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[Q] Bluetooth on 2.3.3 and car radio

Recently bought Nexus S and updated it to 2.3.3. I have Kenwood KDC-x994 in my car ( Bluetooth v 2.1 with latest firmware 3.12). With previous winmobile 6 on HP Ipaq rw6815 (bluetooth v 1.2) and this radio everything worked pretty much acceptable (call, contacts transfer)
With Nexus S just calls do, but contacts transfer did not occur.
Did anybody have such kind of problems and have an idea how to fixit ?

Zubrania said:
Recently bought Nexus S and updated it to 2.3.3. I have Kenwood KDC-x994 in my car ( Bluetooth v 2.1 with latest firmware 3.12). With previous winmobile 6 on HP Ipaq rw6815 (bluetooth v 1.2) and this radio everything worked pretty much acceptable (call, contacts transfer)
With Nexus S just calls do, but contacts transfer did not occur.
Did anybody have such kind of problems and have an idea how to fixit ?
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I've had 3 Android phones, Nexus One, Galaxy S and now Nexus S, none of them transfer contacts, and only the recent 2.3.3 update fixed the bluetooth calling with my BMW bluetooth.

Thanks for the info. Do you know any places where I can find info about bluetooth android and contacts transfer?
Thank you

Everything is working now and I can see contact names on my radio's panel. The problem is that I did not pay attention on that car radio each time it connects to nexus s send 2 PABP request. After confirmation of these request contact names appear on car radio panel

Zubrania said:
Recently bought Nexus S and updated it to 2.3.3. I have Kenwood KDC-x994 in my car ( Bluetooth v 2.1 with latest firmware 3.12). With previous winmobile 6 on HP Ipaq rw6815 (bluetooth v 1.2) and this radio everything worked pretty much acceptable (call, contacts transfer)
With Nexus S just calls do, but contacts transfer did not occur.
Did anybody have such kind of problems and have an idea how to fixit ?
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i just bought and am awaiting that cd player in the mail... do you like it ? does it sound good?

Contacts transfer and everything else works accordingly with SYNC so no issue there. I have had it disconnect while playing Bluetooth audio though...anyone else experience this?
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gh0zt36 said:
i just bought and am awaiting that cd player in the mail... do you like it ? does it sound good?
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I also own that head unit (Kenwood KDC-X994) and use it with my Nexus S. I've been very pleased with it. The head unit has good audio quality and has worked perfectly with my Nexus S. I've had the Kenwood unit for a couple years now, and it's worked well with a bunch of different Android phones I've owned during that time period. Some ROMs had issues though with brief "hiccups" occurring during audio streaming over A2DP from my phone to the head unit.
But both the Motorola Atrix and Nexus S have worked flawlessly with it (but I'm not running custom ROMs on either of those phones).
Also, if you use the music app Poweramp, it has a feature in the settings for Bluetooth connectivity that will start automatically playing music when your phone connects via Bluetooth, and I absolutely love this feature! Saves me from having to press the "Play" button on my head unit when I start my car.

MU-Biomed said:
Contacts transfer and everything else works accordingly with SYNC so no issue there. I have had it disconnect while playing Bluetooth audio though...anyone else experience this?
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I have not had this problem and use the Bluetooth A2DP every day. I am still running 2.3.2 though.

bluetooth and sub woofer
My car audio installation contains power amp and subwoofer. What I have admitted that when you use bluetooth as a source the power subwoofer does not work. Any ideas ?

Question about bluetooth

Well so here it is,
Usually I connect my Note to my car radio via Bluetooth, and then sometimes it connect as handset, and sometimes as media.
in settings is both set up to connect as media and as handset.
Second when I wanna play some music, in stock media player you have to share it thought Bluetooth, and that means again connecting the phone to radio via Bluetooth, after it's already connected.
As I can remember with my HTC that worked way better then with my new Note.
on HTC i just pressed connect and that was it, normally played music and when somebody called it worked flawlessly...
Any help please...
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Lol, no answer...
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number of active Bluetooth connections

Bit of a weird one. What is the number of active Bluetooth connection you can have? I currently have 2. One for my hands free in car and other for my android watch. But I want to add a third now
Is it possible all 3 active at once?
Cheers
Lee

leekeene said:
Bit of a weird one. What is the number of active Bluetooth connection you can have? I currently have 2. One for my hands free in car and other for my android watch. But I want to add a third now
Is it possible all 3 active at once?
Cheers
Lee
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What's stopping you from trying and finding out for yourself?
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I don't have the 3rd Bluetooth item yet

I've had Bluetooth speaker (media only), hands free from my car, and my watch. As long as they are different profiles I think it will be OK.
Edit: obviously my car only had the phone routed through it when the speaker was connected, or at least I assume (phone showed both connected, no media was playing in the car though, and the speaker was in my house so I'm not sure)

Bluetooth Connected (no media)

I recently got a new Nexus 6 and I'm having bluetooth connection issues specifically in my car. Bluetooth will connect but when it connects it shows "Bluetooth connected (no media)". So I can make phone calls over bluetooth in my car but my phone won't play media (waze/gps, local music, streaming music, etc). I have no problems connecting via bluetooth to a portable bluetooth speaker at home. Previously I had a Nexus 5 that I had no problems connecting to my car's bluetooth and making phone calls or playing media.
I've searched forums/google and have disassociated the pairing multiple times, ensured that 'Media audio' is checked in the bluetooth paired device settings, deleted the bluetooth cache, rebooted and nothing seems to resolve the (no media) issue.
It's strange because everything was fine with my old Nexus 5 and the Nexus 6 works fine with my separate portable bluetooth speaker but it won't play through my car's bluetooth. Has anyone experienced this?
Thanks!

Anyone?

Same issue
grocerylist said:
I recently got a new Nexus 6 and I'm having bluetooth connection issues specifically in my car. Bluetooth will connect but when it connects it shows "Bluetooth connected (no media)".
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Sorry I don't have an answer, but you're not alone. I have exactly the same issue. Normally seems to solve itself when I manually turn BT off, then back on. But I hate to do that because it disconnects by Moto 360 and screws up a lot of other Tasker profiles that trigger from connecting to my car audio sytem. Sometimes I have to completely reboot the phone to make it work. I've tried a lot of things, but no luck yet. Hope someone knows the answer!

I had this problem one time before. Try bluetooth autoconnect. A2DP seems to not be running on your phone.

I'm having the same issue - brand new and it doesn't want to work on either of my phones I'm questioning the Integrity of the cheap $20 Walmart bluetooth car head unit

Is there a resolution for this problem? I've got the same issue as the op going on...

it can only be one of 3 things;
-your rom
-your kernel
-your vehicles bluetooth version
you can change/fix the first 2 things, but the third one is an expensive fix..

I'm running stock on the Nexus 6. It's not even rooted. Searching on this problem, there are posts that go back a few years. I figure with so many people running into this problem, someone must be working on a solution. I guess it's easier to just plug in the auxiliary cable?

I have the same issue . connected but no media. It worked properly after I re-booted the phone. We shouldn't have to do that so this bug needs fixing.

I have this problem with my new pioneer mvh-36bt deck. Only when I'm on a custom ROM though. I'd goto more options check all the boxes. Then clear Bluetooth memory on deck then it works. When I'm on stock rooted image no problems.

I had a similar issue when I switched from. Nexus 6 to 6P. In my case it turned out to be that there can be only 2 portable Bluetooth players that can be connected to my car multimedia. Deleting one of the 2 portable players and re pair Bluetooth resolved my issue

My Nexus 6 is the only Bluetooth device synced in the my car. I've tried deleting and re-pairing, turning the phone off and back on, turning Bluetooth off and back on, and nothing seems to work. :/
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I have the same problem. My N6 never had any BT issues until I bought my new car today and tried to pair. My friend's iPhone worked just fine, so I'm pretty sure it's something in N6 that's the problem. Call function works but no media. This is very frustrating...

goldentequila said:
I have the same problem. My N6 never had any BT issues until I bought my new car today and tried to pair. My friend's iPhone worked just fine, so I'm pretty sure it's something in N6 that's the problem. Call function works but no media. This is very frustrating...
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Curious if you've selected gear icon, in BT screen by device name, after paired AND while connected to view / enable all relevant options?
Sometimes when I pair I must manually update the BT access, though rarely. I presume manufacturer pairing settings (external device, not N6) don't default to all available options. Can't hurt to make sure media etc. is enabled. Good luck.
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pdxcire said:
Curious if you've selected gear icon, in BT screen by device name, after paired AND while connected to view / enable all relevant options?
Sometimes when I pair I must manually update the BT access, though rarely. I presume manufacturer pairing settings (external device, not N6) don't default to all available options. Can't hurt to make sure media etc. is enabled. Good luck.
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Yea, they are all checked, but it doesn't make any differences. BT also keeps losing connection. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

goldentequila said:
Yea, they are all checked, but it doesn't make any differences. BT also keeps losing connection. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
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Oddly enough, when I connected my phone to BT speaker today, no media or phone cnxn. Took my own advice and checked the BT settings. All were checked.
Unchecked then rechecked phone and media. Slight delay after uncheck before system let me reselect. Voila! Phone and media cnxn restored. BT was connected whole time.
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No media
grocerylist said:
I recently got a new Nexus 6 and I'm having bluetooth connection issues specifically in my car. Bluetooth will connect but when it connects it shows "Bluetooth connected (no media)". So I can make phone calls over bluetooth in my car but my phone won't play media (waze/gps, local music, streaming music, etc). I have no problems connecting via bluetooth to a portable bluetooth speaker at home. Previously I had a Nexus 5 that I had no problems connecting to my car's bluetooth and making phone calls or playing media.
I've searched forums/google and have disassociated the pairing multiple times, ensured that 'Media audio' is checked in the bluetooth paired device settings, deleted the bluetooth cache, rebooted and nothing seems to resolve the (no media) issue.
It's strange because everything was fine with my old Nexus 5 and the Nexus 6 works fine with my separate portable bluetooth speaker but it won't play through my car's bluetooth. Has anyone experienced this?
Thanks!
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Yes! My 1 week old Nexus 6P same issue. But all other bluetooth device pair xcellent, shows and plays media!

OK, I got mine to work on my 2011 Lexus by first pairing it as a phone then pairing it as a Bluetooth media player. Works great! Frustrating that I had to do it that way, but I'm happy I don't have to plug my N6 into the microphone jack anymore.

This thread might be dead but I found it when I searched for a solution and so will be others.
I got a Kenwood DDX5016BT in my car. When you connect a new device it will just work as a phone. To enable media you have to go settings and register it as a Bluetooth device. It right on top of the iPod settings. Hope this helps anyone or even me in a few months lol
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This thread might be dead but I found it when I searched for a solution and so will be others.
I got a Kenwood DDX5016BT in my car. When you connect a new device it will just work as a phone. To enable media you have to go settings and register it as a Bluetooth device. It right on top of the iPod settings. Hope this helps anyone or even me in a few months lol

[Q] Anyone else having problems with the 3T and car bluetooth?

Mine stutters when connected to my car's headunit. It's especially bad when in a call. Wasn't a problem with my Note 3 and doesn't happen on other bluetooth devices.

I haven't had any Bluetooth issues other than the fact it eats a lot of my battery throughout the day but that's a usage issue than anything else. I also use Bluetooth in my car while commuting around the city. If the audio stutters, that often means the connection isn't stable therefore move closer or remove anything in between.

Does playing a track before the Bluetooth connection is established make a difference?
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cant connect to my car bt either

Use Bluetooth religiously for music in my truck and my headphones while working out.. No stutters here.. works flawlessly...
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djr4x4 said:
Use Bluetooth religiously for music in my truck and my headphones while working out.. No stutters here.. works flawlessly...
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Same here, no issues to my Kia forte at all.

I don't have any problem.

need to get a fix

vbz89 said:
Does playing a track before the Bluetooth connection is established make a difference?
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Not really. It cuts off for a second every minute or so. The phone is right in front of the headunit so i dont think distance os the problem. The case is plastic so that shouldn't be causing interference also.
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ishtangli said:
Not really. It cuts off for a second every minute or so. The phone is right in front of the headunit so i dont think distance os the problem. The case is plastic so that shouldn't be causing interference also.
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Well it seems like there was a Bluetooth fix for Mazda cars in the latest OTA, do let us know if that fixes the problem.
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help
I'm having the same issue with Bluetooth not connecting/cutting out when it does.
OnePlus 3T
Android: 7.0
OOS: 4.0.2
Car is a 2016 BMW 328i

Not a problem on my Optima. I actually had to tune it with an equalizer app because stock equalizer raises the Treble louder then the bass. All normal now but not cutting. Had problem connecting phone automatically for a few days but went away
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Use my device with a set off speakers and to connect to my in car audio system and I don't experience the problems you have, sometimes I need to stop and start my music a couple of times whilst it reconnects again if I move between devices but after that it stays connected and working.

my phone has trust issues with my car. it always requires a re-pairing whenever I try to establish a connection (means, whenever I enter the car, and try to connect, it requires me to pair the same phone again)

Working perfectly with my car. Maybe updating car stereo firmware could help?

I will try to see if there is an update for the car master today (their site seems to be down atm). I have had it work at times but it usually has issues connecting and will stop/pause sometimes out of nowhere. It's really difficult because I need a Bluetooth connection when driving but it gets to the point that I need to forget and repair my phone everytime I drive....

I just got my my OP 3T . I had issues with it connecting to my VW Passat. Then I read the following at the car's BT manufacturer's FAQ
Some versions of Android use a deviate pairing method. This can cause the problem of a failing connection. The solution is the free tool Bluetooth File Transfer (Android) for a better Bluetooth connection. It is available at Google Play. Establish the pairing once with this app and from then, everything should work as normal.
So after this app connected for the first time to the car's unit, the phones own BT software also started connecting without problems when I turned the car off and on subsequent times.
Might be worth a try.