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S-Voice not responding with Bluetooth connected

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mcpa0011

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hello everyone! Day 3 with my new Note 2 and haven't put it down since. So glad I made the switch from iPhone 4. When I am connected to my car via bluetooth, I open s-voice and it won't hear my voice. It opens fine, but just doesn't hear my voice, making s-voice unusable when connected via bluetooth. Is there some setting that I can change to make it usable? Thanks!
 
WOW! WOW! WOW!

My S-VOICE just stopped working. Could not figure out why.

...then I came across this post.

Sure enough, as soon as I disable Bluetoooth, S-Voice worked perfectly. Once I activated bluetooth, S-VOICE stopped working entirely.

Anybody else having this problem?

How do I contact Samsung about this potential bug?
 
I don't want to be the guinea pig on those instructions, so if anyone wants to try it and see if it works let us know.
 
Well, so far just in the car. My bluetooth headset is going to be sh,shipped soon! So yeah, it's just the car for now. I would really like to use it to make calls without actually touching the phone, other than to turn on s-voice. I'm stumped.
 
mcpa0011 said:
Bump. Any other ideas to get this working?
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Here we go...bluetooth causes an interference with Voice commands, notably on Google Voice, speech-to-text (like text messaging), or S-Voice. This is clearly a bug.

My setup: T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 2 running Android 4.1.1 (JellyBean), Bluetooth headset RF-MAB2 (supports HSP, HFP, A2DP, AVRCR, and Bluetooth 2.1)

There are two known workarounds for these bugs:

1. Hit the volume up or down button (only one click needed) on the phone (not from the bluetooth headset). Yes, it should be totally un-necessary, but it does work--magically, the microphone will pulse again with life and the Note 2 will take input from your bluetooth. This works for Speech-to-Text, Google Voice, and S-Voice. Kudos to Renthorin in this thread.

2. Activate Touch Sounds (Settings->Device->Sound->System->Touch sounds). This adds a(n annoying) "beep" when making any selection on a screen. This only works for Google Voice (headset fully enabled). For me, it does not fix the other two issues. Credit to topshelf95 in this thread

Please visit: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35737, register, and STAR the issue. It is currently about 140th on the list of most squawked items (234 stars). If we can get more people to star it, it will move up the ranks and hopefully get fixed sooner than later.

HTH.

* ijhutch *
Original thread of mine that went unanswered with lots of screenshots
 
I had the same problem: S Voice worked fine until I turned on BT in my car. Then it just stopped working. I have a GS4, with an aftermarket Kenwood BT stereo.

Here's what I did to fix the problem:

  1. Start the app Google Settings
  2. Select 'Search'
  3. Select 'Voice'
  4. Check the box for 'Bluetooth headset'
S Voice now works. Note: I also have the hands-free mode turned on in S Voice.

Hope that works for you.
 
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