Thursday, June 16, 2011

Bluetooth Stereo on Windows 7 64 bit - Dell Inspiron 1525

I recently got a Arctic Sound P311 Bluetooth Stereo Headset (which btw is awesome!!!).

I tried connecting this to a inspiron 1525 laptop running windows 7 64 bit. Had some trouble and had to do a bit of googling to figure out how to use it. So here are the steps:

1) Get proper drivers. This thread provides names of the drivers which are required to get Windows 7 working properly on Inspiron. (for some reason, dell does not provide win 7 drivers for inspiron, so most of the drivers you see are still from dell, but are for Vista 64!!!)
For bluetooth we need the following drivers (and install them in same order)
R159805
R140135
Google up the terms above and download it from the dell link.

2) Once both these are installed, ADD a Device in Bluetooth and add your bluetooth headset. Windows will search for the correct drivers now and install them.

3) Once connected and configured, right click on the sound icon, select "playback devices" . Here you should be able to see two bluetooth devices "headset earphone - bluetooth hands-free audio" and "headset earphone - bluetooth stereo audio" . right click the latter and "test" it . Once you confirm it plays well, right click again and select "set as default communication device".

Enjoy wireless stereo audio from your laptop.

Cheers!!!

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