I got mine from Amazon yesterday and I have troubleshooted extensively. No matter what I do I cannot get sound.
I have:
Made sure all volumes were cranked up (TV, Device, Chrome Tab, Audio Enabled)
I have tested on my PC's browser (Video, no sound)
Tested Google music on Phone and Tablet (Video, no sound)
Tested different HDMI ports (Video, no sound)
Tested a Roku box (Video and Sound)
I cannot find anything on the internet regarding anybody else having this issue. Did I get a bum unit? Any other advice? Please HELP!
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Hi Folks!
Recently got a bluetooth FM transmitter so i can go hands free in the car and use phones music player too
However the audio is very heavily compressed when using A2DP - no bass and the top end frequencies turn to mush - ie not good enough to use
Checked all eq settings and different FM frequencies, no difference
plugged the analogue audio cable direct from the phone to the bluetooth FM transmitter and immediately got perfect sound again
I dont see many poeple talking about this on this forum or many answers but the closest seems to be windows phones can access and modify registry settings to check and increase the bitrate
My current thinking is the bitrate (or bitpool) over bluetooth A2DP is set too low, or when the phone and FM transmitter pair the phone selects a bitrate that's too low for quality audio (but ok for calls)
My question is does anyone know how modify the bitpool settings on the Galaxy S please?
I am going to get a custom ROM and will very happy when the phone is really mine so if that's what it takes I'm up for it
Many many thanks!
DJ LIBRE
Samsung Galaxy S
2.1.1 Eclair on 3 mobile network in the UK
Nexus Drive Transmit Pro (Bluetooth FM transmitter music and hands free car kit)
I have the Galaxy S on 3 UK since August. I use the bluetooth to transmit sound to my Samsung surround sound system (as I don't own a stereo). I don't notice significant quality issues doing this. Are you sure both your devices are supporting A2DP. Not all A2DP devices talking nicely with each other, so you may be failing back to the normal Bluetooth frequencies which are more focus of the vocal range. I'm looking a car stereo's right now that support A2DP so I can stream my audio from my phone straight to my stereo, my phone is becoming the centre of my entertainment!!
I'm running Doc's ROM on my phone, can't recommend moving to his Froyo ROM's and an enhanced kernel enough, my phone is working so much better with his ROM, but there are lots out there to choose from.
I am using A2DP in my car too and I find the sound quality being very good.
The thing is, the default Android audio player (Music Player) is pretty poor and often it lags for me.
Since I moved to MiuiMusic (Search here) all those lags are gone and it works perfectly and smoothly in my car.
Now, as pointed already to you, all BT devices do not communicate flawlessly between each other sometimes...
works great for me, streaming from the SGS to the car CZ 509 deck
i don't even carry CDs in my car anymore
even the lovely sub base sound comes through clearly.
nothing better like a Sonic Massage meanwhile you are driving
I wanted to create a new thread on this, but then I've seen this one. Is there no one with a solution except flashing cyanogen?
It could be a setting on your bluetooth receiver.
For example, I've got a pair of Sony DR-BT21G bt stereo headphones. When you hold a special button combination, it switches it from "high quality" to "any quality", and will just select whatever bitrate it thinks is best, usually, something that sounds about half as good.
Try looking in your manual for troubleshooting and see if there are any settings that you can change on the receiver itself?
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It could be a setting on your bluetooth receiver.
For example, I've got a pair of Sony DR-BT21G bt stereo headphones. When you hold a special button combination, it switches it from "high quality" to "any quality", and will just select whatever bitrate it thinks is best, usually, something that sounds about half as good.
Try looking in your manual for troubleshooting and see if there are any settings that you can change on the receiver itself?
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Hmm, i using Sony MW600 BT headphones. I've checked the manual, but there's nothing about quality :/
But i dont think that's the problem anyway, as i tried Cyanogenmod and it got perfect quality then. But otherwise cyanogen is quite useless for me on my Galaxy S, its just too buggy. There must be someone who can change the bitpool quality on the stock gingerbread to the highest possible...
Exact same issue for me (as described by DJ LIBRE), I have a Belkin Wireless Bluetooth Music Receiver and the sound quality is horid... it's got nothing on AirPlay which I think is still kind of average quality!
I also wonder if there is a highbitrate setting that can be adjusted?
Running CyanogenMod Nightly #130 on SGS.
After getting used to listening to 24/96 FLAC's with the Voodoo Sound mod enabled with a custom built headphone amp and semi decent can's all I can say is BT Audio is a waste of time!
Has anyone noticed whether the music player was set to 5.1 surround mode? Had a similar issue where turning off the 5.1 fixed the sound streaming...
when i connect my tf701t with a hdmi cable to the tv set and play a video file
used various players bs player , mx player, vlc but the sound seems very bassy. i have reduced the tv settings but it makes little difference. is there a way of configuring the sound on the tablet?
please advise?
Try the DSP Manager. It gives you several sound tweaks and an equalizer.
http://android.appstorm.net/how-to/music/install-and-configure-dsp-manager-on-any-rom/
my asus is not rooted? its standard firmware
Greetings,
I have recently purchased the kinivo btc455.
I have encountered a few issues with it:
Firstly, the sound becomes very "flat" when playing from bluetooth. EXCEPT at a specific sound point(about 60% up) where the sound is very good.
I have recreated this event with multiple players :walkman, musixmatch, google player. what could be causing this mambo-jumbo?
In addition, as far as I understood this device supports aptX - how do I control it? when I pair my phone with the dongle it just shows me a message "Device supports aptX."
and that is all.
Thanks!
can't remember where i read this as being optimal, but i believe that your source device (i.e. phone, computer) should have BT volume at 100%, with your target volume (headphones, stereo, speakers) adjusted accordingly.
i think aptX is activated whenever the phone is paired with a compatible device. that it shows "aptX device" in your BT settings should mean that it's working fine.
So I mainly wanted to use the mini for Plex in my living room. I have the HDMI going into my receiver and the "Send raw audio" option is checked. Audio works overall, and with other apps, but every video I play in Plex has no audio.
Is this related to the audio codecs being yanked from the OS?
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
This might be unrelated, but I get no sound from Vainglory (a game). It seems like the system doesn't even detect any media playback, because when I use volume rocker it changes notification volume and not media volume. Reinstalling doesn't help
Just to clarify, I'm running remix on my Nexus 9
Hello to everybody, thanks for reading.
I will start with facts: on one hand, i have my desktop pc connected via hdmi to my tv, whose analog audio output is connected to my speakers. On the other hand, i also have a Chromecast 2 connected to the tv.
So in both cases, audio output is the same, BUT sounds different (and here's the issue).
For example, when i play anything (netflix, Spotify) through my computer, sound is fine, perfect. But when i do it via Chromecast through my android phone apps, sound is definitely worse: louder and a little bit distorted, like noisier.
I guess that the difference should be on Chromecast or phone audio driver (apparently working worse than pc drivers). But i don't even know if phone's audio is relevant here or not.
What do you think? What can i do? Thanks!
Do you have any other HDMI only devices to check the audio? Maybe there is something wrong in the TV with incoming audio on HDMI.
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Do you have any other HDMI only devices to check the audio? Maybe there is something wrong in the TV with incoming audio on HDMI.
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No, but i tried playing and sending Spotify to Chromecast through another phone, and i detected that sounded different than mine. So each phone's audio driver definitely made the difference by equalizing in different way. So I'm closer to conclude that problem may rely on my phones audio eq
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No, but i tried playing and sending Spotify to Chromecast through another phone, and i detected that sounded different than mine. So each phone's audio driver definitely made the difference by equalizing in different way. So I'm closer to conclude that problem may rely on my phones audio eq
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That's so weird because from what I understand the chromecast works by receiving a stream URL and fetching the content itself. Your phones audio eq shouldn't matter.
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Check the Apps to make sure they don't have any Audio Boosting features enabled.
Also try lowering the volume on the Apps to see if you can match the sound from the computer.
The Loudness and Distortion sounds to me like you are overdriving the HDMI input past what it should be.
Setting the volume lower should solve that and get rid of the distortion.
I have no issues with the chrome cast. I would check the connection on the TV or it maybe the chrome cast
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Results will vary from device to device, TV to TV, App to App....Even from content to content.
Reasons why it can happen include:
Encoder/Transcoder used to create the content or stream boosted audio or failed to set levels to normalize it.
App (used to send the stream) has allowed volume control to boost low audio which would mean full volume on that App is much higher than +4 dBu expected by a digital device. This is done by App devs more for playback on speakers but that extra boost can distort the digital being sent to the CCast. Volume levels out of range will distort as the DSP doesn't know what to do with it. Remember the Device that launched the stream uses it's volume control to tell the CCast what level audio to send to the TV.
It can even be a simple matter of a dirty HDMI connection or bad handshake between the CCast and TV.
Both the CCast and the TV expect what we call a NOMINAL Level or (+4, -10 dBu depending on the TV model). This Level is supposed to allow enough headroom for louder sections to not distort while maintaining a decent range of quiet to loud.
If you go past this you are essentially cutting out whatever headroom exists and at some point everything gets distorted.
The solution is to lower the volume on the input (in this case the App sending the stream) and if needed raise it on the output (in this case the TV).
It may be counter to how Google expected and wanted the CCast system to work but it really is better (albeit less convenient) to control the volume on the TV as opposed to the App. Setting the App to full volume can easily lead to distortion.