I've been experiencing a strange issue where my Google TV (2020) seemingly turns itself on or just does not turn off.
I sometimes watch Netflix on it with my headphones (Sony WH-1000XM2) and when I am done I turn off both my TV and the Google TV device with each their own remote. When I then continue to use my headphones on my laptop, listening to music, I suddenly get a "Bluetooth connected" prompt through the headphones, indicating that it has reconnected to the Google TV. There are no other devices that it can connect to.
When I turn on the TV again, the Google TV is not "on" but when I then turn it on, with its own remote, it turns on very quickly. So my hunch is that Google TV has some kind of slumber mode and that when you turn it "off" it actually goes to sleep. From time to time it will then handshake with previously paired devices so that if a user turns it on, it can quickly resume what it should be doing without a long cold start. Another reason might be that it does the Bluetooth check for location tracking.
Does that make sense? Has anyone else experienced such Bluetooth "problems"?
Yeah the device never actually turns off, all it does is turns off the HDMI output so that the TV will turn off as well.
My Bose revolve speaker does the same thing, the Bluetooth is always on and a passive mode and when I turn my computer phone on it auto connects even if it is "off".
It's convenient and nice when it's wanted but really annoying when you don't want it to connect.