Bluetooth earbuds connection dropping

[heady ermine]

Hey everyone! I've recently transitioned to Linux Mint and I noticed every now and then, my earbuds (Samsung Buds2 Pro) would drop connection with my system and the only way to connect it again is by turning the bluetooth adapter off and on again. What should I do to resolve the issue? Thank you!

[next spruce]

Happens to my Razer Blackshark wireless headset as well. Just some audio Bug I would assume. How often is it? Would you say it happens every hour?

[heady ermine]

It happens pretty randomly

It would go fine for an hour and then disconnect and other times, it does so in 15-30 minutes

[next spruce]

Does this happen with other bluetooth headsets?

[heady ermine]

I only have this sets of earbuds unfortunately

I did mess with audio profile and it's been fine but the initial connection gets a little bit more wonky

[next spruce]

What about testing on another device like Windows or MacOS?

[heady ermine]

Windows works fine oddly enough

I do get a drop but it only happens after using it for 3-4 hours

[next spruce]

okay so bluetooth driver is having trouble sending assumingly mp3 audio and not mp4/MPEG audio+video

[heady ermine]

Yeah, I've been reading on the information online and there's so many conflicting info haha

[next spruce]

it's a common mystery

especially with anything wireless when it comes to Linux

[heady ermine]

So Linux has like a different protocol comparing to Windows? I notice some people said to buy a BT dongle that's Linux-compatible

Prefer not to go that way since I already have a BT adapter integrated on my PC's motherboard (BT 5.2 I believe)

[next spruce]

yeah doing that is great because it actually lets you use something that has a better driver than what's included by default from Linux, but in some cases it's the same experience

[heady ermine]

I see, so it's a little trade-off between both OS

Surprisingly, after I altered the audio profile, it hasn't dropped yet, I hope it keeps going that way

[next spruce]

Has it dropped since you changed the audio profile?

[heady ermine]

It has dropped a few times and I noticed something interesting

On the BT control, it still says my buds are paired

I have to turn BT off and on again for it to reconnect

[next spruce]

weird.......seems like a timeout setting of some sort if no audio is transmitted or something? Any specific time duration you were able to identify?

[heady ermine]

I'd say about an hour-ish

If I get lucky enough, maybe 1 and a half hour

I've gotten to 2 hours once before it disconnects

[next spruce]

and you've not stepped far away from your computer and you have a dongle that you've used for testing or only onboard Bluetooth?

[heady ermine]

Nope, I've stayed really close within my computer's range