I have a Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos SM-G7102. Over the holidays I purchased a watch that supports Smart Notifications as-in it Bluetooth pairs with a supported phone and receives call and message notifications. But the "supported phone" caveat is that it must be a phone that supports BT 4.1. My phone supports BT 4.0. Is the difference just a software difference or some sort of radio difference? Is there a way to just update the Bluetooth on a phone?
There appear to be no roms available for this phone (DUOS is a dual-sim phone). Ideally you'd be able to suck the existing rom off the phone, update the bluetooth, and re-flash it.
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Newbie here... with a question that has confounded alot of tech support people at various companies for the last few weeks.
Here's my situation.
I recently purchased an HTC Touch Pro 2 from Telus. I love the phone except for ONE thing.
When I pair the handset to my vehicle (a 2009 GMC Acadia, with Navigation) via Bluetooth, I am able to use the phone to place calls via the phonebook that is stored in the vehicle (ie., if I say, "call X" and "X"'s name is stored in the car's library, then the phone will call "X".
HOWEVER, if I try to physically dial "X"'s number with the handset while the device and the vehicle are paired, the keypad on the phone becomes essentially unresponsive and it takes the handset about 10 seconds to recognize each keypress inputted on the handset. (i.e. it would take me about 2 minutes to dial a 10 digit phone number while the handset and the vehicle are paired. BUT ONLY while they are PAIRED. When I unpair the device and the vehicle the handset's functionality returns to normal.
After many hours of conversation with Telus, GM and HTC advanced tech support it was concluded by HTC (after I sent them a log of the handset during the "paired" condition) that the issue is:
"The telus touch pro 2 that you currently have never received a software update to enable the Bluetooth stack in the device to work with your particular vehicle. This is also the reason why GMC says the verizon touch pro 2 will work as the verizon touch pro 2 has received 2 software updates".
I contacted Telus to ask them if they would make these software updates available, and, I suppose because the handset has been discontinued, they don't see any reason to.
So my question is:
Is there some other way to update the bluetooth stack for the Telus TP2?
(I have tried downloading the software updates available for some US CDMA carriers on the HTC website, to no avail.)
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
The Wikipedia Android Version History says in GB 2.3.5 they 'Fixed Bluetooth bug on Samsung Galaxy S'.
Can anyone relate the details of this BT bug fix? Just wondering how much emphasis i should give (if any) when choosing a rom as to whether its based on 2.3.5.
Still updates for Galaxy S?
I have no idea what the problem is... but this is interesting since this is specific to the Galaxy S and I had in mind that no more update would be apply to this phone... Did Google made that fix to convince Samsung to continue keeping their phone up to date?
The maybe fixed one bug
and created another...
Since upgraded to 2.3.x (4 or 5) I have major bluetooth issues
After reboot, phone connects to car kit and conversation is heard.
However, after leaving the car and comming back, phone seems to connect to handsfree, but audio (both a2dp and mono) is not heard (not from phone and not from car's speakers...)
Serious issue!!!
I would guess it's the voice command thing. This wasn't working in Froyo, but it's working now.
Just got a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7, Android 6.0.1. Used to have a Motorola/Lenovo Droid Turbo, Android 5.x up until last week.
I have my Plantronics Bluetooth Voyager Legend and Panasonic Link 2 Cell cordless phone with BT configured on the old phone and on the new phone.
On the old phone (Motorola), if I was connected to the Panasonic device, I couldn't use the Plantronics headset. I would have to disconnect the Panasonic BT device and then connect the Plantronics.
On the new phone (S7), if I have both BT devices turned on. I can see them both connected to the S7. It says "DECT KX-xxxx" connected for call audio, and "PLT_Legend connected for call and media audio".
So is this a new feature for the S7 or Android 6.x? or is something funky going on with my phone, where it mistakenly is semi-connected to both devices?
Hey Guys -
I've had my Gear S2 for a few months now and even though I enjoy it, have a nagging issue I can't seem to fix. I've searched everywhere and tried a few things, but no luck.
My Issue
My Gear S2 is obviously connected to my phone via bluetooth most of the time. If / when I power on my headset (M 165), it does not work as phone still goes to the Gear S2. In Bluetooth Settings, it shows both connected, but the M165 says "(No Phone) behind it. The only way I can use the headset is if I turn off bluetooth on my Gear S2. The same thing happens when I connect to my car's bluetooth as it says "No Phone" too. (see attached screenshot)
What I've Tried
- Disabling "Phone Audio" for the Gear S2: When I do this, the watch disconnects from BT. When I reconnect it, Phone Audio is enabled again
- Bluetooth Auto Connect: I installed this and set the Gear S2 to enable everything but Media and Call audio then set the headset to have only those two enabled. Didn't make a difference when testing as things still connected the same way
- Tasker: I've tried using a variety of plugins to get things to connect correctly, but still no go
Specs
- Phone: HTC One A9 / Marshmallow 6.0.1 / Rooted / s-off
- Watch: Gear S2 / Latest Firmware
- Headset: PLT_M165
Any suggestions? Am I perhaps using Bluetooth Auto Connect wrong? Thanks!
Have you tried another Bluetooth headset? I recommend you to try it if you didn't. I am not experiencing this issue and here is my setup:
I have Note 5 with latest Android 6.0.1 available.
Gear s2 (3g/4g model from T-Mobile) with latest firmware available.
I have Jawbone ERA (few year old model)
I also have Plantronics Legend
When watch is connected to my phone and then I connect any of the above Bluetooth headsets to my phone, then I am able to make/received calls on the headsets and in Bluetooth settings I see "phone" where as your pictures show as "no phone".
How did you connect your watch to your phone by just pairing via Bluetooth or through Gear Manager app?
I have this same issue with my Pixel 2XL it seems that having a samsung phone fixes this issue but any other android phone will exhibit this issue. if you disable phone call audio to the watch everything else will work properly. but you cannnot take calls on the watch.
Has anyone found a better fix then this???
Is there any way to have my Gear S3 Frontier LTE connect to my (Samsung Note 4, Android 7) phone but not for phone audio? I often use another headset for calls etc, and that interferes (and then I have to go into the phone BT
settings and turn the call audio for the S3 off before the other headset takes the call audio.
My Gear S3 has LTE, so it does not not need to take the call via the phone. Either I take it on the phoen viw my other headset, or I take it via LTE on the Gear S3 (at least that's what I want).
I haven't touched an N4 in awhile, and I may not be correct on this (please understand, I am only guessing based on memory). That being said - If you are on Stock Samsung Android7 OS, I believe the version of android you're on does not have the additional controls for Bluetooth devices. The additional controls would allow you to turn off call audio, under the GearS3 BT connection profile. If you've rooted the phone look into a mod that exposes it.
I have the option in the attached screenshot only. I can turn that 'call audio' off in the profile, but that will disconnect the watch from the phone completely, so that not even notifications etc are transferred.
Also, I have to do this every time after connecting. I would loke for the watch to connect for all non-audio (no media nor call audio) purposes automatically.