'Deactivate Bluetooth' does not work

[klakier]

I tried to use 'Deactivate Bluetooth' reaction but it doesn't seem to work on Toshiba A300. BT stays on after triggering it.

[Alex (noneed4anick)]

Hi klakier,

did you validate this problem, by testing if a bt-device can still communicate. Because I may have noticed a glitch in the bt-system-indicator -- it doesn't show that bluetooth is deactivated when turned off.

Also do you have more than one bt-adapter attached to your computer?

[klakier (insane-vx)]

The bug report meant rather that the BT applet didn't update itself and there was no indication whether BT is operational or not so it seemed like nothing happened.

Actually it looks like BT adapter is dead after trying to turn it off with Cuttlefish and cannot be turned on with either bt applet nor Cuttlefish until a full reboot. I'm not sure if this is a problem with BT stack in Ubuntu or the method used by Cuttlefish to disable bt adapter. Enabling and disabling it with bt applet usually works fine, except random state of the adapter after boot. But when disabled by Cuttlefish it is permanently off until reboot. I will try to fiddle with it a bit more when I have time, maybe I can stumble upon some more hints.

[Alex (noneed4anick)]

I've already noticed the glitch on my computer, too. But at least for me cuttlefish was able to turn BT on again. I'm using the DBus interface of bluez, so I'm pretty sure that this can't be totally wrong ;-) I'll have to check, if there are other and better ways for activating/deactivating BT...