So I guess I was spoiled with last version of android because for me with that last version, I could reasonably easily install android auto, have it start playing when I got into my truck, have it stop as soon as bluetooth disconnected etc. Predictable in other words.
Since the upgrade... bluetooth is... just bad. Selects one of many music apps at random apparently to open when I connect to bluetooth... And apparently likes to just sit and lag like 5 seconds before it realizes its no longer connected... so I have music blasting out of my phone when I get out of the car.
Removing all pairing information and resetting wireless connection info and re-pairing didnt resolve anything at all for me.
Any one else experiencing the same thing?
I had wacky issues with multiple 3rd party music apps (rocket player, amp) and found that only Samsung Music and Play Music were at all reliable when interoperating with my car via BT or my various BT headphones.
Same behavior KK/MM, haven't bothered trying the 3rd party stuff since getting N.
Currently I only have Play Music on my phone and it works fine in all use-cases.
So, I don't so much think it's the BT so much as it's the other apps and how well they do or do not integrate and behave with the system.
I"d advise paring your system down to one music player and testing and working up from there. PITA, to be sure.
I use power amp with no issues
I typically use Android auto and Pandora... But it's definitely considerably less predictable. I manually installed qa6 prior to being officially available. Is it possible that this could be the reasoning?
Earlier today turning off the car the music playing didn't ever stop when what I've noticed is I get like 5-10 seconds after car shuts off.
There have been issues with Bluetooth on some devices after the update. Sometimes a factory reset fixes the issue, but not always.
My Bluetooth has always been stupid when it comes to Android in general, I'll be last listening to Spotify and when I hop in my car my phone will start playing the last podcast I was listening too instead (even though that app was killed and not running anymore) or it will start up Play Music which I haven't used for days instead, sometimes it will connect right back to what I was last using but most of the time, even before this update, it would randomly pick some other app that streams over Bluetooth instead. Needless to say, I never had this happen with my iPhone when I had it, no idea why Android is so wonky when it comes to this stuff
I have no issues with BT and connect to about a half-dozen devices regularly including AA in my car. If you use Smart Switch or other method of restoring apps used by AA they won't work. You have to uninstall them and reinstall them manually. That isn't Nougat related it was the same way with Marshmallow. I learned the hard way when I went through two Note7's to end up with a S7 Edge.
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I typically use Android auto and Pandora... But it's definitely considerably less predictable. I manually installed qa6 prior to being officially available. Is it possible that this could be the reasoning?
Earlier today turning off the car the music playing didn't ever stop when what I've noticed is I get like 5-10 seconds after car shuts off.
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I use Spotify with Adroid Auto with no issues since getting N. I have connected to two BT 4.0 devices and a 4.1. As another poster mentioned, it could be the apps you are using, but I think it has more to do with qa6. If you manually updated, there is always a risk. I love hacking my phone, but there is always an accepted risk. Best bet is probably a factory reset and/or rolling back your update (if possible) to allow the automatic update take effect.
When I am talking in my truck via Blue Tooth since the update it will randomly drop the connection. It seems to work fine with my Earbud (PLT_E50) though.
the main issue I've seen... music playing does not stop when my head unit turns off anymore. Thinking the early released OTA nougat qa6 was what I was running and that may somehow be different than what att actually sent out, I fully wiped, reverted back to pk1, let it do the att upgrade to qa6.
This morning, I noticed the exact same thing... its pretty good about start playing when I get in the truck and it connects to bluetooth etc... it just doesnt turn off for a LONG time after blue tooth device is turned off.
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I thought I would start a thread for those experiencing music play-back issues.
I get 'skipping' when playing back music, but the really annoying thing is that sometimes it does not occur at all. This means I cannot, by process of elimination, determine what the cause is. Today I listened to an album with no problems at all, but last night the same album was skipping very badly - so file type cannot be to blame (it was AAC anyway).
If anyone else is having similar problems, please post and detail your phone model and network.
I have the graphite model on Orange. I have alerted HTC tech support to this problem and am awaiting a response.
Thanks.
Well, I still get intermittant skipping during the beginning of tracks! This is VERY frustrating, especially as I cannot pin down the reason and some people on here seem to have no problems at all. So my music player is effectively useless. I hope the update addresses this issue, but something tells me it won't...
Sorry but I have no problems at all really. Maybe a bit of hiss at the very lowest volumes but other than that I have happily replaced my ipod touch
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Well, I still get intermittant skipping during the beginning of tracks!
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I get the same problem, but only when i listen to one song and it changes to the next. If i select another song theirs no skipping.
I get the same problem, but only when i listen to one song and it changes to the next. If i select another song theirs no skipping.
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Exactly the same here, does anyone out there have a clue why this is happening?
I have this problem too - Hero on Orange in the UK.
I have stuttering with BT playback and also the 'stretching' problem where a track goes off-key, like a dying 1980's walkman. Have tried turning off Wifi/Mobile/GPS but still occurs. Is better if the phone is 12 inches away from the BT headphones, but that kind of sucks.
Are you using bluetooth?
I found that having wifi turned on while using bluetooth caused stuttering, and this was fixed by turning off the wifi.
There are a variety of different issues you may encounter. For those having stuttering issues at the start of a track, are you using the stock SD card supplied with the phone? I think that is only a class 2 SD card, which provides a lower transfer rate which some people think can hobble things - particularly if you have other SD things going on like apps2sd and swapper. I have a 16GB class 6 card installed and haven't noticed any stuttering.
Cutting other background tasks such as Twitter (or at least dialling it back from an update every 5 minutes) may help things.
YMMV.
I've had a few Heroes now and only my most recent one had a stutter problem. The apps and settings were set to be the same on each phone. The MP3s were the same on the same card. I have no idea why one phone would have problems like that when the others didn't.
Happily, I applied the latest Rom and based on listening to half an hour of music last night it seems to be fine now.
Everything works better with this ROM it seems so look forward to release / get flashing.
I can confirm that since installing the Modaco update ROM, I no longer experience skipping/interferance. I have not listened to a large amount of music so it's early days, but things are looking good!
For people's information, I have a class 6 16gb card and yet I still used to get problems. So I think SD cards are not the source of the problem - especially since the update appears to have cured the problem.
Thanks.
I get stuttering and tempo changes over bluetooth using 2.73.405.5 (MCR 2.0), ie. the latest 'official' ROM, AFAIK.
Mid-tune stuttering seems to be down to weak BT transmission, i.e. if I turn my head to the left whilst cycling, I get stutter, if I look forward, it's OK. If I have the handset in one pocket (nearest the BT headphone receiver) no stutter, if I have the handset in the other pocket, I get lots of stutter.
All of this with BT headphones that worked flawlessly with my iPhone 2G...
Hope this gets resolved soon (are you reading HTC?) or the phone going back to Orange for a Nokia N900
I had major stuttering at the start of almost every track with the original ROM. Although as for the OP sometimes it would be fine. Usually it was resolved by a reboot, but not always.
The latest ROM is a lot better (I have installed Generic 2.73.405.5, not MoDaCo's Customer ROM).
There is still occasional stuttering at the start of tracks though when the phone has been on for a long time and I have been making phone calls (the Phone and People apps do not seem to ever shut down once they have been opened - maybe this is the cause), but a reboot now ALWAYS solves it.
Syncing apps also cause a tiny stutter so tweak your apps like Peep etc so as not to be syncing every few minutes.
So, HTC have gotten some of the way there, but they could still improve things from here. Let's hope the next update sorts it (although we're still waiting for 2.73.405.5 to be officially released so who knows when the next one will be?)
Dave
I'm trying to see if I have a bad Iconia. I've only read great things regarding the quality of the device. For the most part I agree.
Problem:
So I just I just bought an Acer Iconia on 6 days ago.
Just a couple days ago while listening to some music, I noticed clicking and popping during playback. Its not quiet either, the offending sound is louder than the music that is playing.
Workaround:
I have found if I want to stop the offending sound. If I play music in a different app, then the switch back to the first music app, the offending sound is gone. However, only a short time passes before I have to perform this task again.
Solution:
I'm considering exchanging the tablet for a new one.
Has anybody else experienced something like this?
Just after I first bought mine, my speakers would occasionally make a crackling sound, sometimes even when no audio was being played, it went away after a bout a week though, and hasn't happened again.
I exchanged the problematic with a new one. I've been listening to music all day without any issues. It appears I got a bad apple the first time. It happens.
UPDATE!!!
So here we are, 3 days worth of regular music playback and I just experienced the problem again. Just as the previous poster mentioned, I will wait until Wednesday next week to see if the problem clears up on its own.
Odd, perhaps this is a software issue?
So here we are, 3 days worth of regular music playback and I just experienced the problem again. Just as the previous poster mentioned, I will wait until Wednesday next week to see if the problem clears up on its own.
Odd, this is starting to sound like a software issue. I will report back soon.
I can pretty much guarantee that this is a software problem, as I didn't have any issues to this effect for months, but now have it happen all the time after either the most recent update or possibly the one immediately prior. I'm having all kinds of problems after this last update, including music playback stopping after the current track when the screen is turned off, the popping and clicking, slow to come back after sleeping, crashing of the browser and of the overall system... Hopefully we'll see another update that will get things back to normal very soon, because this is nuts.
I agree its a software issue. Here is what I've found:
1) I am unable to replicate this problem using other media players. One of the ROMS i was trying out had the toshiba media player, and i played hours of local music with no issues. The new android music player periodically pops and cracks regardless of whether i am playing local or streamed music via gmusic.
2) By simply pausing the current track, and resuming shortly after eliminates the sound issues. You may even need to unplug your headphones / line out if you are using that.
3) I subscribe to Rhapsody and have yet to experience the popping issue, even after continuous hours of streaming playback.
This is very likely a software issue, much like the random issue some HC users were experiencing with the browser spontaneously closing. Hard to track down, and hopefully fixed in some update that may or may not come
To me this sounds like...
I think more troubleshooting may be in order - have you been able to reproduce the problem with *any* mp3 file you use, or only from one specific set of mp3?
Default music player works great for me for any files I decide to throw at it. Sure, I still have to wake up the screen between tracks sometimes, but that is a known issue with the a500 - never get any strange popping - and my a500 literally plays tracks 4+ hours a day (I do a long commute to get to work lol)
Try reproducing the problem using a known good set of mp3 files - the fact that you have returned one unit and are still having the same problem means that chances are:
1) you have a bad set of audio files - other systems, especially desktop and laptop systems - may be able to decode the corrupted or unstandard file without issue - this does not mean the Iconia can do the same.
2) you installed a application that is causing issues - can you reproduce this problem after a full factory reset? Just reset, load your music, and try to reproduce the problem.
If you could attach a copy of the audio file that is causing this issue - perhaps people can take a look at it and see if you have a format issue.
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I can pretty much guarantee that this is a software problem, as I didn't have any issues to this effect for months, but now have it happen all the time after either the most recent update or possibly the one immediately prior. I'm having all kinds of problems after this last update, including music playback stopping after the current track when the screen is turned off, the popping and clicking, slow to come back after sleeping, crashing of the browser and of the overall system... Hopefully we'll see another update that will get things back to normal very soon, because this is nuts.
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Music stopping between tracks while screen is asleep is a known issue - it's nothing unique to your experience.
Work around - use an alternative media player (in my experience winamp does not have this issue) or simply hit the power button between tracks to continue playback in the default media player. It's a pain in the ass, but it works.
Unfortunately, I've been using Google Music to deal with having a music library I want to access on my Galaxy S phone, Iconia, and work laptop, so unless I just download everything I want to listen to using the 'make available offline' feature and then listen to it in another app (which is a PITA), I guess I'm stuck with this. The 'pause and it goes away' bit hasn't worked for me, either.
As for the music stopping when the screen is off, I'm just frustrated by this since it was working fine for me before, and then Acer broke this with the update (at least for me- no guarantees it's specifically that update, but something about that update made this start happening for me).
Ever since the Gingerbread update (and subsequent 2 patches) I’ve noticed that my DX will occasionally shut down(?) while listening to audio, it doesn’t matter if it’s streaming or a local file, podcast or music, at some random moment everything stops on my phone and the only way to get it restarted is by pulling/reinserting the battery.
So far it has happened while using Google Listen, Pocket Casts, Pandora, and Winamp
Other audio players where it hasn’t happened it is Google Music (both stock and beta), TuneinPro, SoundCloud, and Scanner Radio, though I don’t know if it hasn’t happened on these by design or it’s just that I haven’t used them as much as the ones were the freeze/crash happens.
The reason why I’m not sure if it’s a freeze or a crash is that it seems like theirs is still power, it’s just that nothing is responding, the screen is black, nothing lights up, and pressing and holding the power button does nothing so I get the impression it’s stuck in some strange loop that clears once I pull the battery.
This is my second DX this is happening to, my 1st DX was replaced by Verizon for dead pixels so this doesn't seem to be related to just a bad phone.
Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions of a resolution?
I have had similar issues a well, maybe happens once a week though. Mainly when I have my cassette adapter running and doing other things at the same time. Haven't gotten too bad to try repairing it yet though.
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MrWall said:
Ever since the Gingerbread update (and subsequent 2 patches) I’ve noticed that my DX will occasionally shut down(?) while listening to audio, it doesn’t matter if it’s streaming or a local file, podcast or music, at some random moment everything stops on my phone and the only way to get it restarted is by pulling/reinserting the battery.
So far it has happened while using Google Listen, Pocket Casts, Pandora, and Winamp
Other audio players where it hasn’t happened it is Google Music (both stock and beta), TuneinPro, SoundCloud, and Scanner Radio, though I don’t know if it hasn’t happened on these by design or it’s just that I haven’t used them as much as the ones were the freeze/crash happens.
The reason why I’m not sure if it’s a freeze or a crash is that it seems like theirs is still power, it’s just that nothing is responding, the screen is black, nothing lights up, and pressing and holding the power button does nothing so I get the impression it’s stuck in some strange loop that clears once I pull the battery.
This is my second DX this is happening to, my 1st DX was replaced by Verizon for dead pixels so this doesn't seem to be related to just a bad phone.
Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions of a resolution?
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Only time I ever had an issue like this was one of 2 things happened... either the phone overheated, or I ran the memory out... do you use a task killer? I personally like using a task killer, even though they say GB automatically shuts down background apps when needed, I always found my phone faster and more responsive using a task killer. Just a preference but TaskXP for multitasking works very well for me and it is free on the market. If you have any questions about setting it up you can pm me.
On another note... if you are using so many apps to listen to audio, I'm assuming you probably have it hooked up in your car, maybe on a dash mount... check and see how warm your phone gets, as my DX runs pretty warm too, I had to modify my mount to allow for heat dissipation and I never had a problem after that.
SGT+CM7=:-D
I don't use a task killer mostly as you stated because gb is supposed to manage it well enough but also because it doesn't suppress apps so I kept noticing things restarting right after the app killer did it's thing.
actually I mostly get around on motorcycle and I'm not a fan of using headphones while riding. for the most part, when I'm listening to my dx that's all I'm doing with it because I'm usually preoccupied with something else at the same time.
So in short, when it crashes it's when it's only playing audio
Good suggestions though since I didn't cover what I was doing when it crashes
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A factory reset will cure this.
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A factory reset will cure this.
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one would think but I've tried that a few times with the first DX and it didn't resolve the situation.
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A factory reset will cure this.
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I'm sure there is more than one issue that could lead to the unexpected reboots, so I doubt there is any easy and universal panacea, much as I wish there were. Factory resets haven't worked for me on either of my 2 DX's, and I can guarantee that overheating is not relevant on mine. It comes and goes, and I thought that perhaps I had it beat, but it's still there.
I've been through a number of SBF's, cache clearing, data clearing, factory data resets, etc., app removals with no resolution. It's most prone to spontaneous reboots while running audio apps, or navigating with Google Maps.
I am not too familiar with some of the acronyms used here but I am having the same problem. The reboots started to happen after I downloaded the latet OS update code. So far Verizon has been unable to help me fix the problem,. I will be going back to Verizon today and will update you with the outcome. So far Verizon has not been all that helpful.
Verizon reloaded the OS yesterday. I will know if that cured the problem after I do an hour on the bike this morning in the gym.
Same issue
I'm having the same issue; it happens when using Google Listen or Audible, more frequently with the latter. I've noticed the problem happens most frequently when I hit the power button to turn off the screen; about a half-second after the screen turns off, the phone crashes. Sometimes it reboots itself, but most of the time I have to remove the battery and then turn it back on. This happens only when listening to audio, and it doesn't matter whether it's through the audio jack, Bluetooth or the speaker. I've formatted the SD card and done multiple hard resets, but the problem continues.
I noticed that my DroidX only seems to do it when the screen is off. As far as I can tell if you keep the screen on it should not crash.
Nobody seems to know what to do about it. Verizon knows about it but Motorola seems to be clueless. Their crappy tech support only said it was a problem with the phone, but didn't know if it was a hardware or software bug. I have has the issue across 2 Droid X devices so I figure it is more likely just Motorolas crappy software.
I have installed the latest revnumbers daily build and it hasn't conked out yet.
Verizon is of course happy to keep swapping them out under extended warranty coverage at no cost. Not that it actually helps much.
Just got my Note 3 a few hours ago, on the drive home, I slapped in my microSD card from my other phone which had my music collection. Paired to my bluetooth stereo in my car and started playing my tunes. Im experiencing random stutters that last for half a second and it just continues playing. I also noticed theat watching video, thers random hiccups just like the stutter on bluetooth. Tried playing through the phones speakers, it happens too.
Is this normal? Should I have it replaced? Or are there tweaks that should be done?
TY
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Forgot to mention its a quadcore snapdragon version
ps. will rooting this break the knox fuse?
I've noticed similar stuttering when listening to music on my bluetooth headphones. It doesn't happen often and only lasts a second but it is regular and it is annoying.
Can't be a range thing, phone is in my breast pocket and the headphones are, obviously, on my head. Never had this issue with my Galaxy Nexus.
Good to know I'm not the only one. Might have to wait for a fix for it then.
Hope others can test this out too so maybe we can check if its a very isolated case and have our units replaced asap.
Note 3 Bluetooth Music streaming Stutter
I used 'Rocket Player' from Play Store instead of Samsung 'Music' or Google 'Play Music', the stutter seems to disappear.
I suspect is the .m4a music format.
let me know if this work for you too !
I tried Rocket player and the problem is still there, though Id like to believe that is much better compared to stock.
Video seems fine now as I blame the media that was playing that caused the stutter.
Can anyone who has rooted their phone, and removed the bloat, test it out if their bluetooth streaming stutters?
TY
I have the stutter too.
On top of that, it doesn't auto-connect to paired devices.
When I was with my S3, it would automatically connect to the car bluetooth without issue. The Note 3 doesn't connect automatically although told to do so. On top of that, it sometimes (randomly) only connects media audio and not media AND phone.
I usually have to tell it to connect several times until it finally does. The S3 didn't have any of these issues.
Seems bluetooth overall needs some fixes.
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I tried Rocket player and the problem is still there, though Id like to believe that is much better compared to stock.
Video seems fine now as I blame the media that was playing that caused the stutter.
Can anyone who has rooted their phone, and removed the bloat, test it out if their bluetooth streaming stutters?
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My device is rooted, and the bloatware are all removed.
I noticed that the bluetooth stutters even before and after rooting. My phone had been reset to factory once I have rooted to ensure a clean start.
Today i noticed something. When the screen is on, and you're doing something, there is no stutter. When the screen is off, the stutter starts. This is most likely the cpu. 300mhz isn't able to handle the music. I raised the minimum cpu frequency to 400mhz, and it was better. So basically, it could be down to the govenor or the cpu unable to handle the music at the minimum frequency. It could also be a bug.
I guess we'll have to wait for an official fix then. Thought rooting would have solved it.
I have this same issue since I upgraded from the S3 to the Note 3 using a Sony DSXS310BTX. Audio seems to cut off several times during the song. The song itself continues to play. Kind of aggravated to have this problem on a new device when it was not there on the previous.
Hi,did you update the latest Firmware?just released today.
I have the newest firmware and it still stutters. Any progress?
Same problem here, even with the new firmware. In addition right after a stutter there is a +/- 15% pitching of the streamed audio. Extremly unpleaseant on music playback.
But I found out, that for me this problem only excist if the phone screen is off.
I've noticed some issues having both bluetooth and wifi on at the same time. If I turn one off, the other works perfectly. Not cool, Samsung.
I do notice I get less stutter with WiFi turned off, but it is still there.
Damn, and I thought the Note 3 would be my next phone. This is a deal breaker, I spend all day with music playing from my current phone via bluetooth headphones.
I can confirm that by turning off all unnecessary services that the Bluetooth audio stuttering is gone. I had the exact same problems as the rest of you. When I got my S9005, the first thing I did was stream audio to my car's Bluetooth radio, and it was awful. Skipping/pausing/stuttering, the whole works.
I then set about disabling virtually every unnecessary app and service that came bundled with my GN3, and then went for a 3-hour car ride yesterday and streamed audio the whole time, and there was absolutely zero stuttering. Not even once. And I had WiFi enabled at the same time as well, and I never updated my firmware. So, that's the good news!
The bad news? Unfortunately, I don't know which app(s) or service(s) that I disabled eliminated the Bluetooth audio stuttering. It could be KNOX or the indexing service, or one of the various S apps, or maybe all of them, some of them, or something else. I just don't know. Your best bet would be to go through and start disabling the apps/services one by one (I also used Titanium Backup to disable some of the ones that are restricted) until you find out which one(s) are related to the Bluetooth audio stuttering.
2013 I'm guessing was jellybean?
Just updated my phone to lollipop 5.0 and get missing/stuttering/skipping.
Got it in kitkat 4.4.2 and thought lollipop should have fixed it?
It's not as bad but it's still as annoying as hell.
headset is BT 4.0,I have another headset that's 3.0 and I'm sure it doesn't happen with that headset(testing).
Phone is stock and unrooted and also waiting for the 5.1.1 update so I cannot alter the cpu which I heard was the problem?
But why no problem with my 3.0 headset?
It's also a bit weird,sat at my desk skipping doesn't seem to be that big a problem but when phone is in my pocket and I'm walking to work it's a problem?
phone to headset is the same distance apart.
It's like using an old mobile cd player,skip city.
Any known solutions or something?
I started to get the Bluetooth stuttering a few weeks ago, and it drove me nuts! I'm on lollipop, and even though my fix might not be the fix for you, the thing that did it for me was that stupid beam service that comes with our phones. I didn't even know about it until I factory reset, and went through each apk, one by one, until I fixed my issue.
delete:
/system/app/beamservice/beamservice.apk
and
the updated apk in /data/app/com.../....
(obviously you need root to do this...)
Hope this helps someone. I listen to music A LOT, and it made me so pissed that something as simple as streaming music couldn't even stream properly!
Spoke too soon. Rebooted and Google Services Framework updated and the stuttering came back. I removed every extra APK, totally debloated the system. It has to be something that Google updates because before Google Services/apps get updated, bluetooth is totally fine. After = stuttering.
Ok, I am running a Verizon galaxy s5 sg-m900v with no root (tried but hasn't worked) android 6.0.1.
The last 2 "security updates" have caused my Bluetooth to start destroying the battery. The January update caused the bluetooth to be the highest usage (about double of the next closest thing ). The Feb update seems to have doubled down and now bluetooth is 3x.
I have nothing connected to it, no fitbit, no speakers, no headphones, nothing. For about 20-30 min it does connect to my car, but I don't stream music or anything, just only if I get a call.
When I turn bluetooth off, my battery life is normal, but having to turn it off all day and remember to activate it in the car seems like a ridiculous work around. I have deleted my cache a couple of times but I have not done a factory reset.
In 2016, I had the same problem, that was tracked down to the gas buddy app constantly accessing the bluetooth ( the internet figured that out not me, I just read it). When I disabled the Bluetooth access Gasbuddy then broke so I ended up uninstalling the app altogether.
Unfortunately the search terms "bluetooth battery drain" are so generic that all I get is the threads from last year, and anything current. I already have app that tell me what apps have permission to access Bluetooth but nothing to see which app is actually using it and how much..
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Ok, I am running a Verizon galaxy s5 sg-m900v with no root (tried but hasn't worked) android 6.0.1.
The last 2 "security updates" have caused my Bluetooth to start destroying the battery. The January update caused the bluetooth to be the highest usage (about double of the next closest thing ). The Feb update seems to have doubled down and now bluetooth is 3x.
I have nothing connected to it, no fitbit, no speakers, no headphones, nothing. For about 20-30 min it does connect to my car, but I don't stream music or anything, just only if I get a call.
When I turn bluetooth off, my battery life is normal, but having to turn it off all day and remember to activate it in the car seems like a ridiculous work around. I have deleted my cache a couple of times but I have not done a factory reset.
In 2016, I had the same problem, that was tracked down to the gas buddy app constantly accessing the bluetooth ( the internet figured that out not me, I just read it). When I disabled the Bluetooth access Gasbuddy then broke so I ended up uninstalling the app altogether.
Unfortunately the search terms "bluetooth battery drain" are so generic that all I get is the threads from last year, and anything current. I already have app that tell me what apps have permission to access Bluetooth but nothing to see which app is actually using it and how much..
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I'm seeing something similar on my Galaxy Note 4.
Ok, I have tracked it down, by process of elimination to either 1weather or accuweather. I used advanced permission manager to see all of the apps that hat bluetooth permission, and started uninstalling them.. the reason I can't narrow it down was because I went to uninstall one of them and accidentally click to the other one first. Since they both were on the list I figured no big deal then decided not to reinstall it and went ahead and uninstalled the right one....
Small update, at this moment I am down to 49% today after some fairly heavy use, and my Bluetooth does not even show up as having used any energy. So at this point I'm pretty much going to take this as a win.
Interesting - I've got Accuweather installed too. I'll uninstall it, and see if that makes any difference.
Just for anybody else that stumbles across this thread, I can confirm that Accuweather (Platinum, in my case) was the cause of the excessive Bluetooth battery consumption, so well done @barrysuperhawk on finding that!
I've been in touch with Accuweather, and as of 06 Mar 2017 and they "are aware of the problem", and "are actively working on a solution".
Cheers,
Steve.
Wow.... Months of having this problems, blaming every other app, and now I find this. Yup. Still not fixed. Boo.
Well the way I look at it most of these apps that keep going crazy with Bluetooth don't really have any reason to have access to Bluetooth. The fact that their app is broken and they haven't fixed it indicates to me that they don't really care if I use their app or not so I am happy to oblige by not using their app. I mean it's not like there's not competitive apps that do actually work.