Bluetooth doesn't work after resuming from sleep, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Question

Bluetooth earphones work fine until sleep. After resuming from sleep however, they appear to connect for a brief moment before disconnecting. On blueman, the error given is Resource temporarily unavailable. This issue arose only after updating to 18.04 LTS.

Here's the terminal output for lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1bcf:0002 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b477 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a5c:21f1 Broadcom Corp. HP Portable Bumble Bee
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Answer 1

update bluez to >=5.28.2

18.04 ships with a buggy bluez package for now; newer version is available from this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~bluetooth/+archive/ubuntu/bluez:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bluetooth/bluez
sudo apt install bluez

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workaround for buggy Bluetooth applet (Unity specific?)

This is probably the issue @solstice mentioned - BT menu applet doesn't let me enable Bluetooth after resuming from sleep. No matter if the toggle switch is off or on, the BT icon is disabled, and rfkill output doesn't change:

$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
12: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

You can toggle BT manually by running (substitute your own ID):

rfkill block 12
rfkill unblock 12

and BT applet should pick it up correctly now. At this point, you should be able to connect to your devices. For now I've hacked it together using a script that does this automatically after resume:

$ cat /lib/systemd/system-sleep/bt
#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
  post)
    sleep 5
    rfkill block `rfkill list | grep hci | cut -d: -f1`
    sleep 1
    rfkill unblock `rfkill list | grep hci | cut -d: -f1`
    ;;
esac

The ID number next to hci0 in rfkill list output seems to increment after every suspend/resume. Disabling/enabling BT using the BT menu should change the output ('soft blocked: yes' for BT disabled via menu), but it doesn't. My guess is that the applet remembers the wrong device ID and is thus trying to enable a device that no longer exists.

Answer 2

For me this problem can be resolved by running

sudo service bluetooth restart

after waking from sleep

Answer 3

I run 19.04 and have this issue. I have a BT mouse so it really is annoying.

To enhanced @hinxnz answer:

Open an new file:

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system-sleep/bt

Paste in this script:

#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
  post)
    modprobe -r btusb
    sleep 1
    service bluetooth restart
    sleep 1
    modprobe btusb
    ;;
esac

An finally make it executable

chmod +x /lib/systemd/system-sleep/bt

Answer 4

Try in a terminal (no root needed)

btnum=`rfkill list|grep hci0| cut -f 1 -d ':'`
rfkill block $btnum
rfkill unblock $btnum

This might be related to a bug in gnome-control-center. Not sure. I have found this to work around that said bug and may be yours too.

Answer 5

This is what i did to get it working on 18.04 LTS

Updated bluetooth:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bluetooth/bluez
sudo apt install bluez

Create new file:

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system-sleep/bt

Write and save:

#!/bin/sh

modprobe -r btusb
sleep 1
service bluetooth restart
sleep 1
modprobe btusb

Changed permissions:

sudo chmod +x /lib/systemd/system-sleep/bt

Answer 6

Based on this answer, for pulseaudio & Ubuntu 18

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover

Answer 7

For me changing bluetooth adapter to another USB port helped. A moment after waking up I heard that headset disconnect. My front panel USB has short power off time during the waking up and it disconnect and remove devices.

Answer 8

The solution of upgrading to a newer version of bluez solved another problem for me of bluetooth connections disconnecting seconds after connecting, as described here: Ubuntu 18.04: Bluetooth device disconnects right after connect on Lenovo P50

Answer 9

In my case, laptop-mode-tools was the culprit:

$ sudo apt remove laptop-mode-tools