My Dell 9300 BT is truemobile 350 and doing much reseach while at work today LOL

I called Pantronics and the 510 "mono" works and they suggest the 590 "Stereo" 590 need A2DP to work. I was suggested to use OEM drivers if Dell drv's don't work. 

I grabbed a few cheap 510s from ebay today and if work will try thr 590 and offload the 510 to other local Dell BT users.

MBCMDR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a subject that greatly interests me as well. I have a Motorola bluetooth hs850 headset for my phone and the 350 truemobile bluetooth card in my xps2. I was wondering if there's a way to use my headset when skyping and such.

Ok...I finally got the thing to work. The problem was with the Windows XP drivers. They s*ck. They have a very limited stack of available devices. I had assumed that I was using the Dell drivers. I wasn't.

If you wish to be able to connect a bluetooth headset, even one for a phone, download and install the Dell drivers from Toshiba.

They work great. Solved all my problems. I can now use my phone headset like a wired one. Perfect.

Good day.

The exact same thing happens to me. The cpu usage goes to 100%. Even after I shut down the bluetooth radio, and exit bluetooth manager, the cpu stays at 100%. The culprit is TosOBEX.exe. It keeps running and maintains the cpu at full throttle. The only way I've found to shut it down is in Task Manager, (ctrl+alt+del), and end the process. It starts up again next time I use bluetooth but it's a pain. Something is obviously wrong with the system and it would probably be a fairly easy fix for someone who knew what they were doing but it's far beyond me.

A solution would really be nice. I tried the Widcomm stack but I couldn't seem to get it to work properly. I much prefer the Toshiba stack but if no workaround is available, I may have to try it again.

It's been driving me nuts.

Hey

FYI, and a question:

I got the Plantronics Voyager 510 bluetooth headset to work with WinXP SP2 on my Inspiron E1705/9400 by installing the Toshiba stack (which now is available on Dell's driver's download site. It works great, and is very handy.

HOWEVER: Every time I link the headset with my computer, my CPU for processor 1 (got dual 2.0GHz processors) goes up 10-14% !! I can see this in Task Manager under Performance, but under Processes I cannot see anything that is listed as using that much CPU. I'm not running anything else, but whatever driver is using the 10-14% of my CPU1, is not listed under Task Manager's processes. Anybody know why this is, and why it uses up so much CPU (and is there any way around it?!?)

I must say I'm surprised and disappointed that this Bluetooth thing uses up so much CPU. I can just imagine if I was continuously connected to some Bluetooth device, such as a printer or another computer, this would hamper the performance of my computer considerably.

Just thought I'd throw it out there, see if any of you guys have an idea.

Thanks
benedhal

Hey again

Thanks for the post. I find that if I right-click on the BT icon in the taskbar and Disable Bluetooth Radio, this processor entry TosOBEX.exe disappears. It reappears once I enable it again. However, I see absolutely no change in the CPU consumption before or after. It seems that there is a different thing going on with my system, than yours.

I am suspicious of the other BT processes (TosA2dp, TosBtHid, TosBtHSP, TosBtMng.exes), because my CPU (when nothing else is running) is constantly at 4-5% on CPU1 (CPU2 is at zero). I haven't tried ending any of the processes to see which one is to blame, but might do that if this thing starts getting out of hand. Then, when I turn on my headset, the CPU goes up 10-14%, as I noted. Oh, well.

I wish you luck with your problem, it's a b**** to have the CPU go to 100% for a simple secondary application. Hopefully somebody out there has a solution to that, and my, problem.

Well...I tried the Widcomm stack again and it seems to be working for me. My headset connected right up. It wasn't working at first but I discovered, unlike the Toshiba stack, I have to, in effect, answer the computer by pressing the button on the headset. I didn't have to do that with the Toshiba stack. The good thing is that I don't seem to have the throttling up problem anymore.

I also hooked my phone up to it. There is more playing around with this one but at least it seems to be working without draining my cpu dry.

I'd check to see if it was TosOBEX.exe in task managare that's doing it. After I shut everything down, it was always that one which was causing the grief.

Good luck.

Great! You solved your problem.
I found out that none of the Toshiba processes are at fault regarding my 4-5% CPU consumption (but it goes up 10-14% once I use the headset).
I'm curious about this Widcomm stack. What is it, how does it work, and how do I get it??? Also, how do I uninstall the Toshiba drivers (if I'm going to be using the Widcomm)?
I'd very much appreciate some pointers.
Thanks
benedhal

Try this - worked for my generic Bluetooth dongle using widcomm drivers.

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_list.php?part=8&kind=23&CHIP=23&ID=8

I have found the solution to the 100% cpu usage problem.

See the following link:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/jive3/thread.jspa?threadID=10610

See the post of csaba.virag, registered 24-02-2006, 09:44.

This worked for me!

Hey
Just curious: Since you now fixed your Bluetooth problem and everything is fine now, have you checked what your CPU levels at when you're connected to one of your audio devices and have nothing else running? What shows up in your Task Manager under Processes? I'm still having the 10-14% constant CPU1 usage when I'm connected to my headset. It goes up further when I'm using programs that feed audio through to the headset (e.g., VoIP programs, Winamp, etc).
Let me know
Thanks
benedhal

This worked wonderfully...CPU usage is much more acceptable. His instructions were quite confusing; sounds like English is not his first language.