Bluetooth broken

[CC7]

My bluetooth just randomly decided to stop working.
When I turn it on, it does not show any devices:

Things I have tried already:

• Turning it off and on again

• Rebooting

• lsusb - my bluetooth dongle is connected

• systemctl status bluetooth - it appears to be online

Any ideas on what to try next? I think there was a kernel update recently, but I am unsure if that is the cause of the problem because it was working for a few hours after I updated and restarted my desktop.

Is there a way to completely reinstall all the bluetooth software/drivers included in Zorin?

EDIT: I fixed it, here's how

sudo apt-get purge bluez

sudo apt-get install --reinstall bluez bluez-tools blueman pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

sudo reboot

I'll leave the post open if anyone else experiences issues after the kernel update

[swarfendor437]

Also some other issues that can affect Bluetooth:

Interesting Bluetooth article

Last night I was trying to listen to music via bluetooth from my Fairphone 3+ to the JVC UX-D750 and had horrendous scratchy sound like listening to a badly tuned radio. I thought it might have been with the plethora of 5g modules and new telegraph poles holding these causing the issue but discovered thi is not a cause but stumbled on this interesting article:

[Ocka]

Gday @CC7
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[CC7]

Assuming it is a software issue:

sudo apt-get purge bluez

sudo apt-get install --reinstall bluez bluez-tools blueman pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

sudo reboot