Struggling with Bluetooth in fresh linux mint install

[torpid plover]

Description:
As title states, I'm having trouble getting bluetooth to be functional on my new linux mint install. So far, I have been unable to connect ANY bluetooth device properly. I have tried with a logitech keyboard, and more importantly, with my Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds. Currently, the issue is that the earbuds connect, then immediately disconnect; or connect, disconnect and reconnect repeatedly for as long as they are in pairing mode, depending on whether I click pair or connect
Bluejay throws "error 16: Authentication failed" when clicking "pair" and "error 2: Connection failed" when clicking "connect"

Additionally, I ran:
lsusb | grep Bluetooth
which returned:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth
(note, it isn't actually a usb bluetooth dongle, but an internal bluetooth adapter, despite showing under lsusb)

and :
dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
which returned a lot, but most helpfully is probably:
[36142.541058] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c24 failed: -112
[36144.185612] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c24 failed: -112
[36144.188822] Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0x0c1a
[73587.267318] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c24 failed: -112
[125804.969432] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c24 failed: -112

Steps I've tried

1. Running "Sudo apt upgrade" "Sudo apt update",
2. Rebooting the laptop,
3. Installing a different GUI (Bluejay) to manage bluetooth connections,
4. using "bluetoothctl" to manually remove, trust, and pair with the device (removing didn't work, as the system fails to pair with the earbuds. Trusting, however, DID work, and the earbuds show as trusted in both GUI's)

[near night]

Please only use blueman.

-112 means EHOSTDOWN. Meaning that the adapter is probably really confused (bad internal state) or dead for that session.

1. Reboot
2. Show inxi -Exxxz

Can you also show dmesg -l warn+ | grep ACPI

[torpid plover]

hh@hlap:~$ inxi -Exxxz
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 sub-v: 20f9 hci-v: 11 rev: 20f9 class-ID: 7c010c

Thank you for taking the time

[foggy atlas]

That should work fine, it has the same ID as the internal bluetooth on this computer, can you try a 6.8 kernel like something 6.8.0-40

[torpid plover]

Okay, brother, I'll be perfectly honest with you. I was almost entirely a windows a guy until like 2 weeks ago. I spent the last couple hours trying to use a kernel 6.8. I managed to get into the grub menu, but all I had was linux mint vers. xx.x with several varieties of linux vers. 6.14.x. What is the secret sauce needed to roll back to kernel 6.8.xx?

This is what my update manager looks like. It shows I have bothg 6.8.x and 6.14.x installed. Theoretically, I should just need to select the correct one to load in grub right?

[near night]

update your stuff

[foggy atlas]

Use the view menu in Update Manager, linux kernels, click on 6.8 on the left and then you can choose what 6.8 kernel to install. Then you can use Grub Advanced Options menu at boot to boot into that kernel

[torpid plover]

This worked, my system is showing 6.8.0-87 as my active kernel, but it unfortunately hasn't changed anything as far as bluetooth goes

[foggy atlas]

I wanted you to try something older like 6.8.0-45