IOException: read failed, socket might closed - Bl

Question

Currently I am trying to deal with a strange Exception when opening a BluetoothSocket on my Nexus 7 (2012), with Android 4.3 (Build JWR66Y, I guess the second 4.3 update). I have seen some related postings (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13648373/bluetoothsocket-connect-throwing-exception-read-failed), but none seems to provide a workaround for this issue. Also, as suggested in these threads, re-pairing does not help, and constantly trying to connect (through a stupid loop) also has no effect.

I am dealing with an embedded device (a noname OBD-II car adapter, similar to http://images04.olx.com/ui/15/53/76/1316534072_254254776_2-OBD-II-BLUTOOTH-ADAPTERSCLEAR-CHECK-ENGINE-LIGHTS-WITH-YOUR-PHONE-Oceanside.jpg). My Android 2.3.7 phone does not have any issues connecting, and the Xperia of a colleague (Android 4.1.2) also works. Another Google Nexus (I dont know if 'One' or 'S', but not '4') also fails with Android 4.3.

Here is the Snippet of the connection establishment. It is running in its own Thread, created within a Service.

private class ConnectThread extends Thread {

    private static final UUID EMBEDDED_BOARD_SPP = UUID
        .fromString("00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB");

    private BluetoothAdapter adapter;
    private boolean secure;
    private BluetoothDevice device;
    private List<UUID> uuidCandidates;
    private int candidate;
    protected boolean started;

    public ConnectThread(BluetoothDevice device, boolean secure) {
        logger.info("initiliasing connection to device "+device.getName() +" / "+ device.getAddress());
        adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
        this.secure = secure;
        this.device = device;

        setName("BluetoothConnectThread");

        if (!startQueryingForUUIDs()) {
            this.uuidCandidates = Collections.singletonList(EMBEDDED_BOARD_SPP);
            this.start();
        } else{
            logger.info("Using UUID discovery mechanism.");
        }
        /*
         * it will start upon the broadcast receive otherwise
         */
    }

    private boolean startQueryingForUUIDs() {
        Class<?> cl = BluetoothDevice.class;

        Class<?>[] par = {};
        Method fetchUuidsWithSdpMethod;
        try {
            fetchUuidsWithSdpMethod = cl.getMethod("fetchUuidsWithSdp", par);
        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
            logger.warn(e.getMessage());
            return false;
        }

        Object[] args = {};
        try {
            BroadcastReceiver receiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
                @Override
                public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
                    BluetoothDevice deviceExtra = intent.getParcelableExtra("android.bluetooth.device.extra.DEVICE");
                    Parcelable[] uuidExtra = intent.getParcelableArrayExtra("android.bluetooth.device.extra.UUID");

                    uuidCandidates = new ArrayList<UUID>();
                    for (Parcelable uuid : uuidExtra) {
                        uuidCandidates.add(UUID.fromString(uuid.toString()));
                    }

                    synchronized (ConnectThread.this) {
                        if (!ConnectThread.this.started) {
                            ConnectThread.this.start();
                            ConnectThread.this.started = true;
                            unregisterReceiver(this);
                        }

                    }
                }

            };
            registerReceiver(receiver, new IntentFilter("android.bleutooth.device.action.UUID"));
            registerReceiver(receiver, new IntentFilter("android.bluetooth.device.action.UUID"));

            fetchUuidsWithSdpMethod.invoke(device, args);
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            logger.warn(e.getMessage());
            return false;
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            logger.warn(e.getMessage());
            return false;
        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
            logger.warn(e.getMessage());
            return false;
        }           

        return true;
    }

    public void run() {
        boolean success = false;
        while (selectSocket()) {

            if (bluetoothSocket == null) {
                logger.warn("Socket is null! Cancelling!");
                deviceDisconnected();
                openTroubleshootingActivity(TroubleshootingActivity.BLUETOOTH_EXCEPTION);
            }

            // Always cancel discovery because it will slow down a connection
            adapter.cancelDiscovery();

            // Make a connection to the BluetoothSocket
            try {
                // This is a blocking call and will only return on a
                // successful connection or an exception
                bluetoothSocket.connect();
                success = true;
                break;

            } catch (IOException e) {
                // Close the socket
                try {
                    shutdownSocket();
                } catch (IOException e2) {
                    logger.warn(e2.getMessage(), e2);
                }
            }
        }

        if (success) {
            deviceConnected();
        } else {
            deviceDisconnected();
            openTroubleshootingActivity(TroubleshootingActivity.BLUETOOTH_EXCEPTION);
        }
    }

    private boolean selectSocket() {
        if (candidate >= uuidCandidates.size()) {
            return false;
        }

        BluetoothSocket tmp;
        UUID uuid = uuidCandidates.get(candidate++);
        logger.info("Attempting to connect to SDP "+ uuid);
        try {
            if (secure) {
                tmp = device.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(
                        uuid);
            } else {
                tmp = device.createInsecureRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(
                        uuid);
            }
            bluetoothSocket = tmp;
            return true;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            logger.warn(e.getMessage() ,e);
        }

        return false;
    }

}

The code is failing at bluetoothSocket.connect(). I am getting a java.io.IOException: read failed, socket might closed, read ret: -1. This is the corresponding source at GitHub: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/android-4.3_r2/core/java/android/bluetooth/BluetoothSocket.java#L504 Its called through readInt(), called from https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/android-4.3_r2/core/java/android/bluetooth/BluetoothSocket.java#L319

Some metadata dump of the used socket resulted in the following information. These are exactly the same on Nexus 7 and my 2.3.7 phone.

Bluetooth Device 'OBDII'
Address: 11:22:33:DD:EE:FF
Bond state: 12 (bonded)
Type: 1
Class major version: 7936
Class minor version: 7936
Class Contents: 0
Contents: 0

I have some other OBD-II adapters (more expansives) and they all work. Is there any chance, that I am missing something or might this be a bug in Android?

Answer 1

I had the same symptoms as described here. I could connect once to a bluetooth printer but subsequent connects failed with "socket closed" no matter what I did.

I found it a bit strange that the workarounds described here would be necessary. After going through my code I found that I had forgot to close the socket's InputStream and OutputSteram and not terminated the ConnectedThreads properly.

The ConnectedThread I use is the same as in the example here:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth.html

Note that ConnectThread and ConnectedThread are two different classes.

Whatever class that starts the ConnectedThread must call interrupt() and cancel() on the thread. I added mmInStream.close() and mmOutStream.close() in the ConnectedTread.cancel() method.

After closing the threads/streams/sockets properly I could create new sockets without any problem.

Answer 2

On newer versions of Android, I was receiving this error because the adapter was still discovering when I attempted to connect to the socket. Even though I called the cancelDiscovery method on the Bluetooth adapter, I had to wait until the callback to the BroadcastReceiver's onReceive() method was called with the action BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_DISCOVERY_FINISHED.

Once I waited for the adapter to stop discovery, then the connect call on the socket succeeded.

Answer 3

In case somebody is having issues with Kotlin, I had to follow the accepted answer with some variations:

fun print(view: View, text: String) {
    var adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
    var pairedDevices = adapter.getBondedDevices()
    var uuid = UUID.fromString("00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB")
    if (pairedDevices.size > 0) {
        for (device in pairedDevices) {
            var s = device.name
            if (device.getName().equals(printerName, ignoreCase = true)) {
                Thread {
                    var socket = device.createInsecureRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(uuid)
                    var clazz = socket.remoteDevice.javaClass
                    var paramTypes = arrayOf<Class<*>>(Integer.TYPE)
                    var m = clazz.getMethod("createRfcommSocket", *paramTypes)
                    var fallbackSocket = m.invoke(socket.remoteDevice, Integer.valueOf(1)) as BluetoothSocket
                    try {
                        fallbackSocket.connect()
                        var stream = fallbackSocket.outputStream
                        stream.write(text.toByteArray(Charset.forName("UTF-8")))
                    } catch (e: Exception) {
                        e.printStackTrace()
                        Snackbar.make(view, "An error occurred", Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
                    }
                }.start()
            }
        }
    }
}

Hope it helps

Answer 4

Well, I have actually found the problem.

The most people who try to make a connection using socket.Connect(); get an exception called Java.IO.IOException: read failed, socket might closed, read ret: -1.

In some cases it also depends on your Bluetooth device, because there are two different types of Bluetooth, namely BLE (low energy) and Classic.

If you want to check the type of your Bluetooth device is, here's the code:

        String checkType;
        var listDevices = BluetoothAdapter.BondedDevices;
        if (listDevices.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (var btDevice in listDevices)
            {
                if(btDevice.Name == "MOCUTE-032_B52-CA7E")
                {
                    checkType = btDevice.Type.ToString();
                    Console.WriteLine(checkType);
                }
            }
        }

I've been trying for days to solve the problem, but since today I have found the problem. The solution from @matthes has unfortunately still a few issues as he said already, but here's my solution.

At the moment I work in Xamarin Android, but this should also work for other platforms.

SOLUTION

If there is more than one paired device, then you should remove the other paired devices. So keep only the one that you want to connect (see the right image).

In the left image you see that I have two paired devices, namely "MOCUTE-032_B52-CA7E" and "Blue Easy". That's the issue, but I have no idea why that problem occurs. Maybe the Bluetooth protocol is trying to get some information from another Bluetooth device.

However, the socket.Connect(); works great right now, without any problems. So I just wanted to share this, because that error is really annoying.

Good luck!

Answer 5

i also faced with this problem,you could solve it in 2 ways , as mentioned earlier use reflection to create the socket Second one is, client is looking for a server with given UUID and if your server isn't running parallel to client then this happens. Create a server with given client UUID and then listen and accept the client from server side.It will work.

Answer 6

Bluetooth devices can operate in both classic and LE mode at the same time. Sometimes they use a different MAC address depending on which way you are connecting. Calling socket.connect() is using Bluetooth Classic, so you have to make sure the device you got when you scanned was really a classic device.

It's easy to filter for only Classic devices, however:

if(BluetoothDevice.DEVICE_TYPE_LE == device.getType()){ //socket.connect() }

Without this check, it's a race condition as to whether a hybrid scan will give you the Classic device or the BLE device first. It may appear as intermittent inability to connect, or as certain devices being able to connect reliably while others seemingly never can.