iphone bluetooth driver for windows 7

Bri Guy wrote:

I need to transfer a photo from my phone to my work computer, and I left the cable at home. So I'm out of luck today. Wow. Craptacular.

Sure is. Because of course you can't email the photo to yourself, and download the photo from your email onto your work computer.

iOS Bluetooth has never been advertised or designed for file transfer from an iOS device to a computer. So, expecting a feature that the company never said was available is ridiculous... and getting upset about it is even more ridiculous.

My iPhone can't be used as microwave to heat my food! Gosh durn it Apple!!!

I was just able to setup a bluetooth connection between my iPhone 4s and my Windows 7 PC and I'm streaming music through much better speakers... It was all plug-and-play to download the audio driver. Just "Add a Bluetooth Device" in the hardware section of Control Panel while viewing bluetooth devices on your iPhone (so that it is discoverable). I'm not sure why people are saying that you can't when it is so easy.

A2DP is streamed over a Bluetooth connection. This is just what I wanted to do when finding this discussion and I'm glad that I didn't give up based on the comments here!

Puli asked if he could connect to his Windows 7 PC using Bluetooth. Are you making some assumption that I am missing about specific protocols and services?

I can say that "yes" you certainly can connect via Bluetooth to a Windows 7 PC (that was the question) at the very least to stream audio, because I've done it.

With only 3 days of iPhone experince, I can assure readers that this earlier statement is not true:

"The only thing for which you can use bluetooth with a PC is tethering the phone's 3G Internet connection."

Hi, I am trying this but the drivers fail to load or can not be found and the pairing is then unsuccessful. Any tips please?

4sUserfromNH wrote:

I was just able to setup a bluetooth connection between my iPhone 4s and my Windows 7 PC and I'm streaming music through much better speakers... It was all plug-and-play to download the audio driver. Just "Add a Bluetooth Device" in the hardware section of Control Panel while viewing bluetooth devices on your iPhone (so that it is discoverable). I'm not sure why people are saying that you can't when it is so easy.

I have an iPhone 3GS and I can use bluetooth to tether my internet to my windows7 laptop.

I have a bluetooth icon on my taskbar, right click will open a menu. Click on add a device, once you've paired your iphone you can connecto to it.

Select the device and connect using access point that will share the iphone's internet to the laptop.

I hope it helps!

Rik.

I have a Windows 7 laptop and an IPhone 3gs. When I pair it the phone says Not Connected but the Laptop says it is. It updates my calendar from Laptop to Iphone. However when I'm on the road the Bluetooth connection in my Toyota keeps dropping out and instantly reconnecting - anoying! Before I connected to my laptop all was fine now even if I disconnect the Iphone from the Laptop it still drops out on the road.

The Iphone is saying "No connected" now even though the laptop and the phone are both side by side.

I think the problem is the lack of a driver which on pairing the Laptop couldn't find even though the connection is working.

I have installed the Broadcom driver that Edbrows points to, and it will indeed play music. But that's it.

I'm a Mac person through and through, but I find this lack of Bluetooth support between the most ubiquitous phone and the most ubiquitous operating system totally unacceptable. Really, Apple? We're still playing these games? I need to transfer a photo from my phone to my work computer, and I left the cable at home. So I'm out of luck today. Wow. Craptacular.

TJBUSMC1973 wrote:

My iPhone can't be used as microwave to heat my food! Gosh durn it Apple!!!

I find that comment/attitude absurd. People expect un-stated features all the time. It's called advancement/innovation. It's got nothing to do with what the manufacturer advertised it could/couldn't do at some point in time.

Of course, I am not talking cooking, I am talking Bluetooth transfers!

If a feature is useful/desirable and reasonable we should expect a manufacturer to implement it. If not, that manufacturer is falling behind, and we go and buy somewhere else.

I'm with Bri Guy. This is a feature my Nokia 'feature phone' had years ago. Lame that we are going backwards.

In the early days, Apple stuff 'just worked'. Those days are gone, and Apple functionality looks a lot like their competitors these days (often behind even), just with a bit more gloss and shine. Whoopee.

My next phone sure ain't an iPhone.

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I have a Dell which has an Atheros 1703 bluetooth card. Using Dell's drivers from their website that came with the PC I cannot connect my iPhone 5s BUT if i go to Atheros website and download their latest drivers every thing works. Dell hasn't updated their drivers but the latest suite has a lot of features

EXAMPLE ---?>http://atherosdriver.com/atheros-bluetooth-drivers-Dell%201703-windows7-64bit.ht ml

I usually get the latest audio drivers from realtek, ect directly from the vendor's website

YES! Thank you! EZ PZ. Connected my iPhone 6s to my Windows 7 Bluetooth laptopwhich is HDMI'd to my big screen surround sound. PuuuuuurFect! :-D First, my laptop found my iPhone using 'add a device' on my laptop. Then, my laptop sent the same code to my iPhone to verify and allow the connection that was on my laptop. I tapped the accept button on my iPhone and started playing music. A nice mini player pops up at the beginning of songs for a few seconds.

Thanks Gridiron Duck!!

Interesting thread for sure. I shadowed it and finally tried Briguy and Gridiron Duck's ideas and they do work. Thing is, technology is moving at lightspeed, probably a little too fast so it is just assumed that everything works every way. Even I make assumptions that I know better to do because I develop interface logic for business software to communicate.

Remember, where there is a will there is a way. Don't get flustered, if it doesn't work make it work. When it comes to computing, nothing is impossible so thank you all for slugging it out and solving this problem for me.

Great forum.

Tired MP

No. You can't. That's not a feature of the iPhone.

The only thing for which you can use bluetooth with a PC is tethering the phone's 3G Internet connection.

That is correct.

This has never been a feature of iphone.

Because you can't. What you have apparently set up is a driver that allows you to use A2DP audio streaming. That's a different animal.