Bluetooth audio lag

Updated to 10.10.1, audio still lagging. Tried re-pairing my headset but the issue persists. Tried clearing SMC and PRAM, no results.

In the bug report I submitted to Apple, after I provided some BluetoothReport diagnostics they requested, I was told that my report was a duplicate of another issue, so apparently they truly are aware of the problem.

thanks, this decision took over a month to make and, in the end, after accepting that I had an adequate "picture" of the hard drive (having used Time Machine with my external hd) I decided to wipe the drive and the system. Wasn't easy but it was a question of dealing with problems every day or taking the chance it would work.

i restarted while pressing cmd r: the computer shifts into the recovery utility. i went into the disk utilities and chose Erase.

after that i went to the file menu ad restarted my machine. this is a different step than my first time restoring.

the first time i went to the recovery menu after erasing my disk and reinstalled. this reinstalled Yosemite.

the difference on the 2nd time around was, after erasing the hard drive i restarted the machine. it took me to Internet Recovery and then to a similar Recovery utility as before.. this is where the program set up the original OS that came with the computer.. so mine was Mountain Lion.

after it set up and the system was running i went into the app store and downloaded Mavericks from my previous purchases.

hope that keeps it simple, I'm no computer dude either, but most of my questions and problems I was able to look up with Google and read a lot, and from multiple sources. Good Luck, the only constant during [my only] problematic times with this computer were when Yosemite was present, that was the line in the sand for me. Just make sure you know you have everything you want in terms of personal data. so far tho, no problems with Mavericks and great for the daily grind - having a secure system takes away daily anxiety about what process would kill what next. now I can get back to work. smoke weed.

well, just wanted to update everyone that upgrading to 10.10.2 via ugofrompadova's method fixes the problem (for 2 days nows).

just wanted to bring in to your attention that when you're copying the command to the command line it adds an unnecessary space in url. so just remove that and it'll work.

good riddance!

Same problem. Endless fiddling with bluetooth bitpool preferences hasn't fixed anything. Resetting PRAM and SMC and combinations of all those efforts didn't fix it either.. In addition to the audio delay to my bluetooth speakers (Vizio sound bar), eventually there will be some terribly irritating popping and interrupting in the audio. The popping problem showed up sparsely before I upgraded to Lion, but now it happens much more often. Before upgrading, I chalked it up to limitations of bluetooth, now, I'm pretty sure it's an OS problem. This is a subpar level of performance this OS is displaying and I hope it gets patched soon.

15" Macbook Pro mid-2010

VIZIO S3821w-C0 38-inch 2.1 Home Theater Sound Bar

OS X 10.10.1

Irritation: vast

Tried rebooting PRAM. Noticed a slight improvement, but lag is still there when I navigate while streaming music to my Jawbone blackbox. I have a Macbook Air with 2 Ghz, i7 8 GB. This was never a problem before. Annoying!

I am sorry to hear it didn't work I will have a look later to see if I can replicate the problem, to remove the settings you made us the following command:

Sudo defaults delete bluetoothaudiod "Apple Bitpool Min"

Worked for me, sorry it didn't work for you. I looked at the Beta FAQs and found the page with instructions to leave Beta if you don't wanna install anymore Beta updates.

https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/unenroll

After restarting my macbook, putting it to sleep and a couple hours of listening to itunes, youtube and some other video streaming the audio delay didn't come back. So clearing the pairing lists fixed it for me. hope that helps somebody else.

Yesterday I tried spotify (with WiFi on) for a hour and a half, and the problem of buzzing noise seems disappeared. I don't know what (hopefully) fixed it, maybe last try had success: try to unpair (delete from bluetooth settings) your device, then reset SMC (you find how to on the internet), then on reboot repair your device. For now it worked, I don't know for how long, I will do more tests in next days hoping that is the end of the nightmare.

I 'was' having the same problem with my Hudl 2 and kitsound Bluetooth headset but I managed to locate the problem, and what this problem is, is an app is interfering with Bluetooth connections and making it lag, in my case an app called 'Battery' so I reccomend just deleting apps you recently downloaded and you should get a fine Bluetooth connection in no time, Hope I helped

its not an issue of any software you might be using!!!

for some reason wifi is breaking the bluetooth connectivity. same thing goes for the mouse or any other bluetooth device. turn off the bluetooth and the lag will go away. this has been one of the worst most annoying things.. bought new speakers and can't even enjoy them properly. Need Fix Apple!!!!!!!!!!!

Gents,

Let's also report this on the typical forums that speak with apple: 9to5mac, appleinsider, macrumors and so on. All of those sites have links to report issues such as this one to them.

Cheers.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

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Could fix it on Yosemite 10.10.0 by resetting the PRAM.

Still working for me with Yosemite 10.10.1

Early 2013 MBP Retina + Teufel Motiv B

I re-paired my bluetooth headsets after the update and that solved the problem for me.