El Capitan - Bluetooth Not Available

I have the same problem as you. I have followed all the same procedures as you with the difference that while the Bluetooth is still not available I can use my Magic Mouse for all functions except the vertical scrolling. Perhaps the software deliver should fast provide an appropriate patch.

I have upgraded with a lot of trouble finally ending up installing El Capitan 10.11.1. I have the same problems as described by Pickerin. I have followed all the same procedures as Pickerin with no results as far as the availability of Bluetooth is concerned. The only difference is that while the Bluetooth is still not available I can use my Magic Mouse for all functions except the vertical scrolling. Perhaps the software developer should fast provide an appropriate patch good for all users.

Update to this - I have stopped using my external USB3 powered hub and have not had a repetition of the problem. I am now using an un-powered USB2 hub for my slow peripherals (which is most of them, let's be honest) and I am not having any issues.

I might try the USB3 hub without power and see if that a. even works at all and b. causes the issue to reoccur. I'll keep you posted.

I've been having the same issue. After upgrading my iMac (21.5-inch, late-2012) to 10.11.1, and my iPhone 6 to the latest iOS, neither device connects to my Sony STR-DN840 receiver, over Bluetooth or AirPlay. But, my Bluetooth Logitech mouse and Apple Bluetooth keyboard are both working just fine. We do not have a tethered mouse or keyboard in the apartment, so Bluetooth-less rebooting of the computer would be a tad problematic. I'm hoping someone comes up with a stable solution, or Apple gets a fix out to us ASAP.

A friend suggested a solution that seems obvious in hindsight: I went through the basic steps necessary to connect my stereo receiver with my home WiFi network. For good measure, I rebooted my iMac. Whichever of those did it, I can now playiTunes via Bluetooth through my stereo. 😎

@msc03:

If you consider the article irrelevant, send feedback to Apple to point out that they made a typo. In fact, it is NOT A TYPO and is relevant, because there is some relationship between BlueTooth and USB 3.0.

Hi, yesterday I updated to el Capitan 10.11.2 and bluetooth stop work, it's appears like No Available.

I tried resetting PRAM and SCM, also delete the bluetooth.plist in /library/preferences.

And it's still no available...

MacBook Pro Retina, 13 inch (early 2015)

Beware as this would only work (if it does at all) under the assumption that said system comes with a Broadcom bluetooth controller. AFAIK there's several Atheros bluetooth implementations used in Apple configurations out there, where using the aforementioned command would yield no result in the best case scenario (I'd hate to think of the worst-case-scenario though)..

I was having this problem and found a conversation that suggested that it was VMWare, so I uninstalled it and the problem went away.

However, I don't normally reboot my computer, so when I just did a few minutes ago, the problem returned. When I reboot after uninstalling VMWare, my computer was not connected to any USB devices. Just now when I reboot, it was connected to an external HD. I unplugged the HD and reboot the computer. The problem has now gone away again. For the past month+, sleeping has not brought the problem back, only rebooting with an external USB HD connected seems to bring the problem back.

suggested solution:

- unplug all USB devices

- reboot computer

- plug USB device back in

-- don't reboot again (or repeat above steps)

>(I'd hate to think of the worst-case-scenario though)..

why is that? no permanent changes are made by the kext(un)load command. since my workaround seems effective, my guess is the bug is in recent versions of the Broadcom kext. i'd be surprised if anybody having this problem has it on a system using an Atheros bluetooth controller. if you know otherwise, i'm all ears.

happy new year!

marc

I do have a Broadcom chip:

chipset: 20703A1

firmware version: V114 c4548

Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 4.4.3f4 16616

Chipset: 20703A1Apple Blue

Firmware Version: v114 c4548

Chipset: 20703A1

Firmware Version: v114 c4548

Has happened a couple of times. Both times I disconnected the MBP from a Thunderbolt monitor, used it as a laptop for a while, then reconnected it. The Bluetooth then crashes with that "Bluetooth unavailable" message.

Only fix is a full shutdown and restart.

This has never happened to me before the upgrade to El Capitan.

This issue just started for me this morning... the interesting thing is that I've been running El Capitan on a desktop Mac Pro for a couple of months now and have not experienced the problem.

I have, however, recently reset the PRAM and SMC in order to solve a wildly running fan issue I had been having.

I do not allow my computer to go to sleep so I know that's not the issue.

Also, my wireless keyboard (not Bluetooth, but a dongle based Logitech model) was also not available to my machine.

Thankfully I was able to access and control my machine through an iPhone app that allows remote access.

I shut the machine down and unplugged it. I let it sit that way for 15-30 seconds, and rebooted.

Now things seem to be working again, both Bluetooth and the wireless keyboard, but I find it very odd that this issue emerged seemingly out of nowhere. Incidentally, the process described immediately above is the recommended method of reseting the SMC in a desktop Mac, so it would seem that SMC does have some bearing on this issue (or my instance of this issue). I will report further if the issue is a recurring one.

I had this problem on a macbook pro with el capitan. I unlocked file vault, turned it off and restarted. When I re-started and re-opened system presences; file vault was re-writing the encryption and it took about 30 minutes. Blue tooth was still not working. I re-started and then blow tooth was working. For what its worth, I have never had this problem before. I got on 2 public networks yesterday and I think that might have had something to do with it.

Hope that helps

No solutions - just adding to the evidence

Machine - MB pro 2008 - 8 gbRam, 500Gb SSD

just noticed BT was off after installing El Capitan about a month ago (only use to play music through a Bose BT system).

I have reset SMC (different procedure for removable battery machines)

I have removed ***bluetooth.plist

Never have used file vault

Sleep - apparently not an issue - after sleep and restarting -as above with reseting SMC-, no effect.

Nothing works.

Seems like a replay of the Wifi problem with Yosemite - numerous things work at times for some people, not for others. And Apple is silent.

Next step - see if shutdown followed by refill of coffee and restart does anything. After that, will change types of coffee. And also will first lightly touch the power switch and then hit it hard for 2 seconds.

Apple - you have customers who can't use their mice and keyboards. You need to fix this for them right now. It has been 5 months since the problem was reported. Another sign that Apple is not the company it once was.