I hope I am not duplicating a previous thread, but have not found one that deals specifically with my gripe.
I currently have an XPeria X Compact (Android 7) which is my second Android phone. Previous was a Galaxy S3 mini. On both these devices I find that bluetooth headsets (single earpiece in this case) do not work properly.
Once paired, there is no clear indication that one is connected.
Notification tones come through the phone speaker, not the headset. So tones from pressing keys, messages etc are not in my ear. In the case of the Samsung this applied even if the wired earphones were plugged in, I kidd you not ! On the Xperia i get a "ring tone" which sounds like a fart under water (sorry, the best description I can think of) which is hardly audible while driving.
Auto answer seems to be forgotten. The Samsung could do this, but due to the (always on) ascending ringing through the speaker, my first indication of a call was when someone spoke in my ear ! On the Xperia it seems to have been forgotten, cannot find it anywhere.
I have searched for a single app that will fix all these issues, but to no avail. I have had very little success with auto answer apps, having tried three.
Please bear with me if I go back in history.
I had a number of Nokia phones, including an S60 smart phone (one of the last) and an S40 based feature phone which I bought because of the poor performance of the Samsung in my car with bluetooth etc. On both Symbian phones I could set up various profiles, one of which as "In Car". This profile I configured to automatically connect to the bluetooth device (the same one I am using now). It would beep in my ear once connected and show an icon on the screen - all nice and clean and clear. I configured the audio accessories to auto answer when connected to a headset and that was it.
Once this has been done everything worked perfectly. I knew I was connected, ALL tones came through the headset - GPS on the S60 phone, ring tones, message tones, keypad tones, everything. And of course auto answer was a hit every time, not maybe iffy stuff like with the Android apps I have tried.
So how is it that Android have to this day, after all this time, with all the processing power available in smart phones, not yet made this a standard feature. It is after all a safety issue not so ? I just don't get it.
By the way, IOS seem to have similar problems. Tried an i4 for a while and almost threw it out the window in frustration.
I currently have an XPeria X Compact (Android 7) which is my second Android phone. Previous was a Galaxy S3 mini. On both these devices I find that bluetooth headsets (single earpiece in this case) do not work properly.
Once paired, there is no clear indication that one is connected.
Notification tones come through the phone speaker, not the headset. So tones from pressing keys, messages etc are not in my ear. In the case of the Samsung this applied even if the wired earphones were plugged in, I kidd you not ! On the Xperia i get a "ring tone" which sounds like a fart under water (sorry, the best description I can think of) which is hardly audible while driving.
Auto answer seems to be forgotten. The Samsung could do this, but due to the (always on) ascending ringing through the speaker, my first indication of a call was when someone spoke in my ear ! On the Xperia it seems to have been forgotten, cannot find it anywhere.
I have searched for a single app that will fix all these issues, but to no avail. I have had very little success with auto answer apps, having tried three.
Please bear with me if I go back in history.
I had a number of Nokia phones, including an S60 smart phone (one of the last) and an S40 based feature phone which I bought because of the poor performance of the Samsung in my car with bluetooth etc. On both Symbian phones I could set up various profiles, one of which as "In Car". This profile I configured to automatically connect to the bluetooth device (the same one I am using now). It would beep in my ear once connected and show an icon on the screen - all nice and clean and clear. I configured the audio accessories to auto answer when connected to a headset and that was it.
Once this has been done everything worked perfectly. I knew I was connected, ALL tones came through the headset - GPS on the S60 phone, ring tones, message tones, keypad tones, everything. And of course auto answer was a hit every time, not maybe iffy stuff like with the Android apps I have tried.
So how is it that Android have to this day, after all this time, with all the processing power available in smart phones, not yet made this a standard feature. It is after all a safety issue not so ? I just don't get it.
By the way, IOS seem to have similar problems. Tried an i4 for a while and almost threw it out the window in frustration.
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