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Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#1 Post by loyukfai » Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:35 am

Usually prefer Windows' drivers, but just found out it doesn't have a built-in driver for Bluetooth headsets.

Could use a 2006 CSR stack available on the Net, or maybe switch to Lenovo's stack...?

What's your take...?

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#2 Post by loyukfai » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:36 pm

BTW, there are 2 services provided by the headet - "Headset" and "Handsfree Telephony". Enabling the former works for Skype. Any idea what's the use of the latter profile...?

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#3 Post by crashnburn » Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:20 pm

Yes. Especially for Windows 7 on X61T/ T61.. which one should we use?
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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#4 Post by loyukfai » Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:35 pm

You mean to use the Lenovo's stack...?

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#5 Post by crashnburn » Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:53 am

Yes. Especially for Windows 7 on X61T/ T61.. which one should we use?
T61 8892-02U: 14.1"SXGA+/2.2C2D/4G/XP|Adv Mini Dock|30" Gateway XHD3000 WQXGA via Dual-link DVI
X61T 7767-96U: 12.1"SXGA+/1.6C2D/3G/Vista|Ultrabase
W510 4319-2PU: 15.6"FHD/i7-720QM/4G/Win7Pro64 (for dad)
T43 1875-DLU: 14.1"XGA/1.7PM-740/1G/XP (Old)

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#6 Post by loyukfai » Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:26 am

I'm sticking with the built-in stack and use the 2006 CSR drivers, for now. Have tried the Lenovo stack before, but there were some issues, which I forgot... :wink:

After all these years, I expected that Windows would have better built-in support for Bluetooth...

Sigh.

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#7 Post by loyukfai » Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:36 pm

OK I switched to Lenovo's stack at last cause the built-in stack doesn't send files to my Android devices reliably...

Other observations...
  • More built-in drivers included, including one for Bluetooth headset which I had to download from somewhere before.
  • The Bluetooth icon becomes more ugly.
  • As more drivers and Bluetooth profiles are supported, it brings up an extra icon for the Android device under Windows Explorer as well.
  • It adds a "Bluetooth Devices" folder in the Program Menu.
Cheers.

Edit: Scratched that, the Lenovo stack doesn't send files to the Android device reliably either.

Even worse, the headset becomes unusable in Skype.

Uninstalled and move back to Windows' default.

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#8 Post by BigCatAndy » Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:57 pm

Hello @all,

I'm trying to replace MS-Bluetooth stack by the one from Lenovo in Windows7. Or, better to say, remove the one from MS and keep just "Lenovo"'s. Any idea how to do it?

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Andrey.
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(2) Lenovo 3000 N200 - 2 GB / C2D T7300 / 160 GB
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IBM 600x, IBM TP T43p, Lenovo TP Z61t, Lenovo TP X60 Tablet

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#9 Post by loyukfai » Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:49 am

The Lenovo installer will replace the driver automatically, IIRC.

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Re: Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

#10 Post by BigCatAndy » Thu Oct 24, 2013 5:46 pm

loyukfai wrote:The Lenovo installer will replace the driver automatically, IIRC.

Cheers.
No. At the present I have 2 entries in the "Device manager" - Lenovo and MS enumerator. And when I uninstall MS stack and then enable Bluetooth again (with a hardware switch), it installs MS stack again.

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(1) TP R61i Frankepad - 4 GB / C2D T9500 / 180 GB SSD / UXGA display
(2) Lenovo 3000 N200 - 2 GB / C2D T7300 / 160 GB
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IBM 600x, IBM TP T43p, Lenovo TP Z61t, Lenovo TP X60 Tablet

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