I have a Soundcore Life Q30 headset and had a similar issue; I also tried going down the ofono route and found it too much of a confusing nightmare.
I ended up using the pulseaudio backport from https://launchpad.net/~smoser/+archive/ubuntu/bluetooth/+packages and also doing a local backport of bluez from impish, as well as the /etc/pulse/system.pa and group membership changes from https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Bluetooth/#usingbluetoothwhenrunningpulseaudiointhesystemmode (but not the rest of that page). I haven't tried carefully rolling bits of this back to find out exactly whether all four of those changes are really needed; I'm sure that at least the pulseaudio backport is needed, though, since you definitely need the changes from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/491. With this, my headset mostly works for me, although I still sometimes find that pulseaudio crashes when my phone is also connected to the same headset, which results in everything confusingly switching back to the internal speaker/microphone until I figure out what's going on and disconnect my phone. Not ideal - from the crash, I think https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/617 may be related, though I haven't tried backporting that patch yet to see if it helps. Installing random backports is not for the faint of heart, so a more sensible approach might be to try Ubuntu 21.10 (perhaps from a live USB stick to start with, before committing to the upgrade). Everything I had to backport to get things working was from there, so there's a good chance it will work better. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1920248 Title: Anker Soundcore Life Q10 microphone not working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1920248/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
