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[Q] ROM and Bluetooth issue S3 - Help

Just installed CleanROM 6 R2. Very nice ROM! I do have a continuing issue I want to put out there, see if any others have it? Confirm it?
This isn't due to the ROM, but with the new ROM installed, the problem continues, so I am curious. (Going to try another soon)
When I have pattern security, and using my Q2 Blueant Bluetooth headset, I try to make a voice call. (S Voice disabled, Assistant used for voice commands currently) When trying to make the call, I hear the tone from the phone, to start talking, but I get a "Not supported by phone" message on the headset.
If I attempt the same test, with NO lock screen security it works fine.
I attempted this test, with pattern security on a S4 for ATT, works. S4 for Verizion, NOT working. Same for the S3.
I test with the same bluetooth on a Verizon Rezound (GF phone), works perfectly.
Why does it fail on the S3, with stock 4.2.1 and now with CleanROM? I figured it was some kind of software from Verizon... maybe the firmware somehow? Remaining software of some kind?

bigb78 said:
Just installed CleanROM 6 R2. Very nice ROM! I do have a continuing issue I want to put out there, see if any others have it? Confirm it?
This isn't due to the ROM, but with the new ROM installed, the problem continues, so I am curious. (Going to try another soon)
When I have pattern security, and using my Q2 Blueant Bluetooth headset, I try to make a voice call. (S Voice disabled, Assistant used for voice commands currently) When trying to make the call, I hear the tone from the phone, to start talking, but I get a "Not supported by phone" message on the headset.
If I attempt the same test, with NO lock screen security it works fine.
I attempted this test, with pattern security on a S4 for ATT, works. S4 for Verizion, NOT working. Same for the S3.
I test with the same bluetooth on a Verizon Rezound (GF phone), works perfectly.
Why does it fail on the S3, with stock 4.2.1 and now with CleanROM? I figured it was some kind of software from Verizon... maybe the firmware somehow? Remaining software of some kind?
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I don't have this BT issue on Clean or any other TW or ASOP rom. I use PIN lockscreen. I have used my ERA and Blueant BT with Cyberon voice commander, and both work fine. On ASOP, I get a 5 second delay in acknowledging the command bit it eventually works.

jlokos said:
I don't have this BT issue on Clean or any other TW or ASOP rom. I use PIN lockscreen. I have used my ERA and Blueant BT with Cyberon voice commander, and both work fine. On ASOP, I get a 5 second delay in acknowledging the command bit it eventually works.
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Can you switch to pattern lock and test again with the blueant BT? I am set to immediate lock on power button. Patter required immediately. Also, are you using a Q2 Blueant?
Thanks

bigb78 said:
Can you switch to pattern lock and test again with the blueant BT? I am set to immediate lock on power button. Patter required immediately. Also, are you using a Q2 Blueant?
Thanks
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I was using the Q2 with pattern lock. I now use the jawbone with PIN lock. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks.
But... DAMN! LOL I can't figure out why this is happening. I will try Cyberon, but S Voice and Assistant failed for me.

http://support.verizonwireless.com/pdf/system_update/galaxy_s3.pdf
I am guessing that JZO54K.I535VRBMF1:
"Access phone screen without
unlocking device when connected via
Bluetooth headset"
Has something to do with my issue? (Wishful thinking)

bigb78 said:
http://support.verizonwireless.com/pdf/system_update/galaxy_s3.pdf
I am guessing that JZO54K.I535VRBMF1:
"Access phone screen without
unlocking device when connected via
Bluetooth headset"
Has something to do with my issue? (Wishful thinking)
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I hope it helps you. I have been very frustrated since the JB update with BT voice dialing. ICS worked 100% better. Both S voice and Google now have been very disappointing for voice dialing. I find Cyberon to work more than 95% of the time.

jlokos said:
I hope it helps you. I have been very frustrated since the JB update with BT voice dialing. ICS worked 100% better. Both S voice and Google now have been very disappointing for voice dialing. I find Cyberon to work more than 95% of the time.
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Yeah, I hope so too. Maybe when CleanROM is updated with MF1 I will find out.
I have been happy with Assistant, as far as quality of voice dialing interpretation. I even bought the paid version, although not needed really.
S Voice is horrible, the S3 version. My buddy has the S4 on ATT, and S Voice is WAY better. (And my BT works with patter lock on his S4. But NO WAY I got to ATT. Hahaa)

bigb78 said:
Yeah, I hope so too. Maybe when CleanROM is updated with MF1 I will find out.
I have been happy with Assistant, as far as quality of voice dialing interpretation. I even bought the paid version, although not needed really.
S Voice is horrible, the S3 version. My buddy has the S4 on ATT, and S Voice is WAY better. (And my BT works with patter lock on his S4. But NO WAY I got to ATT. Hahaa)
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There are a couple of TW roms, including Bone Stock and Hyperdrive that give you the option to choose S4 S Voice to install. If you are on a stock kernel, you can probably flash the MF1 firmware and not bork your camera. You should check the clean rom thread to see if anyone has done that yet.

jlokos said:
There are a couple of TW roms, including Bone Stock and Hyperdrive that give you the option to choose S4 S Voice to install. If you are on a stock kernel, you can probably flash the MF1 firmware and not bork your camera. You should check the clean rom thread to see if anyone has done that yet.
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Yep, I am watching the forum. Don't want to be the first one to try it, I don't yet have the skills to fix undocumented problems.
I think my problem though, is the Bluetooth security bypass. Not the Voice app..... but time will tell.

Just flashed the MF1 firmware and the Stock ROM for MF1, and no luck on bluetooth!
Anyone out there with a BlueAnt Q2 bluetooth and a S3, stock or another ROM that could test for me? Killing me not being able to control my phone on the motorcycle, my HTC never had the problem, only S3 and S4 on Verizon... S3 and S4 on ATT works.
I'll put a bounty on this... need to figure it out!

bigb78 said:
Just flashed the MF1 firmware and the Stock ROM for MF1, and no luck on bluetooth!
Anyone out there with a BlueAnt Q2 bluetooth and a S3, stock or another ROM that could test for me? Killing me not being able to control my phone on the motorcycle, my HTC never had the problem, only S3 and S4 on Verizon... S3 and S4 on ATT works.
I'll put a bounty on this... need to figure it out!
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Try this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896171

[Q] Voice dialing with a PIN lock on Nexus 5

Hi All I have just purchased a new nexus 5 (gear live pre-ordered) in a curious attempt to have a go at android from my Iphone 5c.
I am tweaking the handset at the moment to give me some lost functionality from IOS. I have stumbled across a really painful problem that i can not find a solution to. I use a pair of bose wired earphones to listen to music and use as hands free in the car. On my iphone, I am used to to pushing the mic button and activating the voice dial from the locked screen, all good.
When i try doing this on my nexus, i get the "can not use OK Google until the phone is unlocked" message in my ear.
I have to have a passlock on the handset due to work security restrictions.
Does anyone have a work around for this? I am hoping my new gear live will keep the pass lock when in close proximity (A major flaw otherwise - unlocking your phone before you can see anything on your smartwatch!) in the interim though, putting a pass key in the phone every time i want to make a call whilst riving is pretty poor!
currently on stock 4.4.4. not rooted yet -
Thanks all

randomtechgeek said:
Hi All I have just purchased a new nexus 5 (gear live pre-ordered) in a curious attempt to have a go at android from my Iphone 5c.
I am tweaking the handset at the moment to give me some lost functionality from IOS. I have stumbled across a really painful problem that i can not find a solution to. I use a pair of bose wired earphones to listen to music and use as hands free in the car. On my iphone, I am used to to pushing the mic button and activating the voice dial from the locked screen, all good.
When i try doing this on my nexus, i get the "can not use OK Google until the phone is unlocked" message in my ear.
I have to have a passlock on the handset due to work security restrictions.
Does anyone have a work around for this? I am hoping my new gear live will keep the pass lock when in close proximity (A major flaw otherwise - unlocking your phone before you can see anything on your smartwatch!) in the interim though, putting a pass key in the phone every time i want to make a call whilst riving is pretty poor!
currently on stock 4.4.4. not rooted yet -
Thanks all
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I'll be honest and say that being able to make a call with the phone being pin locked would be a security risk. Now as for a workaround I can only think of one thing that would work but it requires some time to configure things correctly.
You could us ethe app tasker to automate this. You can set a profile for when you are in your car. When you are driving in the car (e.g. moving over 10 MPH) you can have tasker turn off your PIN Lock. Then when you get out of your car (eg not moving) it would reenable your PIN lock.
If that's too hard to configure (I can show you if you are interested in the above method) You can just set up a much simpler profile in tasker that whenever your BT headset is connected disable your PIN lock. THough this is less secure.
Those are the only options I can think of and honestly I would be surprised if anyone came up with a true solution to this

[q] does smart lock with Bluetooth device work for you?

Has anyone else tried using a Bluetooth device go smart unlock your phone?
I can register my Bluetooth headset for the function but my phone still gets locked and requires my fingerprint after the screen is off for a few minutes
My phone is locked due to exchange security policies.
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Works fine in my truck...

Works fine with my Sony SW3

Works fine with my moto 360

Same thing happens to me, but for location. I raised with Samsung on twitter and they asked me to email them. I've done so. Will let you know if I get any update.

I see the same issue - I have tried with two bluetooth devices and also a location. None of these bypass the need for fingerprint to unlock the phone. I also tried with PIN security - same issue. My phone has an exchange account linked which altered some security settings, maybe this is it? However, same account and same Android version on a Nexus5 and there was no problem.

yea im having issues as well. I do have exchange security as well but this worked fine on my Nexus 5. I'm also having issues where my Nexus 5 could skip songs via bluetooth. This does not work via google music now via my pioneer headunit. I cant tell if this is android bluetooth issues or what??

I have the same issue. Just disabled my exchange policy and it started working. It does not ask for fingerprint or pin any more.
This is weird because same setup on Nexus 5 worked fine. There smart lock overrode the exchange policy, but looks like Samsung has decided to give exchange policy higher preference than smart lock.

same for me just work with car Bluetooth but not with locations

Ok, moved Exchange account into Knox (which is awesome by the way) and now the smart lock works. Proves it was Exchange security causing it.

Cool, looks like exchange is the root cause.
Let me go explore knox as well!
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I'm having the same issue with no exchange account set up.

teethgrinder32 said:
Same thing happens to me, but for location. I raised with Samsung on twitter and they asked me to email them. I've done so. Will let you know if I get any update.
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+1 on location. But Bluetooth is perfect for me.

I had the same issue, smart lock works with BT but not with location.
What helped for me: I used location of Home from maps, it wasn't work. When I added "new" place and used near address it started working. I'm not using Exchange with security (I'm used to using Office365 and there isn't this rule)

works fine here over bluetooth to my gear 2 neo smart watch , and my turtle beach elite 800 wireless headphones , also location lock is working here on the w8 stock unrooted.

rakh1 said:
Ok, moved Exchange account into Knox (which is awesome by the way) and now the smart lock works. Proves it was Exchange security causing it.
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What is knox? How did you accomplish this - I really want to get this trusted device unlock enabled. Thanks in advance.

I have the same issue - smart lock works without "corporate" account. However when I setup a "corporate" account (Exchange, or in my case - it's Google Apps with Google Device Policy) - smart lock stops working.
You can configure trusted devices/locations, but you need anyway to unlock device using pin/fingerprint/or whatever. Exactly same configuration worked well with recently replaced HTC One M7 (Sense version with Lollipop).
It's my first Samsung device after about 5 years with Android.. is there any chance they fix anything like that, is it worth to bomb tech. support about it?
On the side note, regarding alternative solution - I'm a bit curious how Knox is working. I don't like additional layer it adds to a system, and I don't really need such paranoid level of security, but.. maybe Knox is not so bad? Does it show notifications from Knox applications? How all apps are working in background, or do I need to unlock Knox each time I need to check the mail?

Yay, the upgrade to 5.1.1 has fixed this.

How do you disable exchange policy?

Update took care of it - I did not change anything.

smart lock not working

I want to use okay google in my car to change music but it rails due to the fact the device is locked. I have added several trusten bluetooth devices (removed them and re-added too) and trusten voice enabled but still the device remains locked. I am using the fingerprint scanner to unlock.
How can I start using okay google again?

anyone?

Is this place still alive?

Is there actually anyone reading this forum?

godutch said:
Is there actually anyone reading this forum?
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LOL, for me trusted bluetooth devices is working. The fingerprint is not needed.... Did you try another bluetooth device?
The first time I used this feature with my car audio, it said the my phone has to be at least unlocked once with fingerprint because the bluetooth device has no high security standard.. but now it is working fine...
do other smart lock features work? Like trusted places?
BUT, what you can try, goto SETTINGS->Lock Screen->other security settings->Trusted agents
play around with this smartlock (google), enable disalbe again. I had prolbems with trusted places and this helped for me....

GZA1337 said:
LOL, for me trusted bluetooth devices is working. The fingerprint is not needed.... Did you try another bluetooth device?
The first time I used this feature with my car audio, it said the my phone has to be at least unlocked once with fingerprint because the bluetooth device has no high security standard.. but now it is working fine...
do other smart lock features work? Like trusted places?
BUT, what you can try, goto SETTINGS->Lock Screen->other security settings->Trusted agents
play around with this smartlock (google), enable disalbe again. I had prolbems with trusted places and this helped for me....
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i tried and nothing is working.... ( and I tried it with 2 different s6's)

Auto lock smartphone - can't find option

Hell, i've got a problem with my Gear S2.
I had a Galaxy Note 2 (Android 4.4.1) with the option to automatically lock the smartphone when the gear is too far and it was right.
Il bought a Galaxy Note 4 (Android 5.1) and set the watch on it, but on the Note 4 I can't find the parameter to lock the smartphone. I tried to uninstall / reinstall Gear Manager but I still cant' find it.
Does anyone can help me ?
Thanks
(Sorry for my english ;-] )

I think in the newer versions of Android the autolock feature has been replaced with SmartLock which will automatically unlock the phone when the device of interest (in this case the S2) is in range. However, it will not automatically lock the watch when the device is out of range. The phone will lock with whatever settings you have in your Security.
Fred

Thanks a lot Fred, I think you're right !!
It's the difference between Android 4.4 and Android 5.1.
I've just activate the function and i will test it now but it seems to be what i need.
Thanks again