How to fix Ubuntu 16.04 Bluetooth issues

I know, upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 won’t work for most of you, as it didn’t for me. These are the steps that you need to follow if you’re having issues with Bluetooth on Ubuntu. Do it on the desktop itself for convenience.

• Run the following commands in terminal.

1. sudo apt-get update 
2.  
3. sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic  

• Either download the zip from this repo or clone it to the desktop. If you download the zip file, unzip it to desktop.
• Change your terminal directory to the above unzip folder.
• Run the following commands one by one.

1. make 
2. sudo make install 
3. sudo cp -r ~/Desktop/rtbth-dkms /usr/src/rtbth-3.9.3 
4. sudo apt-get install dkms 
5. sudo dkms install rtbth/3.9.3 
6. sudo nano /etc/modules 

• The above command will open a file in the terminal itself, you have to add the following line to it. Make sure there’s no “#” in front of this line. “#” stands for comment and don’t press enter. Just write the following line

1. rtbth  

• then Ctrl +O and ENTER (to save the file) and Ctrl+x to close the editor.
• Reboot ( write reboot in terminal ).

Be careful with the name of the folder and the command, rtbth-dkms is actually the name of the folder. So do yours accordingly.