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

I have the same issue with JBL Go speaker and a fresh install of 18.04. Nothing like restarting bluetooth.service or removing btusb module and reinserting it again worked. I had to reboot. — solsTiCe, May 14 '18 at 17:11
I have the same problem, whenever resuming from sleep there is a chance ubuntu acts like there is no bluetooth at all (hence why restarting the service doesn't work). Sleeping and resuming again solves it sometimes. — VFreguglia, May 15 '18 at 23:16
@K7AAY for some reason hibernate doesn't work at all, so I can't verify that. — Nikhil Sadasivan, May 16 '18 at 06:18
Same problem here. I have to reboot to get the speakers working again. — DarrenRhodes, May 17 '18 at 12:56

lubomir.brindza · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-18T12:21:24.870

35

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

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.

edited May 18 '18 at 12:21

answered May 16 '18 at 17:18

lubomir.brindza

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2

Just updating the bluez package did it for me, thank you! – Nikhil Sadasivan May 17 '18 at 14:21
Same updating bluez worked like a charm! – Sanketh Katta May 18 '18 at 02:35
2

Update: It only worked for 1 sleep cycle. However, after multiple, I am back to the same problem. – Sanketh Katta May 18 '18 at 23:51
Unless the bug has already been fixed by an update, the bluez update worked for me. – DarrenRhodes May 19 '18 at 10:56
Using the blueman applet (sudo apt install blueman) and updated bluez (from ppa) is working well for me. – Mark Jun 12 '18 at 13:22
BTW, just going to bluez >= 5.28.2 isn't enough. I was experiencing the issue with bluez 5.48 from Ubuntu's Bionic repo. 5.50 from the PPA seems to fix the issue. – desilvai Jun 12 '18 at 18:47
this not only solves the resume problem, but it seems to stop connection dropouts for the Apple Magic Trackpad. I wonder why this is not in Ubuntu. – Tim Richardson Jul 22 '18 at 07:03
Can confirm that this fix also fixed my bluetooth disconnection on Ubuntu 19.04. – Tassos Bassoukos May 22 '19 at 11:25
Sadly on focal/20.04: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/bluetooth/bluez/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.. On launchpad git it doesn't exist a ppa-cosmic branch as said in the home. There is a focal, though. – Pablo Bianchi Mar 12 '22 at 21:32

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 17 '18 at 22:54

17

For me this problem can be resolved by running

sudo service bluetooth restart

after waking from sleep

answered Jun 17 '18 at 22:54

trts

181

1

Running Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, this is what worked for me :) – dance2die Jul 30 '20 at 15:26
ah, worked for me on Ubuntu 21.04 ! – rainyday Jun 26 '21 at 14:59

score 16 · Answer 3 · answered May 28 '19 at 06:00

16

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

answered May 28 '19 at 06:00

Laurent

616

1

Worked for me in Ubuntu 22.04. – Andrei B Jun 24 '22 at 19:18
The modprobe -r btusb (and re-enabling the module afterward) worked for me on Opensuse Tumbleweed 2023 too. – SomeoneSomewhereSupportsMonica Mar 24 '23 at 19:49

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 14 '18 at 17:29

3

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.

answered May 14 '18 at 17:29

solsTiCe

9,231

Unfortunately, this does not fix the issue for me. Thanks for sharing though! – Nikhil Sadasivan May 15 '18 at 19:54

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 21 '21 at 17:11

2

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

edited Dec 21 '21 at 17:11

Cezary Drożak

103

answered Oct 22 '18 at 00:59

hinxnz

29

1

Using chmod +x would be a safer solution if you just want to make this executable. Doing this would allow any user on the system to run anything as root just by replacing the contents of this file. – Steeve McCauley Mar 29 '19 at 13:48
after saving this script, my Dell XPS (18.04lts) won't go to sleep. it looks like it goes to sleep and 2sec later wakes up, and that's it. – razor Apr 10 '19 at 06:56
Don't chmod 777, ever. Unless you know exactly what you are doing. You should wrap that script with case $1 in post) so it only run after wakeup. Also sudo is not needed in the script. – Laurent May 28 '19 at 05:54

surfealokesea · Answer 6 · 2019-02-25T07:28:47.580

0

Based on this answer, for pulseaudio & Ubuntu 18

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

edited Feb 25 '19 at 07:28

answered Feb 22 '19 at 17:57

surfealokesea

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 23 '21 at 16:10

0

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.

answered Jan 23 '21 at 16:10

kondziorf

11

score -1 · Answer 8 · answered May 18 '18 at 08:54

-1

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

answered May 18 '18 at 08:54

Maarten

692
1
6
20

score -1 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 30 '19 at 09:42

-1

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

$ sudo apt remove laptop-mode-tools

answered Nov 30 '19 at 09:42

kolypto

611

Please do not post the same answer to many posts. Instead, if the posts are similar enough to each other, flag the other posts as duplicates of one of the other ones. Simply reposting the same answer to multiple questions is very noisy. – Thomas Ward Dec 02 '19 at 13:54

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

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update bluez to >=5.28.2

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