Help Terrible Bluetooth sound quality since 4.1 & 4.0.4

Jeffruby · Sep 26, 2012

From a guy who was unrooted, now rooted, and tried everything I can tell you there is a DEFINITE blue tooth issue since ota 4.0.4.

It is reproducible and correctable too. If you flash any radio prior to official 4.0.4 radio (including leaked 4.0.4 radio) blue tooth works PERFECTLY. But, if you then flash the 4.0.4 or jelly bean radio the issue reoccurs.

The issue may be subtle or severe, depending on how you use the bt device, but it has to do with fixed vs variable volumes. I myself, in my car cannot use bt on newer radios as I struggle to hear.

I cannot however use jb sourcery with the old radios as for some reason they drain battery so fast (had a 'sleep' issue with battery on older radios)

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SHIVA77 · Sep 26, 2012

Jeffruby, thanks for your input.

paleodust · Sep 26, 2012

Jeffruby said:
From a guy who was unrooted, now rooted, and tried everything I can tell you there is a DEFINITE blue tooth issue since ota 4.0.4.

It is reproducible and correctable too. If you flash any radio prior to official 4.0.4 radio (including leaked 4.0.4 radio) blue tooth works PERFECTLY. But, if you then flash the 4.0.4 or jelly bean radio the issue reoccurs.

The issue may be subtle or severe, depending on how you use the bt device, but it has to do with fixed vs variable volumes. I myself, in my car cannot use bt on newer radios as I struggle to hear.

I cannot however use jb sourcery with the old radios as for some reason they drain battery so fast (had a 'sleep' issue with battery on older radios)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

I'm still shaking my head about this. It's probably an easy fix. I can't believe they won't even acknowledge it! It's a big deal to me since my professional life revolves around bluetooth and it's VERY inconvenient to try to work without it, and speaker phone is unprofessional.

Jeffruby · Sep 26, 2012

Agree completely! Drives me nuts. Camt make any business calls in car.

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quickaudi · Sep 28, 2012

BzB said:
there must be some other combination of issues that causes this to happen. has anyone tried to narrow it down to type of connection perhaps? only on wifi, 3g, 4g, etc?

i have a vzw galaxy nexus fwiw...

3G for me.

And, the only thing that got better with the JB radios was a little more volume. No clarity at all.

BzB · Sep 29, 2012

Is this issue with in car bt only or with ear pieces too?

It's interesting that only a handful of people are mentioning this issue or even able to replicate it. Especially considering the views on this thread and the size of the community here. That's also probably why there's been no acknowledgment from Samsung or Google.

That said, I'll continue to keep an ear out for any bt anomalies. Good luck to those who are having the problem.

SharpBarb · Oct 11, 2012

I really hope the 4.1.2 update fixes this bluetooth issue.

xfx · Oct 11, 2012

Got my 4.1.1 update, BT better but still sucks. Media however, always sounded great. I just don't get that.

paleodust · Oct 11, 2012

xfx said:
Got my 4.1.1 update, BT better but still sucks. Media however, always sounded great. I just don't get that.

I've only experienced it in calls. Otherwise, the sound quality is great. I just wish they would reverse that part of it to the earlier version that worked or fix the newer version. It can't be too hard. The problem is that they don't seem to be willing to acknowledge it.

SharpBarb · Oct 11, 2012

paleodust said:
I've only experienced it in calls. Otherwise, the sound quality is great.

Same here. Streaming Pandora works just fine, but when I try to use the phone over bluetooth in my car, the other person can barely make out what I'm saying. Makes the handsfree function absolutely useless.

quickaudi · Oct 12, 2012

SharpBarb said:
I really hope the 4.1.2 update fixes this bluetooth issue.

The one VZW won't push until January?

batwings1 · Oct 12, 2012

quickaudi said:
The one VZW won't push until January?

So true! The BT sound quality on calls is killing me! Hopefully this will be addressed sooner than January. I might have to give a RAZR Maxx HD a try.

Jeffruby · Oct 12, 2012

Guys, as I eluded to earlier. Do yourselves a favor and flash 4.0.2 radio....I'm back to great BT sound

paleodust · Oct 12, 2012

Jeffruby said:
Guys, as I eluded to earlier. Do yourselves a favor and flash 4.0.2 radio....I'm back to great BT sound

Can you flash without erasing everything and starting over? I hate having to do that!

And what about the 4G improvements?

Trooper · Oct 12, 2012

Jeffruby said:
Guys, as I eluded to earlier. Do yourselves a favor and flash 4.0.2 radio....I'm back to great BT sound

This.

It was the only way I could make calls on BT when I had a Toro Gnex.

samkatz · Nov 26, 2012

Hi. Am new to this forum...googled the BT issue.....

I have gotten a total of 3 headsets from VZ, the BT phone audio is horrible on all of them. Am very frustrated wasting my time configuring new phones, they won't let me go for a new model, and the clock is ticking on the one year "warranty".....

As others have posted, this all started w/the first update, which fixed some things and screwed up BT. I've used many earpieces, eg Jawbone, Moto, Plantronics. The sound is fine on the AD2DP profiles, eg navigation, music etc. But cuts in and out and distorted on phone calls. on the other end, my voice is fine as per my friends.

Somewhere on android central I read that this issue is similar on the S3 w/JB, not sure. I'm going to try to raise a complaint w/VZ and tell them that the phone is not functional for me......What a waste of everyone's time, shipping and reshipping bad phones. I do wonder why this is not a "known issue" w/the service dept.

SHIVA77 · Nov 27, 2012

I do wonder why this is not a "known issue" w/the service dept.

It is a known issue, they just won't admit it. If you call them a few times in a row, you'll get one tech who'll admit to this.

paleodust · Nov 27, 2012

Is there any way to get them to fix it for the next update? It's frustrating the heck out of me! And rooting shouldn't have to be the answer.

samkatz · Nov 27, 2012

paleodust said:
Is there any way to get them to fix it for the next update? It's frustrating the heck out of me! And rooting shouldn't have to be the answer.

Well, now they are giving the GNEX for free; I have a feeling they have said to hell w/those of us who have it; my problem w/waiting for another upgrade is it will prob. be past the 1 year I got the phone. I don't root, etc, but it seems like there is a solution if you do. Don't know why the S/W people can't just implement it.

mogelijk · Nov 28, 2012

samkatz said:
Well, now they are giving the GNEX for free; I have a feeling they have said to hell w/those of us who have it; my problem w/waiting for another upgrade is it will prob. be past the 1 year I got the phone. I don't root, etc, but it seems like there is a solution if you do. Don't know why the S/W people can't just implement it.

Verizon seems to take about two months to release the update. Apparently Verizon puts the updates through their own QC (not that you can really tell) and put their own software on the phone.

We'll hope they can get 4.1.2 out before Christmas -- if not you have to wonder if it won't be further delayed a week or two for the holidays. After that, it will likely be an extra month or two for 4.2.1 -- with the minor issues that people are having with 4.2, it would be best if they skipped that update. Hopefully one of these will fix the bluetooth.

samkatz · Nov 28, 2012

mogelijk said:
Verizon seems to take about two months to release the update. Apparently Verizon puts the updates through their own QC (not that you can really tell) and put their own software on the phone.

We'll hope they can get 4.1.2 out before Christmas -- if not you have to wonder if it won't be further delayed a week or two for the holidays. After that, it will likely be an extra month or two for 4.2.1 -- with the minor issues that people are having with 4.2, it would be best if they skipped that update. Hopefully one of these will fix the bluetooth.

didn't realize there was another 4.1....x update. Am using 4.2 on
Google nexus tab. pretty good except a few 3rd party apps don't work.

SHIVA77 · Nov 29, 2012

Update on this thread. I picked up a Samsung Galaxy Note II today. Hopefully the bluetooth issues are behind me now.

quickaudi · Nov 29, 2012

traitor!

honestly, hope you enjoy

paleodust · Nov 29, 2012

SHIVA77 said:
Update on this thread. I picked up a Samsung Galaxy Note II today. Hopefully the bluetooth issues are behind me now.

Please let us know. Someone recommended that to me earlier this morning. I'm interested toknowwhat your exexperience is with it.

paleodust · Nov 29, 2012

paleodust said:
Please let us know. Someone recommended that to me earlier this morning. I'm interested toknowwhat your exexperience is with it.

I don't know how that happened.

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