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Zane49er
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I have had a bluetooth headset for a while now and I know that they have a standby mode which activates when they are not recieving an audio signal, from the very faint white noise that plays while they are active and receiving a signal that is silence, plus the potential weeks of battery life they get when turned on and waiting for audio from my phone, or, until recently, my PC.
Now, as long as my PC is connected to the headphones they will never enter standby. My phone is still able to take advantage of this feature but if I leave my headphones connected to my PC overnight, with nothing playing, they will lose battery rapidly.
Another problem that I believe may be related, which has led me to the conclusion that the PC is always sending a no-content signal, is that audio on other devices cannot start playing. For an example of what I mean, if I have a video playing on my phone, and connect to my PC while the sound is playing, the PC will not play audio. This makes sense, since another device is working. However, when I pause the video, and play a file from my PC, this file plays correctly, as expected. The problematic part is when I stop this file on the PC and play one on my phone again... This does not work, because the PC won't "let go" of that connection.
Not only does it not stop the stream when no programs are playing audio, it also does not stop when the device is muted or when the output device is changed to a different speaker.
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Now, as long as my PC is connected to the headphones they will never enter standby. My phone is still able to take advantage of this feature but if I leave my headphones connected to my PC overnight, with nothing playing, they will lose battery rapidly.
Another problem that I believe may be related, which has led me to the conclusion that the PC is always sending a no-content signal, is that audio on other devices cannot start playing. For an example of what I mean, if I have a video playing on my phone, and connect to my PC while the sound is playing, the PC will not play audio. This makes sense, since another device is working. However, when I pause the video, and play a file from my PC, this file plays correctly, as expected. The problematic part is when I stop this file on the PC and play one on my phone again... This does not work, because the PC won't "let go" of that connection.
Not only does it not stop the stream when no programs are playing audio, it also does not stop when the device is muted or when the output device is changed to a different speaker.
Continue reading...