Interesting. Started getting issues with BT streaming over LDAC between my Samsung S8 and my AP80 after a security patch. After upgrading OS to Android Pie, LDAC BT streaming between S8 and AP80 are working fine now. Anyone else using a Samsung S8 encounter this issue before?

That's the same dilemma I have when considering selling mine off to cycle around hobby funds. Hidizs basically abandoned all their AP80 customers. Maybe after they realized they released a flawed product and they could not keep up with the shipping and product complaints, they just turned their...

The silence from Hidizs is annoying. Especially when you see them hawking their other merchandise on social media.

From what I've seen in the settings, there's a battery saver setting that only allows up to 80% battery charge on the device, especially when it gets plugged into a power source to preserve battery life.

They weren't selling any JVC/Victors or modded ones but they were putting up a lot of their DIY buds on sale as they had a significant price drop on their merch.

That's new. At least for me, that's the first time I'm hearing about the clock reset whenever the device is plugged into via USB-C. But the erratic audio playback has happened to me before. When I did upgrade to 1.0.1, it doesn't happen on the device itself. But the LDAC bi-directional streaming...

The real Tingo TC200 (which is shown in that image that you've included in your post, and is also seen in the TC200 review here in head-fi) is already discontinued. Now there are online stores that sell the "TC200" but is using the TG-38S shells (chrome). I can't recall where I read it...

I do love the ES100. Maybe if there are any changes I'd look forward to, it's a larger battery, premium build material like an aluminum unibody to add a bit more weight to it, and metal/sturdier 3.5/2.5mm jacks. Personally, I don't see any value in adding some form of independent playback...

Because of the flawed implementation of LDAC support on fw1.0.1, for some reason, after my Galaxy S8 stopped being able to properly stream audio to the AP80. The AP80 keeps forcing LDAC even if I had already turned off LDAC (on the paired devices menu of the S8) and "High Quality" on the AP80 BT...

My understanding here is that you want to do this: BT Headphones <----BT---- AP80 <----BT---- Smartphone That wouldn't work, or at least there is nothing inside the AP80 that allows this to work. First, AP80 doesn't appear to support BT5.0 to allow being able to connect to two devices...

That photo (and the product itself in Aliexpress) appears to be the same as what is called the "Tingo TC200" in other online stores, but it really looks like the Tingo TG-38S.

Indeed. I don't understand why the BT streaming failed altogether after the Samsung S8 security patch was upgraded. It was working absolutely fine prior to it. But then when I use it on a device that doesn't support LDAC, BT streaming works fine.

Unfortunately that still didn't work for me. Unpaired on both ends. Re-paired from S8 to AP80. Didn't work. Repeated process from AP80 to S8. Still didn't work. How they implemented LDAC just messed things up. Anyone know how to roll back firmware to version 1?

My smartphone's firmware got updated and all of a sudden, bluetooth streaming wasn't working anymore with the AP80. >_< Trying to fiddle around with bluetooth settings to see how I can get it to work again. Headphone --> BT --> AP80 works Smartphone via HibyLink --> BT --> AP80 works Smartphone...

This post answers my initial question.