I know the meme format is kinda wrong. It’s also kinda right.
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Bluetooth when I’m connecting to a speaker
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Bluetooth staying connected to my car when I’m 3 streets away
My dude! I can’t believe this is such a pervasive problem! Pretty much every person that I know who connects their car to their phone runs into this issue especially in the case of couples where both phones are paired and it’s just some kind of headbutting match to see which device randomly wins out, which is guaranteed to be the phone you didn’t want connected. In theory their priority system, but in practice Bluetooth device discovery and the connection process seems rather random.
I wish my car had an option to disable auto connection and a prominently displayed button to explicitly connect to a recent phone upon request.
Ugh, the car!
I live in the heat. I have to start to car before hand, just to make it so the family doesn’t melt to the seats. It connects. I switch it back to my headset. I go back in the house to get stuff to load up, and I go out of range. Get back in range. It connects again. I switch it back to the headset. I forgot something…
Rinse and repeat like 5 times before I’m good to go. Whole time, I’m only catching every 10th word of whatever someone is saying to me on the phone, thinking it lost service, or they hung up on me.
I hate auto connect.
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I have a pair of bluetooth sportbuds i connect to my work laptop for when i go in the office, and to my phone when i go for a jog. When I’m in the garage putting my running shoes on and put the earbuds in they never connect to my phone which is in my pocket. They instead connect to the work laptop…in the upstairs den…on the exact opposite side of the house. Every. Goddamn. Time.
Occasionally my phone will prompt to connect to some random earbuds, WHILE I have my headset actively connected.
Every time I am tempted to connect those and choose on their behalf. My friend, you’re now listening to the WAN show while I watch with subtitles.
The number of times I’ve been mid video call or watching a video on my headphones and they randomly decided to disconnect from my laptop and connect to another device like my phone absolutely infuriates me.
The whole multiple paired device feature really needs some work…
It might be your phone getting a notification, and sending that to the BT speaker, which then takes precedent over the laptop
I usually just disable BT on my phone when stuff like that happens (on android, you can change the playback device without disconnecting, and that should also prevent the phone from stealing your headphones)
There might be something to that. Unfortunately I keep Bluetooth on for my smart watch to connect. The headphones aren’t normally selected, but I think they auto-connect sometimes when they come in range. It also doesn’t help that the main way of switching the connected device is via the Android app, that requires the phone to use. (Original Surface Headphones, I’m considering replacing them because the pads are falling apart already)
For what it’s worth, headphone pads are often pretty easy to replace.
Yeah, if I actually liked these headphones I’d probably repair them, but as it is, I have other headphones I can use, they’re just not noise cancelling.
I wonder if this has anything to do with how the bandwidth is automatically decreased when taking a call vs when you’re just playing audio. Less bandwidth means a slower but more robust connection or something like that?
I don’t think BT devices do frequency hopping. The audio bandwidth is reduced just because the mic signal is added and has to share the connection. There’s no change on the physical connection.
(Now, it would be great if there was some frequency hopping and your phones could reserve a full FM channel instead of messing with digital compression.)
That decreased bandwidth would still help to maintain a digital connection though, wouldn’t it? There’d be a weaker and slower connection as the devices get further apart, so I was thinking less demand on the connection would keep them from dropping it.
I don’t think it’s the same as what you meant exactly, but I looked it up and Bluetooth does hopping between 2.402 and 2.480 GHz.
After you establish a connection, it doesn’t hop anymore.
I don’t think they’re talking about frequency hopping, just using a thinner datastream. Smaller packets are less likely to be dropped perhaps?
Yeah, if you transmit less data in total, your odds of having a random problem reduce. But not much, because electromag interference tends to last for relatively long times and you still need to communicate often for minimizing latency.
That is, unless the problem is a saturated channel. If that’s the case, your situation may improve much more by sending less data.
