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    Help > T420 bluetooth stopped working

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by capflam, Aug 12, 2013.

  1. capflam

    capflam Notebook Consultant

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    I updated my T420 to the latest BIOS yesterday and since then: no Bluetooth in the device manager, Fn+F5 shows only Wifi :(
    Bluetooth is enabled in the BIOS settings.

    I am only guessing that the problem is because I updated the BIOS since that's pretty much all I did yesterday. I installed pretty much all updates and software from Lenovo since then, still nothing!

    I hear that it has been an issue with some users, can someone help with this please? It drives me nuts for the past 6 hours! :rolleyes:
     
    capflam, Aug 12, 2013
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  2. ajkula66

    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    The first thing that I'd do would be to boot from a "live" Linux CD just to determine whether issue is software or hardware-related.

    If there's no BT in Linux either, you're facing a hardware problem.

    Good luck.
     
    ajkula66, Aug 12, 2013
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  3. capflam

    capflam Notebook Consultant

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    I can try that I guess. Thanks for the tip. I thought that other people had the same issue and someone came up with an answer but can't find anything to solve my problem right now. I'll try, thank you!
     
    capflam, Aug 13, 2013
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