Problem with DELL 1440 & Windows 10 Pro for not having the right Bluetooth driver solved..

[lostinisaan]

I made myself an early birthday present and bought a fantastic JBL Bluetooth/wireless speaker, the Flip 2 series.

Great sound, haven't heard a better sound coming out of only one speaker yet but I had to find out that my DELL Inspiron Dino 1440 didn't even have a Bluetooth unit/driver. Nothing.

Okay, then to DELL's website, but no driver would work for this type of machine coming from DELL. I already had a rope fit together and thought about where I'd hang myself.

Google here, Google there, Google fragging everywhere. Of course -plenty of liars who want to sell you some driver update bs software.

I finally tried something that even surprised me. I downloaded a Lenovo Bluetooth software, installed it and after several restarts, wow, i had my Bluetooth visible.

Another 30 minutes of a headache the speaker started blasting my favorite songs.

Finally, I could get the speaker for only 3 K and it's time for a holiday at the beach. Life's great, the little thing sounds like 4 Bose 501's.

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[Pib]

In my years of playing with computers getting the Bluetooth drivers to load properly can sometimes be a pain....and getting the right driver is indeed critical. Usually you definitely need the manufacturer's Bluetooth driver for your particular computer model. A person might think something as simple as Bluetooth should almost always be a piece of cake to get to work but it don't work that way.

[JaseTheBass]

Don't most laptops use the same/similar Broadcom Bluetooth gubbins?

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[lostinisaan]

In my years of playing with computers getting the Bluetooth drivers to load properly can sometimes be a pain....and getting the right driver is indeed critical. Usually you definitely need the manufacturer's Bluetooth driver for your particular computer model. A person might think something as simple as Bluetooth should almost always be a piece of cake to get to work but it don't work that way.

It's indeed strange. Especially, if there's no driver from DELL. It was more good luck to find a Lenovo driver that's working. And to be honest, I had no idea that Bluetooth didn't even show up, because I never needed it after the upgrade.

And I've tried various drivers.....

I'm just wondering what others did with older machines where XP was the norm and W 7 a sort of high tech.

Edited March 30, 2016 by lostinisaan

[lostinisaan]

Don't most laptops use the same/similar Broadcom Bluetooth gubbins?

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But not for 7, or 8 year old machines, me thinks.

[Pib]

Don't most laptops use the same/similar Broadcom Bluetooth gubbins?

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Nope. For example, I've got two Lenovo laptops...one has a Qualcomm Atheros bluetooth chip and the other one an Intel Bluetooth chip....just looked at both of them. And I have another Toshiba laptop that has another type of chip but I'm not going to turn in on to refresh my memory as to the exact Bluetooth chip.