Ubuntu 20.04, iPhone SE 2020, Sabrent BlueTooth (BT) dongle.
I am trying to make a functional connection between my iPhone and BlueTooth (BT) dongle in order to download photos from the iPhone to the PC. Following standard setup, both the Bluetooth Manager GUI and my iPhone show pairing successful - this includes matching a 6 digit code and accepting the code as seen via the BT Manager and the iPhone. The BT icon on the system tray shows the BT icon with a lock symbol, and the BT Manager GUI has both a key and the trusted symbol affixed to the iPhone device likeness. Yet, I do not achieve a functional connection.
Following are some command line diagnostics. Of particular note is results from lsusb and idevicepair which do not return positive results.
lsusb sees the dongle, but not the iPhone
sudo rfkill list shows -
hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
hcitool dev sees MAC addresses of iPhone and BT dongle
hcitool scan returned nothing
idevicepair pair shows:
"No device found, is it plugged in?"
hciconfig -a shows (abbreviated)
BD Address: 00:1A:7DA:71:13 (Sabrent MAC addr)
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Name: 'mark'
Service Classes: Rendering, Capturing, Object Transfer
Device Class: Computer, Desktop workstation
Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
ifconfig -a returned 3 different ethernet MACs
I tried to pair a Sony noise cancelling headset and encountered similar results as above. I also tried a different BT dongle, and again, similar results: appearance of pairing, but seemingly not really paired.
Since the GUI configuration gives the appearance of complete pairing, but isn't, I would like to assume there is some last tweak that could make the process complete. Help please.
Bookmarks