I had an issue with a New Potato Tunelink and choppy audio (I have a thread in here somewhere).
I bought a Kinivo BTC450 Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit and it does not suffer from the same audio problems, it sounds great... when my phone isn't rebooting.
The only time my phone reboots is in the car. I've disabled Active thinking it might have something to do with that, but no. If I turn off BT the phone doesn't reboot. There is something with my VZW MX and this Kinivo paired together that creates a situation where it unexpected and randomly reboots.
This morning it rebooted almost immediately after connecting. Sometimes I can manipulate the controls, pick a song and start playing it and it will reboot shortly thereafter. Other times it won't reboot and will start working until I go to skip to a song or something. There is no pattern other than BT and this phone hate eachother.
It's frustrating because I don't know when it will reboot. There are no options that I can see to try at this point other than look for something else or plug a stereo miniplug into the MX, which I'm not a fan of doing.
I've not done a factory reset due to the time and inconvenience of getting it all setup again. I've not tried to have VZW replace it.
Any ideas?
Well, a factory reset did not fix this problem.
ShanMan14 said:
I had an issue with a New Potato Tunelink and choppy audio (I have a thread in here somewhere).
I bought a Kinivo BTC450 Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit and it does not suffer from the same audio problems, it sounds great... when my phone isn't rebooting.
The only time my phone reboots is in the car. I've disabled Active thinking it might have something to do with that, but no. If I turn off BT the phone doesn't reboot. There is something with my VZW MX and this Kinivo paired together that creates a situation where it unexpected and randomly reboots.
This morning it rebooted almost immediately after connecting. Sometimes I can manipulate the controls, pick a song and start playing it and it will reboot shortly thereafter. Other times it won't reboot and will start working until I go to skip to a song or something. There is no pattern other than BT and this phone hate eachother.
It's frustrating because I don't know when it will reboot. There are no options that I can see to try at this point other than look for something else or plug a stereo miniplug into the MX, which I'm not a fan of doing.
I've not done a factory reset due to the time and inconvenience of getting it all setup again. I've not tried to have VZW replace it.
Any ideas?
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I've experienced the same thing, but only twice and I connect to bluetooth multiple times per day in both the car and a standalone headset. I can't see any pattern, but it would certainly be nice to know how to prevent it.
I was having trouble with random reboots and I think it was the Updater app running in the background that may have been causing it. I saw that app running, went to Settings and checked for updates (obviously no updates yet). Ever since then, no random reboots. I use Bluetooth every day with a headset and Car audio device. BT working way better than any CM ROM I ran on prior devices.
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so i plugged my (unrooted) N6 into my desktop last night to try to USB tether. Not only did the connection fail (all drivers are installed) but after disconnecting, The ringtones, dialtones, play music, and in-call audio through the earpiece stopped working. I later found out that the audio worked with speakerphone enabled but the mic was not responding. I went through all of Google's troubleshooting steps while chatting with support, performed a factory reset, and even went as far as manually re-installing the factory image (wiped the cache too), all to no avail. Then suddenly this morning just as i was about to RMA the handset with T-mo, it started working again. What i did notice is that the OS may be lowering the volume for these features to some undetectable level and then it gradually turns it up in use. Wondering if anyone has encountered this issue or maybe has some ideas about how to fix this because i am clueless about what happened...
Seriously this Nexus has big issue with the speaker. I see so many thread related to speaker issue....
It has to be all software related. WTH....
jtwlbz said:
Seriously this Nexus has big issue with the speaker. I see so many thread related to speaker issue....
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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
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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
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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?
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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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I've just recently switched to a Samsung S10 (about a month ago) and keep having this issue. I set the media volume to 10% and then, all of a sudden, I'm browsing through facebook and BAM, volume is at 100 and a loud AF sound is playing and I'm in public (since then I disabled the start videos with sound on FB). It is weird to me because when I was using my old Huawei P20 I did not have any type of problems like this, but, nonetheless, I went over all my apps and uninstalled any useless stuff and all apps that somehow relate to sound and music.
Every time I disconnect from bluetooth my media volume resets back to 100. I even set a MacroAndroid to set media volume to 0 when I disconnect bluetooth and it STILL sets it back to 100, almost as if it is fighting the macro to get back to max. This happens on all my bluetooth devices too, it is not exclusive to one.
I unchecked the "use volume keys to media" trying to fix the issue and also turned the volume option on Developer Options -> Networking as well, to no avail.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I have gone through every setting and searched all over google but still coming up with nothing.
Appreciate any help in advance.
Have you figured it out?
I am having the same problem and it is extremely annoying. It happens to me in the browser, but also with Spotify...
Thanks!
very weird issue. stuff like this is usually only ever resolved with a factory reset and if that doesnt do it, its probably the bluetooth stack overflow having issues which is only resolvable by flashing the factory firmware in Odin.
Same problem here... Did anyone find a solution to this problem?
I got the OTA and one of the issues I ran into was actually listening to any media app ( Spotify, Youtube, YT Music, etc. ). Whenever I turn the screen off, the audio stops and when you wake the screen to unlock it has a terrible slowdown. I tried this in Safe mode and even factory reset and the issue is still there. I does not happen with the screen on if you're watching a video, etc. only when the screen goes off. Anyone else having this problem?
Edit: I think I found and workaround for this and was driving me crazy cause I listen to a lot of podcast/music whie driving Go to settings/system/developer options/default usb configuration/ and switch it to " no data transfer ". DO NOT tick any other option.
Yes, I am having the same problem, and since I use a wired headset for work calls all day, this is a significant problem.
Your work-around appears to work, but this needs to get fixed.
I have the exact same problem on my Pixel 6 since the March update, identical symptoms including the massive slowdown, and it's infuriating. While doing tests to try to find a work around it suddenly also blasted to 100% volume for some reason causing hearing damage.
April update fixed this issue.