I've noticed that if my watch is connected to my phone via bluetooth, it will try to get location data from the phone rather than the watche's own GPS.
Under normal circumstances that's not a problem, however when I go hiking, I keep my phone in my backpack and it loses the GPS signal. That means the watch also loses location data and no longer properly tracks the hike (or any other activity where the phone might not have a GPS signal).
Is there a way to force the watch to use its own GPS even when bluetooth is on?
Turning off bluetooth on the watch fixes this of course, but then I no longer get notifications of text messages coming in while my phone is not easily accessible, which is kind of the point of the watch in the first place.
Maybe turning Off Location on phone ?
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I have a really good router, and a really terrible car. In the mornings I generally sit in my car while it idles long enough for it to heat up enough that my breath doesn't freeze on the inside of the windshield, which takes about ten minutes. Since I have nothing else to do, I generally browse the internet on my phone. I also have a good enough router that even all the way across the parking lot in my car, I still get some wifi connectivity. It is enough that the phone recognizes it's connected, but not good enough that it can load pages. Therefore, it always gives me "page failed loading" messages. I generally have to manually turn on WiFi for it to default to 4G instead. Is there any setting I can change to where it will automatically disconnect from a wifi network if it has below a certain connectivity that is higher than default?
So, when I'm at home, does the phone/watch use less battery without Bluetooth and connected via remote instead?
Just wondered.
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For the watch stand point, no, Bluetooth always consume less power than Wifi. This is not really up to date paper but should be good enough for comparison UCLA: Energy Consumption Analysis for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Cellular Networks
For the phone stand point, you need that Wifi or lte/3g to get most of the notifications anyway so you dont care how much power it actually consumes it will stay on no matter what. If you run your watch in remote connection mode, you will save some power on phone since it wont have to run bluetooth for watch but you wont be able to answer calls on watch or get delays on notifications and eventually you will consume more power on watch. If you run the watch on bluetooth you will end up using more power on phone because of bluetooth so its a no win situation.
If you have a Lte model of watch and watch's phone number is the same with phone's or you dont care about notifications that comes to your watch, you can put watch on airplane mode but leave bluetooth on to consume less battery.
LG G6 on Android 7.0 ( I suspect this issue is not specific to this phone.) This happened to me like a year ago. Bluetooth in my car kept disconnecting and it had to do with me turning on some sort of feature where the phone keeps scanning for nearby Wi-Fi networks to notify me about. Of course as you drive your car around it periodically picks up a strong enough (nearby) networks. But I think it was doing it even without notifying me on the screen. Anyway, the setting was sort of buried but I eventually found where to turn it off and the bluetooth disconnect stopped.
So I replaced my phone with a new G6 because I switched providers from a GSM to a CDMA provider. I restored my apps and everything was working but then something changed and it started happening again. So I backed up the apps, factory reset, and restored just my bare minimum apps. Worked fine again. I didn't really add any apps that would affect this type of thing and then today I went for a walk and listened to an Audible book for about 45 min. Returned back and disconnected the headphone. About an hour later reconnected them and started listening to music and it started happening again. I have Wi-Fi Notification and Show Wi-Fi popup disabled in Advanced Wi-Fi and when this was happening driving around I can confirm Wi-Fi was turned off (I have a Llama event that automatically turned Wi-Fi off when I connect to my care Bluetooth)
Any ideas what is causing this issue?
I believe I determined the problem. I have a Pebble 2 watch. It was disconnected and while playing music over bluetooth, I went to reconnect it and for the first time I saw some message about allowing the app to turn on bluetooth (even though it was already on.) I enabled it and immediately lost my speaker bluetooth connection. So my guess is my watch app was repeatedly trying to connect to the watch every couple of minutes or so and each time that is what would cause the other bluetooth connection to disconnect. Maybe if I go into the watch app permissions and disable bluetooth toggle permissions that will prevent it from doing it when the watch is disconnected.
Hi there,
I'm using my old Nexus 5 for navigation. Each time when the phone is going to standby, the bluetooth connection (tethering by another phone) get lost.
Is there a solution to avoid this?
Bluetooth timeout is one of the most common reasons Bluetooth is turned off without warning. By default, after about 10 minutes of being idle, your device will usually go into "standby" mode to conserve power. This turns the screen off and removes certain connections, like Bluetooth.
Is there anybody possibility to change the timeout? I can't find this option in developers options.
Guaranteed not to be found under Developer Options.
Not all devices will let you control when your Bluetooth turns itself off automatically.
Every smartphone or device is different when it comes to setting Bluetooth connections and connectivity preferences. You can usually find instructions on how to alter your Bluetooth online by searching for your phone model.
I had an unpleasant experience with location tracking that I have described here.
Thinking about it, Bluetooth appears to be one culprit. My Galaxy Watch remains connected to my phone at all times over Bluetooth. So turning OFF the Bluetooth will disconnect the watch from my phone.
These are my current settings:
1. Under Location settings, WiFi Scanning and Bluetooth scanning are both OFF.
2. Nearby Device Scanning is OFF.
3. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is OFF.
4. NFC is OFF.
5. Location is ON.
Under Android settings, I don't see the option to turn OFF device visibility or discoverability. This results in my phone constantly giving away it's presence to Bluetooth Beacons that are installed by several establishments.
I don't want to turn OFF my phone Bluetooth, but I want to stop it from constantly searching for other devices or appearing on scans from other devices. Once my phone is connected to my watch (or earphones), it should stop scanning for other devices, and also stop being discoverable.
Is this possible?
Same problem here. I don't want to turn Bluetooth off, however I also don't want to show the whole world that my device is in the room. It seems that all options regarding visibility or discoverability are hidden now. :-(
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Same problem here. I don't want to turn Bluetooth off, however I also don't want to show the whole world that my device is in the room. It seems that all options regarding visibility or discoverability are hidden now. :-(
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I think they have been removed, not just hidden. I can't find any activity, including hidden ones, that allows for disabling device visibility.