Volume control failure and display corruption when connected to certain bluetooth device.

1120525 over 2 years ago

When I connect to my Samsung Galaxy Buds, all is well.

But when I connect to my Sound Matters Foxl bluetooth speaker, audio is fine, but when I try to control volume from the watch, the +/- buttons do not affect volume, and the display is corrupted. The green volume ring is gone and decimated icons appear in the center. I can't screenshot this because the screenshot function does not work in the corrupted state.

0 Duggs over 2 years ago

I have a feeling that volume control is not always possible, it depends on the Bluetooth device connected

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0 1120525 over 2 years ago in reply to Duggs

My phone works with the device, including volume control. However it may be that the phone is attenuating the stream rather than controlling the speaker's own amplifier volume, as in that scenario, the device's hardware volume controls act as a master volume that my phone does not affect.

In either case, if volume can't work by either means on a particular device, it should indicate such lack of support via a designed behavior, rather than to corrupt the display. An easy approach to that would be to omit the volume entrypoint from the previous menu level if no volume capability is supported.

0 jaamgans over 2 years ago in reply to 1120525

if the buds have any equalizers or equalizer software - trying setting that to default as this can sometimes cause issues like this.