My wife decided to switch from the EVO to the Photon two days ago after messing around with mine and seeing my battery life was better than hers. Yesterday she started getting a buzzing/crackling noise while on calls. Does not show up when playing music, steaming netfix, etc. Checked under setting on both phones and firmware, PRL and everything are exactly the same and I don't have the issue so not sure what is causeing it. Have done factory reset, lowered call volume and still it shows up.
Anyone else have this issue and know how to resolve it?
I had similar problems with my earpiece speaker. It started intermittently, and slowly became constant.had to get the phone replaced.
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I have this all the time when streaming music in my car. It is very audible even with low volume on the car stereo. I never had this issue with my old HTC Hero in the car.
Took it back to the store and once they heard it, they replaced it.
Has anyone had issues with bluetooth phone and media disconnecting randomly with the rezound? I have the rezound paired with my 2011 Acura TL, and I've had it just randomly disconnect 4 or 5 times now. Sometimes just media disconnects, sometimes both, sometimes bluetooth shuts off entirely? Anyone else notice weirdness?
I use a blueant t1. When an incoming call comes in, it is fine. Occasionally, when I make an outgoing call, I have to shut off the blueant and turn it back on to make it work even though it says it is connected.
One time I would turn it on and 3 seconds later it would turn itself off. Reboots or battery pull did not fix. I had to do a factory reset. Verizon said was probably some software I loaded, but I have since restored all the same apps and happened once for like 10 minutes, but never again. I looked and it was in performance mode too. Otherwise, I have had mine disconnect but never during a call, maybe only once. I also have an issue with it coming into the middle of a sentance during navigation if using my bluetooth speaker. It works fine without the bluetooth, but not with it.
I don't think so. I used it in my car for 2.5-3 hour trips over the holidays and it has been solid. Used it for calls and streaming music from my phone and mostly streaming podcasts from internet.
I could swear I read something about someone having disconnect problems in his car but I searched and couldn't find it. Something about it disconnecting in his car when he held it a certain way.
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feralicious said:
I don't think so. I used it in my car for 2.5-3 hour trips over the holidays and it has been solid. Used it for calls and streaming music from my phone and mostly streaming podcasts from internet.
I could swear I read something about someone having disconnect problems in his car but I searched and couldn't find it. Something about it disconnecting in his car when he held it a certain way.
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Thanks. I'll try that out. I always have it in my inside jacket pocket in the car, so it's definitely not the way I'm holding it.
I rarely use the phone over bluetooth, but loves me some A2DP.
Not a deal breaker, but for any of you out there with a Gear S in hand, can you stream Pandora or anything else with this watch? If I left my phone in the car and went running, all I have is my watch and a bluetooth headset, would I still be able to listen to internet music... I am guessing with further Itzen development here on XDA, that one day will be possible if it isn't already.
So far, not right now. However, I imagine this could be coming to the watch down the road.
Yes, you can stream music, but as of right now only using the Milk music app.
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Yes, you can stream music, but as of right now only using the Milk music app.
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Well, that's something at least. I don't have a music library at all, I only use streaming services. So that will hold me over for now. Thank you.
simpletona70 said:
Well, that's something at least. I don't have a music library at all, I only use streaming services. So that will hold me over for now. Thank you.
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Let us know how it performs battery wise.
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Not a deal breaker, but for any of you out there with a Gear S in hand, can you stream Pandora or anything else with this watch? If I left my phone in the car and went running, all I have is my watch and a bluetooth headset, would I still be able to listen to internet music... I am guessing with further Itzen development here on XDA, that one day will be possible if it isn't already.
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Yeah if tizen gave us Pandora or another music app that would be terrific milk music for now
The is a "tunein" app made for tizen. Tunein is an Internet streaming radio wich I use a lot on my phone.
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I will know soon enough, local Tmobile just called me and they got some in. Didn't expect that for another week at least.
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I will know soon enough, local Tmobile just called me and they got some in. Didn't expect that for another week at least.
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yeah I'm on t-mobile Gs too we can stream music free yeahhh
would love if you could use google music on it. then i wouldnt need to drag my phone out at the gym.
So I got the Gear S! Tmobile received 4 and held one for me since I had issues getting a White Note 4 from them. I got the MILK app but it just acts as a remote for the phone! It doesn't stream to the watch itself.
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So I got the Gear S! Tmobile received 4 and held one for me since I had issues getting a White Note 4 from them. I got the MILK app but it just acts as a remote for the phone! It doesn't stream to the watch itself.
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Hum.. T-mobile says stream milk app is free maybe that only works on the phone itself (The free streaming part)
omg, i just got it. The first time i tried to stream from the watch, i turned off bluetooth so it be be a standalone, MILK gave me an error saying it couldn't connect to bluetooth device and it quit. but i didn't know it had wifi, so now i'm connected to wifi and it's working. I assume it will work on 3G as well, I'm not in a good area for data, so i basically get Edge network.
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omg, i just got it. The first time i tried to stream from the watch, i turned off bluetooth so it be be a standalone, MILK gave me an error saying it couldn't connect to bluetooth device and it quit. but i didn't know it had wifi, so now i'm connected to wifi and it's working. I assume it will work on 3G as well, I'm not in a good area for data, so i basically get Edge network.
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Yea it will work on 4G too so when you play milk it wont count against your data plan.
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Well, that's something at least. I don't have a music library at all, I only use streaming services. So that will hold me over for now. Thank you.
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Be mindful that streaming will significantly reduce battery life.
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Let us know how it performs battery wise.
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I'll pitch in on this one, I took it today for a run as standalone and for the 7 miles that I ran the battery went from 97% to 49% at the end of the run which was 1 hour long. I received a call that played about a minute lol and numerous email notifications. That being said I say that it will probably last at the most 2 hrs as a standalone with everything turned on and streaming music. Hope this help!
PS. The built in hr monitor is not very accurate and I think the GPS is a little bit off, but I'll have to check with my previous runs on endomondo.
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Be mindful that streaming will significantly reduce battery life.
I'll pitch in on this one, I took it today for a run as standalone and for the 7 miles that I ran the battery went from 97% to 49% at the end of the run which was 1 hour long. I received a call that played about a minute lol and numerous email notifications. That being said I say that it will probably last at the most 2 hrs as a standalone with everything turned on and streaming music. Hope this help!
PS. The built in hr monitor is not very accurate and I think the GPS is a little bit off, but I'll have to check with my previous runs on endomondo.
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I found the gps to be pretty accurate on my runs. I'm planning on wearing my polar hrm to see how accurate the hrm is. However, if it is like the gear fit was it is going to seem kinda erratic during the workout, but the end results will compare nicely to the polar.
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Be mindful that streaming will significantly reduce battery life.
I'll pitch in on this one, I took it today for a run as standalone and for the 7 miles that I ran the battery went from 97% to 49% at the end of the run which was 1 hour long. I received a call that played about a minute lol and numerous email notifications. That being said I say that it will probably last at the most 2 hrs as a standalone with everything turned on and streaming music. Hope this help!
PS. The built in hr monitor is not very accurate and I think the GPS is a little bit off, but I'll have to check with my previous runs on endomondo.
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I'm not very concerned with battery life. I have plenty of opportunities to charge the watch during the day. Especially since the charging dock is a battery too. Sure is a great feature for this little watch.
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Be mindful that streaming will significantly reduce battery life.
I'll pitch in on this one, I took it today for a run as standalone and for the 7 miles that I ran the battery went from 97% to 49% at the end of the run which was 1 hour long. I received a call that played about a minute lol and numerous email notifications. That being said I say that it will probably last at the most 2 hrs as a standalone with everything turned on and streaming music. Hope this help!
PS. The built in hr monitor is not very accurate and I think the GPS is a little bit off, but I'll have to check with my previous runs on endomondo.
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Do you ever have issues with it streaming Milk in "standalone" mode? I can not get it to stream, it only sits at the Milk splash screen weather on Wifi or 4G,(it does play on the phone when connected to Bluetooth). I have called Samsung and T-Mobile but no one has any idea how to fix. Samsung actually tried to tell me that Milk was discontinued and no longer supported, I guess he was out of trouble shooting ideas and wanted to get me off the phone. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is the only reason I bought it and decide to leave my Moto 360 on the nightstand.
^ To be honest the only problem that I have had is that sometimes the app hangs and I lose audio for a little bit and then it comes back. Where I run there are a couple of spots where the signal is weak and I think that's what happen when it hangs. Other than that I have had not issues, but I haven't use Milk al that much.
How is your data usage streaming milk to run?
So, I posted a thread about this in the off-topic area, which may not have been the most appropriate place, and I apologize; however, getting to this area of the board is not an obvious thing when you're sitting on the initial page of the board and looking at phone devices as categories as one's only other options.
Anyhow...
Here's the deal. I have noticed the following tendency, ever since Android 5.0 (or maybe 5.1), when a Bluetooth headset has an active connection to the phone, and NEVER if there is no actively connected Bluetooth headset:
When a phone call is disconnected, either by the person on the other end of the call, or by myself, that my phone will open up a media player and start playing a song, a local video, or streaming content. This happens about 25% or more of the time when the call is ended remotely, and 75% or more of the time if I end the call, now that I'm using Android 7 (stock) on my phone.
I ran Android 4.x and 5.x on my Nexus 4, and saw this occasionally. I briefly ran a custom ROM of Android 6 on it. I don't know if I noticed much of a difference between 5.x and 6 on my Nexus 4.
I now have a Nexus 6, on which I have run Android 6.x and now 7.x, and while the behavior was worse than on my Nexus 4, it wasn't too horribly bad (at least, that I noticed). However, I am using a Bluetooth headset on my phone basically 7 days a week now, and I'd say the situation has gotten noticeably much worse on the same hardware under Android 7.
I have used two bluetooth headsets across these two different phones, both of which are Plantronics units.
I tried an experiment this past Thursday in which I turned off the Media option on my phone for the headset, and the behavior seems to have stopped altogether.
The problem is that I also use my phone as a GPS, and as my current job has me driving quite a bit, I need turn-by-turn audio instructions since I will not look at my phone's screen while driving. Turning off the Media option means the voice navigation then plays over the phone's speaker, and with background noise, that's not as good as having it straight in my ear.
So, my point in this thread basically is: is anyone else seeing this same behavior, and is there anything useful one can do to solve it?
There's now a new wrinkle to this.
For reasons unrelated to this thread, I just factory reset my phone. I have my usual apps on it (not much exciting) and I hung up from my headset, without ever having once opened up ANY media player since the wipe. It opened Google Play Music and started streaming music from my account.
This has gone past the point of being ridiculous.
Is there a chance that this is simply a thing related to using a Plantronics product?
I mean, I'm at wit's end here. I have no idea how to proceed because I feel I've pretty much done everything.
OK, I know this has been such an interesting and engaging saga for everyone here, but maybe this will be of use to someone else in the future...
I bought a Jabra Bluetooth earpiece, and now all the problems are gone. Yay!
Like it says, the bluetooth streaming with my SGN4 drops after 30mins, like clock work(no pun intended :laugh It doesn't matter what I'm paired with, or which app I'm using. I can't remember how long it's been an issue for me, as I usually only use the bluetooth streaming in the car, and my commute used to could be 35min. But I now have a set of Bose QC30s and it is really annoying to have to pull the phone out of my pocket, and turn the tunes back on every half an arn at work.
Since the note 7 is kaput, and the note 8 won't be around until fall I'd like to fix this. My next "upgrade" is 63 days out, and I love my note 4 elsewise. I never had connectivity issues with my SGS3, in fact it could even go 10hrs of music listening on wired headphones and did not have to be plugged in IIRC.
TIA,
Johnny
Almost forgot, I'm on stock rom Android 6.0.1, but the issue has existed for at least 6 months, yeah, I know, I shouldn't have put up with it for this long but I get busy and some stuff falls to the wayside...
You are not the first one to complain about it.
But I would suggest you to factory reset your device after backing up your data.
This solution worked for me though