Windows 10: Bluetooth headphones will not appear as audio output, and is shown but unavailable to...

My TaoTronics TT-BH22 were working fine yesterday when they suddenly lost sound. This had happened multiple times before, so I decided to click "remove device" and then re-add it. It then went into the "other devices" section, and I figured out that the services were unchecked. So I fixed that, and it went back into "audio".


Issue is, now it won't play anything. When they are connected properly, they say "connected - music and voice" or something along those lines underneath the name in the bluetooth menu. My headphones also say aloud "connected". Now it just states "connected" on the bluetooth, but they really aren't.

• The headphones cannot be manually connected in Sounds. Clicking "connect" does nothing.
• The option to set as the default device is greyed out.
• Restarting and shutting down the computer does nothing.
• Re-pairing the headphones does nothing.
• Turning bluetooth off does nothing.
• Windows troubleshooter shows "check bluetooth radio status" every time I run the bluetooth troubleshooter.
• The headphones work fine on other devices.
• The headphones work fine if I use the cable.

The headphones try to automatically connect but not properly, just "connected". When I disconnect they try to connect again, and then the option to disconnect becomes greyed out for a minute or so.





The main issue, from what I can tell, is that the headphones do not appear in "output" as an option. Only my monitor does... which has no speakers.




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Making Bluetooth headphones the audio output device

I finally got my Bluetooth headphones to connect to my PC (Windows 10) but I'm not getting any sound through them. When I try to change my audio output device to them, I don't see them listed. I do see them under Bluetooth devices in Device Manager.

 

bluetooth headphones

setting up win10 Bluetooth and my Bluetooth headphones work fine ,but every time I reconnect the headphones I have to delete them from Bluetooth settings and let win10 pickup the headphones again ,before they will pair ,then win10 want to reboot to add the headphones ,I reboot and they work fine ,but next time I plug the headphone in again they will not pair ,don't even get an option to pair till I delete the head phones from the list ,, any suggestions ,, thank

 

Iogear GBU521 Bluetooth Don. - Not Headphone Compatible on Windows 10?

Windows 10 version 1903


Short story: Our Iogear GBU521 Bluetooth Dongle was used on a different PC running Windows 7 to connect headphones with good-quality sound. Now, on a Dell Inspiron 580 with Windows 10, we can't get the headphones to work with the same quality anymore.

Depth: All Windows drivers are downloadable on this page of Iogear's website: Product Drivers, Firmware & Software - IOGEAR
However, it appears as though the Windows 8/8.1/10 driver is really designed for 8 and 8.1 and not 10. That I conclude because the file name, "GBU521_GBU421_Win8_Win8.1_BT_v12.0.0.9980.zip", does not mention Windows 10, thus suggesting my bluetooth audio problems to be originating from a driver compatibility issue.

I've fiddled my life away with the following:

• WinKey+R / "control panel" / Devices and Printer / (Insert Headphone Name) Properties / Services
• Start / Settings / Devices / Audio
• Start / Settings / System / Sound / Output / Troubleshoot
• Settings within the Iogear bluetooth devices program, which comes with the driver on the aforementioned driver page.

And have gone through many settings that branch off this list, restarting the computer after each change made. Sometimes it connect with good sound quality, but does not retain this quality after breaking the bluetooth connection (turning the headphones off, restarting PC).

Quick side note: I have a new Microsoft Bluetooth 3600 Mouse connected to this dongle that works completely fine, unlike the headphones.

A solution requires the following results, which goes along the lines of how the bluetooth headphones were connected to this same Iogear dongle on the different PC that had Windows 7:

• The bluetooth headphones play with decent quality
• The volume retains it's setting whenever the bluetooth connection is broken by a PC restart, or powering off/on the headphones (I've encountered configurations where the headphones always resets to maximum volume).
• The bluetooth mouse works fine. This shouldn't be much of a concern at all.

If we find no solutions, I will simply buy a dongle that works with Windows 10.

I can provide screenshots if needed.
Thank-you.