Weirdness after moving Fossil Gen 4 to new phone - Wear OS Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My Pixel 5 has been replaced twice and each time I used this method to pair my watch without resetting it: https://www.xda-developers.com/pair-android-wear-without-factory-reset/
It worked well every time other than showing an extra disconnected Bluetooth connection every time, as in the attached screenshot. Bluetooth is connected and works fine, so it's not a problem except that nothing happens when I click on anything, meaning that I can't turn off Bluetooth if I wanted to.
Has anyone else seen this and figured out how to fix it?

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Temporary fix to Bluetooth issues?

So... searched pretty much a month now for a solution, so don't flame me if I missed it ..
About 2 months with OPT, and pretty much a working phone on Oxygen 2.1.2 but it is unparallel to my OPO when it comes to OS with Cyanogen, in terms of beauty and speed. Yes, my OPO with less power under the hood works better than my OPT.
Tries Exodus ROM (CM12.1) and it is the one I like, but.. my BT doing all sort of funny stuff.. It turn itself off (symbol disappears from top of the phone) at random times. Events that kill BT are a phone call, deep sleep, and probably other events.
Rebooting the phone fixes it for up to 10 minutes. But obviously I am not going to boot the phone every time I need to use BT. I have a Moto 360 , a car audio , a headset, and a radar detector in the car connecting to my phone over BT. So pretty much I need BT on and up all day long...
What I discovered is if I clear data from Bluetooth share (setting->apps->all-> Bluetooth Share) my BT comes alive for a while again, so something in CM12.1 is messing it up. Obviously , I can't clear data every 10 minutes either... Not manually, anyways..
Just think every time I am getting to the car i need to clear data to hook the phone to the car. As soon as I do, the connection will stay on until I am done driving... and then drops again when BT in the car turns of, in few minutes. Really annoying.
The main problem is the Moto 360. It became a useless smart watch without the BT on the phone. Running it on wi-fi just kills the watch's battery, so that is not an option either...
Anyone else is in the same situation, or better, found a work around ? Somehow i can't seem to find anyone else with this issue.
Thanks,
BigE
Yes I have the same BT problem on my op2 with OOS 2.1.2 in car.
Nearly unusable audio (only phone function connects), audio (if it sometime works) don't stop during incoming call, phone book is not probably synced...
Impossible to fix it on my own! Oneplus must do that.
I hope with marshmallow will something fixed.
Regards Peterle

Bluetooth issues & restarts - time for LineageOS?

I'm having the same problem outlined here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68864374&postcount=3
Basically, Bluetooth will work fine for a while but my Fitbit will drop out, usually overnight, sometimes throughout the day. This is annoying because it receives notifications like a smart watch. The only solid way to get it to reconnect is to forget the device in Bluetooth settings, turn Bluetooth off and restart the phone. When it comes back up, I open the Fitbit app, it turns on Bluetooth and re-pairs automatically and works great until a few to several hours later whenever it drops off again.
Additional info: When I got this Fitbit, it required a firmware update that failed probably 2 dozen times in a row from my Moto G4. I paired it to an old Samsung phone and the update went through quick and flawlessly the first time.
Aside from that, I've had issues with random restarts. Less so since I've reset the device but they still happen occasionally. Seems to me like I'll wake up and sometimes my Bluetooth is off, an indication that the phone reset during the night. Perhaps my need to restart the phone for Bluetooth issues has mostly eliminated the crash & restart issue, I can't recall the last time I had that problem but it was pretty frustrating, almost every day before I did a factory wipe & reset.
Aside from this, the phone works great. Stable through hour-long calls, loading up many apps at once, it does everything I need. My question is this: Should I hold out for the Nougat update , void my warranty and go with LineageOS or send the phone in to Motorola?
Using the nightly build of LineageOS (March 28) and seeing the same issue with my garmin watch. It took me multiple attempts to install an update via bluetooth yesterday. I thought it was the watch because the sync log said that the watch was disconnecting. This morning, I caught my phone's bluetooth restarting, or what I think is restarting. Specifically, the bluetooth is turning off then immediately turning back on. This is enough to disconnect my watch, and I also think this is what is causing my bluetooth headphones to disconnect periodically. From what I can tell, the bluetooth restart is happening about every two hours. The headphones will reconnect (but I have to restart my music), but the watch will not. I thought that perhaps the bluetooth is turning off to save power. Thus, I disabled battery optimization last week for Bluetooth Exptensions, Bluetooth MIDI Service, and Bluetooth Share, but the bluetooth restart issue persists. Not sure if this is a hardware issue in the G4, or a software issue. I'm really hoping it is a software issue that will be resolved in the Nougat update.
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Updated to the latest nightly build (April 4), which should be Nougat (Android version 7.1.1). Still having problems with bluetooth. The event log shows this output at the time that my phone last dropped bluetooth:
am_proc_died( 1188): [0,2084, com.android.bluetooth]
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Log then shows that the service scheduler restarts bluetooth and the process is started. This stop and restart lasts less than 1 second, but it's enough to disconnect my bluetooth devices. Any idea on how to continue troubleshooting why bluetooth is stopping?
Something that you can try, is to go into settings, go to location, tap the three dots, tap scanning, turn off Bluetooth scanning.
I have the same problem with LineageOS 16 Android Pie, I solved it by navigating into the "Settings" and search for "Bluetooth Scanning" then turn it off.
Its description is "Allow apps and services to scan for nearby devices at any time even when Bluetooth is off. This can be used, for example, to improve location-based features and services"
I'm not sure how that really helps with location-based features and services but since it's taking an issue with my Bluetooth, I did not hesitate to turn it off.

Bluetooth on 8.1 official.

I think the 8.1 is a great update with everything flying along. I have one little annoyance though: my Bluetooth speaker is fine playing something (which is the main thing) but after I switch it on and before I start playing anything on the phone, it keeps bleeping that it has disconnected then reconnects again a few seconds later. My smartwatch is doing the same thing: vibrating that it has disconnected then reconnects again a few seconds later. Bit annoying & never experienced this before update. Anyone got any ideas what could be causing that?
Have you tried going into Developer Mode and Changing Bluetooth versions? There are several choices!
No I haven't. I'll try that thank you. Do you know what version it was before? Worked perfectly for me. Cheers.
dwj said:
I think the 8.1 is a great update with everything flying along. I have one little annoyance though: my Bluetooth speaker is fine playing something (which is the main thing) but after I switch it on and before I start playing anything on the phone, it keeps bleeping that it has disconnected then reconnects again a few seconds later. My smartwatch is doing the same thing: vibrating that it has disconnected then reconnects again a few seconds later. Bit annoying & never experienced this before update. Anyone got any ideas what could be causing that?
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I'm experiencing something similar to what you're describing. When I connect my AirPods they keep on playing the connected sound, as though they're reconnecting over and over.
Well, I tried changing the Bluetooth version (AVRCP whatever that means!) and I've only tried it once this morning but so far so good and it hasn't been connecting/disconnecting at all. I changed it from 1.4 to 1.6 just by guesswork but thanks to poster who suggested that.
As I said, only day 1 but I'll report if anything changes.
On another topic, I use a Garmin sports watch which has smartphone features. It works absolutely perfectly all the time while showing up in the phone's bluetooth settings as being permanently disconnected.?
wow this fixed my BT issues!!!
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (or AVRCP)

Bluetooth issues after Oreo Update

So I seem to be having issues with bluetooth. Most of the BT devices work, but my TomTom Raider 400 does not seem to want to work.
I was able to pair it to the device, but thats all I get, the TomTom says it won't connect or anything, It was working great nougat now it does not work anymore. I cleared out all network settings, still no go.
Anyone having issues with devices that perhaps require data? anyone have any ideas?
eatonjb said:
So I seem to be having issues with bluetooth. Most of the BT devices work, but my TomTom Raider 400 does not seem to want to work.
I was able to pair it to the device, but thats all I get, the TomTom says it won't connect or anything, It was working great nougat now it does not work anymore. I cleared out all network settings, still no go.
Anyone having issues with devices that perhaps require data? anyone have any ideas?
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I'm having similar BT problems since the update. Sometimes my car doesn't connect. Quite often my Gear S3 disconnects when the phone is still well within range. My Sat Nav will only connect via BT if I search for it. There is definitely a glitch but I haven't found a fix
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Same issues here, with Tomtom GO 510 and with asus Chromebook too (via Bluetooth only)
I've updated to CRC7 today using the SD card update method described here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3746561
The BT is much more stable this afternoon and a persistent problem that I had with my home Wi-Fi seems to be gone too. Early days, but it does seem better [emoji106]
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I updated to Oreo 8.0 on my S8 today and have had bluetooth connectivity issues ever since. Listening to music in the car, it will randomly drop connection. Also, some track information is no longer showing on the headunit (the playback time and the overall song length). Everything worked perfect before update. Seems to have been a known problem that may have been addressed with the 8.1 update on Pixel and Nexus phones. Unfortunately my carrier (ATT) just rolled out the 8.0 update today for my S8. I'm at a loss for what to do.
It's failing left and right.
I turn it on and it turns off apprx 1 min later.
I turn it back on and it does the same thing (each time).
removing and re-setting up everything fails.
rebooting fails (same as turning on and off)
safe mode does not help.
So far, Oreo has made Bluetooth useless on my S8
thecolor said:
It's failing left and right.
I turn it on and it turns off apprx 1 min later.
I turn it back on and it does the same thing (each time).
removing and re-setting up everything fails.
rebooting fails (same as turning on and off)
safe mode does not help.
So far, Oreo has made Bluetooth useless on my S8
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So glad I'm not the only one. It's driving me mad
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STandy469 said:
So glad I'm not the only one. It's driving me mad
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After Oreo update my S8's BT became spotty working 20% of the time on calls in the car. So i searched & read that resetting network connections would do the trick. It wasn't under connections->more settings - instead i found it in about phone-at the bottom under Looking for something else-> Reset->Reset Network Settings . Yehey i found it & reset my network settings!
Now my BT won't turn ON! From 20% to 0% function!!!
What a what!
Fix this Samsung!
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Same issue here. My S8+ was rock solid on Nougat, but since the update to Oreo yesterday my Bluetooth does not connect 19 out of 20 tries in my car. I factory reset my phone thinking it may have been an issue with the update process, but that did nothing to fix the issue. I really need a solution as I need to talk while in my car.
Haven't tried using Bluetooth on anything else, but my phone stays consistently connected to my Gear watch.
Anyone have any solutions to this? I'm experiencing the same issues. Won't connect consistently with my gear s2, drops certain speakers all the time, although it seems to stay connected more consistently to my car. Really frustrating and don't want to wait for the glacial pace of Verizon update rollouts.
bstarr3 said:
Anyone have any solutions to this? I'm experiencing the same issues. Won't connect consistently with my gear s2, drops certain speakers all the time, although it seems to stay connected more consistently to my car. Really frustrating and don't want to wait for the glacial pace of Verizon update rollouts.
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Did you do a fresh install ( download, install, clear cache, wipe phone, rebuild or restore backup) or just install the update and go from there?
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A0425A said:
Did you do a fresh install ( download, install, clear cache, wipe phone, rebuild or restore backup) or just install the update and go from there?
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I just installed the update, but up the thread above several people say that factory reset didn't fix this issue for them.
It won't make a difference. I factory reset my phone after the update to Oreo and reconfigured everything from scratch, no restore, and it made no difference. My Bluetooth still does not work with my car. It works with my Pebble, my Sony Bluetooth headset, and a Marley speaker with no issues. Why is it that only my car fails? It is the most important one.
I am having the same issue when listening to music with Bluetooth in my car. The music gets choppy and does not play back the way it should. I have been looking everywhere online for a fix and I haven't come up with anything. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
Same issue with Sony XAV-68BT headunit. Music plays through Bluetooth, then drops rendomly, then manually have to reconnect. Very distracting while driving. Phone calls do not seem to be affected though, so... There's another little tidbit.
Actually I did notice the other day that my Gear Sport was on standalone mode instead of Bluetooth, so I was missing texts from people. Really annoying. Samsung better address this.. going to take ages for Verizon to get the update though, I'm sure.
Any chance that the Bluetooth apk file for the Galaxy S9 would work on our phones? Maybe it would help?
I'm having similar issues here too. I was on Nougat with zero problems. Did an OTA update to Oreo and suddenly my Kenwood car stereo keeps losing bluetooth connectdion. Used ODIN to flash back to Nougat and it's rock solid. Decided to flash Oreo instead of doing it OTA, and suddenly the bluetooth is flakey again. Flashed back to Nougat, and it's rock solid. I've also tried factory resetting and reconfiguring the car stereo, did a factory reset of the Galaxy S8, cleared the cache, and nothing works. The only way of getting Bluetooth to maintain a connection to the car stereo is to be on Nougat.
Interestingly though, I have no problems with my Gear S3 maintaining a bluetooth connection.
It appears it's only some devices that have the issue. I don't hold out much hope that Samsung will fix it though. Weren't people complaining about the same thing during the betas?
I guess this can solve your problems too, I had an issue since the oreo update, cant select anything but SBC reverting to default, even with the level u app not showing UHQ, I started a chat with samsungs members app and they told me that is an error in the update, not all devices are presenting this problem. well, the solution: 1. back up your data with smartswitch app(I backed up with a sd card, 10Gb info) if you have whatsapp do a chat backup because they dont backup with smartswitch. 2. delete your samsung and google account. 3. Do a hard reset(witch the phone powered off press volume+, bixby and power, until you see the recovery menu), wiping cache and then wipe data/factory reset(move trough the menu with volume+- and select with power). 4. start the phone and add your google and samsung account, then restore your data with smarwitch app. this will let you select the BT codec again.
worked for me and the bluetooth conection is more stable

February update is out

Seems that we may have that memory leak solved
Yes, must have bug fix as 330Mb download. Updated, all good (no mods)
Is the haptic feedback on opening recents menu new? Or just stronger than before?
Is there a setting I'm not seeing to change it?
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Is the haptic feedback on opening recents menu new? Or just stronger than before?
Is there a setting I'm not seeing to change it?
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it's in
accessibility>vibration
I received my phone and downloaded the ROM yesterday, seems to be good.
Anyone else's Bluetooth totally screwed up after update? After update, Bluetooth turns on by itself, won't add new devices, and won't auto connect to devices?
svrasputin said:
Anyone else's Bluetooth totally screwed up after update? After update, Bluetooth turns on by itself, won't add new devices, and won't auto connect to devices?
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Mine has been pretty flaky as well. It seems to connect most of the time, but if I call with my android auto head unit, even though it says it's using bluetooth, the sound still comes out of the speakers. Sometimes a toggle of the bluetooth switch fixes it, sometimes it needs a reboot. I may factory reset and see if it clears up.
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Anyone else's Bluetooth totally screwed up after update? After update, Bluetooth turns on by itself, won't add new devices, and won't auto connect to devices?
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I don't have problem with the Bluetooth.
Using my Sony ch700n without a problem..
Mmm... I'll be waiting for more feedback before applying the update. Hope it's just specific issue with device because I use BT every day...
Still haven't been able to fix Bluetooth issues. First I reset all the network settings. Not fixed. Then I factory reset without restore. No fix. Finally factory reset with restore. No fix. Contacted support last night with no answer yet. Will have to resort to back up phone until there is a solution.
svrasputin said:
Anyone else's Bluetooth totally screwed up after update? After update, Bluetooth turns on by itself, won't add new devices, and won't auto connect to devices?
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Nope, all good here. How did you take the update, ota or fastboot?
At this point my Bluetooth is behaving normally. All though I never have had any of the previous Bluetooth or wifi issues people have posted about. Totally stock locked bootloader with February update.
As of this Monday Miracast on my PH-1 is totally flakey. Since it uses Bluetooth I guess this is part of the update bug. The problem I'm getting is casting crapping out, for no reason, rotating the phone, or just launching the app that I want to cast. Any possible fixes?
bfmetcalf said:
Mine has been pretty flaky as well. It seems to connect most of the time, but if I call with my android auto head unit, even though it says it's using bluetooth, the sound still comes out of the speakers. Sometimes a toggle of the bluetooth switch fixes it, sometimes it needs a reboot. I may factory reset and see if it clears up.
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I can't get my PH1 to connect via BT to my Pioneer A.A H/U at all...... not sure what the issue is.
I factory reset and still having issues as well, I'm completely stock with locked bootloader. Only real Bluetooth issue I have is phone calls going through my phone speakers even though it says it's using Bluetooth, audio for music and podcasts is fine. Very strange
bfmetcalf said:
I factory reset and still having issues as well, I'm completely stock with locked bootloader. Only real Bluetooth issue I have is phone calls going through my phone speakers even though it says it's using Bluetooth, audio for music and podcasts is fine. Very strange
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I used AA this morning in wifes car, music was playing, made a phone call & it used car speakers as normal & then went back to music when call ended, so seems OK with Hyundai HU.
IronRoo said:
I used AA this morning in wifes cam, music was playing, made a phone call & it used car speakers as normal & then went back to music when call ended, so seems OK with Hyundai HU.
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I'm kind of wondering if it has something to do with my Wear OS watch being connected. May have to disable it for a day and see if it makes a difference. Worked perfectly before the update though.
Edit: I played a little. If I turn off Bluetooth on my watch, then pair with my Bluetooth headphones calls work normally, if I connect to the buds while connected to the watch, no-go. Very odd as well is that the watch won't connect then while connected to the buds, once I disconnect them, it connects fine. I'll try with my truck at lunch and see if I can repeat this there.
mine seems do not have the Bluetooth issue.
new update seem to be more aggressive on turning off nfc . in the past, i do not have to wake on phone to 'tap' (as a smart card) on chargepoint ev charger. now i have to at least wake up phone to do so.
i noticed on essential website. the OTA file for February is only Open Market. the others have said Alll. Whats the difference anyone know.
After I have installing the update patch, the usage of battery is a bit faster than before. The sot drop from 4 hours to 2 and a half hours. Is there getting The same issue?

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