I'm liking the look of these wireless speakers and they seem to be just what i want.
Does anyone else have these and can tell me about the sound quality?
http://www.tesco.com/direct/soundfreaq-sfq-04-sound-kick-bluetooth-wireless-speaker/554-6436.prd
I have these speakers that I use with the Nexus 7 and I love them. The sound quality is actually quite good for portable speakers. The only real drawback I have had with them is that they sometimes cutout when playing music that is streaming from the internet (I think this is more of a Nexus 7 problem than the speakers). I use a wakelock app that keeps wifi on when the tablet sleeps and that fixes the problem.
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I have the soundstep speaker by the same manufacturer. Works great, but I quite often get the sound stuttering or cutting out over bluetooth using my Nexus 7. Had a similar problem with my old phone and it too. Haven't tried much with my new phone (Xperia S) - might try later. It's not just a problem with the speaker itself, bluetooth connection from my Laptop works fine.
Thinking about it, I guess it could be an interference problem though - I only tend to stream from my laptop in my room, but use it with my phone/tablet most often in the kitchen.
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Carlovski99 said:
I have the soundstep speaker by the same manufacturer. Works great, but I quite often get the sound stuttering or cutting out over bluetooth using my Nexus 7. Had a similar problem with my old phone and it too. Haven't tried much with my new phone (Xperia S) - might try later. It's not just a problem with the speaker itself, bluetooth connection from my Laptop works fine.
Thinking about it, I guess it could be an interference problem though - I only tend to stream from my laptop in my room, but use it with my phone/tablet most often in the kitchen.
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Been doing some digging around, and appears that there are a stack of bug reports about bluetooth audio being broken in android 4.2.
I've got this same speaker, and love it. Sound is great with my Nexus 7 and with my Droid 4. I had severe stuttering issues with my Nexus 7 on 4.2, and have recently reverted back to a 4.1.2 ROM and have no stuttering issues at all.
I just got a new VZW Moto X, (4.2.2) and while trying to stream bluetooth audio to my car stereo via an isimple connect kit (ISHD651), I get a very annoying static/crackling sound, which makes listening unusable. My old phone (HTC Droid Incredible 2) (2.3.7) worked great, with no issue whatsoever. However, the Moto X does work fine with my wife's car stereo (Pioneer DEH-X9500BHS). This seemed very strange, so I did a bit of investigating with a bunch of our devices. The Droid Inc2 (2.3.7), Nexus 7 (4.3), and Wikipad 7 (4.1.1), all worked fine. My Acer A500 (4.0.3?) and the Moto X both exhibited this crackling with my iSimple Connect car kit, but worked fine when streaming to other devices.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Is anyone smarter on bluetooth a2dp that could explain what might be happening here? Are there any other ideas of what I can try?
This is extremely frustrating, as I bought and installed the iSimple kit specifically for this purpose, so I could stream audio and control play/skip from my car stereo, and it was working great with my Incredible 2, but that phone was showing its age.
I've seen some info about other 4.2.x devices having bluetooth audio quality issues, but I wasn't sure if it was the same problem or not.
Any ideas?
mpkrcl said:
I just got a new VZW Moto X, (4.2.2) and while trying to stream bluetooth audio to my car stereo via an isimple connect kit (ISHD651), I get a very annoying static/crackling sound, which makes listening unusable. My old phone (HTC Droid Incredible 2) (2.3.7) worked great, with no issue whatsoever. However, the Moto X does work fine with my wife's car stereo (Pioneer DEH-X9500BHS). This seemed very strange, so I did a bit of investigating with a bunch of our devices. The Droid Inc2 (2.3.7), Nexus 7 (4.3), and Wikipad 7 (4.1.1), all worked fine. My Acer A500 (4.0.3?) and the Moto X both exhibited this crackling with my iSimple Connect car kit, but worked fine when streaming to other devices.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Is anyone smarter on bluetooth a2dp that could explain what might be happening here? Are there any other ideas of what I can try?
This is extremely frustrating, as I bought and installed the iSimple kit specifically for this purpose, so I could stream audio and control play/skip from my car stereo, and it was working great with my Incredible 2, but that phone was showing its age.
I've seen some info about other 4.2.x devices having bluetooth audio quality issues, but I wasn't sure if it was the same problem or not.
Any ideas?
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I just changed from a 2.3 device to a droid mini running 4.4. I have the same problem. I've contacted Isimple to open a ticket and hopefully see if they will release a patch to flash the isimple connect gateway with. The droid mini works without issue with a bluetooth speaker that I connect to - but does not work properly in the car.
The symptoms are slowed audio, and crackling.
mpkrcl said:
I just got a new VZW Moto X, (4.2.2) and while trying to stream bluetooth audio to my car stereo via an isimple connect kit (ISHD651), I get a very annoying static/crackling sound, which makes listening unusable. My old phone (HTC Droid Incredible 2) (2.3.7) worked great, with no issue whatsoever. However, the Moto X does work fine with my wife's car stereo (Pioneer DEH-X9500BHS). This seemed very strange, so I did a bit of investigating with a bunch of our devices. The Droid Inc2 (2.3.7), Nexus 7 (4.3), and Wikipad 7 (4.1.1), all worked fine. My Acer A500 (4.0.3?) and the Moto X both exhibited this crackling with my iSimple Connect car kit, but worked fine when streaming to other devices.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Is anyone smarter on bluetooth a2dp that could explain what might be happening here? Are there any other ideas of what I can try?
This is extremely frustrating, as I bought and installed the iSimple kit specifically for this purpose, so I could stream audio and control play/skip from my car stereo, and it was working great with my Incredible 2, but that phone was showing its age.
I've seen some info about other 4.2.x devices having bluetooth audio quality issues, but I wasn't sure if it was the same problem or not.
Any ideas?
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Update your device to 4.4.2
MOTO X SLAPPED
jmel said:
I just changed from a 2.3 device to a droid mini running 4.4. I have the same problem. I've contacted Isimple to open a ticket and hopefully see if they will release a patch to flash the isimple connect gateway with. The droid mini works without issue with a bluetooth speaker that I connect to - but does not work properly in the car.
The symptoms are slowed audio, and crackling.
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I've tried pursuing the problem from both the PAC(ISimple) and Motorola ends. Never got anywhere. 4.4.2 on my Moto X doesn't fix the problem either. I've pretty much just given up on it working. I guess I'm just stuck with using a AUX cable for music. Voice calling works fine, but bluetooth would be much more convenient
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I've tried pursuing the problem from both the PAC(ISimple) and Motorola ends. Never got anywhere. 4.4.2 on my Moto X doesn't fix the problem either. I've pretty much just given up on it working. I guess I'm just stuck with using a AUX cable for music. Voice calling works fine, but bluetooth would be much more convenient
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I have a ticket in with PAC. I told them the whole issue, mentioned this thread, and even offered to beta test a patch.
I suggest you do the same. Call them again, open a ticket. They acted like no one had called before about it.Speak to them on the phone.
I'm using aux for now, but surely this can be fixed. I don't think 4.4.2 would have fixed it... 4.4.3? maybe... isimple isn't the only device that got broken from 4.4 though.
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I have a ticket in with PAC. I told them the whole issue, mentioned this thread, and even offered to beta test a patch.
I suggest you do the same. Call them again, open a ticket. They acted like no one had called before about it.Speak to them on the phone.
I'm using aux for now, but surely this can be fixed. I don't think 4.4.2 would have fixed it... 4.4.3? maybe... isimple isn't the only device that got broken from 4.4 though.
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Unfortunately, I had some issues with technical support this past friday. I have gotten no indication they have even tested the device, nor that they even want to. They have tested ios7 though, and released a document on how to deal with some connectivity issues with ios7 and the isimple.
PAC is blaming google, and says to contact motorola, but we all know that this is futile.
Looks like I might be ditching this thing soon. I am unimpressed with their willingness to even understand the problem, let alone try and fix it. If anyone else has 4.4 and an isimple connect, I urge you to call in and voice any problems you are having.
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So I just got off the phone with PAC as I was experiencing the exact same issues on my 2007 Classic Chev 2500HD. I spoke with tech support and they told me they were unaware of any such issue. I mentioned this forum, but still said that this is the first they herd of it. I do not have the Moto X, but I am having the same problems with my Note 3 Running 5.1.1 CM. If anyone does find a solution this would be truly helpful.
I'm having problems connecting my Nexus 6 to the HandsFreeLink on my 2014 Honda Pilot. When I make a call the Bluetooth connection drops then reconnects again. It happens every 30 sec or so and is driving me crazy! Music from the phone seems to play fine over Bluetooth in the car. Connecting the phone to the car was a ***** too - it took ages to recognize the car. The phone seems to connect to everything else fine. I am rooted if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance!
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Sorry that I cannot help. Not a developer. But I can confirm that issue with 2014 Honda Pilots. Had the same problem with ATT Note 3. It was finally solved by the developer of the ROM I was running. He told me that he did a build.prop change and everything started working. Now, on my current G3 I don't have the issue, except for few times.
There is, however another thing that annoys me. My Pilot is always behind by few seconds. I fear that it is just Honda software. I tried 4 phones with it and everything is the same. I would hear a bip on the phone then few seconds later, like 5, the car plays the same bip. Starting or stopping music is painful to
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OK so occasionally I see threads about BT/Bluetooth issues but although I change my phone frequently I've never had any issues with my Ford Ranger of 3 years... until now.
Worked fine with Note 8, Huawei P20 Pro and anything in between.
The issue recently is when I try and make a call via the Ford pick-up it says no network, but it's playing music at the time no problem and the phone shows up under bluetooth.
If I make a call from the phone it instantly comes up on the car system and I can speak and make the call normally. I unpaired and started over today nut no difference.
Any thoughts?
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OK so occasionally I see threads about BT/Bluetooth issues but although I change my phone frequently I've never had any issues with my Ford Ranger of 3 years... until now.
Worked fine with Note 8, Huawei P20 Pro and anything in between.
The issue recently is when I try and make a call via the Ford pick-up it says no network, but it's playing music at the time no problem and the phone shows up under bluetooth.
If I make a call from the phone it instantly comes up on the car system and I can speak and make the call normally. I unpaired and started over today nut no difference.
Any thoughts?
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I don't have the issue with my Verizon N960U and 2018 Subaru Forester, but there is another thread here with the Same symptoms on a few different makes /models of vehicle.
I tried search but didn't find anything. Anybody got a link please?
Bluetooth works fine in my 2016 F150, now Android Auto is another story.
solved!
Tried a new music App - Pulsar+ and although it took ages to get all the right cover photos (about 40 out of 180 manually searching and downloading) all is well again.
Thanks
I have a Nokia 9PV (TA-1082) and a few months ago the microphone started acting up. When I make or receive a phone call, the other person hears nothing but static. It may have started after the June 2019 update. I've read that this is a common software issue with android phones but I can't find a solution. When I record video, the microphone works properly, with no static recorded. If I test the microphone using a voice recorder app, it records nothing but static. If I make/receive a call using my bluetooth headset, it works fine. I received the August 2019 update today and it hasn't helped the situation.
I purchased the phone in the US and have been using it in Canada on the Rogers network. Everything else seems to work fine except for the microphone. Has anybody else had this problem with the N9PV?
Yes i replaced the phone but still caused by one of the third party programs, when you reboot the phone in safe mode it works ok. any program using the Mic or phone could be causing ie messenger, skype, viber, whats app.
looking for a solution also