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Hydrix

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May 25th, 2005 19:00

Replacing Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba with Microsoft Bluetooth Stack

After searching through many posts, forums, online resources, both Dell & Toshiba websites I was finally able to get this Microsoft Bluetooth stack working on my Inspiron XPS.
 
I thought it might be helpful if I posted my methods incase anybody else does not want to use the toshiba stack.
 
First I uninstalled the Toshiba stack using Add-Remove programs and rebooted the computer. When the computer booted, there was a message that a USB device was found, but windows is unable to locate drivers for it. After some research I found that when the toshiba program was installed it renames C:\windows\inf\bth.inf to bth.bak, but does not replace it when uninstalled.
 
I then renamed bth.bak to bth.inf, and searched for drivers again under Device Manager. This time it correctly located the Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth module. After rebooting the computer (actually took 2 reboots to get it working right strangely enough) the Bluetooth shows up corretly under Bluetooth radios in the device manager.
 
The next strange event is that the Bluetooth Devices control panel did not show up in my control panel. By clicking Start, then Run, and typing  bthprops.cpl you can display the control panel. I then added it to be in my task bar under the options menu for when I need to add devices. I am not sure how to add it back into the control panel.
 
Hope this helps.

Hydrix

9 Posts

October 23rd, 2006 17:00

I would think then that it has something to do with the service not running? If there were problems with the bthprops.cpl file you would likely get an error message.
 
It is curious that the service is not listed. Does the bthserv.dll file exist in your system32?
 

tommykjensen

6 Posts

October 28th, 2006 09:00

One thing is missing though. The little blue/white bluetooth icon in the status bar is missing. How do get that back or start it from run?

tommykjensen

6 Posts

October 28th, 2006 09:00

Ok. Here is how a co-worker and I got this to work :smileyvery-happy:
 
First off I assume you still have the toshiba drivers installed (I'll get back to that at the end).
 
- download the latest toshiba drivers (yes I mean that :smileywink: )
- run the setup. this will result in uninstalling the old drivers
- restart laptop
- run setup again and go through the install process
- restart laptop
- run setup again and this time remove the drivers
- restart laptop
- now windows recognises the bluetooth radio and install ms default drivers
- restart laptop
- pair your bluetooth devices (they may disappear after first restart then just pair again that happened with me and my coworker but now they stay after restart)
- connect the P990i via the USB cable it should work
- if the cable connection still don't work then check for com port conflicts. my co-worker had to change the comport, I did not need to do that.
 
If you already uninstalled the drivers you need to run the install one extra time to get it all to work.
 
 
So now I am happy I can connect P990i via cable and get on the internet pretty much anywhere I can get a connection on the phone and I can continue to use my bluetooth mouse. :smileyvery-happy:

Hydrix

9 Posts

October 30th, 2006 15:00

On the Control Panel, click Bluetooth Devices.
 
On the Options tab, verify that 'Show the Bluetooth icon in the notification area' is checked
 
Is that what you mean?

tommykjensen

6 Posts

October 30th, 2006 15:00

Yes it was. Thanks.

dlipetz

4 Posts

July 6th, 2007 19:00

Went through this procedure step-by-step and it did not work for me. The step where it is supposed to recognize the BT radio and install MS drivers didn't work. Rather, no drivers were found at all. So now I'm going to reinstall the Toshiba stack and try it the first posters method.

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