My Manjaro system does not connect to Bluetooth v5.0 device after some updates

Hi, I’m using Manjaro KDE Plasma 5.22.4
I was using a Bluetooth v5.0 device (Headphone - Boat Rockerz 550) with my laptop a few weeks before.
Now, after some updates, I’m not able to connect to my headphone. Happy to provide any logs.
Output of the below command:
$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

Kernel: 5.13.12-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64 
  root=UUID=06d7363a-23c3-4c3d-97e3-3bc65484e084 ro quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop X513IA_KM513IA 
  v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X513IA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: X513IA.300 date: 06/05/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.7 Wh (69.2%) condition: 35.7/42.1 Wh (84.9%) 
  volts: 11.8 min: 11.8 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Discharging cycles: 319 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.2 GiB used: 1.72 GiB (23.9%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 60 (96) stepping: 1 
  microcode: 8600103 cache: L2: 4 MiB bogomips: 31959 
  Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/2000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1396 8: 1397 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs irperf lahf_lm 
  lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx 
  nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter 
  pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni 
  popcnt pse pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni 
  skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor 
  svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl 
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave 
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  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, IBRS_FW, 
  STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 13d3:56a8 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
  diag: 395mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.41.0 5.13.12-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 
  chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.12-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.33 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-2:2 
  chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 73.95 GiB (6.3%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFM256GDJTNG-8310A 
  size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s 
  lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 80001C00 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-80Z10T2 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A04 scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 52.2 GiB size: 51.13 GiB (97.95%) used: 31.46 GiB (61.5%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 label: N/A 
  uuid: 06d7363a-23c3-4c3d-97e3-3bc65484e084 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) 
  used: 66.8 MiB (26.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
  label: SYSTEM uuid: DA44-C033 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 34.8 GiB size: 34 GiB (97.71%) used: 18.05 GiB (53.1%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 label: N/A 
  uuid: 941c21f5-3c1e-45ab-8989-ce9c68b0c218 
  ID-4: /run/timeshift/backup raw-size: 30 GiB size: 29.36 GiB (97.86%) 
  used: 24.37 GiB (83.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
  label: Manjaro-recovery uuid: ab4be4b9-eb3d-43ea-a32c-8763e70be217 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 150.18 GiB fs: ntfs label: OS 
  uuid: DC20475720473832 
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 1.03 GiB fs: ntfs label: RECOVERY 
  uuid: E6BAAD46BAAD13D9 
  ID-4: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 901.51 GiB fs: ntfs label: New Volume 
  uuid: 800C3F790C3F6974 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-4:2 info: No brand USB OPTICAL MOUSE type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 2188:0ae1 class-ID: 0301 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-2:2 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029 
  class-ID: e001 
  Device-2: 3-3:3 info: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 13d3:56a8 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.6 C mobo: 36.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 281 Uptime: 58m wakeups: 80 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1377 lib: 389 flatpak: 0 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06

I remember topics on this device before - try searching - it may reveal something

Please read this:

(At a minimum the Linux has multiple kernels section, at the most everything but the “What’s this Upstream/Downstream business?”

Then install an LTS kernel.

:crossed_fingers:

Actually I was missing the package pulseaudio-bluetooth.
May be I had uninstalled before unknowingly. After installing pulseaudio-bluetooth, I’m able to connect to bluetooth headphones. Thanks all for your responses. :pray:t2:

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