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.
hello,
Im running the latest CM11 and nearly everything is running great. I have amazing battery life, the phone never heats up, and I was able to get the LG remote working.
I am however having two problems I was hoping to correct and searching has come up with no solutions.
- I connect to my car everyday and stock rom would display metadata from Google play and Pandora however on CM11 no info is displayed on my kenwood in dash.
- My speakerphone volume and quality is horrible including trying to play music. any volume over about 50% results in distortion and speakerphone volume is so low its unusable.
- I know viper4 android is out there but have not been able to find good information for getting it setup and installed.
Any help with these issues would be appreciated.... the Bluetooth thing i can deal with the speaker issue may mean going back to a stock rom unless i can get this sorted.
Cheers!
ahowie said:
hello,
Im running the latest CM11 and nearly everything is running great. I have amazing battery life, the phone never heats up, and I was able to get the LG remote working.
I am however having two problems I was hoping to correct and searching has come up with no solutions.
- I connect to my car everyday and stock rom would display metadata from Google play and Pandora however on CM11 no info is displayed on my kenwood in dash.
- My speakerphone volume and quality is horrible including trying to play music. any volume over about 50% results in distortion and speakerphone volume is so low its unusable.
- I know viper4 android is out there but have not been able to find good information for getting it setup and installed.
Any help with these issues would be appreciated.... the Bluetooth thing i can deal with the speaker issue may mean going back to a stock rom unless i can get this sorted.
Cheers!
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About your car idk but Play music volume in CM can be increased in DSP Manager if i know correctly
and how u have better battery with CM xD iv got horrible with CM btw CM 11 is fastest and greatest in performance but it has bad battery and random reboots...
Prerevision said:
About your car idk but Play music volume in CM can be increased in DSP Manager if i know correctly
and how u have better battery with CM xD iv got horrible with CM btw CM 11 is fastest and greatest in performance but it has bad battery and random reboots...
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I have tried DSP manager.. does nothing to improve sound quality.
My battery is amazing on the latest CM11 but I am running furnace kernel with some tweaks, I was able to get 34 hrs out of my last charge with moderate use including 1.5 hours of GPS.
I also have not experienced any reboots, this had been my daily for just over a week and have not experienced a single reboot or freeze. actually no problems what so ever aside from the two mentioned in the OP.
Hopefully i can work out these problems this eve or back to stock it will be... gotta have speakerphone.
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.
I'm using an AT&T variant in a Chevy 2015 Equinox. The phone operates fine with calls but stutters and skips with streaming audio. Any app I use it does the same thing; Poweramp, Google Music, Pandora, etc. My wife's iPhone 6 Plus has no issues whatsoever. Is this a phone issue, an AT&T software issue or car issue? Anyone experience anything like this and can give me some direction? TIA
I had something like that happen before. Doesn't happen much anymore. I wasn't streaming though. Listening to podcast I downloaded. It would play fine for a while but then start to stutter. Would work fine after I woke up the phone so assume it had something to do with the processor dropping down too low like it was trying to go to sleep or just the use the low power cores maybe. Just a guess. Doesn't happen anymore though. I'm on t mobile.
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This is a widespread issue with Bluetooth on Android (since about KitKat, possibly earlier) that spans just about every possible combination of hardware and software. It is exactly like you said -- the phone's CPU is too slow to keep up with Bluetooth audio decoding and streaming when the screen is asleep. The CPU governor is too aggressive on saving every last microwatt of battery life, and would rather your experience suffer instead.
The issue is very well-documented, but Google refuses to fix it. See here for hundreds of complaints spanning every major manufacturer and just about every imaginable Bluetooth headphones, speakers, headset, earbuds, etc. etc.:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=95294
its an easy fix, just download kernel adiutor, set the minimum to 500 and see. I personally set the min and max of little cpu to 900 and big to 1200mhz.
Hey everyone,
I've been battling this issue since Day 1, and its been a bumpy road. It seems as though this is a widespread issue across many Android devices, and fixes range but none of them seem to completely eliminate it.
When connected to Bluetooth audio, certain devices, the audio stutters or "skips". Ive noticed this extensively in KItKat. One fix for rooted devices was to increase the idle CPU frequency, I did so with Tasker and it definitely suppressed the stuttering, but did not completely eliminate it.
One of the most notable points of stuttering is when you answer a call via Bluetooth, then hang up. After hanging up, and music resuming, there is a solid ~10-20 seconds of constant stuttering and skipping until playback returns to normal.
Imagine my surprise when I upgraded to 6.0.1, and had absolutely no stuttering without increase CPU frequency or anything! Just buttery-smooth playback, all the way through, even after hanging up a call.
However, a couple of weeks after, the issue came back again. I had to re-enable my task to increase idle CPU frequency, and that horrible stutter after hanging up a call is back, strong as ever. To me this indicates perhaps something I modified after stock interfered., however nothing I can think of should come close to affecting it, other than XPOSED (however, XPOSED was installed prior to this issue coming back up, and no new modules were added)
Additionally, since Marshmallow, my phone won't reconnect automatically to my head unit. For example, when my car is on accessory mode and the stereo is on and BT connected. When I start the car, the system momentarily turns off for ~5 seconds at most, and turns back on. With Lollipop it would automatically reconnect, here is causes some serious problems as the only way to get them to reconnect after is to turn off the stereo and the phone, and turn both back on again. Sometimes I even have to do a couple of cycles.
Does anyone have any ideas?
i tried to do everything possible to fix the issue... I have a stuttering keyboard as well... anykeyboard I use seems to stutter, it lags a little, but most words that i type apear two times...
I have no issues at all like that, or stuttering throughout the system. It is specifically related to Bluetooth audio.
Anyone?
I've always thought kernel
unibomber said:
I've always thought kernel
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If you do not have this problem, what kernel do you use? I just flashed BeastMode today, hoping that will bring me a bit of luck. However as it worked initially and a few weeks later broke down into the pathetic mess once again, I have my doubts
I use power amp and in advance I set thread priority to the highest and audio buffer to 750ms. I've used them all and haven't had skipping
unibomber said:
I use power amp and in advance I set thread priority to the highest and audio buffer to 750ms. I've used them all and haven't had skipping
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Seems to have improved it, but reconnect issue is still present
The reconnect issue may be related to the stuttering.
The unit may be also trying to download contacts at the same time which causes the stutter.
Have you tried unpairing it from the unit, renaming your phone and then pairing it again?
Will Rickards said:
The reconnect issue may be related to the stuttering.
The unit may be also trying to download contacts at the same time which causes the stutter.
Have you tried unpairing it from the unit, renaming your phone and then pairing it again?
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I have in fact tried to re-pair the unit many times, to no avail. Factory resets also yield no benefits. It is set to auto download contacts, I'll try to disable that option to see if it improves anything.
I have the stuttering almost removed, however it still sometimes occurs. On a recent long-distance road trip, it randomly started stuttering after playing flawlessly for 1.5 hours, it was incredibly frustrating. I rebooted the phone, and the stereo, reconnected and it started playing smoothly again. Keep in mind however this is with both raising idle CPU frequency, and changing the poweramp options mentioned in Post #7
Perhaps I should try a custom ROM?
You can also try stopping media scanning. I think there is a xposed plugin
I only notice this on a non-name-brand headset. (Also, after it happens, I disconnect and reconnect...and it works fine from there on out...until Power down) My other 3 don't have this problem. Music plays, get a call, hang up, music pick right up. Didn't read your post in detail to see if you've tried a different pair of BT receiver.
FWIW it's not just you, also use PowerAmp, have the buffer turned up, and also get stuttering. On pvsgh's stock rooted deodex'd debloated 5.1.1 with beast mode 1.92 + ZL fix and both my motorola s10 headset and sharkk speaker stutter from time to time. It does not seem to be universal. In the beast mode thread it bluetooth audio issue was brought up, but didn't really get much attention ::shrugs, palms up:: I even limited them to media only but still get the stuttering.
Like so many things it seems, it worked ok before the MM update (910t3 on dok2 ootb) and now doesn't. Kinda like my ability to sign into enterprise level (work - EAP login) routers...
CM12.1 didn't make a difference in my case. Been on several stockish 5.1.1 roms as well. It still happens. Swapping out roms doesn't appear to pay off. It hasn't for me anyway :-/
Interested to see if a solution (or a cause?) lands here...
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