{"id":270,"date":"2009-01-09T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-01-09T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T01:37:49","slug":"bluetooth-not-available-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/bluetooth-not-available-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Not Available &#8211; Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your bluetooth service is suddenly not available on your Mac, here is a fix:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n01.  Click on &#8220;Finder&#8221; in bottom left of your screen in the Dock<br \/>\n02.  Click on your &#8220;Home&#8221; icon on the left (picture of a house)<br \/>\n03.  Double-click on the &#8220;Library&#8221; folder<br \/>\n04.  Double-click on &#8220;Preferences&#8221; folder<br \/>\n05.  Delete file named &#8220;com.apple.Bluetooth.plist&#8221; (also delete any other item with &#8220;com.apple.Bluetooth&#8230;&#8221;, if any)<br \/>\n06.  Shutdown your computer<br \/>\n07.  Unplug all USB and Firewire devices<br \/>\n08.  Unplug power cord<br \/>\n09.  Remove battery (if it&#8217;s a Macbook or Macbook Pro)<br \/>\n10.  Wait 1-2 min<br \/>\n11.  Hold down power button for 10 sec with the battery out (if it&#8217;s a Macbook or Macbook Pro)<br \/>\n12.  Insert battery (if it&#8217;s a Macbook or Macbook Pro)<br \/>\n13.  Startup again<br \/>\n14.  It should work!<\/p>\n<p>If this does not fix it, then it is most likely a hardware issue, and you will have to bring it in to an Apple Store.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your bluetooth service is suddenly not available on your Mac, here is a fix:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors","category-mac-stuff","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}