Windows 10: Bluetooth headphone stereo shows disconnected but hands-free shows up.

I want to switch to bluetooth stereo because the audio quality that i get on hands free is awful. I have tested things like clean installing the bluetooth drivers, changes the headset drivers, repair the devices but nothing seems to work. I tried on another device but it works in that just fine.

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Stereo Bluetooth Headphones do not reproduce stereo sound

Bluetooth 4.x headsets (headphones with microphone) have two modes:
1. Stereo headset speakers with NO microphone
2. Mono headset speakers with microphone

I see in the listing for your headphones it shows a microphone. Make sure your the audio is configured correctly so that you have stereo headphone speakers.

With your headphones connected with Bluetooth

Left-click on little speaker (bottom right on desktop)





You should see current speaker for computer
In this example headphones in stereo is selected





If you click on Headphones you will bring up all options





To see more…
Right-click on little speaker (bottom right on desktop)





Select Sounds from list





If you want Stereo Headphones but NO microphone

Select Playback tab
Make sure Headphones is the current playback device





Select Recording tab
Make sure Microphone array (or similar) is the current recording device

 

Bluetooth Headphone Won't Connect in Stereo Just in Hands Free

Hi

I have a pair of WH-1000XM4 headphones

Pre their update (2.5.0) I got them to work as when connecting via Bluetooth it showed both LE and Stereo and I selected the Stereo, it worked great and audio was very good.

Since I reinstalled Windows 10, the Bluetooth pairing only shows WH-1000XM4 and Windows defaults to Hands Free and consequently the audio is very poor and headphones are unusable.

How can I change a device from Hands Free to Stereo when then Stereo one isn't listed in Devices?

There seems to be no way to change this or add the Stereo device?

It works on my other Windows 10 laptop and on this one before I reinstalled Windows but not now, very odd.





Thanks

Nick

 

Bluetooth headset will only show as hands-free device, but not stereo.

I'm using SkullCandy Crusher headphones with a dell windows 10 PC. They were working before I went on vacation.

Before vacation, in the sound control panel the headset would show up twice, one as stereo, and one as hands-free AG. I would have the Stereo one as my default sound device. In the Bluetooth settings it would show connected as voice and music.

Now in the sound control panel, only the hands free AG shows up, and only voice in the Bluetooth settings.

I guess I understand the hands-free mode is meant for phone calls, and the audio sounds awful for anything else.

What changed?

I've tried extensive googling, but can't find a solution to this specific problem.