Bluetooth headset can do input but not output

[Peter Woo]

In gnome-control-center -> Sound, my bluetooth headset can be identified under the Hardware tab. When the headset is selected for Test Speakers (profile Telephony Duplex HSP/HFP), no sound is detected. When headset is selected under Output tab, no application can play any sound on it. By using paplay, error msg returned as "Failed to drain stream".

When the headset is selected under tab Input, it can record sound just fine (with Input Level responding). It can also record clear sound with the Sound Recorder application.

The headset can function on my Android phone so the headset hardware is intact, although it's an aged one, which is Nokia HS-11W on bluetooth 1.1 supporting HSP 1.1 & HFP 1.0. The bluetooth adaptor is slightly better, which is Belkin F8T012 on bluetooth 2.0.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 17 02:37:00 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (2 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu3

[Pander (pander)]

Please, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748654 for the workaround.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
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