T42p, Vista, and Bluetooth Headphones - No Audio

[PeteS457]

*** I already placed this post in the Vista forum a couple months ago, but got no response. I'm hoping this forum might have a bit more traffic and get a response. Sorry for thr repeat post. ***

I have a T42p with Vista Ultimate (from Microsoft) and all Vista updates. I have downloaded all the devices drivers from Lenovo System Update. (On the Lenovo support site, it says that Bluetooth drivers are included with Vista, so I saw nothing to download specific to Bluetooth.) I recently bought a pair of Logitech Freepulse Bluetooth stereo headphones which supports the A2DP profile. On my T42p from Control Panel/Bluetooth, I tell it to discover the Freepulse headphones and put the Freepulse headphones in discoverable mode. Everything seems to go great. Vista reports that it finds the headphones, it pairs with the headphones (visual indicators on the headphones confirm this), and then it downloads a driver from Windows Update (according to the notification bubble) for "Bluetooth Peripheral Device", which upon download changes to "Freepulse_Wireless" and installs. The Audio Output device is automatically changed to Bluetooth Renderer and everything seems perfect. HOWEVER, NO AUDIO. Everything in Vista and visual indicators on the headphones indicate it's connected and should be working. I can only assume that this download did not contain an A2DP profile compatible with the Freepulse (which supports A2DP).

The headphones come with a Logitech Bluetooth receiver that plugs into the headphone jack and this works fine. But I do not want to have to use that everytime I use the headphones. (Two thing to carry around, two things to charge, not to mention I have a great notebook with Bluetooth embedded already.)

Does anyone have any advice for me? Has anyone gotten this to work? I have seen that people have used the Toshiba stack, some people have installed Widcomm. Is there something else I have to install? Something I'm overlooking?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[bill bolton]

I have a set of Jabra 620 headphones working fiine with Bluetooth on several Vista equipped ThinkPads including a T43, so its highly unlikley to be the Vista or Thinkpad components which are the problem in your case.

Cheers,

Bill B.

[hero3616]

I am experiencing the same exact problem with Win XP Pro and Vista Business with T43p 2668-PDU and Jabra BT620s.

Please help! Thank you in advance.

Thinkpads rock!

[SHoTTa35]

did you go to control panel (sound) and change the default audio gateway? When you go there you'll see your sound card and the headset. Select it and choose set as default. After that open windows media again and the audio will be sent thru that.

[boatdoc]

Having the same problem here. I can switch it in audio control to bluetooth as defualt and it works, but should it or is there a way to make it automatic!

[SHoTTa35]

Having the same problem here. I can switch it in audio control to bluetooth as defualt and it works, but should it or is there a way to make it automatic!

Yeah, as far as i saw there was no automatic method to redirect the audio. I would love that option too as it totally makes sense but i think we just gotta deal with what we got now.