 100% working. I'm hoping there is someone out there who has working bluetooth calling with their car. I had the T-Mobile G2x for a week and that phone worked perfectly (as far as bluetooth was concerned).
Anybody?
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I'm also having this same problem with my Bluetooth crashing after my first call ends when using following:
ROM ComRom 1.3
Kernel TW with Voodoo Sound+BLN+UV+Misc tweaks 4/15 by jt1134
Radio ED04
2011 VW Jetta SEL (just purchased a few weeks ago)
I'm thinking to go back to stock as well but would prefer some kind of fix or even a workaround over doing that.
Yesterday I was able to make 3 calls with no crashes at all for the first time ever.
MIUIwiz 1.1
OTB kernel 1.6 - no mods in voltage control
ED04 modem
(No Longer Resolved) The ROM was the Problem with Bluetooth
DeezNotes said:
Yesterday I was able to make 3 calls with no crashes at all for the first time ever.
MIUIwiz 1.1
OTB kernel 1.6 - no mods in voltage control
ED04 modem
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Excellent!!! Thank you for this! I already had the ED04 modem so that wasn't the problem. Last night I updated my kernel and this morning I tried again with no success so the kernel wasn't the problem. Later this morning, I loaded up the MIUIwiz 1.1 ROM and on the way home from work, I tested 4 calls and viola SUCCESS!!! ComRom 1.3 was the culprit and even though MIUIwiz is based on ComRom, somewhere along the line Bluetooth in the ROM was fixed.
Thanks again DeezNotes!
Edit: My problem is back as well now. Any ideas? Problem started last night when I attempted to make a second call while connected via bluetooth. I was able to make two calls this morning then upon ending the second call, I received the one long vibrate followed by two short indicating something crashed and then the phone would no longer connect.
On the same setup, the problem is back. Its actually a lot worse than before. I actually noticed crashes from Pandora when hanging up a call and Pandora wasn't even running (for days). Even after uninstalling Pandora, still get plenty of consistent crashes after hanging up a call. Interestingly enough, this is with an Audi, so hearing the issue is with a VW isn't far off from what I'm seeing since those cars are typically very identical.
I'm trying out a different phone on a different carrier [again] later this week. If all goes well, I'm going to chalk it up to Samsung and their lack of QC. I would say it's an Audi/VW issue, but I've successfully used the same features with a Blackberry and an LG G2x. Later this week I'll try the HTC Sensation and see how things go. Based on my experiences so far, this might be the last Samsung smart phone I'll ever get.
Bluetooth drivers issue - causing crashes.
Hello. found this thread whilst searching the internet for a related problem, just thought I'd add my experience on the matter.
The issue you are all experiencing is due to a bug in Broadcoms bluetooth stack. More specifically anything to do with listening for a bluetooth service then opening and closing a RFCOMM SPP connection to anything else (maybe a bluetooth OBD2 adapter) will cause either the BTLD process to consume 100% cpu (and make the device run slowly) or cause a kernel panic and reboot.
This is also related, but a slightly different bug (again Broadcoms drivers at fault):
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...rs&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
piemmmm said:
Hello. found this thread whilst searching the internet for a related problem, just thought I'd add my experience on the matter.
The issue you are all experiencing is due to a bug in Broadcoms bluetooth stack. More specifically anything to do with listening for a bluetooth service then opening and closing a RFCOMM SPP connection to anything else (maybe a bluetooth OBD2 adapter) will cause either the BTLD process to consume 100% cpu (and make the device run slowly) or cause a kernel panic and reboot.
This is also related, but a slightly different bug (again Broadcoms drivers at fault):
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...rs&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
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that sounds really really technical. any ideas on what we can do to fix it?
Handsfree Bluetooth Problem is Back
My problem is back as well now. Any ideas? Problem started last night when I attempted to make a second call while connected via bluetooth. I was able to make two calls this morning then upon ending the second call, I received the one long vibrate followed by two short indicating something crashed and then the phone would no longer connect.
I have the same issue with ED05 de-bloated, stock kernel.
Has anybody found a solution?
Is it possible to replace the bluetooth stack? I am using stock 198_7 rooted, but locked with a few mods such as the hdmi hack. I find that my bluetooth cuts off intermittently. It's most annoying with my microsoft keyboard 5000, which then needs to be paired again. when it happens to the jawbone icon headset, I can just turn bluetooth on and off. Usually with that, it happens during netflix streaming. I do find that the microsoft mouse 6000 works perfectly.
I did try CM9 for a few days. I didn't notice any bluetooth problems on that. However, I can't use my webtop, which I use regularly. I also can't use netflix, which I am addicted to. So I was wondering if it were possible to switch. I tried swapping the apks, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
any thoughts/ideas?
Thanks,
I agree with you, the Motorola bluetooth implementation is terrible and needs to be replaced. I have the same problems as you with devices randomly disconnecting and reconnecting while listening to music or netflix. When I answer the phone the bluetooth doesn't pick up, I have to quickly hit the "Bluetooth" button on the dialer screen to turn it off and hit it again to turn it back on before my caller can hear me. I'm using a Motorola Droid 3 and I keep going with Motorola because of the keyboard, but these bluetooth problems are so aggravating that they may drive me away from Motorola. I had the same problems with my Droid 1 and I really want the Droid 4 but they've got to get these problems fixed. I even bought a Motorola headset, the HX550, hoping that there was just a compatibility problem with my Jawbone Icon, but the problems continue. Maybe just maybe we'll get the attention of someone who can fix it.
Logcat attached.
I've been having this issue since I bought the phone. I'm hoping someone can help. I've attached a succinct logcat of the issue, hoping to catch a devs eye. It seems completely independent of the ROM, GB vs ICS, or applications installed. I've tried everything out there and have started thinking about how to build a kang, but I don't know enough about the problem to know how to solve it.
I really don't know what else to do, but there are times where I want to throw my phone out the window of my car at 80MPH. I love my Photon, so that prevents the carnage, but OMG it's frustrating!
I'm hoping Sprint... or some entity in-the-know will release a resolution to this problem. I know it's a dead horse, but it only takes one moment of brilliance during a coffee fueled manic episode to have a break thru!
Thanks in advance to any devs looking at this.
This fix worked for me! YMMV
UPDATE!:
It turns out that the Bluetooth Share processes are interupting the data stream while the music plays. Since Bluetooth generally can't handle more than one thing at a time, I suspect that the share services are trying to make the connection do too much. This will disable your ability to share files and phonebook, but for me, those are all secondary to my tunes!
I found a solution here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18723490&postcount=16
And instead of freezing the Bluetooth.apk services, I just did the following in the terminal:
HTML:
su
cd /system/app/
mv Bluetooth.apk Bluetooth.apk.bak
Rebooted into recovery.
Cleared the cache.
Rebooted system.
And done. That was a lot simpler than I thought it would be.
Standard disclaimer: If your phone stops working, it is not my responsibility. I don't foresee any issues, but just in case, you have been warned. Good luck!
This is actually used in many different settings. Such as backups, removing problem apps, testing, many more. Nice you found a great new use for this.
The best thing about renaming the it to a .bak or .bin is that the app is still intact and is basically a backup and can be restored very easily.
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Since changing roms, I had to repair the BT in my car with the phone.
My car supports the hands free profile and piping of media (play music on phone, hear it on car speakers).
After re-pairing the two, I had strange media play back. It would stutter every half second or so, as though the signal was getting interrupted.
Made one test phone call to see if that worked as it should, and it did, no disruption in the sound. Subsequently, tried the media playback again (no changes in any BT settings). This time it played back correctly.
Unpaired everything and repeated. Same results. It would appear something isn't getting set correctly in the BT pairing until a phone call is actually made. Similar behavior was noticed on the stock rom too (currently have charmeleon installed).
A few other people have found this same problem. It doesn't look like there is a permanent fix for it just yet. There are discussions about this on AndroidCentral as well as Sprint Community but since I'm a new member here, I can't post links right now.
According to the post on Sprint Community, HTC is aware and hopefully looking into it.
If you want the links, send me a PM and I'll send them to you.
^^Thanks for the update. You can still post links, but indirectly.
www google com /{rest of url} should work.
This issue isn't a deal breaker for me as I rarely use this function. Occasionally when traveling long distances. I have a 32GB usb flash drive that has most of my music on it which works quite well.
Ok, let's try this. Here are the two links I was talking about.
forums.androidcentral com/htc-evo-4g-lte/178321-strange-bluetooth-issue.html
community.sprint com/baw/message/430140?tstart=0
It's not a deal breaker for me, but only because the workaround is so easy, although temporary.
Hmm.. There seems to be a common thread (mostly) that most of the folks have an infiniti product (self included) who are experiencing this.
Although I didn't test, I wonder if the work around has to be invoked each time the car/phone is paired?
Thanks for the links!
I have to do the workaround each time I turn the car on. Just make a quick call to voicemail over Bluetooth, hang up and voila, error free audio. I never have to impair/pair the connection manually.
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Any updates to this?
I have a Sprint S3, and it will pair to my car stereo just fine, but it keeps disconnecting. Once paired, there is option boxes for "Call audio" and "Media audio"
It seems like if I turn one option on, it disables the other, and vice versa. Every time I start the car, the pairing is out of whack and I have to start over, enabling whichever one I want, and after a few times it works. I did get both to work one time, but as soon I turned car off then on, it was broken again.
My old phones have never had a problem connecting both Call and Media to my car, so I am concerned it is an issue with the S3.
I have 2010 Nissan Altima with the upgraded stereo. I have removed all previously paired devices so only the s3 shows up. I have removed and re-added the s3 several times. I have renamed the car's bluetooth name several times as well.
Is anyone else experiencing a similar issue, or can you test it with your car audio systems and let me know if it works for you?
Let me know if there some information I should provide to better understand the issue.
Thanks,
Rob
Hey robmtx, this might help you out. Theres an app in the market called bluetooth fix repair.
I had the same issue with my last two droids (1 and 3), and this solved the dropped connections. good luck
Thanks.
I'll give that a try.
I've also been reading how this might be more of an ICS issue than a device issue. It appears there are similar discussions in other device threads. I'll keep researching and also try this app.
I used my S3 in a rented car a view days ago and paired it with the installed Ford car stereo.
I played MP3 via Bluetooth and made some calls via Bluetooth. It all worked flawless. I also did not see any checkboxes for "call audio" or "media audio".
When I left the car and came back later it connected automatically. So I guess the problem is not a general problem.
this happens on mine as well from stock XALE8 to the latest XALF5. i went ahead and posted on samsung's FB page..but doubt we'll get a response
by the way, ive had this same issue whether im connecting to a bluetooth 2.0 or bluetooth 3.0 headset/car kit.
Right I might know the answer to this as I had the same problem as few weeks ago.
If you have Facebook, twitter, whatsapp or anything like this best thing is to get rid of them if you don't want to go to your accounts and sync on your phone and untick the sync with contacts on any of the apps you have installed.
Then go to call log and clear your call history.
Delete the bluetooth pairing turn the phone off and back on, repair with the car, mine has worked perfectly since I did this.
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Motogp1 said:
Right I might know the answer to this as I had the same problem as few weeks ago.
If you have Facebook, twitter, whatsapp or anything like this best thing is to get rid of them if you don't want to go to your accounts and sync on your phone and untick the sync with contacts on any of the apps you have installed.
Then go to call log and clear your call history.
Delete the bluetooth pairing turn the phone off and back on, repair with the car, mine has worked perfectly since I did this.
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Did you remove your Gmail account too when doing this? I plan to remove FB, stock e-mail (yahoo) but wasn't sure I wanted to go through removing gmail and removing Touchdown for Exchange.
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this happens on mine as well from stock XALE8 to the latest XALF5.
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Sorry for the newb question - but what are these in reference too? Are they a firmware or similar version of something? I was looking under About phone but didn't see anything similar.
Robmtx said:
Did you remove your Gmail account too when doing this? I plan to remove FB, stock e-mail (yahoo) but wasn't sure I wanted to go through removing gmail and removing Touchdown for Exchange.
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No Gmail is fine.
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I have no problems pairing the s3 with my Volvo. Streaming, skipping titels, switch to phone during streaming - everything is working fine. Syncing E-Mail via Exchange an Gmail makes no difference.
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Sorry for the newb question - but what are these in reference too? Are they a firmware or similar version of something? I was looking under About phone but didn't see anything similar.
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yes this is your firmware version. settings > about > build number > I9300XXALF5. this is the most current. stock should be I9300XXALE8. under baseband version is your modem (which should contain the drivers for your 3G radio/bluetooth/wifi (i think)
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yes this is your firmware version. settings > about > build number > I9300XXALF5. this is the most current. stock should be I9300XXALE8. under baseband version is your modem (which should contain the drivers for your 3G radio/bluetooth/wifi (i think)
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My Build number is IMM76D.L710VPALEN which threw me off. Guess it is different for Sprint. Baseband L710VPLEN
I think I'll just buy a car without bluetooth and be done with this mess. It's so annoying playing the "will it pair" game. :laugh:
Some Sony Head Units tend to be a nightmare.
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bluetooth bug
I have a strange problem with my bluetooth audio...I have a Denso radio in my Ford Mondeo and the nightmare starts whan I connect phone via bluetooth to it. Phone some time don´t wake up from sleep. The only way how to solve (partialy) this is to reset phone (long press of power button). Then phone connect perfectly and everything is working like a charm. This problem I had on every rom I´ve tried yet
Every other phone I´ve had before didn´t suffer such prblems (galaxy note, evo 3d...)
Somebody could help? I don´t know what to do...
Same Issue
I'm having the exact same issue with my SG3 (Stock, not rooted *yet*). The initial pair works great - phone and audio sync. Once I shut the car off and back on again, the Phone connection does not automatically initiate and I have to manually connect it on my head unit. I'm driving a 2013 Mazda CX5. It's not my headunit since both my HTC Inspire 4G and HTC One X connect without issue. Another annoyance is the lack of song titles or other ID3 info on screen. Even my old Inspire had that!
My connection is great, but I am having an issue with tags. I'm using PowerAmp, but my Alpine unit displays the wrong song info - it automatically uses the default app. Is there any way to fix this?
Robmtx said:
I have a Sprint S3, and it will pair to my car stereo just fine, but it keeps disconnecting. Once paired, there is option boxes for "Call audio" and "Media audio"
It seems like if I turn one option on, it disables the other, and vice versa. Every time I start the car, the pairing is out of whack and I have to start over, enabling whichever one I want, and after a few times it works. I did get both to work one time, but as soon I turned car off then on, it was broken again.
My old phones have never had a problem connecting both Call and Media to my car, so I am concerned it is an issue with the S3.
I have 2010 Nissan Altima with the upgraded stereo. I have removed all previously paired devices so only the s3 shows up. I have removed and re-added the s3 several times. I have renamed the car's bluetooth name several times as well.
Is anyone else experiencing a similar issue, or can you test it with your car audio systems and let me know if it works for you?
Let me know if there some information I should provide to better understand the issue.
Thanks,
Rob
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i have the exact same problem, having before a Milestone/Droid 1 and a Galaxy S1, both have functioned flawlessly with my car...
By the way, my car is a Renault Fluence 2011, maybe it uses the same BT chip as your Altima as Renault and Nissan are pratically the same manufacturer...
SmoothB said:
My connection is great, but I am having an issue with tags. I'm using PowerAmp, but my Alpine unit displays the wrong song info - it automatically uses the default app. Is there any way to fix this?
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PowerAmp does not send the Tags - Period
The devs may be working on it soon
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otakonx said:
I'm having the exact same issue with my SG3 (Stock, not rooted *yet*). The initial pair works great - phone and audio sync. Once I shut the car off and back on again, the Phone connection does not automatically initiate and I have to manually connect it on my head unit. I'm driving a 2013 Mazda CX5. It's not my headunit since both my HTC Inspire 4G and HTC One X connect without issue. Another annoyance is the lack of song titles or other ID3 info on screen. Even my old Inspire had that!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732226
Not just you mate :crying:
Mazda CX5
otakonx said:
I'm having the exact same issue with my SG3 (Stock, not rooted *yet*). The initial pair works great - phone and audio sync. Once I shut the car off and back on again, the Phone connection does not automatically initiate and I have to manually connect it on my head unit. I'm driving a 2013 Mazda CX5. It's not my headunit since both my HTC Inspire 4G and HTC One X connect without issue. Another annoyance is the lack of song titles or other ID3 info on screen. Even my old Inspire had that!
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Hi,
Did you get it working with CX-5 as I just spent 500pounds on this phone and have exact same problem. Thinking of getting an HTC One X instead.
gravyuk said:
Hi,
Did you get it working with CX-5 as I just spent 500pounds on this phone and have exact same problem. Thinking of getting an HTC One X instead.
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So far I'm still in the same boat. I rooted today and used a market app called "Bluetooth fix" so next time I'm in the car I'll see if it fixed the issue.
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I have a Galaxy S3 I9300 for a couple of weeks now and I love it, other than the fact that I keep having a strange issue with the Bluetooth connection with my carkit. I've been searching forums for similar issues and I found a variety of carkit related problems, but none of the ones I found describe the same problem as what I'm having:
- Initially the Bluetooth connection works fine and I can play music or make a call through the carkit just fine
- When I switch off the car's systems and don't use any apps on the phone in the meanwhile, and then start the car's systems again, it establishes the Bluetooth connection just fine again
- When I switch off the car's systems and I use other apps for a while and then start the car again, it won't work. Bluetooth does appear to connect, but after that it just doesn't play ball. When I try to play a song at this point, the phone shows the song is playing, but neither the phone nor the car audio produces any sound
So anyway, every morning before leaving to work and every evening before going home, I reboot my phone first. Then I step into the car and it establishes the Bluetooth connection just fine. But if I don't reboot the phone first, it just won't work. Now I guess I could setup a tasker profile to automatically reboot the phone, but I'd rather just get the problem fixed.
I run a Galaxy S3 I9300 with stock Android 4.1.1, rooted. I have already tried to run the "Bluetooth Fix Repair" app and afterwards had to pair the phone with the carkit again, but that made no difference.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
*bump*
Some additional info:
This issue has now also happened a few times while driving. While music (through Spotify) was playing over the bluetooth carkit, it would sometimes just stop working when I opened a different app (like for example opening an SMS). Spotify was still running (and the song was still ongoing) and also the bluetooth connection still showed as being connected, but it just wouldn't produce any sound anymore.
Anyway, it seems clear to me that this is a bluetooth issue, but I have no idea how I can troubleshoot this beyond what I've already done.
I would be happy to pay whoever can fix this problem..
With an issue like you are describing it may be helpful to list the headunit model too. I do not own an S3 but I have a multimedia headunit (Pioneer AVH P4400BH) and have found that toggling my Bluetooth on and off will help the headunit to see the Bluetooth on my Android device. This may not resolve your issue though.
Another thing to consider, your headunit may have an update-able firmware. That said if your headunit does have an update-able firmware I would check out the procedure, ensure there is a way to roll back to your current firmware and try that. If your headunit was purchased at an electronics or and audio retailer you may wish to speak with them. Your issue may not be with your phone but with your headunit, but this should help as far as troubleshooting since your issue involves multiple devices.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
With an issue like you are describing it may be helpful to list the headunit model too.
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My car is a Renault Megane RS, the carkit was built in. I believe it's called Renault Carminat TomTom.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
I do not own an S3 but I have a multimedia headunit (Pioneer AVH P4400BH) and have found that toggling my Bluetooth on and off will help the headunit to see the Bluetooth on my Android device. This may not resolve your issue though.
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I've covered everything like that in about 100 different ways, none of which made any difference.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
Another thing to consider, your headunit may have an update-able firmware. That said if your headunit does have an update-able firmware I would check out the procedure, ensure there is a way to roll back to your current firmware and try that. If your headunit was purchased at an electronics or and audio retailer you may wish to speak with them. Your issue may not be with your phone but with your headunit, but this should help as far as troubleshooting since your issue involves multiple devices.
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Good point. It does have an SD card slot, but as far as I know that's only to update the maps of the navigation system. I'll see if I can figure that out.
Thanks for the tips!
By the way - I do think that it's unlikely that the carkit itself is the troublemaker. Especially because opening an SMS on my phone can trigger the whole thing to stop working (it doesn't happen every time, but it did happen several times). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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By the way - I do think that it's unlikely that the carkit itself is the troublemaker. Especially because opening an SMS on my phone can trigger the whole thing to stop working (it doesn't happen every time, but it did happen several times). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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It is in fact very possible that it is your phone, but wanted to throw it out there that bluetooth headunits can be troublesome on their own. Now I am not familiar with your headunit, but does it save bluetooth IDs? Like on my headunit and many other aftermarket headunits, it will save 3 bluetooth devices. If it does, have you tried clearing other devices and moving your S3 to the top? Odd as it sounds this has made a difference for me. Also do you have other bluetooth devices in the car, such as the 3GS you mentioned?
Also a logcat of this happening would be beneficial. If you do not know how to pull a logcat there is an app on the market called catlog or alogcat. Both are free and are invaluable in troubleshooting a ROM issue. In short it tells a developer what is going on as far as events being triggered or failures within the ROM.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
Now I am not familiar with your headunit, but does it save bluetooth IDs? Like on my headunit and many other aftermarket headunits, it will save 3 bluetooth devices. If it does, have you tried clearing other devices and moving your S3 to the top? Odd as it sounds this has made a difference for me.
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Yeah I had read that too in some other thread (I went through just about every bluetooth related thread I could find, before I posted this topic). Mine saves up to 5. It didn't have anything in there except for my previous phone, which I had cleared. I also tried re-pairing the S3 several times, that didn't make any difference either.
Now, I just read somewhere that some people are having disconnection issues on the same carkit. In their case, in the end the problem turned out to be that their carkit will import all of their contacts from their phone (so you can call people even while your phone is in your pocket), and this would cause trouble when there are contacts without a phone number associated with it (just like my thousands of Exchange contacts). The people in question are talking about random disconnects though, whereas in my case it happens after doing some stuff on my phone. So it's probably unrelated, but I'll give that a try anyway just to rule it out. I just need to figure out a way to stop the carkit from importing contacts, because removing thousands of email contacts is obviously not an option.
I'll keep this topic updated with any progress. If anyone has any other ideas, please keep em coming. Thanks for the help so far!
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
Also a logcat of this happening would be beneficial. If you do not know how to pull a logcat there is an app on the market called catlog or alogcat. Both are free and are invaluable in troubleshooting a ROM issue. In short it tells a developer what is going on as far as events being triggered or failures within the ROM.
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Didn't think of that, great tip, thank you! I do run the stock ROM by the way.
I've installed alogcat just now. Does it just keep running automatically in the background?
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Didn't think of that, great tip, thank you! I do run the stock ROM by the way.
I've installed alogcat just now. Does it just keep running automatically in the background?
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It reads a file that is being constantly updated (which happens to be the logcat file). Typically I will clear it right before doing what it took to cause the failure, like in your case in your car with the bluetooth on.
I've got Audi with BT and S3 with custom rom and I've got similar problems with BT. It connects automatically but if I switch off BT in phone and switch it on again - it doesn't connect any more. I had this since I bought a phone and it was on all ROMs I used.
YoghurtPL said:
I've got Audi with BT and S3 with custom rom and I've got similar problems with BT. It connects automatically but if I switch off BT in phone and switch it on again - it doesn't connect any more. I had this since I bought a phone and it was on all ROMs I used.
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Yep - I have that too. The weird thing is that in that situation the phone does seem to think it is connected, while it really isn't. Just to be clear: this is not the only way to cause this issue (because it also happens when trying to reconnect the Bluetooth while on the phone it hasn't been disabled in the meanwhile).
So far I haven't been able to pull anything related from the logcat.
Also, while reading up on common bluetooth issues, I came across some posts of people who were saying that some phone/carkit combinations are having trouble with 2-way communication (because I can stream music from the phone to the carkit, but I can also change a song using the carkit or initiate a phonecall from the carkit). I'm going to try to only use communication initiated from the phone, and see whether that makes any difference. In the meanwhile: does anyone happen to know anything about 2-way communication issues with bluetooth, and how to overcome such issues?
Update:
- Updated carkit to latest firmware. No change, still same problem
- Have not been able to capture anything unusual in the logs
- I have a Bose Soundlink now, which is a wireless speaker. Whenever my S3 is connected to the Soundlink (with bluetooth), wifi doesn't work. Upon turning off bluetooth, wifi instantly works fine again. So this definitely confirms this is a problem with bluetooth on the phone, not on the carkit.
- Wanted to upgrade to Android 4.1.2 but Samsung won't let me, as it says the device is modified (rooted). Triangle away isn't helping. Damn you, Samsung. This is *the* reason I moved away from Apple, as I don't like companies who don't let you use your stuff any way you like. And now Samsung is moving down the same route. Idiots. Anyway, I guess the only option left, is to start using a custom ROM.
Does anyone happen to have experience in terms of solving bluetooth problems by using a custom ROM? I'm thinking of using Cyanogenmod 10.1
In the meanwhile I have upgraded to Android 4.1.2: still the same problem.
I have also discussed this matter with quite a few other Samsung smartphone owners, and all of them appear to be having the same issue. Most of them just don't seem to be bothered to spend time on looking for a fix.
Also, I have figured out that this problem is specific to media streaming. I'm able to use my phone on the carkit for calls at any time, without having to reboot first. Only when I try to listen to music, the problem occurs.
Anyway, I have ruled out that this problem is specific to me or my devices - this appears to be a global issue. So I'm completely puzzled as to why there's not a lot more fuss going on about this.
If anyone has any more suggestions for a resolution of this problem, please share.
S3 bluetooth connection problem
Had the same problem with my S3 and renault megane III handsfree bluetooth system.(Arkamsys software version 2.2.0.19 auditorium)
I downgraded to 4.0.4 baseband I9300CELH1 (stock) and problem seems fixed
hope this helps.
Hi Bennes,
Thank you for your response.
I'm still dealing with this problem myself. All upgrades so far haven't made a difference. So far, I've been able to figure out that if I first initiate a phonecall, after hanging up, the audio streaming works (while before the phonecall it usually wouldn't). This works about 8 out of 10 times (the other 2 times it doesn't make a bluetooth connection at all). So what I've done, is to use Tasker and to automatically make it call my own phone number whenever bluetooth gets connected to the carkit, and hanging up after 3 seconds. But this is obviously far from ideal.
Do you know whether it is possible to change the baseband version without changing the firmware version? I wouldn't like to downgrade to an older firmware version, as I like the new features in the newer versions. I do also prefer to stick with the stock firmware, but that's not a requirement.
Carkit bluetooth issue
Apoc_ said:
Hi Bennes,
Thank you for your response.
I'm still dealing with this problem myself. All upgrades so far haven't made a difference. So far, I've been able to figure out that if I first initiate a phonecall, after hanging up, the audio streaming works (while before the phonecall it usually wouldn't). This works about 8 out of 10 times (the other 2 times it doesn't make a bluetooth connection at all). So what I've done, is to use Tasker and to automatically make it call my own phone number whenever bluetooth gets connected to the carkit, and hanging up after 3 seconds. But this is obviously far from ideal.
Do you know whether it is possible to change the baseband version without changing the firmware version? I wouldn't like to downgrade to an older firmware version, as I like the new features in the newer versions. I do also prefer to stick with the stock firmware, but that's not a requirement.
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mmm, don`t know about baseband only. Try google.
I have read that after downgrade to 4.0.4 and then upgrade again to latest stock version, bluetooth connection keeps working.
I cannot confirm this as i am still on 4.0.4, but will get an update of the arkamsys radio to the latest renault firmware version next week and then start experimenting again. i will report back once i have new results
Bennes18 said:
mmm, don`t know about baseband only. Try google.
I have read that after downgrade to 4.0.4 and then upgrade again to latest stock version, bluetooth connection keeps working.
I cannot confirm this as i am still on 4.0.4, but will get an update of the arkamsys radio to the latest renault firmware version next week and then start experimenting again. i will report back once i have new results
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BB only, try this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2106424
Confirmed the update thing, i have updated the S3 to version 4.1.2 BB I9300CEELL1 and have no bluetooth issue whatsoever, car audio still on 2.2.0.19 byt the way
Pretty strange ... , but glad its working !
I have the same issue with a Ford Focus =/
also, while using CM or Omega, the music title never changes.