So I love the phone. I have a TMO-US HTC One with baseband 4A.17.3250.14_10.39.1150.o4L with Android 4.3 (thanks Android Revolution). My problem has been haunting me for some time. Bluetooth Audio to my headphones is choppy:
-When I put the phone in my pocket it gets choppy and skips. Reading up on this I read somewhere that wifi may be the interference culprit. It's the same with or without the wifi on.
-So then I guessied it might be pocket. It certainly is worse in the pocket, but by shaking the phone I do get some chopiness, not as bad.
Could bluetooth have such a limited range that it gets choppy when I put it in my pocket?
Why does shaking the phone make the bluetooth cut out?
Any suggestions for fixes?
i have been having the same issue lately. Listening to audio books in the car though the bluetooth audio has become a real pain. Choppy, skips, and jumps. But as soon as i grab the phone and pull it closer to the radio it seems to smooth it self out. Now i dont know if thats just a coincidence or not.
That happens to me as well in my car. I noticed if I have data on and it's syncing the sound goes to crap.
Or at least I assume so. This only happened after upgrading to 4.3 last month.
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Not quite the "5min music lag" issue, but seems to be BT problem -
When hooking up the Moto S9 or Sony DR-BT22 headphones, the Diamond seems to have a problem streaming music to them. It stutters often (erratically but on average every few seconds), and depending where I place the phone it loses contact even though it's only parts of my body in the way.
Now, I'm not made of lead, so this shouldn't be an issue. Indeed on the Kaiser - that huge monster of a phone ;-) - it isn't, so what's wrong with the BT on the damn Diamond?
I've tried the 25.05 and 25.18 radios and same effect.
Anyone else having this annoying issue? I had to send the Motos back because they were sh1te unless I held the phone behind my head! (The suplier said the unit wasn't faulty)
Frustrated Ferg.
ok, so I just noticed something really annoying. I just came back from my daily running and it was the first time I used the diamond with my stereo bluetooth philips headset for this instead of the ipod.
as soon as I started running and the diamond jumped up and down in my pocket the music started stuttering like crazy. like the old days when I had a cd player without shock memory
first I thought this had something to do with sensor lock running, but I uninstalled it and the problem is still there. I now tried to reproduce the stuttering when at home and it seems to be connected to the distance. when I hold the phone close to the bluetooth headset and start shaking the phone like crazy nothing happens. as soon as I move it down to my pockets it begins stuttering when I rapidly move the phone around.
I tried searching the forums but couldnt really find anything stutter related when it comes to motion. I'm not sure if this has something to do with the motion sensor or with my headphones weak bluetooth receiver...
any suggestions are welcome here, I'm a bit baffled by this whole thing.
greets,
4saken
Stuttering?
Sounds more likely to be your headphones. I use Motorola S9 bluetooth headphones and have no issue with the sound jumping, skipping or anything... unless I leave my Diamond in the house and walk down the garden! I'm not sure whether all Diamonds have the same bluetooth hardware. If some incarnations have different hardware, this might be the issue.
Can you 'borrow' a mates' headphones to see if you get the same result?
Perhaps one of the techno wizards here can let us know if there are any differences in the bluetooth hardware between various Diamond devices?
thanks for your answer. I'll try to find someone with another bluetooth headset.
I hope it's not hardware related. can you tell me what radio version and rom you got running? maybe there's a difference here.
sounds like its a problem with the bluetooth range, if you shake the phone when its near the headset it doesnt make trouble but when its more far away you get problems, so i would think it get out of transmission range.
no problem here with bluetooth on shaking
greets
what bluetooth headset do you have? the weird thing is, if I lay the phone flat on a table I can walk about 10 meters before I get any stuttering. why would shaking the phone reduce that range to about 1 meter?! that doesnt make any sense..
Lay your phone on the table walk around and shake yourself/headset and u will see it comes from ur headset.
Mine is plantronics dunno the specs can look tomorow as there is nothing on the headset.
greets
EDIT: if not i think the bloodtooth has a loose connection ?! But that shouldnt be on that onebrick device
Something I noticed today while driving was my Bluetooth audio would cutout every few minutes. It only happened on my Nexus 5 with an alpha ROM, but was fixed later. Anyone else notice this?
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Something I noticed today while driving was my Bluetooth audio would cutout every few minutes. It only happened on my Nexus 5 with an alpha ROM, but was fixed later. Anyone else notice this?
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On the new moto x? No, I just had a couple hour car ride with zero issues listening to Play Music and Slacker Radio. Made a few calls, no issues either.
This happened to me on a 20 mile bike ride. Horrible having choppy audio for almost a few hours
I just noticed this too. I do have a Moto 360 as well so maybe that is messing with the blueooth? I have gone a couple car rides and it's perfect, and others it's really choppy.
This does seem to be a problem with me too. Sometimes perfect and sometimes not. When connected to Bluetooth I notice that Google maps speaker goes in and out as well as moto voice while driving
I can confirm that if you have a 360 this is the cause. You can verify this by disconnecting the 360 through wear and the problem going away. For now what I have due is set up an IFTT to disconnect wear when by car's Bluetooth is connected.
I actually don't have anything else connected via Bluetooth and it still happens to me.
I figured it out. I was driving and I turned off Bluetooth completely and the voice worked perfectly. As soon as I connected back to Bluetooth the voice got choppy again...
I looked over in the Note 3 forums, and users were experiencing the same thing. Someone said to listen to music with the screen on to fix it. Today I listened to music with the screen left on and sure enough my music didn't stutter once the whole car ride.
This leads me to think either the processor is getting clocked too low for playing music through A2DP when the screen is off, or perhaps active display makes it stutter whenever it activates. I will look into it further today.
In the mean time, does anyone know of a processor control app that will change the minimum processor clock if bluetooth is connected? Perhaps there is one with a tasker plugin.
I'm experiencing the same issue, really sucks.... I'll try disconnecting the Moto360 on my drive today and see if that fixes it - although I swear I've had the issue before while it wasn't connected.
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I looked over in the Note 3 forums, and users were experiencing the same thing. Someone said to listen to music with the screen on to fix it. Today I listened to music with the screen left on and sure enough my music didn't stutter once the whole car ride.
This leads me to think either the processor is getting clocked too low for playing music through A2DP when the screen is off, or perhaps active display makes it stutter whenever it activates. I will look into it further today.
In the mean time, does anyone know of a processor control app that will change the minimum processor clock if bluetooth is connected? Perhaps there is one with a tasker plugin.
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SetCPU could possibly do this. You can definitely set the minimum CPU clock, but I'm not a 100% whether you can get it to do this WHEN a bluetooth device is connected. SetCPU has a profiles where you can define certain parameters based on conditions.
Of course, before you can get SetCPU working you'll need to root your phone and I have a suspicion that all other CPU clock apps will need root access too.
Has anyone had any luck resolving this?
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I looked over in the Note 3 forums, and users were experiencing the same thing. Someone said to listen to music with the screen on to fix it. Today I listened to music with the screen left on and sure enough my music didn't stutter once the whole car ride.
This leads me to think either the processor is getting clocked too low for playing music through A2DP when the screen is off, or perhaps active display makes it stutter whenever it activates. I will look into it further today.
In the mean time, does anyone know of a processor control app that will change the minimum processor clock if bluetooth is connected? Perhaps there is one with a tasker plugin.
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I'm hoping that either an OTA or Android L will fix this. My Moto X is fine when I'm using my Motorola S11-HD headset, but when connected to my car it goes in and out every few seconds.
So it isn't the processor. So far i have it down to either Wi-Fi or active display. Will report more when i find it.
Turning Wi-Fi off while connected to my car Bluetooth has fixed the issue for me. At least, so far it has.
I'm using PowerAMP for playing music and when I enabled the "high priority" setting in the headphone/bluetooth settings it seems to have resolved the problem until today. This morning on the way from work it started to cut out every few seconds. grrrr...
I have 2 bluetooth adapters in my car, one which takes only phone audio and one which takes phone and media audio, the latter one continously drops and reconnects phone audio (even after forgetting the other device), which makes me believe it is some hardware compatibility issue
I have posted on the official Motorola Forums but I though I should re-post here as well becuase well....XDA fixes things.
So I just purchased a Moto X 2nd Gen Pure Edition as an upgrade to My 1st Gen Moto G. Both phones have the same problem with the Bluetooth Audio sounding like a scratched CD skipping and studdering and it seems to be way worse a problem on the Moto X than I ever had on the Moto G. It's not buffering it happens with music on the phone. It doesn't happen every time I'm in the car but I'd say 50% of the time.
I would think it's the car but before the Moto G I owned a Galaxy Nexus and never had the problem as far as I remember. I'm sure I would remember it's really really annoying. I have even tested with a friends HTC M8 over a long road trip and there seemed to be no issue there. In my car (2011 Subaru Impreza) with the G or X after a time it eventually starts skipping even if it takes a couple hours.
So I did some research before and have tried various things.
I have disabled the Wifi while connecting to BT as Motorola has recommended to owners of other phones. That didn't help them it doesn't help me.
I have removed all other BT devices from the phone while connected. Nope
I have removed the Phone in the profile so my car doesn't try to use it as a phone as well at the same time. Nothing
I have done all of the above at the same time stopped every other program other than Google Music and added the phone to my car fresh and I still have this issue.
During my research about my car the only complaints similar I found seem to come from someone else with Moto phones. I dont' know what they do special with their Bluetooth but it's not helping me out.
You could try to upgrade your car's firmware. Some dealers do this for free, with some cars it is easy to do yourself
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You could try to upgrade your car's firmware. Some dealers do this for free, with some cars it is easy to do yourself
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This is what fixed the audio in my Mustang with Sync. The Ford dealership did not charge me anything for them to do it.
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Hi everyone, main issue plaguing my N6 experience here... upgraded not too long ago from a G3.
There seems to be bluetooth stuttering with this phone. It is something that I haven't run into in any other phone (HTC One M7, M8, LG G3). I'm connecting to the car stereo and it connects calls okay, but when I connect it to a friend's car stereo (Sony stereo.. don't know the model #) or any of my bluetooth headsets (Sony MDR10BT primarily) I will get stuttering when trying to listen to music.
The main thing I noticed is the stuttering only happens when I have something in front of the device. I put it in my pocket and the stuttering starts. I wave my arm in front of it (in between the headset and the device), it will stutter.
I've looked around for solutions on this issue, no solution in sight. I think it has to do with the radio not getting enough power, this was never an issue with any of the other phones.
FAQ:
-I'm rooted, running stock kernel & Chroma 2015-06-05 build. Note this happens on Euphoria ROM as well.
-No, I'm not using a smartwatch
-This happens when the WiFi is both on and off
-This happens when screen rotation is set to automatic or portrait only
-Bluetooth is not being logged
-My jeans aren't sewn with any radio blocking materials
This has been driving me crazy. I noticed it seems to be much better with Developer M.
It only happens with my bluetooth headphones when I'm walking, so your description makes sense. It's the only time I really have my hands on my phone when using bluetooth.
When I'm using it for car audio, I have it in a dock. When I'm using a bluetooth speaker, it's on a table or desk.
I'll have to try some stuff out and see if it makes a difference, but as I said, I just switched to M and it seems to help.
Maybe hardware issue
I am experiencing the same behavior with a non rooted stock up to date Android on the nexus 6. It will sometimes stutter to the point where it just stops working and I have to restart the phone for Bluetooth to be usable again.
Been using jaybird bluebud X's on my S6 Edge for a while now, love them for the high audio quality. Then I picked up a Gear 2 Neo, connected it, and noticed my jaybirds were no longer producing the crisp clear sound they used too (highs are crackly and lows are muddy). I rebooted everything a few times, reconnected everything in different order, etc. Nothing really seemed to correct the issue reliably. A few times I got it all hooked up and it sounded good, but I couldn't reproduce it.
If I connect JUST the jaybirds, they sound just as good as ever. But as soon as I connect the watch, the headphones temporarily disconnect, then reconnect (sometimes they need a button push to reconnect), and the audio quality is poop.
Anyone have any ideas? Are there bluetooth settings on the devices that would allow me to force the high quality audio reliably? My assumption is the neo is pulling the audio quality of the jaybirds down since it has such a low quality speaker in it OR a second bluetooth device is stressing the antenna in the phone forcing it to not transmit at a high quality rate, but those are just my generally uneducated guesses.
:crying: PLEASE help this is such a deal breaker for the neo 2 as an every day wearable!
+1 on this. I have the same issue with a Neo 2. It happens with all bluetooth audio devices. My car bluetooth is choppy just transmitting voice. So much so that I can no longer talk hands free. I have Android wear on the watch now, but I also had the same issue with Tizen if I remember correctly. I may need to go back to Tizen to test.
Interesting. I've never had this happen to me. I have sometimes had issues connecting to other Bluetooth devices when I have my Gear 2 Neo connected, but never bad sound quality.
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+1 on this. I have the same issue with a Neo 2. It happens with all bluetooth audio devices. My car bluetooth is choppy just transmitting voice. So much so that I can no longer talk hands free. I have Android wear on the watch now, but I also had the same issue with Tizen if I remember correctly. I may need to go back to Tizen to test.
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I also had the same issue with Tizen. I was hoping going native android MIGHT fix it (i didn't have high hopes) but it didn't really impact this issue at all.
How are more people not talking about this though? Can people really just not tell the difference of the audio?
Not everyone has a android wear watch. I am noticing the same thing too. My audio will cut in and out through all songs and this only happens when my phone screen is off and I have both my Wear and headphones connected over bluetooth.
I'm wondering if the minimum CPU state isn't enough to push the audio and wear info. (I have V4A installed as well, and wondering if this is eating up cpu)
I can deal with the cutting in and out, that only happens to me when I connect/disconnect one of the two manually.
But this seems to impact the audio quality specifically, which is driving me nuts. The other day it was I a state where I actually heard the quality dip down for about 20s then back up. The highs get crackly and the mid get muddy.
This watch is about to be shelved so I can utilize my ear buds.
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