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I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell XPS-13 (9350). In order to get the bluetooth working I have to use a proprietary driver (BCM-0a5c-6412.hcd), extracted from a windows driver.

Everything works fine and I'm able to pair all of my devices. However when I wake from suspend, bluetooth headsets won't pair any more. Or more correctly, they pair and then immediately lose connection. This is what shows up in the syslog:

Jul  6 09:19:33 user-XPS-13-9350 pulseaudio[6302]: [pulseaudio] backend-native.c: Device     doesnt exist for /org/bluez/hci0/dev_0C_E0_E4_6D_1B_CD
Jul  6 09:19:33 user-XPS-13-9350 bluetoothd[957]: Headset Voice gateway replied with an      error: org.bluez.Error.InvalidArguments, Unable to handle new connection

I found the following things that would restore bluetooth functionality:

  • Full reboot (obviously not ideal solution)
  • Restart pulseaudio (run pulseaudio -k). This is better, but when I restart pulseaudio, a lot of apps like Chrome need to be restarted also, because they lose their list of audio input/output devices.
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I started playing around with unloading/reloading modules in pulseaudio and discovered that I can fix the problem without completely killing pulseaudio. Just reloading the module-bluez5-discover module fixes it.

pactl unload-module module-bluez5-discover
pactl load-module module-bluez5-discover

If I run this after waking from suspend, everything works fine. And even if I try to pair and get the error, running this will fix the problem right away.

It also doesn't have the problems with requiring Chrome/Electron apps to be restarted.

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