Spotify on Android will not see my Blutooth (OontZ)

[squidracerX]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Samsung Galaxy A51

Operating System

Android Version 12?

My Question or Issue

So - everything was working fine for like 2+ years? I have an OontZ Angle 3XL ID speaker. Galaxy A51 phone. Pay for spotify and should have most updated version. Nothing changed. I have updates on in Play store. I unpaired speaker and reconnected. I restarted phone. I've logged out of Spotify and signed back in. So the weird thing is that my phone sees the OontZ speaker just fine. I can connect and pair to it same as always. I can connect for call or audio or both. And i never changed anything. But when in Spotify, the OontZ speaker which used to show up just fine as well, no longer shows up. No combination of turning on and off, pairing and unpairing will fix it. If I do connect via my phones Bluetooth setting it's fine and works no issues. And it will show the OontZ speaker by name under "current devices" scrolling by in green. But if I turn off speaker or stop connection on phone and turn it back on - Spotify will NOT see my speaker anymore, under "select a device". It does show an Amazon stick downstairs I've never connected too... (the speaker is like 2 feet away).

So it's not 100% terrible. I can do the extra steps and just connect via my phone's Bluetooth first, then play music and it works just fine.

But it's an extra step that I didn't have to do before, and im lazy, and it wasnt doing ever before. So it's annoying right? Why can't it see a speaker that it used to see, my phone sees, and it sees once connected to by the phones tools?

[Yordan]

Hi @squidracerX,

the most likely explanation to what you describe is that something has changed in the Spotify API that your speaker doesn't support.

With time, changes to the Spotify backend and API become necessary. To keep third-party devices compatible with Spotify they themselves will need a firmware update to update compatibility, but these can only be provided by the hardware manufacturers.

Apologies for having to bring the bad news here. Bluetooth connections are a direct audio-data link between two devices, so that functionality will not be impaired by updates to the API.