Bluetooth does not detect device

Question

I have Dell inspiron 3521 and Ubuntu 12.04. Wireless is working perfectly but bluetooth does not detect any device. result of sudo rfkill list is

0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

Please help me regarding this. Thank You.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '13 at 17:39

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At me this problem appear if the bluetooth is disabled when system is starting, for me work this solution: open System Settings > Bluetooth and enable if it is disabled, or disable and enable if it is enabled; Restart and try again.

answered Oct 29 '13 at 17:39

L.V.A

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Dzero · Answer 2 · 2013-10-30T19:45:07.040

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it says here that you have to install the bluetooth driver from dell's website on windows in order for it to work on ubuntu.

edited Oct 30 '13 at 19:45

answered Oct 29 '13 at 19:45

Dzero

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bccmd psset -r -s implementation 0x028c 0x0001 shows unsupported manufacturer message in terminal. – Jawad Khan Oct 30 '13 at 12:41
I didn't worked. – Jawad Khan Nov 02 '13 at 13:47
Those instructions don't work for 16.04. – Chloe Nov 24 '16 at 06:57

Bluetooth does not detect device

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