Hi All,
For the life of me i cannot get this working.
So basically i want to control tracks etc from the Gear S3 watch app, i have confirmed i have changed the app to look at phone and not locally.
It shows the current playing track artwork but is always stuck on "Play" symbol, and clicking pause, skip, achieves nothing.
It just tells me to play song on phone (even though i am)
I get the same issue no matter what app i use on the phone (poweramp,samsung,google music etc)
I have forced closed the music app from the phone, its never worked, any ideas?
I am using Apple airpods as my bluetooth headphones
I have the same exact issue, using the Wi-Fi model on a Note 8. I see the content playing on my watch (YouTube Chromecast and other videos), the titles are correct, but when I press Play, Skip or Rewind, NOTHING happens! I miss this feature from Android Wear so much!
Did you ever find a solution to this or does ANYONE know how to fix this issue please? Thank you!
OK, maybe not a solution, but can anyone confirm they have this issue and it's known?
I can confirm I have the same issue when streaming to my chromecast. I see the content I'm playing but i can't control it (nothing happens when i press the buttons, play, forward, etc...).
I have both Samsung Gear S3 Frontier and Galaxy S7.
Been searching the web but all I see is people who can and cannot do it but I can't find any solutions. I guess it must be a bug since other people claim they can do it.
Please help us!
Ok i found the solution for everyone who has the same problem.
In the Gear Wearables App under "Notfications" and then under "Manage Notifications" i had to enable the music app to send and recieve messages. After that it works perfect.
No Music App Under S3 Notifications
Iamvocabulary said:
Ok i found the solution for everyone who has the same problem.
In the Gear Wearables App under "Notfications" and then under "Manage Notifications" i had to enable the music app to send and recieve messages. After that it works perfect.
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I was really happy to get your fix but when I went into notifications and manage notifications on Galaxy Wearables, there was absolutely no music app to toggle on. Am I missing something??
Thank you for creating this post... now I know that it is possible to control music app on the phone by watch!!!
quibquab said:
I was really happy to get your fix but when I went into notifications and manage notifications on Galaxy Wearables, there was absolutely no music app to toggle on. Am I missing something??
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Did you set the music player to control phone or watch? click on the watch icon in music app then a pop up to allow you to change to phone. The music app on the watch can play music on phone or watch but you have to set it to which you want to use
music app says connect to phone when phone is connected.
its not working nokia 6.1 plus music app says connect to phone when phone is connected. unable to control phone's music app through watch
I have the same issue with my Nokia 6.1 plus. When I play music on phone the background on the watch changes but can't control music through watch.
Talked to Samsung support and they said it is compatibility issue.
I am facing the same problem with my Nokia 8 as well. I'm trying to play music through my watch and it says connect to phone. When I click on connect it says "Couldn't connect. Try again?"
Music controls not working with Nokia
Yep, I have the same issue with my Samsung Galaxy Watch Active and Nokia 8. This is the only real compatibility issue I discovered so far. The Nokia has almost stock Android so I wonder what causes the incompatibility and whether it is likely to be fixed. To my humble opinion the music player is a basic functionality so I hope Samsung or HMD invests in a solution.
Try pairing it through regular Bluetooth settings.
Adarsh Bhat said:
I am facing the same problem with my Nokia 8 as well. I'm trying to play music through my watch and it says connect to phone. When I click on connect it says "Couldn't connect. Try again?"
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Me too same problem in nokia 7 plus
sgtslaughter64 said:
Try pairing it through regular Bluetooth settings.
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That's not possible. You can only connect using the Samsung Wear app.
Adarsh Bhat said:
I am facing the same problem with my Nokia 8 as well. I'm trying to play music through my watch and it says connect to phone. When I click on connect it says "Couldn't connect. Try again?"
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Yesterday I bought an SM-R600 running Tizen 3, the music app worked perfectly with my Nokia 8 on Android 9. Today, I updated to Tizen 4 and the music app stopped working. Is ther any way to downgrade my watch?
the music player app on the watch is broken in my opinion because on my nokia 9 i can use the spotify app fine so the phone and watch are working as they should , so now i just use the watch to control spotify , i use my huawei freelace headphones connected to the phone , i just use the headphones to answer calls and control the music if it isnt spotify lol , android need to learn from apple , the way their stuff works together makes android look like such a bodge job
go into the wear app and forget the watch, repair it and itll very likely work. You can also go into the watch's settings and select connect to a new phone
I’m also having Nokia 6.1 plus and having the same issue also. I can see the music cover but cannot control the music player on my watch. It’s sayin to connect via Bluetooth,I tried and it saying it cannot connect. Anyone any solution
Same problem here! Nokia 8.
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is it possible??
i actually wanted to do this because i want to play the music through my tablet but want all the notifications from my phone. :laugh::laugh:
I'd be interested too! I don't believe it's possible. However, the Spotify app lets you control one instance from another if both devices are on the same network. I control Spotify on my phone from my watch using remote widget while it controls my tablet which is playing via my Bluetooth speaker.
mckenzis said:
I'd be interested too! I don't believe it's possible. However, the Spotify app lets you control one instance from another if both devices are on the same network. I control Spotify on my phone from my watch using remote widget while it controls my tablet which is playing via my Bluetooth speaker.
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problem with spotify is wifi network and cant control other android devices. or am i wrong?
So I just reinstalled a stock rom back on my nexus 6p just to get the samsung pay working again and started tinkering with Spotify (I have the premium version) app. now I can't seem to get it to connect to my phone. blue tooth model. All searches really doesn't provide any result or not any real ones. anyone out there know of a solution? was there an update that just blew this up?
US location.
blue tooth works on everything else. just not spotify apparently.
TIA
Re-install spotify on the gear... happened to me as well.
wisefreakz said:
Re-install spotify on the gear... happened to me as well.
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only did this 5x. not the solution.
Have you rebooted the watch after Uninstall?
wisefreakz said:
Have you rebooted the watch after Uninstall?
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many times...
I have this problem too kind of.. When I open the Spotify app on the Gear, it keeps telling me to connect bluetooth or something like that.
The thing is.. when I play music on my phone through Spotify, if I turn the dial on the Gear to the stock music player, it actually shows the Spotify information, and I'm able to control the Spotify music from there (play, pause, next, previous, etc...).
Hopefully you will have some success!
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Have you rebooted the watch after Uninstall?
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HuntingMage said:
I have this problem too kind of.. When I open the Spotify app on the Gear, it keeps telling me to connect bluetooth or something like that.
The thing is.. when I play music on my phone through Spotify, if I turn the dial on the Gear to the stock music player, it actually shows the Spotify information, and I'm able to control the Spotify music from there (play, pause, next, previous, etc...).
Hopefully you will have some success!
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this doesn't work for offline music. anyone?
The way I got Spotify to work was to connect to WiFi manually. It seems to want to stream over WiFi but send commands over BlueTooth.
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
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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.
Hi folks,
I got this new phone and I have a question regarding Bluetooth and Spotify. With my old smartphones(ZUK Z2 Pro or Samsung S7) connecting Spotify through Bluetooth, I can change songs/volumes on my car dash entertainment system. But with this smartphone I can not. Only thing shown is "Sony XZ Premium", which is the name of the device.
Do I need special configurations for this phone to get it work with the dash system?
Yours
I laso tested other apps like vlc etc. and none of them are controlable with the wheel controls or the car system. Seems to be a bug....
I don't have an issue with music control via my car to Deezer.
There is an general issue with bluetooth in Android 7.1.1 version. I have a problem with song information not being updated, however my car controls works, for most of the time. It seems like this problem is not present in newer cars/radios.
Yeah, I tried today also other apps like VLC/Deezer/Music app and all of them have this bug. I hope there is a fix soon. It is really annoying while driving that I can not change a song I don't want to listen to. I contaced also Sony Xperia Care, but they wanted to tell me it the car which is defective and not the smartphone...
sorry to go off on a tangent, but have you got deezer to work? I cannot for the life of me get deezer to work for me. Can you let me know what settings you are using, eg cache, etc... I have a support call open with deezer, even trying their beta but app just does not work - does not play anything...
Yeah I'm having this issue with Google Play music. Guessing it's a Bluetooth 5 codec.
Reported on Sony's forums as well,
Fingers crossed for a fix
https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xper...Bluetooth-AVRCP-not-updating/m-p/1229940#M899
I have the same problem, Spotify will not update the track information on what's playing. I hope there is a fix for it soon, kinda annoying. That and the wifi issues. Lucky I have unlimited data.
Mine just connected like normal. Seems like it sounds better than my last phone also. I did have a problem where it kinda froze the Bluetooth on my receiver and had to restart that. My receiver is pretty old though. Spotify working fine with it but with your same issue
Same issue with a mini cooper s 2017. I'm able to connect to the car for phone calls and contact sharing but unable to play any music via bluetooth. It seems that the phone shows as connected but the car just says as connecting. I really hope this issue is fixed soon.
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Same issue with a mini cooper s 2017. I'm able to connect to the car for phone calls and contact sharing but unable to play any music via bluetooth. It seems that the phone shows as connected but the car just says as connecting. I really hope this issue is fixed soon.
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SAME problem with my BMW.. Doing my head in.. Have you made any headway since you posted this?
svssolutions said:
SAME problem with my BMW.. Doing my head in.. Have you made any headway since you posted this?
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Well Minis are technically BMWs so I guess the bluetooth interface is the same.
I managed to stream audio to my friend's Chevy Cruize but without the streering wheel controls (skip, vol up/down).=
Try pairing again and update your iDrive system (ask your dealership for more info about that)
the_kms said:
Well Minis are technically BMWs so I guess the bluetooth interface is the same.
I managed to stream audio to my friend's Chevy Cruize but without the streering wheel controls (skip, vol up/down).=
Try pairing again and update your iDrive system (ask your dealership for more info about that)
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Spoke to Sony who refuse to believe their device is a fault.. No plans to release any software tweaks till Android P apparently.
the_kms said:
Well Minis are technically BMWs so I guess the bluetooth interface is the same.
I managed to stream audio to my friend's Chevy Cruize but without the streering wheel controls (skip, vol up/down).=
Try pairing again and update your iDrive system (ask your dealership for more info about that)
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After messing around with settings and bluetooth I was able to achieve a connection to media audio. If you have Google Play Music installed, that is part of the bluetooth culprit.
1. Force stop Google Play Music under app settings.
2. Turn off bluetooth.
3. Toggle bluetooth back on, and under BMW/Mini go to the media menu and select your phone, after a few seconds you should be able to achieve a bluetooth media connection and you can run Google Play Music again.
I'm not sure if this can fix the spotify issue, but I was able to get my Google Play Music to work via bluetooth on my Mini, it is kind of annoying having to do all those steps anytime I get off the car, but then again, my drives are usually pretty long so I don't mind doing it at least a couple times a day.
Let me know if that worked for you.
Hi guys,
I've been searching all over internet a solution to my problem with my Gear S3 frontier and my Nokia 8.
They are paired. I receive all the notifications, calls... Only one thing bother me, it's that I can't control spotify with my watch.
Everytime spotify is launched on my phone , I can see on my watch that my phone is playing something. Even more, I can see the cover of the song on the music app on the watch. Problem is, if I want to skip or pause the music, It's wrritten "please connect to the phone " but they already are connected. It's the same problem with spotify app for the watch.
I've tried factory reset on the Gear S3, I've uninstalled all samsung apps (samsung wearable, gear S plugin...) still the same.
My friend has an S3 classic with a mate 20 pro and it works fine. Plus, when I connect my watch to his phone, I can control spotify !
I pretty sure that it comes from my phone. Do you have any ideas to fix that ?
Thank you very much for your help !
Indianboy89 said:
Hi guys,
I've been searching all over internet a solution to my problem with my Gear S3 frontier and my Nokia 8.
They are paired. I receive all the notifications, calls... Only one thing bother me, it's that I can't control spotify with my watch.
Everytime spotify is launched on my phone , I can see on my watch that my phone is playing something. Even more, I can see the cover of the song on the music app on the watch. Problem is, if I want to skip or pause the music, It's wrritten "please connect to the phone " but they already are connected. It's the same problem with spotify app for the watch.
I've tried factory reset on the Gear S3, I've uninstalled all samsung apps (samsung wearable, gear S plugin...) still the same.
My friend has an S3 classic with a mate 20 pro and it works fine. Plus, when I connect my watch to his phone, I can control spotify !
I pretty sure that it comes from my phone. Do you have any ideas to fix that ?
Thank you very much for your help !
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Just release a new Spotify version on Tizen which fix this issue.
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Just release a new Spotify version on Tizen which fix this issue.
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Thx Igorrj, the Spotify app is not available anymore on the galaxy market...weird
Anyone ?
Same problem
I have nokia 7 plus android 9
I cannot controller music from watch
Hi Swat,
With the new Spotify app you can control music with your watch.
Buy only Spotify if you have another music app such as VLC it won't work !
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Same here, Gear S3 with Nokia 8.
Nokia seems to be messing around with bluetooth since Pie. Had issues connecting the two devices for the first time.
Issues with media control (as described above) and issues with re-connecting after bluetooth out of range.
Has anyone solved the problem?