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"Bluetooth Devices" not in Control Panel
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:07 pm
by brsnyder
I'm trying to connect my new mobile phone (Samsung a707) to my T60. I'm having a few problems.
I searched in the help and it says to add BT devices by using the Control Panel, Printers and other hardware, Bluetooth devices. But I don't have the Bluetooth devices option. Any suggestions?
Thanks -- Barbara
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:12 pm
by christopher_wolf
Do you see the Bluetooth icon in the system tray area and have you enabled bluetooth?
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:32 pm
by brsnyder
I have enabled Bluetooth. It actually found the phone once, then Bluetooth crashed and I restarted. I don't see a BT icon but I see "BT Network - a network cable is unplugged" (now that I am looking there). But that is looking for a BT Lan Access driver.
Is there any way to get the "Bluetooth Devices" entry in the Control Panel? I can't figure out why that isn't there.
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:34 pm
by cxls
I just set up the same thing with the same new phone this week.
Did you, by any chance, install the Bluetooth software that recently came out through Windows Update? When I did that it screwed up my Bluetooth software as well, and I had to uninstall it and reinstall the software again from the Lenovo site.
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:40 pm
by brsnyder
Actually, I can be more specific after additional testing. I got to the point in the SW I'm installing where I got the devices paired. Then the SW says "Connecting to SPP." Then BT crashes with "BT Stack COM server has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
Maybe I need to updating some SW or something?
Why is everything so glitchy? <whine whine>
-- Barbara
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:41 pm
by brsnyder
Oops, the msg from cxls got posted while I was writing mine. I don't know if/when I might have updated BT, but I can go to Lenovo to dl and reinstall....
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:59 pm
by brsnyder
How do you uninstall existing BT? It's not in the Control Panel. Via device manager?
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:57 pm
by seaders
Just to update this thread with an answer, because I had the same problem myself, if you do uninstall the normal, WIDCOMM based driver that Lenovo commonly provides and reinstall this one,
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-61412 you'll get 'Bluetooth Devices' in Control Panel. This also means you can access the Bluetooth easier from with Java, if you're developing with it at all (important for me,
).
Hope ye don't mind me bringing up an old thread for this, but I just wanted to bring a solution to this.