New iPhone 17 wants a pin to connect bluetooth. Running Mint Xia. How to connect?
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The Linux system is running perfectly - my old iphone 12mini, and both ipads connected to bluetooth and my computer no issue at all. This is specific to this new phone. Bluetooth pairing on the phone is providing a PIN number to input on the computer, but nothing pops up anywhere on the desktop for inputting that PIN. Any specific ideas?
Condobloke
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Try connecting your phone to the pc/laptop via cable
In menu type in Bluetooth (or similar)....there may be a spot there to enter the pin
In menu type in Bluetooth (or similar)....there may be a spot there to enter the pin
Did that, thanks. Now I have a pop up that says "Connection to BlueZ failed. Bluez Daemon is not running, blueman-manager cannot continue. This probably means that there were no Bluetooth adapters detected or Bluetooth daemon was not started.
Condobloke
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That would suggest the "updated" bluetooth on the phone is not comaptible.
One is chasing the other.
On linux Mint 22.2 , bluetooth was updated here arond 4 days ago.
I have an iphone 13 and it handled the update without a murmur
This may be an issue for apple support ?
Thanks. I started with Apple this morning, escalated to a senior tech guy, who said if bluetooth is working on my phone at all (ie it pairs with my JBL Flip 7 speaker just fine) it's not a phone issue. They ran a diagnostic and it said the phone was fine. No one is addressing the os issues. Once this phone tries to talk to the computer all bets are off. I think it's iPhone OS 26.0.1 that is causing the trouble. Running the same OS on both ipads without a hitch. I'm flummoxed.
I've reached out through GitHub to the blueman-project/blueman to see if they have any thoughts.
I've reached out through GitHub to the blueman-project/blueman to see if they have any thoughts.
Condobloke
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So it would fair to draw the assumption that the drama lies with the OS...Linux Mint 22.1
I have zero idea if the new update to the Bluetooth Manager would have any impact. It is now 5.72-0ubuntu5.5
You can see in my screenshot that 5 bluez related packages have been updated.
Hopefully the people at github can shed some light for you
I also dont know if such an update has been available to xia, 22.1, as it has with 22.2 (Zara)
22.2 also runs the 6.8.0-86 kernel. There could be implications there as well.
Upgrading to 22.2 is straightforward ( https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4882 ), but that is a decision for you.
Advice from github would be preferable before that took place.
The thing is - the same apple os talks to the computer fine on two devices, but won't communicate on the new phone. WHere's the glitch happening, I wonder? I've been thinking about a Zara update, if it's out of Beta. But if I do that, I'll do a clean install, which involves some work backing up, and the time to install and get everything running again. If I have the courage, maybe I'll tackle that next week. Thanks very much for your input.
Condobloke
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Zara is out of Beta.
I used the in place upgrade. Quick and effective. Timeshift snapshot first.
I used the in place upgrade. Quick and effective. Timeshift snapshot first.
theLegionWithin
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I dont have any iOS devices, but the iPhone 17 is the latest/greatest model, so I wonder if it's version of bluetooth is "too new" for bluez/bluetooth drivers in the distro you're using - ie: older iOS devices work fine but the new tech doesnt - feels like an incompatibility issue.
easy enough to test though, use another distro's live environment to see what happens.
easy enough to test though, use another distro's live environment to see what happens.
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