Snow Leopard and Bluetooth problem

Chock up another one. I have 10.6.1 installed and did a reboot this morning and my Bluetooth no longer existed. Is this clear enough for the smarty pant's who need clarity? One minute Bluetooth, reboot then no Bluetooth. This is a major screw up on someones part. Hello Apple where's my Bluetooth?

Shutdown the machine, remove the battery and leave it for a few minutes. Put in the battery again and boot, bluetooth should be available now. Worked for me. Cheers!

I had the same problem, and this solution worked for me. First go to sharing in system preferences, and enable bluetooth sharing. Then go to bluetooth from system preferences. There will be a left hand pane which may list your keyboard already only as not connected. Either way click add a new device via the plus sign. That will open up the setup assistant for your bluetooth device, then just follow the instructions. Hope this works for you.

Same Here.
Macbook 2006. I'm using a BT headphone and it usually become unavailable after about 20mins.
When I check in the preferences, there no BT icon available !!
What's going on ??

I found a possible (radical) solution: I erased my Snow Leopard partition (was Leopard and became SL after upgrade, I kept Bootcamp intact) and I did a fresh reinstall of Snow Leopard. After the install, I did a recovery using TimeMachine. Most problems have disappeared, BT is working fine and the freezes and system hangs are gone. My laptop is noticeably faster.
To give an idea: my TimeMachine recovered 90GB of data and applications in about 6 hours (USB-disk connected to Airport Extreme).

I'm also seeing a "Bluetooth: Not Available" in the Bluetooth menuling on a 1st gen. MacBook, at least since 10.6.1. Cmd Opt+PR for several boings didn't help. The system functions fine otherwise. The bluetooth function isn't needed, but it's odd that it is suddenly broken.

Wanted to erase caches with OnyX, but the tool still doesn't work with Snow Leopard.

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I'm also seeing this "Bluetooth: Not Available", does anyone have an answer on how to resolve this?

I also use an Apple-brand Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and although startups are now much faster than with Leopard, now I have to wait twice as long as I try to get Snow Leopard to recognize my mouse and kb.

The problem persists even with 10.6.1

This has occurred once on my early 2009 Mac Mini with 10.6.0 (erase and install). It has yet to happen with 10.6.1. Very annoying considering I have a wireless mouse and keyboard.

Apple should start giving away wired equipment in compensation.

I installed Snow Leopard and Bluetooth seemed to be working fine at the start. I recall changing Bluetooth settings when first running Snow Leopard. At some point in the recent past, Bluetooth has disappeared from my machine - maybe with the 10.6.1 update?

I discovered that Bluetooth was missing when needing to install an Apple Wireless Keyboard (latest generation, using Bluetooth). No System Preferences Bluetooth pane is available. It does, however, appear when searching for 'bluetooth' in Spotlight. When clicking on it, I get the message: "You can’t open the “Bluetooth” preferences pane because it is not available to you at this time. To see this preferences pane, you may need to connect a device to your computer."

I tried the old, disconnect all USB/external devices, shut down, leave off for some time, remove the battery for some time, replace the battery and then restart and Bluetooth still does not work...

BT Dead.... come on Apple, pay some attention to SL. I should have waited till 10.6.4

I just went through this problem with Apple.
The fix is to reset your System Management Controller...(SMC)
It's a little 3 button combo with power on-off.
The combo varies with computer models.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411

resetting smc had no effect on this problem for me.
mac mini

Resetting the SMC works but only for the next couple of hours. Then back to zero as the bluetooth again disapeared.

Same here, no Bluetooth detected with X.6.1, 3 weeks old MBP 2.66. 😟
Resetting the SMC and/ or AHT do not help.

Peter