Issue with bluetooth disconnect and reconnect

[AlharbiAbdullah]

Hello, i have issue with bluetooth, sometimes the headphones disconnect and then connects back but only the left channel work without the right channel
once i toggle the bluetooth off and then on it works but for like 3 hours or so. i have to do the same thing to work, the sound quality is amazing btw i don’t have any issues with that

Kernel Version: 5.15.12-1-MANJARO
Motherboard: MEG X570 UNIFY
Headphones: TaoTronics SoundLiberty Free

thanks…

[ishaan2479]

Share output of inxi -Fazy and systemctl status bluetooth.service

[AlharbiAbdullah]

@ishaan2479

inxi -Fazy

Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU104 HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 2d:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Kingston HyperX Cloud II Wireless type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 7-2:2 chip-ID: 0951:1718
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp39s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 28:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:3
    chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends

[ishaan2479]

@AlharbiAbdullah

Jan 17 07:43:56 airo bluetoothd[782]: src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-sink profile connect failed for 20:12:14:11:31:80: Device or resource busy

Install pulseaudio-bluetooth and reboot. If this doesn’t work try switching to pipewire:

No sound after recent update

you have both pulseaudio and pipewire running. choose one of them and install either manjaro-pulse or manjaro-pipewire and reboot. also make sure you have sof-firmware installed.

[AlharbiAbdullah]

i already have pulseaudio-bluetooth and manjaro-pulse installed,
now what’s the correct way to remove pulseaudio ?
i would like to try pipewire

thanks

[ishaan2479]

sudo pacman -Rdd manjaro-pulse
sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire

[AlharbiAbdullah]

thank you so much, i have now installed pipewire and i have did a full reboot and i have verified that pipewire is running and pulseaudio stopped also i have verified that the headphone work i need some time in order to see if the issue gone or not in the mean time thank you so much for taking the time to help me

[freggel.doe]

Why do you advocate removing a package without dependencies? This would result in only removing the meta package and none of the actual pulseaudio ones (pulseaudio, pulseaudio-alsa, pulseaudio-bluetooth, pulseaudio-jack, pulseaudio-lirc, pulseaudio-rtp, pulseaudio-zeroconf).

manjaro-pipewire already does conflict with manjaro-pulse: installing it will ask for manjaro-pulse removal automatically.

[AlharbiAbdullah]

btw once i executed the following command:

$ sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire

i got the following:

:: manjaro-pipewire and pulseaudio-jack are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-jack? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire and pulseaudio-lirc are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-lirc? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire and pulseaudio-rtp are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-rtp? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire and pulseaudio-zeroconf are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-zeroconf? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio-bluetooth are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-bluetooth? [y/N] y

Packages (12) gst-plugin-pipewire-1:0.3.42-2  pipewire-alsa-1:0.3.42-2  pipewire-jack-1:0.3.42-2  pipewire-pulse-1:0.3.42-2  pipewire-zeroconf-1:0.3.42-2  pulseaudio-15.0-1 [removal]  pulseaudio-bluetooth-15.0-1 [removal]
              pulseaudio-jack-15.0-1 [removal]  pulseaudio-lirc-15.0-1 [removal]  pulseaudio-rtp-15.0-1 [removal]  pulseaudio-zeroconf-15.0-1 [removal]  manjaro-pipewire-20220107-1

[ishaan2479]

@freggel.doe

Why do you advocate removing a package without dependencies?

Never did that but you are right here. Actually there is conflict between pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio-bluetooth while switching from manjaro-pipewire to manjaro-pulse:

Cannot go back from pipewire to PulseAudio

I wanted to try out pipewire on Manjaro with Gnome 41.2, but the pipewire process is just stalling all my applications, not finding any audio device and leaks memory until pipewire consumes about all of my memory (128GB RAM) and makes the entire system freeze. What I can do to prevent the system from crashing is freezing the pipewire process or regularly killing it before the system memory is exhausted by pipewire. Obviously, this isn’t a useable state so I want to remove pipewire and switch ba…

so I confused it here which shouldn’t be done but OP can always remove the orphans if left any:

sudo pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qqdt)