I have a Sennheiser HD4.40BT bluetooth headphone. When I connect this to my android phone, I can listen stereo quality music and while call, I can hear other person clearly and use the mic also. Problem appear when I connected headphone with my laptop through laptop's inbuilt bluetooth.  The problem is headphone is connecting in one of 2 ways: Headphone mode and Headset mode(with mic).  - When I select headphone mode, sound is great but I cannot use my mic.  - When I select headset mode(or handsfree mode), I continuously hear static and very poor audio quality but can use mic with this mode.    I already read to disable headset mode to get stereo quality but "this is not my purpose". What I want is to use headphone with stereo audio and mic simultaneously.
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Okay, so I have this bluetooth headset (it's a Skullcandy Hesh 2 Wireless). I want to use it with my PC which is running Windows 8.1. I can pair it just fine. After pairing it adds three devices under the "Sound" setting window: Hesh 2 Wireless Stereo (corresponding to the Audio Sink service) and Hesh 2 Wireless Hands-Free (one for audio out, the other for audio in). This is where I run into my problem.  The stereo output is awesome for listening to songs, in game sounds and music, watching movies, etc. What I want is the capability to do all of those things while using the built in mic to talk to my friends over Skype or Steam. I cannot find a way to do that. Whenever the mic is active any sound output to the Stereo part just stops. From what I can tell, Windows suspends the stereo part and lets the hands-free part do its thing until I stop talking.  What I'm wondering is: Is this even possible? The headset has a 3.5mm wire as well for those times when the battery is low. Using that wire everything works flawlessly.
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Problem In my apartment, when using the AirPods with my Mac, the audio is significantly choppy, fluttery and unreliable. There are frequently small &quot;pops&quot; when listening to music. The issue is not present when using the AirPods with my iPhone. The Apple Stack Exchange question you are reading now, is actually an update to my question on the same topic that was posted and resolved here previously. I had this very same issue while on macOS Sierra 10.12.4. We found out that the culprit was a bug introduced in that particular macOS version, and the problem went away with 10.12.5. I am now on 10.12.6 and having a quite identical problem. But I'm not confident that the OS is at fault this time. The reason is that I recently swapped my AirPods for a new pair, via an unrelated Apple support ticket. The new ones arrived via mail and I was instructed to pair them with my original case. The new pair of AirPods seem significantly more prone to skipping, stuttering and losing connection. I did not have this problem with my original AirPods, which I also used with 10.12.6 without problems (at least that I am cognizant of). Possible explanation I think I have found what's causing the skipping (albeit not the root cause), and it seems to be my iPhone Bluetooth signalling with its environment. Whenever that happens, there is a glitch/pop on the Mac ←→ AirPod connection. When I disable Bluetooth on the iPhone, the problems go away. I haven't changed anything in my environment except swapping the AirPods. No microwave in the background etc. I am quite confident that the reason is Bluetooth interaction from the iPhone. I am just not sure how to proceed, because the weird thing is that the problems started just when I replaced the AirPods for a new pair. Some plausible root causes are:  The new AirPods are in fact defect or come from a batch that are not as 'good' with Bluetooth. macOS 10.12.6 introduced a bug similar to the one in macOS 10.12.4, but I didn't realize it until much later (not that likely IMO, knowing how sensitive I am to audio quality). The pairing process whereby new AirPod buds were paired with an original case didn't go exactly right, and there is a firmware or software problem somewhere.  What I have tried  'Hard Reset' of the AirPods according to ; Resetting the iPhone Network Settings after &quot;Forgetting this device&quot; (the AirPods) as part of the AirPod 'Hard Reset'. Resetting the Mac Bluetooth Module according to .
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I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop using an external monitor. The monitor is connected by a HDMI cable. The external monitor does not have boxes, it does have an audio exit for a headphone/.. .   Now when I plug in my external monitor, I want to keep using my laptops boxes. Now it automatically sends the sound through the HDMI port instead.   I can easily change the appropriate settings in the sound configuration menu: I go to hardware and can select the device I want to use: Analog Surround 4.0 Output, instead of the HDMI one. This works and I can hear sound through my laptop boxes.  But I have to change this setting every time again when I plug in my external monitor, when I wake my laptop from the suspended state, etc.  How can I make this the default setting, without having to reset it all the time?  Thanks!
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, it says how to use the audio jack as in input. On my MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2012), It doesn't seem to have the option in settings. Is it not possible with these computers?
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When I move files, a small 'noise' noise comes through my headphones or speakers.  It only happens when moving files.  Is there a reason why moving files causes this slight static?  It only lasts for as long as the files are moving.  I'm not as much as annoyed as I am curious.  It is a Gigabyte board with a integrated sound card.  I'm running Windows 7.  I don't think it used to do this but I'm not quite sure.
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Is there a way to make an Android phone (HTC Desire HD) act as Bluetooth speakers or headset?  I'd like to use the phone as wireless headphones whilst watching a movie on a computer (running Ubuntu).
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I want to use two headphones simultaneously; one USB and another through the audio port listening to the same audio source (i.e iTunes, Spotify, or Netflix) at the same time. Is it possible?   Info about my device,   MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)   2.9 GHz Intel Core i5   OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
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Is it possible to get the battery status of Bluetooth headphones connected to Linux? Android shows it so I was wondering if it was possible.
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I guess this question already had the answer here but I can't find it. I'm using 12.04.  Update:  The problem is that I can hear the sound from my laptop's speakers even if I plugged in my headphones. Headphones is just standard stereo headphones. And the most interesting thing is  that all was working just a week ago.  I tried to play with pulseaudio and alsamixer settings - no results.
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The headphones are detected, because when they are plugged in, they appear in the sound settings.  The problem is that they just don't output any sound.  Laptop speakers output sound just fine.  I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 x64  This is the output from running :    What steps can I take to try and debug this issue myself?  Edit 1  Thanks to @Rexford and this , I've worked out how to get detailed debugging output from pulseaudio, by temporarily modifying /etc/pulse/client.conf using the --log-level flag.  I'll report back after I play around with this new information and try to find the problem.  Edit 2  Woke up this morning planning on getting to the bottom of this issue, when I discovered that the sound from the headphones started working.  Last night I had tried many solutions (from various forums and webpages), but was not restarting my computer (was just doing pulseaudio -k &amp;&amp; sudo alsa force-reload).  So I guess that the reboot was necessary to make one of the solutions kick in and actually work.  One of the biggest things I tried was uninstalling pulseaudio, installing gnome-audio as a replacement and going back to pulseaudio. So I recommend others try that if they are struggling. Just note that if you do that, you should follow the instructions  to get your volume/sound icon back (if it's missing after reboot - which it was for me).  I can't get to the root of this problem now, because it no longer exists for me.  Edit 3  The problem came back...  Debug logs from pulseaudio don't reveal anything useful (e.g. error messages).  According to , alsa is the next stop to check for the cause.
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I've read that the best way to &quot;mix&quot; two left and right line-level stereo jack outputs is to first connect each to a 1k resistor and then to your mono input. Why is this preferred over just shorting them directly together and then connecting them to a single input?
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I have a generic pair of smartphone earphones that have the button (along with a microphone) and I would like to use the button as a pause/play key in Ubuntu, like I would on an Android phones music player.  Is there a way to enable this headset control in Ubuntu?  If the headset controls are a hardware feature of audio jacks used in Android phones, the name of that hardware (audio jack) would be appreciated.
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I would like to pair two sticky dude Bluetooth speakers, at one time with my iPhone. With two of them at once it would be like stereo sound. Is there an app or something maybe?
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I want to disable Bluetooth on my laptop running Windows 10 Pro x64, but I have a problem: the option to do so is missing even though I know that it was previously available.  Here is the Bluetooth settings pages should look like on Windows 10:    Here is how it looks for me:    As you can see, I am missing the switch to turn it on or off? Why is it missing? I know that just yesterday, it was available and I turned it off. What can I do to fix it?
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After I installed Ubuntu 12.04, there are no sound at all on my headphone (rear jack panel).  On Sound settings > playback, it seemed that the sounds were detected after I choose 'play sound'.  Anybody can fix this issue??  Thanks.
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With Ubuntu 16.04 I've been attempting to pair by Apple airpods as a headset. They come up as headphones. They work fine as headphones, but I would like the microphone to be available
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I googled a lot and read many documents. But I can't understand the concept behind iPhone's Bluetooth technology.  In my knowledge, Bluetooth was used for:   Transferring files between devices Wireless communication for things like video gaming and earphones   Recently I tried to copy some of the photos from my old Android mobile to my iPhone 4S via Bluetooth. It's quite simple in my older phones to connect with other devices by Bluetooth for file sharing. But I can't pair other devices (even another iPhone :( ) with my iPhone 4S.   Copying songs/videos may affect their iTunes as well as their business. But what about images? Why is the usage of Bluetooth restricted and what's the use of it being able to transfer images? Is there any other way to use iPhone's Bluetooth to transfer files? Maybe using an app? But I don't want to jailbreak my device.   I'm confused about the restrictions and Apple's thinking.