Calling problems with smartwatch connected - Essential Phone Questions & Answers

Hi hello guys how are you. So i have th essential phone and the gear s3 frontier. When the watch is paired to the phone whenever i receive or make a phone call even using the phones dialer. I would get no sound at all. The other person cant hear me either. I noticed that even if i pick up a call with the phone it would automatically switch to the watch. I think it might be a glitch thinking is more like a radio Bluetooth. So even if i switch to the phone or speaker. No audio at all. If i turn off the Bluetooth everything is back to normal. Any suggestions. I would like to keep on using my watch. Sometimes im not near my phone and would like to talk through the watch. If i go into the Bluetooth settings i can toggle the option for voice calls. I would get the notification when receiving a call but on the watch i cant only decline now.

You have to go in BT settings and set the watch not to be used for phone audio

no audio when answering an incoming call, while paired with a smartwatch
hi,
I'm experiencing the same thing, but I would use another title for the bug (see above).
The answer in post #2 is helping me to get audio when answering a phone call, BUT I can't use my smartwatch (Gear S3) for making calls or answering calls anymore.
So when I disable the "phone audio" in the smartwatch Bluetooth connection profile, the phone sends the audio to the earpiece, as no audio Bluetooth device is connected --> audio is available when answering the call.
But as I want to use my smartwatch for making and answering calls, I'd like to get a solution for this.
Side note: there is no audio on both ends. I can't hear the other end and the other end can't hear me. And the "no audio" thing is only present for the first 10 seconds of a call. After that the audio starts to work on both ends via phone (when watch is connected as BT audio device).
BR
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Another Xperia and bluetooth problem...

Hi, guys. I have a problem with my xperia and hands-free bluetooth funcionality (I have tested with several hands-free). In half of a call, I start to hear the voice through the phone, and not through the hands-free, but the bluetooh is turned on, and I'm able to manage the phone through the hands-free (I can see the contacts, start and finish a conversation, etc). Simply the sound is in the phone, not in the hands-free.
I have too the same problem that everybody has (the bluetooh turns off), and I had fix it with BTKeepAlive.CAB, published in this forum (Thanks to the creator)
¿Anyone can help me?
I'm having a similar problem, but with my in-ear bluetooth hands-free.
When making a call, either from the phone or by redialing with the hands-free, the sound ends up in the phone. When answering an incoming call, either with the phone or with the handsfree, sound ends up in phone.
I've tried three different handsfrees (two SonyEricsson and one Invisio), with same result.
The strange thing is, when having an ongoing call, with the sound in the phone as stated above, I can hear a low noice in the handsfree, indicating that it is active. When pressing menu, the only option, regarding handsfree, is "Turn handsfree off".
Is there anyone that has a solution to this?
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thorell said:
I'm having a similar problem, but with my in-ear bluetooth hands-free.
When making a call, either from the phone or by redialing with the hands-free, the sound ends up in the phone. When answering an incoming call, either with the phone or with the handsfree, sound ends up in phone.
I've tried three different handsfrees (two SonyEricsson and one Invisio), with same result.
The strange thing is, when having an ongoing call, with the sound in the phone as stated above, I can hear a low noice in the handsfree, indicating that it is active. When pressing menu, the only option, regarding handsfree, is "Turn handsfree off".
Is there anyone that has a solution to this?
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I believe I can aswer this myself after following an instruction in another thread here on XDA, even if the solution sounds a bit strange:
I've made a hardreset, and re-installed every program that I want, everything with Bluetooth turned OFF. After that, I turned BT on and added my handsfree. Now its working super.

[Q] Selecting Phone or watch speaker when a call arrives

Hello,
I have a u8 smart watch. And pair with my phone.
My problem is this:
When a call arrives, my phone and watch is ringing. And i answer call on my watch, i talk on the watch. Also i answer on the phone, it always send sound and mic. To the watch.
Now, is there a way that selecting active device for speaking on it.
Ios do it like i told. If you answer on the watch you speak on the watch, and ıf you answer on the phone you speak on the phone.
Is there a way for control speaking device (watch or phone).
Thank you...
If I recall, the u8 connects as a media device only, and requires phone audio or call audio to be routed, or it disconnects? If so, then no, I don't think you can manage that.
You do it on the phone. Select anything but Bluetooth.
Maybe you can try a program like automateit to disable BT on incoming calls until hangup.
I'd certainly buy the watch that has an "answer on phone" button on the incoming call screen. I believe it's one of the standard Bluetooth headset commands so why don't they use it?
I partially solved the problem with tasker. I scheduled a task that sets bt off when call screen. Thank you anyway my friends.

Bluetooth call problems

Hello.
I've a problem with Bluetooth call on my phone (stock rom) . All works great but since a couple of days I can't receive or make some calls with any Bluetooth device ( headset handfree, car audio etc). Media like music or icoyote (set in a2dp notification o media) works great.
I've reset all, car audio, phone. Nothing changed. I've installed spectrum mm rom, I've the same problem.
When I open Bluetooth device properties I can't activate the option for call and notification.
Do you have any idea for solve this problem?
Hello and up! Anyone have an idea to solve my problem? I've reset the phone 2 time and it works great for 2 week and now it don't work. I can't made a call with the Bluetooth
bluetooth doesnt open?can u send-receive files?
Hello. Bluetooth works. I can play audio like mp3 on hands-free and car audio. I can make phone calls on car audio but sounds of call don't go on car audio. On the phone I can't check made call on Bluetooth
I've tested the last spetrum's modem. All works great after each reboot but just one time.
When I enable the bt for the first time after rebooting it connect and call phone option was activated. When I enable it the second time it connect but call phone options was disable and if I tried to check it I can't.
the only issue that I have from the bigining..is that many times although b.t connects,it doesnt transfer sound to my plantronics M55 b.t headset.then I just turn off-on my headset,it reconnects automatically and sound is being transmited normally..
I solved the same problem with this thread
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-X...less-bluetooth-headset-for-phone/td-p/3652038

Disable call audio on smartwatch GT08 clone without loosing call notifications

And a question need help to solve my problem:
My phone is connected with bluetooth watch GT08 clone, which has built in speakers. I can make and receive calls from my watch. But whenever I receive a call my call audio output is sent to my watch speakers. After picking up the phone I can change it to my phone's earpiece but this is annoying to do everytime I receive a call. Is there a way to force my phone not to transfer incoming call audio to bluetooth?
.... I can disable Phone Audio from my bluetooth profile but then I am not able to make calls or see who is calling me from my watch. Are there a better solution for this issue?
Quite annoying that , no bt notifications app have proper choice to choose answer incomming call on watch or phone? If press answer incomming call on phone , the audio phone call will not going out to watch and viceversa, and if by pressing answer incomming call in watch, the audio call will be in watch...that's much better, right? That is smart watch & smart phone.
EDIT:
Temporary solution is using 'Bluetooth Audio Manager' app to rout phone call audio to phone or whatever Bluetooth device you want...

Bluetooth SmartWatch as phone

Hi XDA
I'm using a K88H SmartWatch and a LG G3.
So I already installed the Mediatek App for notifications and a app called Sound about.
My problem is the following. Once I connected my phone the wanted behaviour is that when a call is incoming I want to see it on the SmartWatch but and can answer it there but the sound is coming from the phone. This already works so far. But once the call ended due to the second app my Bluetooth watch is disconnected as phone and only works as a media output device. So I have to reconnect the phone mode manually by pressing the phone button on the watch and reconnect it. But I would like to get it done automatically.
I set SoundAbout that for the phone call audio the phone app decides which sound device should be uses. And in the Bluetooth settings I put the phone call behaviour that the Bluetooth mono auto usage is deactivated. So once a call is made the phone switches from Bluetooth to normal phone as sound output.
So my question is how do I get my phone to use the Bluetooth device as phone again once the call has ended.
Or easier that the phone uses the earpiece for sound and doesnt disconnect the Bluetooth device.
Thanks in advance
Edit: I also tried Bluetooth auto connect app. It automatically disables Bluetooth when calling but only turns on Bluetooth automatically again once I open the app again. Maybe there is a setting that I haven't found that switches Bluetooth back on once the call ended.

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