Comment 31 for bug 1181106

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Anthony Kamau (ak-launchpad) wrote : Re: Failed to change profile to A2DP in 13.04 (Raring), 13.10 (saucy), and 14.04 (trusty)

I have the same problem and the solution for me was to manually change the profile. This post on the Ubuntu forums was very helpful:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/287254/ubuntu-13-04-bluetooth-a2dp-does-not-work

In essence, you need to run the following command to switch profile to a2dp:

sudo pactl list cards short
sudo pactl set-card-profile <card name from above step> a2dp

The interesting thing for me is that when I initially connected the Logitech Mini Boombox, it was found with no problems and it worked flawlessly. However, I forgot to connect the laptop to a power source and when it finally shutdown in the night, I could not get it to work again in the morning - not even after purging and reinstalling all bluetooth related packages as well as pulseaudio. In the end, the two commands above worked just fine.

Cheers,
ak.