Bluetooth disabled, won’t turn on - macOS Ventura 13.7.4 and 13.7.6

Hey y’all - looking for some advice if anyone has run into a similar issue with Bluetooth being disabled after installing macOS Ventura. Bluetooth is showing non-discoverable and off in system report, and won’t turn on via system settings. Toggling from the toolbar will switch the toggle to blue, but doesn’t actually turn it on (still shows disabled and off in system report and system settings). I DID have this working just fine on Ventura for weeks prior to trying Sonoma. Sonoma was a fresh install and I just didn’t like the speed, so I went right back to Ventura with a fresh install. I honestly can’t remember if Bluetooth was also dead on arrival when trying Sonoma; I didn’t explore that far before changing my mind and reverting back to Ventura lol.

System Report: Bluetooth Address: “NULL” State: Off Discoverable: Off Chipset Installed accurately from what I can see.

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Specs: Model: iMac Retina 5K, 27”, Late 2015 GPU: AMD Radeon R9 M380 2GB Memory: 32GB DDR3 Storage: 1TB SSD (TForce) Current macOS version: Ventura 13.7.6

So far I’ve tried the following and none have worked:

• Reset NVRAM / PRAM
• Unplug, plug in power supply etc. (SMC reset)
• Installed root patches (obviously) and reverted them. Tried applying root patches again. No luck.
• Re-built open core to my SSD and rebooted (installed / re-wrote EFI)
• Clean Install of Ventura 13.7.6 (set up as new Mac)
• Clean Install of Ventura 13.7.4 (set up as new Mac)
• Updated from 13.7.4 after fresh install to 13.7.6 via system settings normal software update (no change)
• Tried Option+Click on toggle (nope!)
• Killed Bluetooth and reset via Terminal
• Tried turning on Bluetooth mouse and keyboard to see if they actually were detectable and this might be a bug (nope, nothing discoverable, Bluetooth module still off in system report.

I was running Ventura 13.7.6 and then did a clean install to try out Sonoma. Wasn’t a fan of the speed and features, so I did a complete fresh install of Ventura again. By fresh install, I mean every time I use OCLP I am wiping my SSD entirely and setting it up as a new Mac without using any sort of backup / Time Machine / transfer.

This is my testing iMac, but it’s a bit frustrating because Ventura wasn’t having any issues with Bluetooth prior to trying out Sonoma. I’ve done a fresh install of 13.7.6 (didn’t work) and then a fresh install of a step below that, 13.7.6… still no luck.

Any advice?