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Help Bluetooth music intermittently cuts out

So, since as long as I can remember, my Bluetooth sound has cut out intermittently, while listening. If I am in the car and the song is playing, the sound cuts out, every now and then, sometimes once or twice a song and lately, basically every few seconds, like a record skipping. It is just the sound, as the time on the song still continues. This is also happening when I use a BT speaker in the house, or BT earphones. It is driving me nuts! Yesterday, when I got in the car, the music started automatically as usual but started cutting out, so I unlocked the phone and checked to see what was going on and my SiriusXM app had started on it's own, so I exited that program and all seemed to work fine after that. But today, same thing, and I checked and no other audio program was running at the same time.
Could this be caused because the Gear watch is using BT as well? Also, sometimes when this is happening, my contacts etc, don't show through my car stereo and once they have synced it stops. But today again, the contacts had synced, but the music was still intermittent as hell!
 
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So, other threads say that it is the Music app itself, or the phone being in sleep mode. So, I left the screen on, app open, and still same problem, tried Poweramp, as others have said it works better. It started the same way then smoothed out. Some have said to turn off wifi, tried that, didn't work either. Frustrated as hell at this. I am a big music person, and BT music sharing is essential, especially in the car, and also at home, when I am doing tasks and like to have my XM radio app or music playing.

Wondering if it's Battery Doctor, may disable that and try, as I think it tries to control wifi and bt when the phone is in various states, etc.

If anyone else has any insight, I would love to hear it... Don't think it's related to the S5 itself, have read many forums of people with S3, S4, Note, Tab etc, all doing the same thing, obviously a Samsung issue
 
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So, other threads say that it is the Music app itself, or the phone being in sleep mode. So, I left the screen on, app open, and still same problem, tried Poweramp, as others have said it works better. It started the same way then smoothed out. Some have said to turn off wifi, tried that, didn't work either. Frustrated as hell at this. I am a big music person, and BT music sharing is essential, especially in the car, and also at home, when I am doing tasks and like to have my XM radio app or music playing.

Wondering if it's Battery Doctor, may disable that and try, as I think it tries to control wifi and bt when the phone is in various states, etc.

If anyone else has any insight, I would love to hear it... Don't think it's related to the S5 itself, have read many forums of people with S3, S4, Note, Tab etc, all doing the same thing, obviously a Samsung issue

I have the EXACT same issue with my S5 and it doesn't matter which app I'm using - Poweramp, stock music player, Pandora, or Milk Music. (I've also had the Note 2 and Note 3 in the past. It used to happen a lot with the Note 2, but not as much with the Note 3).

I noticed that it doesn't happen as much when I listen with wired headphones or input in my car. So when it starts to drive me insane, I switch to wired input for a while.

I kill my apps and clear caches and that will fix it temporarily, but then it will start up again. I've tried turning off wifi and gps and it doesn't make a difference.

I think that it may be an Android bluetooth problem, but I'm not in the least bit tech savvy and I refuse to root my phone.

Please update this thread if you find a workable solution.
 
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i dont use any other app.. pandora, or anything. i just use Play Music. all my own music. no cut outs.

something else to think about.. if your phone is on vibrate, or silent.. when you get a notification.. it dims the music some as well.

i dont use pandora, mainly because.. with this phone.. the pandora doesnt stop. like at work, i will leave my desk, with my bluetooth headphones.. and when they lose connection.. the music plays through my phone.. out loud in the office. so i stopped using it.
 
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So tried in another vehicle yesterday. Still the same issue. Pretty disappointing really. And I know it doesn't affect everyone but the fact that there are several forums on the issue suggests Android or Samsung need to look into it. Will try support at Samsung and see if they have any ideas. From others forums or a google search though it seems it's among mostly Samsung devices and various versions of Android.
 
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Ran into this myself on my former SG3 -- and the problem was that the SD card was "dying". After I replaced the SD card with a Samsung brand SD card, the problem went away. Now, am using the same Samsung SD card in my SG5 and am having no problems.

So, if the music is being read from an SD card, my suggestion is to back off the music from that card to a PC and replace the card -- before it goes "dead" on you.
 
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I have also read on the internet several different ANDROID phones having this issue, so how does it get rectified, it's annoying... Do we have to wait for a firmware update, hoping that it is identified? If it's cross manufacturer, must be software and not the hardware.

I think it is an issue with Android and Bluetooth. I don't have this issue with my iPhone. Music plays flawless on iOS but I think that's because music is extremely important to Apple. Apples purpose is to make an awesome music player that can also be a smartphone. Not so much to android. Google's focus is to make an awesome smartphone that plays music.
 
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I think it is an issue with Android and Bluetooth. I don't have this issue with my iPhone. Music plays flawless on iOS but I think that's because music is extremely important to Apple. Apples purpose is to make an awesome music player that can also be a smartphone. Not so much to android. Google's focus is to make an awesome smartphone that plays music.

You may be right, but the latter, is what is more important to people. There are MP3 players and iPods specifically for music playing... the point of the iPhone is to be a phone...
My old iPhone also had flawless BT connection. The Samsung thing will hopefully get figured out soon, it's driving me crazy! I purchased a Samsung EVO card tonight, will see how that works, but as I said, having the same issue with the Sirius XM app, which is streaming, not reading my files from a memory card.
 
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I believe it is an Android 4.4 issue. I did not have this issue on my past 2 android phones (EVO 4g and EVO LTE). I have several friends with S4s and M7s and they do not report the issue. I believe they have 4.2. Lets keep this conversation going though because this bugs the hell out of me. I keep thinking my phone is ringing or I'm getting some kind of notification. Also, I hate being reminded how off key I am when the music suddenly freezes.
 
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Same problem for me (Galaxy note 2). The problem is recent, it has nothing to do with the kind of application I use (It sounds to me more like memory saturation or CPU saturation!). If I restart the Bluetooth or pause the streaming it gets fine for few minutes and then starts again. Rebooting the phone and my Bluetooth (plantronic backbeat 903+) does not help. flashing memory does not help much.
 
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OK, Possible solution (What looks like working for me):
1. Unmount SD card.
2. Turn off the phone.
3. Take the SD card off and put it back again.
4. Turn on the phone. Make sure SD is mounted.
5. So far (over 10 minutes) it is playing without that annoying cuts that used to start after 3-4 minutes.

Ill give it a go and report back tomorrow after a day of listening. However I have noticed my music cutting out plugged directly into a 3.5mm jack this past weekend.
 
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Ill give it a go and report back tomorrow after a day of listening. However I have noticed my music cutting out plugged directly into a 3.5mm jack this past weekend.

So, more of the same. I didn't really think about it until my way into work this morning, but definitely had stuttering. Again, my issue is not specific to bluetooth as it stuttered with direct line out reading mp3s form my SD card (SanDisk Ultra Plus XC1 64GB) as well.
 
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Ran into this myself on my former SG3 -- and the problem was that the SD card was "dying". After I replaced the SD card with a Samsung brand SD card, the problem went away. Now, am using the same Samsung SD card in my SG5 and am having no problems.

So, if the music is being read from an SD card, my suggestion is to back off the music from that card to a PC and replace the card -- before it goes "dead" on you.

So, in an effort to rid the problem, ordered a 32GB Samsung UHC1 card, and transferred everything to it, ran it, and still getting cutouts! This is BS. Samsung needs to figure this out!
 
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