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After deactivating Airplane Mode, I can not re-enable Bluetooth from System Settings.

I would like Bluetooth to be reactivated from System Settings:

  • When Airplane Mode is deactivated
  • Or, when I click the Bluetooth toggle button in the header bar

How can I achieve this?

Sequence of Steps

  1. Enable Airplane Mode by pressing the ✈ F12 key.

    • Airplane mode is enabled [expected]

    • WiFi is disabled [expected]

    • Bluetooth is disabled [expected]

      sudo rfkill list all
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no

  2. Disable Airplane Mode from System Settings by clicking the Airplane Mode toggle button.

    • Airplane mode is disabled [expected]

    • WiFi is enabled, and automatically connects to my network [expected]

    • Bluetooth stays disabled [UNEXPECTED]

      sudo rfkill list all
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

  3. Attempt to re-enable Bluetooth from System Setting

    • Click the Bluetooth toggle button in the header bar
    • Bluetooth stays disabled [UNEXPECTED]

Sometimes, I can reactivate Bluetooth from the command line.

This doesn't always work, and my goal is to get it to work from the System Settings GUI.

systemctl restart bluetooth

System Information

Bluetooth and WiFi Adapters:

lsusb | grep Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. Bluetooth wireless interface

lspci | grep Network
3b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)

Operating System:

  • Ubuntu 21.04

    uname -r
5.11.0-16-generic

    dpkg -l bluez
5.56-0ubuntu4

Laptop:

  • HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15-bl1XX
  • There is no physical WiFi or Bluetooth switch on this machine
  • The ✈ F12 key enables/disables Airplane Mode (although disabling doesn't always work)
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    This just happened to me today! Your systemctl bluetooth restart got me moving again, so thanks for that, but I've no idea on the underlying problem sorry. Hopefully someone in the know chimes in – Mike Hardy May 10 '21 at 01:37

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This issue has been resolved for me using:

  • Ubuntu 21.10.
  • Linux Kernel 5.13.0-20-generic

When I press the the Airplane Mode button on my laptop, or toggle "on" Airplane Mode from System Settings, both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth both turn off as expected.

Then, when I press the the Airplane Mode button on my laptop again, or toggle "off" Airplane Mode from System Settings, both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turn on as expected.

If you are experiencing this issue, you may be able to upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.13.0-20-generic. However, is it also possible this was an issue with Ubuntu 21.04 / Gnome 3.38, in which case you will need to upgrade to 21.10 in order to fix the problem.

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