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    Bluetooth Audio Streaming (sucks?)

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by gluv4u2, Sep 12, 2011.

  1. gluv4u2

    gluv4u2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I searched the forums and apparently nobody has posted about Audio Streaming via Bluetooth being super choppy? I see several people have bluetooth modules cutting out, but that is different.

    I can connect my M11x fine to bluetooth devices (audio or not), but when I being using bluetooth speaker systems the stream is just choppy and cuts in and out. I can disable the bluetooth device in the bios and use my ciraga bluetooth dongle and the stream is perfect on all bluetooth speaker systems I have. so it has to be the built in BT setup? any advice? I have the latest Dell 365 drivers. I've removed and reinstalled them. Not sure what else to do?

    I'm using a Parrot bluetooth audio system in the bedroom, and also a Sony Bluetooth receiver to my sound system in my living room. Both my 4yr old HP laptop, and my 3 android smart phones can stream perfectly to the bluetooth devices, but not my bad @ss Alienware?
     
  2. Catzoo

    Catzoo Notebook Evangelist

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    Just bought a Beewi bluetooth headset , music plays fine ( stock driver ) in WMP , but games like MW2 feels AWEFULL.

    No , i mean , AWEFULL. Street 4 had nearly 1 sec lag , dunno if that adapter suck or not cause it's the only one i have .
     
  3. tidusx100

    tidusx100 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I used to have a pair of bluetooth headphones back a couple years ago when I used it to listen to music it was fine just lagged a little behind what was going on but it didnt matter because it was music when I used it to watch videos it was horrible because it was out of sync I hoped this would have changed by now but I guess not.
     
  4. Hello_Moto

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    yeah i get audio lag all the time with motorola S9 HD headphones when playing dawn of war 2.

    youtube vids also experience some lag but it's infrequent.

    it's probably the BT module that's the source of the problem.
     
  5. gman901

    gman901 Notebook Consultant

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    What model M11x do you have? I have not tried using BT audio yet on my R3 w/BT 3.0. I have a BT headphone adapter that works flawlessly with gaming on any laptop with a headphone jack; however I would prefer to use the internal BT card.
     
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    i've got an R1
     
  7. spiktsu

    spiktsu Notebook Enthusiast

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    yeah same here. If i use my internal bluetooth set up, sound sucks cause it doesnt connect in stereo mode, it connects as a regular headset and that's why the sound is horrible. I'm on the same boat, trying to figure it out how to make it connect in Stereo mode, trying to use my 903+ stereo headset. I know it's not the headset cause I have used it with 4 different devices and sounds awesome, now on my alienware m11 r1 version sounds all choppy, horrible!
     
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    Any luck connecting you stereo bluetooth to your laptop... I so far, NO. :(
    So when I click on the bluetooth tray, then open settings, I go to "audio" ..so when I right click on Stereo Audio, connect shows up, I click on it and nothing happens. I know it has something to do with the driver but there are no updates. The driver for this internal bluetooth is so buggy, horrible. In control panel, then sound. Hands free headset shows up, but sound sucks. I did manage to have it where stereo mix shows up, but then it just disappears out of nowhere. I gave up... I'll just use it to talk... since stereo mix wont work... anybody has any clue? I tried everything... any good ideas... or did anybody here have had this issue and able to fix it? help ^_^