Bluetooth works great for me in my car for the most part. I am running the m build rooted and unlocked with a keyboard hiding tool and dpi changer all from the play Store. Bluetooth will connect with no issue, display correctly on my car display and play music but all other sounds stop, system, notifications and so on but calls do make noise. Once I disconnect from Bluetooth this issue persist and if I try to play music I hear nothing from the speaker, if I press the volume control it pops up top with the Bluetooth symbol even though I'm disconnected. If I leave Bluetooth off and restart the phone everything works perfectly and as soon as I connect to Bluetooth its right back to the issue. I can't quite figure this one out.
I was able to reproduce the issue 3 times yesterday, as well as now being aware why my sound was missing the day before. Oddly though today it didn't happen.
Any1 having this issue where the spoken turn by turn direction sound via GMaps & Waze over a car's speaker is very muted?
Can't say for sure if it was with 7.1.1 related update(s) or with the early January Google Maps or Late December Waze update.
I know that some Nexus users had 7.1.1 Bluetooth connectivity issues but I hadn't heard about the volume being an issue.
I've checked all my volume related systems settings & the referenced apps' volume settings.
But everything looks like it should be in terms of volume levels & when to come on (always).
Streaming music/radio via other apps & the BT phone works as expected for both sound & performance.
Any ideas?
UPDATE
Found some conversation surrounding this on a Waze forum.
Basically, it has to do with the BT audio level sometimes being attenuated to a lower level for no apparent reason.
It's some sort of bug but not sure if Android or BT or map oriented.
The workaround is to turn up the volume using the phone's volume rocker button while in Waze or GMaps app.
Then close down the app & reopen. It should work automajically the next time the app is used.
Ever since I upgraded to 8.1 OPM1 last month, my car no longer plays it's default generic ringtone when a call comes in. I have basically done everything I can to fix this but nothing is working. Anyone else having this issue? The only thing that remotely works now that didn't before is if my phone volume is ON, it will play my phone's actual ringtone through the speakers on the car but that defeats the purpose. I have my phone on vibrate nearly 100% of the time and when I get in the car, I don't want to have to turn on the volume to hear the phone ring. I have completely reflashed the image multiple times, reset my settings in my car, pair/delete/re-pair multiple times, turned off media streaming on phone, but nothing is working. The only thing I haven't tried is completely factory resetting my car's MMI system. There have been no updates to my car either. I contacted google support/nexus forums but they didn't think it was a bug in 8.1 even though the issue started with 8.1 and was find on 8.0 and below. I still think this is an OS bug. For reference, I have a 2014 Audi S4 with the MMI 3G+. I am thinking about pairing my phone with my wife's car to see if it works with hers. I have not gotten the January OTA yet but will probably manually flash it if I don't get it tonight or tomorrow. Any ideas?
@jrg67 Enable developer options and I believe theres option in there to fix your issue.
My Bluetooth crashes on my phone now when I connect to my stereo ever since the 8.1 update. No problems on other Bluetooth devices like speakers and headphones. My Clarion CX505 has the latest updates. The January security update didn't help the problem for me.
Exodusche said:
@jrg67 Enable developer options and I believe theres option in there to fix your issue.
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Exo, I had Dev options enabled already and from what I can see in your screenshot, my settings are the same except for disable absolute volume which I have on (my jbl speaker doesn't like to play nice sometimes and when I connect, it's max volume for no reason). So do you have any specific settings in there that you have played with? The only thing I can think of would be the streaming codec. As stated in my original post, I do not recall my phone ever playing the phones ringtone over the car speakers no matter what. Even if I had the volume on, my car would always play the generic tone which I prefer. Now, it'll play my phones ringtone over the speakers only when the volume is on and the phone's volume setting effects the volume that's coming out of the car speakers too. It's super annoying and I honestly just want it back to the way it was. Now, I'll get a call while driving and my entire system goes silent and the only indication of a call I get is a faint vibrate buzz sound from my phone sitting in the cup holder and my MMI screen which I have to take my eyes off the road to verify wtf just happened.
Very strange and sorry I guess I didn't read through enough of your post. The only issue I have is when I first get into the car must turn the Bluetooth on my phone off and then on again after first connect in order to play music. Hope you can figure that out sounds super annoying.
Well for anyone who may have this issue, I finally figured out a work around. Go in to Dev options and turn off "Enable in-band ringing". I then turned BT off/on, tested and now working as it used to. Never noticed that option in there before today but honestly haven't spent much time on it. Cheers.
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My Bluetooth crashes on my phone now when I connect to my stereo ever since the 8.1 update. No problems on other Bluetooth devices like speakers and headphones. My Clarion CX505 has the latest updates. The January security update didn't help the problem for me.
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Did you ever find a fix for this? I have the same issue.
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Did you ever find a fix for this? I have the same issue.
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Nope, I got a Pixel 2 XL that has 8.1 with the Feb patch and it does the same thing. I may try reapplying the Bluetooth update to the radio and see if that helps.
Good evening all,
I have a stock GS8 Active.
While running stock Nougat, I had paired my PowerBeats3 BT earbuds.
I was able to use the Media Volume Sync feature under the BT menu.
Worked great.
After the Oreo update, Media Volume Sync doesn't work.
I've reset the earbuds. Power cycled the phone. UnPaired and RePaired the earbuds to the phone.
Nothing seems to work. I've seen posts elsewhere about Media Volume Sync issues, but nothing related to Oreo.
Anyone else have this issue?
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Several months ago I purchased a car with bluetooth and Android Auto, never had either before, which may or may not actual be related., but it seems like since them I have had my media volume muted all the time.
Every time I go to play a Youtube video or play or stream a song in an app, my media volume is muted. I have to press Vol Up once, then the volume is instantly restored to it's previous level.
Anyway to get around this? It seems related to the car because when I get in it and it synchs with BT, I can see the media volume bar pop-up and it's muted but I am not sure if it's getting muted at that point or already is but it seems odd that would pop up every time I would sync to the car. Or is this just normal behaviour?
The car is a 2018 Hyundai Sonata if that matters, and my phone is a bone stock Moto G5+ 4/64 model.
Nobody? Hmm... Must just be something weird on my end then.
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Several months ago I purchased a car with bluetooth and Android Auto, never had either before, which may or may not actual be related., but it seems like since them I have had my media volume muted all the time.
Every time I go to play a Youtube video or play or stream a song in an app, my media volume is muted. I have to press Vol Up once, then the volume is instantly restored to it's previous level.
Anyway to get around this? It seems related to the car because when I get in it and it synchs with BT, I can see the media volume bar pop-up and it's muted but I am not sure if it's getting muted at that point or already is but it seems odd that would pop up every time I would sync to the car. Or is this just normal behaviour?
The car is a 2018 Hyundai Sonata if that matters, and my phone is a bone stock Moto G5+ 4/64 model.
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Have you tried checking the car's system? Pretty sure it's something to with the car and not your phone as you mentioned it only happens when your phone syncs with the car. Maybe you missed a setting somewhere in the car that has to do with the sync or connection and the events that follow. Just a suggestion. I don't have a car with Bluetooth or Android Auto though