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Hacksaurus_Babu

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Registered: 2017-01-21

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Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

I am currently dual-booting Arch Linux and Windows, and I wanted to e able to use my bluetooth headphones on both OSs. What I did to do achieve this is using the Windows registry editor, and copying the key for my headphones to Linux.
The headphone works perfectly fine... in certain cases.

If I have my headphones connected on Linux and I if I restart into Windows, the option for connecting via bluetooth is nonexistent. It's like the bluetooth module in the computer does not even exist. This even happens when I have my headphones connected to Windows and then restart to Linux. What happens is that whenever I open my bluetooth-manager (blueman) it does some weird stuff, but again it seems like the bluetooth module does not even exist at all.

A workaround that I did is that instead of restarting my system I shutdown. Then, connecting via bluetooth works perfectly fine.

This issue never happened to me when I was using Linux - Linux, could this be how bluetooth is managed Windows or Linux.

How can I make it so that I don't have to always shutdown my computer in order to make bluetooth work?

Thanks for any help!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

Potentially a firmware issue because it doesn't properly reset the hardware, try to update your UEFI/BIOS

Hacksaurus_Babu

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Registered: 2017-01-21

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

Hm, that could be possibly the case... I currently have a Zenbook UX330UA, and I have UEFI on it... How would I update that?

Thank you!

epicepee

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Registered: 2014-11-02

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

There should be a Windows BIOS update utility on the ASUS website.

Hacksaurus_Babu

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

Hm, I tried manually flashing the firmware using the BIOS, and seems to keep failing saying messages like "Not proper UEFI BIOS" or "not a UEFI BIOS" or something similar to that...
The Utility I believe are referring to is Winflash, and that does not work on my system.

Not sure where to get help about this, do you have any ideas?

epicepee

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Registered: 2014-11-02

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

That isn't an Arch issue, it's an ASUS issue...

c00ter

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Registered: 2014-08-28

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

If your EFI/BIOS has Fast Boot turned on, you might try turning that off.

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Hacksaurus_Babu

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

Alrighty, I'll try doing that... but for now I think I want to figure out how to flash this firmware...

Hacksaurus_Babu

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Re: Using Bluetooth by Dual-Boot Windows (Works on Shutdown, not Reboot)

Alright, I was able to successfully flash my firmware, but the it did not seem to work... Now I will try to turn off Fast Boot...

EDIT:
I have turned off Fast Boot, and none of situations changed, I don't think this can problem can be solved...
Thank you for helping me though!

Last edited by Hacksaurus_Babu (2017-08-27 15:35:35)