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Bluetooth failing under stress?

Any of you have a problem with Bluetooth failing? I've noticed that while tethering, if I'm doing anything particularly high-bandwidth, Bluetooth utterly fails. For example, while downloading torrents, watching youtube videos, or video calling, my connection fails and I need to soft reset my phone before it'll work again.
If I try turning Bluetooth off, then on again before a soft reset, the phone hangs at the "turn Bluetooth on?" query screen and doesn't turn it back on. After a reboot, everything's fine till it fails again. It's not my data connection, because I can still browse the web from my phone.
dartinbout in the eXpo users' group seems to have been having similar problems with his stereo Bluetooth headset.
I also seem to recall having similar problems with WMWifiRouter as well, but I can't test it anymore as my trial period has run out.

my bluetooth fails when listening to music on a stereo headset. i have to reset and reconnect after it stops playing and freezes.
when i try to use wmwifirouter it does not show a 3g to bluetooth option and internet sharing bluetooth pan will not work.
a few times i have turned on my phone and it said failed to load bluetooth stack. it also has given a similar error when bluetooth was on but not in use.
i hope the custom roms can have different bluetooth stacks more like the htc bluetooth stacks

You know what, after dealing with this problem for a while, that sounds exactly like the problem I'm having. WMWifiRouter will stop working after a while, and when I restart the phone I get the same errors. Internet Connection Sharing fails when I watch videos, very, very often while I'm watching YouTube or trying to video chat with someone. I actually watch my data transfer go from downloading and uploading to absolute 0.
I haven't contacted LG about it yet, but it's driving me nuts... >_<
EDIT: Just to double check, nev310, when your bluetooth fails, are you also using it to tether, either through WMWifiRouter, or through ICS? I ask because I use bluetooth for music at work all day and it never fails, but when I come home and use either ICS or WMWR it fails between 1 to 10 (at last count) times, without using a bluetooth headset.

-Tj- said:
You know what, after dealing with this problem for a while, that sounds exactly like the problem I'm having. WMWifiRouter will stop working after a while, and when I restart the phone I get the same errors. Internet Connection Sharing fails when I watch videos, very, very often while I'm watching YouTube or trying to video chat with someone. I actually watch my data transfer go from downloading and uploading to absolute 0.
I haven't contacted LG about it yet, but it's driving me nuts... >_<
EDIT: Just to double check, nev310, when your bluetooth fails, are you also using it to tether, either through WMWifiRouter, or through ICS? I ask because I use bluetooth for music at work all day and it never fails, but when I come home and use either ICS or WMWR it fails between 1 to 10 (at last count) times, without using a bluetooth headset.
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when it fails i am listening to music through a lg hsb-250 bluetooth headset at work with screen off using wmp. when i load wmwifirouter the 3g to bluetooth button is grayed out and i cannot use it. i have used 3g to wifi and when i close the connection and close wmwifirouter my phone acts like it doesnt even have wifi. doesnt show it in wireless manager at all i have to do a soft reset.
since i did a hard reset i have not had a bluetooth crash but it use to crash everyday sometimes only after a few minutes of listening to music.
the only way i can use bluetooth tethering is through the intenet sharing app after changing the registry to use media net but my car pc will say i have no internet access when connected, my laptop works fine..if this phone wasnt so fast all this would be a huge problem but i just deal with it. i hope it can be fixed in a rom update or cooked rom.
also.... (unrelated) the other day i turned on my htc fuze and waited for it to boot up tried to connect to wifi and load opera...took over a few minutes and the screen just feels weird and i have to hold it was up to my face i used it for over a year and now im like how did i use this phone lol. but what i did notice is i have a 6.1 rom on it and have more free ram than used ram(i think about 50mb used out of 203mb) so i started to see how many apps i could run with out them closing and running out of ram lol. all that free ram made me kinda want a 6.1 rom for the expo .i also wanted to make a thread to see what phones people had before their expo/iq

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Any of you have a problem with Bluetooth failing? I've noticed that while tethering, if I'm doing anything particularly high-bandwidth, Bluetooth utterly fails. For example, while downloading torrents, watching youtube videos, or video calling, my connection fails and I need to soft reset my phone before it'll work again.
If I try turning Bluetooth off, then on again before a soft reset, the phone hangs at the "turn Bluetooth on?" query screen and doesn't turn it back on. After a reboot, everything's fine till it fails again. It's not my data connection, because I can still browse the web from my phone.
dartinbout in the eXpo users' group seems to have been having similar problems with his stereo Bluetooth headset.
I also seem to recall having similar problems with WMWifiRouter as well, but I can't test it anymore as my trial period has run out.
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The bluetooth issue is one that I've had with my handset since I got the phone back in December. First when I would have my bt headset paired and I'd answer a phone or stream audio it would work fine. Then out of nowhere someone would call or I would make a call, and I couldn't hear anything through the headset. I would have to reset the bluetooth or reset the device. My phone would get hung on the "Turn Bluetooth on" screen just like yours does and I'd have to reset the phone. I have repeatedly talked to LG about this and they said I would have to send in the phone.
This also happens when I tether over bluetooth. It will work for a bit, but after a while even with no traffic the connection fails. The phone still says its connected though.
I bought a Tilt 2 from a user on ebay so I'm going to use that phone while my eXpo is away at LG. It appears to be hardware related though.

SPIDER, you better not leave eXpo forums. Hope it gets fixed!

phatride4ever said:
SPIDER, you better not leave eXpo forums. Hope it gets fixed!
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lol. Nah, My wife has my Tilt that I upgraded from to the eXpo, and I'll give her my tilt 2 when I get the eXpo back. I will say though, LG could definitely learn a thing or two from HTC when it comes to smartphones. My expo so far has made me doubt my choice of it over the tilt 2 and my experience in the DAY that I've had the tilt2 has made me doubt my original choice even more. I'm hoping that once they fix it and I get back a fully functional phone I'll put those doubts to rest. I love the snapdragon and the possibilities that come with it, but I'd take the slower processor of the tilt2 over a snapdragon phone that doesn't work worth a damn most of the time.
(crosses fingers)

[Q] Bluetooth DUN from Nook Color to BlackBerry

So, I have been playing with the latest CM 7 build on my Nook Color that has Bluetooth enabled. Are there any applications that can Bluetooth tether a android tablet to a BlackBerry? I've got PDANet on my BlackBerry so it is advertising a bluetooth network conenction, but there isn't anyway I know of to connect to it using Bluetooth DUN. I know Ipas has the iBluever....is there anything similar in android world?
On a side note, bluetooth has been working well for copying contacts, video and pics. I don't have anything else to try pairing with (except my laptop) so limited in what I can test. All in all, can't wait for this to get rolled into the honeycomb build (if that is possible).

Now that I got BT working on my NC with CM7 I am also looking to teather my nc to a nokia E52..

Not sure about bumping etiquette around here, so I hope I'm not stepping on any toes, but I'm also interested in tethering a non-Android/iOS phone to my NC over bluetooth. I have a Sony Ericsson W760, which tethers really easily to any PC with SE's PC Suite application. The devices will connect, allowing the phone to act as a remote for the NC (maybe useful if NC is connected to a stereo for music) and allowing one-way file transfer from phone to NC, but that's it. I'd love to tether 3G, GPS, or even the camera and mic/speakers.

I would think it wasn't possible because of BlackBerry limitations (I'm a pretty hardcore BB geek) but as the OP points out, iBluever does it for ipod.
Maybe a dev here would be able to do something like this?
Just spent about 15 minutes googling it and couldn't find any app that would do it.

ArmitageID said:
So, I have been playing with the latest CM 7 build on my Nook Color that has Bluetooth enabled. Are there any applications that can Bluetooth tether a android tablet to a BlackBerry? I've got PDANet on my BlackBerry so it is advertising a bluetooth network conenction, but there isn't anyway I know of to connect to it using Bluetooth DUN. I know Ipas has the iBluever....is there anything similar in android world?
On a side note, bluetooth has been working well for copying contacts, video and pics. I don't have anything else to try pairing with (except my laptop) so limited in what I can test. All in all, can't wait for this to get rolled into the honeycomb build (if that is possible).
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Hi guy，I and your case I use the BlackBerry 9700 pdanet also can not connect! !
You solve this problem?
Want your help ~

look for an app called NC tether or nookcolor tether in the android market... allowed me to tether to my iphone running MyWi...

I have installed the NC tether, but can not be found to the 9700's PDANET.

my skype:fuzhen1002
can u add my.
THS

Here is a BT pan commit that will be in the next nightly http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,6603,might help,there is a line referring to bt tether.
Ian

Does this work with any phone, in my case Nokia 5230?
Thanks.

SmartQ Q5 Bluetooth Dial Up Network
ArmitageID said:
So, I have been playing with the latest CM 7 build on my Nook Color that has Bluetooth enabled. Are there any applications that can Bluetooth tether a android tablet to a BlackBerry? I've got PDANet on my BlackBerry so it is advertising a bluetooth network conenction, but there isn't anyway I know of to connect to it using Bluetooth DUN. I know Ipas has the iBluever....is there anything similar in android world?
On a side note, bluetooth has been working well for copying contacts, video and pics. I don't have anything else to try pairing with (except my laptop) so limited in what I can test. All in all, can't wait for this to get rolled into the honeycomb build (if that is possible).
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Try this software: SmartQ Q5 Bluetooth Dial Up Network
The author's site is here: http://android.gval.biz/Q5_Bluetooth_DUN_installations.php

voided said:
Try this software: SmartQ Q5 Bluetooth Dial Up Network
The author's site is here: http://android.gval.biz/Q5_Bluetooth_DUN_installations.php
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I was able to set it up per the instructions, attempting to pair my NookColor to a Sony Ericsson W760 (JAVA powered walkman phone), but attempting to connect caused my NC to freeze twice in a row, requiring a hard reset.

Bluetooth PAN?

does this work with Android? I'm still trying to get my TP2 to tether my A500...

rorytmeadows said:
does this work with Android? I'm still trying to get my TP2 to tether my A500...
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I could be wrong but I think for now the tablet only has the a2dp profile and that's not even including input. That's straight up media playing through bluetooth only. I've tested it on my PC and my PC doesn't see any profiles to latch on to. My PC's bluetooth dongle has pretty much every BT profile imaginable (Toshiba's newest BT stack).
I think I read this in the manual but I can't be certain. I believe I also read that updates may possibly bring new profiles. But I wouldn't stake my life on that....
We rarely get promises fulfilled when it comes to these things.

rorytmeadows said:
does this work with Android? I'm still trying to get my TP2 to tether my A500...
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I also got the same problem with A500 tether with my iPhone BT PAN, that seems Acer didn't put/make the profile in A500.... my old Archos A70 is working perfectly. Heard that ASUS transformer has no problem with BT PAN... Hope Acer fix this issue in the coming update...

This is solution for Motorola XOOM [ http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/01/how-to-bluetooth-tether-to-motorola-xoom-using-original-droid/ ]. Is it works for Iconia A500?

[Q] WIFI + Bluetooth Keyboard (different Roms, same Problem)

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I found a Viewpad 10S, nearly new, for very low price on Ebay. I had to Buy it!
I've tried using two different Bluetooth Keyboards, with ViewComb 3.2 and JellyBean Rom.
When WIFI is turned on together with a connected bluetooth keyboard, keys are working for a while, then
it beginns, in every aplication, that one key gets locked, and so it is not possible to use
bluetooth keyboard f.e. with surfing in a browser.
exsample:
---> google-search for xda developers
i tipe ---> xda devvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv...
---> endles "v" until i turn wifi off, or wait for a while.
can also be a number, another letter, even commands, "back" f.e.
the keyboard work, with wifi off perfect. or on other devices. my xperia mini pro f.e.
is there a chance for a solution?
P.S.
I post the Question in this forum, becuase i think, this has to do with WIFI, Bluetooth Drivers in the custom Roms

one week, no comment

kenny_hn_mda said:
one week, no comment
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This forum is not that active. The most action is going on at the tabletroms forum.
The only reason that you have this problem could be that wifi and bluetooth together is not a good combination. This is because of the way the tablet is constructed. It is using the same antenna for both wifi and bluetooth and there is just not enough bandwith to serve both. You will see that when you connect an bluetooth stereo headset and listen to streaming music.... It is just not possible. So i think that with your keyboard it is the same problem..

scanno said:
This forum is not that active. The most action is going on at the tabletroms forum.
The only reason that you have this problem could be that wifi and bluetooth together is not a good combination. This is because of the way the tablet is constructed. It is using the same antenna for both wifi and bluetooth and there is just not enough bandwith to serve both. You will see that when you connect an bluetooth stereo headset and listen to streaming music.... It is just not possible. So i think that with your keyboard it is the same problem..
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ok...
that is an answer. i will have a look on the board next days...
maybe i can find the point, where the wires of BT and WIFI come together. if so, i could try to seperate both lines and
set a second antenna, f.e from an old BT-Stick. i will have a look, if this problem is hardware-hackable...
but there is still my opinion, this problem can also be solved, by software.
the stock-rom of the pad, doesn't have this problem. i've tried it some days before. there were no problem to use
BT and WIFI, in different constulations, together.

kenny_hn_mda said:
ok...
that is an answer. i will have a look on the board next days...
maybe i can find the point, where the wires of BT and WIFI come together. if so, i could try to seperate both lines and
set a second antenna, f.e from an old BT-Stick. i will have a look, if this problem is hardware-hackable...
but there is still my opinion, this problem can also be solved, by software.
the stock-rom of the pad, doesn't have this problem. i've tried it some days before. there were no problem to use
BT and WIFI, in different constulations, together.
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That software is in place (abtfilter)
Verstuurd van mijn HTC Vision met Tapatalk

Its a problem with frequency of Bluetooth and WiFi. They are both 2.4ghz and cause interference, not much can be done really. If Vega supports 5ghz WiFi that might be worth a shot,would require you to probably change router.
Its common issue with most devices (my nexus 7 and Vega too).
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

kenny_hn_mda said:
ok...
that is an answer. i will have a look on the board next days...
maybe i can find the point, where the wires of BT and WIFI come together. if so, i could try to seperate both lines and
set a second antenna, f.e from an old BT-Stick. i will have a look, if this problem is hardware-hackable...
but there is still my opinion, this problem can also be solved, by software.
the stock-rom of the pad, doesn't have this problem. i've tried it some days before. there were no problem to use
BT and WIFI, in different constulations, together.
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Just wait for vegabean beta7. Perhaps i have solved the problem...
Verstuurd van mijn HTC Vision met Tapatalk

scanno said:
Just wait for vegabean beta7. Perhaps i have solved the problem...
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sounds interresting!
at the moment i use viewcomb...last version...
sometimes i try the one ore the other tweak...but am not so familiar with linux. so i have to wait, if a pro
will have a serious look on this problem.
not beeing able to use BT and WIFI together takes many options of device away

kenny_hn_mda said:
sounds interresting!
at the moment i use viewcomb...last version...
sometimes i try the one ore the other tweak...but am not so familiar with linux. so i have to wait, if a pro
will have a serious look on this problem.
not beeing able to use BT and WIFI together takes many options of device away
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Beta available with BT/WiFi possibly fixed

Moving to General forum as this is a question thread.

Problem with with bluetooth and WiFi

I've just gotten a bluetooth keyboard. But I've got a problem with using it on the keyboard when I have WiFi on.
With WiFi off the keyboard works fine, the keypresses are instantaneous. When i enable WiFi however, the keyboard becomes slow, rejects keypresses, and repeats keys. It's mostly visible when the tablet is accessing the internet while I'm typing.
Is this a known issue or a defect component in the tablet? Is there anything i can do to mitigate it?

Beaverman20 said:
I've just gotten a bluetooth keyboard. But I've got a problem with using it on the keyboard when I have WiFi on.
With WiFi off the keyboard works fine, the keypresses are instantaneous. When i enable WiFi however, the keyboard becomes slow, rejects keypresses, and repeats keys. It's mostly visible when the tablet is accessing the internet while I'm typing.
Is this a known issue or a defect component in the tablet? Is there anything i can do to mitigate it?
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Same issue here; there is a thread on Google support about it here: https://groups.google.com/a/[email protected]
My "fix" at this point is to use the 5GHz band on my home wireless -- completely alleviates the problem. Unfortunately this is not a solution for all situations.

btitus said:
Same issue here; there is a thread on Google support about it here: https://groups.google.com/a/[email protected]
My "fix" at this point is to use the 5GHz band on my home wireless -- completely alleviates the problem. Unfortunately this is not a solution for all situations.
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It's "good" to know I'm not the only one having problems. and hearing that using the 5Ghz band fixes the problem could explain why i'm not hearing much about it. I saw that thread. But the relatively small number of people experiencing the issue made me unsure about the cause.
Your comment that using the 5GHz band makes it seem like the problem is interference, which would make it a hardware design fault. That wouldn't bode well for a potential software fix.

Beaverman20 said:
It's "good" to know I'm not the only one having problems. and hearing that using the 5Ghz band fixes the problem could explain why i'm not hearing much about it. I saw that thread. But the relatively small number of people experiencing the issue made me unsure about the cause.
Your comment that using the 5GHz band makes it seem like the problem is interference, which would make it a hardware design fault. That wouldn't bode well for a potential software fix.
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Some people seem to think that it was Android 4.3 that broke bluetooth, however, I had 4.3 on my 1st gen Nexus and my Logitech keyboard worked just fine. Interestingly, I never could get a Microsoft BT mouse to work together with the keyboard -- I'd get the repeated keys, etc, making the combo unusable. When I'm connected on 5GHz with my new Nexus, I can get both KB and mouse to work perfectly together.
I agree, I think it's some kind of interference thing. Maybe it can be fixed with firmware? I don't know -- I find it hard to believe that the hardware alone could be mis-designed to conflict like this. However, I since I don't know specifically how hardware and firmware interact to provide functionality, I'm just guessing as to what's really going on.

btitus said:
Some people seem to think that it was Android 4.3 that broke bluetooth, however, I had 4.3 on my 1st gen Nexus and my Logitech keyboard worked just fine. Interestingly, I never could get a Microsoft BT mouse to work together with the keyboard -- I'd get the repeated keys, etc, making the combo unusable. When I'm connected on 5GHz with my new Nexus, I can get both KB and mouse to work perfectly together.
I agree, I think it's some kind of interference thing. Maybe it can be fixed with firmware? I don't know -- I find it hard to believe that the hardware alone could be mis-designed to conflict like this. However, I since I don't know specifically how hardware and firmware interact to provide functionality, I'm just guessing as to what's really going on.
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I'm certain it's not 4.3. I've tried connecting the keyboard to my phone (which is on 4.3) and it works just fine. With or without WiFi.

Just adding that I have the exact same issue. It can be alleviated to some degree with External Keyboard Helper, but there's still no hope when typing addresses into the address bar of browser (which will perform google searches as you're typing to give you autocompletion results).
It's definitely not simply a 4.3 problem, as I've tested my BT keyboard with a N7v1 that is now on 4.3 and it works perfectly.

SubMatrix said:
Just adding that I have the exact same issue. It can be alleviated to some degree with External Keyboard Helper, but there's still no hope when typing addresses into the address bar of browser (which will perform google searches as you're typing to give you autocompletion results).
It's definitely not simply a 4.3 problem, as I've tested my BT keyboard with a N7v1 that is now on 4.3 and it works perfectly.
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So this basically means that there's just about nothing to do about it. that's a real shame.

Have an issue like this. I like to use my Bluetooth to listen to music. With WiFi off works fine. With WiFi on, Bluetooth cuts in and out and sort of static, also with Bluetooth on, WiFi is much weaker. I can usually get my WiFi signal out in my front yard, hens the reason I wanted to use the Bluetooth to listen to music but found when tried to use it I could no longer get the WiFi out front. As soon as I turn it off though, everything was fine.

My bluetooth keyboard goes bananas whenever I switch on Wifi in the 2.4 GHz frequency band.
My Nexus 7 32-gb was made in september 2013.
I contemplate sending it back.

FWIW 4.4 appears to have fixed all my BT keyboard/mouse/headphone issues with WiFi