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I'm trying to develop a bluetooth 4.0 app for S3. The problem is, the phone behaves like it doesn't even have bluetooth 4.0. It doesn't discover 4.0 devices, and isn't discoverable with 4.0 devices. I tried both in the settings of the phone and in an app, using the Broadcom-ble API. The Broadcom API doesn't have any extra functionality for finding/discovering 4.0 devices, rather it uses the regular BluetoothAdapter functionality and claims that it will be augmented in 4.0 phones to also discover 4.0 devices.
Has anybody tried using bluetooth 4.0 on the S3? Has anyone succeeded in using the Broadcom API?
Thanks in advance.
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Since then, Bluetooth has gone through many revisions and enhancements. One of the most influential revisions that hit the market in 2011 is called Bluetooth 4.0 or Bluetooth Low Energy (LE).
NOTE: The Samsung devices which are compatible with Bluetooth Low Energy technology are Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) , Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300) and Samsung Galaxy Note II (GT-N7100).
It is independent of classic Bluetooth and has no compatibility, but Bluetooth Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate (BR/EDR) and LE can coexist.
Many users are attracted to the Samsung Galaxy S3 for its Bluetooth 4.0 functionality. The Smart Ready feature of BlueTooth 4.0 allows devices that run on coin-cell batteries to connect to compatible smartphones or tablets wirelessly.
This is now a confirmed bug, that will be fixed "in future releases".
See this forum thread at Samsung.
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A beta for Samsung BLE SDK has been released here. I am going to study this SDK and hopefully it solves some of my problems.
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