HC-05 gibberish in serial monitor

Your topic has been moved to a more suitable location on the forum. Installation and Troubleshooting is not for problems with (nor for advice on) your project :wink: See About the IDE 1.x category.

You can not use pins 0 and 1 for two things at the same time. On the Uno, those pins are used for the communication with the PC; using them for different things at the same time will cause problems. You will have to move your SoftwareSerial to other pins; I'm not that familiar with SoftwareSerial but you can consider using the analogue pins (e.g. A0 and A1).

Which one? Please post a link.

I have some doubts :wink: The fact that the headers are fully populated does not mean that all pins are used.