My audio has completely stopped working, except for Bluetooth which seems unaffected. Whether it's thru the earpeice, the speaker, or line out, the audio is nothing but static and crackles...and what I can only assume is the emergency tone (very annoying, very loud, rising pitch squeal). If I try to play audio or video, the sound crackles and then the file stops playing. This is both speaker and line out. If I try to listen to Google Voice message, it's nothing but static.
Phone is currently running CleanROM 6, which I just reinstalled fresh after a complete internal wipe hoping that would fix my issue, but it hasn't. Problem originally surfaced while running LiquidSmooth 2.9 and then I restored my CR6 Nandroid which, of course, didn't help either. Baseband has been updated to current version, which was also no help. Again, BT audio is just fine.
Thoughts, ideas, help?!!!
Thanks, Mike
Tried two different kernels, also no change.
Can anyone confirm that Bluetooth audio output does NOT go through the soundboard?
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Hello all!
I've got this very weird problem. When I make or receive calls, the headset mic does not work at all. It is not just weak, it's completely muted! I thought it was a hardware error, but I downloaded a voice memo apk and noticed that the headset mic worked there! So it must be a software issue.
Some important details: my phone is a rooted 2.2 XXJPM with lagfix installed. I had audioboost 1.6, mixget and the alsa libraries installed, and removed them to see if that fixed the problem, but it didn't. I still think though that in the process of installing alsa I must have messed something up.
Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Yiannos.
Same Issue
I just started having the same issue not too long ago. The headset mic can be used for voice commands, voice recording, etc. But, it does not work on calls. The mic is not muted and I can hear the other party just fine. I have tried two different headsets with the same result.
Any thoughts out there? It may have happened when I was playing with Sipdroid and GV. I uninstalled all of that but is it possible that they did not uninstall cleanly leading to this problem? BTW, the headset worked fine with SIPdroid.
Any help is appreciated.
I am experiencing poor sound quality while streaming audio over bluetooth from my Captivate (Apex 9.2 w/Talon .22) to my new car. Is anyone else experiencing crackles during treble intense moments while bluetooth streaming? Is there a setting I am missing? Is this a kernel, rom, or captivate hardware problem? Is there a way to get to the bluetooth bitpool settings to change bitrate (supposedly CM7 has it set to 53 and sounds good)? Before I go crazy and flash the captivate bootloaders and switch to an official 2.3.4 rom (from an I9000) I wanted to get some opinions. Thanks for the help!
**EDIT** - Am I the only one experiencing the audio crackle issue?
gte460z,
This is an issue with most if not all Android OEM's trying to use their own propriety bluetooth drivers. The poor sound quality you are experiencing is coming from a low bitpool setting that is unchangeable using any stock based ROM/kernel. The only way I have found to get around this is to flash CM or any AOSP ROM. CM is what I use since I also use bluetooth A2DP to listen to music in my car. It makes a huge difference! I hope that was the answer you were looking for.
I am in the process of installing CM7 now. Just flashing the stock kh1 bootloaders then I am off to recovery for a nandroid backup ending with CM7 nightly 104 flash. I will report back with my findings but it sounds like this should work.
CM7 did not fix the crackles/static. Any other ideas?
**EDIT** When I check the pairing in the bluetooth settings with a long press on the device name it comes up with a check mark next to set of headphones and a check mark next to a phone meaning it is connected to stream music and phone audio. I wonder if the check mark next to the phone is setting the bitrate to the level needed for a phone call instead of music. I will test tomorrow and report back.
I have some more ideas but don't have time right now. I'll get back to you in the morning.
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Alright, thats strange that CM didn't fix the problem. Something tells me the problem lies elsewhere. I have a few questions for you....
1. Do you have another phone/device that is capable of doing A2DP?
2. What is the source of your music? (Pandora, local, etc...)
3. If local what is the bitrate?
4. Does you car have an AUX jack where you could play the same media to it through that to test the quality?
THE PROBLEM:
The internal microphone does not work for call audio unless I plug in headphones. The same applies to speakerphone mode.
My Bluetooth headset works fine, as do my old iPhone earbuds with built-in mic. In both cases, their respective external microphones were used and functioned appropriately.
The issue seems localized to the Phone app. The microphone works fine in Sound Recorder as well as dB Level. At first I suspected a faulty headphone jack, but I've installed SoundAbout and it properly detects when I plug in or remove my headphones.
THE BACK-STORY:
I've had been running CM9 RC2 on my phone for some time now, and decided it was time to check out CM10. I flashed the 3/04/2013 CM10.1 Experimental M2 build and got hit with the call audio issue. I used roger_n's unofficial ROM for a few days and subsequently updated to the 3/25/2013 CM10.1 nightly. I've pretty much had this issue ever since then, and I never had any issues prior to flashing CM10.1.
I've tried going back to CM9 and also upgrading the radio to UCLF6. I've done a full wipe and formatted /sdcard.
Can anybody offer any insight?
Odin back to stock. See what happens then.
So I've made a couple posts about my problems with bluetooth audio streaming, but I have a bit of a different question this time. I have been trying a multitude of AOSP roms (4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) trying to get my bluetooth audio to work properly. I have had no luck, the audio is super choppy and distorted.
Recently I tired the Eclipse 5.1 ROM which another user told me specifically his bluetooth audio streaming was fine (on the same model phone!). I did a 100% clean install, I wiped everything, including internal & external storage. I tried fixing permissions (which he said he did to get it to work), and nothing. I still get choppy audio over BT. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? What is there beyond the ROM that would affect BT?? I even tried CM 10, which is 4.1 (a version with the old BT stack implemented) and still got choppy audio!! The only thing that seems to work for me is TouchWiz roms.
One thing I notice, and I'm not sure this affects anything, is when I boot into download mode in the binaries line it says "(3 count)"
If anyone has any light to shed on this it would be awesome!
Thanks so much.
Hey guys,
the OP6 is one of the best phones I had yet even with the stock os. But even before returning to stock I used Havoc OS. There, I didn't have any problems that couldn't be fixed in the settings. Now when I have a bluetooth headphone connected I have this short crack every 5 to 30 seconds. I tried adjusting all the settings in the bluetooth section but non works. Since it worked in havoc OS I figured it must be something software related. Same with the mic. It works flawlessly on calls but upon sending a whatsapp voice message it's very quiet it sound like it was adjusting the sensitive very quickly up and down during the recording, producing a weird sounding message.
Do you have any suggestions how to fix this? Maybe something inside the build.prop or audio related xml files in system/etc?