airpods 2 - ubuntu 19.10 - Thinkpad x1 extreme 2 - No success on pairing

Question

Can't get my airpods 2 to pair successfully with my laptop. In the bluetooth menu, I see my airpods 2 but double clicking does not pair and it stays with a text of 'Not Set Up.'

I also tried with blueman to pair but blueman always says pairing failed. Did try the trick of changing ControllerMode in bluetooth/main.conf with either dual or bredr and both failed as well.

From journalctl -f, I did find this log:

Jan 06 07:19:36 edgar-ThinkPad-X1-Extreme-2nd gnome-control-c[5489]: Setting up /org/bluez/hci0/dev_E4_76_84_72_CB_79 failed: Timeout was reached

But I don't know why the pairing would timeout.

Not sure what else to try/do.

relevant specs:

uname -a
Linux edgar-ThinkPad-X1-Extreme-2nd 5.3.0-26-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 18 05:37:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(Mon Jan-1 7:10:21am)-(CPU 2.9%:0:Net 60)-(edgar:~)-(1.8G:60)
> cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="19.10 (Eoan Ermine)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 19.10"
VERSION_ID="19.10"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=eoan
UBUNTU_CODENAME=eoan
> hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: Primary  Bus: USB
    BD Address: 94:E6:F7:71:FA:47  ACL MTU: 1021:4  SCO MTU: 96:6
    UP RUNNING 
    RX bytes:4354 acl:0 sco:0 events:132 errors:0
    TX bytes:1357 acl:0 sco:0 commands:56 errors:0
    Features: 0xbf 0xfe 0x0f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x7b 0x87
    Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 
    Link policy: RSWITCH SNIFF 
    Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT 
    Name: 'edgar-ThinkPad-X1-Extreme-2nd'
    Class: 0x000000
    Service Classes: Unspecified
    Device Class: Miscellaneous, 
    HCI Version: 5.0 (0x9)  Revision: 0x100
    LMP Version: 5.0 (0x9)  Subversion: 0x100
    Manufacturer: Intel Corp. (2)

hcitool dev
Devices:
    hci0    94:E6:F7:71:FA:47

You might try using blueman (sudo apt install blueman). I find it a bit more reliable than the built-in tools, though it's far less pretty. — Ken Kinder, Jan 13 '20 at 07:46
You may need to clean up the old config files in /var/lib/bluetooth/[yourbtadaptermac]/[yourbtheadphonemac] after changing ControllerMode to bredr — Russ, Jan 13 '20 at 20:36

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '20 at 16:34

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Thanks to @rahduro: Airpods 2019 bluettooth pairing problem

Try adding ControllerMode = bredr to /etc/bluetooth/main.conf file. Restart bluetooth service using the following command sudo systemctl restart bluetooth. Then try repairing with airpods, this worked for me in 19.10.

However it would be interesting to know why it does not work for dual when it is supposed to try both modes ?

answered Jan 23 '20 at 16:34

Rémy Hosseinkhan Boucher

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tried again on uname -a Linux edgar-ThinkPad-X1-Extreme-2nd 5.3.0-42-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 28 05:49:40 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (updated since making thread) and tried this trick again, before it didn't work but now works. – c-o-d Mar 24 '20 at 22:09
but the sound is low because it can't switch to headset, just stays as headphone mode. I get Failed to change profile to headset_head_unit when I try to change it to headset. – c-o-d Mar 24 '20 at 22:11
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@EdgarAroutiounian is it solved ? – Rémy Hosseinkhan Boucher Mar 30 '20 at 10:06
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yes, sufficiently solved. I still can't change to headset_head_unit but I'm not 100% if that would yield better sound quality anyway. – c-o-d Mar 30 '20 at 22:59
This also worked for airpods pro. – kunicmarko20 Sep 09 '20 at 09:39
This worked for dell G5 dual boot – Jordan Mackie Dec 01 '21 at 22:59
Confirmed this worked for me for airpod pro's. I had to go to sudo bluetoothctl and then trust the device and then connect and then it worked fine. – james-see Dec 06 '21 at 01:16
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worked like a charm on 20.04 – sebgiles Oct 17 '22 at 19:14

airpods 2 - ubuntu 19.10 - Thinkpad x1 extreme 2 - No success on pairing

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