Bluetooth audio stutter - G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Since a few months I've been using a bluetooth audiobox for audio-playback. Without any problem.
With the recent Marshmellow stock update a stuttering occurs when the phone is doing anything else besides playing music. This stuttering occurs on the small bluetooth JBL box as well as a Plantronics headset.
What can be the issue causing the stuttering?
I've turn off as much processes I can find, but to no avail. I hope there is a simple solution.
I'm using the stock rom, rooted and the xposed framework is installed.

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Bluetooth A2DP stuttering, doesn't happen with any other device

My N1's a year old, and recently it's developed an issue where A2DP stereo headsets stutter profusely with any sort of music, even when I'm right next to the device.
My headset and car audio pair fine with both my N1 and my Desire, but the N1 stutters like hell even in close range, whereas the Desire works freely throughout a room or the car.
I'm using CM7 and even switched to CM6 to test after numerous people reported it's a new BT stack in 2.3.3 that's causing the issue, but the problem still thrives.
Any suggestions on what to do?
Even flashed back to a stock EPE54B unrooted image. Same problem.
Radio issues, perhaps?

Choppy audio on bluetooth since 4.0.4

Hi all!
Since ICS i have choppy audio via bluetooth. I've tried from flashing different kernels/roms to fullwipes. It works on GB based roms (i've downgraded a couple of times to check).
The thing is... i like ICS and JB, but this issue is like a rock in my shoe
I bought this headphones in Deal Extreme. The headphones model is the t909s. These works on other phones, so this doesn't seem to be the problem.
Does anyone know something about it? someone has the same issue?
i am using a Jabra stree2 headset and on Stock ICS 4.0.4 and works very well.. no issue what so ever
I am having the same issue - Samsung Galaxy Note.
When I was on gingerbread 2.3, I had no issue with streaming audio via bluetooth - smooth and crisp.
When I updated to ICS 4.0.4 OTA, I noticed my bluetooth audio would lag and skip which caused the audio to be choppy
Things i have noted:
-Bluetooth audio: Skip/lag/choppy on certain tracks (i read from other forums that this is due to 320kb)
-Aux audio (bluetooth turned off): As good as it was on Gingerbread 2.3 - clear smooth audio
-Aux audio (bluetooth turned on, but not connected): Audio began to skip and was chopping even though it was plugged in directly. **INTERESTING**
So it would seem that turning on the bluetooth signal itself causes the audio to lag......
I am having the same issue....exactly d same prob i am facing...
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[FIX] Possilbe A2DP Streaming Workaround

Stuttering and skipping streaming are very known issues on many jelly bean devices.
The most times when I listen to music in my car, i do this via bluetooth. So it is really annoying me and some day, I will have an accident, while I am fumbling with my HTC One.
I replaced the audio.a2dp.default.so with one of the Nexus 4 (4.2.2) and it just worked well, but only the first time using bluetooth streaming after rebooting the device.
I changed some settings in audio.conf and it still stutters.
But then, i deactived wifi while the device was streaming and all stuttering and skipping was gone.
So... can someone just confirm, whether the a2dp streaming works correctly, when wifi is deactived?
I want to know, whether this is the only point to get this work and I don't want to change my working mess
is nobody interested in this?
I posted this bluetooth issue a while back on this forum, and the issue is corrected by switching off WIFI while using BT. Apparently the new update which is due soon fixes the issue but only one user has confirmed that so far.
Since I use bluetooth streaming on the car mainly, I use Tasker so that when Bluetooth connects, it automatically switches WIFI off (don't need WIFI while driving and saves battery), and when it disconnects it switches it back on. This way the phone just works seamlessly.
Just turning the wifi off and back on again when I connect bluetooth seems to solve this issue for me.
i can confirm - turning wifi on/off fixes it as well for me (until next time I go bluetooth)
I discovered this a couple of weeks ago too. I was about to send it back too. Cant live without podcasts and audible in the car!
I have the problem that i cant even here any sound on my HTC CAR A100 Car Stereo Clip, even if wlan is deactivated With my old sensation everything is okey..
Gleetch said:
I replaced the audio.a2dp.default.so with one of the Nexus 4 (4.2.2) and it just worked well, but only the first time using bluetooth streaming after rebooting the device.
I changed some settings in audio.conf and it still stutters.
But then, i deactived wifi while the device was streaming and all stuttering and skipping was gone.
So... can someone just confirm, whether the a2dp streaming works correctly, when wifi is deactived?
I want to know, whether this is the only point to get this work and I don't want to change my working mess
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I wonder if this also improves the bitpool value. I'm noticing on my HTC One that bluetooth streaming quality is not very good. From what I've read it has to do with a bitpool value that it set too low, increasing this value is supposed to increase the streaming quality. Highs sound distorted on my phone over BT I can't believe Google/HTC have not addressed this issue.
I have not been able to solve the bluetooth audio streaming issue by turning off WiFi for my car. It works perfectly fine with my Jambox even with WiFi turned on, but in the car, it does not work either way and I'm using software version 1.29.401.13
CelticDiablo said:
I have not been able to solve the bluetooth audio streaming issue by turning off WiFi for my car. It works perfectly fine with my Jambox even with WiFi turned on, but in the car, it does not work either way and I'm using software version 1.29.401.13
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I'm running 1.29.401.13 too and it looks like it is working nearly perfect for now. I can remember only one time, when it stopped for a second. Mabye the car radio is facing similar problems? Did you try to update the firmware or whatever of you car radio?
Gleetch said:
I'm running 1.29.401.13 too and it looks like it is working nearly perfect for now. I can remember only one time, when it stopped for a second. Mabye the car radio is facing similar problems? Did you try to update the firmware or whatever of you car radio?
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I've tried researching how to update the firmware of my car's bluetooth, but have had zero luck there as well. It's a 2009 Acura TSX.
TheUntouchable said:
I have the problem that i cant even here any sound on my HTC CAR A100 Car Stereo Clip, even if wlan is deactivated With my old sensation everything is okey..
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Did you manage to fix the problem with the A100 as mine is exactly the same, works fine on my Sensation but no the HTC One.
have the same problem:
If wifi is ON and bluetooth is ON, eg at streaming youtube over the bluetooth headset, it stutters and has distortions.
If wifi is OFF and stream a video from the sdcard over bluetooth all is fine.
what i find out:
I use the JellyBean from Quarkx for defy.
The build from 7.3.2013 worked
All later builds, with the new wifi driver had this problem.
But its a known bug that JellyBean has a2dp issues, i guess.
This trick, to change audio.a2dp doesnt helped me
I didn't noticed any problem with my phone even when the wifi ON, I'm using the latest radio "4A.16.3250.24_10.38.1150.03L" found in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245615
I don't know if it can help..

Weird problem with speakers and mic

I have a problem with my unrooted Xperia Z with a locked bootloader. My main speaker does not work for any media like music games or videos, but works fine for loudspeaker calls. Also the earpiece speaker doesnt work at all. Another problem i found was that my microphone would not work at all unless it was in a call and i was using loudspeaker. The final problem is that when ever i plug in my earphones, google now pops up and sometimes my phone starts playing music automatically throught the earphones, when i remove the earphones, instea of stopping the music continues but the speakers dont work so it just keeps playing them silently. If anyone knows the soultion to this, please respond as ive searched everywhere and i have not found one solution yet.
UPDATE: i used the application soundabout to reroute the audio and the calls are now fine, the only problem is that when i plug in my earphones the google now problem persists. If i plug in earphones with a mic, i dont get any of these problems and everytime i want to use my internal speaker for media, i have to manually re-route the audio to them. Anybody know a solution to these 2 problems?
I do have the exact same problem, I tried different ROMs and Audio Mods (at the moment I've got a stock ROM) without any change.
Did you somehow fix it?
Exact same problem, i run stock android 5.1.1 build 10.7.A.0.222 locked boot loader. Problem suddenly came up last week during vacation, quite some time after I did OTA upgrade to 5.1.1 - so this is not related to ROM updates.
After installing soundabout (thanks for the hint) the rerouting did not work immediately - i had to set phone to earpiece and media to speaker in the app and reboot for it have an effect.
I think the root cause is, the phone thinks there are headphones connected, when there really aren't. If I use the UKW radio app, it starts and shows headphones as output-icon right away - it should actually complain that there is no reception without phones because the antenna (headphone cable) is missing. Since it doesn't complain I guess that's the culprit.
Any hints how to fix that, without using a rerouting app? (kinda stupid, using bluetooth speakers and so on now needs a manual setting change in soundabout).
I have that phone for more than 2 years now and used headphones maybe twice with it, so a busted headphone-jack is out of the question too.
Guys give it a try.
Thanks Ess Arr, that really works!

Google Home Mini + BT speaker = stuttering music

I encountered stutter when broadcasting music from GHM to my BT speaker. It's like buffering every second. With the Internet connection everything is ok. The router is located near the GHM. When connecting via BT to the phone or through AUX with any other source, my Marshall Acton plays music without any problems. The problem occurs only when the music is broadcast from the GH Mini. It started a couple of days ago. Up to this point, there were no problems for a week. It happens randomly, it can play an hour without stammering, and then start, or vice versa. The GHM itself plays without problems. Tried TuneIn and Google Music. I also tried to reset GHM.
CC Audio has no Bluetooth
Has anyone encountered this problem?
The same thing has been happening for me as well. It only occurs when playing to a Bluetooth speaker. Playback via the Google Home Mini speaker itself is fine and it is right next to the wifi router.
What firmware are you on? Mine are on 1.32.118652. I think it's a preview firmware so it may be a bug in the firmware as nothing I do has made it any better and it was working fine before and has only started over the last few weeks.
athua said:
The same thing has been happening for me as well. It only occurs when playing to a Bluetooth speaker. Playback via the Google Home Mini speaker itself is fine and it is right next to the wifi router.
What firmware are you on? Mine are on 1.32.118652. I think it's a preview firmware so it may be a bug in the firmware as nothing I do has made it any better and it was working fine before and has only started over the last few weeks.
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The same version. Do you remember what version was before the problems started?
Created a topic in Google support - https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/googlehome/e694YsvR9M8
Another person with the same problem - https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/googlehome/wqB5eG1bwaI
I bought the Home Mini yesterday and found the same problem. Any update about it?
Same
Same here. Stuttering music. Thought I was the only one and there was something wrong with my BT speaker. Stuttering music. FW 1.32.118652
Managed to get it working by unpairing and forgetting, and re-pairing. Now it happens every time my BT speaker goes into sleep mode.
More irritating is that when this happens the Google Home Mini defaults back to its own speaker instead of trying to reconnect.
This is firmware basics. Let's hope they iron this out.
My BT speaker will start to studder with about 25% battery left now or when it's actually plugged in. Fresh charge will run fine.
I'm having this issue too. I'm at the latest update at the time and using Harman Kardon Aura speaker
I'm having the same issue on GHM in 2022, using an Anker Soundcore Flare 2. Seems like Google has not fixed this issue. Does anyone know if Google Nest Mini has the same issue too?

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