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December 9th, 2004 22:00

600m: How to disable Bluetooth and NOT Wireless in the same time?

I know all I have to do is push FN and F2 and Bluetooth AND my wireless (1350) is disabled !!
 
How can I disable the bluetooth alone ?
 
 
 

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December 10th, 2004 13:00

When I right click on the bluetooth icon on the system tray I get

Add a Bluetooth Device
Show Bluetooth Devices
send a file
receive a file
open bluetooth settings
remove bluetooth Icon

And when I go into bluetooth settings I got devices, options,com ports,hardware.
in options I got
Turn Discovery on, Allow bluetooth devices to connect to this computer, alert me when a new bluetooth device wants to connect.
The Discovery is unchecked the other two are checked.

Do not know how to turn it off :(
except if I have a different version

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December 10th, 2004 13:00

right-click on the bluetooth icon on the system tray and select Disable (or Stop, as the case may be).

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December 11th, 2004 02:00

I have XP SP2 and I'm using the Dell BT driver, not the Microsoft's. If you have Microsoft's BT driver then I can't help you - except to say that you can go into the Device Manager and disable it.

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December 11th, 2004 03:00

I have XP SP2 I went on and I did driver update to the Dell drivers that was in the C:\Drivers\Network\ Folder.

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December 11th, 2004 13:00

Check the Device Manager to see if you have more than one BT driver installed. Review this thread and the steps that I listed at the bottom of it.

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December 11th, 2004 19:00

I did that. But let me tell you the story.
 
 
Right after I got the laptop I realzied it had WinXp Home. So I poped in my XP SP2 CD and did an upgrade activated and all. The bluetooth thing was not working at all. I downloaded dell drivers and did what you said to do (exact steps too, I guess there is only one right way to do it). Rebooting and Bluetooth is working.
 
In Device Manager I have
Dell TrueMobile Bluetooth Module
Driver Provider: WIDCOMM. Driver Version 3.0.1.803. Driver Date 4/8/2004.
 
For the Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 Mini-PCI Card.
Driver Provider: Broadcom. Driver Date: 6/25/2004. Driver Version 3.40.73.0
 
and I already told you what I get when I right click on the bluetooth on the bottom right.
 
 

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December 11th, 2004 23:00

I don't know the 600m well enough to be of much help. I don't recognize the icon selection items that you have. I never saw them on mine.

You can try looking at the user documentation (under HTML: v.A01a, A07) for the 600m's BT to see if there is something extra you may need to do. Other than that, the only thing I would do is start over by creating a slipstreamed SP2 install CD and reloading the OS. Here are the stripstream instructions that I used on the Dell Reinstallation CD for my XPS.

Whether you reload using a SP2 slipstreamed CD or XP SP1 and then the SP2 CD, I would recommend:

1) unplug all printers, scanners, PCMCIA, etc. - only ethernet, PS2/usb mouse, and telephone (if needed) are OK.
2) burn a CD of the current drivers for the 600m from Dell's download page.
3) Do a clean install. reload the OS - reformat the HD. If you install XP SP1 - do the SP2 CD before running Windows Update and before installing any software or hardware.
4) Run Windows Update - use Custom Install and install all the updates

5) Install the Dell drivers from the CD - don't accidentally re-flash the BIOS unless you mean too. Write down the folder name that you extracted the BT driver (ie: C:\DELL\drivers\R44444 ).

Check the Device Manager for any errors in the installed hardware. Reseach and correct as needed.

In the Device Manager under Bluetooth Devices, uninstall anything that is present

6) After rebooting it will display the "found new hardware" wizard. Select the option that lets you specify the location of the Dell driver.

Install everthing else. Depending upon what you have for bluetooth devices, they may try install their own BT driver as part of installing the s/w - you may or may not want this to happen. Check the Device Manager after completing the s/w install.

I don't know if you want to go through all this. Unless the BT module is defective, these steps should produce a good install for you.

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December 12th, 2004 04:00

thanks for the steps but I don't think I want to go threw all of that. I was maily wanting to remove BT for power reasons.
Because I know for my phone when I have BT the life expectancy of the phone drops by 30%. I am gona try cleaning windows drivers and putting in the Dell drivers fresh

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December 12th, 2004 13:00

I have no experience with BT-enabled cell phones. The cell phone's battery design and power requirements are probably such that a second transmitter (the bluetooth module) will draw down the battery 30% sooner when it is active.

The BT's power consumption on the 600m's batteries (when running on batteries) is probably very little, especially when there are no bluetooth devices paired to it.

I use the TM 1450 and the TM 300 bluetooth module, and a bluetooth mouse on my XPS. I do not see a measureable difference in battery life when I'm using the BT.

I would suggest you ask others who are using their bluetooth, to post their notebook model #, battery life with BT enabled, and battery life with BT disabled.

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December 12th, 2004 17:00

Thank you, you've been quite helpfull :)
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