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How do I stop my partner from taking over every Bluetooth connection? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Deconceptualist@lemm.ee to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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My partner keeps the Bluetooth antenna of her Android Pixel 4a (5G) on because she wears a Fitbit. On the occasion I want to use Bluetooth (e.g. in my car or via portable speaker), devices will ALWAYS connect to her phone over mine if she's anywhere nearby. Sometimes it even steals the connection when I was already connected.

Why is this? Is there some way to steal the connection back?

It happened when I had a Pixel 4a (non-5G) and with a Pixel 8a. It's especially maddening when it's the audio stream in my car. I believe I've tried unpairing both phones, pairing mine first and then hers, and hers still ends up taking priority.

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[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's not a normal Android setting, but after a little research it looks like it's buried in the developer options. I don't really want to ask her to mess with those, but if it's just a one-time toggle it should be fine. We'll try it out, thanks.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The developer options are extremely useful; don't be afraid of them.

The very first thing I do when I get a new phone is enable them and then change the animation duration to 0.5x for everything. Makes the device feel so much more responsive.

Second thing I do is set smallest/minimum width to a higher number. Fixes the number one complaint I have with modern phones where everything is blown up way too large, even with the smallest font setting. It's especially annoying when you get a phone with a larger screen, only to find that it increases the size of everything proportionally with the size of the screen. That's not how it should work. I'm 35, not 65; I don't need everything to be massive. I paid for that extra screen real estate, and god damnit I'm going to use it.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have no personal reservations about dev options. I ran Cyanogen/Lineage rooted for years and now Graphene, so yeah I'm familiar with things like disabling bootlock. I've just never had much reason to mess with Bluetooth before this.

I just prefer to avoid having my partner go into her dev options each time. That's probably just as inconvenient as re-pairing.

[–] daq 7 points 1 week ago

It's usually a car setting. Have you looked into BT options in the car? Precedence and auto connect are both configurable on my cars. One is POS, another is a nice car from different manufacturer. Both relatively new though.