[Karmic] Bluetooth mouse cannot establish parity

Gnome-bluetooth is btw broken. Don't know how to uninstall or remove
it, but every single bluetooth related operation stopped after
installing the package.

2009/9/9 arky <email address hidden>:
> ** Package changed: ubuntu => gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu)
>
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> [Karmic] Bluetooth mouse cannot establish parity
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404979
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-bluetooth” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Bluetooth mouse cannot establish parity with current Karmic release (since clean install of Alpha 3 on 2009-07-23) and the mouse flickers in the new device or connected device screen without making any actual connection. Both latest releases of bluez and blueman seem to leave the problem as it is. Other bluetooth devices, i.e. a Nokia phone works just fine.
>
> The mouse device which is used testing the problem is Logitech 270 Bluetooth mouse.
>

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Mikko Helminen
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I think this is the same problem I am having. I have a Logicool bluetooth mouse. When I move the mouse or press a button, I get the "Do you want to grant access" dialog box, so which I hit "accept", but nothing happens. If I continue to move the mouse, the dialog box keeps popping up.

If I select "add Device" from right clicking the bluetooth icon, the mouse does not show up--- Unless I again move the mouse or click a button. Once it shows up, I try to connect to the device, but I get an error message saying it failed.

If anyone is working of fixing this, let me know if I can help to troubleshoot more...

I have exactly the same problem in final Karmic with a verbatim mouse.
Workaround: install bluez-compat and use blueman instead of the default bluetooth-applet (remove it from the autostart apps).

Here is my story:

- I have Jaunty, Karmic, and Windows 7 installed on my machine. I was using the same Logitech 270 Bluetooth mouse without any problems in Jaunty and I decided to give it a try in Karmic. I booted into it tried to pair my mouse using the gnome bluetooth applet. The very same thing happened to me: bluetooth applet claimed that connection was established but mouse kept blinking which means the pairing did not take place. Then I booted into Jaunty and the pairing wasn't successful in there either. Couple of reboots later into the Karmic, I decided to give my mouse a try in Windows 7. It worked perfectly. Then I tried pairing it again in Jaunty and Karmic, which really surprises me, and it worked...

I don't know what went wrong in Jaunty and Karmic but getting it paired in Windows seems to be the workaround for me...

The blinking and constant asking for permission with my mouse has
stopped and disappeared by some kind of update. But I doubt that this
update was directly linked to bluetooth packages. I would have
noticed.

After the late stage of 9.10 development it has been normal procedure,
that after every single boot I need to turn on and off the mouse and
connect and unconnect the bluetooth connection to it before it starts
to work. This is really miserable, but after unsuccessful experiments
with other bluetooth software, I see no easy solution to this.

And that I consider as a bug too.

Mikko

2009/11/4 agonified <email address hidden>:
> Here is my story:
>
> - I have Jaunty, Karmic, and Windows 7 installed on my machine. I was
> using the same Logitech 270 Bluetooth mouse without any problems in
> Jaunty and I decided to give it a try in Karmic. I booted into it tried
> to pair my mouse using the gnome bluetooth applet. The very same thing
> happened to me: bluetooth applet claimed that connection was established
> but mouse kept blinking which means the pairing did not take place. Then
> I booted into Jaunty and the pairing wasn't successful in there either.
> Couple of reboots later into the Karmic, I decided to give my mouse a
> try in Windows 7. It worked perfectly. Then I tried pairing it again in
> Jaunty and Karmic, which really surprises me, and it worked...
>
> I don't know what went wrong in Jaunty and Karmic but getting it paired
> in Windows seems to be the workaround for me...
>
> --
> [Karmic] Bluetooth mouse cannot establish parity
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404979
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-bluetooth” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Bluetooth mouse cannot establish parity with current Karmic release (since clean install of Alpha 3 on 2009-07-23) and the mouse flickers in the new device or connected device screen without making any actual connection. Both latest releases of bluez and blueman seem to leave the problem as it is. Other bluetooth devices, i.e. a Nokia phone works just fine.
>
> The mouse device which is used testing the problem is Logitech 270 Bluetooth mouse.
>

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Mikko Helminen

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+467 0760 621074
+358 (0)50 356 7240

I uninstalled gnome-bluetooth and installed bluez-gnome, set up my mouse and now it works.

I'd recommend switching to bluez-gnome if you're having bluetooth mouse issues. Give it a try, at least.

same problem

gnome-bluetooth fails to add a new device, specifically a cell phone that worked with jaunty

Yesterdays (2009-11-12) updates fixed the problem with bluetooth mouse
parity for me at some level. Now the mouse is automatically connected
and working after boot. The mouse keeps unconnecting once in a while,
but I could think that it might not originate from the same problem.

2009/11/11 bereshit <email address hidden>:
> same problem
>
> gnome-bluetooth fails to add a new device, specifically a cell phone
> that worked with jaunty
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Confirmed
>
> --
> [Karmic] Bluetooth mouse cannot establish parity
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404979
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-bluetooth” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Bluetooth mouse cannot establish parity with current Karmic release (since clean install of Alpha 3 on 2009-07-23) and the mouse flickers in the new device or connected device screen without making any actual connection. Both latest releases of bluez and blueman seem to leave the problem as it is. Other bluetooth devices, i.e. a Nokia phone works just fine.
>
> The mouse device which is used testing the problem is Logitech 270 Bluetooth mouse.
>

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Mikko Helminen

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<email address hidden>
+467 0760 621074
+358 (0)50 356 7240

Bump.

Will this be fixed anytime soon? This is a serious regression. I have not been able to use my bluetooth mouse ever since Karmic was released.

I just tested with lucid beta1+updates and my bluetooth mouse works again :>.