Since Hegenderfer works for Bluetooth SIG, it’s no surprise he also suggests purchasing the latest and greatest wireless gadgets. (Mobile carriers also sometimes delay Google’s updates.) Because of that, Hegenderfer also recommends buying Android handsets that are not locked to specific carriers. “Obviously, the folks at Google found that relatively quickly and patched it.”īut because Android is put onto a wide variety of smartphones, it can be difficult to get the updates to every compatible handset. “They had this freaky memory problem that nobody caught,” he says. “You have all kinds of memory issues and constraints, hardware and interrupts that are all trying to interact at the same time.” The best way to settle these short circuits? Update the firmware on your phone.įor instance, when Android adopted a radical new version of Bluetooth a couple years ago, there were a bunch of issues, says Hegenderfer.

“Bluetooth is just one small piece of an overall operating system,” says Hegenderfer. In some instances, bad code in a phone’s operating system can wreak havoc on a handset, and resetting your electronics won’t fix it. So, the problem is usually remedies when he resets his phone, which is also a Bluetooth device. But the Bluetooth device itself is rarely the issue, says Hegenderfer.

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