Man, this one is rage inducing. I run up against issues all the time. I am such a sucker for sony’ excellent hardware that i always end up fighting their absolute shit software/implementation.
To this day i still plug my wh-mx10004 … (Or whatever their stupid number is cause sony thinks a ten digit alphanumeric code is the catchiest name for their products…) b/c every time they connect by bt they will ONLY do ‘handsfree’ codec, yknow, the one that sounds like shit for phone calls. I have done everything… pavucontrol, pipewire, wireplumber, blueman, cli system level shit and yes i can force it to proper high def audio after some really annoying steps… but then ill start up a game or something and it suddenly goes “nope! This calls cor handset audio!” And switches itself back.
Honestly, blue tooth as a protocol is shit, and has never really worked that great but sony always seems to bring out the worst of it.
Yes, the problem is sony. Im sorry for your frustration. For me, in the end, i went w the 3.5 mm jack because i am just so sick of wasting effort on this bs
Glad you got it working. Like i said, i have gotten it working as well, but never ‘for good’ My hunch is that its also related to distro… as they work fine on my fedora-based laptop, but this issue always pops up on debian based ones. Anyway, since they have become sort of dedicated desk phones, i will just leave em plugged in. Some things just arent worth the effort