windows 7 does not load the ipad bluetooth drivers

You can't do anything with blue tooth on a pc.

iPad does not support data transfers over wifi-only headphones, keyboards.

Your reply does not answer the question. Yes, you can do somehting with bluetooth on a PC. If you run the Reflector app on your PC, you iPad2 should be able to connect to to the PC through bluetooth. Then you should be able to see a mirrored image of your iPad device on your PC. Anything you do on your iPad will show up on your PC monitor. And all this is done through BLUETOOTH.

Now my bluetooth drivers are not being installed properly or something during the initial discovery of my iPad2. Other drivers are loaded for the device, but the bluetooth drivers specifically will not install properly.

Now back to the solution. Where do I get the drivers from so that I can install them manually?

Thanks.

Everything I can find on Reflector says it runs on Wifi not Bluetooth.

http://www.reflectorapp.com/

Besides that, Bluetooth is a universal protocol. That means the only drivers you need to set up are your actual bluetooth antenna, not drivers for the devices you want to connect with it.

There are no iPad drivers because you should not need them.

Also correcting a year old post does no good.

Hi Phil,

It's funny that you say that Reflector runs on Wifi and not Bluetooth. I thought the same thing and that's why I was having a difficult time with getting this to work...on top of the bluetooth drivers not installing properly.

When you initially connct your iPad device to your computer through bluetooth, your PC installs bluetooth drivers...you can see this by the little notifictaion you get that says this. Setting up your device...installing drivers. So you can't tell me that there are no iPad bluetooth drivers.

You have to enable bluetooth on your ipad to get to the mirroring icon. (double tap your home button and scroll to the left. The mirroring icon should be visible and only visible if you have bluetooth turned on. Now if you run Reflector, then you should see the name of your PC that you shared through Reflector. Then you click on the mirroring app on your iPad and select the shared name on your PC and slide the mirroring toggle button to turn it on.

I have tested this on another laptop running Windows 7 and everything installed perfectly fine...even the bluetooth drivers.

So my conlusion is that it is the bluetooth drivers at fault here, since they didnt install properly. No matter how many times I remove the device and readd it, the bluetooth drivers do not install and I see red x's beside them.

Not sure what is keeping the drivers from being installed.

BTW...thanks for your reply Phil...see posting to this year old thread did me some good as you replied 😉

cheers,

Tom

The Computer installs device drivers, but there aren't specific ones., All I get is generic Bluetooth Peripheral Device Driver install. I went through the steps, and Windows 7 was unable to install 2 of the 3 drivers for whatever reason.

Having Refelctor running I get no AirPlay icon on my iPad 2.

I would say its an issue with the particular bluetooth hardware that does not have those drivers available to it in Windows driver database. Maybe a different adapter would successfully install those.

Mine is a brandless USB Bluetooth Dongle. Its worked fine for other devicws though.

In any case I doubt you'll find specific bluetooth iPad drivers for iPad.

he is partly true yes, not the whole truth , ya cannot to my knowledge use bluetooth from Apple to PC or PC to Apple but ; PC does have it's own bluetooth drivers , yes . PC still can not bluetooth Apple to my knowledge . I do not know why the two competitors cannot work CIVILY together to benifit the public . ? ? ?

LPerkins1529 wrote:

he is partly true yes, not the whole truth , ya cannot to my knowledge use bluetooth from Apple to PC or PC to Apple but ; PC does have it's own bluetooth drivers , yes . PC still can not bluetooth Apple to my knowledge . I do not know why the two competitors cannot work CIVILY together to benifit the public . ? ? ?

I don't think you understand what you're talking about. There is no "PC BlueTooth" or "Apple Bluetooth". There is just Bluetooth. And it has lots of different profiles. Not every device has every profile. And what do you mean by "Apple"? Apple makes iOS devices and they make Macs. Two different operating systems with vastly differenet capabilities, including the BT profiles they're capable of using.

I also don't think you understand the meaning of "competitors".

To add to previous post I always found helpful that Apple article

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647

it lists all supported bluetooth protocols per device, and once looking at that list File transfer is not supported. That is not what tommy_sharkfin was referring to, since he was talking about one particular app, but that is what everyone else expects and does not get.

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The original poster has moved on,why don't you?