has anyone else noticed that bluetooth quality is terrible when the phone uses a bluetooth codec other than SBC or LDAC? I've witnessed it with my Grado headphones as they only have SBC or aptX HD and the phone picks aptX HD as it would be the higher quality codec but sounds bad for moments and then it's like you go from mono to stereo in that sound quality improves for a few seconds and then goes to trash again. This also happens with AAC on a friend's car. Forcing the phone to SBC in developer settings makes it sound good, but it is cumbersome to always have to go to dev settings to change from the codec it picked to SBC, few devices have LDAC, and anyways why ship the other codecs if you'll have them broken
I tried sbc on my wf xm4 and all sound good
Mrxyzl said:
I tried sbc on my wf xm4 and all sound good
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The point is that SBC sounds good and so does LDAC but the rest sound like ****.
I tried AAC with my galaxy buds pro and the high frequencies get a little distorted, as if it had a lower volume
AAC on Google Home (to which it defaults as it only supports SBC and AAC) also exhibits this issue.
If you are on android 13 64.1.A.0.891 than flash it back to 64.0.A.11.31. I had the same issues my headsec was popping and crackling my car unit (sony MEX unit ) was losing connection noisy and stattering playback
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Hello guys,
I have a Note 5 and want to listen to music via my Bose QC 35 II. As these headphones only support SBC, which is quite basic and the slightly better AAC codec, no Aptx streaming is possible. It is sad that the good sounding aptx is not available, so i wanted to get the best out of it and try to listen with the aac codec. Unfortunately, it is only possible to manually change the bluetooth codec in Android Oreo. Is there a way be it an additional app or similar actions to manipulate the bluetooth audio codec even in Android Nougat?
Thanks in advance*
Hello, I have a rooted lg v30 running boombox rom v.0.10.
The main reason I decided to buy the lg v30 was it superior audio quality. I also have LDAC supporting bluetooth headphones from sony so I was waiting quite eagerly for the LDAC support coming with oreo. I just learned today that there are additional bluetooth settings within the developer settings section.
But to my bewilderment I cannot change the settings to a higher quality. I mean I can choose the LDAC codec and the higher sampling rate but at the moment I connect the phone with the headphones it switches back to lowest standard settings... I installed the sony connect app to look if there was something to change there but it also did not show LDAC as an option after connecting to the phone. I am quite annoyed. Any Ideas what the problem could be? Is there a notification when a LDAC bluetooth connection is successfully established?
Thank you.
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ronnbon said:
But to my bewilderment I cannot change the settings to a higher quality. I mean I can choose the LDAC codec and the higher sampling rate but at the moment I connect the phone with the headphones it switches back to lowest standard settings... I installed the sony connect app to look if there was something to change there but it also did not show LDAC as an option after connecting to the phone. I am quite annoyed. Any Ideas what the problem could be? Is there a notification when a LDAC bluetooth connection is successfully established?
Thank you.
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Ignore the app, it's completely unnecessary. Every time you connect your headphones, the settings are restored to default. Go to the bluetooth settings of your headphones before pairing them and change the 'Connection type' from Most stable to Best sound quality. This sets the highest quality codec your headphones supports as default. Go to Developer Options and change the sample rate to 44.1k or 48k and the LDAC Codec: Playback Quality to "Optimized for Audio Quality". Should have all settings stay supporting the max spec of both devices and software like Viper4Android. When you connect your headphones after doing this, a notification will appear at the bottom saying LDAC quality is enabled.
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Ignore the app, it's completely unnecessary. Every time you connect your headphones, the settings are restored to default. Go to the bluetooth settings of your headphones before pairing them and change the 'Connection type' from Most stable to Best sound quality. This sets the highest quality codec your headphones supports as default. Go to Developer Options and change the sample rate to 44.1k or 48k and the LDAC Codec: Playback Quality to "Optimized for Audio Quality". Should have all settings stay supporting the max spec of both devices and software like Viper4Android. When you connect your headphones after doing this, a notification will appear at the bottom saying LDAC quality is enabled.
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Thank you for your help - unfortunately that did not work for me. Like I said before I can choose the settings within the developer section before I connect with the headphones but the moment the bluetooth connection is established the settings switch to AAC ( which is not bad but it is not LDAC) and 44.1khz/16bits.
There is no notification regarding LDAC...
I updated the smartphone firmware yesterday to rule out some software related problems.
By now I am not sure if the problem rather originates from the headphones (wh-h900n) than the smartphone. Given that I just have one device that supports LDAC and one pair of LDAC headphones I don't know how I can determine which one is maybe not correctly working. [emoji52]
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ronnbon said:
Hello, I have a rooted lg v30 running boombox rom v.0.10.
The main reason I decided to buy the lg v30 was it superior audio quality. I also have LDAC supporting bluetooth headphones from sony so I was waiting quite eagerly for the LDAC support coming with oreo. I just learned today that there are additional bluetooth settings within the developer settings section.
But to my bewilderment I cannot change the settings to a higher quality. I mean I can choose the LDAC codec and the higher sampling rate but at the moment I connect the phone with the headphones it switches back to lowest standard settings... I installed the sony connect app to look if there was something to change there but it also did not show LDAC as an option after connecting to the phone. I am quite annoyed. Any Ideas what the problem could be? Is there a notification when a LDAC bluetooth connection is successfully established?
Thank you.
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Answer:
1. Uninstalls that Sony Music Center (song pal) app
2. Remove your Sony LDAC headphones from your BT settings.
3. Pair your headphones again with your phone.
4. Go into BT settings. Click on the cog wheel next to your headphone device.
5. Choose Audio Quality over Stable connection.
6. You are all set.
Note. There is a toast message that appears once you're connected and established LDAC connection.
I've got a Bose Quietcomfort 35 bluetooth headphone. It reportedly supports SBC and AAC codecs.
Pocophone reportedly supports both of those codecs, but it only streams using SBC.
Even if I go to developers options and manually choose AAC, this options doesn't stick. If I go to another app and come back, it's back to SBC.
Can anyone help me solving this? I'd like to stream using AAC.
Same here
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Same here
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Yup, same problem here. The only audio codec I can use is SBC. I'm using the Bluedio TM bluetooth 5.0 headphones.
In my case, I think the problem is with the Bose headphones
I can stream audio to my Yamaha home theater and use aptx
I solved the problem by renaming the headphones to have the name "Bose Quietcomfort 35" it it. E.g. : "Bose Quietcomfort 35 AA"
Hello comunity have anyone triyed with the m20 pro using the codex aptx-ll ? I only watch videos of YouTubeMusic and YouTube in high quality and researching i see that this service compress the music using AAC. But i read that aptx-hd and LDAC are far better codec with more bandwitdh. I see a pair of Bluetooth headphones that support aptx and aptx-ll but i dont know if the mate support this or only aptx and aptx hd.
Should i instend look for a pair of headphones that support AAC?
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Hello comunity have anyone triyed with the m20 pro using the codex aptx-ll ? I only watch videos of YouTubeMusic and YouTube in high quality and researching i see that this service compress the music using AAC. But i read that aptx-hd and LDAC are far better codec with more bandwitdh. I see a pair of Bluetooth headphones that support aptx and aptx-ll but i dont know if the mate support this or only aptx and aptx hd.
Should i instend look for a pair of headphones that support AAC?
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Mate 20 does support aptx Low latency
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Mate 20 does support aptx Low latency
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Thank you pal! I procced with my purchase
Noup! I purchase the soundpeats Q12 in amazon these support aptx-ll but the huawei mate20 pro only support aptx and aptx-HD
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Noup! I purchase the soundpeats Q12 in amazon these support aptx-ll but the huawei mate20 pro only support aptx and aptx-HD
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Are you noticing any delay?if it's just in YouTube it's a known bug
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Are you noticing any delay?if it's just in YouTube it's a known bug
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Not really i have streaming high quality audio from spotiy and from YouTube havent notice any delay
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Mate 20 does support aptx Low latency
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Not true according to the official www.aptx.com website.
Also I own a Mate 20 Pro, and for aptx there are only the basic "aptx" and the "aptx hd" options on Developer Options' bluetooth codec settings menu.
Are you 100% sure the Mate 20 Pro supports the aptx-LL codec specifically? How can you tell?
As for bluetooth audio lag.. lots of streaming apps and media players artificially compensate for that, i.e., they delay the video a split second so that the laggy audio catches up and everything is sync for the user to watch.
But realtime audio does suffer from lag. App sounds, or games, etc. All cases when the app or system cannot predict or tell in advance when and which audio is supposed to be played. I have never tried aptx-LL though and that seems to make the realtime experience almost completely lag-free, and looks like a really nice alternative.
But as I said, I do not believe the Mate 20 Pro supports it. If it does please let me know as I am very interested in this.
I have jabras 65t and jaybird x3. They both connect with aac and sbc. When they connect with the default aac, both have a half sec lag. When I got to developer string I can manually change the setting to sbc. When I do that the lag goes away. The only issue is the phone doesn't keep the setting. It will default back to acc when you use the earphones again. Just to prove I have a cheap pair of insignia hear phones with connect vis sbc and there is no lag.
It seems to me that the Earphones dictate which codec will be used. You can see this in developer settings where it will highlight which of the several available code s to choose from such as aas, and sbc. I would I am actually looking for a wireless headphones that do t use @C And use aptx. It's hard to check the settings on Amazon or any other site.
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have jabras 65t and jaybird x3. They both connect with aac and sbc. When they connect with the default aac, both have a half sec lag. When I got to developer string I can manually change the setting to sbc. When I do that the lag goes away. The only issue is the phone doesn't keep the setting. It will default back to acc when you use the earphones again. Just to prove I have a cheap pair of insignia hear phones with connect vis sbc and there is no lag.
It seems to me that the Earphones dictate which codec will be used. You can see this in developer settings where it will highlight which of the several available code s to choose from such as aas, and sbc. I would I am actually looking for a wireless headphones that do t use @C And use aptx. It's hard to check the settings on Amazon or any other site.
Jmar72 said:
I have jabras 65t and jaybird x3. They both connect with aac and sbc. When they connect with the default aac, both have a half sec lag. When I got to developer string I can manually change the setting to sbc. When I do that the lag goes away. The only issue is the phone doesn't keep the setting. It will default back to acc when you use the earphones again. Just to prove I have a cheap pair of insignia hear phones with connect vis sbc and there is no lag.
It seems to me that the Earphones dictate which codec will be used. You can see this in developer settings where it will highlight which of the several available code s to choose from such as aas, and sbc. I would I am actually looking for a wireless headphones that do t use @C And use aptx. It's hard to check the settings on Amazon or any other site.
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have jabras 65t and jaybird x3. They both connect with aac and sbc. When they connect with the default aac, both have a half sec lag. When I got to developer string I can manually change the setting to sbc. When I do that the lag goes away. The only issue is the phone doesn't keep the setting. It will default back to acc when you use the earphones again. Just to prove I have a cheap pair of insignia hear phones with connect vis sbc and there is no lag.
It seems to me that the Earphones dictate which codec will be used. You can see this in developer settings where it will highlight which of the several available code s to choose from such as aas, and sbc. I would I am actually looking for a wireless headphones that do t use @C And use aptx. It's hard to check the settings on Amazon or any other site.
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Well i have purchase from amazon the soundpeats Q12 and those support aptx and aptx-ll
I streaming spotify in very high quality and they sound perfect the mate 20 pro set them in aptx. In youtube and instagram livestrams i dont see any lag. Maybe beacuse aptx has more bandwith than ACC the pair of headphones cost me $30
I m using Funcl AI earbuds and It supports APTX .
Same problem.
I contacted the Huawei Service. No answer were given. They will e-mail me later
I used to use WIRED EARPHONES (SMILE JAMAICA) with my MOTO Z PLAY on 3.5mm jack.
Now i want to switch to wireless earphones for hassle free workout in the gym.
but the problem is Audio Quality of the Bluetooth audio.
1. Wired & WIRELESS earphones sounds same when played through any music player app, besides wired one is a bit louder.
2. but when I apply any EQ Enhancement, Wired earphones sound great & virtualization is amazing (i.e. output quality enahnces like 50 to 100) but Audio enhancements doesn't work pretty much the same with wireless earphones (i.e. output quality enahances only like 50 to 52) i.e. wireless earphones sounds like I'm playing 64kbps mp3 file.
Why it so? In developer option CODEC is SBC as earphones are only supporting SBC.