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So i got my eeepad and its great but i find video streaming a little slow.
I am using emit and love it, streams great on my Galaxy Nexus phone and my dad's Samsung Galaxy tablet but on my eeepad i get some issues with stream quality. The high quality setting for dual core devices is a little laggy, but otherwise good quality. I tried lowering the settings but the lagginess continued throughout all the profiles, just with a lower video quality.
Speedtest.net on the devices show similar results so i'm not sure it's that and its all running on a n network so i don't think i should have trouble streaming video.
I was wondering if this was an issue or if anyone knew a fix to stop the lag.
I have broken my charger so battery has been low (<20%) could this be the issue? A new one is on it's way anyway.
What version of FW are you on, ICS for the transformers is having issues with flash/video playback and wifi. It could be either of those things.
You could stop it by rooting and installing a custom kernel with the fixes
I'm on 4.03 at the moment. But that sounds exactly like my problem. Thanks for the info.
As mentioned I am missing the charger for now so i will look into that as soon as it arrives.
You can try the PERI one-click root tool in my signature for an easy route, that's about the only thing you can do as of now though, untill ASUS fully fixes their firmware.
I'll be waiting a bit anyway. As mentioned no current charger but I will keep it in mind when the time comes
Hi,
i have bluetooth Logitech Mini Boombox speaker, and i can say i am pretty disappointed.
Listening to mp3 and music in overall is OK, of course.
The problem is with video. Both BSplayer and Dice player give me a lag when watching movies.
Very hard to watch people speak as lip syncing is off.
Can anyone with bluetooth speakers try some movie and let me know the results.
Maybe some other video player plays better. Maybe it is Boombox that has problems (but i doubt).
Thing to have in mind: i tried playing from internal storage and streaming...both audio streams lag.
Aslo: the new firmware doesn't help.
Is this maybe normal for Android in overall? Shouldn't be.
Thx
Check out this thread maybe it can help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787662&highlight=blue+tooth
Svashtar said:
Hi,
i have bluetooth Logitech Mini Boombox speaker, and i can say i am pretty disappointed.
Listening to mp3 and music in overall is OK, of course.
The problem is with video. Both BSplayer and Dice player give me a lag when watching movies.
Very hard to watch people speak as lip syncing is off.
Can anyone with bluetooth speakers try some movie and let me know the results.
Maybe some other video player plays better. Maybe it is Boombox that has problems (but i doubt).
Thing to have in mind: i tried playing from internal storage and streaming...both audio streams lag.
Aslo: the new firmware doesn't help.
Is this maybe normal for Android in overall? Shouldn't be.
Thx
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If it makes you feel any better this problem is universal across multiple devices. It drives me crazy. It is present on the Transformer prime, TF300 Acer a510 and my Excite 7.7 even though these devices use different BT radios and different BT versions. I have heard people claim that some of these devices don't have video slowdown with BT. They do. Its subtle in some cases and might be overlooked but its there.
I have to assume it is OS related or Tegra related as these are the only things these devices have in common. I have found no way to completely minimize the slowdown in video. I have gone back to using wired headphones for video and BT for music and audio only where sync isn't a factor.
Here is one thing that does help. If you are playing a video that has AC3 audio encoding (most downloaded MKV files) the delay is increased slighty because the audio decoding is done by software not hardware - the video is delayed slightly to keep it in sync with the audio as it is decoded. Over BT this delay, for whatever reason is further exagerated.
For the record: ALL video players on Android decode AC3 in software, even Diceplayer - there is NO hardware support for AC3 on the tegra 3 chip.
To speed up your video you can try this: download the free software Avidemux. Use it to convert only the audio of your MKV file to AAC. By doing this you alow both audio and video to be decoded by hardware - this reduces a major source of lag. On a core i7 PC converting the audio to AAC takes less than 2 minutes on most videos. The video is left untouched - it is not re-encoded.
How to use Avidemux:
In the VIDEO drop down box select: COPY
In the AUDIO drop down box select: AAC
in the CONFIGURE box select a bitrate: 160 or whatever you prefer.
In the FILTERS box select Stereo for the Mixdown. (Why stereo? If you are listening through two speakers keep it simple - two channels are fastest to decode.)
In the FORMAT box select MP4.
In the FILE menu select SAVE then SAVE VIDEO and name your video with an MP4 extension. It will begin converting and will likely take only a couple of minutes on a fast machine.
Now you may find that your video plays fast enough to be acceptable over BT. I still find a faint lag noticeable even with full hardware decoding of audio.
Digital Man said:
If it makes you feel any better this problem is universal across multiple devices. It drives me crazy. It is present on the Transformer prime, TF300 Acer a510 and my Excite 7.7 even though these devices use different BT radios and different BT versions. I have heard people claim that some of these devices don't have video slowdown with BT. They do. Its subtle in some cases and might be overlooked but its there.
I have to assume it is OS related or Tegra related as these are the only things these devices have in common. I have found no way to completely minimize the slowdown in video. I have gone back to using wired headphones for video and BT for music and audio only where sync isn't a factor.
Here is one thing that does help. If you are playing a video that has AC3 audio encoding (most downloaded MKV files) the delay is increased slighty because the audio decoding is done by software not hardware - the video is delayed slightly to keep it in sync with the audio as it is decoded. Over BT this delay, for whatever reason is further exagerated.
For the record: ALL video players on Android decode AC3 in software, even Diceplayer - there is NO hardware support for AC3 on the tegra 3 chip.
To speed up your video you can try this: download the free software Avidemux. Use it to convert only the audio of your MKV file to AAC. By doing this you alow both audio and video to be decoded by hardware - this reduces a major source of lag. On a core i7 PC converting the audio to AAC takes less than 2 minutes on most videos. The video is left untouched - it is not re-encoded.
How to use Avidemux:
In the VIDEO drop down box select: COPY
In the AUDIO drop down box select: AAC
in the CONFIGURE box select a bitrate: 160 or whatever you prefer.
In the FILTERS box select Stereo for the Mixdown. (Why stereo? If you are listening through two speakers keep it simple - two channels are fastest to decode.)
In the FORMAT box select MP4.
In the FILE menu select SAVE then SAVE VIDEO and name your video with an MP4 extension. It will begin converting and will likely take only a couple of minutes on a fast machine.
Now you may find that your video plays fast enough to be acceptable over BT. I still find a faint lag noticeable even with full hardware decoding of audio.
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Lets run a triathlon to! Hahaha, just to get synced audio to work, so much work. Things should just work they are supposed to. Shouldn't they?
Digital Man said:
If it makes you feel any better this problem is universal across multiple devices. It drives me crazy. It is present on the Transformer prime, TF300 Acer a510 and my Excite 7.7 even though these devices use different BT radios and different BT versions. I have heard people claim that some of these devices don't have video slowdown with BT. They do. Its subtle in some cases and might be overlooked but its there.
I have to assume it is OS related or Tegra related as these are the only things these devices have in common. I have found no way to completely minimize the slowdown in video. I have gone back to using wired headphones for video and BT for music and audio only where sync isn't a factor.
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You sure all these devices use different radios or wifi/bt chipsets? The TF700 uses the BCM4329, a very common (and now pretty cheap) chipset that does Wifi, BT (2.1 EDR only) and FM. I'd guess a lot of other Tegra 3 devices uses that one as well. If they'd gone with the BCM4330 they would have BT 4.0 and probably 5GHz wifi as well. The BCM4329 supports this, but it requires antennas for it.
According to someone from Asus (someone here mentioned they'd contacted support about it) BT and wifi shares antennas (makes sense, they're both in the same frequency range) which can cause a lot of interference which leads to abysmal performance, especially for the wifi.
All I know for sure is I'll stick to wired headphones with this tablet...
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2
Einride said:
You sure all these devices use different radios or wifi/bt chipsets? The TF700 uses the BCM4329, a very common (and now pretty cheap) chipset that does Wifi, BT (2.1 EDR only) and FM. I'd guess a lot of other Tegra 3 devices uses that one as well. If they'd gone with the BCM4330 they would have BT 4.0 and probably 5GHz wifi as well. The BCM4329 supports this, but it requires antennas for it.
According to someone from Asus (someone here mentioned they'd contacted support about it) BT and wifi shares antennas (makes sense, they're both in the same frequency range) which can cause a lot of interference which leads to abysmal performance, especially for the wifi.
All I know for sure is I'll stick to wired headphones with this tablet...
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2
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So it doesn't bother you at all dropping half or more of thousand US dollars on a tablet you can't use wifi and bluetooth correctly? It is this type of atitude that makes Asus get away with things like this and not want to make better products. If they know people will just continue to buy their products, even with known defects and issues, they're not going to change anything except charge higher prices for you to pay. So sad.
Hi,
i will try the trick and change audio stream, just because i want to know if it gets any better.
I am not going to do this every time I know I'll watch a movie on my infinity.
Fortunately my bluetooth speaker also has a line-in jack, so i have a workaround, but i could do that on any f*****.. speaker also. Wouldn't need a bluetooth one
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone interested know, that i have tried same movie with wifi on and off - same result.
This means, yes BT and WIFI share antenna, but if that would be a primary problem, wouldn't it be only logical that when wifi is off, bluetooth gets better. And vice versa. Well, for me that is not the case, which means there is an obvious SW problem. Could be Asus, could be Android. That's the main question here now.
Did this problem get any better with custom roms on TF300?
Thx
opentoe said:
So it doesn't bother you at all dropping half or more of thousand US dollars on a tablet you can't use wifi and bluetooth correctly? It is this type of atitude that makes Asus get away with things like this and not want to make better products. If they know people will just continue to buy their products, even with known defects and issues, they're not going to change anything except charge higher prices for you to pay. So sad.
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No, it does bother me, just not enough to RMA it. I pretty much just use wired headphones at the moment so I can live with it.
I could complain to Asus directly through their support form, but the last time I complained about I/O issues and ANR messages when browsing they suggested I enable software rendering in Internet Explorer 9.
I could RMA it, wait for months and then receive a tablet with the exact same flaw. Unless Asus can say that they've fixed the issue and you can get it replaced within days, I'm not RMA-ing anything. And that's not very likely to happen, is it?
Mixed results
So after reading this thread I decided to try it. I tried it with my bluetooth sound bar and netflix was stuttering, it would have to buffer and when it worked the video was choppy but the sound on the soundbar was fine. But then when I tried it with mine jay bird bluetooth headphones it works seamlessly kind of weird how one Bluetooth device wouldn't work but another one would.
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So after reading this thread I decided to try it. I tried it with my bluetooth sound bar and netflix was stuttering, it would have to buffer and when it worked the video was choppy but the sound on the soundbar was fine. But then when I tried it with mine jay bird bluetooth headphones it works seamlessly kind of weird how one Bluetooth device wouldn't work but another one would.
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Bluetooth has been screwed up on so many devices for so long - with video slowdown on every Tegra based device I have owned - but it hasn't gotten a lot of attention. So I'm glad to see that it bugs other people too.
This problem was present even on my Tegra 2 based Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom. So I've been pretty surprised to find exactly the same problem on the latest generation of devices.
It bothered me so much I took an sd card with videos and my BT headset down to Best Buy and Microcenter and tried every device they had, with the intention of buying the one that didn't demonstrate Video slowdown when listening through BT headphones. There weren't any.
I will say that with the Jaybird Freedom BT headset the problem is almost imperceptible, but when you switch to wired heaphones, you CAN notice the difference.Videos run faster and smoother. With BT there is just the slightest general slowdown which I find distracting.
Custom ROMs have never solved the problem for me either. Overclocking has also been suggested, but the TF700 should have a fast enough processor to handle anything I would think. So I kind of think the OS is to blame.
I've learned to love wired headphones and speakers again. I keep telling myself the audio quality is better anyway, while I try not to trip over the headset cord and flip my tablet across the room....
Does the iPad use the BCM4330 chipet? I know it features Bluetooth 4.0. It is ironic that Apple cheapens out on the camera, storage space, and connectivity, but gives a superior wifi/bluetooth chipset. I would be curious what the price difference between the two chipsets is. You would think Asus would be want to be competitive and advertise Bluetooth 4.0. The standard has existed for 2 years.
Cleanskinned said:
Does the iPad use the BCM4330 chipet? I know it features Bluetooth 4.0. It is ironic that Apple cheapens out on the camera, storage space, and connectivity, but gives a superior wifi/bluetooth chipset. I would be curious what the price difference between the two chipsets is. You would think Asus would be want to be competitive and advertise Bluetooth 4.0. The standard has existed for 2 years.
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There'll always be the tf800, lol
Splaktar said:
So I tried this last night. Here are my results:
Wifi speed with BT off and no streaming: 9.6-9.8 Mbps.
Wifi speed with BT off and streaming music on Google Play: 9.5-9.7 Mbps
Wifi speed with BT on and streaming music on Google Play: 9.5-9.7 Mbps
Wifi speed with BT on and streaming music on Google Play to Jambox: 9.5-9.7 Mbps
Thus I concluded that streaming music over BT to a speaker or headset had no problems or slow downs at all. So I decided to test with video. For this I used Amazon Prime Instant Video.
Wifi speed with BT off and no streaming: 9.6-9.8 Mbps.
Wifi speed with BT off and streaming video on APIV: 6.5-7.8 Mbps
Wifi speed with BT on and streaming video on APIV: 6.5-7.8 Mbps
Wifi speed with BT on and streaming video on APIV with audio going to Jambox: 6.7-7.9 Mbps
Now I think that the BT + streaming final test result being faster was not significant. I ran it at least 3 times to confirm and it was within those limits.
So at least for my personal copy of the Infinity, I am not seeing a WiFi slowdown while streaming over BT. I don't have 40+ Mbps internet, so maybe the slowdown is only at very high speeds and high radio power requirements.
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Here are some tests that I posted in another thread.
Splaktar said:
Here are some tests that I posted in another thread.
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Just to add another data point. My Prime will stream movies with Bluetooth with no sync issues or excessive buffering and has been like that since the day I got it. I'm unlocked and running a custom ROM (AW2.1). My Prime's WiFi is pretty solid (for a prime LOL) and my GPS is DOA.
I have been a big bluetooth audio fan (I stay up late watching movies frequently but am courteous to the rest of the family) for a while and one thing I have found is some headphones lag no matter what is transmitting. A reviewer will very often not notice it if they just listen to music. I've been using my GOgroove Wireless AirBands as my TF201 'phones, FWIW.
It's not an OS or hardware thing, it's a bluetooth thing. Some apps (like Youtube) simply compensate for this audio lag when using bluetooth (and Airplay as well, btw). You can see it yourself, when you pause the youtube video, it will take a fraction of a second for the sound to pause. I haven't seen an A2DP connection (on iOS as well) that didn't have this lag. Video apps need to compensate for it (Netflix did too, at least for iOS and Airplay, don't know for bluetooth either on iOS or Android), so different players may have this problem or not.
What it's worse for though, is for games. That jambox video where the guy is playing a game is just BS.
zenaxe said:
Just to add another data point. My Prime will stream movies with Bluetooth with no sync issues or excessive buffering and has been like that since the day I got it. I'm unlocked and running a custom ROM (AW2.1). My Prime's WiFi is pretty solid (for a prime LOL) and my GPS is DOA.
I have been a big bluetooth audio fan (I stay up late watching movies frequently but am courteous to the rest of the family) for a while and one thing I have found is some headphones lag no matter what is transmitting. A reviewer will very often not notice it if they just listen to music. I've been using my GOgroove Wireless AirBands as my TF201 'phones, FWIW.
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I hade the prime too.
I have two sony bluetooth music headsets (the mw600 and the hbh-ds220). Both were working with the prime without any problem.
Now with my new tf700 i get stuttering when listening to google music. The music is buffered on the tf700 and it even happens when i have no internet connection. So i don't think it's an antenna problem at all.
i also noticed lag when using bsplayer and youtube when i tried to connect the tf700 to my beamer and stream the audio via bluetooth. bsplayer was worse but i noticed it also in the youtube app. I don't know if it would start stuttering too as i disconnected bluetooth immediatly.
I think the stuttering was a little bit less when i go on max performance. But that's just a subjective opinion.
I think it's a problem with the bluetooth chip itself and thus i have to send it back...
Anyone know if the Jelly Bean update for the TF300 fixed this?
FYI, Asus tech support told me that the bluetooth audio lag issues "will be improved" in a future OTA. I read that as "not completely fixed" so I returned (sniff sniff) my TF700 today while I still could.
No lag on video with Bluetooth on a Toshiba AT105–T1032 Thrive.
flhthemi said:
No lag on video with Bluetooth on a Toshiba AT105–T1032 Thrive.
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Yeah, none on my SGS3 or iPad2 (BT 2.1 even), but I really wanted an integral keyboard with extra battery for those long flights to Asia.
Kinda hoping the Lenovo S2110 can fit the ticket, but might wait for another round of processors...
Gary Key/ASUS:
I was hoping that you could come on here and address the Wifi/Bluetooth issues that the Infinity has...the same issues that the TFP and 300T also suffer from. ASUS has been quick to address some issues lately, such as the I/O problem, so I was hoping there could be some dialog about the progress or outlook for this issue too.
The issue I am talking about, just in case someone might not have heard, is the issue with the BT and Wifi where the Wifi connection degrades to nearly unusable, or drops out entirely, when you are connected and streaming data to a device via BT. Some examples of this would be playing Pandora and streaming to Bluetooth headphones, or even out to your Home Theatre receiver. When I do this, my internet connection drops from 24Mbps to 2.5Mbps, and then it trails off from there as I let Pandora/IheartRadio/Streaming Radio play...there are intermittent cutouts, the speed trails down to under 1Mbps, and then at some point completely shuts down the Wifi. Personally this is my biggest issue with this tablet, and it was the only reason I returned my TFP(3x), and it is especially frustrating given how lacking the stock speaker on the Infinity is...the tablet volume doesn't get 'loud', and the speaker is facing away from me.
So given the recent firmware update addressing and fixing some of the Infinity's issues, I was hoping you could update us about the progress or prognosis for this BT/Wifi issue...is this something that will ever be fixed, or is this something that Transformer 300T/Prime/Infinity owners need to accept??
My other question, which is more important IMO is...since I think I know the answer to the above question...is there any chance that you can have ASUS add support for USB BT dongles?? This was recently discussed in another thread, with someone questioning whether or not a USB BT dongle could be plugged into the keyboard USB port, and be used for the BT so that it is used instead of the internal BT, therefore bandaiding out of the issue and being able to use BT without having the Wifi dropout. I have tried it, and presently the dongle is not recognized, and I could not find any apps anywhere to get it to work...unfortunately. If I were able to get this to work...either internally or via dongle(sucks having to settle)...I would have ZERO issues with my Infinity, but as of right now this is still a huge issue for me and I am still contemplating returning it and waiting for something that works as it should.
I know you are a busy man, and I appreciate the work you do and how you personally address customers and there issues on here, and I am just respectfully asking you if you could revisit this issue...this time for the Infinity. And especially address the dongle workaround.
Thank you.
G
From what I read it is hardware issue.
wifi and BT sharing same antenna.
lardo5150 said:
From what I read it is hardware issue.
wifi and BT sharing same antenna.
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I have read the same, and given that the issues persist with the Prime 8 months after release, I don't expect it to be fixed...but would like to see the issue addressed a bit further.
But really the thread should have been titled something more like 'Attn: Gary K/ASUS: Please add USB BT Dongle support'...as that is the more important part of this thread, as I am fairly certain that if this could be fixed with the hardware 'as-is', it would already have been on the Prime and 300T. The thread is more of a request for dongle support...dongles are less than $5 on eBay, and I would be happy to plug one into my USB port when I want to stream via BT to headphones/stereo, if that is what I have to do to maintain my Wifi connection speed and avoid fallout.
lardo5150 said:
From what I read it is hardware issue.
wifi and BT sharing same antenna.
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Almost all devices have BT and wifi share an antenna.
I can confirm the WiFi issue.
My wifi goes from max (full blue) signal to a grey wifi symbol. When it does, I have to disconnect wifi and reconnect and it works again for some time.
I haven't used BT yet.
iPad 3's are affected by this problem as well.
I think it has something to do with Bluetooth and Wifi transmitting off the same 2.4GHz spectrum. Try adjusting your router settings as according to what these folks did to resolve their issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3813436?start=0&tstart=0
Lets hope Gary from Asus is also looking into the OTA issues that some of the TF700's are having. This OTA thing is something most stand tablet customers are not expecting nor would they be likely to find a site like XDA there at least some user solutions are available.
the_game_master said:
iPad 3's are affected by this problem as well.
I think it has something to do with Bluetooth and Wifi transmitting off the same 2.4GHz spectrum. Try adjusting your router settings as according to what these folks did to resolve their issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3813436?start=0&tstart=0
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My wife's iPad3 has no issues with this but my infinity does. And we sit in the same room.
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Eroc162 said:
My wife's iPad3 has no issues with this but my infinity does. And we sit in the same room.
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Is your wife doing exactly what you're trying to do on your Infinity, that is stream video over wifi with the device while listening to the audio over paired Bluetooth?
How is your router setup at home? Are you broadcasting b/g/n?
the_game_master said:
Is your wife doing exactly what you're trying to do on your Infinity, that is stream video over wifi with the device while listening to the audio over paired Bluetooth?
How is your router setup at home? Are you broadcasting b/g/n?
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I tried my infinity watching Netflix and listening to my jambox. Low resolution and choppy then stops. Then I took my wife's ipad3 and did the samething. Perfect. I have a Linksys E4200v2 with 9dbi antennas and I was 5 feet away from my router which since I called Comcast about my connection has improved to 32mbps. I set my wifi to 2.4ghz only, N only, 20-40mhz and wpa2 security. I sent the infinity back to B&H for a refund. Figured it was hardware problem. I will be buying another one but I do feel hesitant which isn't a good thing. I like the Infinity but I want to be able to watch and listen to music without choppy sound and resolution. For $600 that's what I want from my Infinity. I will try with the next one.
I tried channel 1,6 & 11 but I got better performance from auto
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I can't believe more people aren't concerned with this issue, esp given how inept the onboard speaker is.
I'm having the same problem and think it should be addressed too.
I found my bt dongles but I hope if they do come up with something that its a nice half moon shaped Bluetooth dongle that fits along side the dock because the one I have sticks out like a sore thumb
1/2 inch.
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Eroc162 said:
I tried my infinity watching Netflix and listening to my jambox. Low resolution and choppy then stops. Then I took my wife's ipad3 and did the samething. Perfect. I have a Linksys E4200v2 with 9dbi antennas and I was 5 feet away from my router which since I called Comcast about my connection has improved to 32mbps. I set my wifi to 2.4ghz only, N only, 20-40mhz and wpa2 security. I sent the infinity back to B&H for a refund. Figured it was hardware problem. I will be buying another one but I do feel hesitant which isn't a good thing. I like the Infinity but I want to be able to watch and listen to music without choppy sound and resolution. For $600 that's what I want from my Infinity. I will try with the next one.
I tried channel 1,6 & 11 but I got better performance from auto
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Dude, I hear you loud and clear! I've been taking heat for months trying to just warn people about this but everyone who is in denial just comes back and says nothing is wrong. The people in denial will just tell you their tablet is perfect and everything plays perfect. Just before, sitting outside trying to watch some old TV shows on Netflix and couldn't get 10 seconds of clear video when using a small external BT speaker. MAN that is just frustrating. And YES, my ipad does NOT have this issue. My connection speed goes from 24mb/s to 1.9mb/s. I may as well just turn the tablet off. All the Asus tablets you buy will have this same problem...so when you get your new one you can test it if you like but it will have the same issue. Don't wait to long to return it.
I own a Samsung galaxy nexus and a galaxy tab 10.1. Both of the devices playback videos without Bluetooth audio lag. My newly purchased Infinity has at least a 2 second audio delay. This issue needs to be addressed now. If Asus cannot come forward with a fix, I will have to return this tablet. I do not see a dongle as an acceptable fix when my other devices don't need one.
no problems
I just got my tab 3 days ago. I watched Netflix while using a Bluetooth stereo headset with no lag audio nice and synced and great video quality.
daddydark said:
I just got my tab 3 days ago. I watched Netflix while using a Bluetooth stereo headset with no lag audio nice and synced and great video quality.
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Your lucky you have one without the defect. Yes, the Wifi/Bluetooth fallout issue has been around since the original released prime. My original prime had the issue, regardless of any sort of antenna mod. Another prime I bought sometime later didn't have any Wifi/Bluetooth fallout issue. I have went through two TF700's atm. First, had the issue along with some screen defects. I returned it. Second, no screen defects and no WIFI/Bluetooth fallout issue. My personal judgement is that its not and issue that can be fixed via any sort of software/firmware fix. I believe it is hardware. Something to do with the quality of chips they are using or something else (my guess). Asus has not come clean on the issue and I don't think they ever will. My advice would be to return the tablet and try another. GL
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I just got my tab 3 days ago. I watched Netflix while using a Bluetooth stereo headset with no lag audio nice and synced and great video quality.
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Ditto. I am streaming Netflix right now to my LG bluetooth headphones. Zero lag and zero dropout. I was not able to do this with the Prime.
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So, I'm guessing you guys can watch YouTube without audio lag too? Looks like mine is going back.
Interesting. I just tried it. Youtube lagged considerably. Audio and video were not in sync. Went back to Netflix - watching Jim Gaffigan stand-up comedy and audio and video were perfectly in sync.
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I bought the TF700 about a month ago, and have noticed that the recording volume of the microphone is low. It does work, but it makes Skype, Google Hangouts, Google Talk all difficult to use as you have to talk loudly in to the mic for the other person to hear you, if I look at the screen and talk normally, the person on the other end cannot hear what i am saying.
Also when recording video, it does pick up sound, but even with the volume turned up full you cannot hear the audio on the recording very well.
Is this typical of all TF700s or should I be looking at changing it?
My children have the Acer A100 and that has a similar issue but its well document with the explanation being a poor quality microphone. I wondered if it was the same with the TF700 but I have not been able to find any similar complaints online.
Any feed back from TF700 owners would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mark
Might be another hardware deficiency slipped under the fence by Asus.
I'll check mine and report back.
i do skype and hangout on my Infinity and haven't had any such issues. interestingly, i DO have such issues on my iPad2.
maybe there's a mic level setting that's somehow gotten messed up? are you sure your case isn't blocking it perhaps? maybe it's just a defect?
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i do skype and hangout on my Infinity and haven't had any such issues. interestingly, i DO have such issues on my iPad2.
maybe there's a mic level setting that's somehow gotten messed up? are you sure your case isn't blocking it perhaps? maybe it's just a defect?
doody.
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There is no case on it, so cant be that. I phonex Asus tonight and they had me do a data wipe, but it made no difference, the kids much cheaper A100 works far better than my TF 700 in any app tbat uses the mic, and tge mic in the A100 has been highlighted as poor quality.
Anyway got an Rma number from Asus so guess ill be tabletless for a while.
Thanks for the feedback
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There is no case on it, so cant be that. I phonex Asus tonight and they had me do a data wipe, but it made no difference, the kids much cheaper A100 works far better than my TF 700 in any app tbat uses the mic, and tge mic in the A100 has been highlighted as poor quality.
Anyway got an Rma number from Asus so guess ill be tabletless for a while.
Thanks for the feedback
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Bummer...
I did check my mic...I found it to work well.
Hello,
I have exactly the same issues. Mic volume level is very low and it's almost impossible to use skype etc. Did anyone by a chance found a solution? Maybe some app to adjust/boost mic sound level?
Thank you!
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Maybe some app to adjust/boost mic sound level?
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Hello,
I'm also looking for an app to control my microphone. Last summer, I bought my tf700t and, suddenly, the microphone is no longer working since couple days. If I'm taking a video or using Skype, the sound is noisy and extremely loud.
Maybe I need to use the warranty, I don't know.
If, by any chance, you have a clue to help me out, please let know.
Cheers,
Crack
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Hi,
The same is with me. Bought it 3 days ago, and mic is very low since the very first day
Didn't find any settings options to fix this. Mic is very low on skype and on gtalk both. Does anybody know if this issue ever been reported to Asus and/or Google
Thanks
I'm having bad sound quality when making call through Bluetooth in my car. It sounds like the audio is breaking up. Anybody else have this problem? My note 3 was working just fine through bluetooth
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I also noticed the same thing yesterday driving home. I did not have this problem earlier in the week. I'm not sure what is going on. This along with a strange wifi problem has recently surfaced. If I leave my wifi range and then return, it does not want to reconnect. I have to toggle the airplane mode then wifi will reconnect. I am running stock 11s rooted with 2.7.1.0 TWRP, Xposed framework, Xpoxed GEL, Gravity Box, Tasker, Autovoice.
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I'm having bad sound quality when making call through Bluetooth in my car. It sounds like the audio is breaking up. Anybody else have this problem? My note 3 was working just fine through bluetooth
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Are you still experiencing poor Bluetooth audio in your vehicle? Mine is still the same.
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Are you still experiencing poor Bluetooth audio in your vehicle? Mine is still the same.
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I am. I'm looking for suggestions for things to try and improve the stuttering/skipping/dropouts that I'm experiencing when using my OnePlus One in media playback mode through my Chevrolet MyLink car radio. I have some additional details to offer and things I have tried:
1) The playback application doesn't seem to make any difference, the problem is most pronounced (unlistenable) when playing back music files and is highly annoying when listening to speech (e.g. podcast) files. I suspect the difference is the music having a beat that gets interrupted while there are some normal pauses in speech so the stuttering blends in a bit more. In any event, it's not a problem with the playback application.
2) It seems unlikely to be a problem with the car radio (Chevrolet MyLink). Though I haven't done extensive testing I have done some using my old Motorola Atrix HD with a nightly CM11 on it from a few weeks back and that does not seem to have the issue, or at least it is not nearly as severe.
3) When I use a third party bluetooth audio receiver (some cheap no-name one from ebay) the quality seems to be fine but when I try to go directly to the car stereo I get tons of stuttering/skipping/drop outs.
A friend suggested that I try running an alternative kernel and see if that improves things. Any ideas on whether that may be the case or which one might be the best to try? Any other suggestions? It's quite annoying that I can't playback audio through the car radio...
Thanks!
Anyone have any ideas? I tried running the Franco kernel tonight and it seems to have the same issue. I did some logcat captures and I seem to be getting a lot of "W/bt-btif ( 2104): btif_media_aa_prep_2_send congestion buf count 24" messages when playing back audio through the car radio. See the attached full logcat captures with both the stock and Franco kernels and connected to both an alternative Bluetooth dongle and to the MyLink car radio.
Any suggestions?
After further testing I was able to determine this is an issue with the phone and not the car radio as I was able to find at least one other BT device which exhibits the same issue. I have created a ticket for this issue at: https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-1005 if you are also experiencing this issue you are encouraged to go and vote for the ticket.
One question though. Do you have WiFi on when traveling in your car? Try turning it off and see if you still get skipping.
I do in fact have WiFi on at all times. I tried turning it off for the day today while doing some driving and it appeared to clear up the problem. I would think it's still a bug because having WiFi on should not prevent BT audio from working correctly but it at least gives someone a direction to investigate.
So I've done some slightly longer term testing and what I can say is the problem is not totally cleared up when WiFi is off but it is much, much better (definitely listenable). I will still get a couple dropouts when first starting a stream (sometimes, not always) but after 30 seconds to a minute it seems to settle down and be fine as long as I keep the WiFi off.
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So I've done some slightly longer term testing and what I can say is the problem is not totally cleared up when WiFi is off but it is much, much better (definitely listenable). I will still get a couple dropouts when first starting a stream (sometimes, not always) but after 30 seconds to a minute it seems to settle down and be fine as long as I keep the WiFi off.
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Just to clarify the situation..
My Xperia Z2 have the same issues.. It is not your phone but the Bluetooth stack in android that pretty much sucks the problems you are dicribing has been there since android 4.2 on a lot of devices.
I have just changed my Lumia 1020 out with this Z2 and call me disappointed in music quality! On the Lumia you would have trouble hearing a difference between jack/auxiliary and Bluetooth..
And today I did notice some dropouts even with WiFi off well into my drive but it was just a few packets I would guess more of an annoyance than a serious problem. I've heard about issues in the Android BT stack but the confusing part of that is why certain devices (such as my Atrix HD) don't seem to experience the problem.
I have a bluetooth stereo I use every morning in my home and a bluetooth stereo in my car. I almost exclusively use pandora, but I have also used power amp on longer trips. I have never experience this issue with my opo. I have ran 25-33 all rooted with no problems and am currently using CM11 nightlies. I also am not having any wifi issues.
Sorry it's not very helpful, but it doesn't sound like a widespread issue at least.
It certainly has something to do with the particular bluetooth implementation used by the receiver interacting with the OPO. As I indicated I have three different BT receivers I can test with and the problem affects two of them but not the other.