Upgraded to 4.3. When in music, s3 phones won't locate s4 and vice versa

[markheel]

I own a Galaxy s3 and my wife has a s4 mini. Last week, I was able to pair with her while in music and send her a song via blue tooth. This week, I installed the update and my phone now says it's on 4.3. While on a song, if I select "Via Bluetooth," my phone will not find the s4 mini and vice versa. I can however pair my phone with her's, but in music it doesn't recconize her or find her. I can pull up a photograph and send her the picture via Bluetooth, but not music. Has something changed, or is something broken?

When a song is playing, there is now a little rectangle box in the upper left corner. When I press it, it says "Select Device," and it has my device as the only available device. Have any idea what this button is used for?

 

[srkmagnus]

It sounds like something has changed with sending music via Bluetooth. Not sure what you can do to fix that. Regarding the rectangle, could you post a screen shot? Also, are you using Google Music to Play it? If so, that could be the Chromecast button for streaming.

 

[markheel]

srkmagnus,

Thanks for the reply. Regarding the last point, I figured out that the rectangle is for screen mirroring. Regarding the share issue, I can pair my device with my wife's phone fine and transfer pictures, etc. However, none of the advertised sharing methods (share via blue tooth, S Beam, NFC, Nearby Devices) work with music anymore. When in music, if I scan for another blue tooth device, it won't find my wife's phone, the same phone that minutes before I paired with. With S Beam, the devices only vibrate when holding them together. If it is a picture however, S Beam gives me the option to send and receive.

 

[GSDer]

Looks like you've discovered an undocumented 'feature' of 4.3.
Too bad Samsung didn't include that on their change list; but then, most people never read that stuff anyway - all they see is the Software Update notification and they go for it.

If this is REALLY important to you, someone posted a method that apparently allows you to roll the firmware (but not the bootloader) back to 4.1.2 - http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=3408870
- I can't vouch for that as I haven't tried it. YMMV.

Sent from my rooted, debloated, deodexed Sinclair ZX-80 running CM -0.001 using Tapatalk Pro

 

[markheel]

GSDer,

Thanks for the reply. It's not worth rolling back the version, but I'm surprised that nobody else has noticed this change. Hopefully more people will come forward and discuss it.