Bluetooth: Not Available mac book pro 15 inch

Just a quick note. If you shut down, reboot and log into a guest account (if you have one) you can check to see if the Bluetooth service is available there. If so, logging out and the returning to your account may solve the issue. If it is not available in the guest account, you should look at the other approaches listed here. Just to save a bit of time right at the start.

Regards,

Henk

Hi Alvarocka;

did you find a way to sort this issue?

I am having the exact same problmes, and they occured in the same manor.

I have of cause tryed everything mentions in this discussion (apart from replacing the bluetooth chip), but have had no luck so far.

Cheers

Ulf

ulfwolf,

The SMC, from Barry (the third input) reset worked for me.

Jepp.. Thank you.. This one worked for me. :-) Turned off. Hold power button for 20 sec

No loud beep, just flashing led during startup. Bluetooth back in business.

regards st.hans

This worked just fine for me to.

Quick fix, back in business.

Thanks Barry Hemphill!!! Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) worked for me.

Smooth trick to get the bluetooth going again. Worked like a charm.

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Tony 34

Your procedure worked for me.

Thank you so much!!

Macbook Pro

15-inch, Mid 2012

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

Perfect. Just worked for me. I am using a MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2009.

Tony34, this worked for me. Thank you.

I had the same problem. I turned off MBP, pressed the on button and held it for 20 seconds. Bluetooth working fine.

Thank you - I just spent and hour and a half jerking around in Apple's @!#@!#$!@#$# bluetooth universe - yours was the solution... my wife's iPad had grabbed the connection! Thank you.

Interesting, when I shut down and then hit the power button and hold it, the computer just restarts.....no one else had that problem who tried Tony34's fix? I ran AHT (the short version) and nothing happened; I tried the SMC reset and don't have a clue if that did anything because when I followed the procedure the computer did nothing to let me know it was responding--no sound, no disruption of the magsafe green LED on the power connector, nothing.

I'd like to try Tony34's method, which seems to be working for others, but as I said, I'm apparently doing something wrong because holding the power button down (instead of releasing it as normal) does nothing to stall the actual restart of the computer.

Thoughts, anyone?

This worked for me. Thanks very much.