More Bluetooth Problems

[MaxBuck]

In addition to not playing well with my car's Bluetooth system, I discovered today that my Charge will not recognize my Bluetooth headset (a Motorola H15).  I'm wondering if I may have a handset-specific Blutooth radio problem rather than its being one with all Droid Charges.

Anyone else having similar problems?

[GreenRobot]

I'm thinking our bluetooth issues with the Charge are possibly that it doesn't support very many bluetooth profiles. I pair many different bluetooth devices to hands free link car devices all the time and my Charge has been less compatible than any device I have had to date. If you look on the VZW site you'll see the Charge is bluetooth 3.0 and that's all it says. So try and find out what your bluetooth devices support by contacting the manufacturer. Please let us know what you find out. There are also two other posts about bluetooth you can reference on this forum.

[MaxBuck]

I notice that TigerDirect has the Samsung auto bluetooth visor-mount speaker for less than $30, with a $20 rebate - making the net cost less than ten bucks.  It's had excellent user reviews, and Samsung "guarantees" compatibility with the Charge.

Much as I hate to duplicate capabilities, I will probably just buy one of these puppies and put it into my car.  The Charge is too awesome a phone to give up based on something like this.

[Ray999]

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MaxBuck wrote:

In addition to not playing well with my car's Bluetooth system, I discovered today that my Charge will not recognize my Bluetooth headset (a Motorola H15).  I'm wondering if I may have a handset-specific Blutooth radio problem rather than its being one with all Droid Charges.

Anyone else having similar problems?

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Bluetooth on the Charge definitely has its issues.

I have noticed that the bluetooth starts getting erratic when you have more than 1 headset device paired with it. Mine started out ok when I had just my Plantronics 390 paired. It worked fine. After I paired my Motorola S10 headset, it worked fine for a few days. I then started having problems with the Mic on both sets. I would start a call, and it was like the Mic was muted on both sets. I could hear but the person on the other end could not hear me. I then went back and unpaired both sets and just paired the S10. Everything has been working fine with the S10 for a couple of weeks.

I tried it on my wife's Charge with her Plantronics 390 and a Jaybird JF3 set. Same issues

[Jax_Omen]

**points at signature**

The problem is that Samsung does not implement the native Android bluetooth stack, but rather their own hackneyed custom bluetooth stack, which is missing several important profiles, such as the HID profile. Unfortunately, the only solution to this problem is to not buy Samsung phones, or tolerate their limitations.

[TamaraH_VZW]

Thank you SO much Community!

There does seem to be an issue with the bluetooth pairing on the Samsung Charge.

We have forwarded your concerns to Samsung to make sure we can get the issue resolved.

[GreenRobot]

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TamaraH_VZW wrote:

Thank you SO much Community!

There does seem to be an issue with the bluetooth pairing on the Samsung Charge.

We have forwarded your concerns to Samsung to make sure we can get the issue resolved.

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Just subscribed to this thread cause I'm looking forward to the results of your findings. I hope to hear from you soon. 

Thanks TamaraH. 

[jay021]

I am also having Bluetooth issues with the Droid Charge. When I pair with my Ford SYNC v3.1 system

it claims to be paired, but playing music results in the music coming from the Charge external speaker instead

of my car stereo. Ironically, if you reboot the phone while paired with Ford SYNC the shut down sound effect

comes through the speakers loud and clear (and scares the hell out of you).

[jbl79705]

here's a suggestion that worked for me..... no problems after i did the latter of this post (cleared data for bluetooth share)....

"You can try deleting the bluetooth devices that are giving you problems and resyncing (i.e. re-pair) in the bluetooth settings (menu>settings>wireless & networks>bluetooth settings) or, go to menu>settings>applications>manage applications, select the all tab at the top of the screen (if you have it), scroll down and select bluetooth share, then clear data (you will probably have to resync after doing this as well).  Also, if you installed any new applications around the time you started having this problem, go to the manage applications menu and select those, scroll down to where it shows the permissions to see if they may be interfering with your bluetooth connection."

[chris7317]

Ditto. I have a Hyundai Sonata 2011. It will pair up OK but my contacts don't get transferred to the car and I can't answer a call by pressing the button in the car. Once I answer the call with the phone I can use the car mic and speakers. Does anyone else have the same problem?

I looked up a pdf called "SCH-i510 -Droid Charge- Bluetooth Car Kit Support for Verizon Wireless Subscribers". Of course it doesn't have Hyundai on there,but it doesn't have ANY 2011 cars on there. Is there a more up to date one?

I talked to the Hyundai dealer and they basically said "tough, we don't do Bluetooth upgrades". But I tend to agree that it is up to the phone manufacturers to be compatible, or backward compatible with even, the cars. I'm hoping for a software upgrade to my charge that will fix my problems.........