Bluetooth headphones stopped successfully connecting

My bluetooth headphones stopped successfully connecting. It could be related update.

When headphones are on they automatically connect, but then immediately disconnect. Using blueman-manager, connecting results in this message:

Connection Failed: br-connection-refused

Maybe be related. I use a bluetooth usb dongle, on update I got
rtl8821cu/5.4.11202e43634: Missing the module source directory or the symbolic link pointing to it.

So I rebuild rtl8821cu (morrow) against currently installed kernels.

sysinfo:

rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 6.6.85-1-rt53-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-rt-x86_64
    root=UUID=66c34da3-3ab4-45d2-94ed-5dbe6b76fc09 rw
    resume=UUID=806f110d-2578-4c43-a545-cc4cac83b303 udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.48 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 with: tint2
    tools: light-locker avail: lxlock vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Precision T1700 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 073MMW v: A02 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: Precision T1700 uuid: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A08
    date: 04/25/2014
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell
    level: v3 note: check built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3392 min/max: 800/3800 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
    governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3392 2: 3392 3: 3392 4: 3392 5: 3392 6: 3392
    7: 3392 8: 3392 bogomips: 54273
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
    STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
    affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107GL [Quadro K2000] driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: series: 470.xx+
    status: legacy-active (EOL~2024-09-xx) arch: Kepler-2 code: GKxxx
    process: TSMC 28nm built: 2012-2018 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0ffe
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 424x239mm (16.69x9.41")
    s-diag: 487mm (19.16")
  Monitor-1: DVI-I-0 res: mode: 1600x900 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) size: N/A
    modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
  Info: Tools: de: xfce4-display-settings gpu: nvidia-smi
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Arturia MiniFuse 2 driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-1.6.2:6 chip-ID: 1c75:af90
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.85-1-rt53-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Message: No PCI device data found.
  IF-ID-1: enp0s26u1u6 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cypress CYW20704A2 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1.4:5 chip-ID: 04b4:f901
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.0
    lmp-v: 9 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c0104
  Device-2: T & A Mobile Phones Alcatel 1S driver: rndis_host v: kernel
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.6:7
    chip-ID: 1bbb:0173 class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.02 TiB used: 931.07 GiB (45.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: SATA SSD size: 447.13 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 61.3 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 043 scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: PSSD T7
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB
    rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    scheme: MBR
  ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 model: SATA SSD size: 223.57 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    mode: 2.0 tech: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 32 GiB size: 31.2 GiB (97.50%) used: 26.26 GiB (84.2%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-2: /home raw-size: 171.13 GiB size: 167.38 GiB (97.81%)
    used: 44.27 GiB (26.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: 23.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 1030 mobo: 1318
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.56 GiB used: 4.03 GiB (25.9%)
  Processes: 329 Power: uptime: 37m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6.21 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager
    Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: 1799 pm: pacman pkgs: 1790 libs: 468 tools: pamac pm: snap
    pkgs: 9 Compilers: clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37
    running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.38

Okay, I solved it. I just had to remove bluetooth headphone from the known bluetooth devices, then re-add them. working fine now.

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