I installed Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) with MacOS 10.14.3 using Bootcamp Assistant and it seems that the bluetooth is not working. It is discovering my bluetooth devices but not connecting them. I tried everything that I could do (all the fixes that I was able to find on google) but still don't seem to find the solution to this problem. Anyone please help me!!
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14
I am really so ****** off right now as everything else works just fine but the bluetooth.
I am really so ****** off right now as everything else works just fine but the bluetooth.
This is a bit odd but when I used pnputil.exe then it does not show the Bluetooth radio provided by Microsoft in the list, it only shows the Bluetooth Radio that is of my Bluetooth Dongle installed before. However in the Device Manager it shows that there is Bluetooth Radio installed provided by Microsoft. I am attaching the screenshots in this reply.
2. Tried to turn on the Bluetooth Collaboration in the Broadcom Adapter driver in Device Manager but did not find the settings of Bluetooth Collaboration at all there.
This indicates that you are using a generic Windows BT driver, because Windows thinks that it has a better driver than the Apple-provided Broadcom BC driver. You may have to uninstall and remove the current driver, and install the BC driver and disallow Windows from updating BT/WiFi driver.
I uninstalled the Bluetooth Radio provided by Windows and tried to disallow Windows from updating the drivers automatically by add a new key to the registry that says ExlcudeWUDriversInQualityUpdate and setting its value to 1. And after that I installed Apple’s Broadcom Bluetooth driver but somehow Windows is installing the Bluetooth Radio back immediately after I install Apple Broadcom Bluetooth driver. Am I correctly disallowing windows from updating drivers automatically?
I uninstalled the Bluetooth driver provided by Microsoft and tried this above method for disallowing Windows 10 from updating drivers automatically and then tried to re-install the BC drivers but it's not showing the Bluetooth in my Device Manager at all now.
Remove the generic driver from the DrvStore using pnputil.exe. Change the policy to allow driver installation, but do not connect to the internet, install the BC driver and verify. Once you can verify it, then enable this policy to disallow any future updates and re-verify. Now you can test connecting to the internet and testing BT.
If you disable the updates using these steps, you will not be able to install drivers. See https://www.maketecheasier.com/block-driver-updates-specific-devices-windows10/ as a reference, which uses specific PID/VIDs. Windows is installing based on partial PID/VID matches, which should be disabled. You should only install drivers which match both PID and VID.
There are two variants of the Broadcom driver
You seem to have the Generic version, not the Apple version. This is the Broadcom BT side.
And after installing the Apple Broadcom Bluetooth Driver, it shows a yellow mark at the driver in Device Manager but it shows install in the list of drivers in pnputil.
No I don't think so. Screenshot below:
It is from Broadcom!!
These are from a 2013 rMBP. If you are missing Bluetooth Collaboration, you have a non-Apple driver.
Can you list the Googled 'fixes' you have tried so far, to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort?
Take a look at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2500967/how-to-stop-windows-7-automatically-installing-drivers . This is valid for W8/W10 as well.
Do you also have an Apple-provided Wireless Network driver in Windows Device Manager?
Can you check if the 802.11ac adapter driver is Apple or Microsoft?
Bluetooth not working on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Bootcamp
