Hitting various media controls on my smartwatch (previously Pebble, now Android Wear both via built-in media functions and Music Boss), my Bluetooth car stereo, or the lock screen, including play/pause, next, and back (or even turning off my car which should automatically pause playback) is incredibly unreliable for me.
I find that at MOST, half the time these buttons work as they're supposed to. The rest of the time there's a delay ranging from a couple of seconds to over a MINUTE. And they accumulate, so I can hit next, not hear any change, hit next again, and then a minute later my music will skip two tracks. Or I hit pause, think it didn't work, hit it again, give up, go to my app directly, pause it, and 30 seconds later it plays again, then pauses.
I find pretty much the only thing that tends to clear this up is restarting my phone, which is usually not convenient to do at the times I need this to work most (like while driving).
I didn't have this problem at all with Jelly Bean on my Nexus 4, and I feel like the problem was rare, if at all, on my 5 with 4.4 through 4.4.2. It was 4.4.3 that seemed to make it a severe and constant problem, and it's held through 4.4.4. And as noted, the problem transitioned from my Pebble to my Android Wear, and since the same thing happens with lockscreen controls, I feel confident it's my phone/OS and not the watch. I'm stock, rooted, FYI.
Any thoughts? I've done a ton of Googling and gotten surprisingly nowhere.
I've noticed this too. For me it seems to have started happen after I got my Android Wear watch, and didn't happen when I just had the phone connected to my car bluetooth. I wonder if having the phone connected to multiple bluetooth controllers at once is causing the issue ?
Interesting thought. Might explain why I was also experiencing it with my Pebble.
Tested this theory by connecting my car stereo through the aux jack instead of Bluetooth and disconnected my phone from its Bluetooth connection. No improvement. At first it was responding right away, which it does sometimes, and then the next time I tried to use it it took a good 30 seconds before my actions registered.
This has been happening to me for a few months. I find that the only reliable way to immediately adjust the playback controls is from within the app. Lockscreen, Bluetooth devices, notification controls, corded play/pause via headphones are all unreliable. But the attempts to play pause are all cumulative and with the aforementioned lag, even if I successfully pause from within the app. So I think I've paused the player, but a minute later it may start playing again. Really embarrassing at times. Not rooted, and switching default players hasn't helped.
Socold said:
This has been happening to me for a few months. I find that the only reliable way to immediately adjust the playback controls is from within the app. Lockscreen, Bluetooth devices, notification controls, corded play/pause via headphones are all unreliable. But the attempts to play pause are all cumulative and with the aforementioned lag, even if I successfully pause from within the app. So I think I've paused the player, but a minute later it may start playing again. Really embarrassing at times. Not rooted, and switching default players hasn't helped.
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Glad I'm not alone, although disappointed you don't have a solution either. And yes, it's very embarrassing to try to show off this technology and have it fail, or worse have it fail at the wrong moment. Sometimes I get out of my car, walk into a building, and THEN the commands catch up and the music starts blaring from my pocket. Good thing I don't listen to Gangsta Rap.
Some minutes after manually starting a workout the Gear S3 acoustically announces the "heart rate", the "calories burned", etc.
Where do I disable these announcements to make my watch remain quiet even during workout?
many thanks, Felix
fxrb said:
Some minutes after manually starting a workout the Gear S3 acoustically announces the "heart rate", the "calories burned", etc.
Where do I disable these announcements to make my watch remain quiet even during workout?
many thanks, Felix
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SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None
10urshin said:
SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None
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Thank you! I must have missed this somhow .
10urshin said:
SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None
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Oh man, I've been looking for that setting for so long!
Thanks!
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Where?
I can't seem to find this exact settings, I keep turning more off and it continues to announce. Is that on the watch?
rackflot said:
I can't seem to find this exact settings, I keep turning more off and it continues to announce. Is that on the watch?
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It is on the watch, as state in post #2.
Is there any way of making it louder? I want to hear the information but it comes out really quietly compared to my music and I can't catch what she's saying.
Tmel14 said:
Is there any way of making it louder? I want to hear the information but it comes out really quietly compared to my music and I can't catch what she's saying.
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that voice is really loud i hate it lol. try changing your watch volume. easiest way i know to do thar is if you have the music wiget on which source to gear mode instead of phone to control media and change the volume to the desire level
There is no --- SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None --- on the watch. There used to be. But the isn'tany more. Does anyone know of another way to disable this voice.
No More Annoying 5 minute voice interruptions to my workout
On my gear fit pro 2,my Activity Type that I use at the gym is Other Workout. But every 5 minutes of my workout, my Bluetooth music is interrupted by that annoying voice.
To Fix it....
Go to Workout>activity type>other workout>guide intervals>none
ajpn said:
There is no --- SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None --- on the watch. There used to be. But the isn'tany more. Does anyone know of another way to disable this voice.
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You now need to go to the actual exercise. So say click on "other workout" if that's where you're getting your notifications from, and then scroll down to "guide frequency" prior to actually starting the workout. Click "none".
I just got the Samsung Watch today and tested the workout widget. I was annoyed by the voice too and just figured out that you have to turn off "rep counter" for each workout. So, it turns off the voice completely.
Glad I found this post, here is my situation with s health.
I use the watch alone to run, at first was great with the s health voice, every km a message saying my speed and HR and just half my goal a remind of it.
I use it Spotify premium to download my playlist and run without the phone and with the s healt voice the music stops/pause and after the message of s health the music used to resume, BUT last week just after reach half (and the respective message) of my goal the music doesnt resume, it is weird because seems that everything is connected and working, but no sound at all, not even from the internal speaker, the only solution is to restart the phone and is annoying because I have to stop to do it. Does anybody face the same issue? any solution?
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You now need to go to the actual exercise. So say click on "other workout" if that's where you're getting your notifications from, and then scroll down to "guide frequency" prior to actually starting the workout. Click "none".
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That worked for me! Thanks very much!
About "guide frequency" and other Gear S3 issues...
I have been dealing with these "audio guides" since I got my Gear S3. I wanted to disable them so the music I listen while workout is not interrupted. The above procedure is correct: setting guide frequency = none does work, BUT that setting is not remembered (at least in my Gear S3 Frontier), so the next time you go for a workout (and forget to set guides frequency to "none"), there you have again the watch talking and interrupting your music.
However, due to the S3 battery drainage issue (I have it too), as described in this article:
https://www.sammobile.com/2018/10/23/gear-sport-gear-s3-battery-fix
I have tried to install that Gear S plugin version 2.2.03.18101561. It did NOT fix the battery drain issue, but made the "guide frequency" remembered as a setting (good!). But this plugin came with yet another bug: when you go for a run using Location services along with your phone (so the GPS information is taken from the phone), Samsung Health + Gear S Plugin does not work: only can register location from the watch´s built-in GPS.
So I went back to my standard Gear S Plugin Version 2.2.03.18083051, and I have to remember to set guide frequency to none every time.
Samsung needs some software debugging on the Gear S3 !
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Glad I found this post, here is my situation with s health.
I use the watch alone to run, at first was great with the s health voice, every km a message saying my speed and HR and just half my goal a remind of it.
I use it Spotify premium to download my playlist and run without the phone and with the s healt voice the music stops/pause and after the message of s health the music used to resume, BUT last week just after reach half (and the respective message) of my goal the music doesnt resume, it is weird because seems that everything is connected and working, but no sound at all, not even from the internal speaker, the only solution is to restart the phone and is annoying because I have to stop to do it. Does anybody face the same issue? any solution?
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Good day... by any chance have you found a solution to this problem? I have been using my Galaxy Watch with Spotify since I purchased the watch back in September, but as of the latest update I am experiencing the same issue of my music not resuming after a running audio cue. I either have to turn off notifications to hear my music for my entire run, or I get to listen to music for about four and a half minutes when my 1st km notification occurs.
Thanks
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Good day... by any chance have you found a solution to this problem? I have been using my Galaxy Watch with Spotify since I purchased the watch back in September, but as of the latest update I am experiencing the same issue of my music not resuming after a running audio cue. I either have to turn off notifications to hear my music for my entire run, or I get to listen to music for about four and a half minutes when my 1st km notification occurs.
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I have the very same issue. Although I find I can manually kick of the music via Spotify again on the watch with some perseverance. Complete pain in the back side when you are jogging though! If you find / have found a solution, please share. Thanks.
On my watch, the audio guide, which I have set to give me info every 1 km, doesn't 'dip' the sound while I'm listening to any music or other audio like it used to. If I have no music going at all, and only my bluetooth headphones on, it works normally. THe other thing is, if I am running without the watch connected to my bluetooth headphones, it works fine through the watch's speaker. THis watch is so full of bugs. I'm seriously thinking of moving on to a Fitbit Ionic or something.
After three hours:
Problem solved!
On you watch
Go to Apps
Go to S Health
You see the heart, then
Scroll down running man figure - it says “record your workout. Click on it.
Click on bubble with “work out”
There is a list now of all work out types
Click on the relevant settings cog
In the list select guide frequency
Click **** off you *****! NONE!!!!!
LOL, good to know! Cheers
Greetings all!
I'm having a strange phenomenon when listening to music on my Pixel from Google Play Music (untested in other apps as I have all-access)... my music will randomly stop/pause. The app and persistent notification show the icon as if it's still playing (not paused or stopped) but there is no sound, seconds do not advance, never gets to the next song, etc. It's worth noting perhaps that this seems to happen towards the end of a song, for instance when there's maybe 20-30 seconds of the song left. I feel like it has something to do with whenever it might start to preload or buffer the next song in queue??
After I give the app a fresh restart it seems to work fine for a while.. anywhere from 15 minutes to hours. There seems to be no pattern that I can tell. The only other thing I'm thinking is that maybe an app I'm using is for some reason causing a glitch but I really only use like Facebook, Gmail, texting, calling, and a time clock app. I've never had problems until I got the pixel so it definitely seems somewhat device-specific.
It does this when listening to music thru BT or with headphones plugged in.
The quickest way I can fix this is to manually press Pause in Play Music persistent notification, and then swipe it away, press the Square and Clear All. With headphones I can just re-open Play Music and press play.. on BT I have to cycle BT off/on (I think, I actually don't think I've ever tried it without cycling BT), then re-open Play Music... Sometimes it will automatically continue where it left off when I re-open the app, other times I have to manually press play again. You can imagine this being quite annoying and potentially dangerous as it usually happens when I'm using BT in my car while driving.
I've tried clearing the cache, clearing data, and even a full wipe. I'm using Pure Nexus ROM currently, but had the same problem when trying Resurrection Remix. I have literally never used the stock OS, I rooted it the day I got it and installed unofficial Lineage... I don't recall having this problem in LOS but I only used it for a few days before trying PN, RR, and then back to PN.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Or does anyone have some potential ideas to fix the problem?
Mine does the same thing the fix for me is not use Google play music. Play music has done this no matter what ROM I was on
Hey all,
I have had my gear sport for a week now but I'm having an issue with exercising using Samsung Health and listening to music using Spotify.
I have downloaded a playlist on Spotify to my gear sport and also have Spotify set to offline. I have also started the 5k run program on Samsung Health.
This has happened 4 times now and i hoping someone can help me fix the problem... I'm all ready for my run, have my bt headphone on and I start playing music through Spotify on my gear, all working so far. Then I open Samsung Health on my gear and go to the exercise screen and start my 5k journey. It all works fine, listening to music and doing the warm up but once the main workout starts the music just stops. This morning I managed to restart the music but about half way through the first song it stopped again. When i went back into spotify it still appeared as if it was playing, I could pause and restart the song but I was getting no audio.
Also note that Spotify does work fine when I'm not working out, just listening via my sport.
Really home someone can help me sort this out.
Thanks.
I get exactly the same issue, did you find a solution?
I too have this stupid issue.....
Background - I have a Galaxy Watch 4 and use it with Jaybird Vista 2 headphones. I listen to music via YouTube Music on my watch.
Have an annoying issue, wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Whenever my watch detects a workout, the volume drops (e.g., say it's at ~70% - it drops to 40%) enough where it's annoying. I'm able to turn it back up, but then if my watch determines one activity is done and then I start something else, it will do it again. Happens ~2-3 times if I'm at the gym.
I tried looking in options on the watch and my headphones, but couldn't find anything that could be controlling this. I don't recall this being an issue previously, so not sure if it's a bug in an updated version or something. Honestly not sure if it's a headphone issue or a watch issue.
Any ideas?