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Bluetooth: Not Available

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YourHerojb

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May 5, 2011
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I'm a bit concerned why my bluetooth icon is dimmed and slashed out in my tool bar.
It does not show up in system preferences, and in system information it can't find info on my bluetooth hardware.

I've tried restarting, holding the power after shutting down, resetting PRAM and resetting SMC.
It was working last night.

Is this a lion bug or is something actually wrong?
Any advice, please.
 
I really thought that might be the answer, but it didn't change a thing.
Thanks anyway. Any other ideas?
 
Well, what I did "exactly" was boot into the recovery partition, run a disk repair, then a permissions check, then I booted back into the main partition and it worked again... Odd, but I ain't complaining. If that doesn't work, then reinstalling the OS would probably fix it.
 
I tried it and still no avail, I guess I'll try reinstalling the OS.
Do you think there's any reason I should do a clean install?
 
Well, this is awful, not even the reinstallation of lion helped.
This doesn't sound like a software problem anymore.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

I had my mac being repaired at the west county apple store about a week ago.
I'm not familiar with the innards of these computers too well, but is there any way something was knocked loose or any when they worked on it?
 
The bad thing about computer repairs is that, typically things give out without anything ever hitting it, a working part and a non-working part can look exactly the same to the eye. The way I test things is by the error and how the computer reacts when you remove/replace parts.

they could have forgot to reconnect something, it is also possible that they may have unknowingly hit something like you mentioned.

The device may have given out, is it still under warranty?
 
It is under warranty, but not for much longer. I hope these problems don't keep popping up.
I'm trying to get a chance to take it up there tomorrow, hopefully it works out.

I already had to take it back again once cause they left the right speaker unplugged and the trackpad was too uneven for my tastes.
 
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