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Strange problem with bluetooth headset :-(

Hi everyone!
New to this forum but got my Qtek S100 a couple of weeks ago and found an irritating bug in it..
When I use my SonyEricsson HBH-300 Bluetooth headset everything is fine until I've talked for ~7 minutes.. after that the other party doesn't hear me while I still can hear the other party.. Sometimes my mic never comes back during that call but sometimes it's back after about half a minute or so.. the funny thing is that if it comes back it goes away againg in about 14 minutes.. and perhaps 21, 28 and so on.. haven't really made that long calls with that headset because of the bug..
The headset works fine with other phones, at least SE Z1010, SE P900, Nokia 6630 etc..
And the S100 works fine with my Bluetooth GPS..
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Have you got other bluetooth headsets, do they work for long ( +7 minutes) calls?
Cheers
/Rikard, Sweden

di7riks said:
Hi everyone!
New to this forum but got my Qtek S100 a couple of weeks ago and found an irritating bug in it..
When I use my SonyEricsson HBH-300 Bluetooth headset everything is fine until I've talked for ~7 minutes.. after that the other party doesn't hear me while I still can hear the other party.. Sometimes my mic never comes back during that call but sometimes it's back after about half a minute or so.. the funny thing is that if it comes back it goes away againg in about 14 minutes.. and perhaps 21, 28 and so on.. haven't really made that long calls with that headset because of the bug..
The headset works fine with other phones, at least SE Z1010, SE P900, Nokia 6630 etc..
And the S100 works fine with my Bluetooth GPS..
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Have you got other bluetooth headsets, do they work for long ( +7 minutes) calls?
Cheers
/Rikard, Sweden
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That also happened to me in the beggining after erasing the handsfree from my devices and paired it once more its running fine since then!

HI!
di7 riks.....I am using a Motorola HS810 Bluetooth handsfree with my O2 XDA II Mini and the same 7 minute problem is happening to me also. Initially it was 12 minutes but now it is down to 7. I can hear the other party but they can't and then I have to disconnect and dial again.
think I will do as katsj did...try pairing teh device again.
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This is a known issue. Apparently, what is happening is that the device is going to sleep, and bringing down part of the bluetooth with it. The quick'n'dirty solution is to set your device to never power off, and just turn it off manually. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next round of ROM updates :?

I have an "almost" similar problem: I answer the call with the HBH-300 and talk for about 10 seconds after which I can hear nothing (the other part hears nothing also). If I close the handsfree from the MDA Compact then I can continue talking from the MDA (the call is not ended).
If I close the call and make a new call I get the same problem. But if I switch off the HBH-300 headset and switch it on again then the problem stops and in the following calls I can talk using the HBH-300.
This problem appeared only twice in the 15 days that I am using the MDA.
Obviously the phone did not power off in 10 secs (it was on when I had the problems) so the "sleep issue" mentioned previously could not have created the problem. Only the backlight goes off in 10 seconds. Do you think that the backlight might cause problems to the bluetooth?! :shock:

atsois said:
I have an "almost" similar problem: I answer the call with the HBH-300 and talk for about 10 seconds after which I can hear nothing (the other part hears nothing also). If I close the handsfree from the MDA Compact then I can continue talking from the MDA (the call is not ended).
If I close the call and make a new call I get the same problem. But if I switch off the HBH-300 headset and switch it on again then the problem stops and in the following calls I can talk using the HBH-300.
This problem appeared only twice in the 15 days that I am using the MDA.
Obviously the phone did not power off in 10 secs (it was on when I had the problems) so the "sleep issue" mentioned previously could not have created the problem. Only the backlight goes off in 10 seconds. Do you think that the backlight might cause problems to the bluetooth?! :shock:
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I am facing both problems described here. Does anyone know of a solution?

This is a known issue, but unfortunately it is not stated on Club IMate as a known issue.
This is concerning, because I assume i-Mate Techs are not working on this issue.
Over at Howards Forums Bengalboy states if you press the devices call button twice the headset incoming audio gets reactivated. I have yet to test it, because my caller hangs up before I get the device out of the case to press the call button twice.
One of these days I will beat the clock.
1.5 years ok, way back in Oct-03 I remeber many of us scrambling about all the MS Stack issues on the MDA II/XDA II, etc, and eventually tools were developed to help the issues.
I get rid of the PDA2K, because of all it's issues. Now the PDA2K has a better ROM and a new fix for the Broadcom stack.
Oh the misery.

I pressed the power switch on and also pressed the call button twice...I dont know which worked but my call did not get disconnected after the 7th minute...
Ujj

BT headset cutting out
I have the same problem - BT headset cutting out after a limited period of time, ~10 seconds.

Same problem here, when using bluetooth headset people can't hear me after 8 minutes, pressing the green talk button twice restores the connection.
Second problem: phone does not answer call automagic with bluetooth headset. (jabra BT 200)
Third problem: no voice dialing and no possibility to hear who is calling.
Are these MS Bugs or HTC Bugs?
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For the swedish Qtek S100 this issue was solved in the latest software update (1.06).

bamse said:
For the swedish Qtek S100 this issue was solved in the latest software update (1.06).
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This is interesting - I'm running rom 1.06.00 WWE and extRom 1.06.115. I noticed that they have a extRoom 1.06.116 there, is that the one you are running?

espenleknes said:
bamse said:
For the swedish Qtek S100 this issue was solved in the latest software update (1.06).
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This is interesting - I'm running rom 1.06.00 WWE and extRom 1.06.115. I noticed that they have a extRoom 1.06.116 there, is that the one you are running?
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Yes, 1.06.116 it is.
It adds another issue though, making GPRS unable to reconnect after a phone call or USB Active Sync.

Hit the power button to reactivate - not the Green call button.

I also have this problem, when the device goes back to sleep my bluetooth headset microphone no longer works. I can still hear the other caller, however i need to hit the power button (Red one on the side) to get working again.
No need to disconnect the caller.

Polaris bluetooth mute issues

I didn't want to open yet another Polaris bluetooth problems but none were like mine.
I have the O2 Orbit 2 and I had bluetooth mute problems which were usually resolved with soft reset, I think that ever since I installed HTC's official bluetooth mute fix the mute problems got worse.
Every couple of calls or when I plug something to the mini usb (ear phone, charging, data, etc') my bluetooth is muted, the connection is established and I think I do hear through it but with extremely low volume (less then a whisper, more like back ground noise) the mute almost never fixes itself, it goes on even if I flash with a different ROM!!, what fixes it is playing with turning on and off the connection to the headset while in call or, while in call pluging and removing the wired headset, once it's back, it usually stays ok until (randomly) when I plug something to the usb, at first I though it will never work again (flashing something like 10 different roms...) but this fix is less then convenient, again, sadly the official fix doesn't help.
Anyone knows the return policy to O2 from Germany? I live at Israel so I think it might be a problem...

Same problem for me.
After the original fix, my bluetooth headset is always mute.
I have ordered a new original HTC M200 headset. I hope it will work............

Original M200 arrived today.
Don't work. Always mute.
I have tried to uninstall the original fix without any resultate.

Did you get yours to work?
You can try the on/off trick, I usually call my voicemail when the mute starts and then goto options and turn handsfree off, then again turn it on, sometimes it works after 4-5 tries sometimes after 2-3 minutes...
Sometimes the voice comes back in slow motion!!, I thought at first that it was garbled, but once I have a voice mail of a woman who talked fast so when the voice came back in slow motion she sounded like a very low voice slow talking man.

no, don't work on any headset......
It's a hardware problem ??

Hey guys...just wondering if you guys found a solution to this problem. I have this problem with my touch pro. The A2DP works, but for some reason handsfree through bluetooth is muted and I can't unmute. Hope you guys found a fix and can help me out.

Bluetooth settings for handsfree - without incoming call delay

Hey folks,
I've been struggling with this issue for months now and couldn't find a solution yet. Had the same problem with my Polaris before.
When using BT Handsfree profile, either with my Jabra 250 headset or with my built in car handsfree (Parrot) I get a more or less big delay after accepting a call until the audio stream is transferred from my phone to the BT device.
Meaning, accepting the call in the car results in like 5 seconds delay until I can actually hear what the person on the other end is saying. Until then the voice is still routed via the phones builtin speaker, as if no BT device would be connected.
Same happens with my Jabra headset, though the delay is less there. Maybe 2-3 seconds sometimes.
I tried playing around with Shaps Advanced Config or HD Tweak Bluetooth settings, but no luck so far :-(
Could anyone who is using BT handsfree devices, especially car kits, tell me if you get your audio on your BT device right away, without delay on your BT device? If yes, please tell me exactly what settings you are using for your BT on the phone, e.g. Bitpool min/max, Audio Gateway on/off, Joint Stereo Yes/No etc.
Please let me know if ya using S2U2 as well, I think this could add up to the problem, though for me I still have the issues when I disable S2U2
thanks,
boba

i am using a Bury comfort BT and it rings 2-3 seconds b e f o r e my phone rings! i did not tweaked any settings in my HD. i am not using s2u2.

I also have a Parrot in car hands-free system. Have to say, whilst there are and have been some 'issues' (from time to time) a long delay when an incoming call is accepted isn't one I get.
I don't have the 2 programs you mentioned, as I'd not heard of them before - so I'm running my HD (as far as BT goes at least) in stock trim - FYI I have the auto-answer selected (in 'Settings>Phone>More') set to talk after 4 rings, as a personal pref.
I do have issues with the BT on these phones - I think it's a WinMo thing though, as it's been the same on all the WinMo phones I've had - the BT is pretty retarded unfortunately and it's the one major gripe I have with it and ultimately 'put up with' (very begrudgingly, as it's a feature I use a lot)
Issues are;
Occasionally the phone will answer instead of the car kit (if it's in my pocket - although I may have solved that by having pocketshield 'slide to answer' on there now)
It will NOT auto-answer at all on my BT stereo headphones NOR [more annoyingly] my Scala-Rider motorcycle helmet kit (where every other 'normal' phone I have had has done so with no issues at all)
Every now and again it will freeze the car-kit by showing that there is an active call, when there isn't - and the only way out of it is a soft reset of the HD itself
I only wish there was a fix/tweak for the BT in WinMo - but it seems that most programmers don't see this as a priority area and as such it's not been resolved - maybe 6.5 will address it...but I'm not holding my breath!

Hello, same problem with my Motorola bt350, with and without s2u2.
Same with stock ROM or with dutty's ROM and other.
Its a known win 6.1 BT stack issue.
Regards
T

@ boba23
If you find a fix for that issue please tell me!!! its so annoying
T

Same issues here. Anyone find a fix.

thought it was mine in car blue tooth that has this problem...good (or bad?) to know that it's not an isolated incident.

same issue...
I have parrot MK9000 and HTC BH S100 (stereo). The delay is the same. I do not think there is going to be a solution.

Ι have the transfer delay BT issue here too.... the others person voice is going out from the phone for 2-5 sec and suddenly its transferred to BT heasedet.
Preety annoying, it happens to all my ΒΤ headssets (Jabra , Samsung) the dead seconds just varies.
Plz guys anyone who has solved this let me know

boba23 said:
Bumping this thread up again, since I am still facing the delay issue. I am pretty sure it's not ROM related, since I had this issue with all 6.1 roms I tried. Right now using Topix 2.7.
Played around with Advanced Config BT settings again, but I still have that incoming call delay with my Jabbra BT250. Mostly takes 3-4 seconds, after accepting an incoming call till I hear sound on my headset. I really can't believe that this is an issue that only a few ppl are facing. I have nothing spectacular installed, even disabled S2U2 to see if that helps, but nothing :-(
boba
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I think this has to do with a combination hands-free / rom version. I have a built in car kit and if I accept the call with phone answer I get the voice right away on the car kit. If I accept it on the radio, it will take 2-4 seconds before sound is transferred to car kit.
I've made another test on a parrot car kit, with same ROM version as before, and it behavior was diferent. If I accept the call on the car kit button, the sound is transferred immediately to the car, if I accept the call on phone button, I get instant sound, but on the phone - private mode....
I made also this test with a plantronics headset, and the sound is transferred right away to the headset either I accept the call on the headset or the phone
so
I am using topix 2.9.4 6.1 rom version - but already tested with several 6.1 roms and 6.5 - behavior is more or less the same

boba23 said:
Bumping this thread up again, since I am still facing the delay issue. I am pretty sure it's not ROM related, since I had this issue with all 6.1 roms I tried. Right now using Topix 2.7.
Played around with Advanced Config BT settings again, but I still have that incoming call delay with my Jabbra BT250. Mostly takes 3-4 seconds, after accepting an incoming call till I hear sound on my headset. I really can't believe that this is an issue that only a few ppl are facing. I have nothing spectacular installed, even disabled S2U2 to see if that helps, but nothing :-(
boba
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Hi Boba, you're not alone I use BT sometimes as a backup.. and I too have an annoying delay of several seconds... at that very moment I think "hey where's the incoming call", I then hear the sound from the normal phone speaker, and when I switch to the normal phone again the sound is passed to BT ....

Bluetooth Incoming Call Delay
Has anyone come across a solution for this yet?
I have always had a 1-2 second delay in being able to hear the caller using my BT250 headset but, after installing the Orange update ROM, the delay seems to have increased to 3-4 seconds. The caller can hear straight away though.
I have just purchased a BT2020 headset and the delay is still 3-4 seconds.
I am not confident in installing different ROMs (because of my limited knowledge) but would install any that will eradicte this really annoying delay. Any suggestions?

alanu said:
Has anyone come across a solution for this yet?
I have always had a 1-2 second delay in being able to hear the caller using my BT250 headset but, after installing the Orange update ROM, the delay seems to have increased to 3-4 seconds. The caller can hear straight away though.
I have just purchased a BT2020 headset and the delay is still 3-4 seconds.
I am not confident in installing different ROMs (because of my limited knowledge) but would install any that will eradicte this really annoying delay. Any suggestions?
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Just spoke with Orange Technical Helpdesk and they are sending me a new handset.......will publish result.

Calling problems on Xperia

Hello XDA crew,
I have some problems and I hope you can help me with that. Xperia phone is really cool but one thing for me is really annoying. And that is the calling performance of Xperia.
These are the main problems:
1. When I plug in the headset, the ringtone plays both on the headset speakers and the phone speaker. Is there a way to let the ringtone play only on the headset speakers?
2. When I plug in the headset, the microphone of the headset isnt active. Only the microphone of the phone is active. So, people can not understand me when I speak to the headset microphone. But they can hear me when I talk to the microphone of Xperia.
These are some other problems but not so important for me:
3. The volume of the call is too high. Even when I set the volume low, people can hear the person who I am talking with.
4. Microfone of Xperia get active after for about two seconds when I answer the phone. So, I have to wait for about 2 seconds to say 'hi'.
5. The answer button of the headset doesn't work.
Can someone help me with this problems or just one of these problems?
Note: I have hardreset my phone two times and reinstalled the ROM software one time via SEUS. I didnt get any result. I have the original Vodafone R2 software.

I have the 2 second delay too. Using gtrab wm6.5 custom rom

M.Ozturk said:
Hello XDA crew,
5. The answer button of the headset doesn't work.
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Unplug the headphone jack during a call and plug again (during the same call) and press the answer button. It will terminate the call and start working (until your next xperia soft reset). Double-press the answer button when idle, and it will repeat the last call. If that doesn't work, try it again and again after the first trick of plugging/unplugging and it will work on your 4th/5th try. From then on, all answer/hangup/'repeat last call' functions will work. Until you soft reset of course.
I'm calling a toll free (service center) number to do the trick whenever I have to use the handsfree.

VanAuberjim said:
Unplug the headphone jack during a call and plug again (during the same call) and press the answer button. It will terminate the call and start working (until your next xperia soft reset). Double-press the answer button when idle, and it will repeat the last call. If that doesn't work, try it again and again after the first trick of plugging/unplugging and it will work on your 4th/5th try. From then on, all answer/hangup/'repeat last call' functions will work. Until you soft reset of course.
I'm calling a toll free (service center) number to do the trick whenever I have to use the handsfree.
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It works (on a WM6.5 rom also)
Nice little trick there, thanks

Tnx for the trick vanauberjim. So it seems more like a hardware problem. Anyway, I will try it tomorrow. Hope that the main problems also be solved like this.

Both 2. and 5. get fixed with the trick, but I just hope SE will find a permanent fix. It's not a solution to unplug and replug the headphones during calls.
My question is: are we the only 3 persons that have this problem? Is this problem originally caused by the headset hardware? Is it caused because the plug is so tight that it severely scratched the middle ring in the headphone jack and it can't always make a connection with the middle ring (the microphone one)? How many people have this problem?

Have the same problem
I do have the same problem and workaround works for mee to but it is annoying!

@vanauberjim, I can ensure you that we are definitely not the only one with these problems. I saw on a popular dutch forum that a lot of people have exactly the same problem.

M.Ozturk said:
@vanauberjim, I can ensure you that we are definitely not the only one with these problems. I saw on a popular dutch forum that a lot of people have exactly the same problem.
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Have you tested with another hands-free set ? is it the phone or the hands-free causing the problem?
I have send my hands-free to SE yesterday so they will check it and if it was ok I will send the phone back.
About 3 seconds of delay when I answer , I haven't done anything yet , is it a bug , I mean do we have this problem or every X1 out there.

Ok, post back soon because if it's faulty hands free we only have 6 months warranty on handsfree (and battery) and time's running out. The phone has 2 years warranty so we have plenty of time for its handset's faults.

I got the same problems, is annoying BTW ... and about the trick mmm quiet annoying as well, but if is the only way to make it work, no more than just do it.

shwan_3 said:
Have you tested with another hands-free set ? is it the phone or the hands-free causing the problem?
I have send my hands-free to SE yesterday so they will check it and if it was ok I will send the phone back.
About 3 seconds of delay when I answer , I haven't done anything yet , is it a bug , I mean do we have this problem or every X1 out there.
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I think it's a phone problem. I use the original headset and sometimes when I plugin the headset the phone calles the person who I have called earlier. Now I have another stupid problem. When I plugout the headset, the phone still thinks that the headset is plugged in on the phone. I see the headset icon on the phone and when I call someone, I cant hear and speak with the person. Only way I can do this is to plugin the headset again and speak that way. When I plugin and plugout for several times, the headset icon dissapears and I can make my call again without a headset. I think that alle these problems are because the jack plug doesn't function good.
Another issue. I call it issue because it's not a problem, but just a stupid choise of sonyericsson:
- Some soundnotifications during calling like 'busy tone' or 'waiting tone' plays from the main speaker of the phone in instead of the calling/ear speaker. This way, all the people who are sitting next to you hears that the person who you are calling is busy
It will be for the 4th time that I go to the shop with a problem. So I will ask to the shopper if I can choose another phone. I'm thinking about the Touch Pro 2. I'm sick of the problems of Xperia. Don't think that HTC will have the same problems.

Strange Audio problem with Trinity

Hi Folks,
I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem since I couldn't find any posts on it.
My Trinity worked perfect for the 1st. yr and a half that I had it. I ran the original WM5 and a cooked WM6 with no problems.
Eventually I upgraded to one of the cooked WM6.1s and at some point (can't remember when) I had an issue where the mini usb 3.5" stereo adapter I was using would every now and then not work properly (as in the Trinity would play sound through the external speaker as if it was not connected). Usually to get it to work I would do a soft reset or 2 and then plug in the original HTC headphones directly into the port. Eventually this would get it to work and then everything worked great for months (I ran into this problem like 2 times in 5 months or so).
Now I have a wierd issue where sound through the phone without anything connected disappears. The external speaker works- I can hear the ringtone, but once the call is answered (or if I make a call) I cannot hear anything through the ear nor can the person hear anything from me (all I hear is dead silence as if no phone call is taking place - the other party knows its connected and wonders why I'm not answering). This happens whether I do speakerphone or not. When this happens I also cannot get any other sounds from the phone to work such as playing an MP3 for instance. No sounds will come out of the phone's speakers. When I soft reset the phone several times it will work properly except.
If i leave the phone sitting for hours and then I come back to it, check to see if sound is working by raising/lowering the volume (and listening to the little tones it makes) it works. But then if I try to make a phone call it will:
A. work for a few seconds then revert to the problem of no sounds at all (speakerphone and/or non speakerphone)
B. work for hours - I can make 2 hr. phone calls with no issues
Problem is I don't know when it will do which. I thought it might be software related (since I didn't drop/break/dip into water, etc. the phone) and since this only happened since I was using WM6.1. So I upgraded the ROM to one of the WM6.5 w/ Titanium. The problem has not disappeared and may have increased.
I am stumped Any Ideas?
(sorry for the long post)