I know by default the stock rom doesn't support bluetooth, but is the hardware actually onboard and disabled, or not there at all?
I am wondering this as well...it would open up a lot of possibilities for the nook, such as a bluetooth keyboard...or even using it for Skype with a bluetooth headset...
BT reference in the B&N kernel sources
Hi,
I think it could be enable
In the kernel sources we can notice this :
gpio_direction_output(WL127X_BTEN_GPIO, 1);
Maybe it is the GPIO for BT enable
We just have to dig for the UART connection.
I think it's just a problem of BT licence.
Cheers Occip
Is there even a bluetooth chip / antenna in the NookColor? I did not see any on the tear down.
Integrated with the TI-WLAN
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hrm this isnt good - it would appear bluetooth stops working when wifi is enabled - was listening to an mp3 on bt stereo headphones and enabled wifi and it killed the conn - not only that it seems i cant use any form of bt device if wifi is enabled (not even connected) on the device - wtf?
is anyone else experiencing this?
No, I use Jawbone BT headset with all sounds out BT using BTaudio.exe then start WiFi on home LAN and watch streaming video from Slingbox.
this was the case with the titan...
eric b
do i have a faulty unit?
i don't think so. in the titan, the bluetooth and wifi antennae were the same actual unit.
eric b
you sure? remE says both work at the same time just fine for him :s
to me it seems as thought ewifi signal is overpowering the bluetooth or smt - does the bluetooth freq lie in the wifi freq range or smt? is there any way they could overlap?
both work if i have only one on at a time - can anyone confirm either way if both work at the same time for them and what equipment youre using?
I'm doing it as a type this. I'm watching 30fps video streaming at 300k over WiFi and listening to it thru a Jawbone BT headset. For sure this works fine.
I have a Hermes and it would not do this well at all, it would allow BT and 3G video streaming but not WiFi. Kaiser can handle it.
maybe you could try a differet BT headset, maybe yours suffers from inteference ( i don't know the frequencies of BT and WiFi but WiFI could be killing the connection because your headset jamms)
BT and WiFi are both spread specktrum radios operating at 2.4ghz. They are designed to co-exist and do so on Kaiser. Maybe there is a difference with Stereo vs Mono headsets, they do use different BT profiles. If I get a chance I'll try a stereo set and report back.
thanks guys - i need to make sure my unit is duff before i ssend it back for a replacement ;(
looks like my unit is gonna go back - i called htc and they said they havent heard of this issue before and are 'escalating it' - it seems that superetrader wont give me an RMA for my unit until htc have given me a reference number - is this normal procedure? seems a bit odd to me
i tested my unit some more at work today with a whole host of different bluetooth and wifi gadgets and the problem is consistently reproducable
gutted
I need some serious help please.
Situation: My car has bluetooth for phone but not music. So i bought an A2DP FM transmitter. I am trying to use both in the car. one for phone, other for music. problem is, when both bluetooth devices are connected, the music SKIPS horribly.
I've tried a bunch of different roms and radios and tried the a2dpfix and everything I could find.
Basically, when i disable the car bluetooth, the skipping stops.... so it's the radioload or the workload on the tilt that makes the music skip.
So......
1) what can i do to increase bluetooth performance or general system performance?
2) what is the best rom or radio for bluetooth performance?
3) what is the best setting for bluetooth performance in registry? bitpool? framerate? jointstereo?
4) what is the music player using the least amount of resources?
THANK YOU. Please help with knowledge, not speculation.
also, any thoughts on prioritizing bluetooth devices or signals to give higher priority to a2dp?
overclocking?
j_bowl said:
radioload
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Most likely. Several people have reported that issue. A2DP needs lots of bandwidth and realtime availability, if a second connection needs to be maintained at the same time it's very likely to cause interruptions.
j_bowl said:
I need some serious help please.
...snip...So......
1) what can i do to increase bluetooth performance or general system performance?
2) what is the best rom or radio for bluetooth performance?
3) what is the best setting for bluetooth performance in registry? bitpool? framerate? jointstereo?
4) what is the music player using the least amount of resources?
THANK YOU. Please help with knowledge, not speculation.
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What I did to fix this problem was to purchase the new Motorola FM transmitter - it does BOTH on one device - it transmits music to the radioo and gives you hands free for phone - really works well - much better than the Parrott that was in the car to begin with.
Bill
I saw the Motorola FM Transmitter but decided to go with my Satechi model because 1) it starts up automatically with ignition and 2) I can hide it away in the glovebox instead of having it attached to my visor.
so the best set up was to use both at the sametime but i'm not sure if i can anymore.
anyone know how to dedicate more resources to radioload or set priority in task manager?
THANKS
No.
A possibility, which depends on your Satecho thing, is if possible not to connect it to the Kaiser (leave it on, paired, but don't expressly connect to it when getting in the car).
That way there's no active BT connection between teh 2 so you shouldn't get skips. When you receive/place a phone call, the Kaiser will search for a present known handsfree and connect to it automatically anyway.
how do i pair it and not connect? when i get in the car, the car handsfree connects automatically.
j_bowl said:
I need some serious help please.
3) what is the best setting for bluetooth performance in registry? bitpool? framerate? jointstereo?
THANK YOU. Please help with knowledge, not speculation.
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Did you happen to do any registry tweaks to maximize the performance of the A2DP BT Stereo performance in the past by increasing the Bitpool and MaxSupportedBitPool DWORD. I found on my Vogue that I lost simultaneous BT connection when I altered those settings from default. I now leave the registry A2DP settings at default and have not had problems with simultaneous BT connections (hands free, BT stereo and BT GPS puck).
Anyone know of a way to use a standard blue tooth piece as a head set? I'm not worried about it being in stereo or not, Id like to figure out how to do it. I mostly listen to AM stuff on my phone anyways. I would assume its possible as its glitched and done it after a phone call once before , I can not find an app or setting that will allow this. Any ideas? Im running Cyanogen 4.2.15.1 if that makes a difference.
Any ideas?
Hell yeah...just bought a bluetooth....plz...anyone?! is it even possible?
As long as your headset supports A2DP bluetooth profiles it should just connect automatically to 'phone and media audio', meaning you can stream music or whatever to your BT device. As far as I know most non-stereo headsets dont support A2DP.
You can try the BlueSoleil.
There is a Hardware Check tool. It is used for checking whether your Bluetooth adapter supported by BlueSoleil 6 before using BlueSoleil.
A number of people have mentioned having issues with A2DP streaming on the Nexus.
I just found out something interesting... I've been getting annoying skips in music when playing audio to my car stereo, so after experimenting I've found:-
Open bluetooth settings, select headunit, enter pin, allow phonebook access and for the duration of that connection I get perfect audio.
Turn off either the headunit or phone, or both and allow them to connect again, then audio skips...
Open bluetooth settings, select headunit, unpair, select headunit, enter pin, allow phonebook access and for the duration of that connection, once again I get perfect audio.
The only thing I can think of is that the good connection is initiated by the N1 and the bad one by the headunit when it connects to the N1 at startup. Maybe capability negotiation problem? Maybe N1 selects a lower bitrate when it connects than the headunit does when it connects, any ideas? Is it possible to tweak the N1 to restrict the connection parameters?
- Anthony
I use a HT820 by Motorola and do not have any issues with skipping.
Started stock, then CM, now froyo. no issues on any of these roms.
That's great, but whilst bluetooth is a standard, some manufacturers get things wrong, and motorola may well have handled this better, this handsfree kit worked with:-
Hermes,
TYTN II
Touch Pro,
Sony Xperia,
Diamond2.
The kit within my headunit is built by parrot, so no small fish in the bluetooth pond.... It has a little menu with a list of models of phone with "funny" (non-standard) bluetooth implementations so that it can implement workarounds.
To top it off, others, with different handsfree kits have similar issues.
So, back to what I was saying...
I've just confirmed that it doesn't matter which end initiates the connection, if the phone was paired previously it skips, if you unpair and re-pair (during pairing the phone is connected as part of that process) for the duration of that connection the sound is flawless.
It must be using different connection parameters on that first connection, but I can't even see _any_ information about the connections, like bitrate/bitpool / sample rate etc.
Is there any way I can get the connection information for current bluetooth connections?
Does anyone know the way around the AOSP code enough to see if there could be any difference in the pairing connection to the normal connections?
I bet it really is that it uses "safe" values during the initial connection.
- Anthony
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...t&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Sta rs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-622231.html
All i found on it, hope it helped. Otherwise, good luck finding out a solution.
Devastatin said:
I use a HT820 by Motorola and do not have any issues with skipping.
Started stock, then CM, now froyo. no issues on any of these roms.
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I have the same headphones and only notice skipping when I'm walking fast, with my phone in my pocket...or I turn my head away from the phone. But that's all my doing, not the phone.
I have both a ME57C and ME572CL, running 5.0.1 WW, and they exhibit the same problems with bluetooth, which seems to rule out a unit-specific problem.
1/ BT audio works fine in headphones mode (ie stereo listening only), quality wise, but fails as a headset on the audio-in front (tested with two different BT headsets, including a JABRA BT3030) : audio in comes garbled and clipping to the point of uselessness.
2/ Whenever BT is active, it seems to interfere with WiFi networking, leading to frequent drops and reduced throughput on WiFi connections (both TCP and UDP).
Other features of BT seem to work OK (file transfer, keyboard/mouse connectivity, etc) although I haven't tested those extensively.
Anyone with similar issues or clues as to fixing the problem(s) ?
Have you contacted ASUS to ask for support or at least to make a bug report?
T1beriu said:
Have you contacted ASUS to ask for support or at least to make a bug report?
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Not yet : I'm asking here first to see if it's a non-official-yet-known issue (I couldn't find anything on the ASUS support resources), my experience being helpdesks work best when the users do their homework.