Hi everyone,
I picked up my GSIII yesterday (SGH-I747, Bell version from Canada). The phone is a champ, but so far I found fairly serious problem. My car has bluetooth phone functions built in. I paired the phone with it, and it pairs just fine. I can receive and make calls from the car just fine as well, but there is no incoming or outgoing audio. When connected to my car's bluetooth, there is no audio going through my car's speakers or through the phone. It is only when I grab the phone and unclick the "bluetooth headset" button that I can talk on the phone. If I turn "bluetooth headset" back on, there is no sound again. My car worked with my old Blackberry 8330, so the car is fine. It's a 2009 Mercedes-Benz B200, fully loaded, Canadian spec. It has the AUDIO 20 system built in.
My phone specs are as follows:
-stock ROM, not rooted or anything (do we have root yet?)
-Baseband: I747MVLLE8
-Build: IMM76D-I747MVLLE8
The GSII seemed to have the same problem when it came out and it was fixed with a firmware update (http://samsunggalaxysforums.com/showthread.php/5212-Speaker-and-mic-problem-when-calling-someone.)
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
Did u by any chance turned down the volume on the phone?
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Bluetooth worked fine in my car. Made a call. And they could hear me and I heard them. This with a Kenwood hdx6980
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Yeah Bluetooth works on my CD player also
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after pairing did you go into the bluetooth setting for the paired device (car) and check the "call audio" box?
martyzidek said:
Did u by any chance turned down the volume on the phone?
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Nope, I checked the volume and everything is turned up the way it's supposed to be.
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after pairing did you go into the bluetooth setting for the paired device (car) and check the "call audio" box?
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Yep. It's checked. Moreover, if I uncheck it, the car doesn't connect to the phone.
I'll check my calling this morning, but yesterday I had streaming audio via bluetooth (audible playing a book). The only thing I noticed was that, unlike my old myTouch 4g running CM7, the book didn't stop playing when I turned the car off. That's something I'll have to work out.
EDIT - it's only audible that gives me a problem - looks like a specific app issue.
I'll l have to check if my calls work. All my music and podcast work good. They stop when the car turns off and starts up again when I start the car the next day.
Edit: Just tried it out and incoming and outgoing call sounds work great. No issues here.
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I have absolutely no issues with incoming and outgoing calls through Bluetooth in my car. Also, I have no issues playing music through Bluetooth. Possibly try a factory reset on your phone and try again...
It sounds like all your cars support A2DP for playing music. Mine doesn't, it just acts as an old-school bluetooth headset. Can that make a difference?
Mine plays perfectly using Googles Play Music streaming service, also calls work fine, too. This is on my Dodge's U-Connect.
Update: I tried with an old jawbone headset to see if it's a general Bluetooth problem or just specific to my car. The jawbone works like a charm, so it's not a problem with Bluetooth versions or anything like that. But I did notice something interesting: in the Bluetooth options in the gs3 the jawbone comes up with a picture of a phone handset beside it whereas the car has a picture of headphones. I think that's the problem: the phone recognized the wrong Bluetooth profile. I can't seem to delete th car off the list of Bluetooth devices. This is rreally irritating. Any suggestions (short of a total reset)? Thanks!
You might see if there's an update for your car's Bluetooth... if so that might fix your issue.
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No go so far. I'll have to try a reset, otherwise wait for an update or some custom ROMs.
Update: I still haven't done the reset, but I went to the Mercedes dealer today. They told me (after almost a day of investigating) that Germany said that the GSIII is forever incompatible with the B200. I think that's pretty dumb because the problem is clearly software, but the dealer seems to be washing its hands of this matter.
All AOSP ROM's that I've tried have a weird Bluetooth connection issue for me.
Scenario is that if I'm in my car listening to any music app on my phone, streaming the music via bluetooth to my car. And if I power off my car, wait a minute or two and then power on my car again, I don't get any more music over bluetooth. Even though Bluetooth still says it's connected to my car stereo.
To get it working again, I have to turn Bluetooth off, then turn it back on again (or reboot phone). This happens with both my car stereo (JVC) and also my standalone bluetooth receiver.
I've attached a logcat in case anyone can help me figure out the problem or maybe a workaround.
The cm10.1 based roms currently have this issue. It's across many platforms. It's not your device. You'll have to wait until this issue is fixed.
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Oh man, I can't wait for Google Edition to drop. Really hoping they'll release source on it. :good:
Hi,
Since upgrading to version 4.3 i'm unable to stream audio via bluetooth to my car headset using youtube and other music apps, the only one thats able to stream music to my car stereo is "google music", phone speaker through the car stereo works, and handsfree buttons as well.
The problem occurred only after upgrading from 4.2.2, it's not working on my wife N4 as well, so it's not just my phone having this problem.
using stock 4.3 and also tried CM 10.2 but that didn't help as well,
hope some one can give me a hint on how to fix this.... thanks!
Hi i use bluetooth in the car I have the phone connected to a 3.5mm bluetooth receiver and the built in hands free in the car.
I only switch bluetooth on in the car.
Noticed today that my battery was going quite quick and checked the wake locks.
Shows bluetooth_timer and I think a couple of others. Even though I had disabled bluetooth from the notification bar.
I then tried playing a video from the Android central app and noticed the audio was defaulting to bluetooth (despite being disabled)
Used YouTube and again audio being sent to bluetooth, YouTube app gave me the option to change to speaker.
Had to reboot my phone for it to stop thinking the bluetooth was an option for the output.
Any one else with experience of this ?
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Hi guys, I've recently discovered that the audio doesn't work over Bluetooth on my phone. I'm on my holls in France at the moment and have been using Google Maps to navigate, along with the bluetooth radio in the hire car. I also couldn't get audio to work with a Bluetooth speaker at home the other day.
I can pair the devices just fine.
Bluetooth audio used to work before the Lollipop update.
Could there be a setting somewhere that I may have missed?
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It looks like I'm the only one with this issue?