Bluetooth stopped working on my Mid-2012 MacBook Pro
I had been having intermittent issues with Bluetooth on my MacBook Pro. I would come to work and the wireless keyboard and magic mouse weren't connected. I shut the system down and restarted, which usually fixed the problem.
Today, however, there was nothing I could do to make them connect.
In addition to restarting the system a couple times, I tried the following:
- Tried to turn Bluetooth Off/On, but Bluetooth wouldn't turn off from the Preferences pane
- Downloaded blueutil and tried to turn BT off/on from there. When I try to turn it on, I get the following: Error: unable to turn Bluetooth on
- If I try blueutil status, I get the following: Status: off
- Looking at my my processes, I don't see blued running at all
- I reset the SMC and then the PRAM, neither fixed the problem
Any ideas to prompt bluetooth to start/run? Can I test to see if the bluetooth hardware is faulty?
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), null