About a week ago, my 770 stopped "seeing" available bluetooth phones with which to pair. I have since tried at least 4 different phones, and every time the 770 simply states that there is no phone detected. At this point, I am convinced that the problem lies with the 770, and not the phones.

I have already tried re-flashing my 770 with the Windows program to no avail. Is there anything else I can do on my own to fix this problem? I would hate to send it back to Nokia for warranty repair, as I am sure that it will take at least a month to get it back, and it works in all other respects.

Thanks in advance for any helpful responses!

My advice would be to open a bug in Bugzilla and also post in maemo developers, and hopefully one of the Nokia Bluetooth developers can respond and guide you through the process of debugging the problem.

See bug #865 for an example of what kind of things you need to do, information you need to provide and help you might receive.

I got mine a week ago and it's the same since then. Well, mine is little bit different than yours because 1 out of 10, it "sees" the bluetooth devices around. I can't use my BT GPS receiver because of this problem. I was going to send it back to Nokia but first tried to post on different forums (posted 4 threads in 3 different forums) but nobody replied so far. Only one person told me that his bluetooth starts to work everytime he restarts the btdaemon. If you have xterm on your 770 try "/etc/init.d/btcond restart" as root. Mine doesn't work with this method.

All I know is, this problem is not common for Nokia 770, but very common for PCs with build-in bluetooth.

Also, try running "hcitool scan" command on xterm. If it gives the error "Device not found: No such device" then welcome onboard!

Good luck and please also let me know if you can find a solution.

I tried that, but all I got was "Scanning..." and then it returned to the command prompt. What does this mean?

If it is saying "Scanning..." then it's different then mine. Sorry I don't know what it means. I interpret as at least your bluetooth works but do not see other devices (somehow??).

See, mine doesn't even say scanning and gives the stupid error message.

Likewisely, all other applications are fine and I don't want to send it back to Nokia. I saw your bug in Bugzilla and created a similar one. Waiting if someone helps!

See my reference to bug 865 above, read the bug (I know it's technical, but do persevere) then try producing some diagnostic dumps yourself and paste the output into your own bugs in bugzilla - it may give Nokia a clue what is happening, currently they have precious little information to go on other than "it doesn't work".