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Default Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-06-2008, 05:16 PM

Many of you have been getting your lovely new Dell Mini’s and reformatting them straight away to remove all the bloatware which Dell throws on. Those of you who are looking to get the Bluetooth adaptor working without having to install the whole WIDCOMM software on the drivers disc, which can only be seen as a load of bloatware can now use a modified driver.

The modified driver uses the built in Bluetooth stack in Windows XP which uses a lot less resources and does everything the WIDCOMM can. You can download it and read more at Digiex:

Bluetooth (BCM2046) Windows XP SP2/SP3 Driver


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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-06-2008, 05:54 PM

I purchased my Mini from QVC- they offered a 3-year warranty as part of the package. What they didn''t include was Bluetooth. Is there an aftermarket product that I can add to the Mini, without too much work? Thanks!
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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-06-2008, 06:05 PM



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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-07-2008, 03:44 AM

Removed the original drivers and installed these, no problems.
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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-08-2008, 01:28 AM

I just installed this driver. I do not know what happened but my Mini just got faster with Bluetooth intact. I checked and the OEM Bluetooth service is gone and not hogging resources. I highly recommended this driver.

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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-11-2008, 01:25 AM

i uninstalled the widcomm software and windows automatically installed new drivers. how do i force windows to use the downloaded driver and cpl
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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-11-2008, 01:47 AM

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i uninstalled the widcomm software and windows automatically installed new drivers. how do i force windows to use the downloaded driver and cpl
nevermind, i had update the driver and manually choose the downloaded one works like a charm and I dont have to turn the radio off to save battery life now
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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-14-2008, 05:26 PM

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...I dont have to turn the radio off to save battery life now
how do you figure that?
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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-14-2008, 07:27 PM

let me clarify my statement

I get better battery life with these drivers than the widcomm, (about 15 minutes more) I dont know why, but i did test it out twice, as long as my mouse is off, battery life appears improved over the widcomm
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Default Re: Hacked Bluetooth Driver appears for Dell Mini 9 - 10-14-2008, 07:32 PM

nice
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