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Really annoying bluetooth problems on N6P

Okay so I'm gonna describe my problem as clearly as possible and will hope someone can find a fix for this.
Device: Nexus 6P
OS: Android 6.0.1 (latest vendor & security patch - June 2016)
Bluetooth devices used: Sony MDR 600BT, SOL republic tracks air, jbl synchros earphones, jbl flip 2 speaker.
1) pair earphones/speakers
2) start playing music on earphones/speakers
3) works fine on first run and when screen is off
4) when I switch on my screen to change the song the music stutters for 10 full seconds, then stuttering stops.
5) I change the song and again put screen off, works fine.
6) i put my phone in my pocket and suddenly my phone audio stops skipping??? Wtf???
7) so I change my pocket and put it in my hoodie pocket. (Nearer to earphones - maybe distance is the problem I thought)
8) audio still skips............:crying:
9) put my screen on to change song, audio starts stuttering again like crazy and then stops.
10) I request anyone here to heed this request and tell me how to workaround this problem
Currently running latest android MM 6.0.1 and no improvement .....:crying:
I don't understand one thing - top of the line flagship device and still these problems? Not getting value for my hard earned money. This is wrong.
I tried it with my iPod and it works like a charm. No stutters. No skips. Nothing.
Tried different Bluetooth headphones too in case my Sony earphones were the problem. NO IMPROVEMENT SAME PROBLEM PERSISTS.
TRIED USING IT ON ANY BLUETOOTH SPEAKER THE ABOVE THINGS KEEP HAPPENING AND I AM GETTING REALLY ANNOYED WITH THIS PHONE WHEN IT COMES TO BLUETOOTH.
I'm sorry for agonizing so much. But I hope you'll can understand my problem. And hopefully there's a fix somewhere in the world.

I am having the same issue, and my searches came up with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/bluetooth-audio-stutter-wake-unlock-t3384324

Is this a Play Music issue? I don't have these issues, but I don't use Play Music. usually stream through YouTube or something like that instead. Works on BT Headset and Sony BT head unit in my car.

blackwrx02 said:
Is this a Play Music issue? I don't have these issues, but I don't use Play Music. usually stream through YouTube or something like that instead. Works on BT Headset and Sony BT head unit in my car.
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I can't speak for Zapjack12345, but I notice it with PowerAmp, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, basically any app that is pushing audio through bluetooth. Audio is fine when the screen is off, but as soon as I pick up the phone, and turn it on to check notifications, things get screwy with the audio

Strange. I just checked with Pandora, YouTube, and IheartRadio and all seem fine with screen off and turning it on, using the pulldown menu, or changing songs. I'm using a cheap set of bluetooth earbuds from Amazon (no-name brand), and am stock with the phone, not rooted (yet) and on June updates. Phone was purchased in May new from Best Buy.

Same issue for me as well. I'm specifically using Amazon and Pandora most of the time. Its very annoying. On Chroma and franco kernel.

What rom are you using? This has been a well documented CM rom issue so any rom that uses CM as a base will and has had this issue since mid-January. Stock and AOSP based roms dont have this issue (from what I've seen and tried).
I'm currently using the 6/15 nightly for OMNIrom and do not have these issues.
As a sidenote, this was also an issue with Android N Dev Preview 2.

uodii said:
What rom are you using? This has been a well documented CM rom issue so any rom that uses CM as a base will and has had this issue since mid-January. Stock and AOSP based roms dont have this issue (from what I've seen and tried).
I'm currently using the 6/15 nightly for OMNIrom and do not have these issues.
As a sidenote, this was also an issue with Android N Dev Preview 2.
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I'm currently on Pure Nexus 5/6/16. Nothing out of the ordinary installed. Tried clearing the Bluetooth cache, as the issue I am noticing was similar to issues that the Samsung S5 was having, but there was no difference.
I am going to look to go back to stock and see what happens, but looking at what OP posted, it looks like they're on stock, and having the same issue.

I am about to throw my phone in the sea. BT seems like it's getting worse and worse with each update. Cmon Google/Huawei. Don't make me lose faith.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

krakerx said:
I am having the same issue, and my searches came up with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/bluetooth-audio-stutter-wake-unlock-t3384324
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I had a little less issues when using the Dev Preview 3 but there was another issue that arised that I hope gets fixed.
If you're using bluetooth when driving around when you lose signal or drop/gain data connection the audio skips for a quick second. Through past testing I've done working with kernel devs on 2 phones, the issue is related to how the hotplugging works for the cores. If only one core is running when the connection drops there is an issue with how the cpu ramps up and/or turns on another core to handle the workload. I thought this regression was pretty interesting seeing as one the things they were boasting about at the Google conference was how android would fix slow downs and issues when losing/gaining network connectivity with N. Hopefully it'll be fixed before final release.

akarol said:
I am about to throw my phone in the sea. BT seems like it's getting worse and worse with each update. Cmon Google/Huawei. Don't make me lose faith.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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You and me both. I am on my 3rd 6P and my BT problems are still the same. If the BT problems were only effecting one particular device I could understand but my Microsoft band, BT earbuds and car all seem to disconnect continuously on a bare/stock phone.

Okay guys. I changed my ROM from Resurrection Remix to Paranoid Android and this issue has been solved. Thank you so much for all your help and answers!

Does anyone else have any updates regarding this issue? Literally wanted to throw my phone out of the window during the morning commute.

Zapjack12345 said:
Okay guys. I changed my ROM from Resurrection Remix to Paranoid Android and this issue has been solved. Thank you so much for all your help and answers!
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Don't use cm based roms

Smallsmx3 said:
Don't use cm based roms
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Yep, this is 100% the reason. It is a CM issue. AOSP roms like Paranoid Android and Pure Nexus don't have this issue. I love Resurrection Remix, but this is starting to bug me. I may jump to PA rom soon...

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Thanks. Was about to ask this question. It is a CM issue.

I have had issues with BT dropping randomly in my car on 2 different 6P's. No rhyme or reason, and it doesn't happen often, but annoying when it does. Happened on MM and DP4 currently.
On the flip side, my audio quality went down on my S7E over BT when my smartwatch was connected. Somehow, that doesn't happen with the 6P meaning I can keep my watch on in the car, so I am happy.

Hey, I just found this thread and surprised it took me this long considering I've been having this issue since I got my phone in November.
My 64gb 6P was stock until earlier this week, when I finally rooted and flashed xposed. The issue stopped the day I rooted my phone, and I was thrilled.
After reinstalling most of my apps and getting back into my routine, the problem came back. I've tried booting my phone into safe mode several times before rooting so I'm fairly confident the issue doesn't exist because of a specific app interaction, but I can't figure out what it is to save my life. I might backup again and restore to the backup I made right after rooting to see if I can narrow down the problem.
Other than that, I am very new to this stuff and honestly just thrilled to have found other people having the same issue.
I only experience the problem while connected to my car (2015 Chevy Cruze), and not any other bluetooth device.
Let me know if you guys find/have found anything I suppose?

I kinda have up on trying to narrow down the issue. I tried PureNexus, Paranoid Android, I tried different kernels, different cases. Still kept skipping and jumping, no matter how far, or close it was to my Bluetooth device (car stereo, speakers, home audio system). I went back to stock, no root, no Xposed, pure and simple Android, and I have not had a single issue, it's beautiful.

Audio/Sound does not work, youtube doesn't play

I had the A.R.I.S.E sound mod installed and last night the audio on my nexus 6p stopped working completely, youtube won't load videos, pandora/spotify/gonemad music player all just skip songs endlessly and I was on mtc19x for the longest time, rooted and with that one mod and everything worked fine.
I also had gravitybox installed. I flashed to MTC20F and took the nougat update, I still saved all my userdata but sound doesn't work. I even updated to the newest ARISE sound mod and still nothing. Dolby atmos just crashes and no sound works at all.
I really need some help with this cause I'm at a total loss right now, I didn't do anything different yesterday and everything just broke. I also cleared the cache and turned off bluetooth and everything.
I also just went back to stock everything, still no luck after wiping it all.

Flash stock and see if your sound works.

If you've also recently flashed a custom kernel, check sound settings via a kernel manager app (ex. Ex Kernel app). It's possibñe speaker setting has been set o a negative value, causing sound not to play.

therock3181 said:
Flash stock and see if your sound works.
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tried that, no luck

blitzkriegger said:
If you've also recently flashed a custom kernel, check sound settings via a kernel manager app (ex. Ex Kernel app). It's possibñe speaker setting has been set o a negative value, causing sound not to play.
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i havent messed with installing any custom kernels or anything like that. only mod i installed was arise, just to use viper4android.

irropik said:
I had the A.R.I.S.E sound mod installed and last night the audio on my nexus 6p stopped working completely, youtube won't load videos, pandora/spotify/gonemad music player all just skip songs endlessly and I was on mtc19x for the longest time, rooted and with that one mod and everything worked fine.....
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OP, did you ever get this sorted?
If so, what was the fix?

pizza_pablo said:
OP, did you ever get this sorted?
If so, what was the fix?
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RMA

I had this same thing happen with my Nexus 5 after a year and a half, the battery started depleting in 30 minutes, I think it was the dsp in the SD800 chipset but I don't know how to test it to check if the dsp is in tact, any suggestions?

No Audio Output from 6P

Hey guys! I am not able to listen to music or open youtube videos or even do anything related to output of audio of my phone. On Google play music, I get "Couldnt pay tax requested" and on youtube I get playback error. I am not able to make calls as well.
I have flashed numerous images and the issue still persists. If anyone could guide me towards the right direction that would be great.
I bought the phone 7 months ago and suddenly this incident took place. I was running stock 7.1.2 when this happened by the way
Thank you for the help.

First of all, 7.1.2 is a Beta stage not a release.
Second, If you can have sounds on other options such as ringtones and so on, then it is an OS issue and a clean flash might solve it.

wizardwiz said:
First of all, 7.1.2 is a Beta stage not a release.
Second, If you can have sounds on other options such as ringtones and so on, then it is an OS issue and a clean flash might solve it.
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Thank you for the reply.
No sound from Ringtone as well. Like no audio is playing on my phone at the moment.

Cheezzyy said:
Thank you for the reply.
No sound from Ringtone as well. Like no audio is playing on my phone at the moment.
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So how can you tell if it isn't a hardware issue and not Android problem?

I haven't heard of what you are describing as being a known bug in 7.1.2. You can try a factory restore but personally I would do a clean flash of the latest stable Google image and see if it fixes your problem. And I would use the flash-all.bat command like Google suggests rather than flash all the parts individually like the Heisenberg guide on XDA tells you to do. I don't suppose you are running any audio mods on your phone? And you checked the obvious? Your phone isn't in Airplane Mode, Do Not Disturb isn't activated, sound shows the various volume levels aren't at 0?

Having same issue, no audio at all from speakers, cant play youtube / googleplay music or videos, headphone jack does not work eighter, wont even detect the headphones, soft reset/ hard reset wont work, havent tryed out rooting and changing rom or reverting from 8.0 (currently running), apart form audio everything works fine, im still trying to figure out warranty as its still in its period, but without proof of purchase they are beeing jerks so far, so im rooted with some ideas is ive had previous experiences with phones, might it be possible for audio drivers to go missing or messed up? or should i take it to a repair shop and see how much theyll ask for it? or shuld i just upgrade to something better and let this brave hero die alone, maybe use as hotspot in my car haha

Audio "crash" on multiple ROMs (including stock)

And boi it's annoying. For Alarms and and Calls the system simply stops all audio.
To put the long story short; an error happens at a moment be it double disable audio or simply unable to use the driver or similar. It doesn't happen at any exact moment, it can happen at random. And it's really annoying. Like I said, music players stop working, alarms don't work (vibration does tho), you can make nor answer calls.
I honestly thought this was done via Amplify or Greenify or something, then moving to other roms, it kept happening and thus I decided to post it here. I have logcats if needed.
In my case; last few occurrences went off with a lag, trying to navigate and seemingly freezing for about 2-3 minutes and then the audio crash. sadly didnt log that one.

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This won't be of much help but I haven't experienced any audio issues with any ROM yet.
Do you have any utilities such as V4A or AFX installed? Do you have a custom kernel with sound control installed? Also, if you're on Vegito audio may crash while the phone is off as Vegito will unplug all cores but one when idle.
There was a featured XDA thread about enabling high-perf mode for Qualcomm DACs too... it simply sets it to maximum power at all times to the DAC, reducing audio startup delay. Worked fine on my G4 with Magisk, but ymmv.

I do not have any mods installed. And have the ROM kenrel (In this case AOSIP)
I have some catlogs if needed @[email protected] However, mind letting me know of this featured thread? sorry for the ridiculously late reply, I thought I had replied the same day.

Is there a way to remove the stock EQ in its entirety and replace it with Viper4A?

Here's the specs on my new HU:
Android: 6.0.1 MARSHMALLOW
Model: JY-TM123N2
Hardware: CPU: Intel SoFIA 3GR , 4 Cores, RAM: DDR3 2GB, Flash: EMMC 32GB
Got the unit, rooted, installed V4A, but it still defaults back to the terrible EQ that came equipped with this unit. It's also doing something really, really weird where it seems like it's stretching out the tempo (like you would hear in a DAW when you elongate a sample) whenever I turn on the uppermost "Power" option. I feel like they're conflicting with one another, and since the stock EQ is literally just a low/mid/high selection with a preamp, that entire thing needs to go anyways, so I was wondering if there was any feasible way to completely remove it and use Viper 4 Android instead? That way even the radio could benefit from it. Sorry if this has been asked or discussed before, I'm new to the site and still having minor difficulties navigating around

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If you would have searched here in the several topics, you would have known by now that V4A is not working anymore on the Joying ROMs.
It is still working on the 25 May ROMs and older. It is minimally working on the 7 July ROM. It is not working anymore after the 07 July ROMs.
It has never been possible to completely remove the Joying EQ as multiple Joying system apps use it.

surfer63 said:
If you would have searched here in the several topics, you would have known by now that V4A is not working anymore on the Joying ROMs.
It is still working on the 25 May ROMs and older. It is minimally working on the 7 July ROM. It is not working anymore after the 07 July ROMs.
It has never been possible to completely remove the Joying EQ as multiple Joying system apps use it.
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Sorry if I didn't adequately search first. I did do tons of research and learned enough to get myself rooted and such. I've just been super sick and jumped on the Joying train at the wrong time. Been spending tons of time figuring out why my BT wasn't working alongside a few other things and honestly just got frustrated

The 6.0.1 ROMs are a bit of a pain.
Upon every new release bugs are fixed and new bugs introduced, like almost totally non-functional bluetoth in the November ROM.
The V4A has been crippled due to custom build stuff in the Joying ROMs to favour their own digital amp, whether you have such a model (ending with D) or not.

The built in EQ controls are not a software EQ like Viper they control a hardware EQ which has 3 bands, if you leave them flat the chip shouldn't be doing much if anything.

WILD9 said:
The built in EQ controls are not a software EQ like Viper they control a hardware EQ which has 3 bands, if you leave them flat the chip shouldn't be doing much if anything.
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Exactly what I do with built-in EQ, except instead of Viper, I use the Poweramp EQ which seems to work for me.
BTW I stayed with July release, after reading about all the issues with November build.

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The built in EQ controls are not a software EQ like Viper they control a hardware EQ which has 3 bands, if you leave them flat the chip shouldn't be doing much if anything.
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Yeah, I found out what was happening was the issue that everybody else was having where V4A itself was stretching out the songs without any outside influence.

surfer63 said:
The 6.0.1 ROMs are a bit of a pain.
Upon every new release bugs are fixed and new bugs introduced, like almost totally non-functional bluetoth in the November ROM.
The V4A has been crippled due to custom build stuff in the Joying ROMs to favour their own digital amp, whether you have such a model (ending with D) or not.
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Hi surfer, I installed your Tool and I can't find viper4android.. do you removed it even for 5.1 ROMs?

Astur_Torque said:
Hi surfer, I installed your Tool and I can't find viper4android.. do you removed it even for 5.1 ROMs?
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Yes, it seems I did.
I suggest you to download the 2.4 release, or perhaps the 2.0.
I keep a Changelog, but not of the things I removed by accident.
When you install that one you will have 2 of my apks installed. When you open one of the apks check the version in the bottom-right. The 2.0/2.4 should install V4A correctly on 5.1
After install you can remove the 2.0/2.4

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Yes, it seems I did.
I suggest you to download the 2.4 release, or perhaps the 2.0.
I keep a Changelog, but not of the things I removed by accident.
When you install that one you will have 2 of my apks installed. When you open one of the apks check the version in the bottom-right. The 2.0/2.4 should install V4A correctly on 5.1
After install you can remove the 2.0/2.4
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"zenkiu" (thank you) xd
Enviado desde mi Oneplus 5 mediante Tapatalk

pwood999 said:
Exactly what I do with built-in EQ, except instead of Viper, I use the Poweramp EQ which seems to work for me.
BTW I stayed with July release, after reading about all the issues with November build.
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Is there any way to get Bluetooth audio to work with this app? From the settings it seems like you should be able to but I can't figure it out for the life of me. They finally fixed the BT issue in the December update but now the BT Music app won't work with any other launcher other than Joying's. I believe I'm using Car Launcher AG and need a replacement for BT, and aux preferably since the video aux player seems completely pointless to have a video feed for an aux player