I'm running 14.04 and I could not set a2dp today. I had it working, but now I have a terrible sound without a2dp. I can select a2dp in the GUI, but it makes no difference and when I go back to those settings, telephone quality is selected. This is the output from cli:
$ pactl list cards short 0 alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 module-alsa-card.c 4 bluez_card.8C_DE_52_91_9A_AB module-bluetooth-device.c $ sudo pactl set-card-profile 4 a2dp Failure: Input/Output error -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181106 Title: Failed to change profile to A2DP in 13.04 (Raring), 13.10 (saucy), and 14.04 (trusty) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bluez/+bug/1181106/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs