Snow Leopard and Bluetooth problem

I am on Snow leopard but I cannot connect my nokia phone via bluetooth it just fails to see it
yet it was fine with Leopard any help welcome I use 24 imac 2.93

Apple can add another person that no longer has any Bluetooth.

I had it on 10.6 but not 10.6.1 - none of the suggested solutions work.

Does Apple even read these posts?
Bluethooth is visible in the top menu bar but says "Bluetooth not available"
In the System Profiler Hardware is says "No information found."

Message was edited by: ArtistSeries

Resetting the PMU and the PRAM solves it temporarily. I have a suspicion that it has something to do with the power management unit (PMU). The machine now sometimes goes into a sleep-wakeup cycle when you close the lid. For the time being I installed iLid prefpane and disabled wake-on-lid-open.

The bluetooth isn't really used, so suppressing the other PMU symptom should be enough for now.

Posting in an epic thread.

And another one bites the dust. None of the suggested work-arounds has worked for me. I'm just hanging in waiting for Apple to actually acknowledge (and fix) the problem.

with me, the issue is a bit different, but still BT probs with SL.
Already two kernel panics, both times in the bug report BT was mentioned.
the second kernel panic happened, when I simply changed the battery of my mighty BT mouse.
Now, after wake up of deep sleep: no reaction of BT, could not de or activate it, had to restart.

Ok, not that bad like other problems, but still very buggy and annoying.

similar issue here, bt cell phone works fine but apple bt keyboard is not discovered. Apple support tried everything, reset pmu, pram, delete prefs (both user and main), it never sees the keyboard.

opened a case with apple support, hopefully if they see enough cases they will fix fast

I just had a call with AppleCare Germany and they tell me it's a hardware issue and I've got to go to an ASP.
It's a new (3 weeks) MBP 15.4" 2.66GHz and BT worked before the SL update...
Its Superdrive was DOA and got fixed, too.

Peter

Hi
I had same problem, installed SL and the bluetooth was just gone. So i called apple and this is how they fixed my problem. This is my first time posting and hopefully i am allowed to put it here.
1. Hold power button down and turn your computer off
2. Turn your mighty mouse off and take the batteries out, (if you have fresh ones, replace them)
3. Put the batteries back in but DO NOT turn the mouse on
4. Hold control and shift keys on the right side of your keyboard and turn your computer on by hitting the power button once, once you turned it on, release the control and shift keys
5. Turn your mouse on
6. Once your computer is back on, move around the mouse and go to system pref and the bluetooth icon should be there
This worked for me, hopefully it will for everyone else.
Thank you DRkoh

i did what you've Said, and it worked for me i can now use my Apple Keyboard again.

thanks 😀

Can anyone else confirm this please??

Thanks guys

Where is the control key on the right side of the keyboard?
On my keyboard there's only command/ option/ shift on the right side, control only on the left...?

Peter

Hi
I am sorry, i meant the left side of the keyboard. I apologize about that.

No problem, didn't help here anyway. 😟

Peter

I tried the whole shebam with all the resets of PMU, PRAM, Bluetooth plists, PowerManagement.plist, and sleepimage removal. Didn't help.

Today removed /Library/StartupItems/ArcanaStartupSound, /Library/Preferences/arcana.StartupSound.plist and /Library/PreferencePanes/ArcanaStartupSound.prefPane

Rebooted, had no problem in 10 sleeps. Reinstalled StartupSound.prefpane v1.1, still no problem.

Maybe some system wide cache is corrupt, for which a refresh is triggered when removing the startupitem or the prefpane. I am still testing though.

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Ah, the old version on my system was StartupSound 1.1b2, no it's 1.1b3. A newer Intel beta.