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Help Bluetooth audio poor?

travishamockery

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Jul 11, 2010
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So today was the first time I streamed Pandora in my car via bluetooth to my kenwood unit. On my X it was awesome quality. On the TBolt though I got tons of static, like the sound just broke up a lot. It wasn't connection issues causing stuttering, just poor quality audio.

Any ideas? Any one else noticing this? Curious if maybe I have a bunk phone.
 
weird, so some have it, some don't. I'm wondering if it is bad software or if it is the phone hardware itself. i'm going to have to find someone else to connect theirs to my car and see if it is the same.

Call quality for me is perfect, no crackling. So it makes me feel like it's the A2DP stack in the phones software....
 
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I was having a problem streaming pandora via bluetooth to my car where it would tick/crack/pop really loudly when the song hit some high notes. I went in to the pandora settings and switching to high quality seems to have made the ticking go away. I might hear it once a song now instead of 10-20 times a chorus.

Sounds like you are getting a different sound but maybe they have the same solution.
 
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I was having a problem streaming pandora via bluetooth to my car where it would tick/crack/pop really loudly when the song hit some high notes. I went in to the pandora settings and switching to high quality seems to have made the ticking go away. I might hear it once a song now instead of 10-20 times a chorus.

Sounds like you are getting a different sound but maybe they have the same solution.

thanks for the idea, but I have that on already. tried with slacker radio and same issue. weird though cause phone calls don't have any problem.
 
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I to am having a similar problem with my Thunderbolt connecting to my Acura RL. The phone connects ok, and sound is good. But, if I try to play audio through a media player I get an extreme amount of static. As a note, I also have an iPhone 4, and with the same car the audio streams perfectly.

I am wondering if I should take the phone back and try another, I am still under the two week trial period.


So today was the first time I streamed Pandora in my car via bluetooth to my kenwood unit. On my X it was awesome quality. On the TBolt though I got tons of static, like the sound just broke up a lot. It wasn't connection issues causing stuttering, just poor quality audio.

Any ideas? Any one else noticing this? Curious if maybe I have a bunk phone.
 
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