comment #9 (continued) here https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/10.0/ i read this ********************************************************************************** Automatically switch Bluetooth profile when using VoIP applications Bluetooth headsets typically support both the A2DP profile, which is suitable for music, and the HSP profile, which is suitable for telephony use cases. module-bluetooth-policy will now automatically switch the profile of a Bluetooth headset from A2DP to HSP/HFP when an application creates a recording stream with property media.role=phone (telephony applications should set that property for their streams). When the stream goes away, the profile gets restored back to A2DP. This way the user doesn't have to manually switch the profiles when starting and stopping a call. This behaviour can be disabled by giving argument auto_switch=false to module-bluetooth-policy. ********************************************************************************** this is what i want.