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Struggling getting Bluetooth to work with phone/tablet/at all
Hi,
I am really struggling with Bluetooth on Win7 x64 Ultimate on a laptop. I have a cheap CSR USB dongle which came with CSR 4.0 Bluetooth drivers. I did manage to get most of it working at one point but I always had a device manager error. I cannot use the supplied drivers as the install fails with an invalid call to some 32-bit dll.
If I just plug the device in it shows up in device manager as a CSR bluetooth device but nothing works and I don't get an icon in the system tray.
If I then go into device manager and change the driver to the Generic Bluetooth Adaptor I was largely able to get it working with a single Device Manager Error. I was able to pair with my Nokia X2-00, Advent Tegra note (Android 4.4), another phone and a car ODBC diagnostic dongle.
Months later (now) I decided to try the Toshiba Stack to see if it could clear the error. but I could not get it to work at all. I think I have fully uninstalled the drivers and cleared out all remaining entries in device manager.
I've reinstalled the Generic Bluetooth Adaptor but I can only get it to pair with my phone by repeatedly disconnecting the dongle. Once paired and while it is loading the drivers it disconnects and will not reconnect until I re-pair the devices. The Nokia icon in the Control Panel has a yellow exclamation mark. When I right-click on Nokia icon > Connect Using > Access Point I see the laptop on the phone until the laptop times out with a connection failed message. The laptop could not see the Note at all until I started this article! I have paired it now but it has found only one out of 3 drivers (the remote control one).
I have no idea what I can try now. I know the phone can maintain a connection but is not doing so any more. Any advice would be appreciated. Also if I have posted to the wrong section, I apologise and am happy to have the thread moved.
TIA,
Nick