10.4: Resolve Bluetooth headset issues after upgrade

Jun 03, '05 08:49:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Tiger only hintA lot of people, myself included, have been asking around message boards with the following problem: After upgrading to Tiger, their Bluetooth headset would still pair correctly, but it wouldn't show up as an input/output device. Removing and re-pairing the headset doesn't work. I resolved the issue as follows:

Now try to re-pair your headset. It showed up as an input/output device in my case. Obviously this story changes some OS X system files, and should not be performed if you're not fluent in terminal work. But I do wish to share it, it brought me success ... Skype works once again!

[robg adds: The hint doesn't include instructions to change the owner back to root, but I think that would be a required step -- just type chown root blued.plist while still in the root shell. I can't test this, though, as I don't have a Bluetooth headset.]

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