How To Send Files From Phone To Laptop Via Bluetooth Windows 10
Indira Rossetto
In an era where we can send files quickly over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth is often seen as slow and archaic. Bluetooth may not be superfast, but it is convenient and easy to use. Smartphones and laptops come with Bluetooth pre-installed, so this means we have the tech ready to use.
how to send files from phone to laptop via bluetooth windows 10
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Before any files can be sent, there first has to be a connection between the two devices. Luckily this process is now easy on Windows and smartphones. Here we are using an Android device, but the principle is similar for Apple devices.
1. Turn on Bluetooth for your smartphone and make the device discoverable. For our Android device we went to Settings >> Connected Devices and clicked Pair New Device.
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Instead of sifting through your email or cloud storage app, you can use a USB cable, Link to Windows, or Bluetooth to quickly send files from your Galaxy phone to your Windows 10 or 11 PC. A USB cable will let you easily drag and drop files between your phone and PC. Link to Windows will automatically sync your recent images from your phone and display them on your computer for easy access. Plus, Bluetooth will let you transfer data from your paired devices.
You can drag and drop up to 100 files at a time, of any type. However, moving entire folders is not supported, and no single file can be larger than 512MB. The size of content will be adjusted to 1MB if "metered data" is used. For text files, the size will be limited to 128KB or less, and images will be resized to 1MB or less. You can also transfer content using Smart Switch or DeX for PC.
After you've set up the Link to Windows feature, you can sync your phone's most recent photos or videos to your PC and then save them. The Phone Link app will display up to 2,000 recent photos and videos.
I upgraded to Windows 10 back in August 2015. Since then my Bluetooth is unable to send files to any devices. It pairs fine with all devices and works as it should for Bluetooth audio, but not for sending files. I have tried sending to HTC phone, Samsung Note 4, and Samsung Edge 6. on the Samsung devices, it will wake up the phone (screen turns on but get no notification to accept the file or see any download). The green bar on the laptop screen will move slightly then stop and never move again. It worked like a champ under Windows 7. This is very inconvenient. I use my cell phone for Internet Tethering and cannot transfer files when tethered as an internet connection. Very inconvenient to use e-mailing or stopping internet connection just for file transfers.
Unfortunately the XPS L502X system is not one of the models on the list of systems we've tested and found to work with Windows 10, so we won't be directly updating any drivers for it but which wireless card / bluetooth card do you have in that system? And which driver version is currently installed on it?
If it is the Dell 365 bluetooth card you may want to check out this link. If it's not, then have you tried deleting all your wireless drivers (assuming it's a combo wifi/bluetooth card), then rebooting your system and seeing if Windows 10 can find a native driver for them? If it has a native driver then it may have more functionality than what you're seeing.
Let us know if any of that helps. In order for me to better troubleshoot this please click on my Dell Todd username and send me a private message with the Dell Service Tag of that XPS L502x. Please keep all troubleshooting discussions here in this public thread so that others can see what is done to resolve.
A person I know had the same exact issue with a different brand laptop after upgrading to Windows 10. He was able to find an Intel driver on the Intel Support Website for his Bluetooth chipset. It cleared his problem and was able to send transfer files over Bluetooth again. Do you know if the 6230 is an Intel chipset, or other?
Is it possible to uninstall this driver and load the Windows 7 driver to see if it would work? I tried uninstalling the driver, but every time I reboot it automatically reinstalls the same the driver. Could you give me the link to download and install the Windows 7 driver and tell me how to prevent the Bluetooth driver from automatically installing itself on reboot? Thanks in advance.
I think there is a misunderstanding about "chipset". Each wireless card series is built off a specific "chipset" designed by the manufacturer. Atheros has one chipset they've designed, Broadcom has another, and Intel would have their own. Similar to how there are different "chipsets" associated with each model of processors. (ie the "Sandy Bridge", "Ivy Bridge", or "Haswell" chipsets in Intel processors)
Here is a support article explaining how to install older drivers into Windows 10 for Dell printers. Check out the process starting at bullet point #10. It will be the same concept. I am not sure that it will work. I don't know the specific reasons why the L502x was designated as not being compatible with Windows 10. That Win7 driver may work, and I hope it does.
I also found a few different videos that show how to accomplish the driver install in comparability mode but haven't really had a chance to watch to confirm they're correct. Here is one example that might help you.
Found a Windows 8 Driver for the 6230. Tried to install it but got the error BMTShell.dll Could not be found. I found the missing file online and downloaded it to the System32 folder. It still could not find it. I tried compatibility mode as well, and no go. Any suggestions?
I pasted the file in the Program Files (x86)/Intel/Bluetooth folder and the install no longer gave bmtshell.dll not found error. However it now gets the, "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the set up did not finish as expected.", error message. What next?
That may be the easiest way to proceed if none of the drivers are installing. I would also suggest checking the Intel support forums to see if someone there can discuss how they were able to get the N6230 working in Windows 10 (if they did).
A friend was kind enough to try installing his Intel 7260 module into my Dell XPS 15 (L502x) and put my N-6230 Module into his Clevo Laptop. I don't understand it but my N-6230 Module worked perfectly (without doing anything driver wise) and sent files to his android phone no problem.
On the other hand, after booting my Dell with his 7260 Module, my Bluetooth tray ICON did not appear, and I was forced to manually load and install the driver. However, after rebooting, I got the same exact issue as before with my N-6230 Module. It would not send any files to my android phone. Frustrated at this point, I could only think registry corruption and having to do a clean install of Windows 10 (UGHH).
The only thing I can think of is by somehow being able to install the 7260's driver into my laptop, somehow replaced a missing, broken, or needed file. I hope this helps someone else. It has been a grueling 6-months of troubleshooting to get this to work. I can only hope it doesn't break again. I may need to resist updating any driver's that come out for the N-6230 module.
Hii... I own pavilion 15 p028TX with win 8.1.. My Bluetooth device is not workin properly.. Its pairing the devices but the files could not be sent or received.. If i send the file from my cellphone , the device gets paired but later on phone displays unable to send the file.. I have installed the updated driver from hp server.. Please provide the solution..
1. Search for "Change device" in the Windows 8 Start menu.
2. Click on where it says Change device installation settings.
3. Select the No, let me choose what to do option.
4. Check the automatically get the device app option.
5. Click Save changes to save the settings you just chose.
I can pair my HTC One X with Ubuntu, but I can't send any files to my computer from my phone. Every time I try my phone reports the transfer failed and I never get prompted by the computer to accept the file.
I would like to share one method on how to send files from any Android smartphone to Ubuntu. I successfully tested it myself on Ubuntu 12.10 laptop with built-in bluetooth adapter and SGS4 smartphone.
I am working a project from my school. We are using a microcontroller to send integers over bluetooth (Sparkfun's bluesmirf) to an android device.Because different people need the microcontroller I am wondering if it is possible to programmatically send send data over bluetooth to my android phone via my laptop's bluetooth?
My solution to this problem was using RealTerm. I creared a *.txt file with the ints in each line (copy+paste from Excel table - made it easier). Then, after I connect to the Laptop's bluetooth port under the Port tab, I go to the Send tab and use the Dump File To Port option and add the *.txt file I created. Also, I used 999 as delay to send each line every 999miliseconds, and under repeats I changed from 1 to 0 in order to make it reapet until i press Stop.
Check out this Codeplex project - it allows you to open up Bluetooth sessions using C# through the native Windows stack. It will also allow a Bluetooth Serial Port (SPP) session which is what you'll want to use to connect to your device. The project is fairly longstanding and has a good amount of documentation on the site or on blogs if you Google.
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