I used to be able to send files over bluetooth from my smartphone to my ubuntu laptop.
Then at some point bug 958661 appeared, where the undiscoverable setting for receiving files over bluetooth (which cannot be found under any bluetooth-related setting) was turned off without a reason, and also, at random times Ubuntu would start to reject all transfer despite that setting being turned on - but at least there was the workaround to manually switch the setting off and on which would "fix" the issue.
Now after upgrading to 15.10 I am simply UNABLE to send any file via bluetooth from the android phone to the ubuntu laptop.
ALL transfers systematically fail. On the phone side, sometimes I get "connectuion failed" and sometimes "transfer rejected on target" (I am quoting the messages by memory, so the wording may not be exact).
Something as trivial and vital as transfering files over bluetooth is still broken (and gets more broken at every upgrade) after so many years. This is outrageous.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: bluez 5.35-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-27.32-generic 4.2.8-ckt1
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Feb 11 20:14:51 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (853 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Acer Aspire V3-571G
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-27-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=5830b30e-69e8-4bb4-8a2b-bc2b43c7414a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2016-01-18 (24 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/15/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V2.07
dmi.board.asset.tag: Type2 - Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: VA50_HC_CR
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Type2 - Board Version
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V2.07
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV2.07:bd10/15/2012:svnAcer:pnAspireV3-571G:pvrV2.07:rvnAcer:rnVA50_HC_CR:rvrType2-BoardVersion:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV2.07:
dmi.product.name: Aspire V3-571G
dmi.product.version: V2.07
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: A4:17:31:0D:4A:70 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 183:5
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:35370 acl:131 sco:0 events:112 errors:0
TX bytes:5086 acl:26 sco:0 commands:65 errors:0
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.