Thank you Hartmut, this works for me too. In addition to rebooting I also had to remove and then re- add/pair/connect/select the headphones in Sound Settings/switch to A2DP before the headphones would work.
As a note there are some peculiar quirks for me: For some reason I have 2 headphone entries in Sound Settings both in Output and Input tabs. Disconnecting the headphones removes both entries in both tabs. Switching on the headphones shows a connection symbol in the Unity top activity bar without rerouting the sound from wired speakers. I have to manually connect through Blueman, specify the A2DP profile and select the headphones in Sound Settings every time I want to use the headphones. Specifying the A2DP profile appears to be a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it works, other times it'll drop back to Off. Once it does 'catch' it holds without dropout. Trying to access Sound Settings via the activity bar bluetooth icon stopped working when I installed Blueman. I can still access the settings via System Settings though. All the above being said, this is a big step forward. Cheers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283003 Title: [Bluetooth + 14.04] Bluetooth headsets are not working after last couple of updates Status in Blueman - Bluetooth Manager: Confirmed Status in “blueman” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “gnome-bluetooth” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Hi, I found a bug in Ubuntu 14.04 ! I tried to pair a bluetooth stereo headset (A2DP compatible). The pairing process goes well, but after that I can't select it on the audio preferences. When I select it, it only shows the last selected item options and don't do anything. (he should switch to the headset output). I must mention that it worked very well on Ubuntu 12.04. This bug can be in the bluetooth stack or in unity-control-center or maybe pulseaudio. I actually have no idea. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/blueman/+bug/1283003/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
