the bluetooth indicator disappeared

[JamersonSouza]

the bluetooth indicator disappeared from my notebook for some unknown reason, when I go to check the settings, in the section of "network and wireless" the bluetooth icon is no longer there, I try to start the terminal but I can not, before that bluetooth is very time only looking for devices and when it was found it could not connect. Is there any solution to this problem?

[cassidyjames]

I also recently hit this on a Juno install on my desktop that has an Intel WiFi/Bluetooth card. WiFi continues to work.

[peteruithoven]

I would have this issue on Loki in the past and ran the following commands to get it back:

sudo modprobe -r btusb
sudo modprobe btusb
sudo service bluetooth restart

To make it easier for myself I created a alias for it (really hope that's not necessary, haven't needed it on Juno):

alias restartbt="sudo modprobe -r btusb && sudo modprobe btusb && sleep 10 && sudo service bluetooth restart"

You could check the status of bluetooth using commands like:

service bluetooth status
rfkill list
hcitool dev

[Suzamax]

Please consider meging elementary/wingpanel#89 and this issue.

[janxkoci]

I often loose access to Bluetooth (both indicator and Switchboard plug) after flipping the Airplane mode switch on my keyboard. At that point my wingpanel crashes (elementary/wingpanel-indicator-network#305), but starts working again after a while. If I flip the Airplane mode switch some more times, I always get bluetooth back in both places..