Microsoft USB Bluetooth drivers

mrm1 · 14-05-2005, 17:52

I have recently purchased a Tevion USB bluetooth driver and wondered if anyone can answer this problem.

The dongle comes with the latest Bluesoliel bluetooth drivers, which unfortunatly are not compatible with Nokia PC Suit. (Not until the next version anyway).

I have resorted to using the peinstalled XP SP2 drivers which work flawlessly but for one problem.

I dont always need the dongle plugged in to my laptop. Especially when moving it from room to room at work, or I need to use the occupied USB slot.

When I replug in the dongle, it is recognised by XP, Nokia PC suit informs me my phone is now connected, but no matter what, I can not transfer/access anything via bluetooth without rebooting. I assumed it may be a service needing restarting, but which on. have tried restarting the bluetooth service with out any luck.

I have tried two different dongles using microsoft drivers with the same problem. The first dongle would work after "hot swapping" using the supplied Widcomm drivers, it would work, but alas the first dongle had to be returned after it packed up completely.

Any suggestions, of can you recommend better drivers.

Device manager identifies the dongle as "Silicon Wave Bluetooth Wireless Adaptor"

Paul · 14-05-2005, 17:57

When you plug it back in do you check to make sure it's still paired to where you want to connect to and do you also make sure that the second device is ready to receive data?

mrm1 · 14-05-2005, 18:19

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Originally Posted by Paul

When you plug it back in do you check to make sure it's still paired to where you want to connect to and do you also make sure that the second device is ready to receive data?

Thanks for the suggestions paul. Both devices are still paired and both devices show an active connection between one and other. I have just tried removing pairing from the phone and PC. Then repaired both devices, which worked fine, I even tried rebooting the phone (a Nokia 6260 incase it makes any difference) and still no browsing or data transfer until I reboot the PC.

bonzoe · 14-05-2005, 18:29

Does it give the option to disable before removing? If it does, give it a try, remember to enable again after plugging back in.

XP gives me problems with USB scanner if I don't disable device before switching off the scanner.

mrm1 · 14-05-2005, 18:34

No. The only place you can disable the dongle is from hardware manager, then it askes to reboot to perform the opperation.

Paul · 14-05-2005, 18:35

To be honest I've had this problem myself with Bluetooth, nokia mobiles and Windows XP. The only way I resolved it was by removing the Nokia software and drivers and just leaving the windows drivers to do the job. I spent ages searching on sites and forums for the answer , stripped out drivers, deleted registry keys and manually added things. Eventually I gave up, clean installed XP and just left it with the XP drivers, worked first time

Bluetooth just doesn't seem to always work with Nokias

mrm1 · 14-05-2005, 18:41

Thanks anyway Paul. Bluesoleil say they have a Bluetooth stack that does work with PC Suit 6.5 but wont say when they will release it, or if it will be a free upgrade for existing users. Ah well, In the mean time I will just have to try not to unplug the dongle.

Paul · 14-05-2005, 18:46

I must admit I never had a problem with it recognising the bluetooth adaptor when it was plugged back into the PC

It just seems to be a problem with some Nokias and bluetooth that they can be very flakey at times

gooner4life · 14-05-2005, 18:47

Strange, I got a Bluetooth dongle and it works flawlessly with Windows XP SP2 drivers and my D500, it didnt even come with any drivers.

Paul · 14-05-2005, 18:57

Mine worked perfectly on a clean windows install with the built in SP2 drivers, it just went badly wrong on my desktop when I inserted the Nokia CD and it installed it's own drivers

Hom3r · 14-05-2005, 19:20

It might be a driver problem, I have a beklin USB bluetooth dongle, when I installed it I had problems connecting via the Belkin S/W.

On the Belkin website it said that XP SP2 would install its own Digitally signed drivers and not theres, and gave you instructions on how to change the driver manually (every time the USB was plugged in)

check the website for any similar problems

Shaun · 14-05-2005, 19:26

I found I had to use the drivers that came with mine and disable the windows BT programs in control panel. Otherwise it just rejected the dongle and said the license was invalid!

Paul · 14-05-2005, 19:35

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Originally Posted by Shaun

I found I had to use the drivers that came with mine and disable the windows BT programs in control panel. Otherwise it just rejected the dongle and said the license was invalid!

That's what I had to do to get it to work in any way shape or form with the Nokia software

Mauldor · 14-05-2005, 19:42

I currently have 2 Bluetooth Dongles, one made by Belkin and othe other made by Scan (or sold by them anyhow). On Windows XP Sp2 the windows drivers gets installed on there when you plug it in, generally these work fine for PC 2 Phone type thing (I have a Sharp GX15) but the software that came with it (the phone) was a bit slow on connecting sometimes and had to fiddle about a lot.

Your better off with the Watcomm drivers (Most Bluetooth dongles use these) and the easiest way is to Install the drivers, go into Device manager, change the driver from MS to the one you just installed (in the BIN directory) and now the proper BT Icon Appears (Much darker Blue)..

Now the Belkin one deserves special mention as even after doing this you will get the "Invalid Licence" error come up - the only way around this is a set of patched files I found on some Russian site which fixes that problem. I cannot recall the site (sorry) but I have the files if anyone needs them though if you have a Belkin and Invlaid Licence..

mrm1 · 14-05-2005, 20:15

My last BT dongle used the widcomm drivers and worked perfectly. My new dongle wont work with the widcomm BT stack, but will work flawlesly using the bluesoleil drivers, but not with PC suit. It will work flawlesly with the microsoft drivers and with PC suit, until I unplug it.

Maybe I should be looking for an alternate phone managment software other than PC suit. Any suggestions anyone ? Preferably free!!

It must be able to back up all settings and phone numbers.