Recently I've noticed that the GUI for setting bluetooth (turn bluetooth on/off, modify name, .. ) are no longer working. Bluetooth itself is working well, I can use the bluetooth hci command and my car handsfree is connecting, but when going to bluetooh menu - it shows me I have bluetooth turned off and no devicename set. The device name and other settings in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf are correct. Rebooting or restarting the bluetooth subsystem with stop bluetoothd and start bluetoothd do not make any difference.

Does anybody have any clues what went wrong? Or do I have to reflash ?

My firmware is 1.1.1 - the UK 203 variant.

Deleting the /var/lib/bluetooth/<macaddr> fixed the problem.

Hi,

Thanks for the info!
I have an update on this. Just had the same problem this morning when trying to use the fm radio. Got an error saying something like "Couldn't activate Bluetooth & FM Radio combo chip". Then I couldn't get bluetooth on manually either.

Tried reboot, nothing.
Tried "stop bluetooth" and "start bluetooth", nothing.
Tried removing the <mac_addr> directory, nothing.
A few more reboots etc.

I backed up and also tried deleting /var/lib/bluetooth/maemo-calleid-none. Then I restarted bluetooth once more from terminal. After that turning on bluetooth from the gui worked!

Hell yeah!

Hi ...

Can you please tell me how to fix my bluetooth problem by step by step iam a new user so i dont know much about deleting of files etc ... or else if i can get a link to guide some where also helps

Strange... happened to me too on CSSU after setting up blueproximity.

This solution + reboot worked for me.

FYI the bluetooth chip on my N900 sometimes seems to hang :

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9895#c22

(It's rare and II forgot about this problem)