bluetooth nokia driver help required!!

Euphoria1z

Hi

can someone help me find the driver needed for my nokia N8 phones bluetooth to work with my HP G6 laptop?

both have bluetooth enabled and can see each other and are linked fine. but i cant transfer pics from my phone to laptop. in bluetooth devices i can see my phone, it has a yellow exclamation mark and when you troubleshoot it, it says "The driver for bluetooth peripheral device is nort installed. install the latest driver for this device"

if you then click on " apply fix" it says searching for driver, then it says cant find driver and to go the nokia website and download it from there but i cant find it.

i can actually use bluetooth/and nokia pc suite to upload the picstures but i cant do it directly from phone to laptop like i used to previously. not sure why a driver is suddenly missing?

can someone point me to the link to download the correct driver?

thanks

DevCoder

Go to

http://www.necacom.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5868:atheros-bluetooth-suite-drivers-740110&catid=54:atheros&Itemid=72

and get the driver for you os version (probably the second one)

Im_just_careful

I think you are looking for a PC bluetooth driver. I don't think it is directly a phone issue.

Is bluetooth build in to the laptop or is it a USB plug in Bluetooth device ?

Can you push photos from the phone to the PC ?

I assume you can't explore the phone from the PC.

I've had a fair amount of messing around trying to make things like this work in the past.

For my phone (not a Nokia S60) I've found exploring from the PC using "OBEX file transfer" works best.

Euphoria1z

Im_just_careful wrote: »

I think you are looking for a PC bluetooth driver. I don't think it is directly a phone issue.

Is bluetooth build in to the laptop or is it a USB plug in Bluetooth device ?

Can you push photos from the phone to the PC ?

I assume you can't explore the phone from the PC.

I've had a fair amount of messing around trying to make things like this work in the past.

For my phone (not a Nokia S60) I've found exploring from the PC using "OBEX file transfer" works best.

the bluetooth is built in the laptop.

cant push photos.

cant explore.

going to download the driver from krisdoreys link and see if that works

Euphoria1z

ok, so ive downloaded the 2nd driver from krisdoreys link, and restarted the laptop but it hasnt worked, when sending a pic from the nokia phone it sees the laptop, goes to connecting, then says unable to connect (this used to work previously).

the exclamation mark is still there. in device manager under other devices is also an exclamation mark saying bluetooth peripheral device, and double clicking says

" The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)
There is no driver selected for the device information set or element.

To find a driver for this device, click Update Driver."

if you click on update it goes to the same message as before saying could not locate driver, go to the manufactures (nokia), website etc etc.

what else can i do? am i meant to do something with the ATHEROS driver ive just installed?

thanks

DevCoder

Did you download and install the driver?

If it installed to a directory then right click on the device in device manager, click update driver, choose manually update and point it at the directory it installed to.

Euphoria1z

krisdorey wrote: »

Did you download and install the driver?

If it installed to a directory then right click on the device in device manager, click update driver, choose manually update and point it at the directory it installed to.

sorry, but this is where i get confused.

i clicked the link, ive saved it on my desktop , ran it and it said cant open as doesnt know source file, choose from list or search on net, i search on net and it says this type of file is zipped and to unzip it, i unzip it (by downloading winzip) and i run the atheros install app through winzip and then nothing happens.

the driver is still missing, exclamation mark is still there. still get all the same messages.

DevCoder

When you run unzip, choose extract and point to a folder that you can easily locate (create one in my documents for example).

Then follow this, but point yo the folder you created which now has the extracted files in it

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-install-hardware-or-device-drivers-manually-in-windows-vista/

Caroline_a

N8 bluetooth is a nightmare. I have a bluetooth hands free in the car and every time I use it I have to reboot the phone. My phone does see my laptop, but if I've connected to the hands free I have to reboot again... roll on the delivery of my Iphone!

Euphoria1z

krisdorey wrote: »

When you run unzip, choose extract and point to a folder that you can easily locate (create one in my documents for example).

Then follow this, but point yo the folder you created which now has the extracted files in it

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-install-hardware-or-device-drivers-manually-in-windows-vista/

Awesome...it now works!!! thanks for your help...

now i just need to figure out how to change the location of where it automatically stores the pictures... i click on the settings when i get the pic recieved message but it only gives me options of hiding or showing notifications...i know ive changed the location of where to save the pic on the pc before but cant remember how i did it.

Edit--ive just figured it out.

Thanks for all your help

DevCoder

No problems, glad to help