Bluetooth joystick not detecting…

I am using Kodi 17.1 buold on my Samsung S6 Edge. I was using a very basic joystick I got from Ebay which connects to phone as input device. I configured the same in KodI under Peripheral OK (was using Kodi with my VR)

One day when I connected the device with my phone and started Kodi it stopped detecting the device altogether. I have tried pair unpaired even reinstalled the entire kodi from Play store but no use… I can see under Peripheral I have option to configure Input device but noth9jg happens… previously with the same Kodi version I did everything…OK

I have looked under file system and found …/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/user_data/peripheral_data/android_FFFF_0000_MOCUTE-032X_B63-A545.xml (my Bluetooth device name is MOCUTE-…. which means it’s detecting but not doing anything. The contents of the file are as follows;

Code:
<settings>
    <setting id="left_stick_deadzone" value="0.20" />
    <setting id="right_stick_deadzone" value="0.20" />
</settings>

Can you help solve this?