I managed to get my bluetooth headset to work with my A31p

[dperron]

First on all, I use Windows XP SP2, so that may be why I've had such a hard time to get this to work.

After trying many different solutions (SP2 native bluetooth support, patched IBM driver for IBM Integrated bluetooth II...), I simply installed the latest Widcomm drivers (4.0.1.700) and it worked!

You can find it at:
http://www.mobidick.biz/downloads.shtml

and the patched files can be found:
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/index.php?

1-Turn off bluetooth (press the bluetooth button below the screen)
2-Install the Widcomm driver
3-Reboot in safe mode
4-Replace these files with patched versions:
btneighbourhood.dll - c:\windows\system32
wbtapi.dll - c:\windows\system32
bttray.exe - c:\program files\widcomm\bluetooth software\bin
btstackserver.exe - c:\program files\widcomm\bluetooth software\bin
5-Reboot
6-Turn on bluetooth

[matchip]

myabe i'm not that too observant, but the patch files seems to link to dead end... And if i cracked this widcomm software, is it legal?

[dperron]

For the patch, you have to register onto the gsmhosting forum, here's a direct link to the thread containing the patch:

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=179871

As for the legal question, I personally think that it is criminal to sell hardware without providing the proper drivers for free. Widcomm are even worse, they actively try to make their driver incompatible by requiring a special license.dat file for each product.

I don't feel any guilt in getting my "legally bought" laptop to work with my "legally bought" headset.

[matchip]

thanks.... but i still haven't managed to get it work.
My thinkpad are 2653-R5A, on the device manager the device driver says :
+Batteries
+Bluetooth Device
- Bluetooth Bus Enumerator
- IBM Intergrated Bluetooth
+ Computer

Since i'm installing WIDCOMM drivers, should it detect as an IBM? When I try to overwrite the drivers, windows could only find these two driver in thier "inf\" and even on "c:\prog....\widcom\...bin\"
I follow your step,
off bluetooth > install widcomm 4.0 > on this part it prompt couldn't find bluetooth device, click cancel to continue > restart > go to safemode > apply pacthes > restart > turn on bluetooth > driver installing > start using > but it couldn't work
When I click it, it still asked for the license file. The bluetooth icon on the taskbar are still red.
I know the bluetooth works on SP1. Any ideas?

[dperron]

Have you tried pressing the bluetooth button below your screen.

Ok, now aside from this obvious detail, here's what I would do.

Make sure that your Windows is at SP2.

1- Uninstall every bluetooth driver (widcomm 4.0, old IBM bluetooth driver)
2- If you modified bth.inf, revert it to the original settings (otherwise nevermind)
3- Restart
4- Install the driver just as I explained above.

That's pretty much what I did.

[DavidBoodey]

Thanks dperron for the steps. Very cool being able to use my body glove bluetooth earpiece that I mainly use for my LG Sprint phone with my thinkpad.

Only issue I had was I had to replace bttray and btstackserver files in \bluetooth instead of \bluetooth\bin

[Kingsley]

Are any of you using your bluetooth headsets for voice recognition and if so how do they work?

Kingsley Bowles

[dperron]

No I don't....

However there's no reason why this shouldn't work....

As long as you can select the sound input source in your voice recognition application...

[matchip]

hmm... been a while...

manage to get it work yesterday, it looks like that 2 of the files are place at "C:\program files\widcomm\bluetooth software" not "C:\program files\widcomm\bluetooth software\bin", no wonder it didn't ask to overwrite any files.

hehe... thanks dperron. it works A+