Originally Posted by Hec

Hello Noob. One of the convenient way to do so is to manually delete the folder.

1°) If you don't have it yet, install this application :
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/rootsh/

2°) You need then to open a terminal. Either you find it in the app menu, either you use the shortcut sym/ctrl-shift-x

You see at the end of the bootom line a'$' sign : it means you have a simple user access to the N900. I guess the user privilege aren't enough to be able to delete the folder you want. So you want to become root.

3°) you become root either by taping the command
sudo gainroot
or simply
root

New lines are written to the screen and you can see now the sign "#" at the end of the last one. It means you're root, ie God of the N900. Keep in mind you have now the power of destruction on your system, so be extra careful, specially as you are going to use the rm command.

4°) Simply type
rm -rf /var/lib/bluetooth/<macaddr>, where <macaddr> is replaced by your own mac adress.

At this point you may not have a single clue about the name of that folder as you may not know what your Mac Adress is.

So a trick is to type only
rm -rf /var/lib/bluetooth/
and then stop typing.

Then hit the Tab button at the bottom of the screen (do that once or twice). It should print all the folders and files listed in "bluetooth". The one named with your Mac address is like XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, so you can't really miss it.

Underneath you'll find the line you just typed before, waiting to be completed with the name of the folder you want to delete (be extracareful not to hit enter at that moment as you would destroy the whole bluetooth folder).

Just start typing one or two letters of the <macadr> folder (respect the case). Hit "Tab" button again : it should auto complete the name folder, saving you time and errors in typing the whole name. Now you can hit the enter key to delete the folder. And close the term application.

Please note I don't take any responsability if you brake your system by following this guide. Besides I don't know either if this process will solve your bluetooth problem (But I hope for you it works).

Originally Posted by mr_bridger

rather thad just outright deleting the MAC address folder, i moved it to an alternate position (i have an "And" folder used for nitdroid)

rebooted....

IT WORKS!!!!! yahoooooo! think i lost all my pairings but who cares... looks like deleting this works afer all....

"Deleting the /var/lib/bluetooth/<macaddr> fixed the problem." indeed it does....

Originally Posted by ultravires

Hi

... well my problem on N900 with PR1.3 (but it was the same also on PR1.2) is that I cannot start the bluetooth connection anymore; I can go trough starting window (click on "Buetooth on", check also "Visible", writing "Name" N900 etc.) but nothing happens (although here I think that before, when it was working fine, the device filled automatically it's name t.i. "N900").

Before (with first FW and I think, but I am not sure, also during PR1.2) it was working fine, also after I installed application "Petrovich" everything was working ok but then suddenly some day I just couldn't start it anymore; after that I also installed app "bluezwitch" just to see, if I can turn it on thisway but without success.

Then I installed new FW PR1.3 and the BT still doesn't work; now I deinstalled apps petrovich and bluezwitch, still without change?

What am I doing wrong respectively what went wrong?

... basically is the same problem as stated here http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/...ht/true#M11965
(I've also commented first there on july 2010 but as you can see there is no solution until this day -> November!!!)

Thank you for your help

sudo gainroot
testserver

Originally Posted by syake

my N900 got the same situation today.
i tested killing bluetoothd,removed /var/lib/bluetooth/*,restarted bluetoothd.but It didnt turn on the bluetooth.

somehow,
i could solve it with typing