diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/BluetoothInterface.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/BluetoothInterface.kt
index 8cdb4d2d8..3be7ecf51 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/BluetoothInterface.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/BluetoothInterface.kt
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ class BluetoothInterface(val service: RadioInterfaceService, val address: String
         }
     } catch (ex: CancellationException) {
         warn("retryDueToException was cancelled")
+    } finally {
+        reconnectJob = null
     }
 
     /// We only try to set MTU once, because some buggy implementations fail
@@ -417,7 +419,7 @@ class BluetoothInterface(val service: RadioInterfaceService, val address: String
             if (needForceRefresh) { // Our ESP32 code doesn't properly generate "service changed" indications.  Therefore we need to force a refresh on initial start
                 //needForceRefresh = false // In fact, because of tearing down BLE in sleep on the ESP32, our handle # assignments are not stable across sleep - so we much refetch every time
                 forceServiceRefresh() // this article says android should not be caching, but it does on some phones: https://punchthrough.com/attribute-caching-in-ble-advantages-and-pitfalls/
-                
+
                 delay(500) // From looking at the android C code it seems that we need to give some time for the refresh message to reach that worked _before_ we try to set mtu/get services
                 // 200ms was not enough on an Amazon Fire
             }
@@ -447,7 +449,6 @@ class BluetoothInterface(val service: RadioInterfaceService, val address: String
 
     override fun close() {
         reconnectJob?.cancel() // Cancel any queued reconnect attempts
-        reconnectJob = null
 
         if (safe != null) {
             info("Closing BluetoothInterface")
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/RadioInterfaceService.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/RadioInterfaceService.kt
index acf156a17..7fd73e7c9 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/RadioInterfaceService.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/geeksville/mesh/service/RadioInterfaceService.kt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import com.geeksville.util.toRemoteExceptions
 import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Job
+import kotlinx.coroutines.cancel
 
 
 class RadioNotConnectedException(message: String = "Not connected to radio") :
@@ -121,8 +122,10 @@ class RadioInterfaceService : Service(), Logging {
     private lateinit var sentPacketsLog: BinaryLogFile // inited in onCreate
     private lateinit var receivedPacketsLog: BinaryLogFile
 
-    private val serviceJob = Job()
-    val serviceScope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + serviceJob)
+    /**
+     * We recreate this scope each time we stop an interface
+     */
+    var serviceScope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + Job())
 
     private val nopIf = NopInterface()
     private var radioIf: IRadioInterface = nopIf
@@ -198,7 +201,7 @@ class RadioInterfaceService : Service(), Logging {
     override fun onDestroy() {
         unregisterReceiver(bluetoothStateReceiver)
         stopInterface()
-        serviceJob.cancel()
+        serviceScope.cancel("Destroying RadioInterface")
         runningService = null
         super.onDestroy()
     }
@@ -248,6 +251,10 @@ class RadioInterfaceService : Service(), Logging {
         radioIf = nopIf
         r.close()
 
+        // cancel any old jobs and get ready for the new ones
+        serviceScope.cancel("stopping interface")
+        serviceScope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + Job())
+
         if (logSends)
             sentPacketsLog.close()
         if (logReceives)