I'm using Android Nexus 7 to connect a device via Bluetooth Low Energy link. I'm able to connect the device, and stay connected if I don't do any communication with the device.
However, if I enable the notification of one specific characteristic by clicking a button, then the device would disconnect with the tablet after a few seconds' data transmission.
Does anyone know what might be the problem? Thank you very much!
Here's my code:
public boolean setCharacteristicNotification(boolean enabled){
if (mBluetoothAdapter == null || mBluetoothGatt == null) {
Log.w(TAG, "BluetoothAdapter not initialized");
return false;
}
BluetoothGattService Service = mBluetoothGatt.getService(UUID_MY_SERVICE);
if (Service == null) {
Log.e(TAG, "service not found!");
return false;
}
BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic = Service.getCharacteristic(UUID_MY_CHARACTERISTIC);
final int charaProp = characteristic.getProperties();
if ((charaProp | BluetoothGattCharacteristic.PROPERTY_NOTIFY) > 0) {
mBluetoothGatt.setCharacteristicNotification(characteristic, enabled);
BluetoothGattDescriptor descriptor = characteristic.getDescriptor(
UUID.fromString(SampleGattAttributes.CLIENT_CHARACTERISTIC_CONFIG));
descriptor.setValue(BluetoothGattDescriptor.ENABLE_NOTIFICATION_VALUE);
mBluetoothGatt.writeDescriptor(descriptor);
return true;
}
return false;
}
(Answered in a question edit. Converted to a community wiki answer. See What is the appropriate action when the answer to a question is added to the question itself? )
The OP wrote:
I solved this problem today.
Just change
descriptor.setValue(BluetoothGattDescriptor.ENABLE_NOTIFICATION_VALUE);
to
descriptor.setValue(BluetoothGattDescriptor.ENABLE_INDICATION_VALUE);
Follow Up:
After I did some research and testing, I found that the automatically disconnection problem has something to do with the interference between Bluetooth and WIFI on Nexus 7. If I turned off the WIFI, then the disconnection problem of Bluetooth has gone. And this problem did not occur on Galaxy 3,4,5.