Bluetooth and ringer volume

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  1. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    My cell phone's ringer volume goes all the way down to 0 when I get a call when connected to the Bluetooth on the radio. Then if I don't catch it, I will keep missing calls unless I happen to be looking at the phone when it rings. This has happened on three different trucks with different brand radios. And on a Motorola Power G phone and on my Galaxy S21. This is really aggravating, and even though I hate headsets, I may have to start wearing one again if I can't figure it out.
    Any ideas anyone?
     
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  3. Brandt

    Brandt Road Train Member

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    Maybe it everytime phone it connected to radio it automatically reset Bluetooth volume on phone to lowest setting. Seems like the Bluetooth radio in trucks are to cheap. The one in my company truck won't even reconnect automatically everytime I leave truck or start engine.
     
  4. Six9GS

    Six9GS Road Train Member

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    That's a more common problem than you realize. I had this same problem with my (android) phone. Search the internet and looked at every setting I could find that had been suggested. Still had the same problem. Finally found the solution. In Google maps, you gotta turn off the phone mode. Trying to fiddle with my phone to find it. OK. Found it. Open Google maps. Click your icon picture. Toward the bottom of the menu that's brought up, click settings. Scroll down that list till you get to "navigation settings" . From that one find the "Google Assistant settings". Basically from there, turn off driving mode. Set "When connected to car's Bluetooth" to the "Do nothing" setting and "When driving is detected" select "Do nothing".
    After I turned off the Google Assistant driving mode stuff, my ringer volume stopped automatically muting itself.
    Hope that helps!
     
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  5. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    I didn’t have that problem but in my KW when I put it in Reverse it will automatically “mute” whatever is connected to it like my iPhone or iPad. I get why and the “mute” when I’m in reverse but when the truck “unmutes” the source, it starts to play music no matter what it was doing before. So every time I’m maneuvering I have to mute my radio just to keep my music from turning on and off.

    I fixed it, just connected via hardwire to the aux in jack and bypass BT completely.

    I love tech but ya, sometimes.
     
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