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I know this was asked a lot of times, but honestly I've tried everything that I could find over the internet and still couldn't resolve this.

I am a beginner user of Ubuntu 20.04 and I am having issues setting A2DP profile for a pair of bluetooth headset, and the quality is very bad.

  • I have paired, trusted and connected the headphones via terminal bluetoothctl then pair, trust, connect, didn't work
  • also installed Blueman and did the same process there again with no luck

After this I've tried to:

  • set the profile A2DP firstly from OS GUI that didn't work
  • then I've tried from Blueman but no success here either -> (Failed to change profile to a2dp_sink)
  • installed pavucontrol and tried again from there - in pavucontrol I go to Config tab and in headphone's profile dropdown I can see High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink)(unavailable) so of course, I cannot set it here also

I have also checked pacmd list-cards, checked the index of headphones, then pacmd set-card-profile <index> a2dp_sink but I get Failed to set card profile to 'a2dp_sink'.. I've also tried to sudo pacmd set-card-profile <index> a2dp_sink and now I get No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. PulseAudio is installed, I've checked with pulseaudio --version pulseaudio 13.99.1.

I've edited the /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf file and added this line in the end of it: Disable=Headset, this didn't work. I've also tried to add same line in main.conf - no success.

With bluez installed, I've also enabled this line Name = BlueZ in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf, again nothing.

In /etc/bluetooth/main.conf I've also uncommented #MultiProfile = off and changed it to MultiProfile = multiple, nothing happened.

So after mixing all the steps above and restarted bluetooth and re paired headphone a million times, I gave up and I'm writing for help.

Please give any hint on what could be the issue.

Thanks

labilouser
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Have you tried doing the following?

"If PulseAudio fails when changing the profile to A2DP with bluez 4.1+ and PulseAudio 3.0+, you can try disabling the Socket interface from /etc/bluetooth/main.conf by removing the line Enable=Socket and adding line Disable=Socket." And then restart using sudo systemctl restart bluetooth

Source: Archwiki bluetooth Headset Page

This solution worked for me on Pop! OS 20.04 LTS.

Edit: I faced the same issue again, and removing Disable=Socket line from the /etc/bluetooth/main.conf makes it work again. Will update with any more changes...but I am not sure how world works anymore.

Mospet
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I too tried so many things but after a restart, I just did "killall pulseaudio", my system automatically reconnected with my headphone and problem is gone

Bharath K
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After doing some research, what I found was when selecting headset's mic output, ubuntu does not allow to use a2dp. a2dp selected

Headset with mic selected

Rafael Diego Nicoletti
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