if you're listening to music that's constantly got some musical audio (an instrument and/or voice) playing on any given sample, without long silent pauses where the dropout could sneak in, it's very jarring to hear it
Also, battery usage while playing music with screen off is a bit high so maybe it's not downclocking as aggressively... though I'm not sure about that.
@allquixotic Probably nothing :P
808 is more similar to 810 than any of those.
Hm. What's the cheapest aptX (or other) headphone that definitely exhibits this issue?
it's not the headphones, though -- or, if it is something about the headphones, it's cross-manufacturer (Samsung, Meelec and Sennheiser) and across price ranges (mid-grade, upscale, and extreme high-end)
but the exact same headphones work 100% flawlessly on the iPhone
everything - everything points to Android itself as the fault
not a SoC, not a manufacturer, not even a specific codec
either that, or the BT spec is so horrible that you can't make both iPhone and Android happy simultaneously because they differ on an incompatible "customizable" part of the spec ("The implementer MAY ..."), and the manufacturers have to pick whether they want it to run better on iOS or Android
in which case I'd expect to buy "Android-friendly" cans and have them suck on iOS
but the Samsung Level Ons designed specifically for Samsung Galaxy phones fail on the Note 4, so yeah
and work flawlessly on iOS
could it be that BT is somehow different in Australia? different bands? regulatory?
are you sure you're using the exact same spectrum bands as the US?
> Bluetooth operates at frequencies between 2400 and 2483.5 MHz (including guard bands 2 MHz wide at the bottom end and 3.5 MHz wide at the top). This is in the globally unlicensed (but not unregulated) Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) 2.4 GHz short-range radio frequency band.
@Bob If you have more storage space available on your phone than you have messages, Messaging will refuse to work, because it requires that you have 0 bytes free space in order to .... I DON'T KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH, GIVE THEM A BREAK
I'm trying to see if I can squeeze that into a USB and run HD recovery apps with it, since I can't run my other HD with working Windows and the corrupted HDD at the same time
the thing is it won't read the partition even though it detects the drive, so I need to reconstruct both Partitions and MBR