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Bluetooth audio and Android 4.2

Updated my tablet to Android 4.2 this morning and afterward watching video with Bluetooth headphones it's skipped popped and just been generally awful. Curiously music works fine. Anyone else experiencing this?
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I just tried a few mp4 clips and didn't experience any skips/lag. Can't try avi right now as mx player doesn't work in 4.2 However, it seems there has been some changes to bluetooth. If you have your volume loud enough you can hear it 'stop' using the bluetooth if idle for a couple of seconds. Never heard that before. Also, a bug that really irks me is latency with bluetooth in games. Previously, games like dead trigger would seem to lag well over a second behind, almost 2 seconds. Now it's about .5 of a sec, however it's skips,scratches etc.
Other games fair better. For example, mame has about .5 of a second where it exhibited the 2 second lag previously. Not nearly as many skips as dead trigger but I heard a couple.
Btw, is android the only platform that has this issue? I read old posts of ipad's/iphones having it back in 2009 but I believe they fixed it. My friend has a playbook and it didn't support bluetooth stereo profile (ad2p) but they released an update last year and it works perfectly. I tried a few games on his device and none of them exhibited any lag, scratchiness etc. So RIM gets it right the first time and google has had this issue on all their devices for years? There's a few bugs filed on this on the official google bugs forum opened in 2009 and no response from any developer.
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Just tried youtube with bluetooth stereo headset, audio breaking up, stops/starts. It seems to be going quiet if there is even a moment of silence in the video. God damn it, I use this all the time and now it's unusable. This was at least one thing that worked fine with bluetooth. It could be my connection right now but I highly doubt it. I'm at home and this connection is always fine, this is the first time I've experienced this. I bought this headset for gaming, videos, and voip. Voip didn't work because bluetooth mics are basically non-usable in android, gaming has lag, and now videos won't play properly. I think it has to do with using the wifi at the same time with videos as videos downloaded from youtube are fine.

Yep this mimics my issue. Streaming anything results in choppy playback over Bluetooth. This really is not acceptable to me, and its hurting my view of my nearly brand new Nexus 7. I really hope we see another OTA seeing as I can't very well turn WiFi off on a device that relies on WiFi.
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I have the skipping too with Pandora over blue tooth, but thought it might be Wi-Fi limit since I am tethering off my rezound which is playing flawlessly over BT. It was skipping as pictures loaded in emails.
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nolig2278 said:
I have the skipping too with Pandora over blue tooth, but thought it might be Wi-Fi limit since I am tethering off my rezound which is playing flawlessly over BT. It was skipping as pictures loaded in emails.
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It isn't WiFi bandwidth related as far as I can tell. I can buffer a video, play it, and still the audio flips out. This is just disappointing and sad on Google's part now. The same issue affects the Galaxy Nexus, as well. Did no one even bother to test this before it rolled out??

I've been having the same problem since the 4.2 update - the bluetooth issue is definitely linked to wi-fi (no skipping on downloaded video while wi-fi off; skipping as soon as I turn it on). Online bluetooth streaming of any audio whatsoever is basically ruined.
I thought maybe changing the channel on my router would to the trick, but no dice. Google was very sympathetic over the phone but completely unhelpful - "this is the first we've heard of this."
I've only been an android user for a few months. Are they usually pretty good about addressing stuff like this?
- Nexus 7 stock.

bluetooth now working
My bluetooth headset (Samsung) was stuttering the other day as many people are reporting. I did play around with the settings and at this point I have no idea why, but it is working fine.
I had done 2 things:
1. I unpaired every device and re-paired them
2. On the wifi advanced settings, I set it to never sleep and disabled battery optimization
Bluetooth then worked fine using Pandora and TuneIn radio. I changed the advanced setting back to optimize battery and all still works.
Now extremely happy with 4.2 but baffled as to why it now works.

I am going to test more but I read it from someone else and it seems to have helped me, is to disable gps. Others said it didn't work for them so maybe it depends on the bluetooth device as well. But with gps disabled youtube no longer lags/skips and stays in perfect sync, but I'm going to test more.
And with gaming, it's almost in perfect sync, however some games still skip a bit and some lag more than others (mame4droid seems to lag the most). Whereas before 4.2 all games had almost 2 seconds delay in audio.
So in some ways, bluetooth is actually better in 4.2 in that they seem to be closer in getting the lag in realtime apps (games) working. So I hope their fix is not to simply revert to 4.1.2 bluetooth.
Anyway, try disabling gps, it may work for you.

To all those who are trying to use Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, Good luck!
They both work at 2.4ghz frequency most of the time you will only able to use one. Unless you're around 5ghz wi-fi.
I got lag and werid things when my music player (Play Music) tried to play .avi file

It is not BT that is broken in 4.2!!!
First of, 4.1 was working fine with my BT audio, got the OTA update and it was still working fine after first reboot... couple of days later mine started to act up...
It was almost impossible to listen to BT audio... but BT is not the problem!!!
It is either the Audio Effects service/program or Google Music... easy to test...
Connect the BT audio device, go into settings, apps, running stop the Google music service, stop the audio effects thing... BT audio does not skip at all anymore... It is as flawless as it was in 4.1... so the BT is not broken i any way... it is either the audio effects service or the Google music stuff...
I hope someone will fix it... but it is not BT that is bugged...

Bluetooth problem

Anytime I connect my wireless headset jawbone icon hd and try to watch a video (YouTube, or any other video on my phone) and listen to it on my headset, audio is always out of sync, lags by at least 1 sec. Does anybody have the same issue? I tried 2 different headsets with the same result.
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Here too
Mine does the same thing. I have the LG tones and the blue tooth audio is 1 second behind. Hopefully they fix in an update.

Anybody else experiences same issues? it's very annoying because i always use Bluetooth, I'm just wondering if if it's a problem with all G2's or just few. I don't know if I should call t-mobile to exchange mine or not.
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I have Plantronics Backbeat Go 2 bluetooth, and no issues with sound being out of sync

me neither

Called tmobile they told me it's a known issue, went to tmobile store tested 2 other G2's, with 2 different headsets, same issue, i guess we'll have to wait for an update
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I use Jaybird bluebuds and am on Verizon. Great sound, no lag - perfect sync

Just got my G2 and I'm having the same problem. I'm using a LG Tone headset, which never had audio/video sync issues on my previous phone (Galaxy Nexus). The problem occurs in MX Player Pro (my player of choice) and the stock video player.
My solution is to use the Dice Player instead, which has an audio sync adjustment. For me, it was enough to offset it by -0.3 sec. The Dice Player isn't as customizable as MX Player, but at least my audio is in sync now. Hopefully LG will fix this issue in the future so I can go back to using MX.

Bluetooth car meta data

So my OnePlus Two works pretty great I just have one issue. When listening to Bluetooth audio in the car I don't have any song info on the screen of my car, also the I have no control over skipping or selecting songs through the head unit. Is anyone else having this issue?

Can someone help me as well. I purchased a sound bar today and when I play music through it I start to have Internet connection problems both wifi and mobile data.
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I can confirm same issue here in the vehicle but have yet to find the solution.
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same for me. might be a oxygen OS thing

Odd. It works perfectly fine for me. It displays track, artist, etc.

This wont work for me either.. it says unknown device.. audio goes through (and calls to) but i cant skip songs or get any song information. (Audi A3 2013)

well for me it makes to car system to crash, even worse !! I had to desactivate this to be able to use bluetooth

Thats strange that yours works, this is also an issue on the oneplus forums.

2013 rs octavia, and works fine Does show even art of album too.

Problems on a new MB c class 250 Oneplus 2 phonecalls is connecting to car audio but music from the phone to the car audio fails.
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Swift 2 Plus - Same Issue
I know this is a dead-ish thread. I have the same issue on my Swift 2 Plus. It is running Cyanogen, which is a varient of the Android OS. Did anyone find a fix/workaround at all?

Gear fit 2 Causing Bluetooth audio distortion

Does anyone have this issue when you connect to a smart watch, the Bluetooth Audio device will start to have audio problem and fine without the 2nd Bluetooth device paired
Thanks in advance

I'm having BT audio skipping/stuttering issues with my v20 and my 2016 Mustangs Ford Sync. I also use a moto 360 watch. Wonder if having 2 devices is causing the issue? didn't have any BT problems with my s7 Edge.
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not the moto360 causing issues for me, same problems even without the watch on. Maybe it's the app I'm using not ready for Nougat (DI.FM). Going to try .pls files in VLC player to see if that works better.

Yeah , I didn't have this issue with my Note 7. Hopefully someone have a fix
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I have not experienced any issues and I do have great fit 2. I sync to my car and two different sets of headphones without issue.

I have a rooted h918 with gear fit 2 and sometimes my jabra revo bt or my Ford sync no issues

Amazon Music and Bluetooth

I've read multiple issues with Bluetooth and cars, but I haven't seen anything around the Amazon Music app.
When I use the Amazon Music app, the display in my car shows the Google music song on deck.
Also, controls via my android wear watch show the song in Amazon Music. However if I press to play or pause it activates the Google music song on deck.
I assume this is an Amazon Music app issue, but it worked fine on my old android 6 device.
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Oddly enough I have the same problems (and have since my nexus 6). The problem comes when I switch apps - amazon music, Pandora, GMMP (my mp3 player).
Im not sure if it's the way Android sends meta-data or the head unit in your car. Ha e you tried to force close the app and reload it to see if it will resend the data?
Tbh I've got myriad problems with Bluetooth atm. From dropping the connection at random to playing audio from the phone when Bluetooth is connect and media is selected under the settings. I end up having to reboot to just get the Bluetooth connection to work. Rumor has it 7.1.1 is on the way. I hope Google is addressing the reported Bluetooth issues.
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I tried it in my other car, and it seems to work correctly (2013 vw working).
There must be some BT issues with compatibility.

A.VOID said:
I tried it in my other car, and it seems to work correctly (2013 vw working).
There must be some BT issues with compatibility.
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Working fine on my GTI too
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