Bluetooth audio in OSX Lion

Is anyone from Apple Support actually reading this thread?? It seems insane that these problems have been going on for so long and for so many people without any acknowledgement or feedback from Apple.

Oh, and to step up to the soapbox for a sec...

What could Apple do with all of its money? Build a factory and promote a supply chain in the US so its products can pump more $$ into the domestic economy and begin to reverse the trade deficit.

Yes, reading. This seems to be one of the many improvements mountain lion will offer.

cheers

> Yes, reading. This seems to be one of the many improvements mountain lion will offer.

> cheers

Many machines running Lion (like my '08 MacBook) will not be able to run Mountain Lion.

If Apple manages to fix this problem in Mountain Lion instead of addressing it in 10.7.x, it won't help many of us.

Best regards,

Lou

Awesome !!!!

Also fixed my problem too !!!

Thank you!🙂

I believe I have found the solution to this problem.

In the bluetooth menu of system preferences:

Select the devices you are experiencing problems with.

Click the settings button (the gear with the downard pointing arrow)

Select "Edit Serial Ports"

Select the + sign and add your device, then click apply.

Go back to the configuration and select 'use as audio device'

Worked for my Altec Lansing inMotion bluetooth speaker that was not connecting to Lion at ALL but had worked fine in all previous versions of OS X since Tiger.

I hope this helps!

AJ

I'm using a 2011 MBP running lion 10.7.3, and a Lotgitech bluetooth audio receiver, which is working fine with my Android phone.

Today I installed a software update on my mac like always when it prompts me to, and the receiver stopped working. It has worked great up until today. Now itunes and google music will not play unless I select "stop using as audio device" and revert back to the computer's speakers.

The device is paired, and selected as audio device but shows as always "disconnected" (red dot), and when i click "update services" in the device preferences menu, it connects (green dot) for about ten seconds, then goes back to disconnected mode. Any ideas?

Try going to your Bluetooth Preferences, then hold Option and click on the "Gear" looking icon toward the lower Left just to the Right of the + an -.

You'll get extra options, one of them says "Update Services", select that and see if it connects.

This works for me.

Thanks. I tired that already. It connects for like 10 seonconds then goes back to "disconnected".

@Tony Barone: You are my hero. I've tried a lot of things without succes, but "Update services" fixed it for me. I can now once more listen to Spotify wirelessly!

@Mattiacore same issue (MacAir OSX10.7.3) --> even with Update Services, 10 seconds and then disconnect again. No solutions for that yet.

Great, this did it for me with a new Jabra Halo 2. The trick is to edit the serial port and add the device as a Headset - you'll find that it isn't dropped after 10 seconds and carries on working. Such a simple fix but some difficult to find out about it. Shame on you Apple - at least the answer was on your forums.

Am seeing the same problem with a newly purchased Sony Ericsson MW600. Works flawlessly with Windows 7, but hours of fiddling on two different Macs running Lion has seen it work only twice, each time only briefly and immediately after setting up the pairing on both ends from scratch. Four lines in the console stand out:

21/04/2012 21:39:04.000 kernel: REQUIRE failure: mClientResponseTimedOut == false - file: /SourceCache/IOBluetoothFamily/IOBluetoothFamily-4030.4.12/Core/Family/Drivers/ IOBluetoothSCOAudioDriver/IOBluetoothSCOAudioDevice.cpp:711

21/04/2012 21:39:04.000 kernel: REQUIRE failure: result == kIOReturnSuccess - file: /SourceCache/IOBluetoothFamily/IOBluetoothFamily-4030.4.12/Core/Family/Drivers/ IOBluetoothSCOAudioDriver/IOBluetoothSCOAudioEngine.cpp:271

21/04/2012 21:39:07.000 kernel: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0xFC48] (UNKNOWN) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

21/04/2012 21:39:12.000 kernel: [SendHCIRequestFormatted] ### ERROR: [0xFC48] (UNKNOWN) -- Send request failed (err = 0x0012 (kBluetoothHCIErrorInvalidHCICommandParameters))

Echoing other posts, a response from Apple would be good on this one.

I have a BT Samsung WEP480 (for my Samsung Epic 4G smartphone), and the headset links and works perfectly with my Lion OS. BT audio is flawless.

Guys, in the last couple of weeks or so you should have received an update from Apple that fixed this in Lion 10.7.3

I got a new software update allert, installed it, removed the bluetooth device, re-paired it, and now i'm back in business with bluetooth audio on my MBP!

Cheers!

Sennheiser MM400's here, with a 24" iMac. These heaphones work flawlessly with my iPhone, but when switching to the computer at home I found a version of the problems everyone here is expressing.

After repeated attempts, with the 10.7.3 OS build, I discovered the same thing that into_the_blue describes, or something similar anyway. In the case of these particular headphones, I've noticed that if I choose the Update Services option, then choose to use as an audio device and do nothing to adjust volume on the computer , that the BT connection will drop again within 30 seconds. At this point, if I adjust the sound (after the connection drops), I'll see a reconnect in the preferences window, but no sound, and the eventual Bluetooth audio error... prompt to stop using the headphones.

However, if after choosing to Update Services, I select the option to use the headphones as an audio device, either through the BT preferences drop down, or the Sound Preferences menu(s) (panel or drop down), and then adjust the sound levels, I then get the tonal signal in the Sennhieser headphones that indicates connection, and I'm getting the service I expected. If there is no audio, after a period you'll hear what sounds like a drop of audio service to the headphones (in a quite room), but the BT connection will not drop. Any volume adjustment or continuation of the audio feed will keep the sound coming to the cans. 🙂

Should it be Simple(r)? I should say so. It's a pity for anyone to have to wait for the next version of OSX to get reliable service from a tech that is getting...long in the tooth? <cough>