I have disabled Wi-Fi and tested a buffered video in Chrome on Youtube (which is where I stream my music mostly from, though the stuttering and lag was present in all other applications too), and there seems to be almost no lagging or clicking at all. There was a lag of perhaps 100 ms only, but nothing substantial and also not near as frequent as with Wi- Fi on. I then tested again with Wi-Fi on, and it is stuttering again.
On my system, I use an Intel 6205 Wi-Fi card, but this card does not have bluetooth on the same card. As seen above, my T430 has a build in bluetooth USB device (Broadcom BCM20702). Because of this, any online solutions about Wifi/Bt coexistance may not apply, and I have even tried them to no effect (Adding modprobe options to enable coexistance on or off in the iwlwifi driver) Many thanks for looking into it. My rfkill list output when wifi was disabled (software switch, not hardware) penguin@thinkpadT430 ~ $ rfkill list 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 2: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bluez in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1825639 Title: Pulseaudio skips some time in the audio buffer, causing a bluetooth delay and crackling/clicking sound. [Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0] Status in bluez package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is the same problem in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/405294 and even though I have pulseaudio 12.2 (on Xubuntu 18.10), this problem persists (this T430 laptop has inbuilt Bluetooth). This makes listening to music or any audio over Bluetooth almost unbearable - while it is temporarily fixed by running `pactl suspend- sink 1 && pactl suspend-sink 0` it soon returns. I have even updated the BIOS but the problem persists. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: bluez 5.50-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sat Apr 20 13:10:59 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-26 (144 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.2) InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth MachineType: LENOVO 2349G4G ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-11-generic root=UUID=0e4c79dc-6836-4dcb-a54a-2c5842e1f6c1 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: bluez UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 02/19/2019 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: G1ETB9WW (2.79 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 2349G4G dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Defined dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrG1ETB9WW(2.79):bd02/19/2019:svnLENOVO:pn2349G4G:pvrThinkPadT430:rvnLENOVO:rn2349G4G:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.family: ThinkPad T430 dmi.product.name: 2349G4G dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_2349 dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T430 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO hciconfig: hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB BD Address: 24:FD:52:8C:5D:82 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1 UP RUNNING PSCAN RX bytes:65823 acl:64 sco:0 events:9052 errors:0 TX bytes:15368368 acl:17880 sco:0 commands:101 errors:0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1825639/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp