Comments on: Uncrippling Bluetooth in Windows Vista RTM – Addendum http://www.dev-toast.com/2007/01/17/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-windows-vista-rtm-addendum/ Technology, cyberculture, and all things geeky. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:58:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jason http://www.dev-toast.com/2007/01/17/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-windows-vista-rtm-addendum/comment-page-1/#comment-968 jason Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:34:09 +0000 http://www.dev-toast.com/2007/01/17/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-windows-vista-rtm-addendum/#comment-968 Phew, well I finally got bluetooth working on vista x64 using the native bluetooth stack, luckily Dell had the right bluetooth profiles available on their homepage for x64 vista (R155463). Phew, well I finally got bluetooth working on vista x64 using the native bluetooth stack, luckily Dell had the right bluetooth profiles available on their homepage for x64 vista (R155463).

]]> By: vexamus http://www.dev-toast.com/2007/01/17/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-windows-vista-rtm-addendum/comment-page-1/#comment-121 vexamus Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:18:12 +0000 http://www.dev-toast.com/2007/01/17/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-windows-vista-rtm-addendum/#comment-121 While the native Dell WIDCOMM based driver does in-fact include A2DP profiles it is broken still as you cannot discover services on devices such as a pda or cell phone. For me this is extreme interfering as I use my phone to access the internet via the Bluetooth Personal Area Network service that is available on my phone. In addition to that, HID profiles are a bit dodgy at best as they relate to the video driver. It's strange but the bluetooth radio will shut off momentarily and break the driver when I close the lid on my machine. Basically Dell gave enough meat in the driver to let it install and do stereo headphones and some hands free profiles. The only thing it does over the Microsoft drivers is A2DP. So for those Dell users who only want to use their stereo headphones with Vista, then this is an excellent solution. However, for those that use HID, headphones, headsets, cellphone voice gateway routing, printing, networking over bluetooth, there's a great deal left to be desired in Dell's drivers. While the native Dell WIDCOMM based driver does in-fact include A2DP profiles it is broken still as you cannot discover services on devices such as a pda or cell phone. For me this is extreme interfering as I use my phone to access the internet via the Bluetooth Personal Area Network service that is available on my phone. In addition to that, HID profiles are a bit dodgy at best as they relate to the video driver. It’s strange but the bluetooth radio will shut off momentarily and break the driver when I close the lid on my machine. Basically Dell gave enough meat in the driver to let it install and do stereo headphones and some hands free profiles. The only thing it does over the Microsoft drivers is A2DP. So for those Dell users who only want to use their stereo headphones with Vista, then this is an excellent solution. However, for those that use HID, headphones, headsets, cellphone voice gateway routing, printing, networking over bluetooth, there’s a great deal left to be desired in Dell’s drivers.

]]> By: Michael McQuaig http://www.dev-toast.com/2007/01/17/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-windows-vista-rtm-addendum/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Michael McQuaig Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:43:08 +0000 http://www.dev-toast.com/2007/01/17/uncrippling-bluetooth-in-windows-vista-rtm-addendum/#comment-109 I have some info about the bluetooth issue you are having. I think you will find this very very very useful. I have a Motorola BT820 headset. It supportes headset, a2dp, and remote control. When I paired it up with my Windows Vista computer it would install it as a Bluetooth device with no driver. Obviously because of the lack of Microsoft BT Stack support for it's profiles. Looking of your blog I see you mentioned the Dell 355 Bluetooth Radio. I also ready how you are using the Widcomm I have the Dell 350 in my Latitude D820. I am running Vista Ultimate x32. On a whim I downloaded the drivers for the 355 for x32. I attempted to install and of course it failed becuase the INF didn't have my hardware ID in it. So I went into the directory of the install files and noticed all the INFs with names like bthaudiohf.inf and btavrcp.inf. Looking at these INF files closer it seemed these were profile drivers. So I went to the Microsoft bluetooth manager, went to the properties of my device and enabled all of its available service: Audio Sync, Headset, and Remote Control. Windows detected the devices and the hardware manager showed 3 devices with no known driver, I then directed windows to look in the directory (C:\dell\drivers\R142717\Drivers) and windows immediatly installed them as their appropriate profile based devices. Eureka! My bluetooth headed started working!! Audio is perfect, the remote control function works too. The drivers look like they support x64 as well. Hopefully this can help you out too. They also look very generic which means they could drive any profile for any bluetooth device. I have some info about the bluetooth issue you are having. I think you will find this very very very useful.

I have a Motorola BT820 headset. It supportes headset, a2dp, and remote control.

When I paired it up with my Windows Vista computer it would install it as a Bluetooth device with no driver. Obviously because of the lack of Microsoft BT Stack support for it’s profiles.

Looking of your blog I see you mentioned the Dell 355 Bluetooth Radio. I also ready how you are using the Widcomm I have the Dell 350 in my Latitude D820. I am running Vista Ultimate x32. On a whim I downloaded the drivers for the 355 for x32. I attempted to install and of course it failed becuase the INF didn’t have my hardware ID in it. So I went into the directory of the install files and noticed all the INFs with names like bthaudiohf.inf and btavrcp.inf. Looking at these INF files closer it seemed these were profile drivers.

So I went to the Microsoft bluetooth manager, went to the properties of my device and enabled all of its available service: Audio Sync, Headset, and Remote Control. Windows detected the devices and the hardware manager showed 3 devices with no known driver, I then directed windows to look in the directory (C:\dell\drivers\R142717\Drivers) and windows immediatly installed them as their appropriate profile based devices. Eureka! My bluetooth headed started working!! Audio is perfect, the remote control function works too.

The drivers look like they support x64 as well. Hopefully this can help you out too. They also look very generic which means they could drive any profile for any bluetooth device.

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