Bluetooth Hands Free AG and Stereo Audio Interaction

I'm trying to use my bluetooth headphones, Sony WH-1000xm3's, and when paired with my laptop running windows 10, it gives me 2 options for audio: Hands-Free AG and Stereo, as well as 1 option for the microphone: AG Hands-Free. The issue arises when the AG Hands-free option has very poor audio quality compared to stereo or analog connections, which would normally be okay, except I cannot use the stereo audio option unless I disable the AG Hands-Free Service in the control panel, which also disables the microphone I want to use.

I've tried the following, and some other things that I forget: Re-installing audio drivers, reconnecting the device via bluetooth, and nearly every surface-level option relating to audio inputs and outputs.

I'm aware similar problems have been posted, but none of them are exactly the same to what I'm describing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TL:DR When Hands-Free Telephony is enabled, I can use the mic but the stereo audio doesn't work, and when it's disabled, the audio is good but I have no microphone.

This is exactly how bluetooth headsets work.

If you look at wireless gaming headset, they don't use bluetooth --- they have their own dedicated wireless 2.4 GHz dongle so that you can have stereo sound and talk on the mic during gaming.

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But if the output exists in windows, surely there must be a solution to mix the two?

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It is a limitation of the Bluetooth protocol.

There are headsets that went outside the official Bluetooth protocol --- Apple iphone/computers with AirPods (but it doesn't work in PC) or Bose headsets with Bose Connect app on Android or iphone (but it doesn't work on computers as Bose doesn't make Bose Connect app for the PC or Mac computers).

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