I'm having an issue with my bluetooth audio all of the sudden not working. I've paired to bluetooth devices in my car and Bluetooth headphones and everything was working fine up until this weekend, now I don't get any music audio unless I disable the phone audio in bluetooth settings. I'm running stock Marshmallow and I've went in and disabled permissions for phone and microphone for any app that wouldn't logically need. I booted into Safe Mode and things worked normally but I can't figure out how to isolate a particular app that might be causing it, if that is the problem. I also tried reseting Network Settings in Backup and Restore but that force closes everytime. I Uninstalled all the apps that updated over the weekend thinking an update might have caused it but it's still there. Can't seem to find this particular issue documented anywhere else. Any ideas?
Found the problem!
Sorry to post this before I went through all the steps... Hopefully it can help someone else out at some point...
Since everything worked properly in Safe Mode I figured it was one of the apps installed. I just started clearing out five apps at a time until I found the culprit.
It was Voxer, and it wasn't the app itself with a bug, it was the setting in Preferences to enable Voxer over Bluetooth. With that option on and phone audio enabled in Bluetooth settings, no music would play. Unchecking that setting and turning phone audio back on in bluetooth, I got all of my media audio back over bluetooth.
Pain in the ass but it all works now.
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Hi all,
I`m confused since i can not disable bluetooth media service on SGN for my car audio.
I can actually, but for this particular session only: by going to bluetooth settings, clicking cog icon on my paired car audio, deselecting media profile and leaving phone profile only.
But the next time i reconnect both services are enabled again.
Any ideas?
i have the EXACT same issue in my car. I haven't found a fix yet
Nice to hear that im not alone here
But im not sure if it has something to od with car audio.
interesting is if it keeps choice of enabled/disabled services at all?
should it by design or not?
Tasker script could help maybe, but i havent tried it yet
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g/18845-disable-bluetooth-media-but-not-phone-calls.html
problem seems to be old enough
Ok so I've done some searching in both the Sprint and regular HTC one forums and can't seem to find where this is addressed so perhaps no one else is running into it.
Wife's phone (Sprint One, stock ROM, S-off, rooted) automatically starts playing music when it connects to the bluetooth in her 2008 Ford Edge with Sync. I've gone into the sync settings and autostart is disabled so I am thinking there is something in the device that is forcing the music start on bluetooth connect...
Anyone have any ideas on how to disable this?
Thanks,
MG
Check the Ford settings. Also check the player that's playing the music. Usually they have a toggle in their settings.
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Same thing happens with my Subaru.
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MrDowntown12 said:
Check the Ford settings. Also check the player that's playing the music. Usually they have a toggle in their settings.
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Thanks, in the Sync settings on the radio it is already set to off and the music player doesn't seem to have a toggle unless I am missing it...
MG
Same problem
I've had this same problem as well. It is some interaction between the Sync system (or other bluetooth system) and the Music app. Unfortunately the Android developers have ignored this issue for YEARS as you can find threads going back to at least 2010 on it. A simple config switch to ignore headset starts like many other players have would fix it. In the past Headset Blocker worked to fix it but that app isn't compatible with newer releases. I tried Wizdroid witch worked previously but since the 4.3 upgrade it no longer works either. There are other disabling apps out there but from what I see they all break the bluetooth media function completely. Thankfully I am rooted so I am going to see if I can freeze the default player and install Poweramp or similar to replace it. Hopefully it won't break too much. Does anyone know if that is a bad plan before I do it?
UPDATE: I seem to have found a happy medium. I installed Poweramp and it's settings seem to handle the autostart signal without having to disable the Music app. I set Poweramp to "high priority" then disabled all the resume functions and disabled the lockscreen handler (it required the bluetooth start feature). Now the last few times I have paired nothing has started playing on its own.
moregadget said:
Ok so I've done some searching in both the Sprint and regular HTC one forums and can't seem to find where this is addressed so perhaps no one else is running into it.
Wife's phone (Sprint One, stock ROM, S-off, rooted) automatically starts playing music when it connects to the bluetooth in her 2008 Ford Edge with Sync. I've gone into the sync settings and autostart is disabled so I am thinking there is something in the device that is forcing the music start on bluetooth connect...
Anyone have any ideas on how to disable this?
Thanks,
MG
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I thought this happen to all other phone as well. Do you have other brand phone? Are they doing the same thing?
DigitalDIY said:
I've had this same problem as well. It is some interaction between the Sync system (or other bluetooth system) and the Music app. Unfortunately the Android developers have ignored this issue for YEARS as you can find threads going back to at least 2010 on it. A simple config switch to ignore headset starts like many other players have would fix it. In the past Headset Blocker worked to fix it but that app isn't compatible with newer releases. I tried Wizdroid witch worked previously but since the 4.3 upgrade it no longer works either. There are other disabling apps out there but from what I see they all break the bluetooth media function completely. Thankfully I am rooted so I am going to see if I can freeze the default player and install Poweramp or similar to replace it. Hopefully it won't break too much. Does anyone know if that is a bad plan before I do it?
UPDATE: I seem to have found a happy medium. I installed Poweramp and it's settings seem to handle the autostart signal without having to disable the Music app. I set Poweramp to "high priority" then disabled all the resume functions and disabled the lockscreen handler (it required the bluetooth start feature). Now the last few times I have paired nothing has started playing on its own.
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What happen to me is when I have stock Music app in the background pause it and when connect to the car kit the music will auto start. My friend said this is normal. Is that happen to you guys as well?
Hi all,
I've spent the last day trying to solve this issue and searching for answers on xda and elsewhere but there doesn't seem to be a solution. I have an HTC One, rooted, s-off, and running ViperOne. I recently upgraded my data plan and no longer have to worry about conserving my data each month so I started using Pandora in my car via Bluetooth. Bluetooth connection from my phone to the car has never been an issue. However, when I run Pandora, initially it has no problems connecting and will start playing a station right away but then when a song ends (and the screen has turned off), I always get the message that Pandora is unable to connect. Once I wake the screen, it magically starts playing the next song. Then when that song ends, the connectivity problem happens again and the only way to get it starting again is to once again unlock my phone, which is not exactly safe if I'm driving along and trying to be a safe driver by not fiddling with the phone. I've tested this out in the same spot in my home using my home wireless internet, and it works flawlessly. Even when the screen is off, the next song will play. Once I'm back on LTE, same problem happens again. I've already disabled the Power Saver option to not turn off data connection when the screen is off and turned off Sleep Mode. I'm wondering if this happens to anyone running stock software on their HTC One? Going through the ViperOne thread, it has appeared to be an issue for others as well. Thanks
Im on stock TMO HTC One and have streamed pandora, siriusxm and google play music many times on my way home with no issues.
Mainly through the headset jack. But for a few weeks i did use the HTC audio bridge A100 to stream music via bluetooth and that also had no issues.
Try to test another BT device OR if your vehicle has a stereo headset jack input try that. See if you get the same results.
Thanks for the quick reply. The problem seems to occur whether or not I'm using Pandora in my car via Bluetooth or just running Pandora by itself in my house as background music.
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Im on stock TMO HTC One and have streamed pandora, siriusxm and google play music many times on my way home with no issues.
Mainly through the headset jack. But for a few weeks i did use the HTC audio bridge A100 to stream music via bluetooth and that also had no issues.
Try to test another BT device OR if your vehicle has a stereo headset jack input try that. See if you get the same results.
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glo106 said:
Thanks for the quick reply. The problem seems to occur whether or not I'm using Pandora in my car via Bluetooth or just running Pandora by itself in my house as background music.
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Any luck finding an answer to this? I'm having this same problem with TuneIn and XiiaLive, and haven't been able to find anything.
I've also completely uninstalled Viper Audio, so I'm thinking that isn't the issue.
Skyh said:
Any luck finding an answer to this? I'm having this same problem with TuneIn and XiiaLive, and haven't been able to find anything.
I've also completely uninstalled Viper Audio, so I'm thinking that isn't the issue.
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I ended up wiping and re-installing Viper and the problem didn't happen anymore. I have not had any problems since. I think the thing to make sure of is that on whatever app you're having trouble with, to make sure you're not restricting background data for it in Data Usage.
Hello,
I just started having problems playing audio from my 2013 Moto X (XT1060 stock KitKat 4.4.4 on Verizon) to my car (2010 Ford Escape with Sync). Bluetooth is working, because I can make and receive a phone call through the car. I just can't get any audio to play, from apps like Google Play Music and BeyondPod. It looks like it is playing in the app because the time slider moves through the track. But no sound comes out of the car speakers or the phone speaker. Headphones work fine, and out of the car when not connected to bluetooth, the audio will play through the phone speaker. It also works with a little bluetooth speaker I have, so I know bluetooth audio does work.
Things I've tried:
Unpair the phone from the menu in the car, then re-pair.
Unpair from the phone, then re-pair.
Reboot the phone (multiple times).
Checked the bluetooth settings for Sync. Under "profiles" both "Phone audio" and "Media audio" are listed and both are checked.
The only recent change that I can think of that might have affected is that I paired my phone yesterday to my new Amazon Echo. Then today no audio in the car. So I also un-paired the Echo, and even removed the Echo app from my phone. But still no audio working in the car.
Any ideas of anything else I can try? Is there some system app that needs to have it's cache and/or data cleared? The only other thing I can think of would be to factory reset my phone, but I hate to go there. It would be a major PITA to get my phone set up again. When I get back home tonight, I'll try it in my wife's car, which also has Sync.
dirtysox said:
Hello,
I just started having problems playing audio from my 2013 Moto X... <snip>
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Update: I tested it with Sync in my wife's 2014, and it works fine. Makes me think it's more a problem with the Sync system in my car, rather than my phone.
dirtysox said:
Update: I tested it with Sync in my wife's 2014, and it works fine. Makes me think it's more a problem with the Sync system in my car, rather than my phone.
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Yes it was something to do with Sync. I went to syncmyride.com, and found an update to the Sync software in my car. So I went through the process of downloading it to a flash drive, and updating the system. And now I can stream audio over bluetooth again.
After the update loaded, it said it was rebooting the system, which took a long time, like 10 minutes. Which makes me wonder if I had been able to force it to reboot, if that might have solved my problem without the need to update. I'm pretty sure it has never done a full reboot like that since I first bought the car back in '10.
Oh well, it works now and I'm a happy android again. Just thought I'd leave this here in case it helps someone else in the future.
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Anyone else? I posted this on the Moto forum -
https://forums.motorola.com/posts/e3ade3c5ba
Definitely having bluetooth issues with newest 5.1 *attached to my Rav4 entune system. I've narrowed *down to the handoff from low quality/low latency phone bluetooth connection back to audio bluetooth connection. Often it will not complete the handoff and there is no sound but phone still thinks it is playing audio and bluetooth on the phone needs to be switched off and back on a number of times to reestablish the connection and sound. This usually happens after a phone call. Sometimes bluetooth will play audio over phone stream during phone conversation. Here's what I've tried : updating car firmware, toggling bluetooth settings in moto app under voice, removing and readding connection in car and phone, disabling Moto functions, disabling message functions. I should note that everything worked fine before update except message access. That works now.
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Have the exact same problem after updating to 5.1. Worst update I've ever done. I've yet to find a fix for any of these problems I keep having.
Verizon Moto XT1060, with 5.1.
No issues here. The phone is connected to my car stereo's Bluetooth Headset/Hands Free profile. Since my car has only an AUX input, and doesn't have other BT audio profiles, I'm using a Blackberry Stereo Music Gateway (i.e. bluetooth receiver) connected to my AUX port to stream music..
Phone calls and streaming music work fine. Including while streaming music, it auto pauses for an incoming call, then streaming continues when I hang up the phone call.
You didn't mention in your post if you factory reset as an attempt to fix or not. If you didn't, you might want to consider trying it. I know there is a slight chance it wont correct the issue, but there is enough chance that it might. I'd suggest doing a fastboot erase cache and fastboot erase userdata... then manually setting everything back up, installing apps manually, etc.
KidJoe said:
Verizon Moto XT1060, with 5.1.
No issues here. The phone is connected to my car stereo's Bluetooth Headset/Hands Free profile. Since my car has only an AUX input, and doesn't have other BT audio profiles, I'm using a Blackberry Stereo Music Gateway (i.e. bluetooth receiver) connected to my AUX port to stream music..
Phone calls and streaming music work fine. Including while streaming music, it auto pauses for an incoming call, then streaming continues when I hang up the phone call.
You didn't mention in your post if you factory reset as an attempt to fix or not. If you didn't, you might want to consider trying it. I know there is a slight chance it wont correct the issue, but there is enough chance that it might. I'd suggest doing a fastboot erase cache and fastboot erase userdata... then manually setting everything back up, installing apps manually, etc.
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Yeah, I did not factory reset, but I may if the problem persists. I may try running safe mode first to see if that makes a difference. I really don't want to set all the things back up...
My threads here and on Motorola's site aren't getting many responses, so I assume it is a specific conflict between Moto x and my cars Bluetooth (that, or since the x is now so old no one that cares uses it in cars any more). Too bad because everything worked prior to the update. Oh well, that's one way to get you to buy a new phone...
I'm continuing to diagnose things bit by bit but I can't find a real pattern or trigger that always disconnects Bluetooth.
Same here.
I'm having the exact same problem. I've set up a tasker profile to trigger on phone idle which toggles the bluetooth off, waits 5 sec, then toggles on again. While this doesn't address the cause, it at least automatically resets and restores my bluetooth audio after a phone call.
Also, it doesn't just happen with my car bluetooth. Also happens with my wireless bluetooth speakers in the house.
Occasionally, when a bluetooth call disconnects, the entire phone locks up and I have to force reboot. This randomly triggers the dreaded "setting up apps" process like a first install. Cleared caches, deleted and reestablished bluetooth devices, even factory reset. All seem to be very short temporary fixes.