Bluetooth keeps disconecting again..

[worldly gorge]

So i reinstalled linux mint, i had a windows before and bluetooth was working great but yesterday i noticed my bluetooth devices keeps disconecting, i had that problem on mint previously but i though reinstall would fix that.. anyone know any fix?

[worn quiver]

Hi there, you may try upgrading the kernel, had the same issue and that fixed it for me. If it doesn't work or breaks something else, please revert back to the older kernel (the one being used right now)

[worldly gorge]

Could you explain how to do that?

Now my Bluetooth controller is in the reconnecting loop...

[worn quiver]

The simplest way would be going into the system update manager app (you have that in your system tray/panel) and click the view tab. There you can find the option to upgrade the kernel.

It's pretty straightforward and also tells you what to do in case things don't work out as expected

I'm assuming you are running Mint as it is with the older kernel version it comes with as default

[worldly gorge]

My current Kernel is 5.15.0-94-generic
which should I choose to update that?

[worn quiver]

Pick the latest available kernel

It'll be listed at the top

[worldly gorge]

but 6.5.0 seems older than my 5.15 which seems like a newest one

[worn quiver]

Generic maybe that's why..
Don't worry, go ahead, kernel receives upgrades very frequently.

[worldly gorge]

so 6.5.0-18 should help with the Bluetooth after install right?

[worn quiver]

The currently installed kernel won't be removed. In case you feel like switching back, just boot into BIOS/UEFI or GRUB menu directly and then you can go into advanced settings which will let you boot with any installed kernel you want. You can then remove the ones you don't need.

[worn quiver]

I hope so. It did with mine, might help with your case too.

[worldly gorge]

So i changed the kernel to the 6.18 a new update pop up should i install that?

thats a kernel update

[worn quiver]

Changed and there's an update available already? Well go ahead.
But since you have changed the kernel now, are you still facing any issues?

[worldly gorge]

well, I'm trying to connect any device now but it's looping for a few seconds and stops trying to parry

i can't update by a update manager tho

i'm just thinking bout changing distribution tbh

[worn quiver]

Wait.. that's not really necessary

Can you just restart your system and then check maybe?

[worldly gorge]

tried that didn't worked

i mean, yesterday i did some terminal thing with bluetooth but that was more like a restart bluetooth by a command or smh like that

and from that moment i think it started to just loop infinitely rather than reconnecting every few minutes

[worn quiver]

Maybe something like systemctl restart bluetooth.service

[worn quiver]

Can you try that again maybe?
Honestly I'm also a beginner to Linux and had the same problem and kept reading articles online and trying all sorts of workarounds to get this thing working and after 2 days I finally got it to work by upgrading the kernel as suggested by many.. I hope someone can propose a solution..

[worldly gorge]

that fixed reconnect loop

[worn quiver]

So does it work now?

[worldly gorge]

it's work for a 30 minut right now so maybe

I'll test that for a hour or so more to be sure

thank for help anyway you're very helpful:)

[worn quiver]

I hope it does work as intended now..

[worldly gorge]

Ye after testing I can tell, my problem is fixed

thank you!

[worldly gorge]

It seems that this problem is still appearing...

[soft storm]

I am getting this same issue on kernel 6.5.0-21

And this only just now started with me and it also is still cutting out when playing any kind of video through firefox. I thought this was an issue with pulseaudio, but I have pipewire installed from a fresh install myself.

[worldly gorge]

ye that's just weird cuz after changing Kernel that worked for a day or so

It's really annoying cuz I can't play when controller disconnecting after every 15 minutes

[worldly gorge]

bump

[soft storm]

From my understanding is it has something to do with the pulse audio that it's using and I think given that the distribution still has pulse audio along with pipe wire it still has the issue because of the version of pulse audio that it's using.

[worldly gorge]

So deleting pulse audio could resolve Bluetooth problems? As mint at this moment has installed defaulty pulse audio AND pipe wire?

[woven gorge]

if the issue is a wireless game controller pad, then it has nothing to do with pulse audio