how the hell do I change the audio codec of a bluetooth device on android? on my computer I can just use pactl(1) in a terminal, but I have no idea how to do this on a pocket phone. the android settings menu for the specific bluetooth audio device makes no mention of codecs for some reason.

@0x6e6174 it's in developer options

@0x6e6174 that’s the neat (awful) part. you don’t

@0x6e6174 you can't. it auto-switches when a given app uses the mic. i have seen apps that will let you force them to use the hardware mic to override this but that's about it

@aleteoryx what? surely there is some way? the volume of the left ear is basically locked to 0 using whatever codec it defaults to. on my computer, I can fix this by just changing the codec, but phones are designed to be intentionally hard to use

@noisytoot ah, what a logical place to put an audio or bluetooth setting. thank you android team!

@0x6e6174

depending on the headset there is a chance gadgetbridge will be able to override whatever it is doing. years ago i tinkered with a google app called 'sound amplifier' that intercepted audio and amplified it. there may be a similar non-evil program out there

@aleteoryx I was able to fix it via developer settings of all things. why wouldn't such a setting be in developer settings. of course. you can just put settings in whichever category you want! they don't stop you!

@0x6e6174 @brettm @aleteoryx natalie is an android developer now and the world shall quiver in fear