Solved Bluetooth not staying connected Mint 22

[Brian Alex]

New Mint22 installation on desktop with SSD. Fully updated. Attempting to pair and connect BOSE QC45 headphones. They pair and when I try to connect them they connect and then disconnect 4 seconds later. "Failed to connect; org. bluez.Error. Failed br-connection-profile-unavailable".

At first the device didn't even show up on the search list so I added it via MAC address. Still no joy. I read trouble shooting procedures and uninstalled and re-installed and tried other suggestions (can't remember them all, I am newby). So i tried to use the command line approach and still could not get headphones to stay connected. Is this a common issue or maybe one just with bose? What can I do? I've spent literally hours on this, the first action since trying to get the hang of linux. Thanks, Brian

 

[Condobloke]

G'day Brian, welcome to linux.org

Which Mint do you have installed....22 or 22.1 ..?

Brian

 

[theLegionWithin]

so it looks like "Bose Connect" is not compatible with linux - the below link is a kind of workaround I guess? didnt test it myself, just what I found.
- https://github.com/airvzxf/bose-connect-app-linux

here's someone who has a similar issue using ubuntu
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1485308/ubuntu-bose-qc-45

unable to locate anything related to linux mint and that model of headset

 

[Brian Alex]

Thanks guys. These headphones have a wired option which is better quality anyway. -BA

 

[Brian Alex]

Bose works with my Ubuntu 24.04 currently. I wonder why Mint would have this issue (for me and some others anyway) and not Ubuntu. I rather like Ubuntu anyway so I think I will stick with it for now.

 

[Brian Alex]

Recent software update package fixed blueman issue and Bose now connect.

 

[KGIII]

Recent software update package fixed blueman issue and Bose now connect.

Thanks for the update.