I'm loving my Galaxy Note 3, with the exception of the sound quality for bluetooth. The mid and lower frequencies are fine, but the high frequencies crackle, pop, and otherwise sound muddled. I've seen that this is a problem with other Android phones. Anyone encountered this? Anyone come up with a fix?
(Incidentally, my wife's GS4 does the same thing in both my car and her car.)
bombstyle said:
I'm loving my Galaxy Note 3, with the exception of the sound quality for bluetooth. The mid and lower frequencies are fine, but the high frequencies crackle, pop, and otherwise sound muddled. I've seen that this is a problem with other Android phones. Anyone encountered this? Anyone come up with a fix?
(Incidentally, my wife's GS4 does the same thing in both my car and her car.)
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I have a Motorola H19TXT and it delivers great highs and lows when listening to music, call quality seems to differ.
bombstyle said:
I'm loving my Galaxy Note 3, with the exception of the sound quality for bluetooth. The mid and lower frequencies are fine, but the high frequencies crackle, pop, and otherwise sound muddled. I've seen that this is a problem with other Android phones. Anyone encountered this? Anyone come up with a fix?
(Incidentally, my wife's GS4 does the same thing in both my car and her car.)
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Same here for regular a2dp.
I've noticed that if I lower the phones Bluetooth output volume down a notch or 2 from max, it clears up the highs a bit compared to max output.
Still, I had to upgrade my devices to AptX compatible receivers to get crystal clear sound.
bombstyle said:
I'm loving my Galaxy Note 3, with the exception of the sound quality for bluetooth. The mid and lower frequencies are fine, but the high frequencies crackle, pop, and otherwise sound muddled. I've seen that this is a problem with other Android phones. Anyone encountered this? Anyone come up with a fix?
(Incidentally, my wife's GS4 does the same thing in both my car and her car.)
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Might want to try installing Viper audio mod too, it gives you a lot of options for tuning sound quality.
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Same here for regular a2dp.
I've noticed that if I lower the phones Bluetooth output volume down a notch or 2 from max, it clears up the highs a bit compared to max output.
Still, I had to upgrade my devices to AptX compatible receivers to get crystal clear sound.
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Upgrading to AptX sounds like a good option. I drive a 2012 Toyota Sequoia; but I doubt there is really any way to upgrade the firmware. I'd probably be stuck with an aftermarket solution.
Had the same problem I noticed that when I uncheck phone audio I get perfect sound. The only thing you won't get to talk through bluetooth until a patch comes out.
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Try unchecking the phone audio from bluetooth settings it work for me. The only problem is that I can't use bluetooth to talk untill a patch fixes the issue. I reported this issue to Samsung.
Running Beans which I think implemented Viper mod,..
Just picked up a Plantronics BackBeat Go, and I am pretty happy with the sound quality. I'm no audiophile by any means, but I'm pretty happy with the A2DP so far.
Hi Bombstyle,
I have a simular issue with my Phillips M1BT's The odd thing is that the interference (pop, crackles) seem to happen more when I'm walking around Brighton. When I'm working at my desk there is little if no interference.
Some further basic tests suggests that the interference increases when the screen is off and the phone is in my pocket, Not sure if there is some form of power-saving issue I'm not aware of. Or if there is generally a lot of potential interference within a busy city
I tried with Call Audio disabled as str077 suggested as well as WiFi disabled.......... so far no golden solution.
str077 - Any further information from Samsung about a patch for your issue?
Check this article out. Could help. I still need to test myself.
www . androidpolice . com/2013/12/28/bug-watch-many-nexus-devices-still-suffer-from-assorted-bluetooth-issues
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(Update: 2/23/10: To replicate the problem, use a bluetooth headset, make a call, then walk away from the phone until you're almost out of range. That's exactly the problem I have when I'm holding the device, it doesn't matter where I am distance wise, the best audio call quality I get STARTS where most phones get when you're too far from the device. Ideas?)
After weeks (3 straight) of searching, I have to finally ask.
Does anyone else have an issue with the quality of their bluetooth connection (calls only) regardless of brand and distance from the phone?
I've purchased nearly 13 different bluetooth devices trying to fix this. Changing the distance from the actual handset (experimenting if there's a different to if the Hero is plugged in or not), the price of the bluetooth unit, what type it was (speaker phone unit only, carkit, headphones, ad2p or not, etc etc), and I still have a poor call quality call.
Reception isn't an issue, I've tried from full bars to almost no bars, and in every instance, when I disconnected the bluetooth and went back to using either speakerphone, headphones, or directly on the device, the noise went away.
You can only hear the noise when the remote party speaks, and it really sounds like the old analog bag phones in bad reception. Is there anything as far as changing settings on the bluetooth to improve the audio quality?
not really. the BT module sends information to the receiver and the receiver decodes that into audio. so you cant really set an EQ for BT with android at least so it basically depends on the receiving unit. while music is playing turn the volume down to 75% on the phone and thats the best quality you will get. im an audiophile and it works for me.
I have a Plantonics Stereo BT.
It works great on my Hero... Much better than my HTC Diamond!
Haven't had any trouble from my Jawbone 1. The sound quality isn't as good as it was on my TP, TP2 or Pre but it's ok. Haven't had any weird noises. But it does randomly disconnect from my Hero. Well the phone says it is still connected but I get no call notifications through it and when I answer, the audio is through the handset. Even right after I finish talking to someone through the BT. Gonna have to chalk it up to the Hero cause I've had no issuse with it on any other phones. Best BT ever in my opinion.
Yeah, I don't know. I have used the Jawbone II, Jawbone Prime, Moto H12, Moto H790, and Plantronics Voyager Pro all with no problems in sound quality, also audio quality is very important to me because I do have some hearing loss. My call quality with the Hero isn't quite as good as with my old Blackberry Curve, but it is still very functional as I use it at least an hour everyday. If you have gone through that many headsets it is quite possibly the device itself.
I don't know, I have 3 Hero's and I honestly don't like the quality of sound on any of them. One of them is just straight stock. I just wish I could get it with a clear quality as my old dumbphones have. I think I've been helped to discover the answer to my question, thank you all!
I can switch back and forth between my SGS and the wife's myTouch on my Kenwood head unit, while the myTouch sounds excellent the SGS is missing the lows and has scratchy highs.
Apparently there was an update for the Korean SGS for improved A2DP sound quality :
http://phandroid.com/2010/07/14/korean-galaxy-s-receives-update-version-dg07-samsung-expects-to-sell-10-million-worldwide/
Anyone else notice, know of a tweak/fix, or maybe how to get the mentioned update?
My vibrant works with my Bluetooth head unit much better than my mytouch did. It does tweak out if the handset it set to max volume but 1 or 2 notches below and its crystal clear. And finally I can listen to music via Bluetooth without having to turn of WiFi like on every HTC device ever made.
Adjusting the BT volume makes no difference for me in terms of audio quality. Anyone else have this issue or is it just the combo of my Kenwood BT unit and this phone?
I have a car stereo that supports streaming Bluetooth audio, my MyTouch 3G Slide sounded great with Pandora (on high quality) or playing MP3's but on the MyTouch 4G there is definitely something 'wrong.'
The audio sounds slightly distorted on both Pandora and MP3s, mostly on high sounds. reducing the phone media volume does not help, it sounds like a bandwidth issue (such as an A2DP audio profile not being set to the right bandwidth or sampling rate).
Anyone else try this out yet?
EDIT: I found this could be because of the A2DP 'bitpool' setting being too low? Similar issue on the Evo.
Really, no feedback?
I have tried it but my bluetooth adapter i think is messed up I have the alpine one on my evo and my mytouch it only plays through 1 speaker
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I have tried it but my bluetooth adapter i think is messed up I have the alpine one on my evo and my mytouch it only plays through 1 speaker
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I stream daily music over bluetooth to my Madzda 2010 (built in bluetooth) and except some static crackling once in a while it sounds great. I had a N1 before and the sound is even better I think. I think there was a special issue with Pandora and other "internet radios" and the newer Android versions. I think that Google changed something to keep it compatible or so. Not an expert in that.
mine sounds as good as my vibrant did... have you tested a bluetooth headset for calling or audio to compare? maybe a hardware issue if it sounds bad there too...
I picked up a second Mytouch 4g for comparison - no change on the bluetooth audio, both have the same issue with high end audio crackling via car audio (plugging in the analog cable sounds fine on both).
Interesting side note, the LCD on Mytouch #1 had a slightly pinkish hue whereas Mytouch #2 was what I would call normal tint. The pinkish hue was particularly noticable on white fonts or backgrounds which appeared off-white, or Grays which appeared slightly pink.
So I'm keeping phone #2; the bluetooth issue is most likely software related. If that is the case, I hope it will be fixed with an eventual root mod.
I just wanted to add that the myTouch 4G I just got is working fine when using PowerAMP to my Mustang with SYNC. No crackling or other issues at any volume I could stand. I did notice that the stock music app wouldn't respond to AVRCP commands unless it was brought into focus, which was kind of lame and why I went to PowerAMP.
Cyanogenmod resolves this issue
In my particular situation, with a Nissan OEM radio supporting bluetooth streaming audio, switching to the latest Cyanogenmod Nightly build fixes my audio quality issue. No more audio that sounds bandwidth limited, something resembling a 64kbps MP3.
Hi guys
i read xda so much, but i don't write as well
i have a big issue with my galaxy s 2
i use a bt car stereo, with a2dp and avrcp support
i used to stream all my music collection from my iphone4
now i got my sgs2 and i love it... but
the audio stream looks "limited"
it seems a bandwidth issue, or i don't know a quality issue
with iphone4 i streamed at full quality, now the sgs2 sounds a lot worst
other than that, i have to disable wifi because if on, the music is choppy and skips a lot
with wifi off, the stream goes well, but it sound bad...
sorry for my not so perfect english... i hope there is a way to improve sound quality because i "live" with a2dp on in my car...
That's strange. My a2dp stream actually sound better from sgs2 than it does from my ipod touch 2nd gen, iphone or my computer (bluez).
Receiver is a belkin stereo a2dp receiver.
Are you sure that it's not in handsfree mode? Long press the a2dp device in bluetooth settings and there should be an option to select it to be a media device, make sure it's checked.
thanks for the reply gvoima, no it's in media device mode
i think the problem is the bitpool
i've got the same problem of this guy: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708685
there is an mp3 sample of the problem in the first page
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That's strange. My a2dp stream actually sound better from sgs2 than it does from my ipod touch 2nd gen, iphone or my computer (bluez).
Receiver is a belkin stereo a2dp receiver.
Are you sure that it's not in handsfree mode? Long press the a2dp device in bluetooth settings and there should be an option to select it to be a media device, make sure it's checked.
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I got a belkin stereo receiver as well, but it sounds bad and choppy, just like the topic starter described. Though still compressed (this is a known issue for A2DP due to bandwidth limitations) songs sounds much better from my Nokia E52 work phone.
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I got a belkin stereo receiver as well, but it sounds bad and choppy, just like the topic starter described. Though still compressed (this is a known issue for A2DP due to bandwidth limitations) songs sounds much better from my Nokia E52 work phone.
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The "but my (insert phone) worked better" isn't really valid. For as many people who make that statement there are an equal number who are shocked that the SGS2 works where other phones haven't. This is kind of like the Wi-Fi issue. When two pieces of equipment don't interact well you can't just blame one of them.
In my car and on my Yamaha YSP-4000 the SGS2's Bluetooth works better than any phone I've used. That includes the HD2, G2, and G2X. The sound is much more defined and headset controls (random and repeat) show available for the first time. The SGS2 also feeds track info to the car which none of the others did.
Bluetooth connections and sound quality are always a big YMMV.
My Sony MW600 sound great, I use to have a Motorola Defy , and it use to have an "Enhanced Stereo" option in the blue-tooth menu, the Samsung S2 does not have this option.
@BarryH,
Oh I know, I not blaming the SGS2. I only think the SGS2 out sound to it's output module which is somehow less suitable for the kind of compression, maybe set by the Belkin module. Actually I'm currious if there would be ways to change the way the SGS2 sends sound signals via A2DP
rikc said:
@BarryH,
Oh I know, I not blaming the SGS2. I only think the SGS2 out sound to it's output module which is somehow less suitable for the kind of compression, maybe set by the Belkin module. Actually I'm currious if there would be ways to change the way the SGS2 sends sound signals via A2DP
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LG's implementation of Bluetooth drove G2X owners crazy. Check out this thread from the G2X forum...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117769
Maybe it will help. The only other solution for the G2X was installing an AOSP ROM.
Well, I tried it (Bluetooth Fix Repair), but off-course that tool is for a problem the SGS2 does not have.
From the tinkering I've done now I know.
- Having MusicFX installed does not make a difference
- Video players running ffmpeg codec do also not make much difference in sound quality
- The -type- of file does make a difference, i.e. low bitrate files play better
This makes me think, is there a music program which can resample/recode music before playing. I'd rather have software do that than A2DP do it badly, or is mono output (other than all the tools enabling playback on mono headsets which is for pre-A2DP headsets and thus something else) possible?
Edit /system/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
Uncomment "Master" option and set it to "True".
Uncomment "MaxConnections" and set it to 3.
Most Android devices have this file configured poorly by default, those 2 settings should help though.
I'd suggest also enabling HFP and AutoConnect.
Great! That definitly reduced creaking/noises and even the occasional stuttering music!
Since you seem to know your stuff, would there be a way to send a mono signal to (only) the A2DP stack and would this decrease the 'tin can' effect? I'd rather have better upper tones than stereo.
knightnz said:
Edit /system/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
Uncomment "Master" option and set it to "True".
Uncomment "MaxConnections" and set it to 3.
Most Android devices have this file configured poorly by default, those 2 settings should help though.
I'd suggest also enabling HFP and AutoConnect.
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Thanks for the suggestions...going to try this and see if the sound quality improves in my car stereo.
Till now the best A2dp sound quality was on my Nexus S, but that was with the help of custom rom development and vodoo sound. Worst was the g2x.
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Ok guys, I think I might have... accidentily... run into a phenonemon.
I tested my phone on a Creative D100 wireless speaker it it went great, no tin can sound, no hickups.
This proved to me that there had to be something wrong. Now when I was posting here earlier I was listening a lot to music and at a certain moment I thought... wait I'm not hearing a tin-can sound anymore. However, later on while testing I heard it again so I thought I imagined it.
Powering off the phone and powering on again I was able to create this again. No tin can sound... however a lot of hickups (as if a lot of data had to be sent and it didn't quite fit). I made a call to my work phone (sound on the handset) to test and then the tin can sound was there again, no hick ups anymore though. Strangely enough a haven't been able to replicate the 'no tin can sound but hickup situation' though by powering off and on again. Tried after playing on the Belkin on the D100 again and no problems at all, great sound and no hickups whatsoever.
It appears to be a bigger issue with android connected to the bitpool setting the bluetooth receiver desires...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14944891#post14944891
Let's hope the upcoming Cynogen can fix this issue.
I too felt that the A2DP sound quality on the Nokia BH103 is crap as compared to my Nokia 5800 (sounded even better than stock wired headset). It also uses a lot more battery, I find mediaserver using a lot of battery.
How do we escalate this to Samsung?
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Edit /system/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
Uncomment "Master" option and set it to "True".
Uncomment "MaxConnections" and set it to 3.
Most Android devices have this file configured poorly by default, those 2 settings should help though.
I'd suggest also enabling HFP and AutoConnect.
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Sorry, i'm on darky rom and i don't find this file, could someone help me out ?
Thanks
Is there any way to fix the bluetooth audio quality other than switching to a CM-based ROM?
My old phone over bluetooth sounds fine. My S4 via a wired connection sounds fine. My S4 over bluetooth sounds like everything was sampled at 32 kHz. All other equipment is the same, so I'm relatively sure it's a bluetooth-specific issue. My girlfriend's S4 does the same thing.
So, any fixes? I'd really like to avoid switching to an aftermarket ROM right now.
Edit: L337 on AT&T
Tourney3p0 said:
Is there any way to fix the bluetooth audio quality other than switching to a CM-based ROM?
My old phone over bluetooth sounds fine. My S4 via a wired connection sounds fine. My S4 over bluetooth sounds like everything was sampled at 32 kHz. All other equipment is the same, so I'm relatively sure it's a bluetooth-specific issue. My girlfriend's S4 does the same thing.
So, any fixes? I'd really like to avoid switching to an aftermarket ROM right now.
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Random guess: Could this issue be caused by the adaptive sound feature? I'm not a true audiophile, but I haven't noticed a problem through my receiver in the car or at home.
Try playing something with cymbals and a lot of treble. Turn the volume up a bit higher than normal while still maintaining a reasonable level. The cymbals sound like someone is smacking a plastic grocery bag with a stick instead of being crisp and clean like they should be. I can then disconnect the S4, connect my old phone, and play the same mp3 without any sound distortion. Or I can play the same mp3 from the S4 via aux and it sounds fine.
Try it on both bluetooth and aux. If you truly don't notice a difference, I guess it must just be my phone. If it does do it however, you definitely don't need to be an audiophile to hear it.
My old phone had the exact same problem until I moved to JB on a CM build. The problem there is well-documented as existing on the S3 (try looking up bitpool settings), but I kind of figured they would have fixed it by now. I'm coming from the world of HTC, so I was hoping there is a fix for Samsung.
Sorry to revive this thread, but I have an update.
My car has built-in bluetooth for phone only, so no a2dp. I have a third-party bluetooth adapter that I'm using for music.
I've found that when both of these are connected, the audio quality (especially on trebles and guitars with distortion) is absolutely terrible. That was the point of my original post. Since then, I've determined that this happens ONLY when I am paired with both my car and my third-party bluetooth. I can actually pair and unpair from my car in real time and hear the audio quality immediately get better/worse. The quality gets worse immediately when it pairs, even if the car bluetooth is not in use (but still connected).
I've verified this is the case with both my phone and my girlfriend's S4. Can anyone with such a setup verify this does or does not happen for them? I'm thinking this is a bug with the bluetooth stack, and it'd be nice if it could be fixed. If anyone can try pairing to two different devices and confirm my problem, I'll start a bug report with Samsung. Otherwise I'll try another bluetooth adapter for a2dp.