I am currently having outgoing voice quality issues while using a bluetooth headset (or in car/truck bluetooth) that I am trying to nail down with both HTC and Jawbone. I'm 90% sure at this point it's an HTC issue. I purchased an HTC One M8 on Verizon a week or so ago and immediately had issues with my Jawbone ERA. Voices sounded fine on my end but my voice on the other end sounded static-ey and overly loud - almost like the mic was too hot. I tried a ton of troubleshooting steps with both Jawbone and HTC and so far the issue remains. I also took the phone back and exchanged it for a new one and the new phone has the same issue. I've now tried 5 different bluetooth devices all with the same/similar result.
I found an old HTC One (M7 I think?) thread over on Android Central that seemed to be discussing the same issue:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/309574-anyone-else-having-bluetooth-headset-sound-quality-issues-one.html
but no solution was found and it sounds like most people there just sort of gave up.
Sorry for the long explanation but one thing I wanted to try was using a ROM with a different bluetooth stack or system to see if that might point me to an HTC software issue vs a strict hardware issue. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm fairly comfortable with installing ROMs though on my old Droid, Safestrap certainly made it easier for me.
Thanks!
I had a ridiculous static with my jaybirds so I just ended up returning the headphones and ditching Bluetooth sadly. I don't think a ROM will change it
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So there's no difference in bluetooth implementations between a Sense based ROM and say an AOSP or CM based ROM?
AustinML71 said:
So there's no difference in bluetooth implementations between a Sense based ROM and say an AOSP or CM based ROM?
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Well, out of curiosity I s-off'd the phone, perma-rooted, and flashed TWRP. I installed the GPE ROM, the Viper ROM, and the latest nightly of Cyanogenmod. Interestingly, the CM rom seemed to have MUCH improved outgoing bluetooth voice quality. The other ROMs all had the same issue.
Does CM somehow use a different bluetooth stack or something that would cause this? Honestly, I'd stay on the CM but I actually like some of the HTC features (like the duo-camera) and not sure I'd want to give those things up. Would it somehow be possible to use CM's bluetooth solution in something like the GPE ROM or even stock?
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I am currently having outgoing voice quality issues while using a bluetooth headset (or in car/truck bluetooth) that I am trying to nail down with both HTC and Jawbone. I'm 90% sure at this point it's an HTC issue. I purchased an HTC One M8 on Verizon a week or so ago and immediately had issues with my Jawbone ERA. Voices sounded fine on my end but my voice on the other end sounded static-ey and overly loud - almost like the mic was too hot. I tried a ton of troubleshooting steps with both Jawbone and HTC and so far the issue remains. I also took the phone back and exchanged it for a new one and the new phone has the same issue. I've now tried 5 different bluetooth devices all with the same/similar result.
I found an old HTC One (M7 I think?) thread over on Android Central that seemed to be discussing the same issue:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/309574-anyone-else-having-bluetooth-headset-sound-quality-issues-one.html
but no solution was found and it sounds like most people there just sort of gave up.
Sorry for the long explanation but one thing I wanted to try was using a ROM with a different bluetooth stack or system to see if that might point me to an HTC software issue vs a strict hardware issue. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm fairly comfortable with installing ROMs though on my old Droid, Safestrap certainly made it easier for me.
Thanks!
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I'm on CleanRom and I'm also extremely sensitive to Bluetooth quality issues. I'm using both a Plantronics Legend and the Bose ear pieces and I hook the device up to a Pioneer DEH-80PRS in my car. I have to say I've never had a better Bluetooth experience. No complaints - superb quality - both ends
MARKREIF said:
I'm on CleanRom and I'm also extremely sensitive to Bluetooth quality issues. I'm using both a Plantronics Legend and the Bose ear pieces and I hook the device up to a Pioneer DEH-80PRS in my car. I have to say I've never had a better Bluetooth experience. No complaints - superb quality - both ends
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I'm now also on CleanRom and it is definitely better. My few tests so far weren't quite as clear as my CM tests but MUCH better than stock. This seems so strange to me. This is just a stripped down Sense ROM, like others yet a significant difference in quality. Both Viper and GPE had the same bad quality as stock. I wish I had the understanding/capability to truly root cause the issue as I'd love to have the freedom to use whichever ROM I choose. However, I do very much like CleanRom for now - the Verizon bloat on this phone was the worst I've ever had yet I do like a few of the Sense 6 features.
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Is the headphone issue Rom related or a hardware issue. I am referring to music skipping and random voice dialing when standard headphones are being used(without Mic). Happens with DHD roms and cm7...not sure if this happens with stock (its been a while since I have been stock) .
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On stock rom no root and none of those problems i use two different types of headphones one with mic and one without. *shrugs* so not hardware? rom issue sounds like. how many of the new roms support the multiplug 3.5 head jack?
I actually ran in to this issue the other day when I was running with it for the first time. The music player went insane and i think it called someone. Sig is current with my build.
Okay so this is a weird issue. When using the stock ROM for my Inpsire 4G (or any variation of sense ROMs) I get this occasional audio skip on my car's bluetooth audio. The phone is connected to both the phone and the media features of my Pioneer AVIC-X930BT the audio sounds absolutely fine then all of a sudden theres a drop in the audio for about half a second and the music has to catch up. Its not really a skip more of a lag. This issue does NOT exist with completely different ROMs such as CM7. In CM7 I have no issues whatsover. What could be causing this and how can I fix it? I absolutely LOVE Sense ROMs and have tried the latest Android Revolution HD (almost fixes it) and RCMixHD 1.5 and all have the same issue. Its not my SD card because as I said it works fine in CM7 however I do not like the look of CM7 and the "sense like" widgets are not to my liking. Thanks so much and I realllly hope there is a fix for it. Perhaps a custom kernel would do it? Or a different radio? Thanks.
P.S. Yes I know it works for some of you with no issue...but sadly I've been having this problem for a while and it's been bothering me a LOT.
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Okay so this is a weird issue. When using the stock ROM for my Inpsire 4G (or any variation of sense ROMs) I get this occasional audio skip on my car's bluetooth audio. The phone is connected to both the phone and the media features of my Pioneer AVIC-X930BT the audio sounds absolutely fine then all of a sudden theres a drop in the audio for about half a second and the music has to catch up. Its not really a skip more of a lag. This issue does NOT exist with completely different ROMs such as CM7. In CM7 I have no issues whatsover. What could be causing this and how can I fix it? I absolutely LOVE Sense ROMs and have tried the latest Android Revolution HD (almost fixes it) and RCMixHD 1.5 and all have the same issue. Its not my SD card because as I said it works fine in CM7 however I do not like the look of CM7 and the "sense like" widgets are not to my liking. Thanks so much and I realllly hope there is a fix for it. Perhaps a custom kernel would do it? Or a different radio? Thanks.
P.S. Yes I know it works for some of you with no issue...but sadly I've been having this problem for a while and it's been bothering me a LOT.
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The main issue is the BT stack that is used with the roms. CM7 uses a different one if I remember right. So not alot you can do unless you want to rebuild the rom yourself
I decided to put this in the developer forum because i really feel like this is a problem with the roms/tweaks and needs to be looked into.
If the moderators thing otherwise i am sorry then.
I have been getting complaints with friends over the fact that i come in muffed. When i plug in the headphones that came with the phone to talk they say there is a big increase in clarity. They say when i am muffled they really need to focus to understand what i am saying. I decided to try a few different roms and surprisingly the quality has been different. I have used the same radio in every rom test as follows:
Radio : 10.56.9035.00P_10.14.9035.01_M (This should be the newest TMO OTA radio)
Roms:
Android Revolution HD 3.0.1 (Initial Rom i had. Very Muffled. No dual core patch.)
Android Revolution HD 3.0.3 (Upgraded to this one wondering if it will be fixed. Same muffledness. Had dual core patch)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849
Stock TMOUS 2.3.3 - rooted/de-odexed(This had almost no muffleness, was the clearest of them)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207410
Stock TMOUS 2.3.4 - rooted/de-odexed (This was almost as good Stock 2.3.3. Very hard to tell the dif)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226686
Superlite *v1.3* by HTCCLAY (Very bad muffling again)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229073
InsertCoin Sense Android 2.3.4 Stable 2.3.0 (Medium Amount of muffleness)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198684
http://insertcoinrom.blogspot.com/search/label/pyramid
In all cases the headphones preformed the same amount. They were pretty clear and really helped the muffleness except in the case of insertcoin. The headphones also seemed to have a slight amount of muffleness to them, the difference between headphones and mic was slight.
I have seen other posts about this issue but no clear explaination or dirrection in trying to fix them. I hope this jump starts stuff.
It seems the more modified roms are the ones experiencing the issue... but obviously this isnt the most comprehensive testing.
I did these test over the course of 3 hours with my brother. He stayed in his room in the house and i stepped outside on the sidewalk in the same place every time. Wifi calling was NOT used.
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Found these posts where people report similar issues:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17093923
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225452
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16580966
i tried ARHD and IC2.3.0 - no muffled voice from my end. in fact, it was crystal clear. IMO if you've plugged in your earpiece and it sounds ok on the other end, then there's a high chance its the set's microphone thats faulty.
i suggest switching back to stock rom (S-on etc) and see how it goes. if its still muffled, its time to go for warranty
Have moved this to the General forum (for the time being at least).
You'll need to find out if other Sensation users have the same problem. I haven't had anyone tell me they have trouble hearing me with any custom ROMs.
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i tried ARHD and IC2.3.0 - no muffled voice from my end. in fact, it was crystal clear. IMO if you've plugged in your earpiece and it sounds ok on the other end, then there's a high chance its the set's microphone thats faulty.
i suggest switching back to stock rom (S-on etc) and see how it goes. if its still muffled, its time to go for warranty
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Well i have tried the stock roms and its been reported to sound alot better.
It would be nice if we had that multiboot thing going on our phones lol
And i didnt try S-On again because i heard it runs the risk of bricking....
I have the same problem except if I was to call someone, my voice to them would sound like garbage. Obviously its noticeable as well cause they will tell me they can't hear me and it sounds like crap.
For me,
Roms that have this:
Android Revolution
Senseless
Roms that don't:
Virtuous(currently on)
i had those "garbage" sounds on almost every phone i owned accept for the Nokia 5210 and below Its telco problem not the phone.
phones with garbage sound (that i have owned) : BB9800, iPhone2/3/4, Desire, E72
@yajinni - have you tried switching phone with your brother ? let him use the "muffled" phone instead. it 'could' be the way you hold it
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@yajinni - have you tried switching phone with your brother ? let him use the "muffled" phone instead. it 'could' be the way you hold it
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Its worth a try i guess but if it does do that its retarded. I use android because i hate apple but i get the same issues as them? lol
Will test with more roms and will try Virtuous when i get the chance. Are you using 1.3?
So, I have noticed audio issues for as long as I have owned my s3, which I have had since it was released on Verizon. Been flashing roms on it just as long, never really noticed any issues with audio that were a deal breaker. My ring tones would crackle and music on the headset would sound crappy on some roms.
But now, I am using my phone to stream over blue tooth and have noticed that the audio is completely intolerable... But only on touch wiz, when I use an aosp room (mostly carbon rom lately) blue tooth audio is perfect. I have data issues on aosp at times and hate not being able to use any of the very cool tw roms available.
Anyone have an idea why this would be different from aosp to tw, and more importantly is there any fix available for this?
I have read several threads on this forum and others and the consensus has been it is a hardware problem, but if that were the case why is aosp so good? I am really hoping there is a better answer than trying to get Verizon to warranty it and needing to wipe and return my phone to stock to do that.
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troyzero said:
So, I have noticed audio issues for as long as I have owned my s3, which I have had since it was released on Verizon. Been flashing roms on it just as long, never really noticed any issues with audio that were a deal breaker. My ring tones would crackle and music on the headset would sound crappy on some roms.
But now, I am using my phone to stream over blue tooth and have noticed that the audio is completely intolerable... But only on touch wiz, when I use an aosp room (mostly carbon rom lately) blue tooth audio is perfect. I have data issues on aosp at times and hate not being able to use any of the very cool tw roms available.
Anyone have an idea why this would be different from aosp to tw, and more importantly is there any fix available for this?
I have read several threads on this forum and others and the consensus has been it is a hardware problem, but if that were the case why is aosp so good? I am really hoping there is a better answer than trying to get Verizon to warranty it and needing to wipe and return my phone to stock to do that.
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FWIW, we had a lot of trouble with that when the voltages were set too low, if your kernel allows it maybe bump your voltages up?
I'll try that, buy I'm pretty sure it was doing it with the stock kernel on tw.
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I've ran a variety of TW ROMs including CleanROM, Hyperdrive and am currently running BoneStock - all are based on 4.1.2.
However, Bluetooth Calling/Voice quality sucks when I am paired with my car (2010 Nissan Maxima). I can hear callers fine, but they say I sound garbled and robotic. At first, I thought the problem was my car until I paired an iPhone and call quality was fine.
FYI, streaming music via Bluetooth works perfectly.
I've done research on XDA and other forums, and the problem seems to be with 4.1.2. Does anyone know if switching over to an AOSP 4.3 ROM will alleviate Bluetooth issues?
I like everything else about Touchwiz (e.g. the stability, battery life, etc.) and I know Google was messing around with the Bluetooth stack. However, I work in Sales and need Bluetooth in the car. Thoughts?
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Any solution?
Comp625 said:
I've ran a variety of TW ROMs including CleanROM, Hyperdrive and am currently running BoneStock - all are based on 4.1.2.
However, Bluetooth Calling/Voice quality sucks when I am paired with my car (2010 Nissan Maxima). I can hear callers fine, but they say I sound garbled and robotic. At first, I thought the problem was my car until I paired an iPhone and call quality was fine.
FYI, streaming music via Bluetooth works perfectly.
I've done research on XDA and other forums, and the problem seems to be with 4.1.2. Does anyone know if switching over to an AOSP 4.3 ROM will alleviate Bluetooth issues?
I like everything else about Touchwiz (e.g. the stability, battery life, etc.) and I know Google was messing around with the Bluetooth stack. However, I work in Sales and need Bluetooth in the car. Thoughts?
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Hi,
Did you find a solution to your problem? I have the exact same issue and I need bluetooth in my car .
Thanks,
John.
starcraft04 said:
Hi,
Did you find a solution to your problem? I have the exact same issue and I need bluetooth in my car .
Thanks,
John.
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Sorry for not seeing your post sooner. If I get a chance, I am going to flash 4.3 ROM's myself (4.4 is still a bit unstable for my tastes) this weekend and see if the BT stack is improved.
Otherwise, I think I might jump on the Moto X deal happening on Monday (if the MotoMaker site decides to work. :silly