How do you enable bluetooth on the W500? I purchased the Acer W500 tablet, however I can not figure out how to enable bluetooth. I went into "Devices and Printers > Add Device" option and turned on bluetooth on my HTC Evo smartphone, but it does not detect it (I make the smartphone bluetooth "discoverable" with the 120 second countdown). I also downloaded the bluetooth drivers from the Acer support website and downloaded those/ installed/ rebooted, thinking that the Windows 7 update might have overwrote them. However, no luck in getting my bluetooth to work.Is there a button I'm supposed to be pressing somewhere on the unit? Any replies from anyone who has this tablet and has been able to get bluetooth to work would be greatly appreciated! How do you enable bluetooth on the W500? I purchased the Acer W500 tablet, however I can not figure out how to enable bluetooth. I went into "Devices and Printers > Add Device" option... » Read More How do you enable bluetooth on the W500? I purchased the Acer W500 tablet, however I can not figure out how to enable bluetooth. I went into "Devices and Printers > Add Device" option and turned on bluetooth on my HTC Evo smartphone, but it does not detect it (I make the smartphone bluetooth "discoverable" with the 120 second countdown). I also downloaded the bluetooth drivers from the Acer support website and downloaded those/ installed/ rebooted, thinking that the Windows 7 update might have overwrote them. However, no luck in getting my bluetooth to work.Is there a button I'm supposed to be pressing somewhere on the unit? Any replies from anyone who has this tablet and has been able to get bluetooth to work would be greatly appreciated! « Show Less
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What phone are you using via bluetooth? will any phone with bluetooth work?why would you need or want to use phone instead of wifi?
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Appreciate the response! I actually got it to work last night before seeing your reply. I had reinstalled the Bluetooth drivers from the Acer website. I had turned off the unit two days ago and turned it back on yesterday and suddenly the bluetooth icon was showing up in my system tray and Windows 7 said it had installed the drivers. I was able to sync the tablet with my cellphone and can now get internet wirelessly from my phone at 4G speed - AWESOME!
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I am using an HTC Evo 4G. I'm assuming that any phone with bluetooth and a 3G or 4G connection will work if you can install PDANet on that phone since PDANet is the software needed to have your phone's internet work with the tablet. You would want to use your phone's internet instead of wi-fi for many scenarios, but most common would be that you can use your phones internet in places where free wi-fi is unavailable but your phones internet is available (for example, the middle of a park, in a car, etc.).
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put your five fingers on the screen to bring up the acer ring. touch the center button "Devices" to bring up the wifi / bluetooth enble function.
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Mine didn't either. assume faulty hardware because driver install wouldn't matter if windows can't even find a device to install a driver for. threw it away and the bought a bluetooth 4.0 name brand for $10 which required no drivers. plug and play.
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Go to HP.com and search for the item. There is comparability chart. Only a few HP printers are compatable with the BT500 usb blue tooth. My advise is but a new portable HP mobile printer. It is already a blue tooth printer and works great. Remember that your computer must have blue tooth as well for any printer that has blue tooth. Not all computers come with blue tooth. There are new inexpensive printers that now have there own wireless network installed. This is the best solution to wireless printing.
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It isn't needed. Open windows icon on bar. Search for services. And turn on Bluetooth services in the list. The software they provide is a trial and is too expensive to buy. It works wonderful with windows but you have to enable it to work with the os.
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I assume you have already installed the Bluetooth adapter. If not, just insert it into an available USB port and the drivers should be loaded automatically. If the adapter has been successfully added, you'll be able to see an new icon representing Bluetooth in the notification area at the bottom right of your screen within the visible or hidden portion of this area. Right click on this icon and select "Enable Bluetooth Function" from the drop down list. From the same drop down list, select "Add New Connection". You will immediately see a dialog box actively looking for your Bluetooth enabled device. From there, you'll have to follow the instructions to pair this new device with your computer. I assume you have already installed the Bluetooth adapter. If not, just insert it into an available USB port and the drivers should be loaded automatically. If the adapter has been successfully added, you'll be able to see an new icon representing Bluetooth in the notification area at the bottom right of your screen within the visible or hidden portion of this area. Right click on this icon and select "Enable Bluetooth Function" from the drop down list. From the same drop down list, select "Add New Connection". You will immediately see a dialog box actively looking for... » Read More I assume you have already installed the Bluetooth adapter. If not, just insert it into an available USB port and the drivers should be loaded automatically. If the adapter has been successfully added, you'll be able to see an new icon representing Bluetooth in the notification area at the bottom right of your screen within the visible or hidden portion of this area. Right click on this icon and select "Enable Bluetooth Function" from the drop down list. From the same drop down list, select "Add New Connection". You will immediately see a dialog box actively looking for your Bluetooth enabled device. From there, you'll have to follow the instructions to pair this new device with your computer. « Show Less
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good question :) I don't know. I can't get it to connect to any bluetooth device either
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I have a HP Envy with Windows 8.1 64 bit. It is connected up bluetooth to my Samsung Galaxy S5 for sending files to the phone only. It does have the option to turn on for remote keyboard/mouse and music & audio. I downloaded the current drivers from Dell's website by searching on google for BCM4352 Windows 8.1 drivers.
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Your computer needs to have Bluetooth and if you have added a USB dangle for it, then it needs to load/get the driver and from my experience on a few Windows 7 devices without and with Bluetooth, Windows 7 is a disgrace to an OS when it comes to Bluetooth connections, it is slow, faulty, and painful. The second, if you ever decide to do it, you switch to Windows 8, everything becomes normal!
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Last I heard you have to go into settings and activate the bluetooth on your tablet. It only works with bluetooth devices even though it has that usb adapter..which I thought was ridiculous. It may just be broken anyway. It's junk like I said in my review.
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It's Windows standard, but first make sure Bluetooth is turned on on the Laptop. It's on the f8 button I think. Then hit the windows/start and just search for bluetooth settings. The laptop will then start searching for bluetooth devices. On some devices you'll need to put them in pair mode at that point.
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I had the same problem. It's the wrong manual. Just turn the key board on and turn the blue tooth on on the tablet. Then type the code it says and press enter and you're good to go. Hope this helps. :)
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Just turn the speaker on. In your phone or tablet go into bluetooth, turn it on and search for devices. It will be under PH-BT1000 speaker. Once you pair them they will be paired forever, just turn the speaker on and have your bluetooth on and it will connect on its own every time. So far I've been able to pair it with every device in my house, I even have the battery icon working on my rooted nexus 7.
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I had the same question when I saw this mouse. Searching the user reviews for "bluetooth" shows this mouse is NOT bluetooth compatible. The mouse specs say "Bluetrack technology", but it apparently requires the USB dongle. Hopefully MS will release a future Arc Touch mouse that supports bluetooth. I'd like to replace my laptop travel bluetooth mouse with a portable flat designed mouse like this one.
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I purchased WEP 200 with Moto W810i from Cingular store. Trying to search for device and phone says no device found. Phone works fine with my laptop bluetooth. any suggestions. I charged it fully.
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I have had this same problems with nermerous other bluetooth mice on both windows and android alike.I have found if you can find a mouse that list the same version bluetooth that your device uses. This problem almost stops all together, ie: bluetooth 4.0 on tablet works best with a bluetooth 4.0 mouse.Yes they are suppose to be interchangeable but sometimes that isn`t the case in myexperences. Hope this helps.
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Like the previous user, I am not sure. I use the Bluetooth only with my Surface Pro tablet, which comes with built in Bluetooth. You must turn the blue tooth on, set the radio to listen to new devices and connect both devices. Do not forget to have the mouse unplugged and turned on while you are doing this. If you have windows 8 or 8.1 the settings to do this are very easily found on the charms that appear on the right of the screen.
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I went under the area where you connect wifi at the bottom of the screen and selected connect Bluetooth device. Follow set up from there. Hope that's helpful.