I've had a Galaxy S3 for 2 years now and linked it to the Octy with no hassle for 6 months. I've now got an S5 and although it connects, it seems to drop calls after 26 seconds. The phone does not do this when not connected to the car. The car is standard Elegance spec.

Anyone else had issues? 

I have a S5 with Columbus. Phone works fine no issues. Ring tone as set and no timeout.

Version of android?

Rooted?

Stock rom or custom?

 

Is this for all calls or just dialling in or out? Is there a power saving feature or bluetooth setting in the options that needs changing

MIne's stock as purchased. Unrooted.

My htc sensation does not display photos of contacts on my Amundsen.

I've now had the phone for a few more days and have made some calls lasting over 10 minutes with no problem but every now and then it'll just throw a wobbler and cut out at 26 seconds. It doesn't dis-connect the Bluetooth but the media screen does jumble the layout a bit when it happens. (i'll try to get a picture)

The phone is standard with Kitkat I believe.

I think it's bluetooth in general; I use a HTC Sensation (Rooted, Android 4.3 on CM10 rom) as a work phone and when travelling down to a customer site on Wednesday within the first 20 mins it disconnected for no reason. I restarted BT on the phone and then worked for the next hour or so with no issue for the rest of the drive.

For my Nexus 5 it had issues showing photos though no drop outs and used the RSAP apps to sort out the bluetooth phonebook etc and thats always been stable. That might be worth a go but you need root access for it. The standard used by Google is a bit crap by the look of things and seems intermittant on the Samsungs too.