This might be caused by the adapter initialization race condition that has been fixed with bluez-utils-3.9. The bluetooth-applet only display what it gets told by the hcid.
-- [feisty] bluetooth applet reports device is off when turned on https://launchpad.net/bugs/83374 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
