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January 30th, 2013 00:00

Dell wireless 365 Bluetooth module on Windows 8 pro

Dell wireless 365,370,380 Bluetooth module is the most common Bluetooth device that Dell uses. Its normally supports Widdcom Bluetooth driver  which is manufactured by Broadcom and Modified by Dell ......But dell has removed Windows 8 support In some old Windows 7 laptops like N5010.....

But fortunately the windows 7 drivers are working fine on windows8 and most of them are installed during the windows installation....But the main problem is the Bluetooth driver (Dell Wireless 3XX module)   

Broadcom has released their Bluetooth driver for Windows 8 PRO.....the Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 driver has  support for a lot of Bluetooth devices and Dell Wireless  3XX Bluetooth module is in the support list.....But as Broadcom don't provide drivers directly to customers.... they give it to the system manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. and the modify it for ease of their customers.

So here is the Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 driver from Lenovo site which is running fine on Dell 365 Bluetooth  device without any compatibility issue and also you can use Bluetooth Control Panel as you do in Windows 7

http://tinyurl.com/b8fptwr

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May 31st, 2015 05:00

This is THE answer to dell 365 driver installation!!

Now have BT on DELL xt2 Windows 8.1 AND WORKS BETTER than the BROADCOM option!!

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February 8th, 2013 03:00

Hello, it works on LATITUDE E4200 also. Thanks for the info!

BR! Janez

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June 21st, 2013 17:00

THANK YOU!!! It worked on my studio XPS 8100 upgraded to Win 8 Pro :emotion-2:

Ruthlyn :)

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December 1st, 2013 20:00

IT ALSO WORKED ON MY PRECISION M6500. THANKS

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December 6th, 2013 00:00

Broadcom has released their Bluetooth driver for Windows 8 PRO.....the Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 driver has  support for a lot of Bluetooth devices and Dell Wireless  3XX Bluetooth module is in the support list.....But as Broadcom don't provide drivers directly to customers.... they give it to the system manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. and the modify it for ease of their customers.

For Bluetooth Broadcom have provided the Broadcom Bluetooth Update:

http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php 

It works with the Dell Wireless 365 card.

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December 6th, 2013 12:00

does this work for the 370 mini card?

January 10th, 2014 12:00

 

Works Great, Alienware m11x R2.

Works great with my Alienware m11x R2!

 

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January 22nd, 2014 10:00

It worked on my Dell Studio 1458! Thanks a lot, since I installed windows 8 on my pc tried reinstalling the bluetooth and never got, had already given up. Now I updated windows 8.1 pro tried again and luckily found your post. It helped a lot. Thanks

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September 24th, 2014 16:00

thx a lot for this very good information.

With this Information and downlaod ends a very Long day to run my Bluetooth on my Dell vostro 3700 with new win8.1

thx again

I am soooo happy

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December 8th, 2014 10:00

Thanks It works very well with my dell Inpiron N5010, an bluetooth broadcom 365

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December 17th, 2014 07:00

I tried the Lenovo package in Windows 8.1 32 bit, but it did not work properly with Dell 365 bluetooth module. System could not turn on bluetooth - each time I clicked on slider to turn on the interface it changed to "Off" in 10-15 s. Interestingly enough bluetooth was working at this time - when I connected mouse in W XP and rebooted to W 8.1 the mouse kept working. But I couldn't connect to mouse from W 8.1.


I ended up installing drivers for Dell 365 for Windows 7. To do this you have to unpack the drivers, navigate to Win32 or Win64 folder and run BtwMM.exe and only then Inst.exe. Now bluetooth seems to be working without issues.

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March 20th, 2015 11:00

I dont know how and why but this Inst.exe file does the installation of bluetooth driver for windows 7 in windows 8 and 8.1. 

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October 3rd, 2015 08:00

Thanks bro, it also works fine on Win 10 Pro

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February 15th, 2016 11:00

No, not the answer on my Dell 1747 Win10 Pro.

I have tried everything I can find, but no good.

The Broadcom update coverall driver looks good, but them says "unload the previous drivers". And they would be?????  (Can see list on "installeddriverslist" but which ones? MS? Broadcom?)

The supposed latest from Dell? Cannot load because it is "Not Trusted". 

Thanks Broadcom/Dell/Microsoft!!!!!!!!!!!

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March 15th, 2016 00:00

thanks - worked for me after win 7 to 10 "upgrade"

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