Bluetooth devices not discovering

Hi there , I’m getting straight into the topic :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: ; As mentioned in the title manjaro ( single booted ) is not discovering bluetooth devices :slightly_smiling_face:. If i go to the device settings > Bluetooth and add a new device , its searching for a device forewer and not discovering my bluetooth headset or my android :neutral_face:. I tried many ways out there in the internet to solve this but i didn’t found anything as a solution for this :woozy_face:.

This is the inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width output

  Kernel: 5.4.143-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64 
  root=UUID=2926b362-37db-4efb-becd-3a28896fcc84 rw quiet 
  resume=UUID=843efb71-9e31-4c19-a057-f46b0c0f388f udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_wayland 
  vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 80CB v: 99.53 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.28 
  date: 05/17/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 33.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 33.0/33.0 Wh (100.0%) 
  volts: 16.7 min: 14.6 model: 131-42-6E HS04041 type: Unknown 
  serial: <filter> status: Full 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 6.74 GiB used: 2.48 GiB (36.8%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Puma family: 16 (22) model-id: 30 (48) stepping: 1 
  microcode: 7030106 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 17573 
  Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/2200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 998 2: 998 3: 998 4: 998 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acc_power aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1 bpext 
  clflush cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de 
  decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht 
  hw_pstate ibpb ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor 
  movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat 
  pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni 
  popcnt pse pse36 ptsc rdtscp rep_good sep skinit ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 
  sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall topoext tsc tsc_scale vme vmmcall wdt xsave 
  xsaveopt 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus-ID: 00:01.0 
  chip-ID: 1002:9851 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Truevision HD type: USB 
  driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 4-1.1:3 chip-ID: 05c8:0382 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: 
  loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  display-ID: :1 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 5.4.143-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:9840 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.4.143-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.34 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl 
  v: kernel modules: bcma port: 3100 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4365 
  class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 
  class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 3-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:216d class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 15.91 GiB (1.7%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 2C scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW GUB0N rev: UB00 dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 50 GiB size: 48.91 GiB (97.83%) used: 11.28 GiB (23.1%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A 
  uuid: 2926b362-37db-4efb-becd-3a28896fcc84 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1 GiB size: 1022.6 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 288 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL 
  uuid: 26EB-9915 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 75 GiB size: 73.27 GiB (97.69%) used: 4.62 GiB (6.3%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 34c87a45-8559-4757-8afe-b76fb1d24130 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: 843efb71-9e31-4c19-a057-f46b0c0f388f 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 381 GiB fs: ntfs label: Gaming 
  uuid: 6C38EEE738EEAEF0 
  ID-2: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 273.9 GiB fs: ntfs label: Others 
  uuid: B0CAF063CAF0276E 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse 
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c534 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 1-2:3 info: China Resource Semico Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 1a2c:2124 class-ID: 0300 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 3-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices Root Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-1.4:3 info: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: Bluetooth 
  driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a5c:216d 
  class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 4-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices Root Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 4-1.1:3 
  info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Truevision HD type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 05c8:0382 class-ID: 0e02 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: radeon temp: 54.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 183 Uptime: 1h 12m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1162 lib: 325 
  Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06

rfkill list output

        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

sudo systemctl status bluetooth output

     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-09-15 17:43:32 IST; 1h 14min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 751 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 8259)
     Memory: 2.9M
        CPU: 159ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─751 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Sep 15 17:43:33 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
Sep 15 17:43:33 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: src/adapter.c:reset_adv_monitors_complete() Failed to reset Adv Monitors:>
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_453
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_4>
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_512
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_5>
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_552
Sep 15 17:44:34 shervin-manjaro bluetoothd[751]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.47 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_5>

Waiting for a solution :upside_down_face:

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Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 3-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:216d class-ID: fe01 serial:
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends

Hello I had the same issue with the same bluetooth adapter. Here is how I fixed it.

basically you have to clone it using:
git clone https://github.com/winterheart/broadcom-bt-firmware.git
Then cd broadcom-bt-firmware/brcm
Then sudo cp BCM43142A0-0a5c-216d.hcd /lib/firmware/brcm
Then reboot.

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I tried a similiar method to this before posting this issue in forum. It didn’t work . But i tried this one and it’s a complete success. :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face:. Thankyou very much for sharing this

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You are welcome.

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