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I have a problem with bluetooth in Ubuntu 13.04. The bluetooth won't work until I restart my laptop. I've tried:

hciconfig hci0 reset
hciconfig hci0 up
service bluetooth start

Any help is appreciated.

2 Answers 2

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Try this. Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

Also you can try BlueZ

BlueZ provides support for the core Bluetooth layers and protocols. It is flexible, efficient and uses a modular implementation.

To install

sudo apt-get install bluez
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  • I've installed bluez and restart bluetooth service. but when i open bluetooth from System Settings it shows that bluetooth is disable and i'm not able to add a device to list.
    – Babak
    Aug 3, 2013 at 14:21
  • Have you tried running Bluetooth manager from Dash?
    – Mitch
    Aug 3, 2013 at 14:37
  • yes but i still can't get gnome-bluetooth GUI to work. By the way, i tried hcitool. i can find remote devices with this command.
    – Babak
    Aug 3, 2013 at 20:08
  • Is there a Bluetooth hardware switch?
    – Mitch
    Aug 3, 2013 at 20:12
  • No. I have a Asus u41sv laptop.there is no Hardware switch except Fn + F2.
    – Babak
    Aug 3, 2013 at 20:24
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So if you really want to "reset" everything this will do it. It requires sudo, or use

sudo su

Then just reset the module.

hciconfig hci0 down
rmmod btusb
modprobe btusb
hciconfig hci0 up

This works for me when my bluetooth crashes and some how still holds on to resources. Simply resetting the service is not enough.

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