Fix for poor A2DP quality on 4.2.2

[jpalo]

Just wanted to share this here. There is clear audible decrease in audio quality on 4.2.2 when listening over bluetooth (A2DP). All the higher tones were somehow garbled, like cymbals, or high vocals, etc. I could clearly notice the poor quality on 4.2.2 on my car stereo and also the improvement after installing the fix on my stock rooted GN 4.2.2 (GSM). I haven't tested this on custom ROMs.

Steps:

1. Root your phone, if not rooted
2. Make Nandroid backup (in worst case, you might not be able to boot)
3. Download bluetooth.default.so http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632#c158 Also attached to this message.
4. Download audio.a2dp.default.so http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632#c163 Also attached to this message.
5. In /system/lib/hw, rename bluetooth.default.so to bluetooth.default.so.bak (or whatever)
6. In /system/lib/hw, rename audio.a2dp.default.so to audio.a2dp.default.so.bak (or whatever)
7. Copy files to /system/lib/hw
8. Set permission on both files to be same as with the original files (644)
9. Restart phone

 

[Carlos_Manuel]

Edit: deleted

 

[kitjacky13]

Just wanted to share this here. There is clear audible decrease in audio quality on 4.2.2 when listening over bluetooth (A2DP). All the higher tones were somehow garbled, like cymbals, or high vocals, etc. I could clearly notice the poor quality on 4.2.2 on my car stereo and also the improvement after installing the fix on my stock rooted GN 4.2.2 (GSM). I haven't tested this on custom ROMs.

Steps:

1. Root your phone, if not rooted
2. Make Nandroid backup (in worst case, you might not be able to boot)
3. Download bluetooth.default.so http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632#c158 Also attached to this message.
4. Download audio.a2dp.default.so http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632#c163 Also attached to this message.
5. In /system/lib/hw, rename bluetooth.default.so to bluetooth.default.so.bak (or whatever)
6. In /system/lib/hw, rename audio.a2dp.default.so to audio.a2dp.default.so.bak (or whatever)
7. Copy files to /system/lib/hw
8. Set permission on both files to be same as with the original files (644)
9. Restart phone

hey man !! u made my day !! thanks a lot !!!

 

[murso74]

From CM Team I got reply once for my question about Bluetooth A2DP audio streaming. They said the CM Bluetooth files are not compatible with stock android ROM. So I didn't dare to test the A2DP file but I just downloaded latest night and I took that Bluetooth audio .so file and worked.

Thanks for information that the files worked on your nexus..

interesting, what was your question? because i feel like the CM bluetooth quality has gone down too

 

[Carlos_Manuel]

interesting, what was your question? because i feel like the CM bluetooth quality has gone down too

I asked information about the bluetooth files for A2DP streaming fix..

CM's Bluetooth quality (I mean A2DP streaming quality) is much better than on stock ROM.

I noticed the difference when I tested CM10.1 first Nightly of JB 4.2.2..

 

[tshelby73]

Does this help with call quality over standard Bluetooth

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[murso74]

ok i'm sorry, but just to be clear, doing this on CM10.1 won't do a think correct?

 

[skottema]

I have been looking for something like this!!! Thank you! What exactly does it do? Does it increase the bitpool of the stream?

FYI, I just noticed that it changed my bluetooth device name to "Nexus 4" which can easily be changed back in the bluetooth settings...

 

[war1]

Very, very good fix. thanks

 

[slimdizzy]

ok i'm sorry, but just to be clear, doing this on CM10.1 won't do a think correct?

Interested in this answer as well. Can anyone clarify please?

 

[Darkryft]

Is it possible/likely that in addition to fixing issues with quality, this will also resolve the high-speed playback problem? A few other people and myself have experienced BT audio streaming where it plays back way too fast in the car. So far there doesn't seem to be a qualified fix for it. I'm interested to try this and see what happens - just wanting to see if anyone knew for certain ahead of time.

 

[hitokiri.pr]

From CM Team I got reply once for my question about Bluetooth A2DP audio streaming. They said the CM Bluetooth files are not compatible with stock android ROM. So I didn't dare to test the A2DP file but I just downloaded latest night and I took that Bluetooth audio .so file and worked.

Thanks for information that the files worked on your nexus..

I have tested this fix in a Rooted Stock Nexus 4. So they are compatible with stck ROM. Just FYI.

 

[Carlos_Manuel]

I have tested this fix in a Rooted Stock Nexus 4. So they are compatible with stck ROM. Just FYI.

I know it because I have fixed BT quality on my ROM!!
And I have used other files too to fix it..

 

[jpalo]

ok i'm sorry, but just to be clear, doing this on CM10.1 won't do a think correct?

Probably only works on stock. CM should have same/similar fix on some later build, check the Google bug thread at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632.

 

[Carlos_Manuel]

Probably only works on stock. CM should have same/similar fix on some later build, check the Google bug thread at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632.

CM10.1 has the A2DP audio straming fix and I'm using some CM10.1 BT files on my ROM..
No sense to add the files to CM10.1 when it's fixed in CM10.1..

 

[murso74]

CM10.1 has the A2DP austio straming fix and I'm using some CM10.1 BT files on my ROM..
No sense to add the files to CM10.1 when it's fixed in CM10.1..

Interesting... I noticed the highs in my car seemed raspy a day before these were posted. I guess it was in my head

Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk 2

 

[x-ravin]

Thanks so much for posting this OP!!! I have been lamenting my purchase of the N4 until this fix. The phone is now perfect! Well aside from no voice search for music like Siri (Google Voice search never pulls up my music).

 

[tshelby73]

I finally fixed my Bluetooth in call audio.I switched back to 4.1. This really sucks as I got used to 4.2.2 pull down toggles. I really hope Google gets this straightened out. This fix does help the Bluetooth audio streaming but my work truck and headset are not A2DP and when in call the volume seems to fade in and out. My Subaru has A2DP and made music easy to listen too but in call still seemed bad.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app

 

[MrRimmer]

Any chance this fix works on non-Nexus hardware? Since moving to a JB phone from one running ICS I have lost two very useful facilities - Llama being able to pick up cell changes without the screen being on and good quality BT audio.

 

[tshelby73]

Not sure if this will help anyone else but found doing factory reset fixed most of my 4.2.2 Bluetooth issues. Ota gave me issues. When 4.2.2 Google factory image was released I fastboot flashed it did a factory reset immediately and all seems to work fine but id tags for songs.

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