Hi everyone I received my phone SmartWatch 2 earlier today and I have some issues I would like to address. The first issue is a lot of lag on this watch. I'm not talking about the Samsung watch so I don't want to do a comparison but I do think the Sony could have made a better watch since this is the second version.I was expecting it to be a little bit more lag free but its not it's just as laggy as the first one, if not more. Another thing that's a problem is if you're using a Bluetooth earpiece (witch a lot of us are) there's a connection problem between the watch when you're using your Bluetooth earpiece and receive a call the watch disconnects it doesn't quite connect properly right away after the call ends sometimes It forgets to connect at all. after you're done with the call it should reconnect no I take that back I don't think she disconnected all I think you should be able to pair with Bluetooth earpiece and with the watch and the phone one more thing I don't like about the new Sony SmartWatch it doesn't have the (double tap) to wake function that the first version had.... that's also disappointing. I hope there's some kind of update comes along to fix this lag otherwise I will be returning this watch. (By the way I am using the watch with a Sony z1 ultra 6802). If anyone is using this watch and have different feelings please let me know and if you have any ideas of how to make the the watches Bluetooth function MORE functional then please let me know I would love to hear from you thank you.
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Every time I connect my Plantronics Voyager Pro HD and I'm in a conversation over the phone I hear this cracklin sound from my Bluetooth! Is anyone else having this issue? I've swithched out for a new Voyager and the problem still resides!
I think it's an android problem and not the phone ive been having Bluetooth problems since JB
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I'm having the same problems with my Plantronics M100. The signal has more static than usual. Put it back on my Nexus 4, works fine. Maybe someone tested with a low-grade Bluetooth piece, since it's less evident on my crappy old Motorola H620 (though it always sounded crappy anyway).
Might be a Bluetooth stack problem. Might be a hardware thing. Hard to say at this point.
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Do you have other active Bluetooth devices? I see this when I have multiple connected devices and when I disable all but one at a time it works.
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Works fine for my "old" Jabra 135 or Moto H350, rooted stock 4.4.2 rom & kernel.
famoustito said:
Every time I connect my Plantronics Voyager Pro HD and I'm in a conversation over the phone I hear this cracklin sound from my Bluetooth! Is anyone else having this issue? I've swithched out for a new Voyager and the problem still resides!
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The same problem here. I have brand new Voyager Pro HD. With Nexus 5 I hear crackling & static however my caller hears me very well without crackling & static. I keep phone on my desk or in my packet same think.
I paired this headset with Nexus 4 and it works perfect, it seems like only Nexus 5 has some issue with this headset.
I noticed issue with Nexus 5 stock MusicFX, whether bluetooth to device or general usage. It seems to have come from that I believe. I am on Cataclysm and run Viper FX audio files, no crackling at all any more (using high or super audio drivers). I think the issue resides in the default android sound production and that is being sent via the bluetooth. Running 4.4.2.
Cant say ive had any issues, but there do seem to be reoccuring ones for many
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same issue here with my Stock Nexus 5 4.4.2 and Plantronics Voyager UC2 latest firmware.
Definitely looks like an issue on the phone side as it worked no problem with the Old Desire X and my PC.
Would rooting / replacing the Kernel affect the bluetooth?
I did want to keep this phone as stock as possible this time.. (famous last words)
I just got the tmobile variant s6 and immediately went to test the Bluetooth audio stream on my 2015 gs350. I noticed a crackle in the audio. It is minimal but quite noticeable at high volume. This is disappointing as my Sony Z3 had excellent BT audio quality on my gs. Anyone else notice this?
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I just got the tmobile variant s6 and immediately went to test the Bluetooth audio stream on my 2015 gs350. I noticed a crackle in the audio. It is minimal but quite noticeable at high volume. This is disappointing as my Sony Z3 had excellent BT audio quality on my gs. Anyone else notice this?
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I do not seem to have that issue over my car's bluetooth. T-mobile also.
I'm getting good audio quality via my Sony SBH80 aptx BT headset. Perhaps you can play on the Sound Alive equalizer.
Just wanted to let you know that I am having this same problem. When streaming music in high quality from Google Play, the treble is all crackly and distorted. It's really disappointing. I'm going to do some testing today against my old m8 and using non-streaming music. But never had this issue before.
It's probably the fact you are streaming audio. Try some high quality downloaded music, like from Spotify. I've no issues at all.
I am also having the same issue with the Verizon version of the S6. It sounds terrible over my car Bluetooth when streaming but sounds good through my bluetooth Bose headphones. I didn't have any trouble with my car Bluetooth with my iPhone 6. I really hope Samsung gets this sorted out with a software update.
I too am having issues with streaming bluetooth. I think that my issue with it is amplified, because I normally listen to music only on my Magnavox Turntable, and the sound from that console is unbeatable by any electronic streaming or mini-speaker. My son bought me a bluetooth speaker for my birthday last year, which was very nice of him, but the sound just does not compare to the 1970's technology.
Maybe I'm just old.
Do you happen to have any bluetooth le devices, like a fitbit, attached at the same time? I tried disconnecting my garmin vivosmart and there's a dramatic improvement.
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Just wanted to let you know that I am having this same problem. When streaming music in high quality from Google Play, the treble is all crackly and distorted. It's really disappointing. I'm going to do some testing today against my old m8 and using non-streaming music. But never had this issue before.
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Same here. Lowering the treble help a tiny bit but what's music without treble . I've tried disconnecting my pebble watch but no dice. I really don't want to go back to aux.
In my car, before I disconnected the Garmin, I found that adjusting the toggles in Play Music - edging the first dial two toward Treble and the other dial three toward Instrument helped a bit.
I noticed the crackling on treble as well. As evanl81 suggested, I disconnected my Moto 360 (switched it to airplane mode), toggled the phone's bluetooth to have a fresh connection to the car, and the crackling is gone by at least 90%!
Very disappointing. Didn't have this problem with my Nexus 5. I'd very much prefer to not have to disconnect my watch every time I get in the car
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I noticed the crackling on treble as well. As evanl81 suggested, I disconnected my Moto 360 (switched it to airplane mode), toggled the phone's bluetooth to have a fresh connection to the car, and the crackling is gone by at least 90%!
Very disappointing. Didn't have this problem with my Nexus 5. I'd very much prefer to not have to disconnect my watch every time I get in the car
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That would be a problem. I'm starting to think that we are wirelessly connected to too many things!!
So it looks like my pebble watch was the problem. Seems i can't have other BT devices connected while connected to my car. Once I put my pebble in airplane mode, then off/on the BT radio and all is good! Sucks but at least it's a workaround.
I'm trying to use AutoInput and Tasker to automate the disconnection and reconnection of my watch when connected to the car bluetooth right now, still working out the kinks though. :\ Endless little things and inconsistent behavior.
It would be fantastic if this gets fixed by Samsung at some point!
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That would be a problem. I'm starting to think that we are wirelessly connected to too many things!!
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No, I have a Nexus 4 with 5.0 and now with 5.1 and its connect to LG g watch, a parrot ck3100 and auki bluetooth reciber and the quality is perfect. With S6 I only connected to my LG g watch and auki and the audio quiality is a ****.
i don't know about bad audio quality for bt but i get audio cut outs and choppiness when using my jaybird bluebuds. it gets really annoying. i noticed it happens in wide open spaces too like when i'm outside but not near any walls or enclosed areas. if i'm indoors, it works perfectly fine. i remember reading about the way bt works and the signal needs to bounce off other surfaces or something like that in order to work properly. i had this same issue way back in my OG Droid days and there was a build.prop edit to boost the signal by giving bt higher priority.
anyone else have this problem? i'm on VZW variant btw.
other than this issue, bt audio sounds perfect. i also use Viper to give the audio volume a major boost.
I'm having the same issue on my car audio.
It was perfect with the Nexus 5, very disappointed to have this with the S6.
I just got my sg6 have a samsung gear live and bluebuds x I get crackling sounding high end, very annoying, coming from an HTC one m7 with the same setup and had zero problems, really hope they are able to fix this!
OK so I enabled the tube amp setting and nothing else, it seems to have made a huge difference. I can now listen to music without cringing. Hope this helps.
Ok, I made a few findings about the issue. I also have a moto 360 connected to the S6 and the crackling is so high that is imposible to hear music with a minimum of quality.So i tried with the watch off or in airplane mode and the crackling is still there but sometimes it dissapears after connect and disconnect the bt devices but not always. Now, the elephant in the room:
I have a Samsung Hs3000 bt stereo headset and the music quality is superb even with te moto 360 connected. The magic is that this particular device has aptx codec included. So if you have an aptx bt device the quality its going to be there. For no aptx devices i'm trying an experiment: i remember from the nexus 7 2013 and other android phones that bluetooth audio quality was bad since kitkat and the problem was bluetooth compression was too high. There are two files that control this behaviour: audio.a2dp.default.so and bluetooth.default.so. If we could edit this two files maybe we could fix this. If someone can help me and tell me what program can i use to edit this files on my computer i'll try to fix it myself.
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Just wanted to follow up on this thread - I recently switched to the Note 5 (which I love) and also got a Huawei Watch. When the watch is connected to the phone and the phone is connected to bluetooth, the sound quality is really horrendous. So I'm guessing it's something with the BT smart implementation in Samsung phones or something? It's really annoying. I too tried to work out some stuff with AutoInput, but it's a huge pain. The only real workarounds are to put the watch in Airplane Mode or just disconnect through the Android Wear app. And unfortunately there are no shortcuts through AutoWear. Oh well.
So I have had my phone since it was released and used it with my BMW to make and receive calls and listen to music. This week I got a huawei watch and now I have issues in my car. I am not getting sound through the car and it disconnects and reconnects. I read you can have 7 devices connected to Bluetooth at one time. Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?
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So I have had my phone since it was released and used it with my BMW to make and receive calls and listen to music. This week I got a huawei watch and now I have issues in my car. I am not getting sound through the car and it disconnects and reconnects. I read you can have 7 devices connected to Bluetooth at one time. Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?
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I have a Gear 2 Neo, Gear Fit, and 3 vehicles with bluetooth connections. None of which have any problems unless its a kernel problem. On more than one occasion with both the Note 4 and now the Note 5 I have had to change or reflash a kernel or rom because of bluetooth issues that have surfaced.
Thanks form the reply. The problem is in am stock and not rooted.
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So I have had my phone since it was released and used it with my BMW to make and receive calls and listen to music. This week I got a huawei watch and now I have issues in my car. I am not getting sound through the car and it disconnects and reconnects. I read you can have 7 devices connected to Bluetooth at one time. Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?
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had the same issue with my s5 and had to disconnect my moto 360 to fix it or in my case i had to turn it off
I figured out how to get gasket to disconnect android wear when I get in my car. Annoying that I have to bring up the app but it does work.
Hey everyone, has anybody experienced significantly poorer bluetooth performance with the S7 than with others? At first I thought it was my headphones as I had gotten a new pair or inexpensive but well reviewed headphones (Mpow Wolverine) at the same time as the new phone. They barely keep their connection and clip audio with the most minor of obstruction or even being @ 10' away. I then tried an older set of BT headphones which worked flawlessly with my previous phone (Moto X Pure) and I was having the EXACT same problem. I don't have problems pairing with devices; my car, Echo, watch. These are very close and line of site when in use and they don't move relative to the phone when in use.
Does the BT radio in this phone just suck, or do I have a defective unit?
I use Bluetooth every day and have never had an issue.
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There's several threads on this subject here in the S7 forums.
Some people have issues, others don't. Some have issues with Wi-Fi if Bluetooth is enabled, others don't. Some have issues with new BT headphones, others only with old, others don't.
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Use bt headset every day and haven't had any problem.
I had issues with my Sennheiser Momentum 2 wireless, sent them back to Sennheiser to see if they can fix it. They also had similar issues on an iPhone but not as bad as with the S7.
I'm noticing static when wearing BT headphones and making any sort of twisting motion with my head even though the phone is like 1 foot away in my pocket. I'm very concerned how this will affect using the BT headset while bikeriding
I'm having bluetooth pairing issues with my 930F international exynos S7 flat. It won't detect most of my devices. My S6 Active detected & paired with them all and connected quickly to all paired devices.
Elsewhere I read to force stop Bluetooth Sharing then clear app data & cache. Did so and haven't noticed any difference.