Bluetooth Sound Is Poor and Choppy

[PinStripe]

It was working for a few times of using it and magically STOPPED working!
Not sure what happened as I had done nothing to the OS since. No new
softwares or updates or anything.

But today I did do an Upgrade and then an update. But still no bluetooth.
I tried following the advice of going into the bluetooth manager, but there
is NO Audio Profile in the menu that comes up.

What else can I do to get this working?

[Valtam]

See [member=5414]firenice03[/member] reply. We'll need to see some output in order to address your issue accurately.

[PinStripe]

$ inxi -Zxf
CPU:      Dual core Intel Core i3-6100U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB bmips: 9216
          clock speeds: max: 2300 MHz 1: 495 MHz 2: 487 MHz 3: 522 MHz
          4: 494 MHz
          CPU Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
          arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov
          constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts eagerfpu epb ept
          erms est f16c flexpriority fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle ht hwp
          hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ida intel_pt invpcid lahf_lm lm
          mca mce mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
          pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36
          pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good rtm sdbg sep smap smep ss sse
          sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
          tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec
          xsaveopt xtopology xtpr


$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 08)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port (rev f1)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d1b (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0a)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3165 (rev 81)

[PinStripe]

It started working again today after getting some help from the Mint people... but is terrible sound quality. It sounds like music is playing in the next room over and the volume randomly increases and fades out and then back.

I'm seriously considering going back to windows for a couple years in hopes that LINUX will get better. Because I have tried distro after distro and believe me... they ALL have their issues! I really don't like the evil elitist crap that the proprietary companies pull... but at least I can get things DONE while using it.

[Valtam]

What about:

Code:

dmesg | grep -i blue

and

Code:

sudo lsusb |grep Bluetooth

[PinStripe]

Ran both your codes in the terminal and now the headset isn't even found.

[Valtam]

What make and model is the headset?

Sent from my Mobile phone using Tapatalk

[PinStripe]

JBL EB40BT


EDIT:  It's working again today, though the quality is poor. Sounds like the audio is coming from a TV in the next room over.
Strange.

[Valtam]

When it works, please show the output from the following commands:

Code:

dmesg | grep -i blue

and

Code:

sudo lsusb |grep Bluetooth

There also looks to be a reliable fix here - https://gist.github.com/pylover/d68be364...5e6ed6e7ae