Bluetooth headphones won't use A2DP on reconnect
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bluez (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
*** This bug is the same as bug 1724919, but is NOT A DUPLICATE because that bug was closed because it was reported for Ubuntu 17.10, which is out of support. This bug is for newer versions, such as 19.10. PLEASE DO NOT MARK THIS BUG AS A DUPLICATE. ***
On Ubuntu 19.10 on my Thinkpad T470s, my Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones pair using Bluetooth with no problems, and use A2DP by default. If I then power off the headphones and power them back on, they reconnect but use HSP/HFP and sound terrible. If I manually go into the sound settings, A2DP is offered as an option, but selecting it doesn't take effect. The headphones remain stuck in HSP/HFP mode.
Unpairing the headphones and re-pairing them again selects A2DP by default, until the next time I switch the headphones off. Then they're back to stuck in HSP/HFP until I unpair them once again. I therefore need to unpair and re-pair them every time I want to use them, which is a nuisance.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: bluez 5.50-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Thu Nov 28 13:28:52 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-16 (833 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0316 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB3.0-CRW
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 5986:111c Acer, Inc Integrated Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: LENOVO 20HFCTO1WW
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-10-04 (55 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/30/2019
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: N1WET56W (1.35 )
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 20HFCTO1WW
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Defined
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad T470s
dmi.product.name: 20HFCTO1WW
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB
BD Address: F8:59:71:8D:1A:16 ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 96:6
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:3713310 acl:385 sco:2759 events:508913 errors:0
TX bytes:432771109 acl:506248 sco:2734 commands:2514 errors:0
mtime.conffile.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.