# 20.10 Bluetooth gets disabled, applet shows enabled, impossible to re-enable

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/20-10-bluetooth-gets-disabled-applet-shows-enabled-impossible-to-re-enable/4477>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/20-10-bluetooth-gets-disabled-applet-shows-enabled-impossible-to-re-enable/4477 "2020-12-15T11:43:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![zilexa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bbe5ce/32.png) [@zilexa](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/zilexa)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/20-10-bluetooth-gets-disabled-applet-shows-enabled-impossible-to-re-enable/4477/1 "2020-12-15T11:43:12Z")

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Maybe Bluetooth got disabled due to Settings \> Power \> “Bluetooth can be turned off to save power”. But the applet does not reflect this change. After I disable that option in Power, the applet and Settings \> Bluetooth look like this:

 ![](https://i.imgur.com/2GQOGLA.png)

Note the toggle is “on”.

Bluetooth really is still deactivated as my mouse does not work.

Seems like multiple bugs here:

- applet does not reflect state of Bluetooth (off)
- applet does not allow to actually turn bluetooth on (it stays off)
- Settings \> Bluetooth shows it is “ON” even though it was disabled by Power settings (and after disabling that feature in Power, this window stays the same)
- Settings Bluetooth in the state shown above: switch it off, back on, it still shows the empty screen, Bluetooth still does not work.
- disabling the power save feature has no effect. Bluetooth remains disabled.
- disabling the power save feature does not work at all, when I reopen Settings \> Bluetooth, it is again still on “Bluetooth can be disabled to save power”.

Funny, but annoying:  
Disable airplane mode via the applet turns on Settings \> Power \> Bluetooth power save feature. It is impossible to disable this feature even when connected to AC.

I wonder, am I really the only one noticing this?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/20-10-bluetooth-gets-disabled-applet-shows-enabled-impossible-to-re-enable/4477/2 "2020-12-15T12:32:26Z")

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Sounds like you have specific bluetooth issues to your hardware.

Bluetooth is kind of complicated to track down where your issue actually resides - could be gnome-control-center (Settings). Could be gnome-settings-daemon where is the device management part of GNOME. Or it could be the bluez bluetooth stack that feeds info to GNOME.

The settings bluetooth on/off observations are key here. The applet is incidental to the issues.

First off suggest raise an issue on launchpad and let the triagers advise from there:

```
ubuntu-bug gnome-control-center

```

The triagers probably will want more logs if gnome-control-center isn’t the appropriate package to file the bug against.

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**Author:** ![Laplace](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/laplace/32/3892_2.png) [@Laplace](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Laplace)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/20-10-bluetooth-gets-disabled-applet-shows-enabled-impossible-to-re-enable/4477/3 "2021-04-30T04:51:40Z")

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I have the same problem on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro with Budgie 21