Help Is your Bluetooth dropping out too?

[Juliansdad]

I've used my Samsung S20 FE 5G with bluetooth headphones for about 6 months with no issues. In the past few weeks, after about 4-10 minutes of listening to a podcast using my Bluetooth phones, the Bluetooth disconnects. I have reset Bluetooth and this happens with each of my two Bluetooth headsets. When I listen with plug-in headphones, no problem occurs.

I've turned off and back on, the phone's Bluetooth. I've upaired and them paired two different Bluetooth headphones and am still getting the same result.

I have a feeling that the cause is the latest Android 12 update. Is this a known issue? Any work-arounds yet?

 

[ocnbrze]

I've used my Samsung S20 FE 5G with bluetooth headphones for about 6 months with no issues. In the past few weeks, after about 4-10 minutes of listening to a podcast using my Bluetooth phones, the Bluetooth disconnects. I have reset Bluetooth and this happens with each of my two Bluetooth headsets. When I listen with plug-in headphones, no problem occurs.

I've turned off and back on, the phone's Bluetooth. I've upaired and them paired two different Bluetooth headphones and am still getting the same result.

I have a feeling that the cause is the latest Android 12 update. Is this a known issue? Any work-arounds yet?

no issues with android 12 on my z fold 3......so i don't think it is android 12. it might be the latest update, but i would not necessarily blame android for this. have you tried just re-booting the phone? you can also try putting the phone in safe mode which prevents 3rd party apps from running.

 

[Juliansdad]

Damn; I'm afraid that you may be right, @Williamsheikspare. Thanks for your input. The problem is less frequent since I unrestricted the podcast app's use of the phone's battery. But it didn't completely resolve the problem.

 

[Juliansdad]

no issues with android 12 on my z fold 3......so i don't think it is android 12. it might be the latest update, but i would not necessarily blame android for this. have you tried just re-booting the phone? you can also try putting the phone in safe mode which prevents 3rd party apps from running.

Great idea. Thanks. I'm going to try this.

 

[jhtalisman]

Have you tried doing a network reset? It will restore any wireless connections to their factory state.

 

[svim]

Bluetooth is so handy when it just works, such a pain when it doesn't.
Try going into your Settings >> Apps menu, and in the three-dot icon in the upper right select 'Show system'. Scroll down to any Bluetooth entries (most likely more than one) and Force stop then Clear data for each. Then restart your phone and see if this made any difference.