[pulseaudio-discuss] Failure to connect Sony headsets

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Joao,

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 2:33 AM, João Paulo Rechi Vita
<jprvita at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 08:05 -0700, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
>>> > > I also had to disable module-card-restore, otherwise it tries to
>>> > > switch to the saved a2dp_sink profile right when the card is created,
>>> > > which also makes the device abort the AVDTP connection for some
>>> > > reason.
>>> >
>>> > This is without increasing the timeout, right, so the problem is that
>>> > module-card-restore is trying to restore a2dp_sink before it's
>>> > available? module-card-restore has been fixed to not to try to restore
>>> > unavailable profiles:
>>> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=d65974d8501052bafb03e65f5df954511e9949a2
>>> >
>>>
>>> No, this is in addition to increasing the timeout. To have things
>>> working I need to increase the timeout AND disable
>>> module-card-restore. Sorry for not being clear about it before.
>>>
>>> I will try the commit you pointed, but I don't think it will help
>>> since, if I'm following this right, the transport is already marked as
>>> available at this point (I need to double-check on this point though
>>> -- sorry, too many moving parts).
>>
>> If you confirm that module-card-restore indeed has to be disabled even
>> with the increased timeout, then it would be very interesting to know
>> what effect module-card-restore has in the card initialization. To me
>> it seems that it should make no difference, because the a2dp profile is
>> the default anyway, and all the module does is to choose the initial
>> profile.
>>
>
> Ok, I have done more testing focusing on this specific point and
> confirmed we indeed don't need to disable module-card-restore. With
> the 60s timeout the headset was able to connect successfully 6 times
> in a row. So for now the only open point is if there is any better fix
> for these headsets than increasing the timeout.

Im trying to reproduce this with sony sbh50 but apparently it doesn't
have the same problem as it worked just fine, one thing I notice
though is that HFP does not connect:

https://gist.github.com/Vudentz/6f385ededcb00d1d0f4403f06923fd1a

As you can see locally we only support HSP which means there is no
match for MFP, but perhaps you are running with oFono? Anyway I should
have an mw600 somewhere but that is quite old already, but you
mentioned it did not work with MDR-XB950N1 which is quite new model?
Anyway if you can gather some logs of bluetoothd that would be useful
to identify where is the problem.

>
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> João Paulo Rechi Vita
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Luiz Augusto von Dentz