When playing music or video through Bluetooth, it keeps dropping out for a few seconds and coming back. The music track or video doesn't stop playing, merely the sound. I don't remember this problem when I first used the device. I have had this for less than a week. I imagine it has something to do with the background handling of processes but I can't seem to solve this problem. Any suggestions?
Tuxedo.Bond said:
When playing music or video through Bluetooth, it keeps dropping out for a few seconds and coming back. The music track or video doesn't stop playing, merely the sound. I don't remember this problem when I first used the device. I have had this for less than a week. I imagine it has something to do with the background handling of processes but I can't seem to solve this problem. Any suggestions?
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Same problem for me MHA-L29 376, C432, Oreo 8.0.0. However when transmitting sound to BT audio adapter, there are no pauses, but when listening with Bluetooth headphones, there are nasty sound pauses - audio track is not stopping, just 1-2 sec periods of no sound. Really annoying. I am thinking about doing factory reset. Maybe you have tried it?
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Same problem for me MHA-L29 376, C432, Oreo 8.0.0. However when transmitting sound to BT audio adapter, there are no pauses, but when listening with Bluetooth headphones, there are nasty sound pauses - audio track is not stopping, just 1-2 sec periods of no sound. Really annoying. I am thinking about doing factory reset. Maybe you have tried it?
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I have not tried a factory reset. I am on the latest update for oreo on the same model as yours. I have tried clearing the Bluetooth cache and that of the apps I'm having trouble with. Since it happens with both YouTube and Spotify, I'm inclined to believe they are not the source of the problem. I can't remember if it did this before I updated. My next step is going to try a custom ROM, most likely the now unsupported but latest version of LineageOS, Android 9. Hopefully this is a ROM bug and not a firmware or hardware issue.
I also have issue with it when connecting to my car receiver automatically. I have to press the band key on the receiver to get it to connect, and it occasionally stops when I'm multi-tasking while music is playing. It's just buggy compared to my old OnePlus One.
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Let me start off by saying this is more of a workaround than a fix. I have been hoping that the release of Donut may have fixed the A2DP skipping problem but until late I had rendered my Plantronics Voyager 855 useless for listening to music. I could not listen to anything with out i skipping so bad that it would have been better to turn off bluetooth and hold the phone to my head to listen to media. I have found a fix that may hopefully lead to someone figuring out what is actually wrong.
Step 1: turn off bluetooth and unpair your headset
Step 2: start a song on a media player
Step 3: go back turn bluetooth on and pair your headset
you may or may not have to unpair your headset sometimes it works if you just turn bluetooth off start a song and then go turn it back on again
Once it connects your media will start playing perfectly through the headset for as long as the media is playing. Unfortunately once you stop playing media for more than a few minutes and then try to start it again the skipping will also start again.
Have you also tried using a task manager to kill everything BEFORE you start the music player? That works 60% of the time for me.
Another solution that generally works the other 40% of the time is to go into your bluetooth settings, press and hold on your BT device, at menu pop-up, touch "Options" then just unlink the Media, and then re-link it.
Hope this saves you some time in the future!
q426669 said:
Have you also tried using a task manager to kill everything BEFORE you start the music player? That works 60% of the time for me.
Another solution that generally works the other 40% of the time is to go into your bluetooth settings, press and hold on your BT device, at menu pop-up, touch "Options" then just unlink the Media, and then re-link it.
Hope this saves you some time in the future!
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its funny that unlinking media works for you because i tried that and it does nothing for me. The fastest way i can get it to work is turning bluetooth of and back on again.
I'm having the same problems with my JVC car stereo.. It skips pops etc.. with no way to fix.. i'll try this work around tomorrow but does anyone know what causes this?
I see one of you is running latest Cyanogenmod. I'm not sure what the issue is you are having with A2DP maybe your paired hardware? i typically have Pandora streaming to my car stereo in the background with Telenav running.
EDIT: I use Tunewiki instead of Music player if that makes a difference.
Well actually it does happen in CyanogenMod although its not a skipping issue... Its more of a faint popping issue that I get.
I dont hear it using the aux headphone jack on my htc adapter but i do when i switch over to bluetooth.
Right now i'm running Enomther's ASOP+ADP rom because CyanogenMod has been having freezing and rebooting issues (thanks to the switchrom script for letting me switch back and forth) and this is where i'm really getting a skipping and popping issue big time.
For both I use Tunewiki as well, for m4a's that i buy on iTunes or SHOUTcast radio (gotta love internet radio on the go...)
I thought it was because I was running Google Maps as well as tunewiki (I have a car GPS mount) but even just letting it run only Tunewiki it still has issues (although far worse at times running Google Maps)
I just can't seem to pinpoint the issue.. I could just use the aux headphone jack to my car stereo yes, but then since I have the charger connected I get the annoying ground loop noise which is far worse than the bluetooth popping and skipping issue...
EDIT: This is my Car Stereo: JVC KD-A805
Check out for workarounds in http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2807
os2baba said:
Check out for workarounds in http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2807
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Those workarounds don't work for me. It is good to know this issue is known though and is being reported by more than one.
My Tunewiki still skips either way.. even turing off most background apps do not help.. I was looking into editing the audiopara4.csv file possibly (someone apparently added a line for his BMW and it fixed his issue) but don't know where to start.
q426669 said:
Have you also tried using a task manager to kill everything BEFORE you start the music player? That works 60% of the time for me.
Another solution that generally works the other 40% of the time is to go into your bluetooth settings, press and hold on your BT device, at menu pop-up, touch "Options" then just unlink the Media, and then re-link it.
Hope this saves you some time in the future!
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After intense observation, I realized I experience the skipping only after I place a call. The following two steps always work for me ( I prefer #2)
1. Turn of bluetooth and turn in it back on while the music is playing
2. In bluetooth settings unlink the phone and thats it; you might have to turn off bt and back on and it works until you use the bt for phone again
I also noticed that the skipping is not ROM specific with me; I tried it when my G1 was unrooted, thru XROM. I'm not sure what causes the skipping, I experience no skipping with my S9 (works flawlessly), however my Jabra BT3030 is what gives me all the grief (better headset IMHO)
Just found a really easy way to get a2dp to work perfectly. Once you have what ever you want playing just make a call to your voice mail, once the call gets transfered to your headset hang up and what ever you are playing will play perfect through the headset.
eclair rom.
bluetooth works perfectly on them.
So no matter what application I'm using on my Radar and how I exit the app, i.e., just pause, back all the way out, etc. the music starts playing again when I turn off my BT headset. I've tried looking through settings to no avail.
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hah2110 said:
So no matter what application I'm using on my Radar and how I exit the app, i.e., just pause, back all the way out, etc. the music starts playing again when I turn off my BT headset. I've tried looking through settings to no avail.
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That's odd. Music should automatically stop playing when your bluetooth device is shutoff.
It should not automatically start.
Please describe every detail of what you are doing, connected to, etc. Order and timing might be important.
JVH3 said:
That's odd. Music should automatically stop playing when your bluetooth device is shutoff.
It should not automatically start.
Please describe every detail of what you are doing, connected to, etc. Order and timing might be important.
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Starting with phone idle
Turn on Bluetooth headset
Verify it is connected in Settings
Back out and go to a streaming app (has occurred in slacker and metroradio)
Stream music for any given amount of time
Either pause music, pause and back all the way out, just back all the way out, etc.
Shut screen/put in pocket
Turn off bluetooth headset
Music starts playing from phone speaker
Bump - happened again tonight. This time I paused from the lock screen just to test. Paused -> Screen Off -> BT off -> 10 seconds later, music starts
does it happen if you shut bluetooth off before shutting screen off?
Does it happen with Zune as music player ? Also does these apps have any settings for this kind of situation.
wpxbox said:
Does it happen with Zune as music player ? Also does these apps have any settings for this kind of situation.
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I don't use Zune. The only setting in Slacker is if I want Radio to resume automatically when Bluetooth is connected and that is turned off. Metro has nothing.
BUMP.........
You need the app "Stop the Music!
I had the same problem on my Lumia 800 today.. so awkward.....
I was at work and use a Logitech bluetooth docking station, playing music was fine, no problem at all.. I work a shoppingmall and while on my break I went in the another store just next to mine. A really hot girl works there and this lyrics came on highest volume:
"I'm fat, I'm Single, I'm ready to mingle"
here's a youtube link... Never been so embarrassed in my life, I managed to save my ass but only just! A fix would be superb!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJooV7RrMk
I've had the same issue with the background audio from Podcasts! Pro. It doesn't do this with Zune. I'm guessing its an issue with the way the background api is being implemented.
Another thing i've noticed, when it switches to or from BT, the audio picks up from the last point before BT is connected. Example, if I'm listening to an hour long podcast, and I get 23 minutes into it before switching to BT, even when I listen to another 20 minutes of the podcast, it will revert back to the 23min point once BT is disconnected.
Same issue here
Hi,
I'm having the same issue here with a Mercedes B180 built in Handsfree and Lumia 800.
It happens with Wimp, not Spotify.
As a matter of fact music Streaming is not working at all from any app to this HF.
However: BT with my combination is ok for Contact Transfer and Phone functions so it's not a catastrophy, but....
One other thing: When turning ignition off, ongoing calls are disrupted and not returned to the handset...
Nokia Support said that this is a issue caused by them using the Microsoft BT Stack for Music Streaming while probably Mercedes is using some other (Widcomm, Toshiba...)
BTW: I've used iPhone in this scenario and it works fine with all functions.
I have the most bizarre issue.
I have only noticed this while watching something on Netflix, basically I'm watching a video, doesn't matter which through my bluetooth headphones and after about 4 minutes or so the audio stops streaming through the headphones and begins to play through the phone's internal speakers.
I check the status of bluetooth at the time and it says my headphones are still connected, also I would normally hear a message while wearing them to say the phone has been disconnected if that was the case. Now nothing plays through the bluetooth headset not even the system music app and the only way I can get it working again is to switch bluetooth off and on again.
I have tried uninstalling Netflix
I have tried re-pairing the headphones, I still get the same issues.
If I don't use Netflix at all and just the music app I get no dropouts.
I have only noticed this since the last update to marshmellow and not pointing fingers in that direction but it's just around that time it started playing up.
Phone is an xperia z5 unrooted E6653
Android 6.0
Kernal Version 3.10.84-perf-g19d6d92 [email protected] #1
Build number 32.1.A.1.185
I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if possible, do any of you guys here have alternative suggestions?
lenny81 said:
I have the most bizarre issue.
I have only noticed this while watching something on Netflix, basically I'm watching a video, doesn't matter which through my bluetooth headphones and after about 4 minutes or so the audio stops streaming through the headphones and begins to play through the phone's internal speakers.
I check the status of bluetooth at the time and it says my headphones are still connected, also I would normally hear a message while wearing them to say the phone has been disconnected if that was the case. Now nothing plays through the bluetooth headset not even the system music app and the only way I can get it working again is to switch bluetooth off and on again.
I have tried uninstalling Netflix
I have tried re-pairing the headphones, I still get the same issues.
If I don't use Netflix at all and just the music app I get no dropouts.
I have only noticed this since the last update to marshmellow and not pointing fingers in that direction but it's just around that time it started playing up.
Phone is an xperia z5 unrooted E6653
Android 6.0
Kernal Version 3.10.84-perf-g19d6d92 [email protected] #1
Build number 32.1.A.1.185
I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if possible, do any of you guys here have alternative suggestions?
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I have the most bizarre issue.
I have only noticed this while watching something on Netflix, basically I'm watching a video, doesn't matter which through my bluetooth headphones and after about 4 minutes or so the audio stops streaming through the headphones and begins to play through the phone's internal speakers.
I check the status of bluetooth at the time and it says my headphones are still connected, also I would normally hear a message while wearing them to say the phone has been disconnected if that was the case. Now nothing plays through the bluetooth headset not even the system music app and the only way I can get it working again is to switch bluetooth off and on again.
I have tried uninstalling and re installing Netflix
I have tried re-pairing the headphones, I still get the same issues.
If I don't use Netflix at all and just the music app I get no dropouts.
I have only noticed this since the last update to marshmellow and not pointing fingers in that direction but it's just around that time it started playing up.
Phone is an xperia z5 unrooted E6653
Android 6.0
Kernal Version 3.10.84-perf-g19d6d92 [email protected] #1
Build number 32.1.A.1.185
I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if possible, do any of you guys here have alternative suggestions?
I use a bovee Bluetooth dongle to listen to music while I drive. When I'm playing music it's like someone hits mute for a split second and this happens every 10 seconds or so. I first noticed this behavior on my last phone (OnePlus 8pro) but only on custom roms. I'm 100% stock on the pixel 7. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks.
Sounds like a bad Bluetooth connection. Connected to my Nvidia Shield my Bluetooth headphones do that sometimes. I just forget the pairing and restart both, re-pair, and it usually works.
Have you reset your radio/bluetooth yet?
My wife had a similar issue, not quite as bad as yours, but frustrating, which got better, after a BT reset, but not 100%.
When she moved to a new phone recently, I suggested I install apps/accounts, and let her fresh configure it from there, so basically almost a full-reset. That solved the whole issue, to date (going on 2+ months now). I suspect there were a few "iffy" apps along the way too, so who knows what all got fixed, through that process...
Bastafari said:
I use a bovee Bluetooth dongle to listen to music while I drive. When I'm playing music it's like someone hits mute for a split second and this happens every 10 seconds or so. I first noticed this behavior on my last phone (OnePlus 8pro) but only on custom roms. I'm 100% stock on the pixel 7. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Maybe try to change ypur AVRCP to lower version from Developer Options. Help me with some quirky BT appliance
Bastafari said:
I use a bovee Bluetooth dongle to listen to music while I drive. When I'm playing music it's like someone hits mute for a split second and this happens every 10 seconds or so. I first noticed this behavior on my last phone (OnePlus 8pro) but only on custom roms. I'm 100% stock on the pixel 7. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks.
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So I have the same problem on a 2015 Toyota Highlander. On the Highlander, there is a phone connection function for Bluetooth and a video/ audio player. Only connection with Bluetooth. If I select both, it plays normally. I might have to do with your device not connecting using full Bluetooth functionality.
Bastafari said:
I use a bovee Bluetooth dongle to listen to music while I drive. When I'm playing music it's like someone hits mute for a split second and this happens every 10 seconds or so. I first noticed this behavior on my last phone (OnePlus 8pro) but only on custom roms. I'm 100% stock on the pixel 7. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks.
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So I have the same problem on a 2015 Toyota Highlander. On the Highlander, there is a phone connection function for Bluetooth and a video/ audio player. Only connection with Bluetooth. If I select both, it plays normally. I might have to do with your device not connecting using full Bluetooth functionality
otonieru said:
Maybe try to change ypur AVRCP to lower version from Developer Options. Help me with some quirky BT appliance
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This I believe is the issue when it comes to other equipment and not the phones