Bluetooth audio in OSX Lion

Well I was having issues with Jaybird Freedom Wireless blutooth headphones in that they would pair succesfully but wouldn't stay connected, they would just connect and then disconnect.

I did some troubleshotting:

I created a new account and attempted to pair them - that occured sucessfully

I selected the headphones as the audio device - that occured sucessfully

I opened spotify and see if it worked - I was able to hear the music in good quality

Switched back to my main account:

Repeated the steps and I was still getting the same issue with the bluetooth audio error popping up intermitently.

So I swiched back to my "Diagnostic" acccount and repeated the steps again no issues and the headphones worked, this lead me to believe that I was having a software issue and realized that I have the "Boom" software opened in my admin account, but not in my diagnostic account. This software amplifies the volume on your mac, but it was turned off in my diagnostic account. As soon as I opened the app I stopped hearing audio coming from my headphones I started getting the bluetooth error and the audio quality was horrible if it managed to remain connected.

I exited the application completely (not just simply turn it off in the apps settings) removed the headphones from my bluetooth device list, re-paired them, selected them as my audio device and opened spotify and they were working again no issues.

I logged back into my admin account and unistalled app completely and voila the headphones started working properly!!!

Somehow the drivers/software was screwing up my headphone's ability to stay connected, so if you are having issues it may be worth looking into any software that installs any sound drivers and see if those may be causing the issue.

10.7.4 seems to have resolved my issues. did it help anyone else?

Yes. Works for me too (10.7.4 with Jawbone ERA). Sound quality could be better, but it no longer fails.

Yes (and no).

I couldn't get my Plantronics Voyager 520 to work without the same old Bluetooth Audio errors.

I now have a Samsung HM3700 stereo headset that seems to work just fine with Mac OS X 10.7.4.

Best regards,

Lou

AJ, thanks! That solved the problem for me.

Has anyone been able to resolve Apple's problem with Bluetooh headset, I was using an I-Con PS3 headset and when I upgraded to OS-X 10.7.3 and 10.7.4 everything stopped working.

I went through all the suggestions, we are talking a lot of happy hours lost, to no avail.

Is it to much to ask Apple to do it's homework ? I paid good money for that operating system and I do not intend to go back to an older OS.

For me it's NOT working. Everything worked perfectly with Snow Leopard but now with 10.7.4 my senheiser PX 210 BT doesn't work. It try to connect but after few seconds it dies. What are Apple people doing to definitely

fix the problem??????

Did you take a look at the previous page and my post about my mm400's? Any of that help?

Seems to work but it's quite tricky and a little bit strange. Thank you very much, i hope Apple will fix the bug in mountain lion. bye

Working but not well cause sometinesit disconnect i need to restart the device. When it stop to work nothing works. itunes and youtube stop working! incredible

Same... my Sennhesiers MM450 are a paperweight.

However, my Sony DR-BT140Q seem to work OK.

Bluetooth worked great in Snow Lepoard, whaat happened in Lion?!

Has anyone had success using BT headset (I have a Plantronics M50) with Cisco Jabber? Running Lion 10.7.4 on late 2011 MBP. I can pair the headset OK but everytime I try to make a call the connection is lost and I get the "A Bluetooth audio error occurred." message. Can't see anything in the logs. Most frustrating!

If anyone has any advice to help solve this, would be most apprieciated. Thanks.

I'm experiencing the same issue with Sennheiser MM550, I have found some posts which explain how to try to increase the audio quality which include tempering with Bluetooth Explorer to set the minium bluetooth bitpool and with HALLab. But I still experimet low quality and a popping noise. Is there a REAL solution to this?

It is really lame to have to configure the headsts this way and the resultung sound produced with the bluetooth device is still poor, in addition the sound volume is low.

Could'nt they just use the driver that they use for the iPhone, the headpones connected to my iPhone just sound awesome!!!!

Hello Carles, no - I emailed Sennheiser Canada and I don't think they're even aware of the problem!

Ultimately I think the responsbility lies with Apple ... I hope they're spending some resources to fix the BT stack.

Thanks coolspot, I also think that the problem lies with the Bluetooth implementation of OSX, but the one of the iPhone works just fine... I hope that the people form Apple could fix that, because the sound received using Bluetooth is really bad, and it has a lot of popping noises whenever the driver detects that the sound stops and starts.

I hope you tell us if you get any response form Sennheiser, I will e-mail them also, maybe they can come up with some tweaks to make the headsets work better.