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Solution for HP Pavilion laptop and cheap BT devices
Holy crappola. You would think that in this day and age something like this should not even be an issue. Unfortunately with the pace of technology and planned obsolescence, no support tech will help with these kinds of issues beyond a few years of age of your hardware.
So it's left to us and gems like sevenforums to aid us flabbergasted and exasperated self-help users.
So after reading numerous sites and posts about several issues (which have been solved by sevenforums on more than one occasion), I've decided to bring my 2 cents to the party.
These issues started for me when purchasing a cheap BT mouse and headset. Now you might say straight away served me right for buying cheap junk, and in some cases you might be right. But mostly it works and I have more cash at the end of the day.
The BT mouse did not work on my laptop (HP Pavilion Dv7-6c50ei) but flawlessly on my smartphone. I've tried a lot including dongles all to no avail. I gave up and resigned to using the mouse on my tablet. A waste. Then I thought I'd be clever and buy some BT headphones for all my devices including the laptop. Same story. Many hours and failed attempts left me with yet another useless device.
After reading all these posts and trying with no luck, and one on some random site I forget, I saw a single post mentioning the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack software. I thought I had tried everything else so thought why not. Even though it is not meant for my HW specifically. I have an Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1030 adapter with all the correct drivers from Intel directly. The installed HW actually shows as Generic Bluetooth Adapter even with the friggin Intel drivers. So as usual with no hope left I installed the Toshiba package.
...restart.
...wait.
...start the Toshiba SW.
...pair.
OMG.
Few things are more satisfying or soul lifting than seeing something you had given up on actually work. Huzzah! Sweet sounds emanating from the headphones!
After picking up my jaw from the floor and reveling in the sheer joy of glorious music, I had a moment of crazy thinking; What if I try that nice, shiny useless BT mouse I bought a while ago. Naaah. Must be a stroke of luck I got this to work, what are the odds.
I should probably go out and play poker or lottery.
Yes, indeed it worked.
So, with one install I fixed 2 issues that have taken me at least a day altogether of searching, installing, wiping, re-installing, crying, begging, bargaining, cursing and resignation.
Your results may vary. May contain nuts. I tried everything on this thread and others and the last was this package.
Granted, some of the other advice given here may have prepped my system to let this SW work, but I doubt it.
So if you have lost all hope, given your soul to curse the mighty demon microsoft and the HW makers, and still are determined to make your device work, you can try....Toshiba Bluetooth Stack!
Really, with the ability of software to do literally anything we want, we still have to suffer at the hands of the makers of inferior SW. But, then they won't make billions off of us, will they.
Thanks SevenForums and all members still willing to assist an aging OS
<rant ends>
Peace.
Last edited by Barman58; 06 May 2017 at 14:41. Reason: Removed unacceptable content