i once had a ericsson t39m, great phone. too bad the don't make them anymore.
Anyway it had this setting for bluetooth. you could turn it on, turn it off, turn it on for 10 minutes, and set it on auto.
Now that last setting is something i really want. because when it was set on auto, the bluetooth connection would always be off. So you wouldn't be able to make a connection to the phone (and the phone wouldn't be using any excess batterypower)
However when a call came in (or a call was made), the bluetooth function would switch on make a connection to you headset and let you make use of your headset. Cool huh, you got the added benefit of bluetooth without the additional battery drain.
Now my question, is there something for my magician? i've been searching for a while but didn't find anything. Now since i have my headset i've been really annoyed by the short battery span. It really doesn't hold out much longer then 6 hours which for me is really too short.
PocketZenPhone, PhoneAlarm and DKToday, they all switch blutooth on incoming/outgoing calls, but they work only on selected devices and they require a button press on the headset to wake it up. They are working on updates
it really works crappy. bluetooth does go on, and the headset does connect (i can hear it ringing in the headset) but it's too slow and the headset just doesn't pick up the phone after the press of the button.
Battery drain
Jasjar in standby mode with bluetooth and UMTS active: 1% every houre
Jasjar in standby mode with bluetooth and GSM active: 0.5% every houre
Turning bluetooth off doesn't make sense if you need it.
well my magician certainly drains alot more then that (ALOT MORE) so for me it does have a huge effect to turn it off. in fact it's like 1 percent every 3 minutes which gets drained. That will leave my phone without power in no time.
(sorry that should be 5 minutes per 1 percent in standby mode)
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Hi all
I have K-JAM with latest IMate ROM
I notice that as soon as the phone starts ringing it enables bluetooth. I dont have a bluetooth headset and have never paired one with my device. Even more worrying is that it does not turn off the bluetooth after a call, or worse if I miss a call bluetooth could be left on draining the battery.
ive hunted for settings, i suspect its something to do with a headset setting but cant find anything. Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? Its very irritating.
Cheers
G!
If you don't have a bluetooth headset you might not need bluetooth at all. If you don't then just go to Start --> Settings --> Connections and click the Bluetooh icon and just turn it off completely. You can also hit the Comm Manager button (upper side left button) and turn it off there. I have mine all the time and it really doesn't waste the battery much more than if it were off. Same thing applies with wi-fi as long as your phone goes to sleep. If you are turning it off and it automatically turns on when you get an incomming call then you definitely have something weird going on.
Good luck
Hi,
No i definately have BT turned off but as soon as there is an incoming call it turns on, and sometimes when you close the phone application the Comm Manager is visible behind it.
Has anyone else seen this?
G!
Wow... That is definitely strange. I was pretty sure mine didn't do that because I just recently got a bluetooth headset so I wasn't always using bluetooth. I tested this just to make sure. Mine does not turn bluetooth on. If I turn it off it stays off.
I have a Qtek 9100 non branded with the first WWE release
ROM 1.1.7.5
ROM 09/22/05
Radio 01.01.10
Protocol 4.0.13.16
extROM 1.1.7.105
My Xda Mini S doesn't either, but it would be a great feature to have to save battery life, in fact it has long been requested since the first Windows Smartphone 2 years ago.
Perhaps your device has some registry entry that we don't?
Using my 8525 for a bit over a month now, and I love the phone. Plenty of hacks/tweaks/edits and the phone is just how I like it right now.
Driving a 2005 Acura TL with the built in HandsFree Link and the phone paired seamlessly.
Recently, I notice that while on a call, sometimes the BT Link will drop and automatically transfer the call to the handset. This only happens here & there, not every call. Once call so far after I hung up in the car, the phone was still on and I ended up leaving someone a 6 minute voicemail of me driving, listening to music.....that can be dangerous!!!
Any help or suggestions?
Thanks,
John
i HAD SOME DISCONNECTS WHEN I RECEIVING MESSAGES..IS THAT IT?
No, it will just drop the bluetooth signal mid-call, then to get the car to recognize the phone again, I have to turn off the car and turn it back on to reset connection.....
johnny--2k said:
Recently, I notice that while on a call, sometimes the BT Link will drop and automatically transfer the call to the handset. This only happens here & there, not every call. Once call so far after I hung up in the car, the phone was still on and I ended up leaving someone a 6 minute voicemail of me driving, listening to music.....that can be dangerous!!!
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I've had the same problem, only once or twice in about a week, using my Jawbone bth headset. Very disconcerting, but survivable. I can see where losing the car pairing might be a bit more problematic.
I wonder if this is because of the /weak/ Bth stack on the TyTN???
-Humbert
Possibly. I thought I saw some upgrades for the BT Stack on here somewhere but now I cant seem to track them down.
Something about the BT Radio shutting down or going into sleep mode after a while and a registry edit to keep it on at the sacrifice of minimal battery life which is fine by me...
Didn't read you mentioning it, but does bluetooth power off during the breaking of the link? If it does, read on and try the following..
not sure if this will help, but try to disable your auto power off options, uncheck the on battery power and on external power..
I had this solved some bluetooth problems especially using the Hermes Widcomm hack and MSI Blueplayer..
Yes, the BT does turn off, but then on again automatically as soon as the call is ended.
Where are you talking about? Is this in the registry or the BT Settings? I was not sure if the WidComm stack is fully functional as of yet, if so, is it in the Wiki?
Thanks again,
John
The WidComm stack is definitely NOT fully functional yet. One of the problems I have with this stack is that, the bluetooth will power off when my wizard turns off or goes into standby, which is not normal!
Not it is not a registry setting, but it is just how it behaves on my system. Sorry for not being a help... I know how the MS Stack pisses people off..
Best regards,
Eugene
Hey, every little bit of info I can get helps....
Thanks for the info on the WidComm Stack....I might just wait and deal with the MS untill the WC is fully functional and possibly in CAB format....just to make life all the easier!
OK, So today my phone would not drop the BT signal from my car.....after being home for 4 hours, it was still trying to use the HandsFree when recieving or making calls....took me a minute to figure out because the dialer skin I have is black at the top, so I could not see the headset icon at the top and was wondering why I could not hear anyone or use speakerphone.
Hopefully it was just a freak accident and wont happen again, but just incase, any suggestions?
i've got a qtek s100, and for some strange reason it automatically disconnects any phone call that lasts longer then 6 minutes. although it is a nice cost efficiency tool, i've only got 6 minutes to end a call!!! so, anyone had the same problem en solved it? i've got the latest qtek rom and i didn't install the extended rom (hit the reset switch after screen calibration).
hi, i noticed when i made a call for more than 2 hours, the phone was disconnected at 1.59.59
i guess that's a safety something against getting high bills..
but 6 minutes is very short.
ask your provider.
i'm not quite sure whether this is a provider setting, because when i use this simcard in another gsm (a regularl one though), i can make calls as long as i want (and receive them as long as i want)...
futhermore, when my 'time' is almost up as to put it that way, then my backlight comes on (like some sort of signal) and it disconnects....??
but, i'll go ask my provider, maybe they know something more...
with kind regards,
dennis
How old is your battery?
an update:
since my front speaker is broken, i'm using a headset. i'm using the headset supplied with my old motorola (they have the same connector). this one disconnects a call around 6 minutes. i also tried another headset, this one disconnects immediately after picking up a call or after about 2 minutes.
when i am using the speakerphone, i can make at least calls of 8 minutes (then i disconnected it myself). with the original headset, same... i disconnected after 8 minutes, believing that this worked
so can someone confirm that only specific headsets actually work with this phone (since there is a talk and volume function in the cord of the headset). maybe this talk function generates a problem with other types of headsets? i assume that the cord itself must send a signal through the cord to the phone when i push the talk button (to pick up a call), assuming that the talk button probably cab also end a call, this could be the problem when using a different than the original headset. the phone appears to be working correct, because when i use the speakerphone function it does not disconnect. any comments are appreciated.
does anyone found problems with any bleutooth headsets?
btw. battery is oke, holds a charge acceptably
I had the same prob (altough mine simply disactivated the onboard mic at about 5 mins) I solved the prob by keeping the s100 from stand by. But I dunno if it can be your case...
I just wanted to mention that I have the same problem. After +/- 5 min. the phone call disconnects.
I'm using cable in ear headphones.
HI i have the same problem. i dont how many minutes i can talk but after acouple of minutes my mic will shut off i can hear thew other persons but they can't hear me. I hve no also tried to disable the power sver when unused (what i do not understand because i use the phone). Hopefully this will help but then i have the problem that the s100 will not switch off which is also not OK. Needs to much batterie.
Is there something in the registry that the phone sees that it is used even when i dont press any button only talk?
Can someone help as HTC have not been helpoful. I have been having problems with bluetooth dropping out randomly with my car-kit.
To cut a long story short if i set power save options to always on, then got my admin to disable auto lock on the exchange system. Then when i get in the car turn the phone bluetooth on it never drops out.
It would seem it is then a power save problem, the bluetooth clearly suffers when the phone goes into this mode.
Unfortunately i need the auto lock on from exchange (business reasons) and the max timeout is 10 minutes. so unless i wake the phone up every 10 minutes it will cause the bluetooth to drop out.
One other quirk is that the car bluetooth must be on before the phones or the bluetooth will drop out in about 10 minutes. This applies if i leave the car and return with the phone bluetooth on.
The phone always need switching on and off before it will work again.
The car software is the latest and technically the snap is not listed as a supported phone.
Is there anything i can do (WM 6.5)
Thanks
Bluetooth switches itself off when my new DHD goes into standby.
This means that when using a headset and the phone rings, I can't pick up the call with the headset, and the phone doesn't switch the audio back to the headset if I switch Bluetooth back on during the call and press the reconnect button on the headset - this would be expected behaviour, and has worked on other phones.
I can't find a setting to fix this problem, nor a solution in these forums or elsewhere. Is it a bug or have I missed something?
Ok I've found the problem: I'm running an app called battery Booster designed to help conserve battery power. One of its default settings includes turning off Bluetooth when the device is locked. D'oh!