After Catalina upgrade, Bluetooth fails to discover devices on Macbook Pro Early 2015

kchai007 wrote:

After Catalina upgrade, Bluetooth fails to discover devices on Macbook Pro Early 2015. Has anyone ran into this issue and fixed it?

The Apple Bluetooth Software Version is 7.0.4f6

Bluetooth Chipset is Broadcom 20703A1

From the Bluetooth icon upper right menu bar, hold the Shift Option keys to click open<Debug>Reset

Using a Bluetooth mouse, keyboard, or trackpad with your Mac

Yes, I have a (kind of) solution. It's quite tricky, but it works:

1) Install Windows 10 via Bootcamp assistant (yes. windows)

2) Download to the USB flash drive these drivers https://www.dell.com/support/home/ru-ua/drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=2JM87 . The only what you need to do is launching a file with drivers (take attention - it won't be installed automatically!!!) and select the known place of unpacking on your hard drive (it's better to choose C: volume)

3) On the "Devices" menu on Windows find the unknown device called "BCM2045A0."

4) Install unpacked (see point 2) drivers manually

5) Try to connect any BT device via Windows Bluetooth manager

6) Reboot to MacOS

Tips:

DO NOT DELETE Windows! Each time you'll reboot your macOS, the BT module will not be working again. Just reboot to Windows, connect any device, and reboot to MacOS

Turn your Mac to the sleeping mode instead of rebooting - BT will work as it should

P.S. I don't know what's changing exactly and how it works, but it works.

problema no resuelto, tengo el mismo portátil, y el mismo problema. el mismo chipset.

he intentado lo mismo pero no funciona. alguien puede darnos una solución?

is ok you bloutooth? work?

Plz try the method that I described in my message above (with installing Windows10 via bootcamp assistant)

ok, I try, thank