Bluetooth cutting in and out

[BasPilot]

I am rocking stock fully up to date Bionic. I also have a BluAnt T1 headset. I have used them together for quite a while, and before this on my fascinate. My Bionic is a launch day handset. Lately I have been able to use them together quite well, except when they both are sitting in stand by. Meaning, my phone is ON, my Bluetooth is ON and they are paired.

I will get the tone in my headset that it disconnected, and then shortly after will connect. Honestly, if it just did that I would deal with it and think it is just my phone wanting to make sure it got enough attention, just like my dog.

The problem comes in that every once in a while, my gear will decide that it wants to drop, both stay on, and I lose my connection and the re-pairing times out on either my headset or my phone and they end up not pairing and remaining on. Unfortunately, I don't always notice that they decided to stop talking to each other.

I'm not going to end up rooting until there is a sweet ICS out there AND I am out of warranty period. SO.

My question is as follows. Do you think that my headset is starting to go bad, or do you think that the phone isn't happy pairing and it is on the phone's side.

Troubleshooting skill dictate that you eliminate one of them as a possibility, I don't have the equipment to do that as I don't have anything else bluetooth to hook up to... I don' think...






Wait, an Idea... anyone with a Xoom, can you tell me if you can hook up a headset and leave it on standby? Kinda like you do with a phone? I will try that, while I experiment with that, if you guys could share with me some of your bluetooth happenings, I would appreciate it.

 

[WebOS Refugee]

I've seen this once with my Bionic and a Plantronics Voyager headset: fired up the headset, got "Phone 1 connected" in my ear, followed a few seconds later by "Phone 1 disconnected." A few more seconds and the connection came back online, then stayed that way for the next few hours until I turned the headset off again.

In my case I'm treating it as a glitch, but yours sounds a little easier to reproduce at will. In your shoes I'd hit up the local friends network, swap headsets for a day, that kind of thing, to isolate the components and see which one the problem seems to follow.