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Lenovo Thinkpad T510 bluetooth problem

Asked by arturpio

Installed today, 4 July 2016, fresh 16.04, from scratch.

bluetooth is not working. The system do not discover the bluetooth hardware.

Or, the device is on and working well. it worked well with initial installation of 16.04 which I done the day of the 16.04 public release in April 2016.

worked well with al previous Ubuntu versions.

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arturpio (arturpio-cyberkit) said : 		#1

Solution found:

1. reset the bluetooth in BIOS
2. enable all with this terminal command :

~$ rfkill unblock all

You can check the status of your bluetooth device with the command :

~$ rfkill list

You should see this type of display :

0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

Now, with 16.04, my T510 bluetooth works. The device does not appear in the new "bluetooth" applet in "system parameters" , but bluetooth manager in menu bar (upper right corner) still works.