jsmiller58
Headphoneus Supremus
Yeah, there are dropouts where both stop playing, and dropouts where one stops playing.
I have very, very infrequently experienced the one stops playing while the other one stays connected. So I do understand what folks are describing, but personally I don’t see it as a problem (though others certainly might, especially if they experience it more frequently).
For me the case where both cut out for me is a bit more frequent, but I don’t think I can say it is more prevalent than for other BT dongles or TWS. I find that some of those dropouts for me are actually the result of phone notifications pausing the music. There are times that I need to put the Go Pods back in their case and pull them back out again to reconnect pods and phone, but very infrequently.
This seems to be the result of unique combinations of factors (phone type, phone OS, configurations of settings on the phone) and likely some firmware issues…. Filing tickets, where all these details are captured, is going to help iFi get to the bottom of it.
One thought… do both pods connect separately to the source / phone, or is one the primary and the other connects to it? I ask because Bluetooth signals are notoriously bad at going through dense objects and in particular are easily blocked by water…. The human body is something like 70% water, and our skulls are very dense (no jokes, please ).
In the case of the configuration being a primary connected to the phone and the other connects to the primary and just one pod dropping, I wonder if there is simply not enough signal strength to maintain an always solid connection between the two pods. Anyway, IF there is sufficient spare gain in the circuit that could be adjusted with firmware, an option might be to turn up the signal strength on the connection between the two Go Pods.
If the both Pods are connected to the phone, I wonder if some of the cutouts are simply due to our phones, while being close to the pods, are just temporarily being sufficiently blocked by our bodies. If the dropouts are both pods (or even in the one pod drop out), and if there is sufficient spare gain in the receiver that could be adjusted by firmware, I wonder if firmware could be used to turn up the gain of the receiver in the pods….
Sorry, I really shouldn’t try to debug a system when I’m not familiar with the details!
I have very, very infrequently experienced the one stops playing while the other one stays connected. So I do understand what folks are describing, but personally I don’t see it as a problem (though others certainly might, especially if they experience it more frequently).
For me the case where both cut out for me is a bit more frequent, but I don’t think I can say it is more prevalent than for other BT dongles or TWS. I find that some of those dropouts for me are actually the result of phone notifications pausing the music. There are times that I need to put the Go Pods back in their case and pull them back out again to reconnect pods and phone, but very infrequently.
This seems to be the result of unique combinations of factors (phone type, phone OS, configurations of settings on the phone) and likely some firmware issues…. Filing tickets, where all these details are captured, is going to help iFi get to the bottom of it.
One thought… do both pods connect separately to the source / phone, or is one the primary and the other connects to it? I ask because Bluetooth signals are notoriously bad at going through dense objects and in particular are easily blocked by water…. The human body is something like 70% water, and our skulls are very dense (no jokes, please ).
In the case of the configuration being a primary connected to the phone and the other connects to the primary and just one pod dropping, I wonder if there is simply not enough signal strength to maintain an always solid connection between the two pods. Anyway, IF there is sufficient spare gain in the circuit that could be adjusted with firmware, an option might be to turn up the signal strength on the connection between the two Go Pods.
If the both Pods are connected to the phone, I wonder if some of the cutouts are simply due to our phones, while being close to the pods, are just temporarily being sufficiently blocked by our bodies. If the dropouts are both pods (or even in the one pod drop out), and if there is sufficient spare gain in the receiver that could be adjusted by firmware, I wonder if firmware could be used to turn up the gain of the receiver in the pods….
Sorry, I really shouldn’t try to debug a system when I’m not familiar with the details!
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