Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 (edited) Hello, I can connect my HD2 to my girlfriends laptop and use it as a hands free device to make and recieve calls (its running windows 7). I have a desktop running windows 7 at home and have connected using bluetooth, however i cant for the life of me work out how to use it as a hands free device with my headset. One thing i noticed is that it couldnt find a drvier for 'Windows Peripheral Device'... Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, Max Edited April 14, 2010 by Maxwell Newton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rameses Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are you connecting the phone to the PC and then using the PC to make a call? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are you connecting the phone to the PC and then using the PC to make a call? Yes exactly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rameses Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 ok, so I'm not sure i see the point but i tried it myself and get a similar error with the bluetooth on Windows7 on my laptop. i wasn't surprised as i've always had bother with WinMo phones and bluetooth connections. it's really annoying because the wife's £30 Nokia connects with no problems at all. grrrrr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 16, 2010 Report Share Posted April 16, 2010 ok, so I'm not sure i see the point but i tried it myself and get a similar error with the bluetooth on Windows7 on my laptop. i wasn't surprised as i've always had bother with WinMo phones and bluetooth connections. it's really annoying because the wife's £30 Nokia connects with no problems at all. grrrrr! The point is: I spend a lot of time on my phone and in front of the computer working, so to reduce radiation in my head i thought it would be safer to use a wired headset. The reason i want to use the computer for this is because i get limited reception in my home and of course hardly any around my computer, however there is a little hotsopt about 3m away, so i figured i would just sit the phone there and use bluetooth... Shame you cant get this working either, ill try it again on my girlfriends pc and see if i get the driver error... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rameses Posted April 16, 2010 Report Share Posted April 16, 2010 Ah, I see, makes sense when you say it like that ;) .I've reinstalled my BT drivers but the laptop still has a problem with the 'bt peripheral device'. How about getting a BT headset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Did think about that, but being a tight student i thought i would have a crack at getting this to work first! Ill see if i can get some answers from xda, thanks for your help on this though! Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rameses Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 I've done some more research and found this guide: http://nepalesemap.com/windows7_forum/index.php?topic=2.0 I've followed the instructions and even though I still get the yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager I was able to use my laptop as a Blue Tooth handsfree for the HD2. All I need to do now is work out how to use the laptop to actually dial the number and then hang up when finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 (edited) this looks good but i dont seem to have microsoft corporation in the list. i already have the device centre, but will download it again from the link and see if it adds it in... good find btw, thanks very much! On the dialing, i know you can do it, i dont know if i mentioned before but i was able to dial on my girlfriends computer. EDIT: Installing the update gave me the option.. illlet you know if i have any luck! Edited April 19, 2010 by Maxwell Newton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 (edited) okay so its installed but how do i access the options to turn on hands free... Rameses... how do i activate the hands free in the same way you managed to? Edited April 21, 2010 by Maxwell Newton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 I got a new laptop and tried doing the bluetooth with it... this time when i attached my device it came up with about 7 different driver things... the one that failed above failed again this time, but the new 3 or 4 were for the phone function. I new window pops up with a box to dial and connect to the phone in all sorts of new ways... how do i get this for my desktop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxwell Newton Posted April 30, 2010 Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 well.... bump?? The HD2 forum here seems a little dead compared to the omnia one im used to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rameses Posted May 20, 2010 Report Share Posted May 20, 2010 Maxwell, did you ever resolve this? I had some real bother with the BT drivers and have ended up uninstalling them as it appeared to have made my laptop really unstable. Anyway I was determined to crack this and have found another, hopefully better solution. While looking for a solution I was directed by the Windows Problem Centre thingy to the Lenovo site (no idea why as my laptop is a Dell) and advised to download their BT driver. I've done this and it works brilliantly. It even has a nice user friendly GUI. I can try and send you the driver as I'm not sure of the download URL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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