Cck Bluetooth Usb Dongle Driver Free Download
Riitta Palazzo
I stumbled across a six pin header on my motherboard designed for an internal Bluetooth module that uses USB protocols to communicate, and ended up making the actual cable that allowed me to place the dongle inside the laptop.
Despite the fact that I'm using the specified Bluetooth module port, Windows 10 doesn't recognize it as a Bluetooth radio, just as another USB device, and I'm stuck with the installed drivers' annoying menus, and a hole in my action center:
This is what I have discovered from experimenting over a long time - for windows GUI Bluetooth features to activate, there cannot be any other installed drivers or interfaces. For me in my case, windows didn't active the features until I had uninstalled the stock drivers (CSR Wireless Stack). Basically, Windows needs to be using the "Generic Bluetooth Radio" drivers for the features to be activated.
So the driver software you can install from TP link technically works ( -link.com/ca/support/download/ub400/#Driver), but let be honest it is very slow. Audio output to my bluetooth headphones is constatanly out of sync by 1-2 seconds at worst. The real problem with the TP-Link's driver software is that it can only pair with one device at a time, and the pairing process is forced to have to connect only using the bluetooth icon in the taskbar.
@jrmistry That's interesting the 2004 bloke your BT as well. It took out the built in setup, so I tried the external dongle to see what would happen. It didn't work either. The dongle was listed in the printers and devices section with e picture of a headset (as is seen in this thread), however, I was unable to find it listed in the actual device manager., therefore I was unable to update it or choose a different driver.
I had this problem, but found a solution that I hadn't seen explained in full anywhere else (although the idea of updating the driver that some people have mentioned was the clue that let me find the solution).
@JaydenH, I had similar issues and i had to go to Add or remove program and remove CSR Bluetooth Harmony Stack, then scan for hardware changes in device manager and suddenly everything started appearing again. Also check, ctrl + r, type services.msc and see if BluetoothSupportService is running otherwise restart the service and reboot. Hope this helps.
@JaydenH If it is not recognized, please download and install the Bluetooth driver manually from the official website. Try to insert UB400/ UB4A into a different USB port on your computer. For Windows XP/7, try to restart the computer after installing the driver.
@JaydenH A little bit too late, but I run into the same problem: my computer has a faulty integrated BT adapter, and Windows would not recognize the UB400 I got as a replacement. The UB400 will work only after you disable the default adapter. Try disabling the default adapter and rebooting your machine.
Background:
After much searching and digging through outdated forums and support threads (usually peppered with snide, and unhelpful commentary), I managed to successfully set-up a Bluetooth dongle on my Macbook. There seems to be a lot of people trying to figure out how to accomplish this seemingly simple task, but not that many offering working solutions, so I decided to add to the cause.
As an aside, I have no idea why Apple decided to put their Bluetooth card, Wifi card, and USB 3.0 ports within the same couple-square-inches of one another, but I felt like if any interference was to blame for the abysmal range of my peripherals, it was likely on the inside of the Macbook itself - not much I could do about that.
I'm now able to use my mouse without having to place it on the wrong side of my desk in order for it to be close enough to my PC and can even comfortably connect my bluetooth headphones (something I'd given up entirely), and wear them out of the room.
Neither of these is not a problem ifyou can easily use the built in keyboard and mouse on your laptop. However, I use my laptop more like a desktop when I'm at home. That is, I keep it closed and tucked away on a shelf beside my desk and use external monitors with BT peripherals. The shelf is such that I can't open my laptop without removing it, which is a significant nuisance requiring me to unplug everything, log in, and plug everything back in. If you're in a similar situation, you'll want to have a USB keyboard and/or mouse handy.
I restart infrequently so this is, at worst, a mild inconvenience to me - one which I have neither the time nor desire to research/devise a solution. If a solution is possible, it would likely involve Automator, startup scripts, Terminal, and/or modifications to configuration files which could impact system stability (which is why Apple essentially made them off-limits when they introduced System Integrity Protection in macOS Sierra). Furthermore, I'm all-too-familiar with the sparsity of resources on this topic, and it's just not worth it for me. If someone knows or finds a way to address this issue, by all means, share in the comments section I'll link to it at the appropriate spot in the tutorial (with appropriate citation, of course).
To install, simply open another Finder window, navigate to your Applications folder, then click and drag the Bluetooth Explorer icon there from the .dmg window. Once it's copied over, BTE should automatically appear when you view your Launchpad.
IMPORTANT: If you are using a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse at this point, YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CONNECTION TO THOSE DEVICES W THIS STEP. Either plug in non-BT peripherals or be prepared to use the ones built into your laptop. When you're ready:
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS on my HP laptop model 15-dy2xxx. Before I had triple-booted with Windows 10, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 for various OS-dependentsoftware, but this time I chose the "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" option to keep everything cleaner. I installed it with an ISO file from ubuntu.com by creating a bootable USB with Rufus on Windows, following the official tutorials: -ubuntu-desktop and -a-usb-stick-on-windows. Installation and setup went relatively smoothly.
But today I tried to use Bluetooth for the first time, and in the Bluetooth section of Settings all I see is the message "No Bluetooth Found - Plug in a dongle to use Bluetooth". The switch to enable Bluetooth can't be clicked on. I used Bluetooth just fine on Ubuntu 20.04, I've only had issues since reinstalling the new Ubuntu version.
Which implies that the problem has been fixed, or at least part of it. Unfortunately, I have the same message in the Settings menu, and the changes seem to get reverted if I restart my laptop (the status commands switch back to the first set of outputs). I don't know enough about this software to know what to do from this point.
Ok, just now I booted up my PC after the battery died and the Bluetooth settings have appeared. The Bluetooth menu in the Settings is showing nearby devices instead of the "No Bluetooth Found" message, and a Bluetooth section was added to the system menu. I've restarted and shut down my PC several times while trying solutions online, but they had no effect until just now.
The exact steps I followed were opening the "Software & Updates" app, going to "Additional Drivers," selecting "Using DKMS source for the Realtek 8821C PCIe Wi-Fi driver from rtl8821ce-dkms (open source)," and clicking "Apply Changes."
Restarting had no effect at the time, but it seems to have worked now. Maybe after installing drivers, my laptop needed to be powered off and turned back on, not just restarted. A few suggestions I found online indicated that shutting down can sometimes be more effective than restarting, but I had forgotten to try that after changing the driver.
Well, I went online to research how to install the firmware and driver for this dongle. I found a few youtube videos that indicated I should just copy the command lines from the readme.txt file, each one in order. I did exactly that and it just gave me what you see. Then I came here for help.
I'm using a Magic Mouse with my MacBook Pro and Mountain Lion. The cursor sometimes start to lag. I figured, the reason for this could be the distance between my Mac and the mouse (about 1.5 meters / 5 foot).
I bought an external USB Bluetooth dongle I want to plug into my monitor on my desk, so the mouse is closer to the controller. However, I can't figure out how to make OS X use the external dongle instead of the built in controller.
When I go into System Prefs > Bluetooth and hold the Option key to display the reception, I see that it is the strongest when it's next to my Mac and not when it's next to the dongle. So what can I do to change that? Thanks!
Edit: This no longer appears to work as of at least macOS 14 and Apple Silicon. I believe Bluetooth Explorer worked (if you already had it) for at least some functionality on macOS 13 on Intel. On my current M2 system, not a single bit of Bluetooth Explorer works correctly, so if you have it you can probably trash it.
The easiest way to use the USB adapter is to reboot. If you hold down the Option key while clicking on the Bluetooth menu icon, the MAC address of the adapter should be different. You can also verify in System Profiler. You'll know it's working if any existing pairings break.
The on / off button in System Preferences is a little buggy. Turning off the adapter works fine, but clicking "on" turned the internal adapter back on. I had to unplug the adapter, plug it back in, and then turn Bluetooth back on.
If you want to work around this without rebooting, you can use Bluetooth Explorer from the OS X developer tools. You'll need a (free) developer account. There's a ton of useful tools to debug interference, pairing issues, and so on.
Looked in here: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration. There i found a bluetooth plist file. I trashed it, rebooted, and then my USB dongle was finally recognized. I did not need to reset any SMC, NVRAM.
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