Laptop Bluetooth Download Windows 7

[Rynn Bronaugh]

Youneed to disconnect and forget the Neo from the Windows 10 laptop. To connect Bluetooth devices to Zwift it should NOT be connected to any other device or app (including your laptop) before opening Zwift.

I have been having these issues as well but yesterday the BLE connection from the PC to the smart trainer worked actually worked. I am not sure if there was another update from microsoft or zwift but everything seem to connect. The only thing that seems off is that there is no option to calibrate the trainer.

I did this, too, before finding this post, but wanted to know what others were doing. My iPhone has never had a problem locating bluetooth devices, unlike zwift + windows.

I was disabling every blutooth device I could find and still having connection issues (keeps finding and losing devices in zwift), so I switched my bluetooth back ON on my phone. Then on zwift in windows, from the options on the top right of the pairing screen, I selected to use zwift companion. Everything popped up perfectly and stayed on. I think between windows and zwift there are a lot of random issues. Not to mention the time a windows auto update took out my bluetooth halfway through a ride until I restarted windowzzzz.

First, do not rely on windows to update your bluetooth driver. Find out what bluetooth card or chip your computer is using and go to that manufacturers website to get their latest updated driver. Once installed it should work.

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If you connected to newer first you have to reboot the buds before connecting to older. As the buds default to connecting to last connected first means you have to turn Bluetooth off of last connected.

The problem is mainly because the drivers provided by vendor does not support windows 10 (this happens if you have migrated from windows 7 or windows 8.1).Reinstalling the bluetooth driver (Programs and Features)only would solve the problem.

I had to open a ticket with the Intel support because uninstalling / repairing / installing the right driver wasn't working. The solution was to enter in the BIOS and setup the default setting. After reinstall the Bluetooth was back:

I have a Dell XPS 13 9350 and had to do a reset of the BIOS to fix this. No idea what had changed in the BIOS, but multiple restarts didn't help. After resetting the BIOS to Factory settings (not BIOS Defaults, but I didn't try that), Bluetooth worked as expected again.

Most of the solutions here did not work for me. In my case, my laptop had an Intel Wireless Bluetooth driver. After searching for that, I ended up on Intel's website and downloaded the latest version of the driver. After running the executable and doing a "Complete" install, I restarted my machine and the Bluetooth switch returned to the Settings window.

Another thing to consider, if you have a spare WLAN adapter / card for your laptop. You can also try to exchange the cards. Check if the Bluetooth afterwards works. Strangly for me it did with my old adapter as soon as I booted into Windows again. So I disabled Bluetooth, turned of the computer and switched my other one (previously not working) back in and it started immediately working again. The switch for turning on Bluetooth was showing up again and it was also listed in the device manager.

I tried most of the above listed suggestions but none did help or brought it back to life. However the quick swap did some magic. This seems to be a bug within Windows 10 because I'm pretty sure this wasn't a connection issue since the WLAN worked flawlessly. Another thing to note is that a driver update of either the WLAN or Bluetooth broke the Bluetooth functionality.

So if you have a second one lying around and don't want to tinker with software methods which probably won't work if you your adapter disappeared in the device manager try this out. It might be a quicker fix.

I had to do a system restore because I had previously installed the "ScpToolkit", which is for connecting a Playstation 3 Dualshock controller to your computer via bluetooth. It seemed to screw up the bluetooth on my Acer laptop completely.

I also tried uninstalling everything related to Bluetooth in Device manager and then reinstalling some of the Bluetooth drivers found on Acer website for my laptop but those didn't do anything. Bluetooth still wasn't showing up on Device Manager (even though I turned on View --> Show hidden devices).

I noticed I had another issue too that when I go into device manager, I was constantly refreshing after every little while. I figured I should perhaps fix that first and following up, it indeed was connected with bluetooth driver. When I uninstalled the bluetooth device, the refreshing stopped.

I had the show hidden devices option enabled from view menu. There were several items listed under blutooth (previously connected device). I uninstalled them all but they will come back when scan for new devices.

Another suggestion I can give you is if you can somehow force this dialog (posted above) to come and selected `Allow bluetooth devices to find this PC' (this was the deselected when the dialog came up), that seems to apply the proper settings too perhaps.

The problem returned after reboot. I searched "bluetooth" in installed programs for drivers and I had two different ones installed as listed bow. Uninstalling the WIDCOMM Bluetooth Software and rebooting fixed the issue for good. (First I let it stay and uninstalled the intel one but that didn't fix the problem).

For instance, I have a VMWare client running on my work laptop. Today I discovered I was unable to use my bluetooth headset for a Zoom call on the laptop. The Bluetooth button in the Action Center was gone, and the Windows 10 bluetooth settings for my headset said simply, "Bluetooth is turned off".

After looking around for a while, I realized the VMWare client window was stealing the USB bluetooth adapter from the host (the laptop), as shown below. Once I unchecked that, all bluetooth features on the laptop came back:

I had recently changed out a mouse peripheral, and removed what I thought was the dongle for the old mouse. However, it turned out the dongle for the Bluetooth Adapter and the old mouse/peripheral dongle were sized & shaped exactly the same (with no branding).

So, after a while I realized the issue was less technical when Windows reported that there was no Bluetooth Capability - got the old mouse of the recycling bin and switched to the correct dongle... Yes not the smartest of solutions, but someday will hopefully help another person from unnecessary debugging

The laptop bluetooth adaptor is turned OK and seems to be working OK. When powered the LED display on the headphones seem to indicate that a pairing has been made. However the laptop 'discover device' process merely registers an 'unknown device' but will not connect.

Amongst the various configuration settings for Bluetooth was one for "notifications for Fast Pair" (or words to that effect) which was 'on' by default. Once I turned that off - purely as an experiment - the 'Find Device' recognised the headphones and its model number immediately.

Yes, i tried yesterday, andi just tried again, i put everything on the 2.4 GHz bandwidth and on the same Wi-fi type 8xx.xn (instead of the 8xx.xac that was using my pc previously), but it didn't do much sadly.

I know i can use an HDMI cable but i'd rather not especially not with a fix PC, if it was a laptop maybe, but sadly it works on the laptops and not on the tower pc. =/ And the whoel point of that setup is not to use any cables ..

I believe, that what made it work was to enable Bluetooth on my PC most of the time, and i don't remember exactly but updating Bluetooth and/or wifi or whatever was available, also helped. But i don't know for sure what un-stuck the situation.

Basically the whole process : I changed the way i connect my pc to wi-fi with a better wi-fi card and then i updated wi-fi bluetooth drivers for my wi-fi card, or from windows don't remeber exactly what control those ..

The only other thing that I have to try is getting hold of a wifi adapter that supports the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands. At the moment my current one only supports 5Ghz but I hold little hope that the new one coming in the post will solve the issue (Miracast - the wifi tech that screen sharing uses- has to connect over the 2.4Ghz band so far as I'm able to understand)

I got mine to work in about 2 minutes after it not working for over a year. Someone mentioned bluetooth, on my windows 10 laptop i went to bluetooth devices, removed the "samsung 65" tv" from connected devices, then pressed the windows button and "k". Clicked on the tv, reconnected, and the tv prompted me to allow it to connect. Clicked allow, and boom! it worked!

It seems as though its bluetooth login or authentication credentials were not working, and removing and adding the entry again fixed it. So anyone else having issues, give this a try. It works flawlessly again!

Am I correct that I cant use the Victron Connect Windows app with my Victron Bluetooth enabled devices? Why is that? My laptop can pair with my BMS and charge controllers but they dont show up in the Windows app.

I actually thought I could run VictronConnect on my Microsoft Surface Pro 8 today. However, after actually downloading the app to my SP8, and launching it, I wasn't able to find any of my Victron Smart Devices. I quick search today, revealed to me this is an ongoing issue unable to be accomplished as of the date of this post?

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