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I have a new car and a new phone so it's hard to be sure.
I used the GNex for about 3 days with the new car and didn't see problems. Connected every time and sound was consistent
With the MotoX I am getting auto connected about 1/2 the time and a lot of stuttering on the bluetooth audio.
Same for others ?
Another question: When I connect bluetooth the volume always resets to about 80%. Can I change this setting anywhere ?
So it's not the car as I just had the same problems with my BT headphones. It also started playing through the speakers at one point even though the BT connection was still showing.
I use the Bluetooth calling feature with my truck. I haven't had any problems so far, but it's only been a few days. I will report back if I do have problems. I am running 4.4 with all OTAs.
My moto x after kitkat update bluetooth disconnects in middle and reconnects again in 5 seconds. Super annoying
sravanz said:
My moto x after kitkat update bluetooth disconnects in middle and reconnects again in 5 seconds. Super annoying
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My HTC One did that with aosp kitkat. I haven't seen that on the X yet.
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I've had pretty much the same experience with mine since the 4.4 update. I don't even bother listening to music over bluetooth now because it's so annoying with the constant stuttering. I'm hoping they fix it with the next update, whenever that comes. If not, I'll probably have to look into upgrading to a newer head unit. My GNex always worked great with this stereo's bluetooth.
I listened to Spotify Inmine yesterday, no problems. It even sent the song information to my car's display which it didn't do on my last phone.
I've been tethering my Nexus 7 using Bluetooth and had a lot of trouble getting it to connect the first time. But today was my first real use of it and the Internet connection on the Nexus 7 dropped part way through the trip. It was only being used to get traffic info for CoPilot, so I didn't notice right away when the connection was lost. A little troubleshooting got me nowhere, but then while driving the connection came back on its own.
Something happens with me
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No issues with bluetooth here. Pandora is streaming fine and Torque is talking to my OBD2 adapter as well (even both at the same time).
homemadehitshow said:
I have a new car and a new phone so it's hard to be sure.
I used the GNex for about 3 days with the new car and didn't see problems. Connected every time and sound was consistent
With the MotoX I am getting auto connected about 1/2 the time and a lot of stuttering on the bluetooth audio.
Same for others ?
Another question: When I connect bluetooth the volume always resets to about 80%. Can I change this setting anywhere ?
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I use bluetooth daily and haven't experienced a disconnect or even a stutter with Google Play Music on 4.4. I chose the setting to resume music when driving is detected and now I don't even take out my phone when I get in my car. Music usually starts playing within 100' of driving. There is a mod to remove the audio warning; I haven't tried it yet, but I don't really have a problem with it either.
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There is a mod to remove the audio warning; I haven't tried it yet, but I don't really have a problem with it either.
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Samsung has the same thing on it's firmware, and while it was a PITA to find and fix, it can be done (fairly easily).
I've had some Bluetooth issues that I described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2562186
At least one other person mentioned their connection dropping repeatedly. My issue started with it only connecting to my hands free in my car, but but my separate A2DP audio receiver. If I tapped on the device in Bluetooth settings, it connected fine. I found an app called Bluetooth Auto Connect that has nice configuration options to do what I needed (connect to A2DP once General Motors connects), but it also plays nice with Tasker.
I did notice last night that my General Motors connection was starting and stopping repeatedly my entire drive home from work (~45 minutes). I noticed it at first when I would turn the screen on to thumb up a song on Pandora, and the "you're connected to a trusted device" message would flash. At first I thought it was just reminding me of that each time the screen came on (or manually unlocking when the screen turned on), but then noticed my radio was saying "Bluetooth Connected" every few minutes as well. I rarely actually talk on the phone, so it's not a huge deal, but as described in my post linked above, on Monday I got a call when I (thought I) was connected to my General Motors, but it wasn't. I answered the call and was talking on the handset when it connected to Bluetooth and then I was hands free.
I did also notice yesterday when I was listening to Pandora with wired headphones at my desk at work that it got started sputtering pretty bad after I got a text message and Active Display was "breathing". Not sure if the two are related, but it happened. I did get a few texts while driving home and didn't notice any skipping over Bluetooth then.
Interesting theory on the active display... I've often wondered if that was partially responsible for the stuttering issue I'm having, but I was under the impression that it is automatically disabled when the phone is in your pocket, or face down. I guess I have some more experimenting to do while I wait for the next update.
At least for me it would not be face down in the car so I'll keep an eye on that.
Can someone point me to where I can take care of the volume issue ?
OK figured it out and learned about Xpose. Very cool.
I'll see if this is what was actually my problem. My problem was that bluetooth audio level is always reset to 80% (or so) each time I use it.
Bluetooth in my car is awesome.
ATT kitkat with Toyota Venza
Before the update music streaming took 20 seconds to load, but now it works instantly.
Bluetooth has had half second "pauses" at random times... sometimes seems too coincide with the screen on or off, other times when the phone is doing nothing. Also before kit Kat Google music would show track number (but nothing else) now I've lost that too. Unrooted
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I experienced the pauses today when I overrode the volume warning. They kept occurring even after the volume was turned back down below 80%. I rebooted and started up some music without going over the volume suggestion and the skips were gone. If you're having trouble with the music or Bluetooth connection "skipping" try it out. Definitely tied to that volume warning somehow.
Interesting theory, I'll have to test it out. I have noticed that mine seems to do it at the same locations while I'm driving, and am starting to wonder if it is related to the handoff between towers.
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I have any issue with Metadata transfer ( Contacts, Station ID, Track Name, Artist, etc...). being communicated to the head unit display in my vehicle. It is very hit and miss. I would say 25% of the time it works properly. The other 75% nothing or my screen display will get stuck with say... the previous track played.
Anyone else have this issue? I have a Sony head unit. It works perfectly fine with my m8 and wife's 2014 Moto X.
I'm having bt connection issues with my vehicle bt system. After pairing, it will connect/disconnect over and over. Once in a while it will keep the connection, but usually it disconnects immediately. Other phones have worked fine with this car. Very frustrating. I'm going to try re-pairing to see if that helps.
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I'm having bt connection issues with my vehicle bt system. After pairing, it will connect/disconnect over and over. Once in a while it will keep the connection, but usually it disconnects immediately. Other phones have worked fine with this car. Very frustrating. I'm going to try re-pairing to see if that helps.
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I also am having the same issue, I tried re-pairing twice today before work without any result. One thing I have not done is update my head unit to the newest firmware, not sure if it will make a difference but will be my next step.
I have yet to have any of the data transfer to my head unit since receiving my phone. Will keep on researching and see if I can find out anymore details that may be able to help us out.
Try re-pairing. My Honda factory head unit had issues like mentioned until a re-pairing finally stuck. And update firmware if possible. Sucks but bt is still finicky in cars.
Hi all, I can also add my Ford focus (2010) touchscreen navigation unit to the trouble list. My previous devices worked fine but the music information from Google play music doesn't show onscreen. I've made some calls using it and listened to some music but the info never shows.
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Ive spotted an entry on motorola's forum HERE. Looks like possibly a known bug??
I too, have a strange bluetooth problem with my car but it has nothing to do with metadata. When pairing the device initially, the bluetooth works great and the songs play clearly with metadata properly displayed. After leaving my car for a while and returning with my phone in my pocket, bluetooth is supposed to automatically resume playing when the car is turned on. It does, but the resulting sound is horrible. The bluetooth system kind of skips around the track and plays the songs very choppily. The only way to fix this is by disconnecting the bluetooth on my phone and reconnecting it, but I don't want to do this every time I enter my vehicle. The system worked fine with my Galaxy S4. Does anyone have a possible solution?
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I too, have a strange bluetooth problem with my car but it has nothing to do with metadata. When pairing the device initially, the bluetooth works great and the songs play clearly with metadata properly displayed. After leaving my car for a while and returning with my phone in my pocket, bluetooth is supposed to automatically resume playing when the car is turned on. It does, but the resulting sound is horrible. The bluetooth system kind of skips around the track and plays the songs very choppily. The only way to fix this is by disconnecting the bluetooth on my phone and reconnecting it, but I don't want to do this every time I enter my vehicle. The system worked fine with my Galaxy S4. Does anyone have a possible solution?
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Is it continuous or does it stop skipping after a few seconds? Occasionally mine skips erratically, I'm guessing buffering then corrects itself. Every once in awhile I have to manually connect after turning off my car.
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Is it continuous or does it stop skipping after a few seconds? Occasionally mine skips erratically, I'm guessing buffering then corrects itself. Every once in awhile I have to manually connect after turning off my car.
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It is continuous. Only way to fix the skips are by reconnecting manually. Doesn't correct itself unfortunately.
Hmm the only things I have noticed are that it takes quite a long time to pair and it doesn't like to automatically start up spotify. Occasionally the track data will not come up right but unlocking the phone and opening the music app usually fixes it. My GS3 with lolipop had the same issues though so I am thinking it may be more of an Android issue than a device issue.
We have Moto's attention on this bug. Please head over to the Moto Forum https://forums.motorola.com/posts/b7b030ee52
They want some Bluetooth logcats. So they can fix the issue. Thanks!
So I noticed too that my bluetooth seemed extremely bork. I use a Vizio S4251W soundbar and my music has never skipped on any phone until this phone. It started fine then once lyrics popped in it started skipping. I was like wtf? Never happened so I restarted the sound bar. Still happened. Rebooted phone, same thing. Then I started jamming Rush's A Farewell to Kings album and it TOO skipped! I was trying to listen to music while I was cleaning dishes for the girly and then I stumbled upon something...
I accidentally turned the bluetooth media volume down and noticed it started skipping less. Then I turned it down another notch and it stopped skipping entirely...
I then turnes the SOUNDBAR volume up a little to compensate and noticed that the phone put at FULL volume on bluetooth then MINUS 5 down was the SAME "volume" through the soundbar as my Galaxy S3 at FULL bluetooth volume when I connected it right after.
Is the Nexus 6P bluetooth just pushing sound beyond the standard volume and causing it to break up? Its like pushing too many watts through a speaker that cant handle it. They pop. I also noticed my phone was warm while using bluetooth. My 6P has never gotten warm.
So again the steps are, connect to bluetooth "stereo whatever you have", start music, turn volume on phone allll the way up, then back it down 5 notches and see if it skips.
Let me know what happens!
My music is not skipping but my jabra Bluetooth unit keeps on turning off BT. Not sure if it's my jabra unit or the phone BT. I've used other Bluetooth devices with my phone but nothing else turns off. I'm hoping it's the jabra.
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Have you got Google Now set up to be able to be called from any screen? This is known to cause similar issues.
So I'm miffed! My brand new baby is giving me a Bluetooth nightmare. After I use it with Plantronics BackBeat Go 2 headset and disconnect the Bluetooth (even if I switch off Bluetooth), phone audio won't come thru the regular speaker. However, if I switch on the speakerphone, then audio works.
A restart fixes the problem. But it is super annoying. Anyone else experience the issue? Do you guys have an idea of how to fix this?
Until this, I've been super happy with my white 128GB baby!
You aren't crazy, I've had some similar problems. if you notice, when this issue is active and you try to turn your volume up, it'll show BT volume being changed instead of regular. For me, I can usually toggle BT on and off again to get it back to normal.
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You aren't crazy, I've had some similar problems. if you notice, when this issue is active and you try to turn your volume up, it'll show BT volume being changed instead of regular. For me, I can usually toggle BT on and off again to get it back to normal.
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This also works for me. Still annoying though.
I don't know the tech verbiage perhaps a developer is best equipped however:
1. Connecting Bluetooth seems to cause the system to act stupid. I had found a video through MyVidSter which took me to Pornhub while on the toilet I figured I'd let it download as I proceeded to brush my teeth and take a shower (fresh, beautiful, and clean)
2. Next I connect my Bluetooth headsets and go to playback my video and it stalls gives error can't play.
3. Turn off device restart
4. WHAM, it finally can play the same video it couldn't just a moment ago.
5.I then disconnected and noticed my sound wasn't there when I went to YouTube to listen to a Formation.
6. I tried PowerAmp and the strangest thing the file played the song at like 256x very sped up! I could see the scrub bar moving along very fast!! No sound or video would play on YouTube or my photo gallery
7. I finally go to setting power on Bluetooth toggle for a few seconds then turned it off and finally videos sound and music without would play again.
8. My daddy Alabama.. Momma Louisiana... You mix that Creole with that negro make a Texas baaaammaaa
???? cause I slay
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Having the same issue with LG HBS-810 Headset. If I turn off the headphones before I turn off Bluetooth on my phone, it's OK. If I turn off Bluetooth on my phone first, then no sound. Also, If I turn on the headphones first, then Bluetooth on my phone, they will not connect until I turn off and back on my headphones.
I seem to have the same issue on my Nexus 7 (2013) with Android 6.0.1, so I think it's a 6.0.1 bug.
I've just got the V20 and it links with my car OK for bluetooth. Works with calls. But for audio, it comes through the phones speaker. I can see the song name on my car dash and control it, pause, skip, etc. But it's not playing through the car's speakers. Any ideas?
Mine will do that occasionally for a minute or so, but then connects to my Kenwood and goes as expected. Have you checked the BT settings for your car?
Randomly happens to me too, but when it does, it'll stay playing through the phone until I do something about it. The only solution I've found is to completely disable the phone's bluetooth, then re-enable it and reconnect. Its very annoying! Glad to hear I'm not the only one though. I though something was going wrong with my car!!!
Thanks for the responses. I noticed this morning it had messed up sound playing through my external speaker until I rebooted when playing a video. I usually have my phone on android auto, so it's not an issue. But that's a battery killer, not recharger so I sometimes just plug it into the charger instead. Hopefully future updates will fix this!
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I've just got the V20 and it links with my car OK for bluetooth. Works with calls. But for audio, it comes through the phones speaker. I can see the song name on my car dash and control it, pause, skip, etc. But it's not playing through the car's speakers. Any ideas?
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I haven't tried it on nougat yet...but whenever i've had sound routing issues i turned to the soundabout pro app on the playstore.