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I recently upgraded to 22.04 from 21.10.

And now I can't control volume level for my Bluetooth headset. I can only mute it or it plays at full volume(regardless of the volume selected).

It didn't happen in earlier version.

I can control volume level correctly when playing audio through laptop speakers.

q126y
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Disable absolute volume in Pulseaudio's config.

Edit the file

/etc/pulse/default.pa

And change the line

load-module module-bluetooth-discover

to

load-module module-bluetooth-discover avrcp_absolute_volume=false

Credit for this solution goes to https://www.reddit.com/user/mmstick/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/s2y0hf/pop_os_2110_brake_bluetooth_device_volume_control/

q126y
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    Worked for me after `sudo service bluetooth restart`. – Reece Aug 23 '22 at 04:12
  • This doesnʼt work for me directly (pipewire not Pulse, because Iʼm not actually on Ubuntu) but it definitely got me started on the right track. Thanks! – Daniel H Feb 11 '23 at 03:54
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I have the same volume level issue while playing anything via bluetooth, but replacing the load-module module-bluetooth-discover didn't work for me.

When playing a youtube video (for example), every time that I want to change the volume level, I have to go into the settings and change it on Volume Levels > Chromium (it also happens with Chrome).

sound settings - browser

The same happens when using a player like VLC:

sound settings - VLC player

System:

  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • Pulse Audio version: 15.99.1

results from lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio":

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 30) (prog-if 80)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 140
    Memory at a4318000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Memory at a4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl

Any ideas on how to fix it?

Bruno Berger
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    This does not really answer the question. If you have a different question, you can ask it by clicking [Ask Question](https://askubuntu.com/questions/ask). To get notified when this question gets new answers, you can [follow this question](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/345661). Once you have enough [reputation](https://askubuntu.com/help/whats-reputation), you can also [add a bounty](https://askubuntu.com/help/privileges/set-bounties) to draw more attention to this question. - [From Review](/review/late-answers/1241539) – Pilot6 Aug 09 '22 at 07:18
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After trying different solutions, this is what worked for me:

  1. Open the file /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service

  2. Change this line: ExecStart=/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd to ExecStart=/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd --plugin=a2dp

  3. Restart the services with sudo systemctl daemon-reload and sudo systemctl restart bluetooth


Taken from here [1].


  [1]: https://askubuntu.com/a/1350436/1151893
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