My bluetooth headphones keep disconnecting and reconnecting after a few minutes

@fuzzyhalo, my Sony Group Corporation WH-1000 XM5s also frequently disconnect. However, I see “Bluetooth: hci0: Invalid exception type 03” regardless, so you may have conflated multiple problems.

To demonstrate, I see that this has been occurring since at least +2023. [1] [2] [3] It provides evidence to support the undermentioned, since firmware so rarely updates:

However, we may be in luck, for the kernel may have been very recently updated to work around this, if I’ve understood its context correctly:


  1. kubuntuforums.net/forum/currently-supported-releases/kubuntu-23-10-mantic-minotaur/hardware-support-bg/675159 ↩︎

  2. bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2107745#p2107745 ↩︎

  3. t/87147/7 ↩︎