How to change Bluetooth broadcast device name?

It seems the option was removed from the Bluetooth control panel, but you should still be able to change the name via the command line:

sudo hciconfig hci0 name 'Device Name'

Once you run the command, you should be able to verify the change by bringing up the Bluetooth control panel again and checking the device name.

You can't change bluetooth device name from control panel in ubuntu yet. Here is the bug report, which provides this workaround:

If you want to change the bluetooth device name permanently, you have to create a file called /etc/machine-info which should have the following content:

PRETTY_HOSTNAME=device-name

After this, restart the Bluetooth service:

sudo service bluetooth restart

Or reboot.

What I did (on 12.04):

1. device name is stored in /var/lib/bluetooth/XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX/config
2. delete it
3. restart (~# service bluetooth restart)
4. device name is rewritten in config (according to /etc/bluetooth/main.conf ?)