{"id":74,"date":"2011-07-27T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=74"},"modified":"2011-08-06T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T15:57:30","slug":"how-to-get-an-old-bluetooth-device-to-work-with-windows-7vista-nokia-bh-505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"How to get an old Bluetooth device to work with Windows 7 or Vista (Nokia BH-505)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother bought me a bluetooth wireless headset for Christmas, a Nokia BH-505 <\/strong>to be exact. It worked fine connecting it to mobile devices, but I bought a bluetooth USB dongle for my computer (Avantalk BTDG-20<\/strong>). This came with a disk with bluetooth software called bluemanager. It connected my device but the music playback was truely awful. This was because the bluetooth\u00a0software wasn’t quite compatible with the headset’s chipset<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Problem:<\/strong> Bluetooth headset wouldn’t stream music correctly.<\/p>\n

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Nokia BH-505<\/p><\/div>\n

So, the first thing I needed to do was find out what the chipset was on the headset. After a bit of searching in the web I found that\u00a0it was the\u00a0BlueCore2<\/strong> chipset.(http:\/\/unusb.com\/views\/?NOKIA-BH-505-36873.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After\u00a0searching BlueCore2 I found it was made by CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio). However CSR don’t have a free bluetooth software program, so I needed to find software that supported the\u00a0BlueCore2 chipset. There are a few bluetooth software programs around and they all are unique in what chipsets they support. The chipsets that bluetooth software support are contained in a bluetooth stack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After several failed attempts to find a viable free driver source (and I mean many) the only one I had got it to work with was a program called IVT BlueSoleil, <\/strong>this\u00a0had support for the the\u00a0BlueCore2\u00a0chipset in the bluetooth stack.\u00a0However the version I used was on a trial basis; you had to pay for the full version.<\/p>\n

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BlueSoleil Version 2.3<\/p><\/div>\n

So it looked like I was stumpted however Avantalk had free downloads in the support section of thier website. And it just so happens they had an older version of BlueSoleil, with no limitations. After trying this version, it worked perfectly so I could use my bluetooth headset to listen to music wirelessly. Happy days!<\/p>\n

Fix: <\/strong><\/p>\n