# BLE Scan...no devices found

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/ble-scan-no-devices-found/515430
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [March 15, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ble-scan-no-devices-found/515430 "2020-03-15T00:21:42Z")
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#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ble-scan-no-devices-found/515430/5 "2020-03-16T01:26:09Z")

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Thanks for the response.  
That should not make any difference.  
All that it’s saying is to display the error instead of the device name.  
If the connection was made w/o any errors the “error” s/b blank but I was getting “undefined”

After working on this all day I finally stumbled on the following from the ThX blog.

> [@Thunkable X BLE error](http://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-x-ble-error/168943):
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> Hello all! I am having an issue with the BLE extension. I have a simple layout with a button, a listview and a label. The label is set to show the error of the BLE scanning function and the listview is set to display the results of the scan, and the button starts the scanning. [Screenshot\_3] But when I press the button, the label displays “BleError: Cannot start scanning operation”. Does anyone know the cause of this problem? or how to fix this to get a successful scan? I a…

What this said was the Stroage permission on the android Thunkable app has to be set. I did that and it worked. All the research that I did never said anything about settings permissions.

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