BT Issues on Android 9 in VirtualBox

[David White]

Using 64-bit, Android 9 on an Intel Celeron box within am Oracle virtualBox. The computer has a Realtek BT adapter and I need to use it within Android x86. It was not easy but I was finally able to get the BT hardware seen inside the virtualbox and captured for its exclusive use. However:

1. Trying to enable BT within Settings or via Quick Tile simply would not work at all. It would turn ON for a short while and then turn itself off. This way it could never detect any BT devices.

2. Within a rooted shell I could see the BT adapter as hci0 when using the command "hciconfig -a". I was then able to enable its operation in the same rooted shell using "hciconfig hci0 up". Within the same rooted shell, I could see normal BT devices using "hcitool scan" and BTLE devices using "hcitool lescan" (or was it scanle?). Either way, I could at least see the devices. But even at this, I could not see or connect to any devices using "normal" Android mechanisms.

3. I wanted to use an app that connects via BTLE to a device. In order to do this, the app (no longer supported) demands that location services be enabled in order to scan for BTLE devices from which to choose. So I tried to enable location services and that would simply not enable/run in any way. I am not sure why this should be the case. But that left me at a dead end.

I am sure that someone more experienced in all of this must know how to get beyond this. But I sure couldn't. Thanks!

 

[İlhan Atahan]

After using "hcitools", execute these commands;

pm disable com.android.bluetooth

pm enable com.android.bluetooth

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