Gen III Bluetooth Audio Streaming problem with Android KitKat

well it may not be Android issue, Samsung does not use the stock Google Android BT Stack but Samsung develops their own BT Stack/Software in the Android SW.

So it maybe a Samsung issue too.

 

Hi John, this is Jonathanb68. i have a question? were in the heck do you start form or chat?? been looking all over and clicking everything and nothing.

 

I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 on Kitkat and works flawlessly. Sometimes i have to open the music app by myself tho.

 

lol this is where apple fan boys will come in and tell u get an apple..

 

@nagrath You can downgrade if you want, but the easiest way would be to root the phone and try different firmwares that might work with Bluetooth. Not really that hard to root if you have a little computer knowledge.

 

The wife and I both have Nexus 4 with 4.4.2 and have no problems on the 2013 Prius Two. Both of us bring up the player first. It does stop automatically when turning the car off but it seems hit or miss if it restarts when the car is started backup. I don't really care for this feature so I never though of it as a problem.

 

I've started rooting phones since they were released and i've never bricked anything. (I'm 17, started rooting when i was 12)

The only way you could brick a Samsung device is if you upload a wrong firmware (a different device) to the phone.

I guess factory resetting your device might fix the problem too.

 

Same here with my AT&T Galaxy S4 on KitKat.

 

I have a Verizon sgs3 with kitkat and it works great on my 2014 Prius 2. I hit the source button on the steering wheel to switch to bluetooth, and once I hit play on the touchscreen monitor, the music automatically plays from my default Playlist.

If I want to use Pandora etc, I have to open the app before it plays. It only automatically plays Pandora if I leave it loaded on the phone (paused) and get back in the car later and press play.

 

I have some of your issues. I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 and a 2013 Prius IV. I noticed recently that my phone was continually connecting and disconnecting from the car when I was listening to regular radio or to satellite radio. I discovered after scouring the internet, that perhaps there's a bug in the link between the phone and the car when you allow it to access your messages. I unpaid the devices and repaired them, but this time when the phone asked if I would give it access to my messages, I said no. Since then, I haven't had any disconnecting issues.

The issue that I do have is having to press play on my phone in order for music to start playing after I have selected Bluetooth. I never had to do that with my old HTC Evo 4G. It's a bit of an annoyance.

 

I am new to this chat and hope that my response will be posted to some other category. I actually don't have the same problem. I cannot seem to bring my contacts form my Galaxy s3 over to my 2013 Prius. Music is fine. It creates a contact list on the car that is incomplete and in a different format from the phone. Last name first instead of first name last. Many of the primary people that I call never came over. Spent four hours with T-Mobile on the phone issues with no success, even after a master reset. I had no problem with my iPhone. At the dealership, a sales help person paired their LG to my car with no problem. So what is up between androids and Toyota? Any suggestions. Sorry, John. This does not help you with your issue. If this doesn't go any further than to your email box, please let me know how I can get my issue out as you have done with yours. Thanks.

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This is the same thing that has been happening in the PC world for ages. If I make an application for Windows, I have to try to be compatible with all of the different hardware and software that runs under Windows. If I make an application for Mac, I have a much more limited range of hardware and operating system revisions to deal with.

This is not necessarily a Toyota problem, this is a struggle that any manufacturer of Android or Android interfacing systems faces.
Any time there is a change to the Android OS or other device firmware, any apps or third party systems that are interfacing with the device must be updated for compatibility.
This is just a fact that has to be dealt with when there are different variations of hardware and software. With Apple, there are limited hardware and software variations, where with Android, there are numerous manufacturers with many different hardware types. On top of this the manufacturer can choose to make any changes that they like to the Android OS. This is why the UI on a Samsung is very different from an LG or HTC phone and all 3 will be different from a Nexus or Google Play edition device.
Any time there are major changes to the Android OS, there will probably need to be an update issued for Entune.
There is also a compatibility list that toyota provides with which functions they have tested on which phones. toyota.com/connect/

 

I have a problem kind of along the same line here.
I had a S3 that worked great and displayed the track info, artist and what not from Slacker Radio. Now i have the LG G3 and all it says is NO DATA yet the music still plays. Wondering if there is some kind of setting in the phone i need to change or is it the way the data is received by the Head Unit and not working with the LG BT signal?

Maybe someone here know a little more about BT and how data is received on the HU?

 

You're not alone. Had a similar problem with my Droid Razr and ended up sitting in the car editing each contact manually. My problem was more limited to addresses that didn't sync properly. I don't know how many contacts you have, but I suspect you could have manually entered them all in the 4 hours you spent on the phone with T-Mobile.