Hello everyone, I am having the issue where I can not connect my bluetooth headphone in Linux and windows as well, previously I use only Linux and everything works fine.

But recently, because of works, I have to install windows to use it, but then all my bluetooth devices are not usuable. I tried to google the solution, but most of them are about how to make it not have to repair everytime ( I don't mind that actually ). There is no post talking about bluetooth devices can not be connected on both OSes.

So please help me, thanks!

Note: My headphones is normal, I can connect it normally on my phone and everything works so it's the computer's problem.

Update:

I did see this problem

```

sudo service bluetooth status

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor pre>

Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-03-03 14:17:38 +07; 1h 0min ago

Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

Main PID: 741 (bluetoothd)

Status: "Running"

Tasks: 1 (limit: 18592)

Memory: 2.0M

CPU: 92ms

CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service

└─741 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Mar 03 14:17:56 mint bluetoothd[741]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.52 path=/M>

Mar 03 14:17:56 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:56 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:57 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:57 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:57 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:57 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:57 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:57 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)

Mar 03 14:17:57 mint bluetoothd[741]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)
```

I have tried all types of solution.But non of them Worked so i request "What can do to make my dongule compatable with linux" or is their someother problem.I am using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS x86_64,Kernel: 5.15.0-47-generic.Any help is appreciate.

As the title says, I dual booted ubuntu Linux and windows, but after the Linux installation my Bluetooth disappeared and I’ve been unable to access it since then. I’ve tried reinstalling the drivers in windows and in Linux but nothing seems to work. Please if anyone has a fix for this I’ll appreciate it

I’ve just started using Ubuntu and am currently dual-booting alongside Windows 11. Everything works great except for this annoying pairing issue.

Whenever I reboot into the other OS, I have to pair my headphones again, even if they were previously connected.

After switching operating systems, my previously connected device won’t connect automatically and needs to be paired again.

I have two headphones/earbuds, so at first I tried using one with each OS, but after booting into the other OS, it still didn’t work and have to remove and pair again before using it

bluetooth is turned on and when i connect to phone or wireless headest not work well although it is paired with them
for example for test i tried to send file and its size 20kb to pc and give me error message unsuccessful connection when i pair with headest it cutting off
when i use linux the problems above doesn't happen and i tried most solution but without any result and i tried to reinstall windows but no result
i face this problem after i installed Arch as dualboot next to windows espically when i tried to make bluetooth not need to repair when i boot from windows

You may have noticed you can pair and connect a BT device in Windows, but if you want to use it in Linux you will need to pair it again. And when you go back in Windows you will need to pair it again.

While most BT devices can be paired to many hosts (computers/phones), they cannot be paired to both the operating systems of the same PC, and need repairing everytime you switch OS.

I have written this little guide adapted from the ArchWiki so all credit goes to the amazing Arch community and their exhaustive guides. Many many thanks!

Also thanks to u/cooleoboom5 for asking the question, and to u/Koylio for posting the link to Archwiki.

In this guide I describe how to connect your Bluetooth Headphones and your Bluetooth Mouse to both OS's.

I hope this helps.

I'm constantly amazed at the miserable Bluetooth function on Linux. Do any of you have a setup where your Bluetooth headset pairs and just functions in A2DP without having to do the ritual of multiple connection and reconnection or multiple switching between "headset" and A2DP before A2DP stays on and actually works?

If so, what software/distro/hardware do you have that works? Thanks!

Problem:

My Bluetooth stopped working after every reboot, even though it worked fine once manually reloaded. i keep getting "Bluez daemon is not running, blueman-manager cannot continue. This probably means that there were no Bluetooth adapters detected or Bluetooth daemon was not started." message.

Solution:

I discovered the issue was with the Bluetooth kernel module not loading at boot. Here’s how I fixed it:

Steps:

Check Bluetooth Service Status:

Run: sudo systemctl status bluetooth

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it should be active. if its inactive or dead. then follow along.

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Check rfkill list

Run: rfkill list

it should be

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0: wlan0: Wireless LAN

Soft blocked: no

Hard blocked: no

1: device1: Bluetooth

Soft blocked: no

Hard blocked: no

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if it's

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0: wlan0: Wireless LAN

Soft blocked: no

Hard blocked: no

1: device1: Bluetooth

Soft blocked: yes

Hard blocked: no

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Then use unblock it by typing

Run: rfkill unblock bluetooth

Manually Load Bluetooth Module:

Run: sudo modprobe bluetooth

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nothing would happen if successful

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Restart Bluetooth Service:

Run: sudo systemctl restart bluetooth

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the problem persists if you dont.

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Check Loaded Kernel Modules:

Run: lsmod | grep bluetooth

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checks the hardware.

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Verify Bluetooth Functionality:

Run: dmesg | grep -i bluetooth

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not neccesary if you dont understand the jargon, show you all the things named "bluetooth" on your device.

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Automate Loading Bluetooth Module at Boot:

Edit the file: sudo nano/etc/modules

Add the line: bluetooth

It should look like this

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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.

#

# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded

# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

bluetooth

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Update Initramfs:

Run: sudo update-initramfs -u

note :- Ignore any warnings about missing gpu firmware, or deal with it later. as long as it dosent effect the bluetooth module. if anyone any suggestion reagrding that i will be happy to hear your solution

p.s. yes i have faced all these problems to reach the solution.

So you just got Linux running alongside Windows and your Bluetooth headphones vanish every time? I’ve been there. I found a super simple Python script online and made a step-by-step GitHub guide to help us newbies keep devices paired across both OSes. No ninja skills needed. Take a peek: https://github.com/DhairyaDotPng/Bluetooth-Fix-DualBoot

Hello.

I am using Fedora Linux and I have Windows installed on my computer as well.

Earlier I was doing some music things on Windows. However, when I switched back to Linux, the time is an hour ahead and when I try to connect to my bluetooth headphones, a message saying: "Connection Failed: br-connection-refused" appeared.

I don't use Windows very often so I'm not sure if this is caused by something I've done recently or not.

Does anyone have any advice on what to do?

Thanks in advance (:

Hey everyone. I am using Linux Mint for over a year now and generally I like it a lot more than my old Windows system. On my Desktop I don't have any downsides (besides not being able to use some software), but boy the laptop has some downsides. The biggest one for me is bluetooth audio.

I use Sony Wh1000-XM3 and connect them via bluetooth. On Windows, I sometimes need to re-connect them which is annoying, but it works. On my phone I do not have problems at all, therefore I am disappointed in Windows' bluetooth, but it can be worse.

On Mint, I get from problem to problem. Sometimes they get stuck in a loop of connecting and disconnecting. Then I need to re-connect them again.
Sometimes, they connect successfully, but only the HFP profile is selected and I can't select A2DP, which makes them sound horrible. Then I can try and play a game of disconnecting and connecting again, which magically solves the problem sometimes. This can take up to 10 minutes of me trying. No, rebooting both the headset and the laptop does not help.
And sometimes they show their battery charge, sometimes they don't show it. It is just random.

I read online about other people having problems too. but I use stock Linux Mint and expected a little bit more when it comes to standard features like bluetooth.

What is your opinion on this topic?

I have a bluetooth connection problem between the two ubuntu and windows OSes. I understand using a single BT device between two OS can be a little tricky, but I gave up on getting it to work, but I cannot even get it to work just on Ubuntu anymore.

I normally use Ubuntu but I installed Windows on a separate SSD. The primary input device for my miniPC is the Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse app on my S10E android phone.

Everything worked fine in Ubunutu for months - my phone/app would connect automatically each PC reboot and instantly work to control my PC/linux. Then after installing windows, I tried connected my app/phone and it worked on windows, but then switching back to Ubuntu I had connection issues. It wouldn't connect at startup and it would take many multiple tries of disconnect/forgetting device on both pc/phone and reconnecting to get it to work. In windows I had also had windows forget the device and uninstall the bluetooth device in device manager. (I don't know if there is a more comprehensive way to check/uninstall/forget in windows besides this - hopefully someone knows). Often, whenever I do happen to manage to get it to connect, my mouse cursor moves intermittently as if I had 1000 ping, like there is some kind of constant interference. Whenever I my PC, my phone often automatically forgets the remembered BT device on my phone and then I have to pair it again on restart. No idea why my phone forgets my PC on PC reboot even if I touched nothing on my phone. My PC however, will remember my phone as a connection still.I have no connection issues connecting to another Android device.

After trying many times with connection issues still, I reformatted my Ubuntu SSD with a fresh install and factory reset my S10e and never yet connecting my windows SSD or booting it, I still have the connectino issues. I tried to check with bluetoothctl and made a systemd script to try to autoconnect to my BT mac address on boot, but still having issues with intermittent connection and it would still never auto connect at boot/on login screen.

Now I finally almost give up with Ubuntu and swap out to my windows SSD and boot up and connect my app/phone to windows and it connects fine. Restart windows and auto connects perfectly fine. No laggy mouse.

What can I do to get my mouse/phone to connect with ubuntu. I don't want to keep using windows.

I know this is an odd post since I only saw people complaining about Bluetooth on this forum, but I am currently running endeavorOS and Bluetooth is significantly better than when I was on windows.

I have a cheap dongle I got off Amazon that always had driver problems on windows, it either never connected properly, stopped working all together or I’d have to pair my devices all over again.

I have several controllers pairs and I have yet to have any issues grabbing any of them and simply turning them on.

Why the big difference?

I have Ubuntu from 2 years now and the only one problem I still really struggle is to connect my bluetooth headphone to my ubuntu laptop (22.04.04 LTS version). My question is :

Why a so useful thing isn't that easy to do ?

I looked for hours on the internet, ubuntu doc, stack overflow, chatgpt, reddit... even quora. But impossible to find a solution.

I saw a post posted 2 or 4 months ago where a redditor said that it was because it doesn't do something with the Kernel. Is that true ? If not, why ?

And, if someone's middle name here is God, how to fix this problem ?

Edit : my bad, I didn't give all the information you could need to help me so here it is :

• i'm on a Asus Zenbook on Ubuntu 22.04

• my headphone is a JBL Live 770NC (but don't work with my Galaxy buds either)

• my desktop environnement is GNOME

• it worked when I was on Windows 11

• my laptop can connect to my bluetooth device but doesn't recognize as a source of input nor output

Hello guys. I just downloaded linux today and I chose fedora because it felt really cool and the desktop environment was very minimal for me. The bluetooth crashed by itself. I did a lot of things from internet, I don't even remember. Tried a lot of tricks. There was a dialog that came saying blueman applet crashed. Other than that nothing. If I rebooth, the bluetooth stays on for some time but once I click it off, the problem reappears.

I feel really frustrated. I wanna stay but I have been butting my head for the whole day now. Starting with the gsconnect and now this. I might have been a little lousy careless tho while debugging.

Please help.

Hello.

This morning I put on my noise cancelling headphones because my robovac was making a ruckus. Anyway. That was the moment I discovered that all those insanely frustrating issues with using them on windows were not applicable whatsoever on linux.

I used to use these to play videogames, it was nice to be able to cancel the noise of my loud neighbour; but it was a huge issue that they kept reverting to low quality audio and I had to manually disable the microphone to convince them to give me quality... Then they would revert this setting once a month or so, and even when they played high quality audio the delay was between 200 and 500ms, so if I played an FPS game I would die a lot more in tarkov just because the sound was literally late.

I know this is a shared experience for at least a few of us in life, because I had several friends at the time who lamented the same problem. I ended up buying IEMs and I got a wired headset (without noise cancelling) to remedy the latency problem in games.

But yeah. You can just pick your codec. They apparently even support LDAC, but the vibe I get is that aptx feels the most snappy.

I wanted to post this mostly because to me specifically this would have been the absolute killer linux feature. Sound issues on windows honestly drove me mental.

Hi all,

I've been a Linux user for around a year and I haven't had any major issues with it except for the Bluetooth. I have a friend who faced the same issues too and ended up switching back to windows.

I feel this is a pretty common problem and lots of people hate it. Auto connection doesn't work most of the time, pulse-audio is also kinda bad, etc. etc.

Has anyone found a way to use Bluetooth reliably?

thanks

title

what is a good way to connect bluetooth devices across each boot? I've found a few guides but I don't know what is the best way to do this?

https://gist.github.com/madkoding/f3cfd3742546d5c99131fd19ca267fd4

https://averylarsen.com/posts/keeping-bluetooth-devices-paired-between-linux-and-windows/

https://superuser.com/questions/1719203/cant-have-same-headphones-paired-on-both-windows-11-and-ubuntu

Hey there, I was thinking of switching to Linux, one of the biggest hurdles I have with Windows atm is the god-awful bluetooth (Randomly disconnects, doesnt connect at all or just refuses to even turn on), and was wondering if Linux had it any better connectivity-wise.

Also a side-question on the topic of Linux BT, Windows has a communication mode labelled "Hands free AG" which is used while the microphone is being detected on wireless earphones, which causes the audio quality to significantly drop. Does linux also have this, or will I be able to use my microphone AND get normal audio at one time while using tws earphones?