Windows 10: UE Megaboom audio quality poor/no audio

Hello,


I am trying to connect my UE Megaboom to my Dell Latitude 5480 laptop running Windows 10 1903 but am experiencing a few issues. First, when I initially connected, it discovered my device as a headset and my audio quality was very poor and audio was quiet. I did some research and tried multiple things to try and fix it. Here's what I found:


1. My bluetooth drivers are up to date and Windows is up to date.

2. I read some forums that said this is a common problem when connecting wireless speakers to Windows 10 and can be remedied by disabling "Handsfree Telephony" in 'Control Panel -> Devices and Printers -> UE Megaboom -> Services'. When I disabled this, the speaker no longer showed as an audio device but was still connected to the system. When I tried to disconnect it, I got a "Driver Error".

3. I found that my Bluetooth A2DP Source had some driver issues. I went on YouTube and ran this fix: elevated command prompt -> "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth" then ran "sfc /scannow" (it did find corrupted files and fixed them) then I rebooted. Upon boot, the speaker reconnected but no audio was coming out of it.

4. I verified the sound output was "UE Megaboom Stereo" and my volume levels were okay. I even tried re-enabling "Handsfree Telephony" and tried playing sound through the "Headset" output. Sound would come out of the "Headset" output (although very poor quality) but would not from the "Stereo" output. The Stereo output is set as the default playback device. I've restarted my computer multiple times and disconnected/reconnected my UE Megaboom via Bluetooth multiple times as well.


Has anyone else experienced issues close to mine and if so, what can I try to get good quality sound through my UE Megaboom?


Thanks,

Dylan

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