[Bug 1283003] Re: [Bluetooth + 14.04] Bluetooth headsets are not working after last couple of updates

[Stuart Gillies]

Well I now have BT working in A2DP mode. Hopefully it will stay working.
There was never any problem pairing or connecting, just no sound would
come out and the sound settings screen did not offer any choices.

So, once paired and "pulseaudio -k" issued (but I don't know if that is
needed or not):

In the Sound Settings window, the headset is visible but does not offer
any options to choose a profile.

In bluetooth settings, pairing is shown but not profiles

However, found by accident, right-clicking on the entry in the Blueman
screen offers the option to select an audio profile. This was set to
'none' by default (why I cannot imagine). Setting it to High Fidelity
fixed the problem immediately.

Why have default settings that cannot produce the output that every user
is going to need?  Weird.  And why have both sound settings and
bluetooth settings screens, and yet the crucial function is on a blueman
screen that does not come up when looking at the settings?  Bluetooth
settings and blueman should be merged.

There still remains the problem that the sound settings screen does not
allow the profile to be selected, though it did in 12.04.

The other problem of course is that there are no definitive and reliable
user functional instructions for this (or indeed most of Ubuntu) and
major searching of individual users problems and attempted fixes is
needed to find clues. 14.04 is an LTS release and all this stuff should
'just work'. Using Ubuntu is more like a research project than using a
working system.

I appreciate that lots of people give up their effort to develop Ubuntu
and other distros, and that is appreciated. But things that work (as all
this did in 12.04) should not be tinkered with until they then fail.

Now I feel better.

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