Help!! I have a Late 2010 Macbook Air with BootCamp Window 7 Ultimate running, and several bluetooth headsets (Plantronics, Jabra, Motorola). All of them work out of the box on the Mac side, for audio streaming. None of them work on the Windows side. Is it wrong to conclude that the hardware on the laptop is capable of streaming since it all works fine in OSX? What is missing in Windows 7 that is preventing this from happening? I've tried everything in this article and others to no avail - I have purchased a dongle, and that does work, but I'd rather not have to sacrifice a USB port for this, when the hardware is built in - thanks
I was under the impression that WINDOWS Mobile Device Center was only used for connecting to, and syncing with mobile phones.
If I were to follow the above instructions, would I be able to stream internet radio, via Bluetooth, to a Motorola DC800 Bluetooth Stereo Gateway Adapter? (This is what I had always done in the past.
What happened between Windows VISTA & Windows 7 in regard to Bluetooth audio support?
This is a major issue, that I feel should be discussed with MICROSOFT.
I have "upgraded" both my machines at home from VISTA HOME PREMIUM, to Win 7 HOME PREMIUM. After the upgrades, I lost all Bluetooth audio support. Many searches through numerous forums, had no real answer.
My machines had been set up to stream Pandora Radio from the computer to a Bluetooth receiver attached to my home stereo. This was a beautiful thing. All I had to do, was right click the speaker Icon, and select Bluetooth Audio as the default source, and I was good to go.
This is a major disappointment to me, that I feel requires a fix.
I have worked on this issue on and off for 2 years to no avail. (Bluetooth did work with VISTA) I was able to get it working, but not 100% reliable, with the WINDOWS 8 Customer Preview. I'm hoping the issues will be worked out completely by October when it is released.yeap.. usually the dongle will do the job. However, that defeats the purpose of bluetooth, as the use of dongle will occupied 1 of my USB port (which is already insufficient). I used to have my external HDD, wireless mouse, and midi keyboard connected to my laptop. Obviously, using a dongle is not my preferred option. Why is Microsoft makes consumers' life so frustrating??? all we need is a working bluetooth driver that supports A2DP.. Can anyone suggest a work-around? (i'd tried all suggestions in this forum by downloading and installing this and that but didn't work out). My laptop is Asus A43S series.
Thanks!
Here's what you need to do for both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 7 systems:
- Download the 'Windows Mobile Device Center' ( current version is 6.1 ) which you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/microsoft/device-center-download.mspx ,this works for both Vista and Windows 7. I've tried it on both.
- Install the downloaded software but it may not look like it worked on Windows 7 PCs. Vista automatically configures the settings on the bluetooth devices but for those who have Windows 7, here are the things you should do:
Hello Rajiv
I tried installing the download on my HP i5 laptop running Win7 64 and but I got an error saying the processor type is not supported. Please help point me to the right direction. Many thanks
I own 6-8 of the USB Bluetooth dongles. Not one of them has ever come with a driver disc. They all work flawlessly on both Win 7 & Win 8 just by plugging them.A BLUETOOTH dongle is a piece of hardware that plugs into a USB port. For example:
Newegg.com - cirago BTA-3210 Micro Bluetooth Dongle USB 2.0 support Bluetooth 2.1
It will come with a driver disc. It will then transmit to whatever BLUETOOTH receiver you are using. It works for me on both my computers.