Hey guys,
I am new in using linux as my OS and like fedora due to its speed and overall features. But I am experiencing bluetooth issues from fedora 38 itself( I thought that these would get fixed in future updates but now I am on fedora 40 and still face these issues).
Issue- Whenever I connect my wireless bluetooth earphones to my device and play any audio the audio stutters in between and sometimes also lag. I have switched to 5G wifi band( as I read that 2.4G can cause conflict with bluetooth) but am still facing the issue.
Can anyone help in diagnosing and resolving this issue?
Hi Ayush,
Like you I had stuttering using my Plantronics Focus headphones on Fedora installed on a Dell Venue 11 Pro. Cheap modern BT headphones seem to work OK but the older and much better sounding Focus had stutter.
Unfortunately the solution for me was not simple nor easily found. On some spare tablets I tried old versions of Fedora, Ubuntu, Rocky and others with no success.
Then I noticed that a LOT of the help available online for BT issues was from Archlinux which I had never tried before so I thought “one more try”. I installed it as a VM in Boxes to test the installation process and found that USB devices can be attached so I inserted a cheap Cambridge Audio dongle and paired the Focus Headphones, hit play and perfect. NO stuttering.
It may work with any linux in a VM but I have given up trying any more for the moment.
Not a good solution but proof it can be done, the headphones work perfectly on old Android 4 phones and new Android 10 phones.
Bose NC700 work perfectly on my wife’s Venue 11 tablet running Fedora 38, but I like the sound of the Plantronics.
Someone with much more knowledge of the inner workings may get a hint from the solution and be able to tweak that one setting that has eluded me.