I’m noticing a lot of issues with bluetooth popping up, and they only seem to be getting worse.
First it was my PS3 controller. Randomly stopped working with bluetooth after an update.
Then I noticed bluetooth sometimes just… crashes and doesn’t recover. There’s probably some weird/sketchy command I can use to reset it, but I’ve just resorted to rebooting whenever it happened.
Now my bluetooth speaker just straight up fails to connect. I was using it, the connection ‘failed’, and now it won’t connect. Lol.
Meanwhile on my phone it works just fine.
Is anyone else having issues? Does it feels like the quality of bluetooth support has diminished in recent months?
To me, this feels like some new contributors are doing things they shouldn’t be doing or some other cultural shift among them.
I have had random issues for the last 2 years where the active bluetooth adapter just vanishes suddenly and cannot be revived without a reboot (or oddly sometimes sleeping and re-awakening works). Some kernels are better than others, but it has never completely gone away. Often it is fine for days or even weeks of uptime, then it will occasionally crash within minutes or hours of booting. I use it for a mouse, which simply stops working mid-use.
In my case it’s a built-in adapter that’s tied to an internal USB hub, and it is the entire USB hub that is crashing and vanishing. When it happens dmesg says the hub is no longer accepting the address assigned. Error 62 and or 110.
This is on a Lenovo Thinkpad currently running anywhere from kernel 5.15 to 6.5 with the same random issue.