Hi forum,
About a month ago I've bought a laptop: HP ProBook 450 G1 [E9Y30EA] and (even though it's officially made for Win8) I installed Windows 7 x64. I had some issues finding the right drivers, but eventually I solved them all, except one - BLUETOOTH.
I'm having a really hard time with this problem. I've tried everything I could think of. It became really frustrating, so this is my final hope.
Here's the problem:
Bluetooth drivers installed automatically via Windows driver finder service (generic driver, enumerator, some bluetooth devices), and it all looks great, like its working: no exclamation marks in Device Manager, no missing driver reports, all super-duper.
However, when I try connecting laptop to my android phone, neither it can find the phone, nor phone can find it. I've ticked "Allow bluetooth devices to find this computer" in bluetooth settings, but it gave no results. I checked to see if maybe the problem is the phone, so I tried connecting it to another device, and it worked. Problem is definitely laptop: Cannot find, cannot be found.
Later I uninstalled generic driver and installed Qualcomm Atheros one, which apparently is the manufacturer of my radio card, but again it was the same thing! Even worse a bit, it messed up my laptop's radio button LED, so now it only lights orange.
I've searched all over the internet to find the solution, tried some things but they didn't gave me results.
This is how it currently looks in Device Manager:
So I'm asking you good people, to help me with this really annoying question: why my laptop and smartphone cannot find each other via bluetooth? I really ran out of ideas.
What do you guys think it could be?
- Have I installed all the neccessary drivers/programs?
- Do I need to manually add COM Ports?
- Is there something about HP Wireless Assistant, or some other service that might be blocking it?
- Should I install Windows 8? (I really don't want to..)
All questions, advices, tips, and of course possible solutions are very welcome.
Ask me freely if you need more info, screenshots or anything.
Thanks in advance,
dino92
About a month ago I've bought a laptop: HP ProBook 450 G1 [E9Y30EA] and (even though it's officially made for Win8) I installed Windows 7 x64. I had some issues finding the right drivers, but eventually I solved them all, except one - BLUETOOTH.
I'm having a really hard time with this problem. I've tried everything I could think of. It became really frustrating, so this is my final hope.
Here's the problem:
Bluetooth drivers installed automatically via Windows driver finder service (generic driver, enumerator, some bluetooth devices), and it all looks great, like its working: no exclamation marks in Device Manager, no missing driver reports, all super-duper.
However, when I try connecting laptop to my android phone, neither it can find the phone, nor phone can find it. I've ticked "Allow bluetooth devices to find this computer" in bluetooth settings, but it gave no results. I checked to see if maybe the problem is the phone, so I tried connecting it to another device, and it worked. Problem is definitely laptop: Cannot find, cannot be found.
Later I uninstalled generic driver and installed Qualcomm Atheros one, which apparently is the manufacturer of my radio card, but again it was the same thing! Even worse a bit, it messed up my laptop's radio button LED, so now it only lights orange.
I've searched all over the internet to find the solution, tried some things but they didn't gave me results.
This is how it currently looks in Device Manager:
So I'm asking you good people, to help me with this really annoying question: why my laptop and smartphone cannot find each other via bluetooth? I really ran out of ideas.
What do you guys think it could be?
- Have I installed all the neccessary drivers/programs?
- Do I need to manually add COM Ports?
- Is there something about HP Wireless Assistant, or some other service that might be blocking it?
- Should I install Windows 8? (I really don't want to..)
All questions, advices, tips, and of course possible solutions are very welcome.
Ask me freely if you need more info, screenshots or anything.
Thanks in advance,
dino92