s6 connecting to Av receiver - Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys,
I recently switched to an S6 and I like it very much.
but i got a question.
I have at home a denon AV receiver, without wifi, but connected over etherned cable to my router
With my htc one m7 it was enough to slide 3 fingers over the display to connect it to the receiver and sound frm youtube, deezer, whatever came through my sound system.
I don t care about video, but more the sound.
Somehow I dn t know how to do this with the s6 for youtube or deezer.
I read in some forums, found out about quick connect. The s6 is my first samsung phine. I can use quick connect and it connects to the denon but I can chose obly to play from the gallery or music app.... what I want is youtube,deezer etc. With htc it didn t care what app...
Even when I open youtuve or deezer and I click on share with quick connect, it will not play...it works only with the music/galery app from samsung... what do I wrong or what do I need to do so that it works?
Thanks

So after reading a bit more, I figured out that htc implemented 3 yrs ago sth called htc connect as alternative to airplay and it did its job... streaming spotify,youtube etc...
but if I m right, samsung has nth similar to this? I consider this very poorly...

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[Q] Is there another app like soundwire, that uses bluetooth?

Hi,
I found out about the soundwire app in an old thread here on XDA; basically soundwire does one thing - it captures the soundcard and streams it to your droid, with fairly low latency. It does a very good job of this and for music and maybe certain types of games it works, but for video any type of lag is simply unacceptable.
My question for the guru's is: Can you somehow connect a pc and an android phone with bluetooth, so that the android streams audio from the PC? Perhaps using this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profile#Advanced_Audio_Distribution_Profile_.28A2DP.29
thanks!
I used soundwire yesterday and it was perfect
Hi I used soundwire yesterday night when I was watching movie.
I found a little trick by which sound will come in sync with video perfectly.
Just try to change audio input in soundwire server in your pc for two or three times. Somehow lag between sound and video will come in sync perfectly.
This method works always.
I watched Hugo yesterday and it was perfect and nobody got disturbed as headphone was connected to my galaxy note.

Stream (audio) from Smart TV to M8?

I'm curious to find out if it's possible to stream audio from my (networked) Sony Bravia KDL-32W650A to my M8. I'd like to be able to sync the audio so I can use headphones with the phone, so I don't disturb my wife and daughter while watching late at night. Using a direct headphone connection is out of the question, as I have a rather large K9 that likes to roam and trip over any wires running across the floor. Since I already have TV SideView and Smart Remote on my handset to control the TV, it would be nice to be able to stream the audio back to it.
Any suggestions?
On edit: It appears that this should be possible (mirroring) via Miracast, but appears that it may be broken in Sense 6.
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Freedom First said:
I'm curious to find out if it's possible to stream audio from my (networked) Sony Bravia KDL-32W650A to my M8. I'd like to be able to sync the audio so I can use headphones with the phone, so I don't disturb my wife and daughter while watching late at night. Using a direct headphone connection is out of the question, as I have a rather large K9 that likes to roam and trip over any wires running across the floor. Since I already have TV SideView and Smart Remote on my handset to control the TV, it would be nice to be able to stream the audio back to it.
Any suggestions?
On edit: It appears that this should be possible (mirroring) via Miracast, but appears that it may be broken in Sense 6.
???
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What I know, you can send audio and video from android devices to TV, but not from TV to devices.
qudwis said:
What I know, you can send audio and video from android devices to TV, but not from TV to devices.
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I'm aware of that, but I want to stream in the other direction (just audio). I know Koush was/is working on integrating this into his AllCast app, but I think it only works with FireTV.

Major problem, Bluetooth music connection to car

Hi, has anyone run into this?
I'm used to play music from my phone to my car (Toyota Auris hybrid) over Bluetooth. Worked good with my LG G4 but with the Mate 9 it miserable fails. BT connects but it won't play anything.
There's loads of forum messages around since nougat came out, it seems to be an android 7.0 problem that seems to be solved in 7.11
Do you guys have successfully streamed in your cars over BT? Please let us know!
blackspp said:
Hi, has anyone run into this?
I'm used to play music from my phone to my car (Toyota Auris hybrid) over Bluetooth. Worked good with my LG G4 but with the Mate 9 it miserable fails. BT connects but it won't play anything.
There's loads of forum messages around since nougat came out, it seems to be an android 7.0 problem that seems to be solved in 7.11
Do you guys have successfully streamed in your cars over BT? Please let us know!
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I'll test it when mine arrives as I use bluetooth also.
Some other info, it really seems to be widespread and only with cars. Will check if calling actually works, I was so busy with music I forgot to check.
Btw, I have a Pebble time steel and that now has a better and more stable BT connection across a longer distance than with the lg g4.
Update next day:
Car/phone BT connection is fine.
Audio suddenly worked after a few tries but no tags visible. Much in line with what others say. Really erratic behavior.
Same for my BT speaker, perfect connection.
Another update: It played audio only once. After some more digging on other forums it seems that Android 7 is the issue. A lot of cars won't play audio over BT anymore or just handle the stream only now and than. The connection is there, the song is playing on the phone, it streams to the car but there's no sound. Oddly when you receive a phone call there's no prob whatsoever.
blackspp said:
Another update: It played audio only once. After some more digging on other forums it seems that Android 7 is the issue. A lot of cars won't play audio over BT anymore or just handle the stream only now and than. The connection is there, the song is playing on the phone, it streams to the car but there's no sound. Oddly when you receive a phone call there's no prob whatsoever.
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My Nexus 6P on RRemix rom rooted with Marshmallow does this with 2017 Audi A4. Only thing that makes it come back is to hit the bluetooth icon in notification tray off and back on, and it syncs back up with sound. Try that? It might be a Huawei bug?
I had a similar issue on my mate 8. Spotify worked but deezer didn't in relation to showing what's playing etc.. it's likely to be nougat 7 as I've got a pixel xl and no issues with 7.1 at all over Bluetooth to my car. Looking at a mate 9 though as I miss the bigger screen
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I have had issues with my S7 Edge where everything connects up and all seems normal but when it plays it either delays before sound works right out of car speakers or you have to do a dance of connecting and reconnecting before sounds works properly. Also think I recall similar glitching with my previous car and my previous android phone but maybe it was previous phone (Nexus 6P) and current car (2015 Nissan Murano Platinum). Only regularly ever play podcasts in car from Beyond Pod app, BTW. Occasionally play something off YouTube but don't recall it glitching.
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I have a Japanese 2014 Mazda Demio, and my Chinese Mate 9 (MHA-AL00C00B109SP01) connected, played music no problem, over bluetooth. The artist/song name shows up. But it doesn't support browsing the song library like the iPhone or Galaxy S7 did.
I also have issues to connect my mate 9 to my car (Renault Laguna 3 from 2011). I simply do not succeed to connect the phone to the car: when I try to connect, my car gives me a 4 digits pin number to enter into my phone to establish the connection, I try to connect to my car from the mobile, the box to enter the 4 digits opens and closes before I have the time to enter the digits with a connection error message.
I suspect a software bug on the bt connection with pin validation on the mate side. I can connect without issue to a standard Bluetooth speaker.
I think some cars, maybe many, just have suck computer systems. It is why I always laugh at the idea of self driving cars - like these same morons that make these terrible in car computer systems will be worth trusting to drive you around.
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I also have issue on Bluetooth with my Renault Megane 2009
I had to choose nomade device to pair my mate and I have some problem on mp3 play-back that suddenly stop where has it continue on music player.
It seems to be better since I install A2DP switcher from playstore but don't know why
So I have had this issue since I got the phone yesterday and just got it working in my 2012 Toyota Tundra.
Settings > Apps > hit the 3 dots > Show system processes > Bluetooth Share > Force stop, clear data. After that try pairing your device, mine has stayed connect with frequent breaks for 5 hours today
No issues with 2 of my vehicles.
I'm having no issues at all. I'm connecting to a Tune2Air bluetooth adapter ('11 A4 doesn't support Bluetooth streaming).
same issue with Pioneer Android Auto unit.
Sometimes it works out of the box, sometimes music plays (as per screen indicators) but no music, sometimes music plays for split second and stops.
disabling/enabling BT helps
no issues when phone is connected over usb with android auto
Same thing with me as well. I have reached out to Huawei but no response. I have a US version
Just got a new Huawei Mate 9 from Optus Australia. It would not connect to my car bluetooth although it would connect to two bluetooth speakers I have. Optus technical support finally resolved the issue by changing the car bluetooth PIN from 1111 to 0000. Looks like a Huawei bug in that it can only connect to devices without a PIN or with a PIN of 0000. Checked my speakers and one has no PIN and the other has 0000 as the PIN. Hopefully Huawei will fix this.
I have a recent Japanese Mazda, as well as a gear s3 or a Huawei watch connected at the same time, and no issues with Bluetooth at all with any recent Huawei firmwares.
My Fabia plays over BT just fine, Android Auto plays it fine too.
dscline said:
I'm having no issues at all. I'm connecting to a Tune2Air bluetooth adapter ('11 A4 doesn't support Bluetooth streaming).
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I previously reported no issues, but now BT is very problematic. For me, it seems, the issue stems from multiple connections. Before I needed two bluetooth connections in my car: one to the car itself for phone calls, and one to a BT adapter to stream music to the car's audio system. A couple months ago, I added a Huawei watch to the mix, and things went south. Typically I'll put my watch on in the morning and it will connect to the phone no problem. But when I get in my car, it doesn't want to connect: the car itself is not connected at all, the phone reports that it's connected to the BT streaming adapter, but no music plays through it. If I turn off BT on the phone and turn it back on, typically that will fix the streaming, but not the phone call connection. The phone will report that both the streaming adapter and the watch are connected, but not the car. If I click on the car connection, it will then connect. The watch connection in the list with then lose the "connected" status, but strangely, it stays connected.
So, I can't get three devices to say "connected" in the BT device list simultaneously, BUT if I turn BT off then back on when all three devices are available, THEN manually connect the car connection, all three will work, even though only two of them will say "connected".

Stream music from phone to Gear S3

Hello,
I have searched and searched over the web for an way to stream music from my Galaxy S7 to my Gear S3, and the only response that pops up is 'how to transfer your music' or 'how to use your gear to control music playing from your phone', which isn't what I want. For one thing, the amount of music could never fit on my gear, and secondly what if I need to put my phone away or its in another room and I'd like to play the music through my watch speakers? If anyone could help me with this in any way, I would be very grateful.
P.s. oh, and if anybody knows a way to use the phone to play gear music (I.e. making the phone a Bluetooth receiver), that would be amazing.
Thanks, Gavin
Using the music app, you can choose the source to phone or watch (top right icon). This works as long they're within Bluetooth range.
Well, yes, but when changing the music source to the phone, the music plays from the phone itself rather than from the gear's speakers, which is what I'm looking for
CausticGlass said:
Well, yes, but when changing the music source to the phone, the music plays from the phone itself rather than from the gear's speakers, which is what I'm looking for
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Were u able to find the solution for this? When i first got my watch somehow it played from the watch but now its just back to the phone speaker.
Sadly not, as no one can either come up with a reply or take the time to help.
I've noticed that some times when i listen to music on my phone(native player or even spotify) and it gets a call, the music stops (like it should) . When I'm answering using my watch, the music player starts to play again via the watch speaker. So i hear both the other party and the soge playing simultaneously . The other party isn't aware of this and can't hear this funny streaming combination. So technically it's more than possible.
I once listened to "family of the year - hero" and my mom called, when she said "hello" the music started to stream again and the singer told my mom "let me go, i don't want to be your hero". =)
what about this?
any solutions?
I used gear s3 with iPhone 6s before, I was able to stream anything to watch's speaker.. because iPhone was connecting with the watch with 2 different type of bluetooth connection. one was speaker and the other was watch. iPhone sees s3 as speaker but Samsung does not.. wtf?
Exactly, first time when i got watch i was able to play the song from mobile in either phone speakers or gear speakers. I got a music update after which i am able to only switch music source but not audio source
I'm also interested in finding a solution for this. It should definitely be technically possible.
What I've discovered so far...
So I finally sound the "three dots" on the side app which only appear for me when streaming from the watch itself. Then it plays from the watch speakers with the option to stream to headphones . Still not understanding how to stream from the phone to watch speakers though. This is really silly no? I know I've done it before. You'd think Samsung wod have the answer somewhere... Perhaps it's an effort to get you to buy music on their platform rather than streaming from a third party?
Gear s3 is underwhelming
I bought this watch thinking samsung products can do everything I'll be satisfied. Then realized shortly after that many functions which should be obviously desired and easily accomplished are simply unavailable. I really wish samsung would enhance their current gear watches because this crap is rediculous.

Stream my audio from my galaxy s8+ in a similar way to HTC connect.

Was exclusively an HTC user for probably the last 10 years, but decided to change it up this year and went for the S8+ . HTC had came out with "HTC connect" which could connect to both airplay and dlna devices alike. It did it in a way where all of my phone's audio would play wirelessly through my receiver, sort of like a wireless aux cable, but at the same time including all of the benefits of Dlna.
What I'm ultimately trying to do is connect to my receiver and play music which my phone is streaming from services such as: YouTube, Spotify, Amazon music, etc. Whenever I connect to my receiver with my phone, it wants to only play files that are located in my phone, which is not what I want.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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